Abstract: A joining method for coil ends includes: pressing a pair of tapered portions such that a pair of first pressing jigs provided with a pair of detent portions is brought closer to the coil ends along an axial direction of the stator core, the pair of detent portions being fitted to the tapered portions; fixing axial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of detent portions is fitted to the pair of tapered portions so that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched in a circumferential direction; fixing radial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched by a pair of second pressing jigs so that the tapered portions of the pair of tapered portions make contact with each other; and welding a contacting portion where the tapered portions make contact with each other.

Abstract: A coil end bending jig pushes down a plurality of coil ends of coil segments held by a toric stator core, the plurality of coil ends being arranged on a same circumference. The coil end bending jig includes a plurality of bending units each having a bending tooth that makes contact with a corresponding one of the coil ends, and a guide member having a plurality of guiding slits into which the plurality of bending units is inserted, respectively. The plurality of guiding slits extends from an inner peripheral side of the stator core to an outer peripheral side of the stator core so as not to intersect with each other when viewed from an axial direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A joining method for coil ends includes: pressing a pair of tapered portions such that a pair of first pressing jigs provided with a pair of detent portions is brought closer to the coil ends along an axial direction of the stator core, the pair of detent portions being fitted to the tapered portions; fixing axial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of detent portions is fitted to the pair of tapered portions so that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched in a circumferential direction; fixing radial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched by a pair of second pressing jigs so that the tapered portions of the pair of tapered portions make contact with each other; and welding a contacting portion where the tapered portions make contact with each other.

Abstract: A coil bending machine is a machine that, in a stator core including a yoke and multiple teeth and having a slot formed between circumferentially adjacent teeth, while lead portions of a segment coil which is a U-shaped lead wire including a bent portion K and two lead portions R extending from the bent portion are inserted into two slots, push-bends end portions of the lead portions protruding from an axial end face of the stator core toward the stator core. The coil bending machine includes a coil bending member that push-bends the end portions of the lead portions protruding from the axial end face of the stator core toward the stator core, and a coil pressing mechanism that press-fixes a segment coil inside the slot toward the yoke, from the radially inner side of the stator core.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coated conducting wire assembly includes forming a conducting wire assembly by twist-deforming a conducting wire bundle, forming a coated conducting wire assembly by covering the conducting wire assembly with an insulation coating, and annealing the coated conducting wire assembly. The conducting wire bundle is formed by bundling a plurality of conducting wires. The conducting wire assembly includes a parallel portion, a left-wound portion, and a right-wound portion. The annealing is performed by heating and holding the coated conducting wire assembly at an annealing temperature while applying tension to the covered conducting wire assembly.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a segment coil according to the invention includes forming an assembled wire by bundling a plurality of element wires, forming a stranded wire by twisting the assembled wire, forming a rectangular conductor by rolling the stranded wire, and forming a segment coil by cutting the rectangular conductor into a given length and bending the cut rectangular conductor. Before the rectangular conductor is bent, the plurality of element wires is fastened at a position where the coil end portion of the segment coil is formed.

Abstract: A stator coil includes a plurality of flat wire-shaped coil pieces extending in a circumferential direction of a rotary electric machine at a position on an outer side of a stator core in an axial direction of the rotary electric machine. At the position on the outer side of the stator core in the axial direction, a distal end portion of one of the coil pieces, extending in a first direction in the circumferential direction, is joined with a distal end portion of another one of the coil pieces, extending in a second direction in the circumferential direction. The second direction in the circumferential direction is reverse to the first direction in the circumferential direction. An axially outer end face of the distal end portion of each coil piece is a circular arc face that is convex toward the outer side in the axial direction.

Abstract: In a method for producing a rotor including a leak prevention hole formed in a rotor core to prevent leakage of magnetic flux from a permanent magnet; an outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed in an outer-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole, an inner-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed, opposite the outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove, in an inner-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole; and a non-magnetic bridge having both end portions engageable with the dovetail grooves, an external force is applied to bring the outer-circumferential-side inner wall close to the inner-circumferential-side inner wall, the non-magnetic bridge is inserted in the dovetail grooves while keeping the rotor core in an elastically deformed state, and, after inserting, the external force is released.

Abstract: In a rotor structure including a leak prevention hole formed in a rotor core to prevent leakage of magnetic flux from a permanent magnet; an outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed in an outer-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole, an inner-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed, opposite the outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove, in an inner-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole; and a non-magnetic bridge having both end portions engageable with the dovetail grooves. The non-magnetic bridge is formed with a chamfer at only one end face of both end faces in an axial direction of the rotor core. The non-magnetic bridge includes two or more non-magnetic bridges. The non-magnetic bridges are arranged so that the end faces formed with the chamfers are alternately located at the one end face of the rotor core.

Abstract: A joining method for coil ends includes: pressing a pair of tapered portions such that a pair of first pressing jigs provided with a pair of detent portions is brought closer to the coil ends along an axial direction of the stator core, the pair of detent portions being fitted to the tapered portions; fixing axial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of detent portions is fitted to the pair of tapered portions so that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched in a circumferential direction; fixing radial positions of the pair of tapered portions such that the pair of tapered portions is sandwiched by a pair of second pressing jigs so that the tapered portions of the pair of tapered portions make contact with each other; and welding a contacting portion where the tapered portions make contact with each other.

