Abstract: A magneto generator can be made small in size and light in weight, and improved in power generation efficiency. The magneto generator includes an iron core having an iron core main body and a plurality of teeth (9) radially extending from the iron core main body, and an armature having a first three-phase winding (14) and a second three-phase winding (15) comprising winding portions (18u, 18v, 18w, 19a, 19b and 19c) of individual phases wound around the stator core. The individual first and second three-phase windings (14, 15) have the winding portions (18u, 18v, 18w, 19a, 19b and 19c) constructed by concentratedly winding conductors around the individual teeth (9), respectively, while skipping every predetermined number of teeth (9), and are wound in a state divided into an inner layer side and an outer layer side, respectively.

Abstract: The manufacturing cost of a stator for a rotary electric machine can be reduced, and the volume of coil end portions can be reduced to enable downsizing. A stator for a rotary electric machine includes: a cylindrical stator core with plural slots formed at an inner circumferential surface; a plurality of coil segments received by the slots; a plurality of first coil end plates electrically connected with the coil segments on either one of end surfaces of the stator core; and a plurality of second coil end plates electrically connected with the coil segments on the other end surface of the stator core. The plate portion of at least one of the plurality of the first coil end plates is formed longer than the plate portions of the other first coil end plates and has a stepped portion.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of slots, and a conductor. The plurality of slots are formed within the stator core. The conductor is disposed continuously within at least two of the plurality of openings.

Abstract: A stator assembly includes a first conductor having a first leg portion, and second leg portion. Each of the first and second leg portions includes corresponding first and second free end portions. The first free end portion includes first and second surface portions and the second free end portion includes first and second surface segments. A second conductor includes a first leg section, and a second leg section including corresponding first and second free end sections. The first free end section includes first and second surface zones and the second free end section including first and second surface sectors. The second free end portion and the first free end section are twisted creating a cross-over region causing the first surface portion to abut the second surface zone. The second free end portion is joined to the first free end section through a bond that exists at the cross-over region.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a rotor for an induction motor comprises a punching assembly, a plurality of conductive bars, and an end-ring. The plurality of conductive bars may be substantially parallel to an axis of the rotor and connected to the punching assembly at a periphery of the punching assembly. Each conductive bar includes an end connected to the end-ring. The end-ring comprises a punching side having a surface facing the punching assembly and a housing side having a surface opposite the punching surface. The end-ring may be thicker on the punching side than the housing side. In this manner, the peak end ring stresses may be reduced at higher speeds and the mean time between failures of the rotor may be increased. Alternatively, the threshold speed may be increased and the top-speed of the off-highway vehicle may be increased for a given expected mean time between failures of the rotor.

Abstract: A method of joining the ends of wire windings for a motor stator or the like includes preparing a surface at each end (e.g., by removing any enamel coating), deforming the surfaces to produce knurls, striations, and the like, and then ultrasonically bonding the two surfaces to produce the bond between windings, thereby providing a joint with improved strength.

Abstract: An assembly for providing electrical insulation in a stator core of a vehicular electric machine is provided. The stator core has a channel and the assembly comprises a first conductive element disposed through the channel, and a second conductive element disposed through the channel and substantially adjacent to the first conductive element. The assembly also comprises a first electrically insulating film having a first end residing between the first and second conductive elements.

Abstract: Stator winding (10) for an electric machine, in particular for a generator of a motor vehicle, the stator winding (10) being embodied as an ordered stator winding (10), and the stator winding (10) being embodied in at least two axially spaced-apart levels (22, 24) in a winding head (13). The invention also relates to an electric machine and a method for manufacturing a stator winding (10) of an electric machine.

Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes a stator coil including a wire pair with respective ends that are joined with a ring. The ring is positioned around the wire pair and joined to the wire pair by a metal joining process.

Abstract: A method of joining a plurality of electrical conductors in an electric machine. The method comprises the steps of providing a core and positioning the plurality of conductors within the core in concentric rings. The conductors include ends extending from the core. The method further comprises the steps of holding together at least two adjacent ends of the conductors, joining the adjacent ends to form a joint, and forming the joint to include at least a substantially planar portion. The method further comprises the step of releasing the adjacent ends of the conductors.

