Fixed Number Of Windings On Winding Surface (e.g., Positive Feeder) Patents (Class 242/365.6)
  • Patent number: 9027242
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical device comprises the steps of providing a substrate, providing an electrical component on the substrate, providing a first electrical contact on the substrate that is electrically connected to the electrical component, and providing an electrochemical cell on or integrating the substrate for providing electrical energy to said electrical component. The electrochemical cell comprises at least one electrochemical layer comprising a cured or dried ink and a first electrode contact electrically connected to said at least one electrochemical layer. The method further includes the step of securing the electrochemical cell to the substrate through an electrically conductive connection that provides both a structural connection and an electrical connection between the first electrical contact and the first electrode contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Blue Spark Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary R. Tucholski
  • Patent number: 8371020
    Abstract: A plurality of shaped wires, which are obtained by shaping electric wires, are assembled to form a wire assembly 47. The wire assembly 47 is then rolled around a core member 6 with aligning members 7 being inserted into spaces 472 formed between adjacent ones of straight superposed parts 471 of the wire assembly 47.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Gorohata, Keigo Moriguchi, Akito Akimoto, Masahiro Takada, Masaomi Dobashi, Youichi Kamakura, Shuzo Muraki, Atsuo Ishizuka
  • Patent number: 8302286
    Abstract: A stator winding is manufactured by a forming step, a winding step, and a expanding step. In the forming step, an S-shaped offset shape is formed on a conductor part corresponding to a coil end part. Thereby, in a coil end part, it is possible to provide an expected shape stably at the coil end part. The conductor is wound around a bobbin in the winding step. In the winding step, a twisted shape is given to the conductor parts to be the inclined part of the coil end and the conductor part to be accommodated in a slot. In the expanding step, a preform product removed from the bobbin is expanded into a shape of the stator winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Tokizawa
  • Patent number: 8196286
    Abstract: A coil-holding assembly for an electrical machine has coil holders made of plastic and on which coils of a stator can be wound. The coil holders are formed and pivotal on an outer edge of a planar central plastic support by integral film hinges between a winding position parallel to a plane of the support and a bent-up position perpendicular to the plane. Thus the coils can be wound on the holders in the parallel position thereof and the holders are then moved into the bent-up position for use in the electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Wilo AG
    Inventors: Thomas Materne, Guenter Strelow, Uwe Dreihaus, Stephan Hoheisel
  • Patent number: 8056215
    Abstract: A first tool set holds a wire covered with an insulation film at a bending point of the wire to protrude the wire from the first tool set. A second tool set holds the protruded portion of the wire. The second tool set is rotated about the first tool set to bend the wire along a wall of the first tool set and to form a boundary corner in the wire at the same radius of curvature as the wall. The wire is released from the second tool set and is moved to place the first tool set at another bending point while protruding from the first tool set. The second tool set is placed at the protruded portion of the wire. When the wire is bent at a predetermined number of bending points and is rounded, a stator coil formed in a corrugated shape is manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Takada, Kuniharu Teshima, Hideji Shimaoka, Toshiaki Oohara
  • Patent number: 7891082
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil assembly unit comprises steps of coil forming, weaving, compressing steps. In the forming step, each coil wire is formed which provides linear portions and turn portions each connecting linear portions, during which bent portions are formed at both ends of each linear portion, the bent portions being bent so that mutually adjacent linear portions are deviated from each other. In the weaving step, the coil wires are mutually woven in turn, in which the turn portions intersect in turn. All the coil wires are subjected to the weaving step in turn to produce a woven coil assembly. In the compressing step, the woven coil assembly is compressed by compressing the woven coil so that each bent portion is deformed to be linear to allow the mutually adjacent linear portions to come closer to each other, thus producing the coil assembly unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Akito Akimoto
  • Patent number: 7784172
    Abstract: A forming machine for forming a loop winding having a plurality of meandering parts and disposed in a stator of a motor which includes: a first die unit having a plurality of first dies spaced from each other at regular intervals in a circumferential direction; and a second die unit having a plurality of second dies which are spaced from each other at the same intervals as the regular intervals in a circumferential direction and which are each disposed between adjacent ones of the first dies, wherein each of the second dies has a winding holding part for holding a loop winding; and the first die unit and the second die unit are each provided with a winding diameter reducing means for reducing the loop winding in the radial direction thereof according to a displacement of the first die unit in the axial direction relative to the loop winding held by the winding holding parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignees: Honda Motor., Ltd., Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daijiro Takizawa, Hisashi Katoh, Tadanobu Takahashi, Sunao Morishita, Kei Oohori
  • Patent number: 7770286
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a winding assembly of a rotating electrical machine using a rotation block and a fixed block and a manufacturing apparatus used for the same. The rotation block includes a rotation surface rotatable around a rotation axis, and the fixed block includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other and a shaping surface. The shaping surface is formed between end parts of the first and the second surfaces, is made to have an almost semicircular shape with the rotation axis as the center, and extends along the rotation axis. Plural wire rods are simultaneously fed from the first surface of the fixed block to the rotation surface of the rotation block, and the wire rods positioned on the rotation surface are bent by rotation of the rotation block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Hirota, Norihiro Murata, Toshiaki Kashihara
