Patent ID: 6903478

Claim:
A winding for an electric rotating machine comprising a plurality of conductors passing though slots of a stator core of the electric rotating machine, wherein: a plurality of conductors are lined up in each slot in a radial direction of the stator core; each conductor has housed portions housed in the slots and protruded end portions protruded from the stator core; each protruded end portion has a connecting portion that extends in a circumferential direction of the stator core at an angle with respect to a surface on which openings of the slots are located for connecting with another conductor protruded from a different slot, and an altered portion at an end of the connecting portion; and the altered portion is shaped so that a distance between the connector and the other connector decreases toward ends thereof and is connected with the altered portion of the other connector, wherein the conductor has a substantially uniform cross-sectional area throughout.