Patent ID: 7449808

Claim:
A method of forming a stator bar series loop connection comprising: a) providing a solidified stator bar and a stranded stator bar; b) brazing a first side plate adjacent a first end thereof to a first side of an end of said solidified bar; c) brazing a second side plate adjacent a first end thereof to a second side of said end of said solidified bar; d) installing said bars into a stator slot so that one of said bars is disposed as a top bar and the other of said bars is disposed as a bottom bar in said slot; e) disposing the strands of said stranded bar between second ends of said side plates; f) disposing braze alloy between said side plates and said strands of said stranded bar adjacent second ends of said side plates; and g) brazing said side plates to said stranded bar, thereby to series connect said stranded bar to said solidified bar.