Rotary electric machine and air conditioning apparatus

Inventors: Koji Yabe (Tokyo, JP); Kazuhiko Baba (Tokyo, JP)

Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

H02K1/2766 F25B31/026 H02K1/27 H02K1/276 H02K11/215 H02K29/08

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Patent No.: US 10,630,123
App. No.: 15/742,599
Granted: Apr 21, 2020
Kind: B2

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Abstract

A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core that rotates about a rotation axis, a plurality of first magnets disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core and embedded in the rotor core, a second magnet that includes a plurality of magnetic poles disposed in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and is disposed on an end surface of the rotor core in an extending direction of the axis, the second magnet being disposed at a position in a direction orthogonal to the axis, different from positions at which the plurality of first magnets are disposed, and a stator provided on an outer side of the rotor core in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

Claims (27)

1. A rotary electric machine, comprising:

a rotor core that rotates about a rotation axis;

a plurality of first magnets disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core and embedded in the rotor core;

a second magnet that includes a plurality of magnetic poles disposed in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and is disposed on an end surface of the rotor core in an extending direction of the rotation axis, an entire region of the plurality of magnetic poles of the second magnet being disposed in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis and on a radially outer side of an entire region of the plurality of first magnets; and

a stator provided on an outer side of the rotor core in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

2. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a first interpolar portion between adjacent ones of the first magnets and a second interpolar portion between adjacent ones of the magnetic poles are disposed at an identical position in the circumferential direction.

3. The rotary electric machine according to claim 2 , wherein the first magnets are disposed away from an inner side of a portion between the adjacent magnetic poles in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

4. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a polarity of each one of the first magnets is identical to a polarity of one of the plurality of magnetic poles of the second magnet to which the one first magnet faces, and a leakage flux from each of the first magnets in the extending direction of the rotation axis and a magnetic flux of the second magnet are directed toward an identical direction.

5. The rotary electric machine according to claim 4 , wherein a dimension of the second magnet in an extending direction of the rotation axis is equal to or greater than a dimension of each of the first magnets in a direction orthogonal to the rotation axis, and is equal to or less than two times the dimension of the first magnets.

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

the rotor core includes two through holes between adjacent ones of the first magnets, the through holes extending through the rotor core in the extending direction of the rotation axis and being disposed in the circumferential direction, and

a dimension of each of the through holes in the circumferential direction is 1.5 or more times greater than a dimension of a gap between the rotor core and the stator in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

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

an angle formed by an inner wall of one of the through holes that is closer to one of the adjacent first magnets, the rotation axis, and an inner wall of an another of the through holes that is closer to an another of the adjacent first magnets is equal to or greater than an electrical angle of the second magnet that is 20 degrees.

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

the rotor core includes two through holes disposed between adjacent ones of the first magnets and radially outside the first magnets, the through holes extending through the rotor core in the extending direction of the rotation axis and being disposed in the circumferential direction of the rotor core, and

the second magnet includes protrusions protruding in the extending direction of the rotation axis and inserted into the through holes.

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

the second magnet includes protrusions protruding in the extending direction of the rotation axis, and

the rotor core includes holes through which the protrusions are inserted on an outer side of the first magnets in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

10. The rotary electric machine according to claim 1 , wherein a dimension of the second magnet in the extending direction of the rotation axis is equal to or greater than a dimension of the first magnet in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.

11. An air conditioning apparatus comprising:

the rotary electric machine according to claim 1 ;

a compressor that is driven by the rotary electric machine and compresses a refrigerant;

a condenser that condenses the refrigerant compressed by the compressor; and

an evaporator that evaporates the refrigerant condensed by the condenser.

Assignments (1)

ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 8, 2018

From: YABE, KOJI; BABA, KAZUHIKO

To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION

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Continuity (1)

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