Abstract: A multi-filar conductor for an electric machine includes a first solid core and a second solid core. The first and second solid cores directly contact each other along a bare interface. An insulation layer surrounds the first and second solid cores. However, the insulation layer does not pass through the bare interface, such that there is no insulation between the first solid core and the second solid core.

Abstract: A system for mounting an electrical element and supplying it with a source of electrical power comprises a magnetic circuit base having first and second spaced magnetic elements having an electrical insulator there between. Each of said magnetic elements is electrically connected to a lead of said power source and an element mount comprising first and second electrically conductive mounting portions having an electrical insulator there between. Each of said mounting portions have an electrical lead secured thereto for supplying power to the electrical element, wherein a first mounting portion is electrically connected to the first magnetic element and a second mounting portion is electrically connected to a second magnetic element.

Abstract: A plurality of shaped wires, which are obtained by shaping electric wires, are assembled to form a wire assembly 47. The wire assembly 47 is then rolled around a core member 6 with aligning members 7 being inserted into spaces 472 formed between adjacent ones of straight superposed parts 471 of the wire assembly 47.

Abstract: Disclosed is a stator for a rotating electrical machine, which includes a stator core having a plurality of slots, and a plurality of coils. Each of the coils has a first inserting section and a second inserting section, which are inserted into two slots which form a pair, a first coil end, and a second coil end. The first and/or the second coil end has a twisted portion and a bent portion. The twisted portion is formed by twisting the coil end at a part close to the first inserting section. The bent portion is formed by bending, at a part close to the second inserting section, the coil end such that the coil end is laid flat.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electric motor comprising several poles (P) that are directed inwards towards the motor axis (2) and that surround a rotor (1), each pole (P) being provided with one winding (L) and the coils of the windings (L) being wound around the poles (P) one after the other without interruption. The stator (20) contains at least three pole groups (n), having at least three poles (P) and each group having the same number of poles (P). The windings (L) run out from the end face at least at the respective beginning and end of a pole group and are contacted there in such a way that the windings (L) associated with each pole group contain their own connection pair (U-U?, V-V?, W-W?) and one connection (U?, V?, W?) of each of these connection pairs is connected to a star point (Y) on the end face of the stator (20).

Abstract: An armature core of a stator has an annular portion and a plurality of teeth extending radially from the annular portion. A segment coil is configured by electrically connecting a plurality of segment conductors together. The segment conductors extend axially through slots S, each of which is defined between each adjacent pair of the teeth. Each of the teeth has a width adjustment portion for decreasing a slot width in a direction perpendicular to a radial direction in the radially inward direction.

Abstract: Provided is a motor comprising: a stator equipped with a coil basket, which is a distributed winding coil that uses flat wire, and a stator core; and a rotor with a central shaft. The motor is characterized in that: the coil end at one end of the coil basket has bent sections that are bent on the rotor side in relation to wire sections inside slots of the stator core; and a lower-side concentric section and horizontal sections, which comprise the coil end at the other end, are positioned further toward the shaft center side of the rotor than the inner peripheral surface of the teeth; and the coil end at one end and the coil end at the other end comprise five flat wires that are lap wound in a flatwise direction.

Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and a stator coil comprised of a plurality of electric conductor segments mounted on the stator core. Each of the electric conductor segments has an insulating coat-removed portion. Each corresponding pair of the insulating coat-removed portions of the electric conductor segments are joined with a joint formed therebetween. Each of the electric conductor segments also has an oblique portion that is comprised of a first part and a second part. The first and second parts extend, along the circumferential direction of the stator core, obliquely with respect to an axial end face of the stator core respectively at first and second oblique angles ?1 and ?2, where ?2??1. The second part is positioned closer to the joint, where the insulating coat-removed portion of the electric conductor segment is jointed to that of another electric conductor segment, than the first part is.

Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes first and second rows of conductors arranged concentrically around an axis inside a steel core. Each conductor includes a linking end. The stator also includes a first dielectric shim ring arranged between the two rows of conductors. Each conductor of the first row is bent in either a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction relative to the axis and each conductor of the second row is bent in the opposite direction. The linking end of each conductor of the first row is attached to the linking end of an adjacent conductor of the second row after the conductors are bent. The first shim ring separates the first and second rows of conductors when the conductors are being bent, and is also at least partially disposed between the first and second rows of conductors when the linking ends are being attached.

Abstract: A technique for winding multi-turn, stranded wire coils using rectangular cables avoids the risk of damage associated with edge-wise bends.

Abstract: A conducting wire for a stator of an electric machine includes a cross section having a first side, a second side, a third side and a fourth side. The third side and the fourth side are parallel with each other, with the first side and the second side extending between the third side and the fourth side. The first side and the second side each define a concave depression.

Abstract: A stator has conductor segments serially wound on a core. Each segment inserted in one of slots of the core has a slanting portion protruding from the slot and inclined toward circumferential and axial directions of the core. Each slanting portion has an oblique portion with a film removal surface and a film removal portion with a film removed surface to have a slanting removal area covered with no insulation film and extending on the oblique portion. Each film removal portion has a connection portion on an end thereof. The connection portions are aligned along a radial direction of the core to form a plurality of end pairs. The connection portions of each end pair are connected with each other so as to serially connect the segments with one another.

Abstract: A voltage grading structure (40) as may be used in the stator coils of an electromotive machine is provided. A filler material (44) may be disposed on a top surface and a bottom surface of a stack of coil strands (22). The voltage grading structure may include an electrical isolation layer (46) on the filler material and may further include an electrically conductive layer (48) on the electrical isolation layer. An electrically conductive bar (50) is positioned on the electrically conductive layer. The conductive bar is electrically connected to at least one of the coil strands (22) to shunt a capacitance effect between the conductive layer and the stack of coil strands and force the conductive layer to be substantially at a common voltage level relative to the stack of coil strands and thereby avoid an overvoltage condition.

Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes an annular stator including a coil formed by winding a part of a coil wire around a stator core, and the coil wire includes the coil wound around stator teeth, a terminal portion drawn out from one end portion of the coil over a yoke portion, and a wiring drawn out from the other end portion of the coil over the yoke portion and connected to a terminal portion of another coil wire including another coil provided at a distance from the coil in a circumferential direction of the stator.

Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil comprised of electric wires. Each of the electric wires has n in-slot portions and (n?1) turn portions, where n?4. The in-slot portions are sequentially received in p slots of the stator core, where p?n. The turn portions are located outside the slots to connect adjacent pairs of the in-slot portions. The radial distances from the longitudinal axis of the stator core to the first to the nth in-slot portions successively decrease. Each of the electric wires further includes bulges. Each of the bulges is formed, on a surface of a corresponding one of the in-slot portions or a surface of a portion of the electric wire which falls on an imaginary line extending axially from the corresponding in-slot portion, so as to protrude from the corresponding in-slot portion in a radial direction.

Abstract: An electrical machine includes an armature and at least one field magnet arrangement separated by a gap from each other. The armature and/or the filed magnet arrangement include a plurality of coils. Each coil includes conductive body sections. The body sections of the coils are joined electrically by conductive end sections. At least one of the end sections of at least one coil of the armature is tilted in a direction away from the armature towards the field magnet arrangement and/or at least one of the end sections of at least one coil of the field magnet arrangement is tilted in a direction away from the field magnet arrangement towards the armature. The electrical machine may be used in a wind turbine to generate electrical power.

