Patent ID: 8779641

Claim:
A motor arranged to select a gear of a transmission installed in a vehicle or to drive a clutch, the motor comprising: a rotor arranged to rotate about a rotation axis; a stator core including a plurality of teeth; a plurality of coils, each defined by a conductor wire wound around a separate one of the teeth; and a busbar unit arranged to supply a drive current to each coil; wherein the busbar unit includes: a plurality of coil connection busbars, each including a conductor wire connection portion connected with an end portion of the conductor wire; a busbar holder made of an insulating material and arranged to support the plurality of coil connection busbars, the busbar holder includes a plurality of sensor holders, each arranged to hold a separate one of a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors being arranged to detect a rotational position of the rotor; and a plurality of sensor connection busbars housed in the busbar holder and arranged to either supply a drive current to ones of the plurality of sensors held in the respective sensor holders, or to output an output signal from ones of the plurality of sensors; each conductor wire connection portion is welded to a corresponding end portion of the conductor wire; and at least one of the plurality of sensor connection busbars includes a plurality of sensor connection portions each directly physically and electrically connected with a terminal of a separate one of the plurality of sensors.