Abstract: A stator assembly for a dynamoelectric machine in accordance with the present invention includes a generally cylindrically-shaped stator core having a plurality of core slots formed along the inner surface thereof and defined by a radial depth and wherein a stator coil is disposed. The plurality of core slots defines a plurality of teeth therebetween, which have caps along the inner surface of the stator core and are connected to the stator core by a yoke portion. The plurality of core slots is lined along respective inner surfaces by a plurality of insulation slot liners. The teeth caps include projections along an inner diameter of the plurality of core slots. The slot openings are delimited by the projections along the stator inner diameter. These projections are substantially equal to a width of the slot liners, and are such that the delimited slot openings are substantially equal to a width of a conductor wire to be inserted into the lined core slots.

Abstract: A vehicle rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator having a stator core and a stator winding mounted in the stator core and a pair of frames for supporting the rotor and the stator. The stator winding has a plurality of conductor segments coated with insulation film. Each of the conductor segments has segment ends that are circumferentially aligned and form tow or more rings. The segment ends that contact each other are welded and form joints of winding that have a bare surface. Therefore, electrolyte or foreign particles are prevented from staying at otherwise deteriorated insulation film.

Abstract: An electric machine having multi-set rectangular copper hairpin windings comprises a stator having a plurality of partially closed stator slots. A first winding set and a second winding set are positioned in the stator slots. The first winding set and the second winding set are connected by adjacent leg ends. According to a first embodiment, conductor layers in alternate slots alternate between different phases. The conductor layers in the remaining slots are all of the same phase. Hairpins having unequal length legs are used to implement the first embodiment. According to a second embodiment, conductor layers in alternate slots include one phase for the first winding set and another phase for the second winding set. The conductor layers in the remaining slots are all of the same phase. Hairpins having equal length legs are used to implement the second embodiment.

Abstract: To secure insulation between electrical conductors at a coil end, a first electrical conductor at one coil end is arranged so as to intersect a radially adjacent second electrical conductor at one point or more. The electrical conductor is formed with radial indentations in side faces that are opposite side faces in opposing electrical conductors at any of the intersecting portions, the indentations having depths that increase toward the near ear of the electrical conductors. Sufficient clearances are thereby secured between electrical conductors in their intersecting portions near their ends where the insulating films are susceptible to damage because of welding heat. Electrical insulation is thus ensured, and the cooling efficiency at the coil end is improved.

Abstract: In a vehicular alternator, a stator is arranged to oppose a rotor in a housing. The stator includes a stator core, which forms a plurality of slots extending in an axial direction of the stator core, and a stator winding wound around the stator core. The stator winding includes electric conductors held in the slots. Each of the electric conductors has a circumferential width that is smaller than a circumferential distance between a first wall and a second wall defining the slot. The first wall and the second wall oppose each other in a circumferential direction. The electric conductors are alternately in contact with one of the first wall and the second wall.

Abstract: Three partial coils are accommodated in inphase slots arranged successively in the circumferential direction and also accommodated in the same conductor accommodation position set. Each layer coil is constituted by serially connecting these partial coils. Respective layer coils are connected in parallel to each other to form a phase winding.

Abstract: A self-rechargeable portable telephone device in which electricity is generated by movements made in any direction, includes an eccentric pendulum transmission device which causes rotation of an output shaft in response to movement of the telephone body. The output shaft is connected to and causes rotation of the shaft of a flat rotary electric generator The flat rotary generator includes at least one disc-shaped magnetic pole structure and at least one toroidal coil structure arranged such that the toroidal coil structure cuts magnetic lines generated by the disc-shaped magnetic pole structure to generate electric energy, when the shaft is rotated. The generated energy is accumulated by the energy storage element of an energy storage circuitry system and released when the accumulated electrical energy in the energy storage element exceeds a predetermined voltage to charge a rechargeable battery for the portable telephone.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a winding of a rotary electric machine includes steps of pressing a portion of a conductor segment in a predetermined direction to reduce its dimension in the direction, inserting the conductor segment into a slot of a stator core, bending the conductor segments and joining ends of the conductor segments. In the pressing step, the conductor segment is pressed with a punch in a condition that it is held in a die that has curved inside corner portions to restrict deformation of corners of the pressed portion.

Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanical-electrical connector for interconnecting two separate circuits, as in two separate stator coil sections. The conductive end pieces of the stator coil sections to be interconnected are machined such that they can be inserted into the connector. The connector provides alternating conductive and dielectric layers to connect successive stator sections in an easy-to-assemble, non-permanent mechanism. A series of external jumper conductors provide interconnection between the internal conductive layers.

Abstract: The invention includes an electric machine having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, and a secondary winding, electrically isolated from the first winding and inductively coupled to the first winding, which may be used to control at least one of the output voltage and current of the first winding.

Abstract: A stator winding is provided with three distributed winding phase portions each constructed by installing a conductor wire in every third slot. Slot-housed portions of the conductor wires are formed with a rectangular cross section and coil end portions are formed with a circular cross section.

Abstract: A stator winding structure of a motor or a generator includes plural separate different-shaped rod conductors combined to form a collective winding structure to take the place of a conventional winding structure which has a coil wire wound continuously. The different-shaped rod conductors can be designed in shape to match with the sizes of the coil slots to increase a slot occupied rate of the conductors and to prevent the conductors from bent during the coil winding process. The stator winding structure is especially applicable to a motor or a generator with large power and difficult in multi-electrode winding, facilitating winding and enhancing a slot occupied rate of the conductors and also reducing copper loss during output of large current.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of unit windings 41 is formed by being divided into a first winding section 42 having opened end portions and a second winding section 43, and the first winding section 42 is shaped in such a manner that a step in radial direction of a stator core 2 is formed between opposing side sections 46 and 47 and the opened end sections are bent in the crossing over direction of the winding so that open ends 443 and 444 of the opened end sections 44 oppose each other in the radial direction of the stator core 2, then the open ends 443 and 444 are connected by winding conductor pieces 431 and 432 of the second winding section to complete the unit winding 41, thereby, end sections of a stator winding are shortened and a small size dynamo electric machine is realized.

Abstract: The invention includes an electric machine having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, and a secondary winding, electrically isolated from the first winding and inductively coupled to the first winding, which may be used to control at least one of the output voltage and current of the first winding.

Abstract: A stator winding is configured into a polyphase alternating-current winding by joining together end portions of a plurality of winding sub-portions in a vicinity of each of axial ends of coil end groups within a predetermined circumferential range. Covers are fitted onto each of ancillary connection portions constituted by joint portions between the end portions of the plurality of winding sub-portions so as to closely fit onto an inner circumferential surface, an axial end surface, and an outer circumferential surface of each of the ancillary connection portions, the covers each being filled with a first electrically-insulating resin.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine stator includes a stator core having plural slots and a stator winding that is composed of plural conductor segments. Each conductor segment has a straight portion disposed in the slot and connection ends projecting from the slots and welded to another. The connection ends to be welded cross each other at an angle larger than zero degree.

Abstract: A stator for a dynamoelectric machine improves the cooling of the stator winding without increasing the size of the stator winding or the entire stator. The stator is of a unique construction wherein the size, and more specifically the cross sectional area or volume of the individual conductors is greatly reduced, while the total number of conductors is increased. In addition, a multiple filar construction is employed to avoid the potential for high levels of inductance and resistance in the conductors and to minimize the interference between the cascaded stator end loops and the housing that surrounds the stator.

Abstract: The invention relates to alternators for a motor vehicle, of which a stator comprises a cylindrical body, several phases each formed by a plurality of electrically conducting elements, the cylindrical body comprising radial slots for accommodating at least four phase-conductor elements forming at least four layers of conductor elements, each conductor element including two branches placed in slots each in a predetermined layer and a head forming a U-shape seen in the peripheral direction, the half of the conductor elements which are engaged by their first branches in a slot being engaged by their second respective branches in the same other slot. According to the invention, at least first and second conductor elements of such half are such that the radii of curvature of the U-shapes of the two conductor elements are substantially identical.

