Patent ID: 7388309

Claim:
A rotary electric machine comprising: a rotor including a plurality of magnet sections arranged along a rotational direction of the rotor so that polarities of the magnet sections change alternately; and a stator including armature coils, and being disposed to confront the rotor across an air gap; permanent magnet flux which is not linked with one of the air gap and the armature coils being higher than permanent magnet flux which is linked with the air gap and the armature coils in a no-load state; each of the magnet sections is formed by at least two of permanent magnets; each of the armature coils of the stator has a direct axis inductance being higher than a quadrature axis inductance; and the permanent magnets are so arranged that a length between adjacent two of the permanent magnets of the opposite polarities is greater than a length between adjacent two of the permanent magnets of the same polarity.