Abstract: Hollow cylindrical dynamo-electric machine stator cores may be made by superimposing at least two strips of core material to produce a composite strip. One or more of the strips may be run through a pressure roller structure prior to super-positioning of the strips. The composite strip is coiled helically to produce the hollow cylindrical stator core. By pressure rolling at least one strip, the internal diameter of the stator core can be adjusted to reduce irregularities. By superimposing strips prior to coiling, thinner strips can be used without requiring the stator forming machine to operate longer or faster to produce stator cores of a given size. The pressure rolling aspects of the invention are also applicable to coiling apparatus that uses only a single strip. Stator cores may also be made by coaxially assembling and joining two coils with a hollow annular lamination disposed between the two axially spaced coils.

Abstract: Hollow cylindrical dynamo-electric machine stator cores may be made by superimposing at least two strips of core material to produce a composite strip. One or more of the strips may be run through a pressure roller structure prior to super-positioning of the strips. The composite strip is coiled helically to produce the hollow cylindrical stator core. By pressure rolling at least one strip, the internal diameter of the stator core can be adjusted to reduce irregularities. By superimposing strips prior to coiling, thinner strips can be used without requiring the stator forming machine to operate longer or faster to produce stator cores of a given size. The pressure rolling aspects of the invention are also applicable to coiling apparatus that uses only a single strip. Stator cores may also be made by coaxially assembling and joining two coils with a hollow annular lamination disposed between the two axially spaced coils.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, particularly those for use in the automotive field and of the type comprising turns defining a star-shaped configuration having a plurality of radial lobes alternated with hollows.

Abstract: Hollow cylindrical dynamo-electric machine stator cores may be made by superimposing at least two strips of core material to produce a composite strip. One or more of the strips may be run through a pressure roller structure prior to super-positioning of the strips. The one or more strips may contain internal apertures. The composite strip is coiled helically to produce the hollow cylindrical stator core. By pressure rolling at least one strip, the internal diameter of the stator core can be adjusted to reduce irregularities. By superimposing strips prior to coiling, thinner strips can be used without requiring the stator forming machine to operate longer or faster to produce stator cores of a given size, even though thinner strip material is being used. By using strips that contain internal apertures, unwanted deformations can be reduced. The pressure rolling aspects of the invention and the strips that may contain internal apertures are also applicable to coiling apparatus that uses only a single strip.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, particularly those for use in the automotive field and of the type comprising turns defining a star-shaped configuration having a plurality of radial lobes alternated with hollows.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, particularly those for use in the automotive field and of the type comprising turns defining a star-shaped configuration having a plurality of radial lobes alternated with hollows.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, particularly for use in the automotive field and of the type comprising turns defining a star-shaped configuration having a plurality of radial lobes alternated with hollows.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, particularly for use in the automotive field and of the type comprising turns defining a star-shaped configuration having a plurality of radial lobes alternated with hollows.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are presented for forming coils that are used for the winding of a stator of a dynamo-electric machine and for inserting those coils into slots of the stator. The apparatus includes a plurality of coiling stations that operate in a synchronously staggered manner and an inserting station. The coiling and inserting stations are equiangularly spaced apart from each other around a transfer station. Interposed between each coiling and inserting station and the transfer station is an exchange device that exchanges a coil-inserting tool at the coiling or inserting station with a coil-inserting tool at the transfer station.

Abstract: There are described a method and an apparatus for forming a multi-lobed winding for the stator of an alternator, in which two multi-lobed coils angularly shifted relative to each other are made with a continuous operation, without interrupting the wire being fed between one coil and the other, so that the final winding obtained there by has only two terminal ends.

Abstract: A plurality of phase insulators are inserted in the cavities of the stator of a dynamo-electric machine by means of an insertion device which includes a plurality of guide blades displaced circumferentially around a central axis and an insertion member slidable between the series of guide blades and having a circumferential series of axial grooves in its outer surface in which the various blades are engaged. The insertion member is disposed initially in a rest position in which it allows a phase insulator to be positioned above the guide blades, after which it is moved to an operative position so as to cause the phase insulators to slide along the guide blades and to be inserted in the cavities of the stator.

Abstract: A plurality of phase insulators are inserted in the cavities of the stator of a dynamo-electric machine by means of an insertion device which includes a plurality of guide blades displaced circumferentially around a central axis and an insertion member slidable between the series of guide blades and having a circumferential series of axial grooves in its outer surface in which the various blades are engaged. The insertion member is disposed initially in a rest position in which it allows a phase insulator to be positioned above the guide blades, after which it is moved to an operative position so as to cause the phase insulators to slide along the guide blades and to be inserted in the cavities of the stator.

