Hermetically sealed stator coil
AssigneeCummins Inc.
InventorRichard D. Thomas
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Abstract
A stator coil assembly is provided comprising: a stator having a stator core; a cover positioned within the stator core; a top section coupled to the cover to define an interior region, the top section including a pair of protrusions, each protrusion having a bore extending therethrough; a bobbin disposed within the interior region; a plurality of coil windings wrapped around the bobbin; a pair of lead wires, each lead wire extending through a corresponding protrusion bore and connecting to the coil windings within the interior region; and a pair of hermetic seals, each hermetic seal surrounding a corresponding lead wire within a protrusion bore to hermetically seal the interior region.
Claims12
A stator coil assembly comprising:
- a stator having a stator core;
- a cover positioned within the stator core;
- a top section coupled to the cover to define an interior region;
- a bobbin disposed within the interior region, wherein the stator core surrounds a lower portion of the top section and the entirety of the bobbin and the cover;
- a plurality of coil windings wrapped around the bobbin;
- a pair of lead wires, each lead wire extending through a corresponding protrusion bore and connecting to the coil windings within the interior region;
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- a pair of hermetic seals, each hermetic seal surrounding a corresponding lead wire within a bore defined within the top section to hermetically seal the interior region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.