Patent ID: 8146238

Claim:
A winding method for winding a wire fed from a wire feeding member onto a stator having a plurality of radially disposed magnetic poles including a given magnetic pole and a plurality of other magnetic poles adjacent the given magnetic pole, comprising: a positioning step of positioning the fed wire relative to the given magnetic pole while holding the wire using a guide; a wire inserting step of moving the wire feeding member relative to the stator, without passing the wire feeding member between the other magnetic poles and while the wire is held by the guide, such that the fed wire is led onto the given magnetic pole by being inserted between the other magnetic poles, wherein the fed wire is guided to and wound around the given magnetic pole by the positioning step and the wire inserting step, wherein the guide is disposed facing a non-opposing surface, which does not oppose the other magnetic poles, of an outer peripheral surface of the given magnetic pole, and the fed wire is wound regularly around the given magnetic pole by moving the guide in a winding axis direction of the given magnetic pole by an amount corresponding to a diameter of the fed wire every time the fed wire is wound once around the given magnetic pole, wherein the guide includes a first guide portion disposed along a direction that is parallel to a winding direction of the fed wire wound around the given magnetic pole, and a second guide portion disposed from the first guide portion at a gap corresponding to the diameter of the fed wire, wherein the fed wire is held between the first guide portion and the second guide portion.