A vehicle steering system comprises: a motor assembly operably coupled to a steering rack, the motor assembly comprising a motor having a rotor and a motor position sensor configured to sense a rotor angle of the motor in a single-turn range; and a rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism operably coupled between the motor assembly and the steering rack, the rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism comprising a rotor operably coupled to the rotor of the motor. A processor calculates an absolute angular position of the pinion in a full-turn range of rotation of the pinion based on the sensed rotor angle of the motor and a pinion angle sensed by a pinion angle sensor in a single-turn range, or based on the sensed rotor angle of the motor and an angle of the rotor of the rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism sensed by an angular position sensor in the single-turn range.

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including an inner core and a plurality of outer cores, a mold resin unit covering, the mold resin unit, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The mold resin unit includes a gate mark in a region between the outer cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, and the gate mark is provided in all regions between the adjacent outer cores or in a region between the outer cores, the region being adjacent to a region between the even-numbered adjacent outer cores in which the gate mark is not disposed in all the regions between the adjacent outer cores.

An electric machine rotor includes a plurality of plates stacked along an axis of rotation. Each of the plates defines a plurality of cavities. Each cavity defines a pole arc angle, has at least one permanent magnet pocket, and has magnetic field guide chambers extending outward from the at least one permanent magnet pocket. Offset angles between the magnetic field guide chambers and the at least one permanent magnet pockets vary between at least two of the cavities of the plurality of cavities within each plate such that each plate defines at least two different pole arc angles. The plates are stacked such that the at least one permanent magnet pockets between adjacent plates are axially aligned and such that the magnetic field guide chambers between adjacent plates are axially offset.

A rotor core of a rotor includes a salient pole portion; air gap portions that extend from the permanent magnet to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core; notch grooves formed such that the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core is notched; and a bridge portion that is formed between the outer peripheral surface and the air gap portions. The notch grooves are disposed such that the bridge portion is sandwiched between the notch grooves and the air gap portion, and, a notch minimum outside diameter portion in which a distance from the rotation center of the rotor core is the minimum is formed on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis. The notch minimum outside diameter portion is located at a position closer to a center side of the salient pole portion than the air gap portions in the circumferential direction of the rotor.

An axial gap motor having a rotor and a stator core. A plurality of pressed powder teeth extends in a radial direction of the stator core and each has a trapezoidal shape in which a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-outer-end portion is larger than a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner-end portion. The rotor includes a plurality of field magnets, each configured such that a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-inner-end portion is greater than or equal to a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-outer-end portion. When the rotor and the stator core rotate relative to each other about a rotation axis, a part of the field magnets first overlaps with pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner portions of pressed powder teeth, and while the field magnets are located at a q-axis position with respect to the pressed powder teeth, adjacent ones of the field magnets individually overlap with one pressed powder tooth.

An axial gap motor having a rotor and a stator core. A plurality of pressed powder teeth extends in a radial direction of the stator core and each has a trapezoidal shape in which a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-outer-end portion is larger than a circumferential length of a pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner-end portion. The rotor includes a plurality of field magnets, each configured such that a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-inner-end portion is greater than or equal to a circumferential length of a magnet-radial-direction-outer-end portion. When the rotor and the stator core rotate relative to each other about a rotation axis, a part of the field magnets first overlaps with pressed-powder-tooth-radial-direction-inner portions of pressed powder teeth, and while the field magnets are located at a q-axis position with respect to the pressed powder teeth, adjacent ones of the field magnets individually overlap with one pressed powder tooth.

A stator punching piece, a motor, a compressor and a household appliance are provided. The stator punching piece has a rotor hole, a yoke and multiple stator teeth. The yoke is provided on an outer circumference of the stator punching piece. The teeth are provided at intervals along an inner circumference of the yoke. Each stator tooth has a tooth body and a tooth shoe. One end of the tooth body is connected with the yoke and the other end of the tooth body is connected with the tooth shoe. A side of the tooth shoe facing the rotor hole is provided with an adjusting groove, and a centerline of the tooth body divides the stator teeth into a first area and a second area.

A motor device 100 includes an SPM motor 1 that includes a stator 2 including an iron core 21 and a plurality of windings 23 wound on the iron core 21, and a rotor 3 which is rotatable with respect to a rotation axis and in which a plurality of permanent magnets 33 are mounted along a circumferential direction to form a plurality of magnetic poles in the circumferential direction; and a power supply unit 5 that supplies a current to the plurality of windings 23 of the SPM motor 1. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles is oriented such that directions of axes of easy magnetization are concentrated toward a stator side, and the current supplied from the power supply unit is a trapezoidal wave.

In a method for producing a material layer for a rotor of a dynamoelectric rotary machine, a first suspension with binding agent and solid particles is applied through a first screen onto a base to form a first green body, thereby reproducing a first region of a first material with a first degree of strength. A second suspension with binding agent and solid particles is applied through a second screen onto a base to form an annular second green body concentrically to a layer center, thereby reproducing a second region of a second material with a second degree of strength being higher than the first degree of strength. The first and second green bodies are joined such as to form a material recess substantially at a layer center. A permanent material bond of the first and second green bodies and the solid particles is created by heating and/or by compression.

A rotor structure, a permanent magnet auxiliary synchronous reluctance motor and an electric vehicle are provided. The rotor structure includes a rotor body. A permanent magnet groove group is provided on the rotor body, the permanent magnet groove group includes an outer layer permanent magnet groove and an inner layer permanent magnet groove, and a magnetic conduction channel is formed between the outer permanent magnet groove and the inner layer permanent magnet groove which are adjacent. A deflection segment is formed on at least one end of the magnetic conduction channel, and a distance from the deflection segment to a quadrature-axis of the rotor body is decreased gradually outward in a radial direction, so that an end of the magnetic conduction channel is disposed near the quadrature-axis.