Patent ID: 6965184

Claim:
An apparatus for supporting a winding on a stator, the stator including a core and at least one axial end face, the apparatus comprising: a winding having two or more winding bars having ends which pass axially out of the stator core to form an end winding which widens in the form of a funnel on the at least one axial end face of the stator core; two or more winding supports circumferentially distributedly arranged with respect to the end winding on said at least one axial end face and supported axially on said at least one axial end face and essentially at right angles to the end winding; a stressing device, at least one of the winding supports being associated with the stressing device, the stressing device arranged between the end winding and said at least one winding support and producing a supporting force by which said at least one winding support is supported on the end winding via the stressing device; a coupling device, at least one of the winding supports being associated with the coupling device, the coupling device allowing relative movements between the end winding and said associated at least one winding support in the circumferential direction of the end winding and at right angles to an envelope surface of the end winding, the coupling device inhibiting relative movements in an envelope line direction of the end winding.