Patent ID: 7671505

Claim:
An electric motor, comprising: a motor shaft; a cylindrical yoke with a bottom that supports a base end portion of the motor shaft; a bracket that covers an opening of the yoke; and a brush holder that is positioned at a side of the yoke in an axial direction of the motor shaft of the bracket, the brush holder comprising: a first disk portion that is formed with a brush housing portion that has three side piece portions without a bottom piece portion that opposes with respect to the bracket; and a second disk portion with the bottom piece portion, the second disk portion being positioned at a side of the bracket in the axial direction of the motor shaft of the first disk portion wherein: the first disk portion and the second disk portion are integrated with each other, a ring-shaped abutting surface that includes an opposing surface of the bottom piece portion of the second disk portion with respect to the bracket is formed on a disk surface at an opposing side with respect to the bracket in the axial direction of the motor shaft of the brush holder, and the abutting surface is formed as a holding portion that is pressed to the yoke by the bracket via an elastic member that is disposed to a surface at an opposing side with respect to the brush holder in the axial direction of the motor shaft of the bracket, the elastic member being located within the bracket.