Motor for an electric power steering assembly

A vehicle comprising:

• an electric power steering assembly for assisting a steering force of an automotive steering wheel;
• and
• a motor for providing electric power to the steering assembly,
• wherein said motor comprises:
• a yoke;
• a multi-polar magnetic field portion composed of at least four poles secured to an inner wall of said yoke;
• a shaft disposed within said yoke so as to be able to rotate freely;
• an armature secured to said shaft having a winding constructed by lap winding a wiring into a number of slots being an integer multiple of the number of pairs of said poles, said slots being formed on an outer circumferential surface of a core so as to extend in the axial direction thereof;
• a commutator comprising a plurality of segments secured to an end portion of said shaft;
• a plurality of brushes contacting a surface of said commutator;
• and
• a plurality of equalizing members for preventing circulating currents from flowing through said brushes due to differences in induced electromotive forces arising between circuits within the circuits of said armature.