A stator in which stator coils are formed by a plurality of unit coils arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction and each having: a first slot-accommodated portion; a second slot-accommodated portion; a first terminal wire extending from the first slot-accommodated portion; a second terminal wire extending from the second slot-accommodated portion and shifted from the first terminal wire by one line of a conductive wire; a terminal-side coil end portion; and first and second anti-terminal-side coil end portions, wherein the first terminal wire and the second terminal wire of the respective different unit coils are joined with each other.

A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator positioned circumferentially around the rotor. The stator includes multiple core elements arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor such that the core elements form multiple slots arrayed in the circumferential direction, and a unitary cylindrical coil resin structure including molded resin and lap wound air-core coils resin-molded in the molded resin, each of the air-core coils having an air-core, a first side portion and a second side portion extending on the opposite sides of the air-core such that the first side portion extends through a first one of the slots and the second side portion extends through a second one of the slots.

Bridge portions forming coil end portions, at both ends in an axial direction, of a stator of the rotating electrical machine according to the present invention are configured coaxially about an axis of the stator; at least one bridge portion of the bridge portions of each coil at both ends in the axial direction is located outward of an inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a gap is present between an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction and each bridge portion.

In this method for manufacturing an armature winding for an electric machine, a rectangular conductor wire is wound helically by bending and shaping linking portions between rectilinear portions and coil ends to set angles while feeding the rectangular conductor wire, by repeating steps in which the rectangular conductor wire is fed by a set amount of feeding, the rectangular conductor wire is gripped and fixed by first through fourth chucks, the rectangular conductor wire is bent by pressing a first former near a root of the rectangular conductor wire, and gripping and fixing of the rectangular conductor wire by the first through fourth chucks is released.

This method for manufacturing a stator coil of a rotating electrical machine includes: a winding step of arraying the plurality of conductive wires in one row and winding, while maintaining an arrayed state, each of the conductive wires a predetermined number of times on each of a plurality of the reels having different diameters, to form a plurality of coils connected to each other by a jumper wire; a gripping step of detaching each of the plurality of coils from the corresponding reel while maintaining the arrayed state of the plurality of conductive wires; and an insertion step of disposing, in the stator core, the plurality of gripped coils so as to stack the coils in an order of insertion into the core slots, and then inserting the coils into the core slots.

A method for producing a coil includes casting; a semi-finished product in a cavity of a casting tool and the coil is formed following a demolding of the semi-finished product by shaping this semi-finished product, wherein the form of the semi-finished product may be derived from a shape of the finished coil by stretching along a longitudinal axis of the coil and/or by bending this longitudinal axis, and wherein the semi-finished product, during the shaping, is bent and compressed so that windings of the coil already present in the semi-finished product are brought closer to one another at least in some regions and are brought into an arrangement along the longitudinal axis of the finished coil, wherein the product, whilst being shaped, is twisted or bent by no more than a right angle over the course of each individual turn.