TERMINAL MODULE FOR ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, AND ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE

• US 20090039720A1
• Filed: 03/16/2007
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd. (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Electric Industries Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Sumitomo Wiring Systems Limited (Sumitomo Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsukashima, Hiroyuki, Miyazaki, Sho
• Application Number:
  US12/282,948
• Publication Number:
  US 20090039720A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 310/71
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/09 Machines characterised by wiring elements other than wires, e.g. bus rings, for connecting the winding terminations
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 2203/12 Machines characterised by the bobbins for supporting the windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/522 for generally annular cores with salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 5/225 Terminal boxes or connection arrangements specially adapted for submersible motors H02K5/132

Abstract

A terminal module for a rotating electric machine, allowing automatic assembling, is provided. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine includes a polygonal rail (100) provided with a groove, and a polygonal bus bar fitted in the groove.

Claims

1. A terminal module for a rotating electric machine, comprising:

a rail of a polygonal shape, having a groove extending in a circumferential direction, and

a bus bar of a polygonal shape, fitted in said groove.

2. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of said grooves are arranged spaced apart from each other in a radial direction of the polygonal shape.

3. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a thickness direction of said bus bar corresponds to a radial direction of said polygonal shape.

4. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein said bus bar includes a terminal extending in an axial direction of the polygonal shape, and connected to a coil.

5. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a rib is provided at said groove, said rib abutting against said bus bar to push said bus bar in a radial direction of the polygonal shape.

6. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1 further comprising a connector provided at said rail.

7. The terminal module for a rotating electric machine according to claim 1, wherein a flat face abutting against said coil is provided at an inner circumferential face of said rail.

8. A rotating electric machine comprising:

a terminal module for a rotating electric machine defined in claim 7,

said coil of concentrated winding, abutting against the flat face of said rail and

a mold member for molding said rail and said coil.