Disclosed are various embodiments for a new and improved electric motor/generator including a toroidal magnetic cylinder centered on the longitudinal axis, and a coil assembly including a first coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder, and a second coil assembly support positioned within the toroidal magnetic cylinder.

A coil assembly in which a slack can be formed in a coil wire without increasing assembly cost, and a stepping motor using the same, are provided; the coil assembly includes a bobbin 232 having flange portions 233 and 234 at both ends thereof, multiple terminal pin embedding portions 235a arranged at one flange portion 234, a terminal pin 236 embedded in the terminal pin embedding portion 235a, and a coil 231 of which an end portion of coil wire 237 is entwined around the terminal pin 236, the coil wire 237 wound around the bobbin 232, in which a concave portion 238 which concaves to a radial direction of the bobbin 232 and penetrates to an axial direction of the bobbin 232 is formed between the terminal pin embedding portions 235a, the coil wire 237 exists from a base portion of the terminal pin 236, passes through the concave portion 238, started to be wound around the bobbin 232, and has a slack portion 237a which exists in the concave portion 238.

A stator assembly, having a stator formed by a plurality of pole pieces by means of injection overmolding, a columnar connection portion protruding outward being provided on an edge of one of the pole pieces; a mounting groove located at a side face of the stator; a coil wound around the stator; a pin connector with a ground pin, the pin connector being press-fitted onto the mounting groove in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the stator; and a magnetically conductive ring, the stator, which is mounted with the coil and the pin connector, being pressed into the magnetically conductive ring. The stator assembly has the features of having few parts and being convenient to assemble.

A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.

Provided is a stator for rotating electrical machine that can avoid the sagging of teeth stacked at the distal ends under the self-weight. A stator core is a laminate of metal foil members stacked in a direction of a rotation axis of the rotating electrical machine. Each tooth has a pair of side walls facing the neighboring teeth in the circumferential direction. The stator includes a pair of insulating reinforcing members so as to become a bridge between the corresponding tooth and a part of the yoke and sandwich the corresponding tooth from both sides in the direction of the rotation axis while exposing the pair of side walls; insulating fixing members, each fixing member fixing the corresponding pair of reinforcing members to the corresponding tooth while wrapping around the pair of reinforcing members and tooth; and coils formed as distributed windings at the teeth fixed with the fixing members.

This object is to secure a creepage insulation distance and improve insulation reliability.

A stator core is formed as a housing, and is configured such that storage spaces for storing a plurality of segment coils are formed on an inner circumferential side of the housing in an axial direction of the housing and a plurality of the storage spaces is formed at intervals on the inner circumferential side of the housing. A plurality of coil support members is formed as annular members, and supports the plurality of segment coils. The coil support members each include a plurality of through-holes for inserting the segment coils, which is openings connected to the storage spaces, are separately disposed at both ends of the stator core in the axial direction, and each cover the inner circumferential side of the end portion of the stator core in the axial direction.

A vehicle electric machine assembly including a stator core and a terminal block is provided. The stator core includes one or more three-phase terminals connected to end windings. The terminal block includes a connector for each of the three-phase terminals. A portion of the end windings extending from the stator core, the three-phase terminals, and the terminal block are overmolded as a single unit such that a portion of each of the connectors is exposed for connection to an inverter. The terminal block may further include one or more threaded apertures, each sized to receive a threaded stud to facilitate an electrical connection between one of the one or more three-phase terminals and the inverter. Each of the one or more three-phase terminals may extend axially along an axis substantially parallel to a central axis of a rotor disposed within a cavity defined by the stator core.

An insulating member that includes an insulating member body including a first insulating sheet provided in an annular shape to cover a coil that includes a slot-held section and a coil end section, the slot-held section configured to be held in a slot of a stator core, the coil end section configured to protrude from an end surface of the stator core in a rotation axis direction, wherein the first insulating sheet includes a folded-back section that is provided in a portion corresponding to a bent section of the coil and in the portion the first insulating sheet is folded back a plurality of times such that layers of the first insulating sheet are stacked.

A stator includes a stator core, a first coil and a second coil inserted into slots, and an insulating sheet arranged between the first and second coils. The first coil has a first portion accommodated in a first slot, and the second coil has a second portion accommodated in the first slot. The insulating sheet includes a sheet-like insulating parts projecting from respective end surfaces of the stator core, and leg parts. Each of the sheet-like insulating parts is arranged between a first coil end of the first coil extending from the first portion to the outside of each of the end surfaces and a second coil end of the second coil extending from the second portion to the outside of each of the end surfaces, and the leg parts include a first leg part inserted into the first slot and arranged between the first and second portions.

A vehicle electric machine assembly including a stator core and a terminal block is provided. The stator core includes one or more three-phase terminals connected to end windings. The terminal block includes a connector for each of the three-phase terminals. A portion of the end windings extending from the stator core, the three-phase terminals, and the terminal block are overmolded as a single unit such that a portion of each of the connectors is exposed for connection to an inverter. The terminal block may further include one or more threaded apertures, each sized to receive a threaded stud to facilitate an electrical connection between one of the one or more three-phase terminals and the inverter. Each of the one or more three-phase terminals may extend axially along an axis substantially parallel to a central axis of a rotor disposed within a cavity defined by the stator core.