Patent ID: 6253437
Filing Date: 2001-07-03
Classification: B60K,B60L,F02N,H02K,Y02T,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for aligning a rotor within a stator of an electric motor of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine with an engine block, the rotor being aligned to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, the crankshaft having a first annular locating surface formed at an end thereof, the stator having a fourth annular locating surface, the apparatus comprising:a piloting tool having a second annular locating surface for mating with the first annular locating surface of crankshaft to radially locate the piloting tool to the crankshaft, the piloting tool having a third annular surface for radially locating a stator and;the third annular surface mating with the fourth annular surface to radially locate the stator.