Patent ID: 8704422

Claim:
A stator assembly comprising: a full round stator core comprising a plurality of radially-extending teeth and a plurality of compressed bridges, each compressed bridge of said plurality of compressed bridges having a mid-section radially displaced from a periphery of the full round stator core towards a center of the full round stator core to at least partially fill a recess and a first end and a second end of each compressed bridge being positioned on the periphery of the full round stator core and being displaced from the mid-section of the bridge on a radial that passes through the center of the full round stator core and the mid-section of the bridge, each radially-extending tooth in each adjacent pair of radially-extending teeth in the plurality of radially extending teeth being separated by a slot; and a plurality of stator windings, each of said stator windings of the plurality of stator windings being at least partially positioned in at least one of the slots separating one of the adjacent of radially-extending teeth.