Patent ID: 8841805

Claim:
A motor having a motor body and a control unit joined to the motor body, the control unit controlling rotation of the motor body, a drive control circuit in the control unit being electrically connected to the motor body, wherein the motor includes a sensor arranged in the motor body to detect the rotational position of a rotor, the sensor has a connection cable connected to the control unit, the connection cable is a flat cable including a plurality of conductor lines and an elongated coating material for coating the conductor lines, the conductor lines are arranged in a width direction of the coating material, the flat cable is flexible in a thickness direction of the flat cable, the flat cable is arranged such that a width direction of the flat cable corresponds with a circumferential direction of the motor body, and one of opposite ends of the flat cable is connected to the sensor, the other end of the flat cable extends outwardly in a radial direction of the motor body, wherein the motor body includes a stator having drive coils of multiple phases, a cylindrical motor case for accommodating the stator, an end frame for closing an opening of the motor case, and connecting portions of feeder members of the phases for supplying electric current to the corresponding drive coils, the connecting portions of the feeder members of the phases are exposed radially from the motor case, the connecting portions of the feeder members of the phases and the flat cable are located at the same positions in the axial direction of the motor body, and aligned in the circumferential direction of the motor body, and the connecting portions of the feeder members of the phases extend from the motor case together with the flat cable, wherein a clearance is formed between each adjacent pair of the connecting portions of the feeder members of the phases, and the other end of the flat cable extends from the motor case through the clearance.