Abstract: A holder for positioning ends of coil conductors constituting a coil of a stator, wherein the ends of the coil conductors protrude in an axial direction and are arranged in the circumferential direction so as to form a row in the radial direction, comprises positioning members each configured to rotate about the radial direction as a rotation axis to bring a section of a positioning portion extending to the one side in contact with the ends forming the rows on one side in the circumferential direction, bring a section of the positioning portion extending to another side in contact with the ends forming the rows on another side, and thereby position the ends forming the rows together with the positioning portion of another adjacent positioning member.

Abstract: A method for shaping a wire material that moves from the upstream side to the downstream side includes a first step of feeding the wire material while pressing the wire material by a first roller group including a plurality of rollers driven by a motor and a second step of feeding the wire material while pressing the wire material by a second roller group including a plurality of rotatably supported rollers. The first step is provided upstream side of the second step, and a push-in amount that is the difference between the outer dimension of the wire material and the gap between rollers through which the wire material passes is larger in the first step than in the second step.

Abstract: A stator for a rotating electric machine includes: a stator core provided with slots arranged in a circumferential direction such that the slots are formed in two or more layers in a radial direction; and coils each having an inserted portion positioned inside the slots, and terminal end portions protruding from one end side and another end side of the stator core in an axial direction; wherein the coils include first coils formed to have a straight-line shape at their terminal end portions, second coils inclined in the circumferential direction at a predetermined angle with respect to an end face of the stator core at the one end side or the other end side of the terminal end portions, and third coils inclined in the circumferential direction at a predetermined angle with respect to the end face of the stator core at the one end side and the other end side of the terminal end portions, and the first coils, the second coils, and the third coils are connected to each other at their respective end portions to f

Abstract: Provided is a stator core of a rotating electrical machine in which a core back and teeth are formed by laminating a plurality of thin steel plates with an adhesive interposed therebetween. The stator core includes a first stator core that is formed by applying the adhesive to a first region covering the core back and the teeth between the plurality of thin steel plates, and a second stator core that is formed by applying the adhesive to a second region, which has an area smaller than an area of the first region, between the plurality of thin steel plates. The first stator core is disposed at least at one end of the stator core in a laminating direction of the thin steel plates.

Abstract: The reliability of a rotating electrical machine is improved. A method for manufacturing a stator used in a rotating electrical machine includes: a first step of arranging a first segment coil and a second segment coil to face each other; a second step of processing the first segment coil to generate a bridge part that comes into contact with the second segment coil; and a third step of joining the bridge part and the second segment coil by laser welding.

Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected at coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.

Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected at coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.

Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected at coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.

Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped. portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected cit coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a stator that has a stator core and a stator coil; and a rotor disposed rotatably on an inner circumferential side of the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of slots opening on the inner circumferential side and the slots are each formed as an open slot with a width of an inner circumferential-side opening thereof ranging along a circumferential direction set substantially equal to or greater than a width of a bottom side measured along the circumferential direction. The stator further includes a slot insulator disposed between inner wall of each of the slots at the stator core and the stator coil and a holding member constituted with a nonmagnetic material and inserted in each of the slots at the stator core so as to hold the slot insulator between two side surfaces present along the circumferential direction at the slot. The stator is formed by winding the stator coil through the plurality of slots.

Abstract: A motion detection apparatus includes a CPU. The CPU detects partial motion vectors of an object scene corresponding to motion detection blocks based on raw image data. The CPU also reduces a weighted amount allocated to a motion detection block which captures a partial object scene having a contrast below a reference out of the motion detection blocks. Furthermore, the CPU performs a weighted average process referring to the weighted amount on the partial motion vectors so as to detect a motion of the entire object scene. The CPU obtains a minimum correlation value of a luminance difference between frames of the raw image data corresponding to each of the motion detection blocks, and executes a process for increasing the reference according to an increase of the obtained minimum correlation value corresponding to the motion detection block which captures the partial object scene having a contrast below the reference.

Abstract: An image composing apparatus includes a first accumulator which repeatedly accumulates a moving amount of an imaging surface in one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. A first determiner repeatedly determines whether or not a movement of the imaging surface in another of the horizontal direction and the vertical direction satisfies a taking condition, in a period during which an accumulated value of the first accumulator belongs to a predetermined range. A second determiner repeatedly determines whether or not the accumulated value of the first accumulator reaches an upper limit of the predetermined range. A taker takes, for image composing, a scene image produced on the imaging surface corresponding to updating from a negative result to a positive result on a determined result of the first determiner and/or the second determiner. A restarter restarts the first accumulator in association with a taking process of the taker.

