Patent ID: 9577486
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H02K

Claim:
1. A conductor retention member for a stator core comprising: a body formed from a non-electrically conductive material, the body including a radially outwardly facing edge and a radially inwardly facing edge, the body being positionable exclusively upon an axial end of the stator core; a plurality of openings extending between the radially inwardly facing edge and the radially outwardly facing edge formed in the body, wherein the body is configured and disposed to be arranged at an axial end of the stator core with the plurality of openings registering with corresponding ones of a plurality of stator slots; and a plurality of voids formed in the radial inwardly facing edge, the plurality of voids forming a plurality of tooth elements, each of the plurality of tooth elements including at least one circumferentially extending compliant retaining element having a radially outward surface angled relative to the radially inwardly facing edge, the radially outward surface guiding conductors into corresponding ones of the plurality of voids.