GENERATOR

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a electric generator which has a simple structure while sufficiently suppressing cogging torque. A electric generator is constituted by a rotor section comprising a plurality of protrusions which is arranged linearly with constant pitch at mutually separated positions sandwiching permanent magnets, and a stator section which has a stator member comprising stator yokes, permanent magnets facing the permanent magnets, and protrusions which protrude closer to the rotor section than the permanent magnets and are arranged linearly with constant pitch at mutually separated positions sandwiching the permanent magnets, the stator member being configured such that the protrusions and the protrusions are shifted from each other by a half pitch between adjoining stator members. Further, the rotor section-side protrusions may be shifted by a half pitch instead of the stator section-side protrusions.