Patent ID: 7768171

Claim:
A rotating electric machine, comprising: a stator provided with a plurality of windings; a rotor core rotatably fixed to a rotary shaft inside said stator; and a plurality of magnets disposed in slots formed in said rotor core near its outer circumferential surface and configured as flat plates; wherein a number of magnet poles is two; each of said magnet poles includes at least three of said magnets; and said magnets of one of said magnet poles include two end magnets arranged such that, among said magnets of said one of said magnet poles, one of said two end magnets is oriented to incline in a direction that goes to a center position of said one of said magnet poles from a center of the rotary shaft rather than in a direction that goes to the center of the magnet arranged at the magnetic pole end from a center of the rotary shaft, and another of said two end magnets is also oriented to incline in a direction that goes to the center position of said one of said magnet poles from said center of the rotary shaft rather than in a direction that goes to the center of the magnet.