Patent ID: 8723386

Claim:
An electrical machine, with a rotor ( 12 ) and claw-pole fingers ( 44 , 45 ) that extend in an axial direction and alternate between the north and south pole around a circumference of the rotor ( 12 ), a stator ( 36 ), which includes a stator core ( 18 ) with a stator winding ( 11 ) located in slots of the stator core ( 18 ), the stator ( 36 ) being located opposite to the rotor ( 12 ); the stator ( 36 ) and the rotor ( 12 ) are supported by two end shields ( 33 ), with an annular coil-shaped excitation winding ( 13 ) attached to the rotor ( 12 ); wherein the stator winding ( 11 ) includes seven phase conductors (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , P 4 , P 5 , P 6 , P 7 ) that are placed in slots (N 1 through N 14 ) of the stator core ( 18 ) in a form of a wave winding, connected in series at an electrical angle α that is at least nearly uniform such that connections ( 1 e through 7 e ) between the phase conductors (P 1 through P 7 ) are guided outwardly to a rectifier assembly ( 15 ) with seven rectifier bridges (B 1 through B 7 ), wherein the phase conductors (P 1 through P 7 ) are interconnected at one of the two winding overhangs of the machine ( 10 ) such that, of the connections ( 1 e through 7 e ) between the phase conductors (P 1 through P 7 ), only one electrical connection of each connection ( 1 e through 7 e ) is guided to one of the seven rectifier bridges (B 1 through B 7 ), and wherein at least one adjacent phase conductor (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , P 4 , P 5 , P 6 , P 7 ) is jumped over electrically in each case according to the following arrangement: phase conductor P 1 extends from connection 1 a , through slot N 1 , into and through slot N 8 , ending at connection 1 e , phase conductor P 2 extends from connection 2 a , through slot N 3 , into and through slot N 10 , ending at connection 2 e , phase conductor P 3 extends from connection 3 a , through slot N 5 , into and through slot N 12 , ending at connection 3 e, phase conductor P 4 extends from connection 4 a , through slot N 7 , into and through slot N 14 , ending at connection 4 e , phase conductor P 5 extends from connection 5 a , through slot N 9 , into and through slot N 2 , beginning another phase, and ending at connection 5 e , phase conductor P 6 extends from connection 6 a , through slot N 11 , into and through slot N 4 , beginning another phase, and ending at connection 6 e , and phase conductor P 7 extends from connection 7 a , through slot N 13 , into and through slot N 6 , beginning another phase, and ending at connection 7 e.