Abstract: The wire 30 forming the stator winding 20 includes the in-slot portions 40 to be disposed in the slots 14 and 15 of the stator core 12 and the turned portions 42 connecting the in-slot portions 40 disposed in the circumferentially different slots 14 and 15. The turned portions 42 formed on axial opposite end sides of the stator core 12. The crank portion 44 which does not twist is formed at substantially the center of the turned portion 42. Steps are formed at sections of the turned portion 42 which protrude outside the stator core 12 from the slots 14 and 15. Further, the turned portion 42 of the wire 30 also has two steps 48 formed between the substantially central crank portion 44 and each of the steps 46 formed at the protruding sections of the turned portion 42.

Abstract: A coil including a first winding portion and a second winding portion arranged on a stator of a rotary electrical machine. The first winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire. The second winding portion is formed by edgewise-winding a conductive rectangular wire, which is connected to the first winding portion. Coil end parts of the first and second winding portions each include a crank-shaped section. The first and second winding portions are formed so that when slot insertion parts of the first and second windings are arranged in slots of the stator, a long side of a cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in the circumferential direction of the stator and a short side of the cross-section of the rectangular wire extends in a radial direction of the stator.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator includes: (a) preparing a stator core and electric wires; (b) assembling together the stator core and the electric wires; (c) welding corresponding pairs of the electric wires to form a stator coil, wherein for each corresponding pair of the electric wires, end portions of the electric wires are radially bent toward each other to have distal end surfaces thereof abutting each other at a position axially outside an annular coil end part of the stator coil, the distal end surfaces are welded together to form a weld between the end portions, and the end portions together make up a crossover part that extends to cross over the coil end part; and (d) deforming, for each corresponding pair of the electric wires, the end portions so as to reduce an axial distance between the coil end part and the crossover part.

Abstract: A flat conductor wire in a U-phase first slot of a first group block and a flat conductor wire in a U-phase second slot of a second group block form an outer circumference base unit. A flat conductor wire in a U-phase second slot of the first group block and a flat conductor wire in the U-phase first slot of the second group block form an inner circumference base unit. The inner circumference base unit is located inside the outer circumference base unit. A coil end portion at one end of the inner circumference base unit and a coil end portion side at one end of the outer circumference base unit are bent toward the rotor side with respect to an in-slot conductor portion in the stator core. The coil end portion side at one end of the inner circumference base unit and the coil end portion side at one end of the outer circumference base unit are located further toward the axis of the rotor than an inner peripheral surface of the stator core.

Abstract: A method and system is provided to join the wire ends of a stator by immersing a wire end portion of the stator in a molten solder bath to form a solder joint in each of a plurality of wire end pairs to provide an electrical connection between the respective wire ends of each wire end pair. The stator may be configured as a bar pin stator including a plurality of bar pins defining the wire ends. The solder joint may be defined by a portion of solder between the proximate surfaces of the wire ends of each wire end pair, and may be defined by a coating of solder in proximate contact with the perimeter surface of each respective wire end pair, wherein the portion of solder and the coating of solder each may provide an electrical connection between the respective wire ends.

Abstract: A power supply for an electric motor includes a converter that can increase and decrease a voltage supplied into an inverter and then into the stator windings of the motor. As a separate feature, the inverter includes a control coil which is positioned within a motor housing such that it may be cooled by a thermal management system for the motor.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for twisting rectangular rotor and stator conductor ends whereby most if not all conductor ends are bent at once, radially adjacent ends being bent in opposite directions. A lost motion member may be used to bend selected conductors through lesser angles for such purposes as phase interconnection and power leads. The rectangular conductors are retained against twisting so that flat conductors will bend about an axis perpendicular to the larger dimension of the conductor cross section. Various features of the methods and apparatus are disclosed.

Abstract: The stator of the electric rotating machine includes a stator winding constituted of a plurality of U-shaped conductor segments each including a turn portion and two straight portions, the U-shaped conductor segments being connected in series by welding at welded portions formed in ends of the straight portions, and a stator core formed with slots, the straight portions of each U-shaped conductor segment being accommodated in corresponding two of the slots. The welded side slot pitch as an interval of the corresponding two of the slots on the side opposite to the turn portions is narrower than the N-S magnetic pole pitch of the rotor. The stator winding includes overlapped wire wrapping sections each constituted of the U-shaped conductor segments accommodated in the corresponding two of the slots, and crossover wires disposed on the side of the welded portions for connecting the overlapped wire wrapping sections.

