Mounting cap for insulated stator of outer rotor motor

An outer rotor motor for use in a machine, said motor comprising:

• a rotor rotatable about an axis;
• an insulated stator spaced at least in part radially inside the rotor,
• said stator including a core having an electrically insulative coating applied thereon,
• said core being toroidal in shape to present opposite axial faces and inner and outer circumferential faces,
• said core including a plurality of radially projecting teeth which cooperatively present the outer circumferential face,
• each of said teeth including a radial arm and a radially outermost crown,
• said stator further including wiring wound generally around the arms of the teeth;
• and
• a mounting cap supporting the stator and facilitating routing of the wiring,
• said mounting cap comprising a unitary body that extends along the inner circumferential face of the core between the axial faces thereof,
• said mounting cap being spaced from the arms and crowns of the teeth,
• said mounting cap including a wiring outlet at which the wiring converges for connection to a power source,
• said mounting cap including wiring routing structure configured to facilitate routing of the wiring to the wiring outlet,
• said mounting cap being fixed to the stator to prevent relative rotation therebetween,
• said mounting cap including mounting structure configured to fix the mounting cap to the machine, such that the stator is fixed to and supported on the machine exclusively by the mounting cap,
• said mounting cap and said core comprising dissimilar materials,
• said core comprising a metal material,
• said mounting cap comprising an at least substantially electrically insulative synthetic resin material,
• at least one of said inner and outer circumferential faces being devoid of insulative coating,
• said mounting cap being fixed to said at least one of said inner and outer circumferential faces, such that the synthetic resin material directly engages the metal material,
• one of said mounting cap and said inner and outer circumferential faces of the stator core including a radially projecting rib and the other of said mounting cap and said inner and outer circumferential faces of the stator core including a groove that receives at least part of the rib so as to angularly orient the mounting cap and stator core relative to one another,
• said rib comprising a synthetic resin material that is heat staked within the groove so as to fix the mounting cap to the stator core.