  • Patent number: 7083134
    Abstract: The invention relates to a yarn feeding device (F) for weaving or knitting machines whose winding element (W) is driven by an electric motor (M) controlled by an electronic speed control device (CU). According to the invention, the electric motor (M) is a synchronous motor, in particular, a permanent magnet (PM) motor with the speed control device (CU) provided for effecting a permanent vector control with the stator being sinusoidally acted upon. Continuously determined information pertaining to the relevant rotational position of the rotor (R) of the motor (M) is used in the speed control device (CU), which serves to perform permanent vector control, in order to adjust at least one predetermined rotational position (X1, X2) of the winding element (W).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: IROPA AG
    Inventors: Mikael Alatalo, Lars Helge Gottfrid Tholander
  • Patent number: 7059556
    Abstract: A thread supplying device provided with a housing containing an electric motor wherein the stator is non-rotatingly mounted and the rotor is rotatingly mounted on a motor shaft. A thread guiding element is fixed to the motor shaft and a threader device which is fixed to the housing is also provided. When the motor shaft is in a set rotational position, the thread guiding element is physically associated with said threader device. A permanent magnet motor with pole cores provided with windings is integrated into the stator and permanent magnets are integrated into the rotor in such a way that the stator, rotor and the thread guiding element are arranged relative to the housing, in such a way that the motor shaft adopts the set position of rotation when the permanent magnet motor is devoid of electric current in a stable relative position of rotation, caused by magnetic forces, of the rotor in the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Iropa AG
    Inventors: Egon Johansson, Paer Josefsson
  • Patent number: 6932293
    Abstract: The yarn feeder having a plastic housing, preferably made of two clamshells, with a plastic fastening device for connecting the yarn feeder to a retaining device of a textile machine. The fastening device is made rigid by suitable shaping and without the necessity for metal inlays. The two clamshell halves of the housing each have a bearing for a continuous shaft, which on one end carries a yarn guide drum and on its other end carries pulleys for a drive device. Fasteners serve to hold the two housing parts together in the correct position for enabling easy opening of the housing for maintenance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Memminger-IRO GmbH
    Inventors: Herman Schmodde, Richard Kaufmann, Gunter Leopold
  • Publication number: 20040195419
    Abstract: An opening-and-closing device opens and closes a sliding door by using a cable connected to the sliding door movably attached to a vehicle body. The opening-and-closing device has a base bracket, a motor, a transmission, a rotary drum, a first conduit fixed portion, a second conduit fixed portion, a first tension controller and a second tension controller. The base bracket is fixed to the vehicle body with bolts. The motor, the transmission, the rotary drum, the first and second conduit fixed portions and the first and second tension controllers are fixed to a disposition face of the base bracket. The first and second tension controllers are respectively disposed between the rotary drum and the first conduit fixed portion and between the rotary drum and the second conduit fixed portion, and applies tension to the cable fed from the rotary drum to take up the slack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Jun Yamagishi, Shinichiro Kita
  • Patent number: 6616079
    Abstract: The yarn feeder of the invention has one or two yarn feeler levers, which monitor the yarn. In order to be able to prevent the monitoring if needed, a feeler barrier is provided. Its actuating device which in the illustrated embodiment is in the form of a handle, is disposed on an outer end of the basic body of the yarn feeder so that it is readily accessible to operators. The position set can also easily be seen from the position of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Memminger-IRO GmbH
    Inventors: Eberhard Leins, Richard Kaufmann, Hermann Schmodde, Gunter Leopold
  • Patent number: 6270032
    Abstract: A variable or steady yarn feeding apparatus comprises a first yarn brake; a support; a steady yarn supply drum for plain knitting; a variable yarn supply drum having a high friction resilient V-shaped or U-shaped surface, the drums both driven by a drive device; a yarn guide device for guiding the yarn from the variable yarn supply drum to the steady yarn supply drum; a self-adjustable yarn guide device provided below the support; and a second yarn brake for adjusting the yarn feed of the variable yarn supply drum. An end of the self-adjustable yarn guide device is away from the variable yarn supply drum in a no demand condition by an expansion of a spring provided therein, while the end is in contact with the surfaces of the variable yarn supply drum when there is a yarn demand. A jacquard knitting is made possible by the cooperation of the second yarn brake with the variable yarn supply drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Inventor: Jen Hui Chen
  • Patent number: 6257517
    Abstract: A welding wire feeding system feeds welding wire from a barrel to a welding gun. The system includes a feed mechanism for drawing welding wire from the barrel and advancing the welding wire toward the welding gun. A free-wheeling wheel is disposed between the barrel and the feed mechanism and is freely rotatable about an axis. The welding wire is wound around the wheel, whereby a curvature is imparted to an otherwise-straight welding wire. Also, any twists generated in the welding wire at the welding gun will be stopped at the wheel before reaching and fouling the barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Sandvik Steel Co.
    Inventors: Francis Stephen Babish, Michael Edward Sandherr
  • Patent number: 6257520
    Abstract: A tension determining apparatus that is arranged above cylindrical air chambers determines tensions at both edges of a web before the web enters helical routes of the cylindrical air chambers. Middle direction changing air chambers among three direction changing air chambers arranged in a row are inclined by a predetermined angle according to the difference between the tensions at both edges of the web. Therefore, a snaking and a bias of the web are reduced, and the web can run stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Fujii Photo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daisuke Fujikura