Patent ID: 9685834
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: F04D,H02K

Claim:
1. An outdoor fan motor comprising: a stator including a plurality of cores and in which aluminum wires are used as windings; a rotor rotatably provided on an inner circumferential side of the stator; a body outer shell provided as a resin mold that secures the stator; a terminal block embedded in a bottom portion of the body outer shell and including terminals with which the stator and an external power source are connected to each other, the terminal block being provided on one of the plurality of cores; and lead wires made of copper wires and connecting the terminals of the terminal block to the aluminum wires forming the windings, wherein a connection portion between each of the lead wires and a corresponding one of the aluminum wires of the windings is provided distant from the terminal block, and a leading end of each of the aluminum wires of the windings residing on another of the plurality of cores that is nonadjacent the one of the plurality of cores on which the terminal block is provided.