<p>A high-efficient and inexpensive single-phase electric motor and a closed compressor using it is produced by ensuring a magnetic path of a stator iron core back and forming such a shape that the material scribing is preferable. The single-phase electric motor comprises a stator having an iron core formed of a laminate of electrical steel sheets and provided with slots and a single-phase two-pole distributed winding composed of main and auxiliary windings provided in the slots and a rotor disposed along the inner circumference surface of the stator with an air gap therebetween. The single-phase electric motor is characterized in that five or more generally linear cuts are made in the outer circumference portion of the stator iron core and a rectangle with straight lines including four cuts among the five or more cuts is formed.</p>
