Abstract: A laminated iron core manufacturing apparatus for laminating a plurality of punched members obtained by punching a plate-shaped member, including: a convey unit conveys the plate-shaped member; a lifter supports the plate-shaped member; a liquid material supply unit adheres a liquid material to regions to be the punched members of one main surface of the plate-shaped member; and a punching unit to punches the plate-shaped member after the liquid material is applied to form the punched members. The liquid material supply unit adheres the liquid material to the plate-shaped member while avoiding, in the regions to be the punched members in the plate-shaped member, a contact region where the lifter on a downstream side of an adhesion location of the liquid material in the liquid material supply unit and on an upstream side of the punching unit comes into contact with the plate-shaped member.

Abstract: A stator core comprises a stack and a resin portion. The stack comprises an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, and a plurality of slots. The resin portion covers an inner wall surface of a slot of the plurality of slots. The resin portion protrudes outward relative to an end surface of the stack in a height direction of the stack. The resin portion is formed on at least a part of an end surface of the tooth portion so as to extend from the inner wall surface of the slot around the end surface of the tooth portion. A resin end portion of the resin portion is disposed on the end surface of the stack and a corner of the resin end portion is formed as an inclined surface including a planar surface or curved surface.

Abstract: An annular core piece in which an annular core piece can be received inside a contour of an outer circumstance of the annular core piece and the number of recesses formed on the outer circumstance is small is provided. In an annular core piece including a plurality of recesses opened in an outer circumferential part, the recess includes a narrowed part and a raised part, and a transverse width of the narrowed part is made narrower than a transverse width of a different region present on a side of a bottom of the recess further beyond the narrowed part, and the raised part is formed such that a part of the bottom of the recess is raised and projected toward an opening end of the recess.

Abstract: A stator core comprises a stack and a resin portion. The stack comprises an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, and a plurality of slots. The resin portion covers an inner wall surface of a slot of the plurality of slots. The resin portion protrudes outward relative to an end surface of the stack in a height direction of the stack. The resin portion is formed on at least a part of an end surface of the tooth portion so as to extend from the inner wall surface of the slot around the end surface of the tooth portion. A resin end portion of the resin portion is disposed on the end surface of the stack and a corner of the resin end portion is formed as an inclined surface including a planar surface or curved surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stacked stator core comprises forming a stack that comprises an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, and a plurality of slots. The method further comprises inserting a mold core member of the plurality of mold core members into a slot of the plurality of slots, the mold core member comprising a body portion and a closing portion connected to the body portion, the body portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the slot and spaced apart from an inner wall surface of the slot, the closing portion being positioned on a slot opening side of the slot and closing an open end portion of the slot on the slot opening side. Additionally, the method comprises forming a resin portion by charging a melted resin into a filling space between the slot and the mold core member.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stacked core includes: forming a stack by stacking a plurality of core members, each of the plurality of core members including one or more blanked members blanked by a die from a metal plate along a predetermined shape; removing one core member of the plurality of core members from the stack; supplying adhesive to the one core member removed from the stack; and stacking the one core member next to an adjacent core member of the plurality of core members so that the adhesive is placed between the one core member and the adjacent core member.

Abstract: A heat-treatment apparatus includes a casing, a loader which loads a workpiece to an inner part of the casing in order to apply a heat-treatment to the workpiece, and a canopy surface provided in the casing to cover the workpiece. The canopy surface includes a slope way with a sectional configuration where the canopy surface is cut on a plane vertical to a conveying direction of the workpiece inside the casing. The slope way includes a highest point and a downward inclined surface extending from the highest point to an outside of a zone between a perpendicular line extending from a left end of the workpiece and a perpendicular line extending from a right end of the workpiece.

Abstract: In a laminated iron core formed by laminating a plurality of iron core pieces, at least one of an inner circumferential portion or an outer circumferential portion of the iron core piece is provided with a connection recess part which is connected with a connection part of a caulking piece detachable in a radial direction from the connection recess part, an outer circumferential edge of the connection part has the same shape as an inner circumferential edge of the connection recess part, and a bottom portion of the connection recess part is not configured by a single straight line.

Abstract: A laminated iron core is made of a stator iron core formed by laminating a plurality of iron core pieces with a predetermined shape, and a caulking block detachable along a radial direction is formed in each of the iron core pieces. In a method for manufacturing the laminated iron core, the caulking block detachable along the radial direction is provided in each of the iron core pieces, and the iron core pieces are laminated and joined through the caulking blocks and are arranged on a jig and then, the caulking blocks are pulled in the radial direction and are detached from the laminated iron core pieces, and the laminated iron core pieces are joined by a resin.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stack includes a sequence of operations including separating a sheet from a temporary stack of sheets, rotating the sheet after it has been separated, and applying an adhesive to the sheet, while it is being rotated, by dispensing the adhesive to a surface of the sheet by at least one dispenser and restacking a plurality of the sheets, to which the adhesive was applied by repeating the sequence of operations, to form a manufactured stack of sheets.

