Electronically commutated motor

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An object of the present invention, in the case of an electronically commutated motor, is to graduate output and influence rotation speed with a simple motor configuration for the stator and with low-loss energization.
According to the invention, this object is achieved in that the magnet poles have regions that have air gaps of different heights from the rotor; and the onset times of the temporally successively occurring energization of the winding phases can be varied in terms of the position between the rotor and the stator and/or the energization durations of the winding phases.
With a winding configuration known per se it is possible, merely by way of the configuration of the magnet poles on the stator and by varying the energization time and/or energization duration, to obtain a different working characteristic curve and/or cover a large working field.
According to an embodiment, energization of the winding phases is accomplished periodically.
The period duration, energization onset times and/or durations of the energization and/or the current determine the rotation speed and/or power output of the motor.
In this context, for energization over the entire period of time, energization of the winding phases may occur in immediate succession; while for partial energization, activations of the winding phases can be performed with a time interval in between.
The magnet poles of the stator can form air gaps set back in stepped fashion from the rotor, or can have regions in which the air gap with respect to the rotor continuously changes.
If, according to an embodiment, the grooves alternately delimit wide magnet poles and narrow return flux poles, and for the winding phases to have subwindings, alternately nested into one another, that are each wound around only one magnet pole and change winding direction from one subwinding to another or--if the current direction is different--are wound in the same direction, the result is a winding configuration in which the winding phases do not overlap