Patent ID: 7759835
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: H02K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a winding for a stator of an electric machine comprising the steps of: providing a multitude of wire segments having a rectangular cross-section, bending the wire segments into an L-shape so as to form a long leg and a first short leg at a first end of the long leg, inserting the long legs of the L-shaped wire segments into, or through, respective slots in the stator from one end thereof so that the ends of the long legs project from the opposite end of the respective slots, bending over the wire segments projecting from the opposite end such that the wire segments assume an S-shape resulting in a second short leg while reducing the length of the long leg, electrically connecting the first short leg of each one of a majority of the wire segments to the first short leg of another one of the wire segments and the second short leg of each one of a majority of the wire segments to the second short leg of yet another one of the second short legs of the wire segments.