Patent ID: 8803374

Claim:
A molded motor, comprising: a stator; a resin casing; a rotor; a pair of bearings; a pair of bearing retainers; a resin bracket cover; and a control board; wherein the stator includes a ring-shaped stator core including tooth portions and stator coils wound on the tooth portions of the stator core; the casing has a closed-bottom tubular shape opened at one axial side; the stator is fixed to the casing by covering the stator with a resin and embedding the stator in the casing; the rotor includes a shaft and is arranged radially inward of the stator; the bearings are arranged to rotatably support the shaft; the bearing retainers are made of an elastic electrically insulating body and are arranged to cover the bearings at radial outer sides of the bearings and to hold the bearings in place; the bracket cover is arranged to cover an open side of the casing; the control board includes a circuit arranged to control a drive current supplied to the stator coils; and one of the bearings is attached to the bracket cover through one of the bearing retainers, the other of the bearings is attached to a bottom wall portion of the casing through the other bearing retainer.