Abstract: An improved armature for a small motor comprising a stator core constructed by laminating a plurality of magnetic plates having a plurality of salient poles projecting radially from a ring section, driving coils wound around coil winding sections created on the salient poles, winding slots created at positions where the salient poles adjoin each other and an insulating holder for insulating connecting sections for connecting end wires of the driving coils and lead wires from the driving coils; wherein the insulating holder comprises a plurality of insulating sections created in a manner communicating with each other in the lamination direction of the stator core to be mounted to the slots; holes penetrating through the insulating sections in the lamination direction for inserting the connecting sections and the vicinity thereof and a linking section for linking an end of each of the plurality of insulating sections.

Abstract: A magnetic slot wedge inserted in each slot of a stator core of a dynamo-electric machine so as to close an opening of each slot for preventing coils embedded in each slot from getting out of each slot is disclosed. The slot wedge includes a first thin non-magnetic sheet such as a polyester film having the thickness of several ten microns or an aromatic aramid paper, an amorphous sheet bonded to one of two faces of the first non-magnetic sheet opposite the other face facing a coil side in the condition that the wedge is inserted in each slot, and a second thin non-magnetic sheet bonded to the amorphous sheet so as to cover it. Each non-magnetic sheet has such dimensions that each non-magnetic sheet is projected from both ends and both side edges of the amorphous sheet.

Abstract: A slot insulating magnetic wedge inserted into the vicinity of the center of an opening portion of a stator slot, the slot insulating magnetic wedge being contacted with an inner surface of the stator slot of a motor. The slot insulating magnetic wedge comprises a non-magnetic insulating thin leaf shaped material and a magnetic material layer laminated on at least one surface of the non-magnetic insulating thin leaf shaped material, the electric resistance of the magnetic material layer being in the range from 10 .mu..OMEGA..cm to 200 .mu..OMEGA..cm. The magnetic material layer comprises an amorphous magnetic alloy thin film, a Fe-based magnetic alloy thin ribbon having ultra fine crystalline particles, a crystalline magnetic alloy thin ribbon, a crystalline or amorphous magnetic alloy thin film produced by thin film forming technologies, or the like. The magnetic material layer with the electric resistance in the range from 10 .mu..OMEGA..cm to 200 .mu..OMEGA..

Abstract: The axial end portions of the insulating members which are used to line the longitudinal channels formed between circumferentially adjacent, radially inwardly projecting poles in a stator (e.g., an electric motor stator) are protected from damage by the wire being wound by providing terminal boards at each axial end of the stator having portions which overhang the axial ends of the insulating members. Temporary wire grippers may also or alternatively be mounted on the axial ends of the stator (e.g., on the above-mentioned terminal boards) for temporarily holding the leads of the stator coils prior to permanent termination of those leads on permanent terminals on the terminal boards.

Abstract: A stator wedge having a cross section of a dove-tail is disposed at a radially inner side of each of a plurality of slots formed in a ring-shaped core and having a coil inserted therein. Also disclosed is a guide jig for guiding the wedge having the dove-tail cross section into the slots. The guide jig has formed in both side surfaces an edge portion engageable with the wedge.

Abstract: An electrical machine contains winding coils, in which the winding coils are able to be slid from the stator bore on to pole bodies provided on the stator of the machine and are retained on the pole bodies. The power/space ratio of the winding space available on the pole bodies is able to be increased by inserting at least one clamping part on the end faces of the pole bodies between the specific end face and the mounted winding coil. This clamping part is provided with at least two retention arms which extend in mutual opposition in the circumferential direction of the machine. The clamping part extends with the retention arms under the winding coil on the coil side facing the exposed end of the pole bodies.

Abstract: A high permeability slot wedge for a dynamoelectric machine with the wedge configured as an elongated bar of uniform cross-sectional configuration formed of a ferromagnetic material having modestly good electrically insulative properties comprising approximately by weight 60% to 80% relatively small ferromagnetic particles such as powdered iron, about 10% reinforcing glass fabric; and 15% to 20% unsaturated thermosetting plastic resin binder such as a polyester resin is disclosed. The ferromagnetic material is homogeneously distributed throughout the thermosetting plastic binder so that the permeability and resistivity of the resulting wedge is substantially uniform throughout.

