Rotating electric machine

1. A rotating electric machine, comprising:

a rotor including:

a rotor core, which is firmly fixed to a shaft, and has a plurality of magnet accommodating holes, which penetrate the rotor core in an axial direction, in a circumferential direction;

a first end plate and a second end plate mounted to the shaft under a state of being in contact with both end surfaces of the rotor core in the axial direction; and

permanent magnets accommodated in the magnet accommodating holes; and a stator arranged coaxially with the rotor on an outer peripheral side of the rotor,

wherein the magnet accommodating holes each have a first inner wall surface and a second inner wall surface facing each other in parallel, and a length direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the first inner wall surface is inclined in a circumferential direction with respect to a radial direction,

wherein each of the permanent magnets is formed so as to have a rectangular cross-section, includes a first outer wall surface and a second outer wall surface, which are formed by a pair of long sides of the rectangular cross-section, and a third outer wall surface and a fourth outer wall surface, which are formed by a pair of short sides of the rectangular cross-section, and is accommodated in the magnet accommodating hole while a first gap is defined between

the first outer wall surface and the first inner wall surface, and the third outer wall surface is oriented radially outward,

wherein the rotor core has a rotor core cooling hole formed so as to penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction under a state of being coupled to the first gap at a position on a radially inner side with respect to a center portion of the first inner wall surface in the length direction,

wherein the rotor core has a radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path formed so as to penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction along the third outer wall surface of the permanent magnet under a state of being coupled to a radially-outer-side end portion of the first gap,

wherein the radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path and the rotor core cooling hole communicate with each other through the first gap,

wherein the first end plate has a communication path formed so as to extend from an inner end surface of the first end plate to the rotor core cooling hole,

wherein the second end plate has a discharge path formed so as to allow the radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path to communicate with an outside, and

wherein the shaft has a refrigerant supply path for allowing a refrigerant so as to be supplied from a pressure source to the communication path.

2. The rotating electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the rotor core cooling hole is coupled to a radially-inner-side end portion of the first gap.

3. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the second outer wall surface of the permanent magnet is fixed to the second inner wall surface of the magnet accommodating hole.

4. The rotating electric machine according to claim 3 , wherein the radially-outer-side refrigerant flow path comprises a radially-outer-side flux barrier, which is formed so as to be continuous to a radially outer side of the first inner wall surface of the magnet accommodating hole in the length direction and penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction.

5. The rotating electric machine according to claim 4 , wherein a radially-outer-side magnet holding portion protrudes from a radially-outer-side end portion of the second inner wall surface so as to be in contact with an end portion of the third outer wall surface of the permanent magnet on a side of the second outer wall surface.

6. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 3 , wherein the rotor core cooling hole comprises a radially-inner-side flux barrier which is formed so as to be continuous to a radially outer side of the first inner wall surface of the magnet accommodating hole in the length direction and penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction.

7. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 3 ,

wherein a radially-inner-side flux barrier is formed so as to be continuous to a radially-inner-side of the second inner wall surface of the magnet accommodating hole in the length direction and penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction,

wherein a radially-inner-side magnet holding portion protrudes from a radially-inner-side end portion of the first inner wall surface so as to be in contact with an end portion of the fourth outer wall surface of the permanent magnet on a side of the first outer wall surface, and

wherein the radially-inner-side flux barrier is coupled to the communication path and the discharge path.

8. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnet is in contact with the first end plate.

9. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 8 , wherein the permanent magnet is formed of magnet blocks arrayed in the axial direction while being in contact with each other, and is in contact with the first end plate and apart from the second end plate.

10. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the permanent magnet is held at both end portions thereof in the axial direction by the first end plate and the second end plate so as to be accommodated in the magnet accommodating hole.

11. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 ,

wherein a pair of magnet accommodating holes are arranged in a V-shape arrangement, in which the length directions of the first inner wall surfaces are inclined toward opposite sides in the circumferential direction with respect to a radial direction so that a distance between the first inner wall surfaces in the circumferential direction gradually increase toward a radially outer side, and pairs of the magnet accommodating holes are arrayed at equal angle pitches in the circumferential direction, and

wherein one pole is formed by the permanent magnets accommodated in the pair of permanent magnet holes.

12. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the rotor core is formed of one type of magnetic plates laminated in the axial direction.

13. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the first inner wall surface has a protrusion in contact with the permanent magnet.

14. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 13 , wherein the rotor core is formed of a plurality of types of magnetic plates laminated in the axial direction.

15. The rotating electrical machine according to claim 1 , wherein the rotor core cooling hole is formed so as to penetrate the rotor core in the axial direction under a state of protruding away from the first inner wall surface at a position on a radially inner side with respect to a center portion of the first inner wall surface in the length direction.