Patent ID: 7579741

Claim:
An automotive dynamoelectric machine comprising: a housing on which a bearing accommodating portion is formed integrally; a rotor that generates field magnetic flux; a rolling bearing that is accommodated in said bearing accommodating portion so as to rotatably support a shaft of said rotor; a slip ring that is mounted to a portion of said shaft that projects outside said housing through said bearing accommodating portion; a brush apparatus in which a brush holder portion is disposed so as to extend integrally, from an outer circumference of a slinger portion that has a shape of a cylinder with a floor, in a direction that is perpendicular to an axial direction of said slinger portion, and that is mounted to said housing such that said slinger portion is mounted onto an end portion of said shaft so as to cover said slip ring; a rectifier that is disposed in close proximity to said bearing accommodating portion and said slinger portion; and a ventilating means that makes external air flow into said housing through an air intake aperture that is disposed through said housing in a vicinity of said bearing accommodating portion, wherein: said rolling bearing is configured into a creep preventing bearing in which a resin band is mounted into a ring-shaped recessed groove that is recessed into an outer circumferential surface of an outer ring; and a first ventilation channel is disposed through said slinger portion so as to be positioned so as to face downward when mounted to a vehicle and so as to communicate between an internal portion and an external portion of said slinger portion; said machine further comprising a second ventilation channel that is recessed into an inner wall surface of a cylindrical portion of said bearing accommodating portion so as to have a groove direction that is aligned in an axial direction of said shaft and so as to extend from an inner floor surface of said bearing accommodating portion to an opening.