Abstract: In a large-diameter a.c. motor, the stator is divided by joints (6). The stator coil (5) consists of windings (4) which are arranged in two layers in the grooves of the stator. In order to simplify assembly of the machine, the stator coil (5) is divided into several zones (7) of closed windings (4) corresponding to the number of joints (6), which lie only in the grooves located between the joints. In the grooves adjacent to the joint (6), occupied with a winding side (8) in only one layer, the air gap is larger. Such a large-diameter a.c. motor, of synchronous or asynchronous design, can be advantageously used for variable-speed applications, for which the stator coil is supplied with current of varying frequency.

Abstract: A system for supporting conductors in a dynamoelectric machine having a stator assembly with a plurality of stationary armature elements spaced about a circumference positioned radially about a central longitudinal axis, where each armature element includes an armature winding on a base portion and a leg extending from each of the base portions in a radially inward direction, includes a spacer for supporting one or more electrical conductors and for insulating the one or more conductors for an armature element. The spacer is mountable on the armature element and may comprise one or more grooves for supporting one or more interconnecting bars which are capable of connecting the armature windings of two or more armature elements. The spacers may be fastened to the stator assembly and allow the stator assembly to be equipped with conductors which may be oriented in a pattern which minimizes conductor length and minimizes energy losses.

Abstract: A rotor assembly including first and second generally discoidal endshafts disposed at opposite ends of the rotor assembly, an electromagnetic core and winding assembly secured between the endshafts, and a generally annular sleeve member shrunk-fit onto the end shafts in a position surrounding the electromagnetic core and winding assembly. The torque is transmitted through the sleeve member between the endshafts during operation of the dynamoelectric device in which the rotor is employed. A method of assembling the rotor is also disclosed in which the electromagnetic core and winding assembly is bolted between the endshafts. The sleeve member is heated to a temperature between 900.degree. and 1,000.degree. F., the sleeve member is brought into a position over the endshafts, and subsequently allow to cool to ambient temperature to shrink into locking engagement with the endshafts.

Abstract: A squirrel-cage induction motor for frequency converter operation includes a rotor which has a rotor core with a plurality of substantially axially extending rotor slots in which rotor conductors are arranged, each rotor slot having a main portion in which a rotor conductor is arranged and a slot opening arranged between the main portion and that surface of the rotor facing the air gap of the motor, and a magnetic bridge arranged to separate the slot opening from the main portion of the slot, wherein the ends of the magnetic bridge adjoin the rest of the rotor core on either side of the slot opening, and the portion of the bridge opposite to the ends extends into the main portion of the slot.

Abstract: Heat pipes having predetermined configurations and positioned within the wedges and wedge retainers for maintaining the rotor field windings in position for efficiently collecting heat generated along the length of the rotor field windings and rotor surface and transporting this heat to the ends of the rotor where it is transferred to a coolant medium such as a gas or spray liquid are disclosed. The particular heat pipe positioning and configuration provides an optimal amount of heat transfer surface area for transferring heat from the wedge material to a volatile fluid within the heat pipe. Heat is thus efficiently transferred to the volatile fluid which changes the volatile fluid from a liquid phase to a vapor phase where the vapor flows at a high speed to a condenser section beyond the axial length of the rotor field windings where heat is dissipated from the volatile fluid to the cooling medium.

Abstract: A high permeability slot wedge for a dynamoelectric machine with the wedge configured as an elongated bar of uniform cross-sectional configuration formed of a ferromagnetic material having modestly good electrically insulative properties comprising approximately by weight 60% to 80% relatively small ferromagnetic particles such as powdered iron, about 10% reinforcing glass fabric; and 15% to 20% unsaturated thermosetting plastic resin binder such as a polyester resin is disclosed. The ferromagnetic material is homogeneously distributed throughout the thermosetting plastic binder so that the permeability and resistivity of the resulting wedge is substantially uniform throughout.

Abstract: Disclosed is a rotor body for an electric machine having slots for windings and slot keys with wedges for retaining the windings in the slots. The slot keys contain elongated spring strips underlying an amortisseur, in turn, underlying the wedges in the slot keys. The spring strips bias the amortisseur and wedges radially outwardly. Thus, the wedges lie in sufficient, low-resistance, efficient electrical contact with the rotor body at start-up and during low rotor speeds to prevent arcing and localized heating along the interfaces of the rotor parts otherwise resultant from induced surface currents at start-up and low rotor speeds. At the rotor ends, the spring strips bias the amortisseur ends radially outwardly into efficient electrical contact with retaining rings at opposite ends of the rotor body.

