IP Library Granted Patent US 11,431,213
Granted Patent B2
US 11,431,213 · App. 16/751,275 · Granted Aug 30, 2022

Rotary electric machine

Inventors: Suguru Gangi (Toyota, JP); Shinya Sano (Toyota, JP); Yasuhide Yagyu (Nagakute, JP); Takanori Kadota (Toyota, JP); Keiji Kondo (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
H02K1/2766
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Patent No.
US 11,431,213
App. No.
16/751,275
Granted
Aug 30, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rotor has a plurality of magnetic poles aligned in a circumferential direction, each magnetic pole includes a first magnet equipment portion and a second magnet equipment portion positioned more toward an inner circumferential side than the first magnet equipment portion, the second magnet equipment portion has a pair of inner magnet holes placed symmetrically with respect to a center of the magnetic pole, and one or more inner magnets equipped in each of the inner magnet holes, each inner magnet hole has a bent line shape with one or more points of bending in an axial direction view, and an end, on a center side in a circumferential side of the magnetic pole, of the inner magnet hole is expanded on both sides in a thickness direction thereof, and functions as a magnetic barrier having a larger thickness than the inner magnet.

Claims (20)

1. A rotary electric machine comprising:

a stator having an approximately circular tube shape; and

a rotor that is placed at an inner side of and coaxially with the stator, wherein

the rotor comprises a plurality of magnetic poles aligned in a circumferential direction,

each magnetic pole includes a first magnet equipment portion and a second magnet equipment portion positioned more toward an inner circumferential side than the first magnet equipment portion,

the second magnet equipment portion has a pair of inner magnet holes placed symmetrically with respect to a center of the magnetic pole, and one or more inner magnets equipped in each of the inner magnet holes,

each of the inner magnet holes has a bent line shape with one or more points of bending in an axial direction view,

the inner magnet is equipped at a position distanced from all of the points of bending,

an end, on a center side in a circumferential direction of the magnetic pole, of at least one of the inner magnet holes is expanded on both sides in a thickness direction thereof, and functions as a magnetic barrier having a larger thickness than the inner magnet, and

the first magnet equipment portion includes one or more outer magnet holes.

2. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein

a width of a magnetic path between the first magnet equipment portion and the second magnet equipment portion is widened from an end thereof toward the center of the magnetic pole.

3. The rotary electric machine according to claim 2 , wherein

the inner magnet hole has a center-side portion which is at a side nearer to the center of the magnetic pole than the point of bending, and an outer-side portion which is more toward an outer side than the point of bending, and

an inclination angle between the center-side portion and a d axis is larger than an inclination angle between the outer-side portion and the d axis.

4. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the inner magnet is equipped on both sides of the point of bending in the inner magnet hole.

5. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein

one or more outer magnets is equipped in each of the outer magnet holes, and

all of the outer magnets and the inner magnets have the same shape.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 24, 2020
From: GANGI, SUGURU; SANO, SHINYA; YAGYU, YASUHIDE; KADOTA, TAKANORI; KONDO, KEIJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-022940 · Feb 12, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200259377A1 · Aug 13, 2020