Abstract: A stator bar installation fixture and method for installing stator bars into specific stator core slots within a stator core of rotating electrical equipment. The stator bar installation fixture includes rotating mechanisms, rotatingly fixed at each end of the rotating electrical equipment, for supporting and controlling an angular positioning of a stator bar insertion mechanism relative to the stator core. The stator bar insertion mechanism supports a stator bar within the stator core, angularly locates a stator bar in alignment with the specific stator core slot, and inserts the stator bar into the specific stator core slot.

Abstract: A fixing apparatus of the present invention for an electronic induction heating system includes a heat roller and a magnetic excitation coil that generates Joule heat within the heat roller. The fixing apparatus includes a coil positioner that positions the magnetic excitation coil around a portion of a periphery of the heat roller, a fixing roller that fixes toner image on a recording medium, and a belt that contacts a portion of a periphery of the heat roller and the fixing roller to conduct the generated heat from the heat roller to the fixing roller. The coil positioner further has a surface of first curvature substantially identical to a curvature of a periphery of the heat roller at an opposition area, the opposition area being opposite to a contact area where the heat roller makes contact with the belt. The coil positioner is spaced from the belt by a predetermined distance.

Abstract: A device for holding electrical wires that supply power to an in-wheel motor. A clamp for restricting movement of the electrical wires only in a longitudinal direction is provided to a front area in which the electrical wires fixed at one ends to the motor are bent at about 90°. A fixing member for fixing the rotation and longitudinal movement of the wires is provided in proximity to the power source.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for making a customized stent or stent graft, including the steps of obtaining a digital image of the endoluminal shape of an artery or the blood flow channel of an aneurysm, processing the obtained image to create a three dimensional model of the shape or channel, and fabricating a scaffold around the model such that the scaffold substantially conforms to the model.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for forming a wire to include coil segments useable in a dynamoelectric machine, the apparatus including a plurality of forming structures simultaneously moveable along an axis into a coil segment forming configuration, with at least a number of the plurality of forming structures being configured to hold a wire, and at least one actuating device associated with at least a number of the plurality of forming structures and configured to simultaneously move the number of the plurality of forming structures into the coil segment forming configuration.

Abstract: A coil for use in a medical device. The coil includes a plurality of coil windings or turns, wherein adjacent coil windings are connected together at a plurality of discrete connection locations to increase the torsional rigidity and torque transmitting properties of the coil without sacrificing the flexibility characteristics of the coil. In some embodiments the coil may be a wave wound coil, such as a nested wave wound coil or a crest-to-crest wave wound coil.

Abstract: A coil forming and insertion apparatus includes plural coil winding frames, a winding jig for forming a multipole coil, plural coil receiving portions, and an inserter jig for inserting and arranging the multipole coil in slots of a stator core. The coil forming and insertion apparatus has each coil receiving portion opposed to a coil winding frame, the multipole coil is formed by connecting the monopole coils wound on the coil winding frames and the multipole coil is transferred from the winding jig to the inserter jig.

Abstract: A reconfigurable harness board system and method is provided for assembling a wire harness for an electrical panel and comprises a plurality of sub-harness modules. Each module defines a template for a wire harness for a select electrical component for the electrical panel. Select ones of the sub-harness modules are mounted to a frame in a select orientation corresponding to layout of electrical components for the electrical panel to create a harness board for assembling a wire harness for the electrical panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus for manufacturing a harness of segments of electrically conductive wire, the harness including a connector and the apparatus including a harness support that is elongate along an axis; the apparatus further includes a connector support (100) fitted with members (101, 102, 109) for fastening the connector to the connector support.

Abstract: A medical apparatus is fabricated by providing a coil that has a plurality of primary loops along a longitudinal direction, and for each of one or more of the primary loops, forming one or more secondary loops on the primary loop.

