Patent ID: 8013490

Claim:
An armature, comprising: a plurality of armature elements, wherein each of the armature elements includes: an armature element core that has a predetermined core length and has end faces spaced apart in a core length direction and side faces connecting the end faces; a first coil that is formed by winding a wire over the side faces and the end faces; a second coil that is formed, after forming the first coil, by winding a wire over the side faces and the end faces so that on the side faces the second coil is formed contiguously to the first coil; and an end structure member that is provided on each of the end faces, has a first-winding face and a second-winding face on which the wires of the first coil and the second coil are wound, respectively, and has a riser formed between the first-winding face and the second-winding face, the end structure member in which a vicinity of the riser on the second-winding face is positioned farther from the each of the end faces than the first-winding face.