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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2016
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Nakamura, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Shono, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Masumoto, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A rotor core is configured by stacking a plurality of core plates each including: an inner peripheral side core portion; an outer peripheral side core portion; a magnet insertion hole; a radial connection portion to be connected to the inner peripheral side core portion; a circumferential connection portion to be connected between the outer peripheral side core portion and the radial connection portion, including a minimum width portion having a width smaller than widths at both ends, and having a width smoothly decreasing from both ends toward the minimum width portion; and a thin portion including a uniform thickness portion which is provided in the circumferential connection portion and which has a uniform thickness and a non-uniform thickness portion which is adjacent to the uniform thickness portion and which has an increasing thickness, the thin portion having the minimum width portion within the uniform thickness portion.