Rotating electric machine

A rotating electric machine comprising:

• a field system including a magnet section having a plurality of magnetic poles whose polarities alternate in a circumferential direction;
• and
• an armature including a multi-phase armature coil,
• wherein
• either of the field system and the armature is configured as a rotor,
• the magnet section has easy axes of magnetization oriented to be nearer perpendicular to a q-axis at locations closer to the q-axis than at locations closer to a d-axis, or o be perpendicular to the q-axis at locations on the q-axis, the q-axis representing boundaries between the magnetic poles of the magnet section, the d-axis representing centers of the magnetic poles,
• the magnet section also has magnet magnetic paths formed along the easy axes of magnetization,
• each phase of the armature coil has electrical conductor sections formed by winding an electrical conductor wire and arranged at positions facing the magnet section and at a predetermined interval in the circumferential direction,
• in each of the electrical conductor sections, the electrical conductor wire is arranged in one or more rows in the circumferential direction and in one or more rows in a radial direction,
• the electrical conductor wire includes a plurality of element wires in a radially laminated state and an insulating coat covering the laminated element wires, and
• each of the element wires has a flat cross section that is longer in the circumferential direction than in the radial direction.