# US 11,444,502 B2 · Coil bobbin, stator core of distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine, and distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,444,502 B2 - Document ID: US11444502B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/098,787 - Filed: 2020-11-16 - Published: 2021-08-12 - Granted: 2022-09-13 - Earliest claimed: 2020-02-10 - Assignees: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation - Applicants: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation - Inventors: Yuji Enomoto; Seiji Okita; Keisuke Suzuki; Kohei Eto; Eiji Katayama - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11444502B2 ## CPC - H02K 3/48: in slots - H02K 3/50: Fastening of winding heads, equalising connectors, or connections thereto - H02K 3/12: arranged in slots - H02K 3/34: between conductors or between conductor and core, e.g. slot insulation - H02K 3/345: {between conductor and core, e.g. slot insulation} - H02K 15/021: Magnetic cores - H02K 2203/12: Machines characterised by the bobbins for supporting the windings - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) ## Abstract A coil bobbin of the present disclosure is a coil bobbin attached to a stator core of a distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine, and includes a teeth holding portion and a slot insulator which are made of an insulator. The teeth holding portion has: a first wall surface that covers a first circumferential side surface of a tooth of the stator core; a second wall surface that covers at least a part of a second circumferential side surface of the tooth; and a third wall surface that covers both side surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth. The slot insulator is formed integrally with the first wall surface of the teeth holding portion, and has a plurality of through-holes extending in the axial direction and arrayed in a radial direction. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A coil bobbin attached to a stator core of a distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine, the coil bobbin comprising a teeth holding portion and a slot insulator which are made of an insulator, wherein the teeth holding portion has: a first wall surface that covers a first circumferential side surface of a tooth of the stator core; a second wall surface that covers at least a part of a second circumferential side surface of the tooth; and a third wall surface that covers both side surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth, and the slot insulator is formed integrally with the first wall surface of the teeth holding portion, and has a plurality of through-holes extending in the axial direction and arrayed in a radial direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein the second wall surface covers only both radial end portions of the second circumferential side surface of the tooth. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein the slot insulator is capable of being assembled with the second wall surface of the coil bobbin adjacent to the slot insulator such that an insulation thickness becomes constant when a plurality of the coil bobbins are assembled. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein the second wall surface entirely covers the second circumferential side surface of the tooth. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein the slot insulator has: a fourth wall surface opposing the first wall surface; and a plurality of partition walls that divides the first wall surface and the fourth wall surface, and the plurality of through-holes are defined by the first wall surface, the fourth wall surface, and the plurality of partition walls. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The coil bobbin according to claim 5, wherein a thickness of the fourth wall surface and each thickness of the plurality of partition walls are each 0.2 mm to 0.4 mm. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of through-holes has a size into which a coil conductor is insertable. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The coil bobbin according to claim 1, wherein a thickness of the first wall surface, a thickness of the second wall surface, and a thickness of the third wall surface are each 0.2 mm to 0.4 mm. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) A stator core of a distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine comprising: an annular core back; a tooth protruding inward in a radial direction from the core back; and the coil bobbin according to claim 1 which is attached to the tooth. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The stator core according to claim 9 being an integral stator core in which the core back and the tooth are integrated. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The stator core according to claim 9 having a T-shaped split structure split in a circumferential direction. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The stator core according to claim 9 having an I-type split structure split into a teeth core forming the tooth and a back yoke forming the core back, wherein the back yoke has an annular shape and has a recess provided along an inner circumference, and the teeth core is inserted into the recess from an inner side to an outer side in the radial direction. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The stator core according to claim 12, further comprising a resin molded body that has a columnar portion filling a gap between an inner peripheral surface of the back yoke and the teeth core, and a collar portion straddling axial side surfaces of the teeth core and the back yoke, and bonds the teeth core and the back yoke. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The stator core according to claim 12, wherein the teeth core is made of a soft magnetic material. ### Claim 15 (depends on 9) The stator core according to claim 9, wherein the coil bobbin and the tooth are bonded to each other. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) A distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine comprising: the stator core according to claim 9; and a coil conductor distributedly wound around the stator core. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine according to claim 16, wherein the coil conductor includes a first segment conductor and a second segment conductor each having a U shape, the first segment conductor is inserted into the through-hole of the coil bobbin from one side in the axial direction, the second segment conductor is inserted into the through-hole of the coil bobbin from another side in the axial direction, and the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor are connected inside the through-hole. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine according to claim 17, wherein the first segment conductor has a convex shape at a distal end portion, the second segment conductor has a concave shape at a distal end portion, and the convex shape and the concave shape have a combined surface whose contact surface is a surface perpendicular to the axial direction.