Patent ID: 8541918

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a rotating electrical machine, comprising the steps of: a) fixing a rotor core to a shaft; b) assembling a stationary assembly in which a first bearing is fixed to a housing bottom portion of a substantially cylindrical housing member having a closed bottom and in which an annular stator is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of a cylinder portion of the housing member; c) inserting the rotor core into the stator while fitting a lower portion of the shaft into the first bearing; d) fitting an upper portion of the shaft into a second bearing supported by a bearing support member; e) fixing the bearing support member to an upper portion of the housing member; and f) axially inserting a plurality of rotor magnets into a plurality of axially-extending hole-shaped or groove-shaped magnet holding portions formed in the rotor core, through a magnet insertion hole defined in one of the bearing support member and the housing bottom portion.