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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7380335 | Stator manufacturing device A stator manufacturing device including a winding unit for forming a winding coil made up of a plurality of unipolar coils formed by winding wire, an insertion unit for receiving the winding coil from the winding unit and inserting the winding coil into a stator cor... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7370401 | Apparatus and methods for wire coil lead placement Apparatus and methods for forming wire coil leads that depart from wire coils inserted into a dynamo-electric machine component are provided. A plurality of wire coils may be received on an insertion tool. A wire lead may be anchored at a location on the insertion t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7266884 | Apparatus for cutting and removing wedges of a stator core of an electrical machine The wedge removal apparatus includes an elongated frame having telescopic elements at opposite ends with cylinders to engage pads along opposite sides of the frame against diametrically opposed wedges of stator core slots. The frame mounts a linear drive assembly ca... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7213324 | Method and manufacturing stator coil structure for revolving field electrical machine A number of embodiments of rotating electrical machines and methods for winding them that provides a high space utilization and very effective winding with less likelihood of damage to the insulation of the wire of the winding during the winding process. The arrange... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7210215 | Method of manufacturing stator winding of rotary electric machine A method of manufacturing a winding includes steps of twisting U-shaped conductor segments, inserting straight portions of the twisted conductor segments in slots of a stator core, bending ends of the straight portions in a circumferential direction of the stator co... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7197811 | Method for separating stator windings of an electric motor during manufacture A technique for separating the stator leads of an electric motor during the manufacturing process. The technique comprises a system having a lead gathering assembly, a lead separator, and a drive mechanism. The lead gathering assembly is adapted to gather together a... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7162792 | Device for manufacturing motor A device for manufacturing a motor is disclosed. The motors to be manufactured have a stator body including a stator of the motor, field cores that protrude from the inside surface of the stator body, pole pieces that extend from the field cores to cross with the fi... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7159296 | Coil-winding machine stator installation jig A stator stack and stator jig assembly provide a consistent amount of slack in stator coil wires without increasing the complexity of coil-winding machines or adding production steps, and prevent crossing of the stator coil wires in the slack areas. A stator stack h... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7140098 | Apparatus for manufacturing rotary-electric-machine stator An apparatus for shaping coil ends of a generator's stator having a plurality of sets of U-shaped large and small conductor segments. The apparatus includes four twister cylinders holding connection ends of the large and small conductor segments in four radial layer... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7120985 | Manufacturing method of layered core A method of manufacturing a layered core. The method includes the steps of: arranging a first plurality of yoke parts to define a first configuration magnetic pole sheet layer having first and second oppositely facing sides; arranging a second plurality of yoke part... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7047623 | Device for installing a linear motor line A device is provided for installing at least one linear motor line in the grooves (14) of an inductor (15) which is situated underneath a cover plate (10). The device includes a vehicle (31) which can be moved on the cover plate (10 | 05/23/2006 |
| 7017850 | Wire manipulator methods and apparatus for dynamo-electric machine coil winding The present invention concerns solutions for disposing the wire leads of a wire coil along trajectories that have predetermined positional references relative to the dynamo-electric machine component. The present invention proposes to provide a wire lead manipulator... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7003867 | Method for winding coils on rotor core A core includes a ring body and a plurality of teeth. The teeth extend radially outward form the outer circumference of the ring body. The core is formed by assembling a first core member and a second core member. Each core member has part of the teeth the number of... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6981308 | Support members inside stator slots of a rotating electric machine and method of mounting these support members A rotating electric machine (1) has a rotor, a stator (2), and stator windings (3, 4). The windings (3, 4) include high voltage cable drawn through slots (5, 6) in the stator (2). Support members (8) are arranged insi... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6976650 | Winding cores with stratification motion A winder and system for winding wire onto core supports of dynamo-electric cores with translational, rotational and radial motions with respect to a central longitudinal axis of the dynamo-electric core is provided. The radial motion may preferably be provided by an... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971153 | Method of manufacturing winding of rotary electric machine A method of manufacturing a winding of a rotary electric machine includes steps of pressing a portion of a conductor segment in a predetermined direction to reduce its dimension in the direction, inserting the conductor segment into a slot of a stator core, bending ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959486 | Apparatus for gripping wire in an armature winding machine An apparatus for gripping temporarily the wire in an armature winding machine. The machine is of the type comprising a gripper formed by an arm (11) having an end (13) connected to a support (14) and the other free end (12) for gripping t... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6944932 | Method for making a self-locking knot in a stator lacing machine A method and a corresponding apparatus provide for both the automatic lacing of a toroidal coil of a stator of a dynamo-electric machine, and the knotting of the end lacing terminal of the lacing cord, by using the same needle and the same thread-guide tube. The app... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941638 | Interconnecting method for segmented stator electric machines A method of connecting phases of a segmented stator electric machine includes providing a stator core. An end cap assembly is attached to the stator core. Winding wire is wound around the end cap assembly and the stator core to form a stator segment assembly. A plur... