Abstract: An electronic component mounting machine including a component supply device to supply a radial lead component to a supply position by feeding a carrier tape holding multiple radial lead components; and a component transfer device to collect the radial lead component supplied to the supply position and mount the radial lead component to a predetermined mounting position. The component supply device includes a locking section engageable with the feed holes of the carrier tape, and a tape feed section for feeding the carrier tape by sliding the locking section in engagement with the feed hole. The component transfer device includes a component holding section to hold the component main body of the radial lead component held by the carrier tape, and a position control section to control the position of the component holding section when holding the component main body.

Abstract: Apparatus for robot motion control and wire dispensing during automated routing of wires onto harness form boards. The robot includes a manipulator arm and a wire-routing end effector mounted to a distal end of the manipulator arm. The wire-routing end effector is configured for dispensing and routing a wire along a path through form board devices mounted to a harness form board. The wire-routing end effector is moved along a planned path under the control of a robot controller. An end effector path is provided with a set of processes that enable rapid, even fully automatic, development of robot motion controls for routing wires on harness form boards. The system uses a measurement encoder on the end effector that is routing individual wires on a wire harness form board to learn the length of each wire and its length variation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature coil includes the steps of: stacking multiple armature coils to generate a stack of armature coils in a stacking direction as a first step; securing first and second ends of the stack of armature coils with a pair of clamping dies, respectively, as a second step after completing the first step; and sandwiching and depressing the stack of armature coils with pressing die in a given direction intersecting the stacking direction as a third step after completing the second step. The pressing die includes a pair of sandwiching dies to sandwich and depress the stack of armature coils in the given direction. The pair of sandwiching dies has a narrower interval at a position closer to a first end of the stack than that at another position closer to a second end thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a method for the throughput-optimised production of printed circuit boards on least two assembly lines, wherein: the printed circuit boards are divided into clusters; each cluster is produced using a set-up system that is carried out by changeover tables that can be attached to the assembly line, each changeover table having at least one feed device for keeping ready stocks of components; and a changeover table set and an empty changeover table set comprises changeover tables with feed devices that are empty.

Abstract: A wire harness production supporting device configured to produce a wire harness by in turn laying out a plurality of electric wires on a wire laying out drawing. This wire harness production supporting device is composed of a time recording section configured to, each time one of the plurality of electric wires is laid out, store a time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out, in a storing section, and a progress status administrating section configured to obtain a progress status of the production of the wire harness based on the time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out having been stored in the storing section.

Abstract: A dispensing head comprises: a body structure including a first z-axis motor attachment location, a second z-axis motor attachment location, a first linear track and a second linear track; a first z-axis motor attached to the body structure at the first z-axis motor attachment location; a second z-axis motor attached to the body structure at the second z-axis motor attachment location; a first body attached to the first linear track and operably connected to the first z-axis motor such that the first body moves along the first linear track when the first z-axis motor is actuated; a second body attached to the second linear track and operably connected to the second z-axis motor such that the second body moves along the second linear track; a first theta motor operably connected to the first body; and a second theta motor operably connected to the second body.

Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a cylindrical rotor core, a set of posts extending radially outward from the rotor core defining a set of slots between adjacent posts, a set of windings formed by conductive wire wound in the set of slots having end turns extending axially beyond the rotor core, and a retention case overlying the end turns.

Abstract: An EC motor for an electric hand tool having a stator in which a rotor is rotatably mounted, which comprises a rotor lamination stack, which has a passage opening and is formed of individual laminations, and a rotor shaft which is cast in the passage opening of the rotor lamination stack by means of a casting compound, and having a plurality of permanent magnets, which are received in the pockets formed in the rotor lamination stack. An annular channel, which is connected to the pockets in a fluid-conducting manner via radial channels, each of which is formed of a plurality of channel sections formed in adjacent laminations of the rotor lamination stack, is formed between the rotor shaft and the wall of the passage opening for supplying the casting compound from the annular channel to the pockets. A method is also provided for producing a rotor for an EC motor.

Abstract: A terminal extraction tool includes a handle and an extraction arm extending from the handle. The handle has a bottom extending between a handle front and a handle rear having a handle axis centered between the handle front and the handle rear. The extraction arm has a base at the bottom of the handle and a finger extending from the base. The finger has an elbow between an upper finger member and a lower finger member. The lower finger member is angled non-parallel to the upper finger member. The lower finger member extends from the elbow to a tip configured to engage a latching beam to release the latching beam and allow removal of the terminal from a housing. The handle and the extraction arm are rotated about the elbow to rotate the lower finger member and the tip to engage the latching beam.

