Rotating
electric machine (10) comprising a rotor (12) with a rotor shaft (13) located on a rotor axis and a
stator (11) rotatably receiving the rotor (12), wherein the
stator (11) comprises several teeth (15) extending in the direction of a circumferential surface of the rotor (12) and terminating at inner circumferential surfaces opposite the circumferential surface of the rotor (12), and several slots (18) located between two adjacent teeth (15) and providing spaces for winding coils around the teeth (15) for the input of the
electrical drive power, wherein the rotor (12) has several permanent magnets (16) embedded therein to exert the magnetic force on those surface sections of the teeth (15) which are opposite the permanent magnets (16), wherein the rotor (12) within the
stator (11) is driven to rotate by the
reluctance torque originating from the
magnetic flux flowing through the teeth (15), the rear side of the surface of the teeth (15) and the rotor (12) when current flows through the coils, and the
magnetic moment in the form of attraction and repulsion originating from the interference with the permanent magnets (16), wherein an outside
diameter ratio of an outside
diameter Dr of the rotor (12) to an outside
diameter Ds of the stator (11) falls within a range effective for minimizing
torque ripple, wherein, where a set of permanent magnets (16) of the multiple permanent magnets (16) corresponds to a set of slots (18) of the multiple slots (18) and forms a magnetic pole, and the set of slots (18) comprises a number of six slots (18), the ratio of the outside diameters Dr / Ds falls within the range expressed as follows: 0.615 ≤ Dr / Ds ≥ 0.63, wherein the rotating
electric machine (10) is designed to satisfy a condition which is expressed as follows: L t / D r ≤ 0.04 2 L t ≤ L b 0.35 ≤ d / L s ≤ 0.44 0.32 ≤ L s / L t where: Lt is the thickness of each of the multiple teeth (15), Lb is the thickness of the back side of the surface of each of the multiple teeth (15), d is the diameter of the conductor of the coils, and Ls is the width of the opening of each of the multiple slots (18), wherein the multiple permanent magnets (16) and the multiple slots (18) form an 8-pole 48-slot motor, a 6-pole 36-slot motor, a 4-pole 24-slot motor, or a 10-pole 60-slot motor.