Abstract: A coil end bending jig pushes down a plurality of coil ends of coil segments held by a toric stator core, the plurality of coil ends being arranged on a same circumference. The coil end bending jig includes a plurality of bending units each having a bending tooth that makes contact with a corresponding one of the coil ends, and a guide member having a plurality of guiding slits into which the plurality of bending units is inserted, respectively. The plurality of guiding slits extends from an inner peripheral side of the stator core to an outer peripheral side of the stator core so as not to intersect with each other when viewed from an axial direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A stator coil forming method includes a bending step of bending portions of a linear lead wire so as to form bent portions; a cutting step of cutting curve parts of the bent portions thus formed, along a perpendicular plane that is approximately perpendicular to an extending direction of the lead wire so as to form coil segments; a U-shape forming step of bending the coil segments in a U-shape; an assembling step of assembling the coil segments to respective slots of a stator core; a tilting step of tilting both distal ends of the coil segments in a circumferential direction of the stator core so that cut surfaces of the distal ends are oriented toward a central-axis direction of the stator core; and a joining step of joining the distal ends of the coil segments adjacent to each other in a radial direction of the stator core.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coated conducting wire assembly includes forming a conducting wire assembly by twist-deforming a conducting wire bundle, forming a coated conducting wire assembly by covering the conducting wire assembly with an insulation coating, and annealing the coated conducting wire assembly. The conducting wire bundle is formed by bundling a plurality of conducting wires. The conducting wire assembly includes a parallel portion, a left-wound portion, and a right-wound portion. The annealing is performed by heating and holding the coated conducting wire assembly at an annealing temperature while applying tension to the covered conducting wire assembly.

Abstract: A manufacturing method and apparatus of insulation coated conducting wire insulation coats a conducting wire having a polygonal cross-sectional shape, by extruding molten resin from an annular discharge hole formed between a nipple and a die that encircles the nipple, while passing the conducting wire through a hole provided in the nipple. The annular discharge hole has a polygonal annular shape substantially similar to the cross-sectional shape of the conducting wire.

Abstract: In a rotor structure including a leak prevention hole formed in a rotor core to prevent leakage of magnetic flux from a permanent magnet; an outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed in an outer-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole, an inner-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed, opposite the outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove, in an inner-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole; and a non-magnetic bridge having both end portions engageable with the dovetail grooves. The non-magnetic bridge is formed with a chamfer at only one end face of both end faces in an axial direction of the rotor core. The non-magnetic bridge includes two or more non-magnetic bridges. The non-magnetic bridges are arranged so that the end faces formed with the chamfers are alternately located at the one end face of the rotor core.

Abstract: In a method for producing a rotor including a leak prevention hole formed in a rotor core to prevent leakage of magnetic flux from a permanent magnet; an outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed in an outer-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole, an inner-circumferential-side dovetail groove formed, opposite the outer-circumferential-side dovetail groove, in an inner-circumferential-side inner wall of the leak prevention hole; and a non-magnetic bridge having both end portions engageable with the dovetail grooves, an external force is applied to bring the outer-circumferential-side inner wall close to the inner-circumferential-side inner wall, the non-magnetic bridge is inserted in the dovetail grooves while keeping the rotor core in an elastically deformed state, and, after inserting, the external force is released.

Abstract: A software updating method for updating software stored as compressed code in a nonvolatile memory provided in a portable terminal on the basis of differential data via wireless communication includes the steps of providing a file system area having a fault-tolerant property; decompressing, at the execution of software updating, the compressed code of the software and loading the decompressed code into a random-access memory; updating the software in the random-access memory on the basis of the differential data; compressing the updated software; and storing a backup of a compressed updated code sequence corresponding to a compressed updated portion of the compressed updated software in the file system area and then writing the compressed updated code sequence corresponding to the compressed updated portion of the compressed updated software back to the nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a segment coil according to the invention includes forming an assembled wire by bundling a plurality of element wires, forming a stranded wire by twisting the assembled wire, forming a rectangular conductor by rolling the stranded wire, and forming a segment coil by cutting the rectangular conductor into a given length and bending the cut rectangular conductor. Before the rectangular conductor is bent, the plurality of element wires is fastened at a position where the coil end portion of the segment coil is formed.

Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a content analysis unit configured to analyze a display range of an object included in content displayed in a plurality of displays, and an image processing unit configured to generate drawing information for drawing the object and to transmit the drawing information to only an apparatus responsible for display processing in at least one of the displays that includes the display range acquired through the analysis by the content analysis unit.

Abstract: A portable terminal includes: a storage unit for storing at least a first program and software converting data to convert the first program into a second program; a storage control unit to perform reading and writing of the program and data as to the storage unit; a software converting processing unit to execute processing that converts the first program into the second program, using the first program and software converting data read by the storage control unit from the storage unit; and a terminal starting control unit to execute at the time of terminal startup one or the other of starting up the first program, and starting up the converting processing from the first program to the second program by the program converting processing unit and the second program that has been converted.