Abstract: The power distribution unit for a rotary electric machine includes a connecting ring unit that connects stator coils of the same phase. The connecting ring unit includes at least one linear conductor integrally formed in a ring-like shape, and the connecting ring unit includes a terminal section integrally formed in the linear conductor. The terminal section is constituted by a hole through which a wiring end of the stator coil is inserted and a protrusion formed in a direction of the hole to which the wiring end of the stator coil is connected. Also disclosed are a rotary electric machine includes the power distribution unit and a method for assembling a rotary electric machine.

Abstract: A motion detection apparatus includes a CPU. The CPU detects partial motion vectors of an object scene corresponding to motion detection blocks based on raw image data. The CPU also reduces a weighted amount allocated to a motion detection block which captures a partial object scene having a contrast below a reference out of the motion detection blocks. Furthermore, the CPU performs a weighted average process referring to the weighted amount on the partial motion vectors so as to detect a motion of the entire object scene. The CPU obtains a minimum correlation value of a luminance difference between frames of the raw image data corresponding to each of the motion detection blocks, and executes a process for increasing the reference according to an increase of the obtained minimum correlation value corresponding to the motion detection block which captures the partial object scene having a contrast below the reference.

Abstract: A video camera includes an LCD monitor. On the LCD monitor, an object scene image belonging to a camera-shake correction area out of the object scene image captured by an imaging surface is displayed. A CPU determines whether or not a movement of the object scene image captured by the imaging surface satisfies a pan/tilt condition or a camera-shake condition referring to a threshold value. The threshold value is set to a large numerical value as a zoom magnification is high. A camera-shake condition determining process is started in place of a pan/tilt condition determining process when the pan/tilt condition is satisfied. Also, the pan/tilt condition determining process is started in place of the camera-shake condition determining process when the camera-shake condition is satisfied. In addition, the camera-shake correction area is moved in such a direction as to cancel the movement of the object scene image captured by the imaging surface when the pan/tilt condition is not satisfied.

Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a stator that has a stator core and a stator coil; and a rotor disposed rotatably on an inner circumferential side of the stator core. The stator core includes a plurality of slots opening on the inner circumferential side and the slots are each formed as an open slot with a width of an inner circumferential-side opening thereof ranging along a circumferential direction set substantially equal to or greater than a width of a bottom side measured along the circumferential direction. The stator further includes a slot insulator disposed between inner wall of each of the slots at the stator core and the stator coil and a holding member constituted with a nonmagnetic material and inserted in each of the slots at the stator core so as to hold the slot insulator between two side surfaces present along the circumferential direction at the slot. The stator is formed by winding the stator coil through the plurality of slots.

Abstract: The power distribution unit for a rotary electric machine includes a connecting ring unit that connects stator coils of the same phase. The connecting ring unit includes at least one linear conductor integrally formed in a ring-like shape, and the connecting ring unit includes a terminal section integrally formed in the linear conductor. The terminal section is constituted by a hole through which a wiring end of the stator coil is inserted and a protrusion formed in a direction of the hole to which the wiring end of the stator coil is connected. Also disclosed are a rotary electric machine includes the power distribution unit and a method for assembling a rotary electric machine.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention comprises steps of: (1) preforming a coil including a plurality of element coils of an insulated conductor; (2) inserting a first side of a first element coil of the element coils into a first slot of a stator core through an opening of the first slot; (3) inserting a second side of the first element coil into a second slot in which a first side of a second element coil of the element coil has been already inserted; (4) electrically connecting coil ends of a plurality of the coils to each other; and (5) rotatably mounting a rotor inside the stator core.

Abstract: A digital camera showing on a display a graphical user interface having a first display portion for inputting priority ratio of high speed in access to an external memory card to recordable capacity in formatting the external memory card, a second display portion for showing a cluster size, and a third display portion for showing the number of images recordable to the external memory card. The recording medium is formatted with the cluster size shown on the second display portion in response to the user's manipulation.

Abstract: A video camera includes an LCD monitor. On the LCD monitor, an object scene image belonging to a camera-shake correction area out of the object scene image captured by an imaging surface is displayed. A CPU determines whether or not a movement of the object scene image captured by the imaging surface satisfies a pan/tilt condition or a camera-shake condition referring to a threshold value. The threshold value is set to a large numerical value as a zoom magnification is high. A camera-shake condition determining process is started in place of a pan/tilt condition determining process when the pan/tilt condition is satisfied. Also, the pan/tilt condition determining process is started in place of the camera-shake condition determining process when the camera-shake condition is satisfied. In addition, the camera-shake correction area is moved in such a direction as to cancel the movement of the object scene image captured by the imaging surface when the pan/tilt condition is not satisfied.