D.C. brushless motor having wider and narrower pole parts

Claim 1

A DC brushless motor comprising: a rotor including a permanent magnet magnetized to have a plurality of at least four poles arranged to be of circumferentially alternately opposite polarities; a stator provided with a plurality of projected pole parts corresponding in number to said at least four poles of said rotor, said pole parts including circumferentially alternating wider and narrower pole parts, each of said narrower pole parts having a center line which is non-equidistantly spaced in the circumferential directions with respect to a center line of each of said wider pole parts, first coils wound on said wider pole parts and second coils wound on said narrower pole parts for exciting the wider pole parts to be mutually of the same polarity and opposite the polarity of the narrower pole parts; said coils being adapted to reverse the polarity of the pole parts, a single Hall effect element disposed opposite said rotor for detecting the polarity of a rotor pole disposed at a predetermined location relative to said stator and for providing a control signal dependent upon a detected polarity; and means responsive to said control signal for supplying a direct current in one direction to said first and second coils when one type of polarity is detected by said single Hall effect element and in a reverse direction to said first and second coils when the opposite type of polarity is detected by said single Hall effect element, for reversing the polarity of said poles.