Patent ID: 8653703

Claim:
A permanent magnet rotating electric machine that has a stator with a stator coil wound on a stator iron core, a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in a circumferential direction in a rotor iron core, which is disposed opposite to the stator iron core of the stator with a predetermined spacing therebetween and is fixed to a shaft, a water-cooling unit disposed around an outer circumference of the stator iron core, and a fan fixed to the shaft on the same side as at least one axial end of the rotor iron core to circulate cooling air in the permanent magnet rotating electric machine, wherein: a ventilation path, through which the cooling air flows, is formed around an outer circumference of the water-cooling unit; and after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation path to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation path and the water-cooling unit, after which the cooling air is circulated again in the machine; and said plurality of permanent magnets being disposed in a rotor iron core, wherein a flow path wall forms an internal flow path in the water-cooling unit, in which a coolant flows in the circumferential direction; and a shape of the flow path wall at a corner where the coolant changes a flow direction thereof is such that a radial length in an outer diameter side is shorter than a radial length in an inner diameter side, the shape being oblique.