Patent ID: 8810101

Claim:
An electric rotary machine for vehicles comprising: a rotor comprising a pair of pole cores and a plurality of permanent magnets, the pole cores facing each other along an axial direction of the rotor, each of the pole cores having a plurality of claw magnetic pole parts, the claw magnetic pole parts in the pair of the pole cores being alternately arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor, the adjacent claw magnetic pole parts, adjacently arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor, having an opposite magnetic pole, and each of the permanent magnets being placed between the adjacent claw magnetic pole parts adjacently arranged along the circumferential direction of the rotor; and a stator core placed in opposition to the rotor, wherein: a flange part is formed along a circumferential direction of the rotor at each of the adjacent claw magnetic pole parts to prevent the permanent magnets from moving toward the outside of the rotor, and a thickness of the flange part is increased from a front side to a bottom side of the flange part, the front side of the flange part is close to a gap formed between the adjacent claw magnetic pole parts along the circumferential direction of the rotor, a concave part is formed in a side of each of the flange parts in the circumferential direction, and each of the concave parts has a shape to which the corresponding permanent magnet is fitted, and each of the permanent magnets is assembled to the concave parts formed in the flange parts of the adjacent claw magnetic pole parts in the pair of the pole cores, an outer surface of each of the permanent magnets has a shape to fit the inner peripheral surface of the flange part of each of the claw magnetic pole part, a radius of each of the flange parts measured from a center part of the rotor is gradually decreased from a front end part to a bottom part of the inner peripheral surface of each of the flange parts, the outer surface of each of the permanent magnets has: a first side that extends in a first direction, a second side that opposes the first side and extends in a second direction, the first direction being substantially parallel to the second direction, a third side that extends in a third direction, and a fourth side that opposes the third side and extends in a fourth direction, the third direction intersecting the fourth direction, and the outer surface of each of the permanent magnets is defined by straight lines.