Abstract: A stator for an electric rotating machine includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil made up of a plurality of wave-shaped electric wires. Each of the electric wires has a plurality of in-slot portions, each of which is received in one of slots of the stator core, and a plurality of turn portions each of which is located outside of the slots of the stator core to connect one adjacent pair of the in-slot portions of the electric wire. The stator coil includes a plurality of radial position shift portions each of which is provided, in one of the electric wires, in one of the turn portions of the electric wire between an apex part of the turn portion and one of the in-slot portions of the electric wire adjoining the turn portion and is radially bent to shift the radial position of the electric wire.

Abstract: A coil-holding assembly for an electrical machine has coil holders made of plastic and on which coils of a stator can be wound. The coil holders are formed and pivotal on an outer edge of a planar central plastic support by integral film hinges between a winding position parallel to a plane of the support and a bent-up position perpendicular to the plane. Thus the coils can be wound on the holders in the parallel position thereof and the holders are then moved into the bent-up position for use in the electric machine.

Abstract: Disclosed are single- and poly-phase transverse and/or commutated flux machines and components thereof, and methods of making and using the same. Exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may variously be configured with an interior rotor and/or an interior stator. Other exemplary devices, including polyphase devices, may be configured in a slim, stacked, and/or nested configuration. Via use of such polyphase configurations, transverse and/or commutated flux machines can achieve improved performance, efficiency, and/or be sized or otherwise configured for various applications.

Abstract: An arrangement having at least two generator bars for a stator of an electrical generator which are electrically connected to one another via a respective bar end is characterized, according to the invention, by the fact that the respective bar ends, which are electrically connected to one another, of the at least two generator bars are braced with respect to one another by means of a tape.

Abstract: A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil made up of wave-shaped electric wires. Each of the electric wires has in-slot portions, which are received in slots of the stator core, and turn portions that are located outside of the slots to connect the in-slot portions. The stator coil includes first crank-shaped portions and second crank-shaped portions. Each of the first and second crank-shaped portions is provided, in one of the electric wires, at the center of an apex part of one of the turn portions and is radially bent to shift the radial position of the electric wire. The amount of radial position shift made by each of the second crank-shaped portions is less than that made by each of the first crank-shaped portions. The second crank-shaped portions are located at a plurality of places in the circumferential direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil assembly of a rotary electric machine is disclosed wherein first and second coil wire segments are located on an axis direction in opposition to each other to allow first turn portions of the first and second coil wire segments to intersect with each other (in locating step). Engaging movement, composed of a forward transferring movement, a rotating movement and a translating movement, is conducted on the second coil wire segment with respect to the first coil wire segment to allow the first turn portion of the second coil wire segment to engage a second turn portion of the first coil wire segment (first engaging step). Conducting the engaging movement allows to engage a third turn portion of the first coil wire segment (second engaging step).

Abstract: A group of three stator windings for a stator of an electric machine, a stator arrangement, a generator, and wind turbine are provided. The first winding head segments of the three stator windings differ in form such that the first winding head segments of at least two of the three stator windings are differently tilted in radial direction of the electric machine and the length of the three stator windings is substantially the same.

Abstract: An electrical motor or generator asymmetrical armature winding configuration generating a multi-phase balanced power output. Each winding group for each pole, and the conductors constituting each winding group, are chosen individually according to their magnetomotive force (MMF) vector relationship to provide a balanced power output even though the individual windings may not be balanced or symmetrical.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator having a magnetic core crossed longitudinally by a stator slot and stator winding having a phase and series of rigid, U-shaped bars inserted through the slot. The slot defines “entry” and “exit” sides in which cusps and legs of the bars are placed. The legs coming out the “exit” side are twisted through relative double folds each of which defines internal and external folds in opposite directions. Ends of the legs are electrically connected to each other to form electrical paths of the winding. A width of the cusps is identical for the bars. The ends of a pair in a part of the winding are initially not adjacent to each other and folded toward each other to be arranged parallel to each other in a circumferential direction so that the ends touch each other to allow an electrical connection between the ends.

