A winding machine, including a receiving element for receiving a base body including teeth onto which a winding is to be wound, a nail winding head through which a wire can be guided in parallel to a surface of each tooth in order to place the wire inside a groove between two teeth of the base body, so that the tooth can be wound with the wire, and at least one retaining finger, wherein the wire can be positioned inside the groove by the retaining finger independently of the nail winding head in order to determine a target location of the wire inside the groove.

A coil bending machine is a machine that, in a stator core including a yoke and multiple teeth and having a slot formed between circumferentially adjacent teeth, while lead portions of a segment coil which is a U-shaped lead wire including a bent portion K and two lead portions R extending from the bent portion are inserted into two slots, push-bends end portions of the lead portions protruding from an axial end face of the stator core toward the stator core. The coil bending machine includes a coil bending member that push-bends the end portions of the lead portions protruding from the axial end face of the stator core toward the stator core, and a coil pressing mechanism that press-fixes a segment coil inside the slot toward the yoke, from the radially inner side of the stator core.

A motor unit includes a stator including a coil formed from a wound winding that is configured by a conductive member including an insulating covering layer on the surface of the conductive member, a rotor that rotates under the influence of a rotating magnetic field generated by the stator, and a centerpiece that supports the stator and is formed with a centerpiece-side winding insertion hole through which the winding is inserted. The motor unit also includes a circuit device and a potting section. The potting section is formed using potting material, and seals a gap formed between the centerpiece-side winding insertion hole and the winding by achieving a state in which a portion of the potting section is closely adhered to the covering layer of the winding.

A wire conductor alignment apparatus aligns wire conductors of coil members provided in a core of a dynamo electric motor or generator for welding the ends thereof. The apparatus has a plurality of circumferentially arranged first passages and a plurality of circumferentially arranged second passages. Each first passages is overlapped with a second passage to form a pair, each pair of passages form a combined third passage, and each third passage is configured to receive at least one end portion of at least two wire conductors of a coil member of a dynamo electric machine. The apparatus also has an actuator for moving at least one of the plurality of first passages and the plurality of second passages relative to one another in a circumferential direction to cause a respective end portion of a wire conductor for welding thereof.

In a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, an armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, that is jointless and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions.

A wire position correction apparatus 14 corrects, in a stator 2 including an annular stator core 21 formed with a plurality of slots and a plurality of wires arranged in the slots, a tip end position of a wire leg portion 261 of the wire protruding from the slot to a reference position. The wire position correction apparatus 14 includes a wire clamper 4 that holds a tip end portion 263 of the wire leg portion 261, a turning mechanism 5 that supports the wire clamper 4 and turns the wire clamper 4 about a center axis passing through a base point P such that the tip end position moves in a direction approaching the reference position, and a movement mechanism 6 that moves the wire clamper 4 and the turning mechanism 5 along the vertical direction and circumferential and radial directions of the stator core 21.

The present invention relates to an outer-rotator-type switched reluctance motor that may provide a shortest magnetic path by configuring a magnetic circuit in stator salient poles and rotor salient poles with circumferential-directional slots formed in the stator salient poles and coils passing through the slots and wound along the circumferential direction of the stator core, may thus minimize magnetic loss in the cores to maximize use efficiency of magnetic energy, and may provide a sturdy structure while simplifying coil winding work.

An armature may include a rotor with a plurality of teeth, at least one insulator covering at least a part the teeth, a plurality of coils wound on the teeth, and a plurality of cavities. Each one of the cavities may be arranged between two of the teeth and may be formed on the at least one insulator. At least one of the cavities may be configured and arranged for receiving coil windings adjacent to a wall portion of the at least one cavity. The at least one of the plurality of cavities may include a switching wire receptor. The switching wire receptor may include a recess in a wall portion of the at least one of the plurality of cavities for receiving a switching wire. The recess may have a depth larger than the diameter of the switching wire.

A method and an apparatus for providing a toothed motor part of an electric motor with a winding using a coil wire with a round wire cross-section, wherein the coil wire is converted into a coil wire with a wire cross-section different from the round wire cross-section in a forming process, and the formed coil wire is wound around the teeth of the motor part to produce a rotating field winding.

An electric machine includes a rotor extending along an axis and a stator lamination stack radially spaced from the rotor. The stator lamination stack has circumferentially spaced teeth defining gaps therebetween. The electric machine also includes a coil winding disposed in the gaps between the circumferentially spaced teeth and a guard plate disposed at one of the first and second stator ends. The guard plate extends radially away from the axis and includes a plurality of teeth guards extending radially, with each of the teeth guards aligned with one of the teeth of the stator lamination stack to electrically insulate the coil winding from the teeth of the stator lamination stack. The plurality of teeth of the stator lamination stack extend radially inward toward the axis and the teeth guards of the guard plate extend radially inward toward the axis.