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Abstract

An axial air gap sub-fractional horsepower brushless DC motor of the pancake type including a rotor assembly having a disc-like annular cylindrical permanent magnet supported on a shaft, the magnet having plural pairs of axially magnetized magnetic poles, and a stator formed of two identical stator component sub-assemblies located on opposite sides of the permanent magnet each including a thin disc-like annular backing plate of soft magnetic material, a plurality of coils supported thereon arranged in a circular path forming an odd number of coils, and a hall effect sensing element located along the circular path between one pair of circumferentially adjacent coils. A pair of generally cup shaped housing halves of similar configuration are assembled on opposite sides of the rotor and the pair of identical stator component sub-assemblies for encasing the rotor and said stator component sub-assemblies therein.

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