Abstract: A stator manufacturing device including a winding unit for forming a winding coil made up of a plurality of unipolar coils formed by winding wire, an insertion unit for receiving the winding coil from the winding unit and inserting the winding coil into a stator core, a shaping unit for shaping an outline of the winding coil that has been inserted into the stator core, and a transfer unit that is movable towards the insertion unit and the shaping unit, such that, in a state of holding the stator core, the transfer unit, by relatively moving to the insertion unit, moves the winding coil into a position for insertion into the stator core, and, by moving relative to the shaping unit, forms an outline of the winding coil.

Abstract: A method for bending strands of material. The method includes providing a first pair of opposing dies each comprising a first surface corresponding to a first pair of predetermined bends to be formed in a first strand of material, positioning the first strand of material at least partially between the first pair of opposing dies, moving the first pair of opposing dies with respect to one another to impart the first pair of predetermined bends in the first strand of material, providing a second pair of opposing dies each comprising a second surface corresponding to a second pair of predetermined bends to be formed in a second strand of material, positioning the second strand of material at least partially between the second pair of opposing dies, and moving the second pair of opposing dies with respect to one another to impart the second pair of predetermined bends in the second strand of material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least one winding of an electrical machine that has a plurality of poles, in particular of a motor generator, preferably for a hybrid drive of a motor vehicle, the winding being formed by winding parts connected in parallel and each pole being associated with at least one groove set that is associated with the winding parts and comprises a plurality of grooves which have different circumferential angle positions relative to the associated pole, grooves with the same circumferential angle position forming equivalent grooves and each winding part of the winding being wound with the same number of windings in equivalent grooves. The invention also relates to a corresponding winding.

Abstract: A device for holding electrical wires that supply power to an in-wheel motor. A clamp for restricting movement of the electrical wires only in a longitudinal direction is provided to a front area in which the electrical wires fixed at one ends to the motor are bent at about 90°. A fixing member for fixing the rotation and longitudinal movement of the wires is provided in proximity to the power source.

Abstract: A plurality of single-pole coils are retained by a coil retaining device, the single-pole coils are arranged such that the coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil confront the inner circumference openings of the slots and may be generally parallel to the axial direction of the motor core, each single-pole coil is moved linearly toward the motor core such that the coil retaining device and the moving locus before the adjoining coil insertion portions in the adjoining single-pole coils are inserted into the slots are parallel or approach the more from the inner circumference side to the outer circumference side and the two coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil are moved such that they may start their movements simultaneously and at equal velocities.

Abstract: According to one aspect, the present technique provides methods and apparatus for inserting coil windings into a stator. Advantageously, the windings may be wound in a vertical configuration to facilitate insertion of the windings into stator slots. Moreover, the exemplary embodiment provides a transfer tool that maintains the stepped and vertical configurations of the coil windings developed during winding upon separation of the wire from the winding form. Advantageously, the present technique may decrease motor fabrication times and improve motor performance.

Abstract: A motor manufacturing method includes: a coil formation step of forming a unipolar coil, having coil inserting portions at two positions and coil end portions at two positions, in to a shape that changes such that a size in a height direction parallel to the coil inserting portion is larger in an inner peripheral side corresponding to a diametrical direction of a motor core along a direction of a winding axis center, than in an outer peripheral side; and a coil insertion step of disposing the unipolar coil in such a manner that the coil inserting portions in the unipolar coil respectively face toward inner peripheral opening portions of slots and are substantially parallel to an axial direction of the motor core, and inserting the coil inserting portions of the unipolar coil into the slots by moving the unipolar coil toward the motor core substantially linearly, while holding the motor core such that protrusion dimensions at both ends protruding from both end surface positions in an axial direction of the mot

Abstract: An apparatus in which wave windings with a defined number of waves are cut from a continuously formed wave winding band. In forming with a wire guide, the wave winding band is laid in alternation around the outer side faces of forming protrusions, offset from one another on the circumference of two disks. The two disks can be driven to rotate. In the angular range in which the wave winding band is driven on the circumference of the disks or roller, the spacing between one forming protrusion of one row and the next forming protrusion in the other row is increased by such an amount that the outer side faces of the forming protrusions form the winding heads of the wave windings. The wave windings cut from the wave winding band are introduced into radially outwardly open slots of a lamination packet or a rotorlike transfer tool.

