The plurality of permanent magnets may be formed of ferrite or rare earth material.
Each of the plurality of permanent magnets may be formed in any one of a V shape, a C shape, and a U shape.
According to another aspect of the disclosure, an interior permanent magnet motor may include a stator provided with a plurality of slots; a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator; a plurality of permanent magnets disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction inside the rotor and having an equal polarity; a rotation shaft disposed at a center of the rotor; and a plurality of left flux barriers and a plurality of right flux barriers provided on left and right sides of one end of each of the plurality of permanent magnets adjacent to an outer circumferential surface of the rotor, wherein a number of the plurality of permanent magnets provided in the rotor is ? of a number of magnetic poles of the rotor.
These and/or other aspects of the present disclosure will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which: