A motor casing accommodates a motor main body. A motor board has a mounting surface, on which the motor main body is mounted, a locking surface on the opposite side of the mounting surface, and a locking hole between the mounting surface and the locking surface. The motor casing has a locking arm and a locking claw. The locking arm is inserted in the locking hole in an elastically deformed state to extend obliquely with respect to the mounting surface and the locking surface. The locking claw has an abutment surface extending obliquely with respect to the mounting surface and the locking surface and locked to the motor board in a state where the abutment surface abuts against the locking corner portion. The locking corner portion is formed by the locking surface and a surface of the locking hole in the motor board.

A motor casing accommodates a motor main body. A motor board has a mounting surface, on which the motor main body is mounted, a locking surface on the opposite side of the mounting surface, and a locking hole between the mounting surface and the locking surface. The motor casing has a locking arm and a locking claw. The locking arm is inserted in the locking hole in an elastically deformed state to extend obliquely with respect to the mounting surface and the locking surface. The locking claw has an abutment surface extending obliquely with respect to the mounting surface and the locking surface and locked to the motor board in a state where the abutment surface abuts against the locking corner portion. The locking corner portion is formed by the locking surface and a surface of the locking hole in the motor board.

A hybrid electric machine includes N phases (N1), each phase having first and second assemblies movable relative to one another and each having a set of teeth made up of a number of teeth that are equally distributed according to a plurality of periods, in which: a. the first assembly is made up of two magnetized parts, each including a magnet magnetically coupled with two toothed yokes, the magnet of one of the magnetized parts being polarized along the same axis but in the opposite direction to the polarization of the magnet of the second magnetized part; b. the second assembly including at least two toothed zones with pitches identical to the pitch of the toothed yokes; c. one of the assemblies has at least two sets of teeth in phase, and the other assembly has at least two sets of teeth which are out of phase by a half-period.

The disclosure relates to a vehicle lock having a locking mechanism, a lock mechanism and an electrical setting arrangement, wherein the setting arrangement has a rotor arrangement, wherein the stator forms at least two magnetic, unlike stator poles of the stator magnet arrangement, wherein at least one of the magnet arrangements is associated with a coil arrangement, wherein by supplying current to the coil arrangement and a resulting magnetic interaction between rotor and stator, a drive torque to the rotor and thus an adjustment of the rotor can be generated in a predetermined number of actuator positions. Proposed is that the rotor magnet arrangement and the stator magnet arrangement are stationarily fixed to a support section of the motor vehicle lock, and the rotor is pivotable about a rotor axis relative to the support section and relative to the rotor magnet arrangement.

The disclosure relates to a vehicle lock having a locking mechanism, a lock mechanism and an electrical setting arrangement, wherein the setting arrangement has a rotor arrangement, and a stator, wherein the stator forms at least two magnetic, unlike stator poles of the stator magnet arrangement, wherein at least one of the magnet arrangements is associated with a coil arrangement, wherein by supplying current to the coil arrangement and a resulting magnetic interaction between rotor and stator, a drive torque to the rotor and thus an adjustment of the rotor can be generated in a predetermined number of actuator positions. Proposed is that the rotor magnet arrangement and the stator magnet arrangement are stationarily fixed to a support section of the motor vehicle lock, and the rotor is pivotable about a rotor axis relative to the support section and relative to the rotor magnet arrangement.

The disclosure relates to a vehicle lock having a locking mechanism, a lock mechanism and an electrical setting arrangement, wherein the setting arrangement has a rotor arrangement, and a stator, wherein the stator forms at least two magnetic, unlike stator poles of the stator magnet arrangement, wherein at least one of the magnet arrangements is associated with a coil arrangement, wherein by supplying current to the coil arrangement and a resulting magnetic interaction between rotor and stator, a drive torque to the rotor and thus an adjustment of the rotor can be generated in a predetermined number of actuator positions. Proposed is that the rotor magnet arrangement and the stator magnet arrangement are stationarily fixed to a support section of the motor vehicle lock, and the rotor is pivotable about a rotor axis relative to the support section and relative to the rotor magnet arrangement.

Various embodiments are described herein for switched reluctance machine configurations. In at least one embodiment, a switched reluctance machine configured according to the teachings herein comprises an axially extending shaft, an axially extending rotor mounted to the shaft, the rotor having a plurality of salient rotor poles, an axially extending stator disposed coaxially and concentrically with the rotor, the stator having a plurality of salient stator poles protruding radially from the stator towards the rotor poles, and a plurality of electrical coils wound about the stator poles to define a plurality of phases of the switched reluctance machine, where a number of rotor poles can be determined according to the following equation and at least one constraint condition:

[00001]$N_r=\frac{\mathrm{LCM}\left(N_s,N_r\right)}{2N_{\mathrm{ph}}}.$

Various embodiments are described herein for switched reluctance machine configurations. In at least one embodiment, a switched reluctance machine configured according to the teachings herein comprises an axially extending shaft, an axially extending rotor mounted to the shaft, the rotor having a plurality of salient rotor poles, an axially extending stator disposed coaxially and concentrically with the rotor, the stator having a plurality of salient stator poles protruding radially from the stator towards the rotor poles, and a plurality of electrical coils wound about the stator poles to define a plurality of phases of the switched reluctance machine, where a number of rotor poles can be determined according to the following equation and at least one constraint condition:

[00001]$N_r=\frac{\mathrm{LCM}\left(N_s,N_r\right)}{2N_{\mathrm{ph}}}.$

A rotation-detecting apparatus includes the following: a rotor coil provided on a rotor; detection coils provided on stators; a control circuit that detects the relative rotational angle between the rotor and the stators by processing detection signals induced in the detection coils as a result of the rotor coil being excited by an excitation signal; and a communicating means for performing data communication with an external device. The control circuit in the rotation-detecting apparatus has functionality whereby a switch signal that turns on and off at preset rotational angles is outputted on the basis of the aforementioned detection signals. Also, the control circuit is designed such that the set rotational angles for the aforementioned switch signal can be changed by the external device via the abovementioned communicating means.

A two-phase bipolar 3.6? step motor is described in which the stator winding assembly has eight stator poles organized into decoupled phase groups with two distinct angular pole separations, 14.4??[(4n?1)/4] between poles of the same group, and 14.4??[(4m?1)/2] between adjacent poles of different groups, where n and m are positive whole numbers. Three stator teeth on each stator pole have a stator tooth pitch of 13.2? to minimize detent torque for smoother, more accurate stepping. A rotor has alternating magnetic north and south rotor teeth around a circumference thereof with a 14.4? rotor tooth pitch angle. The stator poles are wound with electromagnetic coil windings that can be driven in a series of phases to magnetically interact with the rotor.