Patent ID: 7605519

Claim:
A dynamoelectric machine comprising: a rotor comprising: a pole core having: a boss portion; first and second yoke portions that are disposed so as to extend radially outward from two axial end edge portions of said boss portion; and a plurality of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions that are disposed so as to extend axially alternately from each of said first and second yoke portions, and that are arranged circumferentially so as to intermesh with each other, said pole core being fixed to a shaft that is inserted through a central axial position of said boss portion; and a field coil that is housed inside a space that is surrounded by said boss portion, said first and second yoke portions, and said plurality of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; first and second cooling fans that are respectively fixed to two axial ends of said pole core; a case that rotatably supports said shaft and houses said rotor internally, that has air intake apertures disposed through two axial end surfaces, and that has an air discharge aperture disposed through a radial side surface; and a stator comprising: a cylindrical stator core; and a stator coil that is installed in said stator core, said stator core being disposed so as to be held by said case so as to surround said rotor by means of a predetermined air gap; said dynamoelectric machine further comprising: a plurality of airflow restricting members that are disposed in all spaces between circumferentially-adjacent pairs of second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions so as to restrict a cooling airflow, made by said second cooling fan; and a permanent magnet that is held by said airflow restricting member so as to face an inner circumferential surface near a tip end of said first claw-shaped magnetic pole portion and that is magnetically oriented in a reverse direction to an orientation of a magnetic field produced by said field coil.