Patent ID: 8546986

Claim:
A connector for a stator of a N-phase, permanent magnet brushless direct current motor of the kind in which the stator is disposed inside the rotor and has a central ring portion with a plurality of outwardly extending stator poles or teeth, on each of which a respective coil is wound; the connector having a plurality of terminals to which terminals at least some of said coils are connectable according to at least one predetermined manner for forming the N-phase windings of the stator; wherein the connector comprises an annular carrier structure adapted to be juxtaposed and fixed to the annular central portion of the stator, the annular carrier structure comprises an electrically insulating plastic material overmolded on a group of N conducting members which are separated and electrically insulated from one another by means of the plastic material and are generally shaped like an arc of a circle, and have respective first projections which extend radially outside the annular carrier structure; said first projections being adapted to be connected to terminals or ends of said coils of the stator; each of the N conducting members being further provided with at least one respective connecting projection which extends outside the annular carrier structure and intended to act as a phase terminal of the stator.