Abstract: A three-phase alternating-current winding is configured by connecting first conductor terminals and second conductor terminals that are disposed in a circular arc-shaped region using connecting units, electric power supplying terminals of the three-phase alternating-current winding are constituted by the first conductor terminals and the second conductor terminals that are disposed in the circular arc-shaped region, a number of parallel phase windings in the three-phase alternating-current winding is n, where n is a natural number that is greater than or equal to one, an angular range of the circular arc-shaped region is less than or equal to (180×n) electrical degrees, and the second conductor terminals that constitute the electric power supplying terminals are positioned between adjacent first conductor terminals when viewed from a radially outer side.

Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes: a collar portion provided at an end portion of each of the tooth portions so as to project to the slot side and includes: a connection portion; a bent portion extending in the circumferential direction and forming a first gap; and a stop portion projecting at an end side thereof in the circumferential direction to the slot side and formed so as to have a width in the radial direction larger than a width in the radial direction of the bent portion. An R dimension of a side surface, in the circumferential direction and at a side opposite to a projection side of the tooth portion, of the bent portion is not less than the width in the radial direction of the bent portion.

Abstract: Coils that constitute an armature winding are produced by winding a conductor wire that has a rectangular cross section, the coils each include: four rectilinear portions that are inserted into a pair of slots; and three coil end portions that link the four rectilinear portions consecutively by each connecting together end portions of two selected rectilinear portions, the coils being mounted into the armature core so as to be arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction, the coil end portions include: a bulging portion that protrudes axially outward in a convex shape; and oblique portions that link the two connected rectilinear portions and the bulging portion, the bulging portion has a crank portion that displaces radial positions of the two connected rectilinear portions by a set amount, and a cross-sectional area of the bulging portion is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the oblique portions.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, an armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, that is jointless and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions.

Abstract: Phase windings are configured radially inside first coil ends by connecting together tip portions of first terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are six slots apart, and radially outside the first coil ends by connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are five slots apart, and also connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are seven slots apart in modified positions of an inserted slot group, and by connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are six slots apart in regions other than the modified positions of the inserted slot group.

Abstract: A side surface at the outside of a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core is faced to a side surface of teeth portions of an adjacent separated core, so as to form a second slot which is straddled between the adjacent separated cores, and a first slot is formed by a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core, and a width size of the first slot is identical to a width size of the second slot, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the first slot via a first insulating component, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the second slot via a second insulating component, and a thickness size of the first insulating component is different from a thickness size of the second insulating component.

Abstract: Slot accommodation portions of single coils forming an armature coil are arranged so as to be stacked in the radial direction in a slot. On the anti-wire-connection side, a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the first layer, and a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the second layer, extend in the same direction. No insulation sheet is provided in intervals between coil ends extending in the same direction, such as the extending portions (23b) and (21b) and extending portions (21d) and (22d).

Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator including an outer core, a plurality of inner cores, and a coil accommodated in slots, each slot being surrounded by opposing circumferential side surfaces of tooth portions of adjacent inner cores and by inner circumferential surfaces of projections of the adjacent inner cores; and a rotor. A gap is provided between the circumferential side surfaces of the adjacent inner cores. The coil has a first slot-accommodated portion and a second slot-accommodated portion accommodated in different slots, and a turn portion connecting the two slot-accommodated portions on one end surface, in an axial direction, of a stator core. The turn portion is elastically urged in a direction in which the first slot-accommodated portion and the second slot-accommodated portion move away from each other in the circumferential direction.

Abstract: An armature winding is configured by mounting into an armature core a plurality of distributed-winding coils that are each produced by bending and shaping a conductor wire that is coated with insulation, coil ends are configured by arranging coil end portion rows that are formed by arranging coil end portions of the coils in a single row circumferentially in n layers in a radial direction, where n is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1, and an interphase insulating material includes: a strip-shaped insulating sheet material that is inserted inside the coil end portions, and that is disposed so as to extend circumferentially between the coil end portion rows; and an insulating buffering material that is formed on one surface of the insulating sheet material, and that is fixed to the coil end portion rows by forming air bubble groups internally.

