RARE-EARTH PERMANENT MAGNET-FORMING SINTERED COMPACT AND ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE INCLUDING RARE-EART

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Provided are : a rotary electric machine that includes a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in the circumferential direction, and in which the leakage of magnetic flux can be suppressed with a simple structure; and a rare-earth permanent magnet-forming sintered compact for forming rare-earth permanent magnets to be used in said rotary electric machine. This rare-earth permanent magnet is made by sintering and molding magnet material particles including a rare-earth substance, and at least one of the end surfaces at respective end sections is inclined outward in the length direction from an end section, in the length direction, of a first surface, and thereby constitutes a first inclined surface forming a predetermined three-dimensional shape having a lengthwise cross-sectional shape in which the length of the first surface is made shorter than that of a second surface. The rare-earth permanent magnet is partitioned into a central region in the length direction, and a first end-section region covering a range having a predetermined lengthwise dimension from said at least one end surface. In the central region, the axis of magnetization of the magnet material particles included in the central region is arranged in a parallel orientation in which the axis of magnetization is oriented in a substantially perpendicular direction to the first surface extending in the length direction. As for the magnet material particles included in the first end-section region : at a position adjacent to said at least one end surface, the axis of magnetization is inclined with respect to the first surface and directed toward the first surface so as to be along the inclination angle of the first inclined surface forming said end surface; at a position adjacent to the central region, the axis of magnetization is directed toward the first surface so as to be oriented in a substantially perpendicular direction to the first surface; and, between said at least one end surface and said central region, the axis of magnetization is oriented in a converging manner so as to be directed toward the first surface at inclination angles that gradually change from the end surface toward the central region.