Abstract: An annular core piece in which an annular core piece can be received inside a contour of an outer circumstance of the annular core piece and the number of recesses formed on the outer circumstance is small is provided. In an annular core piece including a plurality of recesses opened in an outer circumferential part, the recess includes a narrowed part and a raised part, and a transverse width of the narrowed part is made narrower than a transverse width of a different region present on a side of a bottom of the recess further beyond the narrowed part, and the raised part is formed such that a part of the bottom of the recess is raised and projected toward an opening end of the recess.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stacked stator core comprises forming a stack that comprises an annular yoke portion, a plurality of tooth portions, and a plurality of slots. The method further comprises inserting a mold core member of the plurality of mold core members into a slot of the plurality of slots, the mold core member comprising a body portion and a closing portion connected to the body portion, the body portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the slot and spaced apart from an inner wall surface of the slot, the closing portion being positioned on a slot opening side of the slot and closing an open end portion of the slot on the slot opening side. Additionally, the method comprises forming a resin portion by charging a melted resin into a filling space between the slot and the mold core member.

Abstract: In a cross sectional plane perpendicular to a center axis line of an annular core, a connection projection and a connection recess have complementary configurations in which the connection projection and the connection recess are narrowed in width with distance from coupling surfaces, the connection projection and the connection recess respectively include a pair of friction surfaces and a pair of friction surfaces extending in a direction separate from the coupling surfaces, the friction surface of the connection projection is inclined relative to a virtual normal line perpendicular to a line connecting bottom portions of the pair of friction surfaces of the connection projection, and the friction surface of the connection recess is inclined relative to a virtual normal line perpendicular to a line connecting bottom portions of the pair of friction surfaces of the connection recess.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stacked core includes: forming a stack by stacking a plurality of core members, each of the plurality of core members including one or more blanked members blanked by a die from a metal plate along a predetermined shape; removing one core member of the plurality of core members from the stack; supplying adhesive to the one core member removed from the stack; and stacking the one core member next to an adjacent core member of the plurality of core members so that the adhesive is placed between the one core member and the adjacent core member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated core includes a laminating process of obtaining a laminate in which a plurality of core pieces are laminated, and a welding process of forming a weld bead which extends in a thickness direction of the laminate on a side surface of the laminate. In the welding process, a heat input when a center portion in a longitudinal direction of the weld bead is formed is greater than a heat input when an end portion of the weld bead is formed.

Abstract: A tray is provided for conveying a workpiece placed on the tray inside a heat treatment furnace. The tray includes plural kinds of positional displacement regulating parts for respectively regulating horizontal positional displacements of plural kinds of workpieces with different sizes, wherein the plural kinds of positional displacement regulating parts are arranged concentrically in a plane shape.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a segmented laminated core is provided. This method includes (A) feeding a metal sheet to a progressive die, (B) stamping out workpieces in the progressive die, workpieces each include a plurality of pieces aligned in the circumferential direction with a circumferential part, and (C) fastening the workpieces together to obtain a segmented laminated core. The step (B) includes (b1) performing cutting-and-bending processing to form a slit line and a bending line across a region configured to be the circumferential part, (b2) returning by push-back a bent part that is a portion between the slit line and the bending line to an original position, and (b3) forming a swaged portion on the bent part. The step (C) includes (c1) fastening the workpieces by the swaged portion.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a workpiece for a segmented laminated core. This method includes (A) feeding a plate for processing drawn from a roll thereof to a progressive die and (B) stamping out a workpiece in the progressive die, the workpiece including a plurality of pieces aligned in the circumferential direction with a circumferential part. At the step (B), an overall portion configured to be each piece of the workpiece is displaced in the thickness direction of the plate for processing, with portions on both sides of the piece being fixed, to form at least one cutting line across a region configured to be the circumferential part.

Abstract: In a laminated iron core formed by laminating a plurality of iron core pieces, at least one of an inner circumferential portion or an outer circumferential portion of the iron core piece is provided with a connection recess part which is connected with a connection part of a caulking piece detachable in a radial direction from the connection recess part, an outer circumferential edge of the connection part has the same shape as an inner circumferential edge of the connection recess part, and a bottom portion of the connection recess part is not configured by a single straight line.

Abstract: A laminated iron core includes laminated iron core pieces, in which coupling parts are formed so as to communicate in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core pieces, and the coupling parts are filled with resins. The laminated iron core satisfies the following formula: (T×S)/?>{(4×E×?×w×t3)/L3}×n, where T is a strength (N/mm2) of the resin; S is a cross-sectional area (mm2) of the coupling part or the resin; E is a Young's modulus (N/mm2) of the strip material; ? is a distortion amount (mm) of the iron core piece; w is a width (mm) of the iron core piece in a radial direction; t is a plate thickness (mm) of the iron core piece; n is the number of laminated iron core pieces; L is a distance (mm) between the coupling parts adjacent in the circumferential direction; and ? is a safety factor.