Patent ID: 11870311
Assignee: ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A method of forming a coil for an electric application, the method comprising:
winding a wire about a bobbin element to obtain a wire winding including a plurality of superposed winding turns of the wire fully wound a plurality of times about the bobbin element, the winding having a first turn end and a second turn end on an opposite end of the first turn end;
compressing the wire winding against a shaping element, wherein the shaping element forms a channel groove in the wire winding and disposed between adjacent turn segments of the plurality of superposed winding turns, the channel groove including a first end opening at the first turn end and configured to receive a coolant flow, and the channel groove including a second end opening at an opposite end of the cooling groove.