Abstract: There is provided a method for measuring a laminated iron core. The method includes preparing a laminated iron core in which two or more kinds of metal plates with different shapes are laminated and a deformed part is formed inside a hole continuing in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core, acquiring a surface profile data indicating a surface shape of the deformed part through an inlet of the hole by a non-contact sensor located in an outside of the hole, and calculating a size of the deformed part by a calculator based on the surface profile data.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for laminated iron cores includes processing a metal sheet to form product sheets, in each of which iron core pieces are arranged inside an outer frame piece and the iron core pieces are connected to the outer frame piece in such a way that outer peripheral sides of the iron core pieces are connected to nearest parts of the outer frame piece through bridge pieces, laminating the product sheets and temporarily fixing the product sheets adjacent to each other in a vertical direction together to form a sheets laminated body including iron core pieces laminated parts and bridge pieces laminated parts, sealing the iron core pieces laminated parts by a resin while being pressurized to form pre-formed laminated iron cores, and separating the bridge pieces laminated parts from the pre-formed laminated iron cores to form the laminated iron cores which are individually separated.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated iron core includes setting a blanking position on a strip-shaped workpiece for iron core pieces each including a yoke piece part having a linear shape and a magnetic pole piece part extending from the yoke piece part, such that a pair of iron core pieces are opposed each other and the magnetic pole piece part of one iron core piece is arranged between adjacent magnetic pole piece parts of the other iron core piece among the pair of iron core pieces, simultaneously blanking a front end side of the magnetic pole piece part and a back surface side of the yoke piece part of the one iron core piece from the strip-shaped workpiece before simultaneously blanking those of the other iron core piece from the strip-shaped workpiece, and blanking the iron core pieces from the strip-shaped workpiece.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a laminated rotor core, including: a mounting step of placing a core body on a carrier tray, the core body having a plurality of magnet insertion holes provided around the shaft hole, the carrier tray having a mount plate and a columnar guide member standing on a front surface of the mount plate 41, the placement of the core body being carried out by fitting the guide member into the shaft hole; an inserting step of inserting permanent magnets respectively in the magnet insertion holes; an injecting step of injecting a liquefied resin material in each of the magnet insertion holes; and a first preheating step of heating the core body before the mounting step, wherein the inserting step and the injecting step are carried out in a state in which the core body is placed on the carrier tray.

Abstract: A die apparatus includes a first die and a second die which are respectively used in adjacent working stations that sequentially blank or stamp out a progressively fed thin metal sheet. The first and second dies are held in a state where outer peripheral surfaces of the first and second dies directly contact each other.

Abstract: An elevator ventilation fan assembly for hazardous operating environments and comprising a fan disposed within an enclosure to be carried on an elevator cab roof. The fan may be suspended by a fan support framework from at least three non-co-linear suspension locations of the enclosure lid. The assembly may include a vibration isolation element disposed between the fan motor and the enclosure lid, a cover panel supported by a cover support framework on the enclosure lid, a fan guard screen carried by the enclosure lid, a fan motor junction box carried within the enclosure by the lid and accessible via a removable side panel of the enclosure, and/or a fan duct surrounding the fan.

Abstract: A tray is provided for conveying a workpiece placed on the tray inside a heat treatment furnace. The tray includes plural kinds of positional displacement regulating parts for respectively regulating horizontal positional displacements of plural kinds of workpieces with different sizes, wherein the plural kinds of positional displacement regulating parts are arranged concentrically in a plane shape.

Abstract: A vibrating chain saw sharpener for sharpening a saw chain that includes a cylindrical body portion; a ring portion connected to and encompassing an intermediate portion of the cylindrical body portion; a flange portion extending away from a bottom portion of the cylindrical body portion; and a hand-held power tool removably connected to an upper portion of the cylindrical body portion. Vibrations transmitted from the hand-held power tool to the ring portion are conveyed to the tooth of the chain saw, wherein the tooth is sharpened by the vibrations conveyed thereto.

Abstract: There is provided a method for inspecting a laminated iron core structured by laminating a plurality of iron core pieces-having a predetermined shape and including therein a cooling flow path allowing refrigerant to flow therethrough, the refrigerant being supplied and discharged through openings formed at different positions. The method includes arranging a light projecting part and a light receiving part of a photosensor in the openings of the cooling flow path, respectively, and detecting light from the light projecting part by the light receiving part to thereby inspect a penetrating state of the cooling flow path.

Abstract: A method of resin-sealing a laminated core, including inserting permanent magnets 24 into magnet insertion holes 18 of a core body 15, pressing the body 15 with upper and lower dies 11, 12, and injecting resin 29 to the holes 18 from a resin reservoir 17 of the die 11 or 12 via a runner 19 in a removable cull plate 14, one end of the runner 19 having plural resin injection holes 33, 34 per hole 18. The resin 29 presses the magnets 24 in the holes 18 to one sides in a radial direction of the holes 18. Thereby, resin-sealing is performed using the plate 14 and the magnets 24 are arranged in radially outward or inward sides even with narrow gaps between the magnets 24 and the holes 18 or without resin injection holes in centers in a width direction of the holes 18.

