Permanent magnet electrical rotating machine with protection members arranged between permanent magnets and rotor cores

1. A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine, comprising:

permanent magnets;

rotor cores that have the permanent magnets mounted to the rotor cores and that are laminated in a rotating axis direction;

spacers that are placed between adjacent ones of the rotor cores; and

permanent magnet protection members that are installed between the permanent magnets and the rotor cores and also placed to maintain radial continuity in space partitioned by the spacers between the rotor cores.

2. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnet protection members have parts differing in length in the rotating axis direction between the rotor cores.

3. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 2 , wherein the permanent magnet protection members are at least partially broken between the rotor cores.

4. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 3 , wherein the permanent magnet protection members are placed to hold each of the permanent magnets between the permanent magnet protection members.

5. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 4 , wherein the permanent magnet protection members each have a part provided between each of the permanent magnets and each of the rotor cores in the rotating axis direction, and parts respectively bent from both ends of the part in the rotating axis direction along an outer shape of the permanent magnet.

6. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnet protection members each have a shorter length in the rotating axis direction between the rotor cores than that of the spacers.

7. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein each of the permanent magnet protection members is placed to extend in the rotating axis direction across between a plurality of adjacent ones of the permanent magnets, and the rotor cores having the plurality of adjacent ones of the permanent magnets mounted to the rotor cores.

8. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the magnet protection members adjacent to each other in the rotating axis direction are placed in contact with each other.

9. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a communication passage provided between adjacent magnetic poles and in outward ends of the rotor cores to create communication in the rotating axis direction.

10. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnets and the permanent magnet protection members are bonded to each other with an adhesive.

11. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , further comprising a communication passage that is provided on the radial inward side of the permanent magnets for communication in the rotating axis direction, wherein the communication passage communicates with the space partitioned by the spacers between the rotor cores.

12. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 11 , wherein the communication passage is formed by spiders that support the rotor cores on a rotating shaft and are adjacent to each other.

13. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 1 , further comprising;

stator cores that are placed to leave a gap from the rotor cores in the radial direction, and are laminated in the rotating axis direction; and

stator spacers that are provided between adjacent ones of the stator cores.

14. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine according to claim 13 , wherein stator ducts formed between the stator cores by the spacers provided between the stator cores, and rotor ducts formed between the rotor cores by the spacers provided between the rotor cores are arranged opposite to each other and at regular intervals in the axial direction.

15. A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine, comprising:

permanent magnets;

rotor cores that have the permanent magnets mounted to the rotor cores and that are laminated in a rotating axis direction;

spacers that are placed between adjacent ones of the rotor cores; and

permanent magnet protection members that are installed between the permanent magnets and the rotor cores and also placed to causes no radial division of a space partitioned by the spacers between the rotor cores.