Patent ID: 8476781

Claim:
A rotating electric machine comprising: a rotating shaft portion; a rotor including a rotor core connected to said rotating shaft portion; a stator including a stator core arranged to be radially opposed to said rotor core; a housing provided with a recess portion storing said rotor and said stator; and a rotating shaft support portion provided on said housing for rotatably supporting said rotating shaft portion, and so formed that the length in the extensional direction of said rotating shaft portion from an end portion of said rotor core closer to said rotating shaft support portion to a portion first coming into contact with said rotating shaft support portion when said rotating shaft portion is inserted into said rotating shaft support portion is larger than the length in the extensional direction of said rotating shaft portion from an end portion of said rotating shaft support portion closer to said stator to a first end portion of said stator core of a side opposite to a second end portion of said stator core closer to said rotating shaft support portion.