Abstract: There is provided a method for producing a rotor laminated core by laminating circular core pieces. The method determines a first blanking area, a second blanking area and a third blanking area in the magnetic steel board, wherein the first blanking area defines a shape of the core piece, the second blanking area defines a shape of a magnet-insertion hole, and the third blanking area defines a shape of an arbitrary part in the magnetic steel board. The method also forms a temporary aperture in the second blanking area, forms a thinning part which extends from the temporary aperture to the third blanking area, and blanks the first blanking area, the second blanking area and the third blanking area, thereby producing each circular core piece including the thinning part and magnet-insertion holes formed in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A rotor having permanent magnets 10 includes: a laminated core body 13 having a shaft hole 12 in the center thereof and magnet insertion holes 15 around the shaft hole 12; permanent magnets 16 disposed in the respective magnet insertion holes 15; and first and second end face plates 18, 19 disposed on one axial end and the other axial end of the laminated core body 13, respectively, the first and second end face plates 18, 19 including first and second through holes 32, 33, respectively. The first and second through holes 32, 33 each overlap a contour of a magnet insertion hole 15 on a radially inner side or a radially outer side in a plan view, and have first and second tapered portions 34, 35 gradually expanding the diameter toward the magnet insertion hole 15, respectively.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a laminated iron core from a thin sheet, the method includes coining the thin sheet from below to form a thinned bridge portion on an outer peripheral portion of an iron core piece, blanking the iron core piece from the thin sheet from above or below after forming the bridge portion, and laminating the iron core piece on another iron core piece to manufacture the laminated iron core.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a laminated iron core from a thin sheet, the method includes coining the thin sheet from above to form a thinned bridge portion on an outer peripheral portion of an iron core piece, blanking the iron core piece downwardly from the thin sheet using a set of an outer-shape blanking punch and a die after forming the bridge portion, wherein the outer-shape blanking punch includes a projection portion fitted into the bridge portion when blanking, and laminating the iron core piece on another iron core piece to manufacture the laminated iron core.

Abstract: A blanking die apparatus includes multiple machining stations having respective cutting tools operated simultaneously to perform predetermined blanking operations on a belt-shaped workpiece fed progressively in a longitudinal direction and finally to perform a contour blanking operation on the workpiece, thereby forming core pieces used for manufacturing a laminated iron core, and an auxiliary cutting tool that forms a disposal hole by partly blanking a scrap forming area of the workpiece simultaneously with the operations of the cutting tools of the machining stations.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting a magnet into a rotor iron core includes a magnet inserting unit configured to insert a permanent magnet into a magnet-insert hole formed along a lamination direction of a rotor iron core body in which a plurality of iron core pieces are laminated, and a guide member to be attached to the magnet inserting unit, and arranged in a space formed between the magnet inserting unit and the rotor iron core body and configured to communicate the magnet-insert hole of the rotor iron core body to a supply part for the permanent magnet formed in the magnet inserting unit.

Abstract: A laminated iron core manufacturing method in a blanking die apparatus having multiple machining stations is provided. The method includes feeding a belt-shaped workpiece progressively in a longitudinal direction in the blanking die apparatus, operating cutting tools provided in the respective machining stations simultaneously to perform predetermined blanking operations on the progressively fed workpiece and finally perform a contour blanking operation on the workpiece so as to form core pieces, and laminating the core pieces within or outside the blanking die apparatus to thereby manufacture a laminated iron core. An auxiliary cutting tool is operated to form a disposal hole by partly blanking a scrap forming area of the workpiece simultaneously with the operations of the cutting tools of the multiple machining stations, to thereby secure a load balance of the blanking die apparatus in the feeding direction.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a laminated iron core includes a conveyance jig on which a laminated iron core body is placed, a die unit including a lower die and an upper die upwardly and downwardly movable with respect to the lower die, which holds the laminated iron core body placed on the conveyance jig from both sides in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core body between the lower die and the upper die, an injector injecting a resin into a through hole formed through the laminated iron core body held by the die unit from the lower die through the conveyance jig or the upper die, and an upward and downward movement unit capable of upwardly and downwardly moving the conveyance jig with respect to the lower die, and being provided independently from the die unit.

Abstract: A laminated iron core includes a plurality of iron core pieces laminated each other, each iron core piece having a thickness of 0.2 mm or less. Each of the plurality of iron core pieces includes a flat part, openings and a pair of caulking protrusions opposed and separated from each other in plan view, each caulking protrusion having one end continuing with the flat part and the other portion being separated from the flat part to be inclined in a lamination direction of the iron core pieces. The pair of caulking protrusions of each iron core piece are fitted into the openings formed in an adjacent one of the plurality of iron core pieces in the lamination direction to join the plurality of iron core pieces, and the other ends of the pair of caulking protrusions face toward each other or face in opposite directions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated core, in which while a laminated core body 10 formed by caulking and with permanent magnets 20 inserted in a plurality of magnet insertion holes 17, 18 is held between a resin injection die 23 and a receiving die 22 opposed to each other, resin is injected into the magnet insertion holes 17, 18 from resin reservoir portions provided to the resin injection die 23 to fix the permanent magnets 20, the method comprising: at a time of resin injection, pressing a flat press surface 24 of the resin injection die 23 against caulking portions 13 protruding from a surface of the laminated core body 10 to apply pressure thereto, thereby allowing the surface of the laminated core body 10 whereon the caulking portions 13 are formed to be pressed against the flat press surface 24 so as to prevent resin leakage.