Terminal module for rotating electric machine having a guide portion, rotating electric machine, and manufacturing method thereof

• US 8,492,947 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2008
• Issued: 07/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Sasaki, Kei, Goto, Yasumasa, Akao, Norihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tran
• Assistant Examiner(s): Andrews, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/600,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20100148615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,882 Days
• Field of Search: 310/180, 310/71, 310/179
• US Class Current: 310/180
• 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 3/522 for generally annular cores with salient poles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49009 Dynamoelectric machine
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49073 by assembling coil and core

Abstract

A terminal module includes a ring-shaped rail having a groove extending in a circumferential direction, a bus bar fitted into the groove, and a connector portion having a connector terminal connecting the bus bar with an external wire. The rail has a phase determining hole for determining a phase of rotation of the rail about an axial direction.

Claims

1. A terminal module for a rotating electric machine mounted on an end surface in an axial direction of a stator of the rotating electric machine, comprising:

a ring-shaped bus bar housing having a groove extending in a circumferential direction; and

a bus bar fitted into said groove,

said bus bar housing having a guide portion for determining a phase of rotation of the bus bar housing about said axial direction,

said bus bar including a plurality of members arranged in a radial direction of said bus bar housing,

said guide portion being provided at a position where all of said plurality of members arranged in the radial direction of said bus bar housing are divided in the circumferential direction of said bus bar housing,

wherein a space is formed in said bus bar housing in which all of said plurality of members are not formed, and said guide portion is provided only at a position in the space of the bus bar housing where all of said plurality of members are not formed.

2. A rotating electric machine, comprising:

a stator core having a tooth;

an insulator fitted to said tooth;

a stator coil wound around said insulator; and

the terminal module for the rotating electric machine according to claim 1,

said insulator having an engaging portion engaging said terminal module for the rotating electric machine.

3. A terminal module for a rotating electric machine mounted on an end surface in an axial direction of a stator of the rotating electric machine, comprising:

a ring-shaped bus bar housing having a groove extending in a circumferential direction; and

a bus bar fitted into said groove,

said bus bar housing having a guide portion for determining a phase of rotation of the bus bar housing about said axial direction,

said bus bar including a plurality of members configuring neutral points of said rotating electric machine,

said guide portion being provided between said plurality of members configuring the neutral points,

wherein the guide portion is provided only between said plurality of members configuring the neutral points.

4. A method of manufacturing a rotating electric machine, comprising the steps of:

holding a ring-shaped terminal module for the rotating electric machine by a holder while determining a phase of rotation of said terminal module about an axial direction by inserting a guide pin into a guide portion formed in said terminal module; and

mounting said terminal module held by said holder to a stator core,

wherein said guide portion is only formed in a portion of said terminal module in which bus bars are not formed.