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6859991 | Methods for forming stator coils Insertion devices may be used to insert portions of pre-wound coils into the slots of dynamoelectric machine components. Some machine components may have poles that have pole tips that extend away from the pole in a peripheral direction. Such pole tips may obstruct ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6792673 | Apparatus for forming a hollow cylindrical dynamo-electric machine stator core Hollow cylindrical dynamo-electric machine stator cores may be made by superimposing at least two strips of core material to produce a composite strip. One or more of the strips may be run through a pressure roller structure prior to super-positioning of the strips.... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6785957 | Apparatus for manufacturing magnetic core with R-angle The invention provides an apparatus for manufacturing a magnetic wound core of a toroidal transformer. The apparatus in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a control device for controlling the apparatus based on parameters of the core m... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6782600 | Method for winding an armature coil An armature coil winder for winding coils at high density while restricting coil ends within a restricted space in an armature core assembly having a plurality of slots in an outer circumference thereof and a series of continuous coils, the coil winder including a f... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6615479 | Armature winding apparatus A cutter mounting bar (18) is attached between both left and right side walls of an outer shield (16) in an armature winding apparatus to be swingably rotatable, and it is biased in a direction in which a movable blade (21) provided integrally with a tip ... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6591477 | Method for making an armature assembly A method for making an armature assembly is provided that reduces the level of acoustic noise during initial engagement of the armature, during slippage, and during disengagement. The armature assembly includes an armature disc, an annulus of sound dampin... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6502299 | Armature coil winder In order to realize thinned armatures, a winder which winds coils at a high density while restricting coil ends within a restricted space is provided. An armature coil winder for winding coils in an armature core assembly having a plurality of slots in an... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6453540 | Tool for the installation of a terminal stud adapter in a generator rotor and methods therefor A method of inserting a terminal stud adapter section of a terminal stud into the radial bore of a rotor, involving a tool, which includes an elongated tool body having a head at one end from which a pair of pins project. The head is preferably plated wit... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6446329 | System for manufacturing a stator A system of manufacturing a stator is provided. The system comprises: a pallet, which includes, a base portion, a first ring rotatably disposed within the base portion for supporting the stator, a second ring rotatably disposed in the base portion, the se... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6194660 | Wedge-tite cable clamp The present invention involves a cable clamp for securing an electrical cable within the aperture or "knock-out" of an electrical distribution panel. The cable clamp is a single piece of molded material, with a wedge-shaped head portion, having a hypotenu... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6031307 | Stator winding method and stator winding structure In a stator winding method and a stator winding structure, the ends (4a) of windings (4) are caused to become entangled with terminals (6) through a longitudinal rod member (10) and form slack portions (4aA) when the longitudinal rod member is removed, wh... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5855058 | Armature manufacturing apparatus Armature start and finish wires are trimmed after connection to their associated commutator tang by use of a knife edge carried by an otherwise conventional lead guide mechanism. The lead guide mechanism moves the knife edge into position against the coil... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5784771 | Stator manufacturing method and apparatus Finish leads of coils wound onto stator cores without terminal boards are automatically secured before the stator is removed from the winding apparatus. Tooling is provided that is moved into position adjacent the stator at a lead tuck station to cooperat... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5781988 | Dynamo-electric machine component conveying systems and load/unload devices An improved conveying system in a parallel processing production line for dynamo-electric machine components having a magnetic core, the conveying system having a main conveyor extending along all of the processing machines of the production line and a lo... | 07/21/1998 |
| 5774963 | Armature manufacturing lines and armature transfer apparatus An armature manufacturing line includes one or more manufacturing cells, each having a winder facing a fuser and a rotatable armature transfer apparatus that transfers unwound armatures to the winder and wound armature from the winder directly to the fuse... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5704114 | Armature coil conductor arraying apparatus In an armature coil conductor arraying apparatus, a cylindrical coil guide tool 25 has a plurality of inner insertion holes or grooves 23a into which inner legs of coil conductors 2 are inserted and a plurality of outer grooves 24a provided radially outwa... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5619088 | Revolving armature for rotary electric machinery A plurality of insulator-coated coils wound in slots of a magnetic core in multiple layers have end portions including at least contact portions without insulator coatings and connected to risers of a commutator, and adjacent portions next to the contact ... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5445333 | Armature winding method and apparatus In the winding of an armature having a slotted commutator by a flier-type armature winding machine, a finish wire is severed closely adjacent its associated commutator bar slot by clamping a segment of the finish wire to a fixed tooling piece after it is ... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5369877 | Apparatus for winding armatures having slot commutators A wire winding machine is provided that allows the connection of electric motor armature coil leads to slot-type commutators. The machine uses rotations of a flyer and rotations of the armature to perform much of the needed movement during the lead attach... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5245748 | Apparatus for connecting stator coil leads Methods and apparatus are provided for connecting a lead wire extending from a coil portion wound on a pole of a stator core to one or more terminals mounted on the stator core, wherein the method includes the steps of: grasping a lead wire; disposing the... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5241486 | Methods and apparatus for marking and identifying hooks of electric motors Methods and apparatus for marking and identifying a commutator hook of an electric motor are provided. A preselected commutator hook is marked by deforming the hook while the armature is in a winding machine, with a known angular position. The marked hook... | 08/31/1993 |
