Low Profile Motor Using Permanent Magnets

Abstract

A high torque, dimensionally flexible motor is powered by actuated magnets on a stator interacting with permanent magnets on a rotor. The stator actuated magnets move towards and away from the rotor magnets, creating repulsive and/or attractive forces to spin the rotor and its shaft. Spinning and reciprocating configurations include rotor over stator, stator over rotor, rotor inside stator, and stator inside rotor. Such a motor provides high torque and has preferential dimensions and shapes for space constrained applications such as those requiring small height and large radius, or a long thin rectangular footprint. A rotor can be made to spin both clockwise and counter-clockwise, at different times, in the same configuration.

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