Patent ID: 8490280

Claim:
A winding device for winding a wire onto a stator having a plurality of radially disposed magnetic poles including adjacent magnetic poles that include a winding subject magnetic pole and another magnetic pole, the winding device comprising: a wire feeding member for feeding the wire; a wire feeding member moving mechanism for moving the wire feeding member relative to the stator; and a guide for holding the wire fed from the wire feeding member and for positioning the fed wire relative to the winding subject magnetic pole, the guide being configured to face a non-opposing surface, which does not oppose the another magnetic pole, of an outer peripheral surface of the winding subject magnetic pole, wherein the wire feeding member is configured to be moved relative to the stator without being passed between the adjacent magnetic poles while the fed wire is being held by the guide such that the fed wire is inserted between the adjacent magnetic poles, and wherein the guide is configured to be moved in a winding axis direction of the winding subject magnetic pole by an amount corresponding to a diameter of the fed wire every time the fed wire is wound once around the winding subject magnetic pole so that the fed wire is wound regularly around the winding subject magnetic pole, the guide including a first guide configured to be disposed parallel to a winding direction of the wire wound around the winding subject magnetic pole, and a second guide configured to be disposed at a gap corresponding to the diameter of the wire from the first guide, wherein the first guide and the second guide are configured to be positioned so that the fed wire is held therebetween, further wherein the first guide and the second guide are configured to move relative to each other so as to hold the fed wire.