In a motor, a stator includes: a stator core having slots arranged in a circumferential direction; and conductor connection bodies with conductors connected in series and inserted into the slots. A conductor connection body includes: a first portion wave-wound toward one side in the circumferential direction from a first end to a second end; a second portion wave-wound toward the one side in the circumferential direction from a third end to a fourth end; and a folded portion connecting the first and second portions. The first and third ends protrude in an axial direction from different slots in the circumferential direction, and the second and fourth ends protrude in the axial direction from different slots in the circumferential direction. The conductors include a folded conductor that forms a folded portion connecting the second end of the first portion and the fourth end of the second portion.

First-fourth slots may be provided in an inner circumferential surface of a stator core. A coil may include first-third segments conductor. Each of the conductors may include a U-shape. The first segment conductor may be inserted in the first slot and the second slot in a state where a coupling portion of the first segment conductor is located at a position facing a first end surface. The second segment conductor may be inserted in the second slot and the third slot in a state where a coupling portion of the second segment conductor may be located at a position facing a second end surface. The third segment conductor may be inserted in the third slot and the fourth slot in a state where a coupling portion of the third segment conductor may be located at a position facing the first end surface.

A stator may include a stator core and a coil. The stator core may include: a first portion; a second portion; and a first intermediate portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion in the axial direction. A first segment conductor and a second segment conductor may overly each other in a circumferential direction of the stator core hr a slot within an area of the first intermediate portion. A first side surface may include a first protrusion provided by the first intermediate portion protruding with respect to the first portion and the second portion. The first segment conductor and the second segment conductor may be held between the first protrusion and a second side surface such that the first, segment conductor and the second segment conductor are connected with each other.

A radial flux rotary electric machine having an exterior-rotor configuration is shown. The machine has a permanent-magnet rotor comprising permanent magnets in a Halbach array, and an air-cored stator interior to the rotor having teeth defining tapered slots and distributed windings around the teeth to form coils in a double-layer arrangement, the windings being comprised of a plurality of phase windings. For each tooth T having a slot S1 on one side thereof and a slot S2 on another side thereof, a coil side C1 of a phase winding is arranged to occupy a radially inner layer of the slot S1 and a coil side C2 of the same phase winding is arranged to occupy a radially outer layer of the slot S2, wherein the coil side C1 has a smaller circumferential dimension and a larger radial dimension than the coil side C2.

The present invention may provide a motor including a rotating shaft, a rotor coupled to the rotating shaft, a plurality of stator cores disposed to correspond to the rotor, and a housing disposed outside the plurality of stator cores, wherein the plurality of stator cores include yokes and teeth protruding from the yokes, and curvature centers of outer surfaces of the yokes and curvature centers of inner surfaces of the teeth are eccentrically disposed with respect to a center of the stator.

A stator of an electric machine includes: a laminated stator core having sheet-metal blanks, which have slots; and stator windings, which are arranged in the slots of the laminated stator core together with slot insulation, such that, within the slots, a respective slot insulation is positioned between the sheet-metal blanks and the stator windings in order to electrically insulate the stator windings from a sheet-metal material of the sheet-metal blanks, and such that, when viewed in an axial direction, the stator windings protrude from the slots, project laterally with respect to the laminated stator core, and form winding overhangs laterally adjacent to the laminated stator core. When viewed in a radial direction, coolant flow channels are formed radially on an inside and/or radially on an outside, directly adjacent to the slots accommodating the stator windings. The stator windings accommodated in the slots of the laminated stator core are impregnated.

In a driving system, first and second inverters are connected to a driving motor, one end of a stator winding through which 3-phase current flows is connected to an output line of the first inverter, and the other end of the stator winding is connected to an output line of the second inverter. A winding pattern of the driving motor includes: coils wound in slots defined in the stator and to which 3-phase current is applied; coils wound on innermost and outermost sides based on a direction toward a rotating shaft of the driving motor in the slots, and being energized by different AC phases; and coils disposed between a first coil located on the outermost side and a second coil located on the innermost side, and being energized by the same AC phases as those of the first and second coils.

A winding for a stator comprises (i) a plurality of first end turns provided on a first end of the stator core, (ii) straight portions extending through the slots, and (iii) a plurality of second turns provided on a second end of the stator core. The straight portions are arranged in layers in the slots in a number of layers. Each of the second end turns connects straight portions in two consecutive layers of two slots and is defined by a first common twist associated with one of the two consecutive layers and a second common twist associated with another of the two consecutive layers. The first common twist and the second common twist are identical for the second end turns in a first half of consecutive layers, and the first common twist and the second common twist are different for the second end turns in a second half of consecutive layers.

A stator of an electric machine includes: a laminated stator core having sheet-metal blanks which have apertures, the apertures being closed radially on an inside thereof by a web when viewed in a cross section extending in a radial direction of the stator; and stator windings, which are accommodated in the apertures of the laminated stator core. The web which closes a respective aperture radially on the inside is plastically deformed so as to introduce a mechanical stress into the web.

A rotor assembly for an electric machine, e.g., of an electrified powertrain, includes a rotor having inner and outer diameter surfaces, and a rotor shaft connected to and surrounded by the rotor. The rotor has equally-spaced rotor magnetic poles each having a quadrature-axis (“q-axis”) and a pair of direct-axes (“d-axes”). At each of magnetic pole of the rotor, the rotor defines at least three arcuate notches, including a center notch bisected by the q-axis and a pair of additional arcuate notches symmetrically flanking the center notch. The rotor may include embedded permanent magnets, which may be arranged in a dual V-shaped configuration. Each additional notch may be positioned within a sweep of a top-layer opening angle of the magnets. The center notch and/or the pair of additional notches may define tangentially-continuous fillets which smoothly transition the notch into the outer diameter surface.