Stator, method for manufacturing stator, and motor
A stator includes: a stator core having an annular portion and a plurality of teeth that is radially protruded outward from an outer periphery of the annular portion; a molded coil that has an air-core portion into which the teeth of the stator core are inserted and that is stored in a slot formed between the teeth of the stator core; and a yoke that covers a circumference of the molded coil stored in the slot of the stator core. The molded coil has an arc-shaped cross-section, and the molded coil includes a resin-molded portion and an exposed portion exposed at the molded portion.
1. A method for manufacturing a stator, comprising:
bending an air-core coil with an air-core portion to have an arc-shaped cross-section;
forming a molded coil with the air-core portion by resin-molding the air-core coil such that tip portions thereof are exposed;
inserting a plurality of teeth of a stator core with an annular portion having a cylindrical shape and the teeth radially protruded outward from an outer periphery of the annular portion into the air-core portion of the molded coil to store the molded coil in a slot formed between the teeth of the stator core; and
covering with a yoke the molded coil stored in the slot of the stator core, wherein resin-molding the air-core coil includes:
exposing the tip portions of the arc-shaped air-core coil;
first resin molding a portion of the air-core coil with a first resin; and
second resin molding other portions of the air-core coil,
wherein the arc-shaped cross-section of the air core coil has an outer arc surface, an inner arc surface and side surfaces connecting the outer arc surface and the inner arc surface,
the outer arc surface includes first to fourth portions surrounding the air-core portion, the first and second portions being longer than the third and fourth portions, the first and second portions extending in a direction of an axis of the cylindrical shape of the annular portion, and
in the first resin molding, the first resin covers a part of the first portion or the second portion of the outer arc surface and the first resin extends from the air-core portion to one of the side surfaces.
2. The method for manufacturing the stator according to claim 1 , wherein
the first resin molding is carried out such that the portion of the air-core coil serves as a reference surface in the second resin molding.
3. The method for manufacturing the stator according to claim 1 , wherein the bending of the air-core coil and the first resin molding are carried out using a same molding die.
4. The method for manufacturing the stator according to claim 1 , wherein
the first resin molding includes sandwiching and fixing the air-core coil in the molding die at a predetermined position, and
the second resin molding includes sandwiching the portion of the air-core coil resin-molded in the first resin molding and fixing the air-core coil in the molding die at a predetermined position.
5. The method for manufacturing the stator according to claim 1 , wherein a low-thermal conductivity resin having high fluidity is used for the first resin molding and a high-thermal conductivity resin is used for the second resin molding.