Abstract: A method of forming a stator core assembly for an electric machine includes providing a stator core having a plurality of radially extending slots, forming a flat wire pack having a plurality of continuous electrical wires, shaping the flat wire pack into a substantially cylindrical shape, and engaging the substantially cylindrically shaped flat wire pack with the stator core such that the continuous electrical wires are interlaced within the slots of the stator core.

Abstract: A coil-winding method for forming a coil unit includes the steps of winding first and second wires substantially parallel to each other simultaneously around a first layer position of a core to form a first turn, winding the first and second wires simultaneously to form a second turn while the second wire is disposed directly around the core, the first wire of the second turn adjacent to the first turn being disposed between the first and second wires of the first turn in the first layer so as to form a second layer, and winding the first and second wires simultaneously to form a third turn while the second wire is disposed directly around the core, the first wire of the third turn being disposed in the second layer and wound between the second wire of the first turn and the second wire of the second turn in the first layer.

Abstract: Self expandable, woven intravascular devices for use as stents (both straight and tapered), filters (both temporary and permanent) and occluders for insertion and implantation into a variety of anatomical structures. The devices may be formed from shape memory metals such as nitinol. The devices may also be formed from biodegradable materials. Delivery systems for the devices include two hollow tubes that operate coaxially. A device is secured to the tubes prior to the implantation and delivery of the device by securing one end of the device to the outside of the inner tube and by securing the other end of the device to the outside of the outer tube. The stents may be partially or completely covered by graft materials, but may also be bare. The devices may be formed from a single wire. The devices may be formed by either hand or machine weaving.

Abstract: The invention provides a stator coil construction in which the thickness of the stator windings is reduced without the need for interconnections within the stator. The reduction in thickness of the stator windings is accomplished by wire flattening.

Abstract: A method and apparatus in which wave windings with a defined number of waves are cut from a continuously formed wave winding band. In forming with a wire guide, the wave winding band is laid in alternation around the outer side faces of forming protrusions, offset from one another on the circumference of two disks. The two disks can be driven to rotate. In the angular range in which the wave winding band is driven on the circumference of the disks or roller, the spacing between one forming protrusion of one row and the next forming protrusion in the other row is increased by such an amount that the outer side faces of the forming protrusions form the winding heads of the wave windings. The wave windings cut from the wave winding band are introduced into radially outwardly open slots of a lamination packet or a rotorlike transfer tool.

Abstract: Self-expandable, woven intravascular devices for use as stents (both straight and tapered), filters (both temporary and permanent) and occluders for insertion and implantation into a variety of anatomical structures. The devices may be formed from shape memory metals such as nitinol. The devices may also be formed from biodegradable materials. Delivery systems for the devices include two hollow tubes that operate coaxially. A device is secured to the tubes prior to the implantation and delivery of the device by securing one end of the device to the outside of the inner tube and by securing the other end of the device to the outside of the outer tube. The stents may be partially or completely covered by graft materials, but may also be bare. The devices may be formed from a single wire. The devices may be formed by either hand or machine weaving.

Abstract: A former (10) for a reinforced concrete cage making machine, adapted to hold a plurality of longitudinally extending rods is disclosed, the former (10) including a frame comprising an inner frame (21), an outer frame (20) and transverse frame members (22), and a plurality of rod supports (11), each rod support (11) adapted to hold an associated longitudinally extending rod, wherein the rod supports (11) are mounted to the frame (21, 20, 22) such that the transverse location of at least one of the rod supports (11) can be varied, relative to the frame (21, 20, 22).

