Rotating electric machine and vehicle equipped with rotating electric machine

A rotating electric machine, comprising:

• a stator core having a plurality of slots formed therein;
• a stator winding assuming a plurality of phases, which includes a plurality of coil windings wound with a wave winding pattern, each made up with slot conductors inserted at one of the slots at the stator core to form one of a plurality of layers and cross conductors each connecting same-side ends of slot conductors inserted at different slots so as to form a coil end;
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• a rotor rotatably disposed via an air gap so as to be allowed to rotate relative to the stator core, which includes a plurality of magnets and a plurality of magnetic auxiliary salient pole portions each formed between poles formed with the magnets, wherein:
• the cross conductors connect the slot conductors so as to run astride slots with a slot pitch Np set to N+1 at coil ends on one side and run astride slots with the slot pitch Np set to N−1 at coil ends on another side, with N representing a number of slots per pole;
• the stator winding are arranged into stator winding groups, and each stator winding group comprises a plurality of circumferential windings of the same phase so that there is no phase difference between groups corresponding to a single phase;
• the stator winding includes a plurality of slot conductor groups each made up with a plurality of slot conductors corresponding to a single phase;
• the plurality of slot conductors in each slot conductor group are inserted at a predetermined number Ns of successive slots forming a continuous range along a circumference of the stator core so that the slot conductors in the slot conductor group take successive slot positions and successive layer positions;
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• the predetermined number Ns is set so that Ns=NSPP+NL when NSPP represents a number of slots per pole per phase, NL represents a number of layers, and the number of layers is expressed as 2×NL;
• the rotor includes magnetic resistance-altering portions located at positions each offset along a circumferential direction from a q-axis passing through a center of a corresponding magnetic auxiliary salient portion;
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• extents to which the magnetic resistance-altering portions are offset from the q-axis vary depending upon positions assumed by magnetic auxiliary salient poles so that torque pulsations occurring in a applying current state cancel each other out.