Abstract:
An armature, for use in a direct current machine, having a winding thereon formed so as to facilitate commutation directly on the crossover portion of the winding conductors. In the active area of the armature, where the armature winding cooperates with the magnetic field of the machine, the armature winding is formed of parallel, side-by-side, conductors which longitudinally abut to occupy a single-wire-thickness plane. At each end of this plane, alternate conductors of the single plane incline in opposite directions and cross over each other to form two contiguous single-wire-thickness planes, one plane of which is a continuation of the plane of the active area of the armature. The conductors in this crossover region are inclined at an angle of approximately 60* so that, within each of the two contiguous planes, the conductors longitudinally abut. Commutation occurs on the crossover region, where brushes cooperate with the conductors in one of the two contiguous planes. The armature winding can be formed by utilizing printed circuit techniques with discrete bridging conductors joined to the printed circuit conductors, by utilizing discrete conductors which are jointed one to the other, or by utilizing a continuous conductor wire element having no joints.