Abstract: In a dynamoelectric generator, a low-resistance electrical contact is provided by a cantilever beam mounted between the outer surface of the rotor body and an overlapping retaining ring. This cantilever beam is part of the wedges in the rotor body and provides a conductive current path for high-frequency eddy currents induced on the surface of the rotor and retaining rings at all operating speeds.

Abstract: In a dynamoelectric generator, a low-resistance electrical contact is provided by a multilam or belleville spring mounted between the outer surface of the rotor body and an overlapping retaining ring. This contact forms a conductive current path for high-frequency eddy currents induced on the surface of the rotor and retaining rings at all operating speeds.

Abstract: A magnetic bearing assembly includes at least one electromagnet with a coil at least partially enclosed by a ferrogmagnetic core. Because of this arrangement, heat, inevitably generated within the coil in a conventional bearing, may cause the temperatures of the coil and adjacent parts of the electromagnet to rise to unacceptable values. These temperatures are reduced by placing a heat conducting member, say of copper, contiguous with the coil, and possibly inserted into the coil. Heat is conducted at a high rate to an exposed portion of the member, and is extracted efficiently therefrom by windage, or air flow, created within the apparatus having the magnetic bearing. Advantageously, the exposed portion of the heat conducting member has an extensive surface.

Abstract: A stator coil used in an electric motor, including a bobbin formed by insulating material and composed of a hollow cylindrical portion and two end plates provided projectingly toward the outside in the radial direction from the cylindrical portion at both ends in the axial direction thereof, at least two connector plates made of conductive material of which one end is inserted into an outer periphery of one end plate of the bobbin and of which the other end is extended outside in the radial direction of the end plate, and an exciting coil wound on the cylindrical portion. One terminal portion of a covered wire which constitutes the exciting coil is conductively connected to the one connector plate, and the other terminal portion is conductively connected to the other connector plate. The connector plates are insulatingly held in a housing of the electric motor and their free ends are provided projectingly outside the outer surface of the housing, thereby forming a connector.

Abstract: An improved circuit ring and method of assembly for use in electrical machines, such as power generators, motors and the like, including an integral bus bar for conducting current to a machine terminal. The circuit ring is fabricated from hollow copper tubing of a rectangular cross-section and of a size which will allow electrical circuit leads to be brazed thereto in such a manner as to avoid damage to insulation. Cooling fluid is passed through the tubing so that the rings can be assembled and used in high power density electrical machinery.

Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator lamination packet having an inner periphery defining a stator bore, a laminted screening packet with an inner periphery and lamination segments formed of magnetic material, and a slot and tooth system disposed on and connected to the inner periphery of the screening packet, the slot and tooth system being at least partly formed of nonmagnetic material and having successive slot teeth defining bar receiving slots with a slot bottom, and an air-gap winding on the inner periphery of the stator lamination packet having winding bars with winding bar sides oriented toward the stator bore, the winding bars being inserted in the bar receiving slots with a radial protrusion beyond the slot teeth.

Abstract: A rotor of a salient-pole type rotary machine is disclosed in which field coils are held by a coil brace disposed between adjacent magnetic poles. In addition to the coil brace, a holder provided with an elastic member is also disposed between the magnetic poles, and another elastic member is disposed between the coil brace and the said holder, whereby the said two elastic members are utilized for the fixing of the field coils and for the pressing force of the coil brace. And the whole of the coil holding mechanism is separated from a spider. This construction permits the field coils to be held in place without any great change in the holding force under any dimensional change.

Abstract: A filler-impregnatable device for a large electric machine, such as a stator or a rotor, includes a carrier body having slots formed therein defining slot walls. Conductor windings have conductor devices disposed in the slots associated therewith. Impregnatable insulating layers each surround a respective one of the conductor devices. Impregnatable first semiconductor layers each envelope a respective one of the insulating layers. At least one impregnatable second semiconductor layer is disposed between the first semiconductor layer of each respective conductor device and at least one of the slot walls of the associated slot. The at least one second semiconductor layer is electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer of each respective conductor device. Filler-permeable separating layers are each disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the at least one second semiconductor layer of each respective conductor device.

