Patent ID: 7414348

Claim:
A rotating electric machine armature core comprising: a first magnetic tooth section including: first sheet members each of which includes a ringlike portion having a through hole at a central part and a plurality of magnetic tooth portions formed to extend from around said ringlike portion at specific intervals along a circumferential direction; and second sheet members each of which includes a second ringlike portion, a plurality of magnetic tooth portions formed to extend from around said second ringlike portion at the specific intervals along the circumferential direction, and a cutout portion opening outward at a middle position along the circumferential direction between adjacent two of said magnetic tooth portions, said cutout portion being formed by cutting out a central part of said second ringlike portion over an area large enough to encompass the through hole formed in said first sheet members; wherein said first magnetic tooth section is formed by laminating specific numbers of said first and second sheet members in such a manner that the individual magnetic tooth portions of said first and second laminated members are aligned and the cutout portion of said second sheet member exists at least at one location between said adjacent magnetic tooth portions; and a plurality of second magnetic tooth sections each including: third sheet members each of which includes a magnetic tooth portion formed at one end and an end portion formed at the other end, the end portion being capable of fitting on an outer peripheral surface of the ringlike portion of said first sheet member; and fourth sheet members each of which includes a magnetic tooth portion formed at one end and an overlapping portion formed at the other end with a through hole formed at a specified position in the overlapping portion, the overlapping portion being capable of fitting in the cutout portion of said second sheet member; wherein each of said second magnetic tooth sections is formed by laminating the specific numbers of said third and fourth sheet members in such a manner that the individual magnetic tooth portions of said third and fourth sheet members are aligned and each of said fourth sheet members is placed between said second sheet members with said fourth sheet members aligned at the same locations as the cutout portions of said second sheet members in a laminating direction and with the overlapping portions of said fourth sheet members jutting out farther beyond the end portions of said third sheet members; and wherein said rotating electric machine armature core is configured by combining said first and second magnetic tooth sections with the overlapping portions of said second magnetic tooth sections fitted in the corresponding cutout portions of said first magnetic tooth section.