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Granted Patent B2
US 8,427,024 · App. 13/131,828 · Granted Apr 23, 2013

Stator

Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe (Toyota, JP); Fujio Ando (Nagoya, JP); Masayoshi Haga (Nagoya, JP); Manabu Kitamura (Miyoshi, JP)
Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
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Patent No.
US 8,427,024
App. No.
13/131,828
Granted
Apr 23, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a stator capable of achieving downsizing and high output power and a stator manufacturing method, a stator comprises a split stator core and slots formed between the teeth, and protrusion-formed coils each being made of a flat rectangular conductor and placed in the slots. Each protrusion-formed coil has a shape including, in a coil end portion, a lead-side protrusion or a non-lead-side protrusion formed to protrude upward in an axial direction of the stator core from a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion, and a first oblique side portion, a second oblique side portion, a third oblique side portion, and a fourth oblique side portion. The lead-side protrusion or the non-lead-side protrusion is designed with a height to avoid interference between the protrusion-formed coils placed in the stator core.

Claims (13)

1. A stator comprising: a stator core including teeth and slots formed between the teeth; and coils each being made of a flat rectangular conductor and placed in the slots, wherein

each coil has a shape including, in a coil end portion, oblique side portions and a protrusion formed to protrude upward in an axial direction of the stator core from the oblique side portions,

the protrusion has a height to avoid interference between the coils placed in the stator core, and

the coil end portion of each coil is formed with a lane-change portion,

a coil interference-point distance between a first interference point at which a first coil and a second coil arranged adjacently interfere with each other and a second interference point at which the second coil and a third coil arranged adjacently interfere with each other is determined to be equal to or shorter than a bending center-to-center distance defined as a distance in a circumferential direction of the stator core between a bending center on an inner circumferential side of the lane-change portion located on the inner circumferential side of the stator core and a bending center on an outer circumferential side of the lane-change portion located on the outer circumferential side of the stator core.

2. In the stator according to claim 1 , wherein

the flat rectangular conductors are stacked and formed with the protrusions and the lane change portions.

3. In the stator according to claim 1 , wherein

each coil is wound in a concentric winding pattern, and

the coils are arranged cylindrically to form a cage coil, and the split stator core is inserted in the cage coil.

4. In the stator according to claim 2 , wherein

each coil is wound in a concentric winding pattern, and

the coils are arranged cylindrically to form a cage coil, and the split stator core is inserted in the cage coil.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2011
From: WATANABE, ATSUSHI; ANDO, FUJIO; HAGA, MASAYOSHI; KITAMURA, MANABU
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 026355/0780 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120025658A1 · Feb 2, 2012