Patent ID: 7647689

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a stator of a rotating electric machine by aligning a plurality of strip line conductors side by side and shaping the line conductors in spiral form to configure a flat-patterned winding assembly, fitting the flat-patterned winding assembly into multiple slots formed in a flat stator core plate and shaping the stator core plate into cylindrical form together with the winding assembly fitted in the slots, in which said method includes a conductor end shaping process for shaping a plurality of lead wires which are end portions of the multiple line conductors aligned side by side in a single layer into a specific form in a plane in which the lead wires are initially aligned before fitting the flat-patterned winding assembly into the multiple slots, the conductor end shaping process comprising the steps of: shaping the plurality of lead wires into bent form under conditions where the lead wires are separated from one another along a direction generally perpendicular to the plane in which the lead wires are initially aligned; and causing the plurality of lead wires to return to positions in the initial alignment plane of the lead wires.