Abstract: A solid rotor for a dynamoelectric machine including field conductors and ventilation passages in axial slots is provided with low resistivity thermally conductive axial winged inserts which seal and overlie the slots to form a low resistivity cylinder about the rotor to minimize power losses and associated heating due to harmonic induced eddy currents, enhance the conductive cooling of the rotor, and increase efficiency.

Abstract: A multiple stator for an electrical machine includes an excitation winding (5) assembled of a plurality of compound coil members (6) each including a main winding element (8, 9) and a shunt winding element (7). All shunt winding elements (13-16) are made in a single winding operation from a continuous insulated wire (46) wound on winding formers (18-21) created by folding perforated parts of a band-shaped support (17) whereby openings matching the cross-section of respective poles result in the band material. The band-shaped support is provided with notches for anchoring the ends of respective winding elements. The support is arched to match the inner wall of a stator and inserted into the housing whereby chain-link shaped main winding elements (8, 9) surround the individual shunt winding elements. The poles are then inserted into the openings of the winding support and secured to the housing.

Abstract: The axial end portions of the insulating members which are used to line the longitudinal channels formed between circumferentially adjacent, radially inwardly projecting poles in a stator (e.g., an electric motor stator) are protected from damage by the wire being wound by providing terminal boards at each axial end of the stator having portions which overhang the axial ends of the insulating members. Temporary wire grippers may also or alternatively be mounted on the axial ends of the stator (e.g., on the above-mentioned terminal boards) for temporarily holding the leads of the stator coils prior to permanent termination of those leads on permanent terminals on the terminal boards.

Abstract: A stator assembly for a d.c. electric motor/generator has a pair of permanent magnet segments located on the interior surface of the yoke. The magnet segments are held in place by a pair of wedges which are attached to the yoke. The wedges are tapered inwardly and the magnet segments are tapered outwardly to hold the magnet segments in place against the interior surface of the yoke. The tapered magnet segments also reduce cogging torques produced on the armature due to the gradual fall off of the magnetic flux at the tapered side edges of the magnet segments.

Abstract: A biased securement system for the end winding conductors of a turbine generator includes a support ring with a biased wedge system located between the end windings to compress them in both a radial and circumferential direction. A triangular shaped wedge is secured to the support ring between a pair of confronting spacer blocks having angular surfaces converging in the direction of the support ring. Belleville washers are disposed in a recess in one of the spacer blocks, with a slide plate therebetween which is held in place by a lock plate to retain the same in position.

Abstract: A method and device for detecting a partial discharge pulse in a high voltage conductor in the stator of a motor, turbine generator or the like, comprising a conductive plate having an insulated face, an insulated signal conductor spanning the insulated face of the plate, and means for transmitting an electrical pulse produced in the signal conductor to recording means for determining the location and severity of partial discharge activity within the high voltage insulation of the conductor.

Abstract: A pole face slot filler (26,28) for insertion into a pole face slot formed in a pole region (18) of a generator rotor, the filler (26,28) having a U-shaped cross section and being composed of a base portion (36) and two leg portions (38) extending from the base portion (36) and forming the legs of the U-shaped cross section, wherein the filler (26,28) is configured and dimensioned to achieve a press fit in the pole face slot.

Abstract: An armature is formed by laminating cores having through window portions which are provided in the vicinity of the surface on the slot open sides of tooth portions. The through window portions have partly opened portions, respectively. Coils are wound in slots of the laminated core. By pressing the through window portions, cut-open portions of the slot are deformed to provide outwardly curved projecting portions spaced from the coils to prevent the slipping-out of the coils.

Abstract: A rotor of a cryogenic dynamoelectric machine comprises a supporting structure with radial slots therein separated by teeth. Coils of a superconducting field winding are placed in the slots and pressed by wedges fitted into axial grooves made in side walls of the slots. An annular shroud embraces the supporting structure. The outer surface of each wedge, facing the shroud, projects beyond the surfaces of the teeth arranged adjacent to the wedge, which also face the shroud. The shroud is provided with a radial interference fit with the outer surfaces of the wedges, with a first radial clearance formed between the shroud and the teeth. Provided between the surface of each wedge, facing the rotor axis and the opposite surfaces of the axial grooves, is a second radial clearance. The magnitude of each of the two clearances is no less than that of the interference fit of the shroud with the outer surfaces of the wedges.

