Electric machine having an improved cooling of the winding head

The invention relates to an electric machine comprising a rotor (2) aligned along a rotor axis (1), a stator (3) disposed concentrically with respect to the rotor axis (1) and at least one winding head (4) which is disposed concentrically with respect to the rotor axis (1), which projects in each case in the axial direction out of the stator and can be cooled by a coolant flow (5). In order to improve the cooling of the winding head (4), the electric machine of the aforementioned type has, according to the invention, at least one first conducting element (6) which in terms of the flow is disposed upstream of the respective winding head (4), wherein the at least one first conducting element (6) is designed in such a way that an increase in the flow rate of the coolant flow (5) to the respective winding head (4) can be effected.