A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes: a field core having at least one boss portion, a pair of disc portions and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a field coil arranged between the at least one boss portion and the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a plurality of permanent magnets each of which is arranged between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; and a ring-shaped fixing member fixed to radially inner parts of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions to support the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions from the radially inner side. Moreover, a d-axis magnetic circuit and a magnet magnetic circuit are at least partially coincident with each other to share a common circuit portion. When field current is supplied to the field coil, the permeance of the d-axis magnetic circuit is lower than the permeance of a q-axis magnetic circuit.

A rotary electrical machine includes: a rotary electrical machine having a stator and a rotor; and a control device. The rotor includes: a field core having a boss part and claw-shaped magnetic pole parts; a field winding that is wound on the boss part; and permanent magnets that are arranged between the claw-shaped magnetic pole parts. A d-axis magnetic circuit formed by magnetomotive force of the field winding and at least part of first and second magnet magnetic circuits formed by magnetic force of the permanent magnets are shared. When an electrical load is connected to the rotor, a permeance Prt of the d-axis magnetic circuit is set to be smaller than a permeance Pst of the q-axis magnetic circuit. The control device performs phase control such that the rotary electrical machine performs either power running or regeneration.

A rotary electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a field coil; the rotor includes a first magnetic pole having a first annular portion and a plurality of claw portions and a second magnetic pole having a second annular portion and a plurality of projection portions; in the rotor, the claw portions and the projection portions are circumferentially alternately positioned, and the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole are maintained in a non-contact state by providing a radial gap, a circumferential gap, and an axial gap between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole; and the gap arrangement member has an axial positioning portion that is axially locked with respect to at least one of the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole, and axially positions the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole.

A rotor includes: a field core having a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a tubular member arranged to cover radially outer surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a field winding wound on the field core; and a plurality of magnet units each of which includes a permanent magnet arranged between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions and a magnet holder that holds the permanent magnet. The magnet holder has: a pair of circumferential movement restricting portions provided to restrict circumferential movement of the permanent magnet; a first radial movement restricting portion provided to restrict radially inward movement of the permanent magnet; and a pair of second radial movement restricting portions provided to restrict radially inward movement of the magnet holder. Each of the magnet units has a tubular-member abutting portion that abuts the radially inner surface of the tubular member.

The invention mainly relates to a claw-pole rotor (2) for a rotating electric machine, characterized in that said rotor comprises a plurality of magnets (20) that are located between the poles and are made of neodymium-iron-boron having a dysprosium content of less than 2% by weight. By keeping the dysprosium content in the magnets of the rotating electric machine to a minimum, the invention thus does away with the problems associated with the limited dysprosium supplies and its cost.

This rotary electric machine rotor includes: a Lundell core that includes a cylindrical portion, a pair of yoke portions, and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a bobbin that is mounted around an outer circumference of the cylindrical portion; a field coil that is wound onto the bobbin in multiple layers, the field coil contacting a vicinity of roots of inner circumferential surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; and a cooling fan that supplies air to an outer circumferential surface of the field coil, wherein the field coil is formed so as to have a peaked shape in which two or more peaks line up consecutively in an axial direction, an apex portion of each of the peaks being positioned radially further outward than a root position of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.

A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.

In a rotary electrical machine, a rotor has a field core, a field winding, and a cylindrical short-circuit member. The field core has a cylindrical boss part and a plurality of magnetic pole parts that are disposed on the outer peripheral side of the boss part and in which magnetic poles of different polarities are alternately formed in the circumferential direction. The field winding is wound on the outer peripheral side of the boss part. The short-circuit member is disposed on the outer peripheral sides of the magnetic pole parts and magnetically connects together the magnetic pole parts adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A surface of the short-circuit member opposed to the stator is formed in a concave-convex shape in which protrusion portions protruding along the radial direction and groove portions recessed along the radial direction are disposed alternately and continuously with each other.

A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a permanent magnet and a resin layer. The first rotor core includes a first core base and first claw-shaped magnetic poles arranged at equal intervals on a peripheral portion of the first core base. The second rotor core includes a second core base and second claw-shaped magnetic poles arranged at equal intervals on a peripheral portion of the second core base. The first rotor core and the second rotor core are combined with each other so that the first and second core bases are opposed to each other and the first and second claw-shaped magnetic poles are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotor. The permanent magnet includes at least a main field magnet. The main field magnet is located between the first and second core bases in the axial direction, and is magnetized in the axial direction. The main field magnet causes the first claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and causes the second claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles. The resin layer covers at least a portion of a surface of the permanent magnet.

A rotating electrical machine rotor includes multiple claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, permanent magnets, and a tubular outer peripheral iron core portion. The claw-shaped magnetic pole portions face a stator in a radial direction, are arranged with clearance spaces in a circumferential direction, and are alternately magnetized to different polarities in the circumferential direction by power application to a field winding. A permanent magnet is arranged in each clearance space such that the polarity of each of side surfaces facing the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction is the same as the polarity of a corresponding one of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. An outer peripheral iron core portion covers an outer peripheral side of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The outer peripheral iron core portion has a tubular body portion and magnet holding portions configured to hold the permanent magnets.