Electrical winding of sheet conductor

Claim 1

A shunt reactor winding having high-current capacity comprising, in combination, a plurality of superimposed coaxial coils each of which is spirally wound from a plurality of conductor sheets in parallel terminating together at their radially outer ends and which terminate at their radially inner ends in a common radial plane and which sheets extend substantially the entire axial height of said coil, insulation between paralleled conductor sheets in each coil and between the spiral turns of paralleled sheets, a START terminal on one of said coils electrically connecting said radially outer ends of the paralleled sheets of said one coil together and a FINISH terminal on another of said coils electrically connecting said radially outer ends of the paralleled sheets of said another of said coils together, said plurality of coils being wound so that the direction of magnetic flux is the same in all of said coils, and means including a plurality of elongated flat crossover connector strips disposed in a common radial plane extending betWeen adjacent coils at the radially inner coil periphery in a direction parallel to the coil axis and joining oppositely disposed radially inner conductor sheet ends in said adjacent coils for electrically connecting said paralleled sheets in said plurality of coils in series relation, the radially inner ends of certain of said conductor sheets in one of said adjacent coils being offset in a radial direction and joined to crossover connector strips affixed to conductor sheets occupying different radial positions in said adjacent coil so that the net flux linkages of the plurality of conductor paths formed by said series connected conductor sheets are approximately equal.