Patent ID: 8754565

Claim:
Stator of an electric motor, in particular a rotary electric motor for hermetic compressors of refrigerators and the like, which stator is formed by a pack ( 10 ) of stacked magnetic laminations ( 12 ), each lamination ( 12 ) having a central aperture ( 14 ) and a plurality of peripheral holes ( 18 ), whereby the overlapping of identically shaped holes ( 18 ) in the laminations ( 12 ) defines respective passages through the pack ( 10 ), wherein the faces of the laminations ( 12 ) are substantially flat and retaining means are associated with at least one hole ( 18 ) of an end lamination ( 12 a ) of the pack ( 10 ), these means protruding into the opening of the hole ( 18 ) in the end lamination ( 12 a ) without interfering with the other laminations ( 12 ) of the pack ( 10 ).