Abstract: A needle-type heater (9) includes a needle-shaped heating body and a heating element (20), wherein: the needle-shaped heating body includes a tapered cap (18) and a heater substrate (19) connected with a bottom of the tapered cap (18); and the heating element (20) is attached to the heater substrate (19) in a way of coated printing. A production method of the needle-type heater (9) and an electrically heated cigarette with the needle-type heater (9) are also provided. The needle-type heater (9) can fully heat a tobacco product, and the tobacco product is easier to be inserted into a heating cavity (8), so that it is convenient to replace the tobacco product and use.

Abstract: An apparatus for molding a hairpin inserted into a stator core includes a clamping unit including a connection bracket mounted on a front end of a robot arm and at least one clamper mounted on the connection bracket and configured to be reciprocally driven in opposite directions in a straight line, and a mold unit detachably coupled with the at least one clamper and configured to press mold a head portion of the hairpin by a molding jig configured to be driven by the at least one clamper.

Abstract: An electric machine that is configured to propel a vehicle includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has windings that are configured to generate magnetic fields. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic blocks that interacts with the magnetic fields to produce rotational motion. Each of the plurality of magnetic blocks is segmented into a plurality of permanent magnets. Adjacent permanent magnets within each magnetic block are separated from and secured to each other via an intermediate electrically insulating material. The intermediate electrically insulating material is comprised of magnetic particles that are suspended in an adhesive matrix.

Abstract: The manufacturing method of a rotor includes: a step of preparing a plate that is composed of an austenitic material and that has a projected portion and a part with a width in a rotational axis direction smaller than a width of the projected portion in the rotational axis direction; and a step of forming a welded portion across the projected portion of the plate and a rotation transmitting member by emitting an energy beam on at least a part of the projected portion to melt at least a part of the projected portion.

Abstract: Each of multiple component mounting machines constituting a component mounting line is configured to switch between a production mode in which a component is mounted on a circuit board that has been conveyed in and then conveyed out, a mounting accuracy measurement mode in which a mounting accuracy measurement component is mounted at a predetermined position on a mounting accuracy measurement board and the mounting accuracy is measured, and a pass mode in which a component is conveyed out without being mounted on the board conveyed in. When the control mode of two or more component mounters among the multiple component mounting machines is the mounting accuracy measurement mode, the mounting accuracy is measured by conveying the mounting accuracy measurement board along the board conveyance path, and the two or more component mounting machines sequentially use the mounting accuracy measurement board to measure the mounting accuracy.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for forming a woven coil assembly (100), the coil assembly having adjacent superimposed linear portions (LI-L6, AL7-ALI2) extending parallel to each other in a first area (Al) of the coil assembly, and adjacent superimposed linear portions (L7-L12, AL13-AL18) extending parallel to each other in a second area (A2) of the coil assembly, wherein a plurality of head portions (T) connect the linear portions of the first area (AI) to the linear portions of the second area (A2).

Abstract: A crimping die device (15) for a crimping press which includes a first movable pressing die (20), which is preferably essentially vertically movable, a first drive device (22), and the first drive device (22) comprises a first drive (23) as well as a base structure (17). Furthermore, a wedge flange (30) is present, which is movable and is connected to the first drive (23) of the first drive device (22). The invention furthermore relates to a crimping press with a crimping die device as well as a method for making a crimp connection with a crimping die device in a crimping press.

Abstract: A component mounting device configured to mount a component, which has a feature portion on an upper surface, on a board. The component mounting device picks up the component, images a lower surface of the picked-up component, temporarily loads the picked-up component on a target temporary loading position to a temporary loading stand which is corrected based on a pickup deviation amount of the component to be recognized based on a lower surface image of the imaged component. Subsequently, the component mounting device images an upper surface of the temporarily loaded component, picks up again the component which is temporarily loaded on the temporary loading stand, and images a lower surface of the re-picked up component. Then, the component mounting device mounts the re-picked up component on a target mounting position of the board corrected based on a positional deviation amount of the feature portion.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a stator or a rotor of an electrical machine, the steps of: modelling a plurality of model segments circumferentially joined together in such a way that two circumferentially adjacent model segments contacts each other at respective circumferential interfaces, the plurality of model segments including a plurality of model teeth interposed between a plurality of slots, manufacturing the segmented body in such a way that at least the two end slots are circumferentially shifted away from the circumferential interfaces of the respective model segment for creating respective gap portions of the circumferential gap, the sum of the circumferentially shifts of the at least two end slots being equal to the sum of the circumferential extensions of the gap portions, circumferentially joining the plurality of segments together in such a way that two gap portions of two adjacent segments forms the respective circumferential gap.

