Patent attributes
A brushless motor is provided, the brushless motor having: a rotor disk including a plurality of permanent magnets attached to the rotor disk around a circumference of the rotor disk; a plurality of C-coils arranged in connected pairs; at least one circuit in electronic communication with one or more of the C-coils; and at least one optical sensor in electronic communication with the one or more circuits, the optical sensor positioned adjacent to the rotor disk at a radius of a plurality of optical slots in the rotor disk; wherein the circuit outputs a voltage to one or more of the plurality of C-coils, and wherein a value of the output voltage from the circuit is based on the optical sensor being in alignment with one of the plurality of optical slots of the rotor disk.