Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Keiji Kondo

Shinya Sano

Yasuhide Yagyu

Toshinori Okochi

Suguru Gangi

Takanori Kadota

Yoshizumi Kitahara

A rotor for a rotating electric machine includes a rotor core provided with a pair of first magnets and a pair of second magnets that are located closer than the first magnets to an outer peripheral side of the rotor core. The rotor core includes a caulking portion disposed in a region between first and second imaginary lines in a radial direction of the rotor core. The first imaginary line is an arc passing through outer-peripheral-side end portions of respective long sides of rectangular-shaped cross sections of the first magnets. The second imaginary line is an arc passing through inner-peripheral-side end portions of respective long sides of rectangular-shaped cross sections of the second magnets. The arc of each of the first and second imaginary lines has a center of curvature that lies at an intersection of extensions of the long sides of the rectangular-shaped cross sections of the second magnets.

Rotor for rotating electric machine

A rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles aligned in a circumferential direction, each magnetic pole includes a first magnet equipment portion and a second magnet equipment portion positioned more toward an inner circumferential side than the first magnet equipment portion, the second magnet equipment portion has a pair of inner magnet holes placed symmetrically with respect to a center of the magnetic pole, and one or more inner magnets equipped in each of the inner magnet holes, each inner magnet hole has a bent line shape with one or more points of bending in an axial direction view, and an end, on a center side in a circumferential side of the magnetic pole, of the inner magnet hole is expanded on both sides in a thickness direction thereof, and functions as a magnetic barrier having a larger thickness than the inner magnet.

Rotary electric machine

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Keiji Kondo