Abstract: A method for aligning a crimper of a first tool of a crimping press relative to an anvil of a second tool of the crimping press, wherein the crimper and the anvil make a crimp connection jointly by moving the crimper relative to the anvil in a first direction, includes: determining a lateral offset of a center line of the crimper to a center line of the anvil in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the center line of the crimper runs through a center of the crimper and in the first direction and wherein the center line of the anvil runs through a center of the anvil and in the first direction; and moving the crimper relative to the anvil in the second direction for lowering the lateral offset.

Abstract: A winding method for a stator module applicable to a motor having z slots, 2p poles, and m phases. The stator module includes a stator core and a winding coil. The winding coil is made of a flat wire. The winding method includes: forwardly winding some stator slots by means of the arrangement and connection of multiple U-shaped conductor sections, and then reversely winding the stator slots; afterwards, forwardly winding the remaining stator slots, and then reversely winding the stator slots; and cycling in this way.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil includes forming a wound body by winding a coil wire in multiple layers, and forming a coil by pressing the wound body using a die surrounding the wound body and compressively deforming the wound body. The wound body has a contour of a rectangular or substantially rectangular shape in cross section, and includes coil wire portions located in the cross section of the coil wire, the coil wire portions being aligned along each side of the rectangular or substantially rectangular shape. The coil has a contour of a fan shape or approximate fan shape in the cross section, where the coil wire portions are aligned in a direction along an arc and a radial direction of the fan shape or approximate fan shape.

Abstract: A grounding brush assembly includes a plurality of conductive fibers extending from at least one support, a mounting plate having a first side and a second side and an opening configured to surround a rotatable motor shaft having an axis of rotation, and a plurality of tabs disposed in a circle around the periphery. Each of the tabs extends axially from the first side of the mounting plate and radially toward or away from the axis of rotation to define with an adjacent portion of the first side of the mounting plate a U-shaped bracket. The at least one support is secured against the first side of the mounting plate by the plurality of tabs.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a motor jacket incorporating a stator includes: the step of inserting the stator into a hole in the jacket that has a diameter larger than the outer diameter of the stator; the step of introducing an elastic adhesive into a gap between a surface of the hole and the stator; and the step of cooling the jacket for a given time after introducing the adhesive into the gap.

Abstract: The mounting device comprises: a mounting head, having a pickup member picking up a component, which moves and places the component at a placement position by picking up the component with the pickup member from a supply section having a holding member holding the component; an imaging section configured to image the component held by the mounting head; and a control section configured to execute: a first placement process in which the component is picked up by the mounting head, positional deviation is corrected based on imaging results of the component captured by the imaging section, and the component is placed at the placement position, and a second placement process in which the component is placed at the placement position by omitting the imaging process by the imaging section at the mounting head when the positional deviation is within a predetermined allowable range.

Abstract: A device for soldering an electrical conductor with a connection device includes a base plate having a passageway and an anvil mounted on the base plate and at least partially housed in the passageway. The anvil is electrically insulated from the base plate and positioned to allow an electrical current to pass through the electrical conductor and/or the connection device.

Abstract: A method for assembling a camera suitable for use for a vision system of a vehicle includes providing a circuit board having first and second sides separated by a thickness dimension of the circuit board. An imager is disposed at the first side of the circuit board and solder pads are disposed at the second side of the circuit board. The solder pads are in electrical connection with circuitry of the circuit board. A coaxial connector is aligned at the solder pads at the second side of the circuit board. The coaxial connector is soldered at the second side of the circuit board via the solder pads. The solder pads may include a plurality of outer solder pads and at least one inner solder pad for connecting to respective contact portions of the coaxial connector.

Abstract: A connector support assembly is configured to securely retain a mating connector during an assembling process of an electrical connector. The connector support assembly includes a universal base, and a plurality of inserts configured to be interchangeably retained by the universal base. Each of the inserts includes a base connection interface that is configured to be retained by the universal base, and at least one shell connection interface. The shell connection interface(s) of at least two of the inserts are configured to retain different sized shells of different mating connectors.

Abstract: Provided is a method for determining the maximum number of constant tables at table locations in one or more pick-and-place lines for the placement of components on modules using pick-and-place machines, the fittings on the constant tables being used in all the fitting families of a pick-and-place line, one fitting family including a set of modules which can be produced on a pick-and-place line with a common component fitting, wherein the maximum number of constant tables is determined by calculation using mixed-integer liner optimization on the basis of input data describing the pick-and-place infrastructure, wherein the pick-and place infrastructure can include in particular the pick-and-place lines having the pick-and-place machines, each with pick-and-place head, at least one transport system for the modules, the said constant tables, and further tables which can be variably fitted.

Abstract: A method for forming the heads of coils made of rectangular wire so that it fits within the slots of the stator of an electric machine. The method includes receiving a coil having unformed first and second heads separated by first and second legs and applying controlled deformation to yield properly shaped heads. Actuators are provided for causing sequential actuated movements of one of the first and second legs to force the head-forming elements into contact with different portions of the first and second heads while allowing selective free movements of the other leg in response to the actuated movements.