Abstract: This process for assembling conductive segments (16) of a rotor or stator winding of a rotary electrical machine comprises the stages consisting in inserting the conductive segments (16) in slots arranged in a core (12) of the rotor or of the stator in such a way that the conductive segments project beyond the latter by their free ends, and in welding the conductive segments in pairs by their projecting free ends to form a winding (14) around the rotor or the stator. The conductive segments each being formed by a wire of electrically conductive material covered with a layer of electrically insulating material, the layer of electrically insulating material is eliminated, in the zone in which the conductive segments are welded, by the means used to weld the latter. Application to the assembly of conductive segments of a rotor or stator winding of a motor-vehicle alternator.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a winding for an electric rotating machine includes steps of altering, passing, shaping, and connecting. In the altering step, connecting portions of conductor segments, a part of which is exposed, are altered in shape by a pressing die to provide good contact between the segments when they are connected. The altered segments are passing through slots of a stator core in the passing step. Ends of protruded portions of the segments are shaped so that they make an angle with respect to the radial section of the stator core in the shaping step. Adjacent segments are connected together at ends of the connecting portion in the connecting step.

Abstract: A stator winding includes a plurality of winding sub-portions in each of which a strand of wire formed from a continuous wire is wound so as to alternately occupy an inner layer and an outer layer in a slot depth direction within slots at intervals of a predetermined number of slots and form a lap winding having two turns in each lap, the strands of wire folding over outside the slots at end surfaces of a stator core, four of the strands of wire constituting the winding sub-portions being housed so as to line up in each of the slots in a slot depth direction, turn portions formed by folding the strands of wire over outside the slots at a first end surface of the stator core being disposed circumferentially to form two rows in a radial direction, and turn portions formed by folding the strands of wire over outside the slots at a second end surface of the stator core being disposed circumferentially to form two layers in an axial direction.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a winding includes steps of twisting U-shaped conductor segments, inserting straight portions of the twisted conductor segments in slots of a stator core, bending ends of the straight portions in a circumferential direction of the stator core and joining the ends. The method further includes a step of pressing turn portions of the U-shaped conductor segments by a turn portion twisting apparatus such that widths of the turn portions reduce in radial directions. The pressing step is performed simultaneously with the twisting step. Alternatively, the pressing step is performed after the twisting step.

Abstract: To secure insulation between electrical conductors at a coil end, a first electrical conductor at one coil end is arranged so as to intersect a radially adjacent second electrical conductor at one point or more. The electrical conductor is formed with radial indentations in side faces that are opposite side faces in opposing electrical conductors at any of the intersecting portions, the indentations having depths that increase toward the near end of the electrical conductors. Sufficient clearances are thereby secured between electrical conductors in their intersecting portions near their ends where the insulating films are susceptible to damage because of welding heat. Electrical insulation is thus ensured, and the cooling efficiency at the coil end is improved.

Abstract: An electric machine such as a direct current motor or generator in which a stator is formed using a set of electrically conductive blade structures disposed about an inner axis of a stator core. Electrical interconnections between the conductive blades are provided by a set of disks connected to the ends of the blades. The disks are formed preferably from an insulating substrate material having electrically conductive pads formed thereon to provide circuit interconnections between the blades. A desired path for current flow is provided by arranging the blades and conductive pads on the disks appropriately in the desired number of turns and phases. The conductive blades and conductive portions of the interconnect disks are formed, in a preferred embodiment, from a material such as a copper and molybdenum laminate.

Abstract: An alternator includes a stator and a rotor disposed inside the stator and rotated by an engine of an automobile. The stator is composed of a cylindrical stator core and a stator winding held in the stator core. The stator winding extends from an axial end of the stator core, forming a circular coil end along an axial circumference of the stator core. Lead wires led out from phase-windings in the stator winding are held on and along the circular coil end and bonded thereto with adhesive. A depressed ditch is formed on the coil end, and the lead wires are disposed in the depressed ditch and firmly held therein to prevent movement of the lead wires relative to the coil end.

