Patent ID: 8390159

Claim:
A stator for an electric rotating machine, the stator comprising: a hollow cylindrical stator core having a plurality of slots that are formed in a radially inner surface of the stator core and spaced in a circumferential direction of the stator core; and a stator coil comprised of a plurality of electric wires mounted on the stator core, wherein the plurality of electric wires comprise a joined pair of first and second electric wires, the first electric wire has a lead portion that is led out from a radially inner periphery of a first one of the slots of the stator core and includes a crossover part, the crossover part crossing over an axial end face of an end part of the stator coil from the radially inside to the radially outside of the axial end face, the end part of the stator coil protruding from an axial end face of the stator core, the second electric wire has a lead portion that is led out from a radially outer periphery of a second one of the slots of the stator core, the lead portions of the first and second electric wires are joined together with a joint formed therebetween, and the joint is positioned closer to the axial end face of the stator core than at least a potion of the crossover part of the lead portion of the first electric wire is.