Abstract: The end turn portions of the saddle-shaped coils of a superconducting field winding in the rotor of an electric machine are clamped in an axial direction by a wedge device positioned in an annular recess between its wall and the nearest end turn portion. The wedge device comprises two rings mounted coaxially with the recess and having their sides facing each other bevelled so that the distance therebetween increases toward the axis of the rings. These sides are provided with radial depressions. Bolts with heads tapering toward the threaded portions are positioned in the depressions. When the bolts are radially shifted the rings are forced apart thus pressing the end turn portions one to another and to the wall of the recess.

Abstract: A magnetic top wedge for dynamoelectric machinery core slots is disclosed having laminated ferromagnetic segments aligned by an eccentric aperture and enclosed in an electrically insulating and spacing carrier.

Abstract: A semi-conducting pyrolyzed glass fiber layer equalizes the electrical potential on the exterior surface of an insulated conductor when the layer covers the surface. The layer prohibits the development of a corona discharge and bleeds off any electrical charge developed thereon when the layer is electrically coupled to a body having a known potential. The insulated conductor may be windings in a dynamoelectric machine.

Abstract: A magnetic top wedge for dynamoelectric machinery core slots having laminated ferromagnetic segments aligned by an eccentric aperture and enclosed in an electrically insulating and spacing carrier.

Abstract: An armature for an electric rotary machine, comprising a laminated iron core including a plurality of slots, and teeth, alternately disposed in the cylindrical surface of the iron core, windings placed in said slots, and anchors for preventing the windings placed in the slots from being displaced, wherein the anchors are formed by deforming the end portions of the teeth, while forming before mounting the windings into the slots, a through hole extending through the end portion of each tooth.

Abstract: A generator exciter for an A.C. sychronous alternator has a rotor secured to the alternator shaft and a compact high power stator. The stator core is a square laminated core. Eight straight sided poles terminate in a concave end defining a circular rotor opening. A first set of four poles is circumferentially spaced to the diametrical four sides of the core. The poles are a minimum length, and of a width approximately equal to twice the depth of the outer square side portions. A second set of four poles are located at the four corners of the core. The second poles are the same width as the first poles but are significantly longer. Each square corner portion significantly enlarges the outer connecting portion and includes a core mounting opening. Precision prewound coils of the same width and of a length slightly less than the pole length are placed on each pole. A generally stepped construction with a slight enlargement between adjacent poles defines recesses of the width of the coils.

Abstract: Laminations used in a lamination stack to form a stator of a dynamo-electric machine, have a number of circumferentially spaced slot openings extending radially outward from an inner circumference of a bore opening in each of the plates. The mouths of the slot openings are wide enough to receive a stator winding when inserted between teeth which bound the slot openings. Each tooth has a main body part and a pair of lip parts at a distal end, with each lip part projecting circumferentially into the mouth of a respective slot opening adjacent the tooth. An edge of each lip part projects from the main body part to retain the stator winding, the edge defining a slope angle with respect to a line perpendicular to the center line of the slot opening into which the lip part projects. The slope angle is functionally related to the width of the main body part of the teeth.

Abstract: A rotor for a superconducting rotating electric machine has pre-wound rotor coils housed in longitudinally-extending slots formed in a coil-carrying shaft. Each coil is restrained against circumferential forces by a plurality of rigid restraining members which are inserted between one side of the coil and the side of the slot in which the coil is housed. The restraining members are disposed on top of one another in layers corresponding to the number of layers in the coils. Preferably, they are made of an electrically-insulating material. A plurality of longitudinally-aligned restraining members may be employed for each layer of the coil. The restraining members for each layer may be disposed with gaps left therebetween in the longtudinal direction and packings disposed in the gaps.

Abstract: A magnetic wedge for use in an electromagnetic device, arranged at the opening portion of a core slot for receiving a winding, comprising a magnetic member consisting of a group of magnetic strips arranged in non-contact from one another and at a predetermined inclination angle for the depth direction of the core slot, and a plastic member for molding said magnetic member. Such a construction of the wedge permits the magnetic property at the opening portion of a core slot to be improved.

Abstract: A magnetic top wedge for dynamoelectric machinery core slots is disclosed having laminated ferromagnetic segments aligned by an eccentric aperture and enclosed in an electrically insulating and spacing carrier.