Abstract: An electric machine stator having end loop segments includes a multi-phase stator winding having a plurality of radially aligned partial wraps, wraps, and wrap sets, that are adapted to be placed in a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially-extending core slots in a surface of a stator core. The stator winding includes a plurality of slot segments alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments to form the winding. The end loop segments include first and second sloped portions meeting at an apex portion. Each of the end loop segments includes a radial outward adjustment and a radial inward adjustment and forms a cascaded winding pattern.

Abstract: A stator coil has a plurality of segments serially connected with each other to construct one turn in a phase coil. Each of the segments has a pair of slot conductor portions, a head portion which is projected toward an end of the stator core, and a pair of projected end portions which project from another end of the stator core. The head portion has head tip portion, a pair of head oblique portions, and a pair of projected end portions, each of which is stretched obliquely along the circumferential and axial directions of the stator core. A pair of end tip portions, formed at a tip of the corresponding end oblique portion, is joined with an end tip of the other end tip portion. The head oblique portions or the end oblique portions are made circular-arch-shaped around an axis of said stator core.

Abstract: An alternator stator having cascaded end loop segments includes a multi-phase stator winding that is adapted to be placed in a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially-extending core slots in a surface of a stator core. The stator winding includes a plurality of straight segments alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments to form the winding. The end loop segments include first and second sloped portions meeting at an apex portion. Each of the end loop segments includes a radial outward adjustment and a radial inward adjustment and forms a cascaded winding pattern.

Abstract: In a rotary electric machine stator, a stator coil is formed of plural U-shaped conductor segments. Each of the conductor segments has a U-shaped turn portion disposed at one end of a stator core to form one of said coil ends, a pair of in-slot portion extending from the turn portion and inserted into slots and end portions extending from the in-slot portions to form the other coil end. One of the end portions of one of the U-shaped conductor segments extends straight in an axial direction, and the other bends in a circumferential direction by a predetermined angle to provide a wide cooling surface.

Abstract: The invention concerns a winding for a post or an armature of an electric machine with a post or armature (32) with slots (34) composed at least in part of L-shaped structural parts (1, 2, 3). In doing so, one leg of an L-shaped structural part each time creates a slot bar (8a, 8b) located in a slot, and the other leg creates a connecting line (6a, 6b) located at a face of the post or armature. Moreover, the invention concerns a winding with several interlaced coils (50, 52, 50?, 52?, 50?, 52?) whereby the connecting lines (6) of interlaced coils (50, 52, 52?, 50?, 52?) are staggered and therefore arranged in layers. The invention furthermore concerns a winding with connecting lines (6) flatter than the slot bars (8), styled as a fractional pitched polyphase winding with two slots per pole and branch.

Abstract: A method of forming a stator core assembly for an electric machine includes: providing two electrical conductors designated as conductor A and conductor B and winding the conductors into the winding slots.

Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine such as a starter motor for cranking an internal combustion engine is substantially composed of an armature core fixed to a rotating shaft and an armature coil disposed in slots of the armature core. The armature coil is constituted by electrically connecting conductor segments. A rear end portion of each conductor segment disposed in the radial outside of the slot is bent and arranged on an axial rear surface of the armature core, thereby forming a commutator surface. The thickness of the rear end portion in the axial direction gradually increases from its radial outside toward its radial inside, and the cross-sectional area of the rear end portion is made uniform throughout its entire length.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine stator winding having cascaded end loops is adapted to be placed in a plurality of circumferentially spaced axially-extending core slots in a surface of a generally disk-shaped stator core. The core slots extend between a first and a second end of the stator core. The stator includes a plurality of straight segments alternately connected at the first and second ends of the stator core by a plurality of end loop segments to form the winding. The end loops include first and second sloped sides meeting at an apex portion. At least one of the first sloped side and the second sloped side has a body portion offset in a first radial direction. Each of the end loop segments form a cascaded winding pattern.

