Abstract: A method of progressive processing includes feeding a strip-shaped sheet to a press machine; pressing the strip-shaped sheet with the press machine; and joining the strip-shaped sheet with a new strip-shaped sheet by applying a tape over an end of the strip-shaped sheet located in a direction opposite a direction in which the strip-shaped sheet is fed and an end of the new strip-shaped sheet located in a direction in which the new strip-shaped sheet is fed.

Abstract: The apparatus for manufacturing an iron core for a dynamo-electric machine according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a rotary layering part for layering while rotating an iron core material punched from an electromagnetic steel sheet, a drive source for generating a drive force for rotating the rotary layering part, and a drive force transmission part for transmitting the drive force generated by the drive source to the rotary layering part. The drive force transmission part is configured from a plurality of gears arranged between the drive source and the rotary layering part. The rotary layering part is provided with a rotation position establishing means for establishing the rotation position of the rotary layering part.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrical machine includes a rotor and an armature. The armature includes first to third stator cores, and an armature coil. The first and second stator cores are arranged along a direction of a rotation axis of the rotor. The third stator core is arranged opposite to the first and second stator cores. The armature coil is provided between the first and second stator cores. The first and second stator cores have a same shape and each include magnetic poles and a first positioning part. The third stator core includes a second positioning part. A relative phase angle of the first stator core and a relative phase angle of the second stator core in the rotation direction are set by using the first positioning part and the second positioning part.

Abstract: According to a method of manufacturing a stator core of an embodiment, welding beads including a magnetic member other than the core pieces are formed in welding grooves provided on an outer peripheral surface of the stacked core pieces and extending in a direction in which the core pieces are stacked.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator core includes punching out core members from an electrical steel sheet in three rows arrangement side by side along a width direction of the electrical steel sheet. Each of the core members has connecting projections. The connecting projections project radially outward from an outer periphery of the core member. The punched out core members are stacked to form the stator core. Each of the core members in two of the three rows arrangement have a connecting projection angled at a first angle from the width direction of the electrical steel sheet. Each of the core members in a third row having a connecting projection angled at a different second angle from the width direction of the electrical steel sheet.

Abstract: A method of progressive processing includes feeding a strip-shaped sheet to a press machine; pressing the strip-shaped sheet with the press machine; and joining the strip-shaped sheet with a new strip-shaped sheet by applying a tape over an end of the strip-shaped sheet located in a direction opposite a direction in which the strip-shaped sheet is fed and an end of the new strip-shaped sheet located in a direction in which the new strip-shaped sheet is fed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator core includes die-cutting iron core materials from a band-shaped magnetic steel sheet and stacking the materials. Each material includes an inner circumference formed with three interconnecting lugs. At least one of the lugs included in one of two rows is located between the materials lengthwise adjacent to each other in the other row. Marginal regions are located in parts of the sheet located between the lugs of the materials adjacent to each other in a lengthwise direction of the sheet in a common row, between the material of the one row and the material of the other row and between the materials to be die-cut and each end of the sheet, respectively. The marginal regions are sized to be approximate to a web width in order to join remaining materials after the materials have been die-cut.

Abstract: The apparatus for manufacturing an iron core for a dynamo-electric machine according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a rotary layering part for layering while rotating an iron core material punched from an electromagnetic steel sheet, a drive source for generating a drive force for rotating the rotary layering part, and a drive force transmission part for transmitting the drive force generated by the drive source to the rotary layering part. The drive force transmission part is configured from a plurality of gears arranged between the drive source and the rotary layering part. The rotary layering part is provided with a rotation position establishing means for establishing the rotation position of the rotary layering part.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electrical machine includes a rotor and an armature. The armature includes first to third stator cores, and an armature coil. The first and second stator cores are arranged along a direction of a rotation axis of the rotor. The third stator core is arranged opposite to the first and second stator cores. The armature coil is provided between the first and second stator cores. The first and second stator cores have a same shape and each include magnetic poles and a first positioning part. The third stator core includes a second positioning part. A relative phase angle of the first stator core and a relative phase angle of the second stator core in the rotation direction are set by using the first positioning part and the second positioning part.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, this stator core manufacturing method has a punching step for punching core members, which each have a plurality of protruding sections for connection that protrude radially outwards from the outer peripheral section thereof, from a band-shaped electrical steel sheet, wherein: portions in the electrical steel sheet from which the core members are to be punched are arranged in three rows in the width direction of the electrical steel sheet; in any two of the three rows, the portions from which the protruding sections of the core members are to be punched are inclined at a first angle relative to the width direction of any of the electrical steel sheets; in the remaining one row, the portions from which the protruding sections of the core members are to be punched are inclined at a second angle relative to the width direction of the electrical steel sheet, said second angle being different from the first angle; and the core members are punched.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator core includes die-cutting iron core materials from a band-shaped magnetic steel sheet, each iron core material being formed into an annular shape and having m number of interconnecting lugs protruding radially outward from an annular outer circumference of the magnetic steel sheet when m is equal to or larger than 2, and stacking a number of the iron core materials. In the die-cutting, parts of the magnetic steel sheet to be die-cut as the iron core material are arranged in n number of rows in a widthwise direction of the magnetic steel sheet when n is an integer equal to or larger than 2. Each one of the iron core materials included in one of n number of rows is located between the iron core materials lengthwise adjacent to each other in the row next to the one row.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer testing method includes a pre-test step for forming a temporary test film on a surface of a semiconductor wafer, a test step for testing the semiconductor wafer by applying a probe to the temporary test film and a post-test step for exfoliating the temporary test film from the surface of the semiconductor wafer. The temporary test film includes test electrode groups each provided with a plurality of regularly arranged test electrodes, and wiring patterns for electrically connecting the test electrodes with corresponding ones of semiconductor unit electrodes in respective semiconductor units on the semiconductor wafer. Probe pins of said probe are arranged so as to be aligned with corresponding ones of the test electrodes of the respective test electrode groups.

