Patent 10385863 was granted and assigned to Denso on August, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A rotor used for a motor that rotates an impeller of a fuel pump includes a cylindrical bonded magnet that forms a plurality of magnetic poles, an inner core that is a cylindrical component provided inward of the bonded magnet and that has both axial end surfaces exposed to outside, and a rotating shaft that includes a connecting end, which has a pair of flat surfaces parallel to each other and is fitted to the impeller, and that is provided to pass through the inner core inward thereof. A cross section of the connecting end has a centroid coinciding with a rotational axis.