Abstract: A tail side coil end includes a plurality of tail conductor pairs sequentially disposed with predetermined radial gaps. The radial gaps between the conductor pairs are widened in the vicinity of their tail joint portions compared with those in the vicinity of the end surface of a stator core. This arrangement effectively prevents adjacent tail joint portions or adjacent slanting portions from undesirably contacting with each other, thereby adequately maintaining electric insulation between the tail conductor pairs and also improving the space factor of the slot.

Abstract: A swerved portion is provided on a tail slanting portion of a large-turning conductor segment or on a tail slanting portion of the small-turning conductor segment. The swerved portion is located in the vicinity of a tail joint portion so as to define a radial clearanced between the tail slanting portions.

Abstract: A sequentially joined-segment coil for a rotary electric machine such an electric motor is provided. The coil has an end portion which is made up of heads of conductor segments and projects from an end of a core. The heads of conductor segments have turns or bulges. The bulges are lapped over one another in various forms or shifted in location in an axis direction of the core, thereby permitting the core to be decreased in diameter, which provides for decreases in size and weight of the rotary electrical machine.

Abstract: The invention includes an electric machine having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, and a secondary winding, electrically isolated from the first winding and inductively coupled to the first winding, which may be used to control at least one of the output voltage and current of the first winding.

Abstract: The invention includes an electric machine having a rotor, stator and at least one winding in the stator adapted to conduct a current, and a secondary winding, electrically isolated from the first winding and inductively coupled to the first winding, which may be used to control at least one of the output voltage and current of the first winding.

Abstract: Provided is a multi-turn sequential segment joining stator coil capable of suppressing the differences in electromotive voltage between parallel circuits and of carrying a large current. Partial coils are accommodated in a plurality of continuous conductor accommodation positions of different slots. The partial coils accommodated in the same slot are separately connected in series to each other to produce parallel coils, and the produced parallel coils are connected in parallel with each other. This configuration enables the production of a sequential segment joining stator coil type electric rotating machine with a size-reduced head-side coil end.

Abstract: A varnish is applied to crossover portions of coil ends of a stator winding such that a space factor of conductor wires and the varnish relative to a cross-sectional area of the crossover portions in a cross section of the crossover portions relative to a plane including an axial center of a stator core is seventy percent (70%) or more, and a ratio occupied by exposed portions of the conductor wires relative to an outer circumference of the crossover portions in the cross section of the crossover portions is fifty percent (50%) or more.

Abstract: An armature coil for a rotary electric machinery includes a plurality of identical coil blocks each formed by a plurality of turns of and elongated conductor. Each of the coil blocks includes two groups of axial sections which are diametrically opposed to each other, and curved sections joining the two groups to each other at each axial end. The axial sections of one of the groups is disposed in an inner cylindrical layer while the axial sections of the other of the groups are disposed in an outer cylindrical layer which is coaxial with the inner cylindrical layer. The coil blocks are combined with each other by circumferentially shifting one coil block from another in such a maimer that the axial sections are arranged circumferentially along the inner and outer cylindrical layers, one next to another.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical machine, such as a motor or generator, is wound with stator coils having non-slot-insertion segments that include a twisted segment that is twisted a predetermined number of degrees. The twisted segment is additionally bent at a predetermined angle relative to a reference plane. This combination of twist and bend reduces the likelihood of damage to the insulating coating on the stator coils, and increases the clearance between adjacent coils as compared to other stator designs. As a result, electrical interference between adjacent coils is minimized.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for application of the main insulation to conductor bars, in particular conductor bars for stator windings, with the conductor bars having a rectangular cross section. The method comprises the following steps: connection of the individual conductor bars to form a quasi-infinite conductor bar with a rectangular cross section; sheathing of the quasi-infinite, rectangular conductor bar with main insulation; cutting out or detaching of the unusable connecting points.

