Small-sized synchronous motor

A synchronous motor for clocks comprising, in combination, an axially elongated multiturn winding adapted to be energized by connection to a source of AC potential;

• a stator of magnetically permeable metal including a core extending through said winding and two substantially flat stator sections having first ends connected to respective opposite ends of said core and second ends in spaced opposed relation to define an air gap therebetween;
• said second ends conjointly forming a circular opening intersected by said air gap and having its periphery formed with peripherally spaced notches to define plural stator pole faces;
• and a substantially flat rotor of magnetically permeable metal secured to an arbor and disposed in said circular opening, said rotor including a thin substantially flat cylindrical permanent magnet polarized axially of said arbor and sandwiched between two flat circular discs of magnetically permeable metal;
• the peripheries of said discs being notched to form equiangularly spaced substantially rectangular poles having equal angular extents substantially equal to their angular spacing;
• the poles on one disc being north poles and those on the other disc being south poles;
• the poles on each of the two discs being bent to extend axially toward facing relation with the poles on the other disc and parallel to said arbor, with the poles on each disc being staggered peripherally relative to the poles on the other disc;
• the free ends of the poles on each disc being spaced axially from the free ends of the poles on the other disc to provide gap distance between the north and south poles, and the gap distance between the north and south poles being greater than the radial gap between the rotor poles and said stator pole faces.