Abstract: A wire harness producing device configured to produce a wire harness by displaying a wire laying-out drawing in a full size in a length direction on a plurality of display devices, and laying-out electric wires along the wire laying-out drawing. The device includes a displaying control section configured to look up operation recipe information configured as a database capable of identifying wire laying-out order numbers of the electric wires, and in turn display wire laying-out position indicators configured to indicate positions of the electric wires to be laid out, on the plurality of display devices, according to a wire laying-out order of the electric wires. The operation recipe information includes coordinate information for indicating displaying positions for the wire laying-out position indicators. The displaying control section is configured to display the wire laying-out position indicators, in the displaying positions indicated by the coordinate information on the plurality of display devices.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a hybrid structure comprising an effective layer of piezoelectric material having an effective thickness and disposed on a supporting substrate having a substrate thickness and a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the effective layer includes: a) a step of providing a bonded structure comprising a piezoelectric material donor substrate and the supporting substrate, b) a first step of thinning the donor substrate to form a thinned layer having an intermediate thickness and disposed on the supporting substrate, the assembly forming a thinned structure; c) a step of heat treating the thinned structure at an annealing temperature; and d) a second step, after step c), of thinning the thinned layer to form the effective layer. The method also comprises, prior to step b), a step a?) of determining a range of intermediate thicknesses that prevent the thinned structure from being damaged during step c).

Abstract: A cutting unit has a support member having insertion holes, and a movable member having through holes connected thereto. The respective left sides of upper surfaces of the square through holes are first movable blades, and the respective right sides thereof are second movable blades. Firstly, the movable member 14 is moved to the right by a predetermined amount to cut peeled-off portions of segment end portions only, and then the movable member is moved to the left by a predetermined amount to cut peeled-off portions of the segment end portions only. Distal ends of the coil segments can be cut into a uniform length to enable high quality welding, through this process.

Abstract: A bending apparatus (10) includes an upper first die (11), an upper second die (12), a lower die (13), a control unit (20), an upper first moving mechanism (21), an upper second moving mechanism (22), a lower moving mechanism (23), a holding die (31), and a moving and rotating mechanism (32). The lower die (13) is moved in an upper direction after the upper first die (11) and the upper second die (12) are moved to the front, whereby four coil segments (4) are bent. When the upper second die (12) is moved to a first withdrawal position in the rear direction after the four coil segments (4) are bent, a working space for the holding die (31) is ensured.

Abstract: A system for transferring a micro LED includes a micro LED dropped into a solution. The system further includes a micro LED grip body immersed in the solution, the micro LED grip body including a porous member having pores, and gripping the micro LED with a grip surface where the pores are provided. An upper surface of the porous member is configured with a seating recess having a guide inclined portion on which the micro LED is mounted and a shielding portion provided around the seating recess.

Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and assembling form boards with attached wire routing devices for use in wire bundle assembly. The assembly method comprises: (a) establishing a coordinate system of a form board having a multiplicity of holes; (b) using a computer system to determine locations of form board devices of different types with reference to the coordinate system of the form board based on engineering data specifying a wire bundle configuration; and (c) fastening the form board devices of different types to respective holes of the form board having centers closest to respective locations determined in step (b). The form board devices may be inserted robotically or manually.

Abstract: As wire is wound around and onto the surface of a former to form a coil, perturbations such as waves are introduced into turns of the coil, each perturbation being formed in a length of the wire less than the full length of a respective turn and projecting along the former surface, the perturbation having an initial shape and size. The coil is taken from the former and fixed in form. A surrounding jacket is radially collapsed onto the wire coil to uniformly press the coil against an internal compressible body in the course of which the overall diameter of the coil is reduced. Resulting stresses in the wire generated during the collapse are relieved by alteration of the perturbations from their initial shape and size to a subsequent shape and size.

Abstract: The measurement position determination device of the present disclosure is a measurement position determination device for determining a measurement position on a board, the measurement position being for measuring height of the board on which on which a component is mounted, and includes a measurement position determination section for acquiring one or more scheduled mounting positions of the component on the board at the time of measuring the board height and determining at least one of the acquired scheduled mounting positions as the measurement position of the board height.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.

Abstract: A wire harness producing method configured to produce a wire harness by arranging a plurality of display devices end to end, each including a display portion and a bezel arranged around a periphery of the display portion, displaying a wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, and laying out an electric wire along the wire laying-out drawing. The method includes compartmentalizing a two-dimensional image of the wire harness into display regions to be displayed on the display portions of the display devices respectively and non-display regions corresponding to the bezels of the display devices respectively, with the display regions and the non-display regions conforming to sizes of the display portions and the bezels respectively, trimming the two-dimensional image to create wire laying-out image data composed of only the display regions, and displaying the wire laying-out drawing on the display devices, based on the wire laying-out image data.

Abstract: A device (10) for inverse crimping a terminal (12), held on an infeed belt (24), onto a core (14) includes: a crimp anvil (16) that supports the terminal (12) during the crimping process, a crimper (18) that reshapes to-be-reshaped regions (20) of the terminal (12) supported on the crimp anvil (16) during the crimping process when the crimp anvil (16) and the crimper (18) move relative to each other, and an infeed-belt guide device (46) for guiding the infeed belt (24). During the crimping process, the crimp anvil (16) is moved together with the terminal (12) supported in or on the crimp anvil (16), and the infeed-belt guide device (46) is moved at least temporarily relative to the crimper (18) before and/or during the crimping process.