Patent ID: 8203251
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H02K

Abstract:
1. A stator for an electric rotating machine, the stator comprising: a hollow cylindrical stator core having a plurality of slots that are formed in a radially inner surface of the stator core and spaced at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator core; a stator coil comprised of a plurality of electric wires mounted on the stator core, each of the electric wires having a plurality of in-slot portions, each of which is received in a corresponding one of the slots of the stator core, and a plurality of turn portions each of which is located outside of the slots of the stator core to connect one adjacent pair of the in-slot portions of the electric wire; and at least one restraint that is mounted to end parts of the turn portions belonging to a turn portion group of the electric wires to restrain relative radial movement between the turn portions of the turn portion group, all of the turn portions of the turn portion group protruding from the same one of the slots of the stator core, the end parts of the turn portions of the turn portion group respectively adjoining the in-slot portions of the electric wires received in the same slot of the stator core and aligning with each other in a radial direction of the stator core.