Abstract: A flat rotary electric generator includes at least one toroidal coil structure for cutting magnetic lines to induce a current and at least one disc-shaped magnetic pole structure oriented parallel to the helical coil structure. If multiple toroidal coil structures and disc-shaped magnetic coil structures are included, the toroidal coil structures and disc-shaped magnetic coil structures are arranged in alternating manner. The toroidal coil structure and disc-shaped magnetic pole structure are not provided with a permeable material. When either the toroidal coil structures or the at least one disc-shaped magnetic pole structure is rotated by an external force, the toroidal coil structure cuts the magnetic lines passing therethrough to generate an induced current.

Abstract: Each of a plurality of unit windings 41 is formed by being divided into a first winding section 42 having opened end portions and a second winding section 43, and the first winding section 42 is shaped in such a manner that a step in radial direction of a stator core 2 is formed between opposing side sections 46 and 47 and the opened end sections are bent in the crossing over direction of the winding so that open ends 443 and 444 of the opened end sections 44 oppose each other in the radial direction of the stator core 2, then the open ends 443 and 444 are connected by winding conductor pieces 431 and 432 of the second winding section to complete the unit winding 41, thereby, end sections of a stator winding are shortened and a small size dynamo electric machine is realized.

Abstract: A stator winding is constituted by first and second three-phase alternating-current windings. An output-wire lead wire of winding phase portions led out of Address 6 of a slot is bent so as to extend axially outward at a coil-end apex portion, and a neutral-point connection lead wire of the winding phase portions led out of Address 5 of the slots is bent so as to extend axially outward at a coil-end apex portion. The bent portions of the output-wire lead wires and the neutral-point connection lead wires extending axially outward are gathered together and a tube is mounted thereto.

Abstract: A stator core assembly having an annular core defining an outside diameter, an inside diameter, and a plurality of radially projecting winding slots. A first electrical conductor and a second continuous electrical conductor are inserted within the winding slots circumferentially around the stator core. The conductors form a plurality of layers, each layer being defined as one substantially complete circumferential pass of the conductors around the stator core. Each of the conductors include a plurality of straight portions that lay within the winding slots, and a plurality of end loop portions that extend circumferentially to connect two of the straight portions. The length of the straight portions and end loop portions vary between the layers based upon the radial location of the particular layer within the stator core and a pre-determined axial height of the end loop portions.

Abstract: A rotary electric machine having an armature winding that includes three first phase-windings that form a &Dgr;-connection winding having output ends and three second phase-windings that are respectively connected in series to the output ends to form a star-connection three-phase winding having output ends connected to a rectifier unit.

Abstract: A brazed joint between an armature bar strand package and an end fitting is provided where a plurality of solid strands and a plurality of hollow strands are arranged in an array. The plurality of hollow strands have free ends that extend axially beyond corresponding free ends of the solid strands. A cavity in the end fitting is accessed by an opening, and the free ends of the plurality of hollow and the corresponding free ends of the solid strands extend through the opening into the cavity. A braze alloy joins the free ends of the plurality of hollow strands and the corresponding free ends of the plurality of solid strands to each other and to interior surfaces of the end fitting, wherein the braze alloy does not extend substantially beyond the free ends of the solid strands. A related method of forming the brazed joint is also disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention relates an electric rotating machine comprising a plurality of phase coils each composed of a plurality of partial coils each made by connecting segments each composed of an inside-slot conductor portion to be accommodated in each of slots of each of phase slot groups made in a stator core and an outside-slot conductor portion protruding from the slot. Of the plurality of partial coils constituting each of the phase coils, in each of the partial coils to be connected to an input/output terminal, its inside-slot conductor portion is accommodated in the slot other than end portions of the phase slot group in a circumferential direction of the stator core. This reduces the electric potential difference between the outside-slot conductor portion continuing thereinto and the outside-slot conductor portion of an adjacent phase coil, thereby improving the insulating performance.