Patent ID: 8375562

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a rotating electric machine, the method including the steps of: preparing a plurality of split stator cores annularly arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction so that inner end portions thereof are aligned with an imaginary circle and a support member positioned inside said imaginary circle in a radial direction to support the inner end portions of said split stator cores; mounting a fastening member on outer peripheries of said split stator cores to press said respective split stator cores inward in said radial direction; and displacing said split stator cores pressed by said fastening member inward in said radial direction while said support member is supporting said split stator cores, wherein said support member supports portions of said inner end portions including at least first areas and second areas positioned away from each other in a direction of a central axis of said imaginary circle, wherein said support member includes a first elastic member and a second elastic member, said first elastic member curves to bulge toward a radial outside of said imaginary circle to thereby be able to support the portion of each of said inner end portions where said first area is positioned, said second elastic member curves to bulge toward the radial outside of said imaginary circle to thereby be able to support the portion of each of said inner end portions where said second area is positioned, and said first elastic member and said second elastic member are deformed in such a manner that bulging amounts toward the radial outside of said imaginary circle reduce so that said split stator cores are displaced toward a radial inside of said imaginary circle while said support member is supporting said split stator cores.