Patent 9608492 was granted and assigned to Honda on March, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A relay conductor of a rotating electrical machine is provided with: a coil connector that is connected to a coil on one side of a rotating shaft and further to the outside in the radial direction than the coil; a power line connector that is connected to an external power line on the other side of the rotating shaft; and relays that extend in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, and link the coil connector and the power line connector. At least a portion of the power line connector is positioned closer to the inner diameter side of the rotating electrical machine than the outer peripheral surface of a stator.