Patent ID: 8916999

Claim:
A motor comprising: a motor case having a tubular portion, a front cover mounted to a first axial end of the tubular portion, and a rear cover mounted to an opposite, second axial end of the tubular portion; a rotor, which is disposed in the motor case and has a rotary shaft; and a stator disposed in the motor case, the stator having a plurality of teeth, which extend toward a central axis of the rotary shaft and are disposed in a circumferential direction at equal intervals, slots, each of which is formed between a circumferentially adjacent pair of the teeth and extends toward the central axis, and U-shaped segments inserted into the slots in parallel with the central axis in such a manner that distal ends of the segments projecting out of the slots are interconnected electrically, thereby forming a segment conductor (SC) coil including the plurality of segments disposed in the circumferential direction, wherein the SC coil has receiving terminals of a control circuit adjacent to the rear cover, which have leads drawn out from the receiving terminals and extending in parallel with the central axis, and corresponding neutral point terminals, each of the receiving terminals and its corresponding neutral point terminals are disposed on the distal end of the corresponding segment of the plurality of segments, a neutral line interconnects the neutral point terminals, and the leads are disposed more inside than the receiving terminals in the radial direction of the slot, and within a width that includes the neutral line in the circumferential direction, and the leads do not intersect with the neutral line in a direction parallel with the central axis, and the rear cover includes a housing recess that faces the neutral line, and the rear cover defines a through hole in the housing recess, the leads being adapted to pass through the through hole to be connected to receiving terminals of the control circuit adjacent to the rear cover.