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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kiyomi Kawamura, Osaka, JP;
Hiroaki Kawasaki, Osaka, JP;
Yuichi Yoshikawa, Osaka, JP;
Yasushi Kato, Kyoto, JP;
Haruhiko Kado, Osaka, JP;
Noritaka Aso, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator having a coil wound on a stator core, and a rotor disposed rotatably inside the stator through a gap to an inner circumferential surface of the stator core. The rotor is provided with a rotor core formed of laminated steel plates having a plurality of magnet-embedding holes, and a permanent magnet housed and retained in each of the magnet-embedding holes. A thickness of the bridge portions formed between edges of the magnet-embedding holes and an outer circumference of the rotor core, and a thickness of a thinned link portion connecting adjoining two of the bridge portions are thinner than a thickness of the steel plates.