Abstract: In a device for inserting prewound coils in the cavities of a stator of a dynamo-electric machine, of the type comprising an annular series of coil guide blades for receiving the prewound coils to be inserted in the cavities of the stator, an annular series of key guide blades surrounding the series of coil guide blades, and a thrust member slidable axially into the series of coil guide blades to insert the coils in the stator cavities, there are also provided an outer auxiliary coil guide member having an annular body locatable around the key guide blades and having an inner surface spaced from the outer surface of the key guide blades so as to define a first annular passage for guiding the coils during the insertion operation, and an inner auxiliary coil guide member movable with the thrust member into the series of coil guide blades and having an outer surface spaced from the inner surface of the coil guide blades so as to define a second annular passage for guiding the coils during the insertion operation

Abstract: A device usable in the manufacture of stators for dynamo-electric machines for fixing end portions of the coils of a stator to a support member carried by the stator comprises means for disposing the end portions of the stator coils in directions parallel to a plane substantially perpendicular to the axis of a stator and facing an end surface of the stator so as to make the end portions project outwardly from the stator, means for moving the end portions in the plane substantiallyperpendicular to the axis of the stator until they are brought into a zone of the end surface of the stator in which the support member is disposed, and means for thrusting the end portions downwardly to fit them into corresponding grooves provided in the support member.

Abstract: A device for inserting pre-wound coils into electric motors, the device having an annular series of coil-guide bars for receiving pre-wound coils for insertion into the slots of the stator, an annular series of key-guide bars surrounding the coil-guide bars and terminating a short distance beyond the free ends of the coil-guide bars, so as to permit the stator to bear on the free ends of the key-guide bars and surround the coil-guide bars with the pole faces of the stator in engagement with the external faces of the coil-guide bars. The device also has a pusher member slidable through the series of coil-guide bars to insert the coils in the stator slots. Each coil-guide bar engages the stator only in correspondence with the respective pole face and correct angular positioning of the stator with respect to the two series of bars is effected by orienting means, such as terminal projections on the key-guide bars, engageable with the sides of the stator slots.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming stator coils constituted by multi-lobed turns, for dynamo-electric machines, comprises a first circumferential series of forming elements located at equal distances from a central axis and equiangularly spaced from each other, and a second circumferential series of forming elements equiangularly located about the said central axis and intercalated between the forming elements of the first series. The forming elements of the second series are moveable radially relative to the said central axis between an outer position which is spaced from the central axis by a distance greater than the distance between the central axis and the forming elements of the first series, and an inner position which is spaced from the central axis by a distance less than the distance between the central axis and the elements of the first series.

Abstract: A method and a device for forming the rotor winding coils of a dynamoelectric machine and for anchoring the ends of the coils in slots provided in a commutator associated with the rotor. The method comprises the steps of winding a copper wire around pairs of rotor slots to form the various coils of the winding, inserting each coil end in a commutator slot, the starting end of each coil being inserted in the same slot as that in which the end of the previously wound coil is inserted, and bending the portion of copper wire that is adjacent the end of the coil and extends between the rotor and the commutator, towards the rotor shaft immediately before the insertion of each coil end in the corresponding commutator slot. The said step of insertion of each coil end in the corresponding commutator slot and the preceding step of bending the portion of copper wire adjacent the end of the coil towards the rotor shaft, are carried out during the winding of the wire in the rotor slots.

Abstract: A device of the known type comprising an annular series of coil-guide blades intended to receive pre-wound coils to be inserted into stator slots, an annular series of wedge-guide blades surrounding the series of coil-guide blades and terminating a short distance before the free ends of the coil-guide blades in such a way as to allow the stator to rest on the free ends of the wedge-guide blades by disposing it about the coil-guide blades and a thrust member which is slidable through the series of coil-guide blades for inserting the coils into the stator slots. The wedge-guide blades are axially displaceable in the direction opposite their free ends, against the action of resilient means. Due to this characteristic, when the stator is pressed on the free ends of the wedge-guide blades and fixed in position for the insertion of the coils, the said free ends of the wedge-guide blades are automatically disposed at a distance from the free ends of the coil guide blades corresponding to the length of the stator.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming stator coils, of undulatory type, constituted by multi-lobed turns, for dynamo electric machines comprises a first circumferential series of forming elements located at equal distances from a central axis and equiangularly spaced from each other, and a second circumferential series of forming elements equiangularly located about the central axis and intercalated between the forming elements of the first series. The forming elements of the second series are movable radially relative to the central axis between an outer position, which is spaced from the central axis by a distance greater than the distance of the forming elements of the first series from the central axis, and an inner position which is spaced from the central axis by a distance less than the distance between the forming elements of the first series and the central axis.

Abstract: A device for placing prewound coils into stator slots comprises an annular series of fingers housed in respective longitudinal grooves of the outer surface of a hollow cylindrical finger holder. The fingers project beyond one end of the holder for placement thereon of prewound coils. A stripper member axially movable through the stator is provided on its periphery with a series of longitudinal grooves in which the portion of each finger which projects beyond the holder is received. Some fingers, and preferably at least one or both fingers of each couple of adjacent fingers between which a prewound coil is interposed is slidably mounted both within said stripper member and within said holder.