Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Jtekt Corporation

Takayoshi Kitada

Tatsuo Iida

Tsuyoshi Okumura

Yutaka Bitoh

A turbocharger with a rotating electric machine includes a turbine rotor which constitutes a portion of a rotating member of the turbocharger; a compressor impeller which constitutes a portion of the rotating member of the turbocharger; a rotating electric machine which includes a stator and a rotor that constitutes a portion of the rotating member of the turbocharger; a shaft which supports the turbine rotor at one end and the compressor impeller at the other end, and which supports the rotor of the rotating electric machine at an intermediate portion; bearings each of which has an inner race and an outer race, and one of which supports the shaft at a portion between the one end and the intermediate portion, and the other of which supports the shaft at a portion between the other end and the intermediate portion; and a cylindrical member which encases the rotor of the rotating electric machine at a center portion and which contacts the inner race of one of the two bearings at one end portion and the inner race of the other of the two bearings at the other end portion.

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Mishima, Japan

Takayoshi Kitada