Patent ID: 7602093

Claim:
A stator for a vehicle alternator comprising: a stator core formed with a plurality of slots; and a multi-phase stator winding wound on the plurality of slots of the stator core and including a plurality of segments composed of electrical conductors that are joined to each other to form the stator winding; wherein the segments have inclined portions forming coil ends extending from an axial end face of the stator core; each of the segments includes a U-shaped large segment having a turning portion with a large size and a U-shaped small segment having a turning portion with a small size; the stator winding has a coil-end group, extending from one axial end face of the stator core, wherein the turning portion of the large segment and the turning portion of the small segment are dislocated from each other in a circumferential direction of the stator core and the turning portions of the large and small segments passing through the same slots overlap each other along an axial direction of the stator core; and wherein the turning portions of the large and small segments passing through the same slots have the same axial heights.