Rotating electric machine

Abstract

A rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor includes a plurality of magnets arranged in a Halbach array along a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a magnet retaining member retaining the plurality of magnets, the magnet retaining member includes a base portion including a magnet retaining surface along the circumferential direction of the rotor, a plurality of rod portions protruding from the base portion along a radial direction of the rotor, and a flange portion protruding from a protruding end of each of the rod portions along the circumferential direction of the rotor, the magnets are each sandwiched and retained between the base portion and the flange portion, magnetization directions of two magnets adjacent to each other with one of the rod portions interposed between the two magnets are both along the radial direction or the circumferential direction of the rotor.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.