Abstract: Dynamoelectric device and stator bar therefor, where the stator bar includes a linear portion for positioning in a slot of a stator core, the slot extending in a radial direction relative to an axis of the stator, and an end arm portion having an involute-on-cone bend relative to the linear portion and an elongated cross-section that is substantially aligned with the radial direction of the slot.

Abstract: The torque characteristic is improved using a magnetic flux efficiently, and an eddy-current loss generated in a coil is reduced. Moreover, a loss is suppressed even if a metal member having a high thermal conductivity is closely disposed or closely contacted to a coil surface exposed by a variable magnetic field to improve the heat transfer property, thereby improving the cooling capability. A coil assembly for a rotational electric apparatus has first and second coil plates having wiring patterns formed in such a way that conductive coil segments adjoin with each other via slits, magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots formed in the slits and having a wider width than such slits, a coil constituted by the stacked coil plates so that the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots overlap with each other, and a magnetic flux transfer member inserted into the magnetic-flux-transfer-member slots of the coil.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator disposed about an axis in register with the rotor. The stator has a plurality of slots parallel to the axis. A plurality of windings with generally rectangular cross sections is provided with each winding having a first portion disposed radially inward of a second portion relative to the axis. At least two of the plurality of windings are at least partially inserted into each of the plurality of slots. The plurality of generally rectangular windings in each of the plurality of slots is configured to reduce resistive loss within the stator.

Abstract: In one aspect, a stator is provided having a first cylindrical surface with a plurality circumferentially spaced winding slots, each winding slot extending along an axial length of the first cylindrical surface and formed to embed a segment of a single stator winding, Each stator winding is pre-formed as a closed loop and two substantially parallel segments of each stator winding formed to be embedded in a first and a second winding slot of the stator, with the second winding slot being the third adjacent winding slot to the first winding slot. Each of the three stator windings has a first winding head segment leaving the winding slots in axial direction of the stator, the first winding head segment of a first winding of the three stator windings describing in space in parts a combination of a rotation about an axis and a translation along that axis.

Abstract: An electrical machine, in particular a three-phase asynchronous hydrogenerator, includes a rotor and a stator, wherein one of the rotor and the stator include a core with a plurality of winding slots. The machine has a winding having a plurality of axially extending winding bars, wherein each of the plurality of winding slots receives two winding bars disposed one on top of the other, and wherein the plurality of winding bars emerge from the plurality of winding slots at an end side of the machine, and wherein each of a majority of the plurality of winding bars is electrically connected to another winding bar in an end winding so as to form a pair of winding bars according to a predetermined scheme.

Abstract: A method of producing a coil which comprises steps of bending each of straight coil wires into a rectangular wave shape including in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and turned portions connecting between the in-slot portions, turning a coil bend-forming portion that is one of the in-slot portions of each coil wire which becomes a folded bend of a phase winding by 180° around an axis thereof, twisting the turned portions of the coil wires together to weave the coil wires into a wire bundle, and folding the wire bundle at the coil bend-forming portions of the coil wires to place sides of the wire bundle to overlap each other to make the coil, thereby eliminating the 180° twisting of the coil bend-forming portions to produce the coil without any undesirable deformation of the phase windings.

Abstract: A multiphase synchronous electrical machine for converting kinetic energy into electrical energy and electrical energy into kinetic energy has a rotor extending along an axis, and a stator, which is provided with a stator pack having slots and with an electrical winding, which extends in part in the slots and in part in a position corresponding to two heads arranged on opposite sides of the stator pack and has bars housed in the slots and connected to one another in a position corresponding to the heads and connection plates, which are welded to the bars, are packed with respect to one another and to the stator pack in an axial direction and are shaped in such a way as to define a prolongation of the stator pack.