Patent ID: 11967872
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A vehicle electric machine, comprising a stator defining a cavity and a rotor arranged in the cavity, the stator comprising:
a stator winding; and
a stator core including a plurality of annular stator laminations arranged in a stack, each stator lamination including a plurality stator teeth with adjacent teeth defining associated stator tooth slots arranged on an inner periphery facing the cavity, and each stator tooth slot including:
a winding area for arranging the stator winding; and
an opening area leading to the inner periphery and including a first side and a second side,
wherein, the first side and the second side each have an inner and outer tooth top, the inner and outer tooth top of the first side and the inner and outer tooth top of the second side are respectively symmetrical with respect to a center line of the opening area, and the first side and the second side are asymmetric with respect to the center line.