Abstract: A stator for a dynamoelectric machine includes an annular stator core composed of a developed core formed by stacking a number of steel sheets, each steel sheet including a plurality of unit cores each of which includes a unit yoke and a magnetic pole tooth and which are sequentially connected together by connecting portions integral with the respective unit yokes, and a stator coil wound on the magnetic pole teeth. Each unit yoke has a circumferential end overlapping, in a direction of stacking of the steel sheets, a circumferential end of the unit yoke adjacent to said each unit yoke.

Abstract: A laminated core for dynamoelectric machines and so on is formed of thin sheet core pieces each blanked into a predetermined configuration and stacked one upon another and are successively welded at a plurality of weld zones of an edge of each core piece by continuous or spot irradiation of laser beams so that the core pieces are combined together. The core piece constituting one of two end faces of the core has first notches formed in one half of the weld zones of the core piece. The core piece constituting the other end face of the core has second notches formed in one half of the weld zones of the core piece constituting the other end face of the core. The first notches are shifted from the second notches by 90 degrees.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a reference voltage generating circuit outputting a reference voltage from a step-up voltage, a step-up circuit stepping up the reference voltage within a range lower than an external power supply voltage and thus outputting the above step-up voltage, a step-down circuit stepping down the external power supply voltage and thus outputting a step-down voltage equal to the reference voltage, and an internal circuit receiving, as a power supply voltage thereof, the step-down voltage.

Abstract: A press forming device for forming a plurality of inwardly directed projections on a circumferential wall of a tubular article to be formed. The press forming device includes a lower die holder adapted to be mounted on a lower base of a press machine, and a die fixed on the lower die holder. The die has a plurality of inside forming parts on a circumferential surface of the die, each for forming one of the projections, respectively. The press forming device further includes a plurality of punches mounted on the lower die holder around an outer circumference of the die, each being arranged to be capable of being moved towards or away from the die, and each having an outside forming part in a position facing one of the inside forming parts for forming one of the projections, respectively. The press forming device also includes an upper die holder adapted to be mounted on an upper raising and lowering base of the press machine and a plurality of pressing members of wedge shape mounted on the upper die holder.

Abstract: This invention relates to a memory device internally employing an active period control signal for controlling an active period and an inactive period for internal operation. The memory device comprises a plurality of word lines and bit lines; memory cells provided at intersections thereof; a booster circuit, having an output terminal, for outputting to the output terminal a higher voltage than a power source voltage; and word drivers, connected to each of the word lines, for connecting the output terminal of the booster circuit to a corresponding word line in response to a word selection signals provided during the active period. The memory device also comprises a boosting control signal generation circuit supplying the booster circuit with a boosting control signal to continue a boosting operation of the booster circuit longer than the active period in response to the active period control signal.

Abstract: A semiconductor memory device has an oscillator unit for generating refresh pulses, a refresh address detection unit for detecting refreshed addresses and outputting a predetermined signal upon the completion of the refreshing of all addresses, and an output control unit for continuing a self-refresh mode to refresh all addresses according to the signal from the refresh address detection unit, before releasing the self-refresh mode in response to an external signal. Therefore, the refresh operation is continued until all cells are refreshed, thereby data stored in the semiconductor memory device is not lost and is correctly refreshed.

Abstract: In a voltage drop power supply circuit for a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a first unit generates a constant internal power supply voltage from an external power supply voltage in accordance with a first characteristic line defining a relationship between the external power supply voltage and the internal power supply voltage, and applies the constant internal power supply voltage to internal circuits of the semiconductor integrated circuit device. A second unit generates a burn-in voltage from the external power supply voltage having a level higher than that used in the normal operation in accordance with a second characteristic line defining a relationship between the external power supply voltage and the internal power supply line, and applies the burn-in voltage to the internal circuits when a burn-in test is carried out for the semiconductor integrated circuit device.