Abstract: An apparatus and method for wire harness assembly employ a formboard with a plurality of holes and a plurality of layout sheets having respective free edges and opposing attached edges that are attached to the formboard so as to be aligned with and stacked upon one another. Each layout sheet also has a harness pattern thereon and a plurality of holes corresponding to holes in the formboard. One of the layout sheets can be selected to expose its harness pattern. The other unselected layout sheets comprise either or both of (i) at least one layout sheet under the selected layout sheet, and (ii) at least one layout sheet folded back from the selected layout sheet along the attached edge thereof. A plurality of guide pins can be inserted through respective holes in the selected layout sheet adjacent to its harness pattern, through respective holes in any unselected layout sheet under the selected layout sheet, and into corresponding holes in the formboard so as to be removably secured therein.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for wire harness assembly employ a formboard with a plurality of holes and a plurality of layout sheets having respective free edges and opposing attached edges that are attached to the formboard so as to be aligned with and stacked upon one another. Each layout sheet also has a harness pattern thereon and a plurality of holes corresponding to holes in the formboard. One of the layout sheets can be selected to expose its harness pattern. The other unselected layout sheets comprise either or both of (i) at least one layout sheet under the selected layout sheet, and (ii) at least one layout sheet folded back from the selected layout sheet along the attached edge thereof. A plurality of guide pins can be inserted through respective holes in the selected layout sheet adjacent to its harness pattern, through respective holes in any unselected layout sheet under the selected layout sheet, and into corresponding holes in the formboard so as to be removably secured therein.

Abstract: A coil-winding method comprises: winding first coil clockwise around first, counterclockwise around second, and clockwise around third swath along mandrel, hooks grouped into swaths; winding second coil clockwise around between first arid second hooks of first to between first and second hooks of second swath, counterclockwise around from between first and second hooks of second to between first and second hooks of third swath, clockwise around between first and second hooks of third to between first and second hooks of first swath; winding third coil clockwise around between second and third hooks of first to between second and third hooks of second swath, counterclockwise around from between second and third hooks of second to between second and third hooks of third swath, clockwise around between second and third hooks of third to between second and third hooks of first swath; and releasing wound coils.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are presented that improve the efficiency of stator production by connecting stator coil leads to final attachment devices before the coils are inserted into a stator core. After coil insertion, the final attachment devices are merely mounted to the stator receiving the stator core, eliminating most if not all post-coil-insertion lead identification and manipulation processes. The final attachment devices can be terminal receivers that include a plurality of is wire sockets for receiving a plurality of coil leads. Coil leads are connected to final attachment devices during the coil winding stage. Such connections add little or no additional time to the winding stage.

Abstract: Present day wire knitting machines are used to make wire mesh used in the manufacture of filters for airbag assemblies, catalytic converter seals, mechanical dampers, and the like, but are unable to knit large diameter wire, especially wire having a diameter greater than 0.025 inches. Provided herein is a looped wire made by wrapping the wire around a mandrel in multiplie layers and then pressed to flatten the loops. Thereafter, the flattened loop is formed using the same processes suitable for forming wire mesh into such articles.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming varied length wire coils for insertion into stator core slots includes a template positioned that is configured to vary a length of consecutive wire turns while wire is received from a flyer winder. The wire turns may then be inserted into a pair of stator core slots depending upon their respective lengths. A method of using the apparatus to form a winding with varied length turns includes depositing wire turns on a template, varying a length of at least two consecutive wire turns as the wire is deposited on the template, removing the wire turns from the template, and inserting the removed wire turns into stator core slots.

Abstract: A coil winding system and process is provided that includes a coil winding fixture and a coil press fixture. The coil winding fixture includes a pair of winding arms each having a set of in-line winding pins. The sets of in-line pins are arranged parallel to one another in one axis, and form an angle to another axis. Magnetic wire is machine wound into the slots between the pins to form coil phases, and, advantageously the individual coils can be wound together to minimize spatial tolerance build-up between phases. Likewise the slots are arranged parallel and adjacent one another to ensure that each winding is parallel to the next to maximize efficiency of the coils. The press fixture includes a forming press and a saddle to form the wound coils into a predetermined shape using heat and pressure applied to the press fixture.

