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US 12,512,709 · App. 18/247,770 · Granted Dec 30, 2025

Rotating electric machine

Inventors: Hideaki Goto (Hitachinaka, JP); Shigehisa Aoyagi (Hitachinaka, JP); Takaki Itaya (Hitachinaka, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
H02K1/276H02K1/32
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Patent No.
US 12,512,709
App. No.
18/247,770
Granted
Dec 30, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A rotating electric machine includes: a rotor core ( 22 ) that has magnet insertion holes ( 22 b) ( 22 c); permanent magnets ( 21 ) that are inserted into the magnet insertion holes ( 22 b) ( 22 c); and a groove ( 21 cc) ( 21 dc) that is formed in at least one of a plurality of non-magnetic pole surfaces ( 21 c) ( 21 d) of the permanent magnet ( 21 ) so as to allow a refrigerant ( 101 ) to flow through the groove ( 21 cc) ( 21 dc).

Claims (16)

1 . A rotating electric machine comprising:

a rotor core that has a magnet insertion hole;

a permanent magnet that is inserted into the magnet insertion hole; and

a groove that is formed on all non-magnetic pole surfaces of the permanent magnet so as to allow a refrigerant to flow through the groove.

2 . The rotating electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein the groove is formed on all nonmagnetic pole surfaces that face an inner side surface of the magnet insertion hole.

3 . The rotating electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the permanent magnet is a plurality of the permanent magnets inserted into the magnet insertion holes and arranged in an axial direction of the rotor core, and

the groove is formed on all non-magnetic surfaces that face each other in two permanent magnets disposed adjacently to each other among the plurality of permanent magnets.

4 . The rotating electric machine according to claim 3 , wherein

the respective non-magnetic pole surfaces that face each other in two permanent magnets disposed adjacently to each other among the plurality of permanent magnets have a protruding surface that protrudes in an axial direction of the rotor core, and

the groove is formed on the protruding surface.

5 . The rotating electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of the groove is uneven.

6 . The rotating electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein

the permanent magnet is formed of the plurality of permanent magnets each of which form one magnetic pole,

the plurality of permanent magnets are respectively inserted into the individual magnet insertion holes, and

the groove is formed on all non-magnetic pole surfaces that face each other in the two permanent magnets disposed adjacently to each other among the plurality of permanent magnets.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2023
From: GOTO, HIDEAKI; AOYAGI, SHIGEHISA; ITAYA, TAKAKI
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 063215/0970 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-176188 · Oct 20, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230336040A1 · Oct 19, 2023
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