Patent ID: 7701102

Claim:
An electric motor stator comprising: a stator core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots with one of the slots being formed between circumferentially adjacent ones of the teeth; an insulator including a plurality of support portions with the support portions being disposed at bottom open ends of the slots; and a plurality of windings connected to a neutral wire with each of the windings including a first tooth winding portion wound about a first tooth of the teeth, a second tooth winding portion wound about a second tooth of the teeth that is radially opposed to the first tooth, a crossover wire, and a power wire with the crossover wire extending from the first tooth winding portion toward the second tooth winding portion, and with the power wire connecting the crossover wire to the second tooth winding portion with the power wire being fixedly held between a slot bottom of the stator core and the second tooth winding portion, the support portions of the insulator being structured to prevent the first and second tooth winding portions from falling radially off the teeth.