Abstract: X1>X2 and X3<X4 are satisfied when a distance in a radial direction at an axial end portion of the armature core between two slot-housed portions adjacent to each other and connected to two slot lead-out portions bent along a circumferential direction in the same direction is denoted by X1, a distance in the radial direction between the slot lead-out portions is denoted by X2, a distance in the radial direction at the axial end portion of the armature core between two slot-housed portions adjacent to each other and connected to two slot lead-out portions bent along the circumferential direction in directions opposite to each other is denoted by X3, and a distance in the radial direction between the two slot lead-out portions bent along the circumferential direction in the directions opposite to each other is denoted by X4.

Abstract: A unit coil includes: first, second, third, and fourth turn portions extending in a bent manner from first, second, third, and fourth slot accommodation portions and each connecting the slot accommodation portions to each other; and first, second, third, and fourth leg portions. Recesses are formed in surfaces opposed to each other at bent parts of the turn portions or bent parts of the turn portion and the leg portion, that extend in a bent manner toward the same side in the circumferential direction from the slot accommodation portions adjacent to each other in the radial direction.

Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine by which a share of coil slots for a stator winding in slots, which are formed in a stator core, can be increased, and heat generation at a central portion of a stator can be decreased. The stator winding is composed of coil slots, which are inserted to the slots, and coil ends extended toward the outside in the axis direction of the stator core; and the coil conductors of the coil slots are configured in such a way that cross-sectional areas at central portions in the axis direction are wider cross-sectional areas at both end portions, and the cross-sectional areas of the coil conductors are reduced along the coil slots from the central portions to the both end portions.

Abstract: A tooth groove is provided at a border portion between a tooth body portion and a protrusion. The angle between a tooth body portion lateral face which is a lateral face in the circumferential direction of the tooth body portion and a tooth body portion stop portion which is a face, of the tooth groove, continued from the tooth body portion lateral face is the right angle or an acute angle. The protrusion is rotated toward the outer side in the circumferential direction, to bring a protrusion stop portion into close contact with the tooth body portion stop portion, the protrusion stop portion being an outer-circumferential-side lateral face of the protrusion, thereby forming a shoe in a tooth.

Abstract: While lamination of steel sheets to be included in a stator core having a plurality of tooth portions is performed through swaging at yoke portions and through swaging at tooth portions, the stator core is formed in such a way as to include the tooth portion having a portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging and the tooth portion having no portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging.

Abstract: A three-phase alternating-current winding is configured by connecting first conductor terminals and second conductor terminals that are disposed in a circular arc-shaped region using connecting units, electric power supplying terminals of the three-phase alternating-current winding are constituted by the first conductor terminals and the second conductor terminals that are disposed in the circular arc-shaped region, a number of parallel phase windings in the three-phase alternating-current winding is n, where n is a natural number that is greater than or equal to one, an angular range of the circular arc-shaped region is less than or equal to (180×n) electrical degrees, and the second conductor terminals that constitute the electric power supplying terminals are positioned between adjacent first conductor terminals when viewed from a radially outer side.

Abstract: An armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, jointless, and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions, and first gaps are formed between radially adjacent coil end portions to allow a cooling medium to pass through the first gaps.

Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.

Abstract: A predetermined part of one conductive wire is pressurized and plastically worked to form a slot portion having a desired cross section, a part separated from the slot portion by a predetermined dimension is pressed to form a top portion, and then a part separated from the top portion by a predetermined dimension is plastically worked to form the next slot portion. Through repetition of such steps, a conductive wire in which necessary numbers of slot portions and top portions are formed is manufactured. Using the top portion as a reference, the conductive wire is folded to form a coil end portion and is wound by a plurality of turns into a hexagonal shape, thereby forming a hexagonal coil in which the conductive wire is wound by a predetermined number of turns. In the hexagonal coil, bundles of the slot portions become two opposite sides and are inserted in the slots of the armature.

Abstract: Winding bodies include: a first terminal wire that extends outward at a first axial end of a stator core from a radially innermost position inside slots; and a second terminal wire that extends outward at the first axial end of the stator core from a radially outermost position inside the slots, the first terminal wires are each led radially outward over coil ends of the stator winding, the second terminal wires are each led radially outward at positions that are nearer to the stator core than end portions of the first terminal wires that are led radially outward over the coil ends of the stator winding, and end portions of intraphase connecting second terminal wires are stacked in an axial direction with, placed in contact with, and connected to end portions of intraphase connecting first terminal wires that are subject to connection therewith.

Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.