Patent ID: 9041262
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: H02K

Abstract:
1. A stator for an electric rotating machine, the stator comprising: a hollow cylindrical stator core having a plurality of slots formed along a circumferential direction of the stator core; and a stator coil mounted on the stator core, the stator coil including first to fourth in-slot portions and first and second turn portions, the first and second in-slot portions being respectively received in two different ones of the slots of the stator core, the third in-slot portion being received in the same slot as the first in-slot portion, the fourth in-slot portion being received in the same slot as the second in-slot portion, both the first and second turn portions protruding from an axial end face of the stator core so as to be located outside the slots of the stator core, the first turn portion connecting the first and second in-slot portions, the second turn portion connecting the third and fourth in-slot portions, the second turn portion being located inside the first turn portion, wherein when viewed along an axial direction of the stator core, the first and second turn portions extending so as to cross each other with a reference line C interposed therebetween, the reference line C being defined to extend along the circumferential direction of the stator core through an intersection between the first and second turn portions, wherein: