Patent ID: 8242661

Claim:
An axial gap rotary electric machine, comprising: a rotor comprising a magnetic body and capable of rotating in a circumferential direction about a rotation axis; an armature including an armature coil opposed to said rotor on one side in a rotation axis direction parallel to said rotation axis; and a stator interlinking said armature coil with a magnetic field flux by supplying said rotor with said magnetic field flux on another side in said rotation axis direction, wherein said rotor includes: a first magnetic ring supplied with said magnetic field flux of a first polarity from said stator; a second magnetic ring disposed on a side closer to said rotation axis compared with said first magnetic ring and supplied with said magnetic field flux of a second polarity from said stator; a first magnetic plate circularly disposed in said circumferential direction so as to be opposed to said armature, magnetically separated from said second magnetic ring, and magnetically coupled to said first magnetic ring; and a second magnetic plate circularly disposed so as to be opposed to said armature with positions thereof in said circumferential direction alternating with the first magnetic plate, magnetically separated from said first magnetic ring and said first magnetic plate, and magnetically coupled to said second magnetic ring.