Patent ID: 7868510

Claim:
A parallel pole direct drive wheel motor comprising: an outside rotor having a rotor disc having plural holes around a circumference of the rotor disc a distance from an outer edge thereof with plural magnets having alternating polarities flush mounted into the plural holes; an inside stator assembly having a ring of plural molded magnetic flux channel pole pieces corresponding to a phase of the motor forming a hollow channel for housing a transversely wound stator windings to capture and focus magnetic flux emanating from the transverse winding and the hollow channel to the plural pole pieces, each pole piece body of the respective the plural pole pieces having a u-shaped gap above the hollow channel to receive the rotor disc, and said rotor plural magnets, with a gap therebetween; and, said each pole piece body formed with tapered exterior sides and radiused curves in a base of the u-shaped gap to direct and focus the captured magnetic flux toward and delivering the captured magnetic flux to axial magnetic pole flat surfaces with parallel sides of the u-shaped gap, perpendicular magnetic lines of force emanating at the pole piece surfaces; and a controller coupled with a feedback electronics for monitoring a timing, speed and direction and coupling the feedback signal to a processing unit for determining and adjusting and drive electronics to driving the phase windings.