Patent ID: 8203247

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 at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator core; and a stator coil made up of a plurality of wave-shaped electric wires mounted on the stator core, each of the electric wires having a plurality of in-slot portions, each of which is received in one of the slots of the stator core, and a plurality of turn portions each of which is located outside of the slots of the stator core to connect one adjacent pair of the in-slot portions of the electric wire, each of the turn portions including an apex part that is located axially furthest in the turn portion from the stator core, wherein the stator coil includes a plurality of radial position shift portions each of which is provided, in one of the electric wires, in one of the turn portions of the electric wire between the apex part of the turn portion and one of the in-slot portions of the electric wire adjoining the turn portion and is radially bent to shift the radial position of the electric wire, the plurality of radial position shift portions are divided into a plurality of types, the amounts of radial position shift made by the radial position shift portions of the same type are equal to each other, and the amounts of radial position shift made by the radial position shift portions of different types are different from each other.