Patent ID: 7414342

Claim:
A rotor of a rotating electric machine, said rotor comprising: a pole core surrounding a rotor coil for generating magnetic flux, said pole core including a first pole core body having claw-shaped magnetic poles and a second pole core body having claw-shaped magnetic poles, the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the first and second pole core bodies extending alternately from opposite directions, and intermeshing with one another; a plurality of permanent magnets disposed against both side faces of each of the claw-shaped magnetic poles for reducing leakage of the magnetic flux from between the facing side faces of the adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles; and a plurality of magnet-mounting members for fixedly holding said permanent magnets against both side faces of each of the claw-shaped magnetic poles, each of said magnet-mounting members having a substantially C-shaped cross section and including: a flat, platelike middle portion which fits on an inclined inside surface of each of the claw-shaped magnetic poles; and a pair of magnet-retaining portions formed on both sides of the middle portion for holding two of said permanent magnets on both sides of each of the claw-shaped magnetic poles, each of the magnet-retaining portions having hooking tabs extending therefrom for preventing each of said permanent magnets from being displaced in either of basal-end and extreme-end directions of each of said magnet-mounting members; wherein the hooking tabs are configured with a depressible mechanism that temporarily disables a function of the hooking tab by varying a direction of the hooking tab.