Vehicle-use generator with cooling air outlet windows of different widths

摘要

The vehicle-use generator driven by a vehicle engine at a rotating shaft thereof includes a rotor rotatably mounted to said rotating shaft, a stator fixedly located radially outwardly of the rotor, a cooling fan fixed to the rotor to rotate together with the rotating shaft in order to generate cooling air for cooling the stator, and a housing housing the rotor and the stator and rotatably supporting the rotating shaft. The housing is provided with a plurality of ribs arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft so as to form a plurality of cooling air outlet windows. The plurality of the ribs are inclined with respect to a radial direction of the rotating shaft, and shaped such that widths of the plurality of the ribs are gradually changed thereamong cyclically in the circumferential direction.