Abstract: Operating noise of a dynamo electric machine, and particularly a three-phase vehicular-type alternator, can be reduced by changing the reluctance or permeability of the magnetic path between rotor and stator of adjacent stator teeth by splitting the stator teeth to introduce additional radially extending gaps in the stator teeth or by distributing, non-uniformly or uniformly, ferromagnetic slot closers about the circumference of the stator slots while leaving, adjacent a stator slot with a magnetic closer, open stator slots or slots covered only with non-magnetic slot cover elements, such as treated paper, cardboard, or the like.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for locking the wedges used in a dynamoelectric machine having a radically ventilated rotor keys each wedge to its respective damper bar. By inserting a solid key in a selected keyway proximate to a point midway along the length of the rotor, and inserting split keys elsewhere, accumulated axial migration of the wedges relative to their respective damper bar is limited thereby ensuring adequate ventilation through the radically extending ducts.

Abstract: A rotor for a superconducting electric rotary machine comprises a coil supporting tube, a superconducting wire constituting a superconducting field coil, in-line insulators disposed between the laterally adjacent lines of the wound wire and layer insulators between the vertically adjacent layers of the wound wire of the coil, wherein at least one of the line insulators and the layer insulators is formed by a grooved insulating material or a perforated insulating material.

Abstract: To lessen mounting time and to optimize positioning of the Hall generator, the Hall generator and control electronics influenced by the generator so as to actuate a brushless dc motor are arranged on a common substrate and are provided with a common protective envelope whose dimensions are somewhat narrower than the cross-section of the motor slot. This substrate is inserted in the motor slot so that the Hall generator is located outside the slot and in the effective magnetic field of the motor's permanent magnet.

Abstract: An annular core used in a so-called air axial gap motor includes a magnetic and structural gap along the axial direction. By using a compressed molded body of a mixture of a magnetic metal powder and an electrically insulating resin as major constituents, an annular molded body and a molded plate are prepared. The annular molded body has slots and teeth alternately formed along the circumferential direction. The molded plate closes the upper portions of the slots to constitute a fully closed slot structure.

Abstract: In a dynamoelectric machine rotor whose armature has circumferentially spaced teeth defining therebetween coil slots in which coils are disposed and which are closed by coil wedges provided with shoulders which engage armature tooth projections formed at the radially outer ends of the armature teeth to retain the slot wedges and the coils in the coil slots, the shoulders of the coil slots have self-lubricating material structures disposed thereon by which they are in engagement with armature tooth projections for the transmission of centrifugal forces generated by the coils and slot wedges to the armature teeth through the self-lubricating material structure thereby greatly reducing armature tooth peak stresses.

Abstract: A ventilation system for end turn conductors spanning a pole face of a rotor of a dynamoelectric machine includes a first plurality of end turn conductors having a first plurality of longitudinally extending ducts having a respective coolant gas inlet disposed proximate the pole center and a respective coolant gas outlet disposed inboard of the end of the rotor body, and a second plurality of end turn conductors alternately stacked with, electrically insulated from and disposed in heat flow communication with the first plurality of end turn conductors. Each of the second plurality of end turn conductors includes a longitudinally extending gas coolant duct, having a coolant gas inlet proximate the winding corner and a coolant gas outlet inboard the end of the rotor body. The system is especially applicable to rotor windings wherein the conductors forming the end turns are not large enough to carry adjacent gas coolant ducts without compromising the structural and mechanical integrity of the winding.

Abstract: In a dynamoelectric machine, electrical windings are held within the dynamoelectric machine rotor in axially extending slots which further include coextensive subslots for ventilation purposes. Slot insulation or slot armor is used to electrically insulate the windings from the dynamoelectric machine rotor. The slot insulation is retained in the slot by a plurality of subslot covers each of which includes a radially inner member, a radially outer member and further may include an end member. The inner members are formed at each end with a pinetree dovetail and include ventilation slots whereas the outer members are formed with ventilation half slots and depending tines. In assembly, the inner and outer members are staggered with respect to one another so that the outer member tines engage two different inner members to further strengthen the joint. The outer members included rabbeted ends so as to form overlapping joints with adjacent members to reduce electrical leakage paths.

Abstract: In electric machines having gas-cooled rotor windings which consist of part conductors (5,6) which are placed on top of each other and have an E or U section, relative movements between the part conductor pairs occur during shaft rotation which generate copper abrasion. Such relative movements are inexpensively prevented by a "covered" riveting of the part-conductor pairs.