Abstract: A machine for configuring the winding head of a stator for a rotary electrical machine, which includes U-shaped conductors which are inserted axially into axial slots in the stator body, is of the type comprising a support body together with concentric tubular sleeves. The lower axial end part of each sleeve includes gripping means. The gripping means of each sleeve consist of a set of gripping slots, each of which has a right angled profile in circumferential and axial cross section. Each of these slots receives the free end portion of one conductor, so that rotation of a sleeve produces a single bend at the open end of the axial slot for each conductor in the associated layer of conductors in the stator.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming varied length wire coils for insertion into stator core slots includes a template positioned that is configured to vary a length of consecutive wire turns while wire is received from a flyer winder. The wire turns may then be inserted into a pair of stator core slots depending upon their respective lengths. A method of using the apparatus to form a winding with varied length turns includes depositing wire turns on a template, varying a length of at least two consecutive wire turns as the wire is deposited on the template, removing the wire turns from the template, and inserting the removed wire turns into stator core slots.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming varied length wire coils for insertion stator core slots includes a template positioned that is configured to vary a length of consecutive wire turns while wire is received from a flyer winder. The wire turns may then be inserted into a pair of stator core slots depending upon their respective lengths. A method of using the apparatus to form a winding with varied length turns includes depositing wire turns on a template, varying a length of at least two consecutive wire turns as the wire is deposited on the template, removing the wire turns from the template, and inserting the removed wire turns into a stator core slot.

Abstract: An atherectomy device for removing tissue from an artery. The device includes a flexible, elongated drive shaft rotatable about a guide wire, the drive shaft having an enlarged diameter tissue removal section. The drive shaft and the enlarged diameter tissue removal section are comprised of helically wound wire. Wire turns of the proximal portion of the tissue removal section have diameters that gradually increase distally at a generally constant rate thereby forming generally the shape of a cone. Wire turns of the distal portion of the enlarged diameter tissue removal section have diameters that gradually decrease distally thereby forming a generally convex distal portion. At least part of the tissue removal section includes an external coating of an abrasive material to define an abrasive segment of the drive shaft.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing a coil arrangement with a plurality of winding wire regions (54, 55, 56) constructed in superimposed winding wire planes in a winding tool (28) with the following method steps: fixing of the winding wire (53) in a first wire holding device (39) at the circumferential edge of a basic matrix (21), rotation of the winding tool (28) so as to lay the winding wire (53) against an additional matrix (36) arranged on the basic matrix (21) of the winding tool (28) and formation of a first winding wire region (55) arranged on the surface (26) of the basic matrix, closure of the winding tool (28) by displacing a brace (48) towards the matrix surface (26) of the basic matrix (21) and rotation of the winding tool (28) so as to lay the winding wire (53) on the winding circumference (24) of the basic matrix (21) and formation of a further winding wire region as coil element (54), fixing of the coil element (54) and rotation of the winding tool (28) with brace (48) at a distance from the matrix su

Abstract: An apparatus (1) for the winding of coils or coil groups is proposed, in which apparatus (1) winding may be carried out with different wires (5, 19) at little cost. This is achieved according to the invention in that, in addition to a first so-called flyer (2) having a corresponding wire guide (4), a second flyer (15) and a second wire guide (17) separate from the first wire guide (4) are provided.

Abstract: A wire bending jig which has a plurality of apertures extending into the top face of the jig but stopping short of the opposite or bottom face. A plurality of pegs are placed into selected apertures to define a pattern for bending wire around the pegs into a specific shape. A pattern of the specific shape is attached to the bottom face of the jig, and the jig is transparent so the pattern can be seen from the top face, and so the pattern will be protected during the wire bending process.

Abstract: A stator coil winding arrangement comprises an inner layer and an outer layer, which define the two layers of the coil. A first turn of the inner layer is positioned directly over the outer layer. All subsequent turns of the inner layer return to the inner layer to be positioned over the inner layer. With this winding arrangement, total losses in the stator coil are reduced by approximately a factor of two.

Abstract: A wire bending tool kit which has a plate with a plurality of apertures and a plurality of pegs of different sizes which can be inserted into selected apertures in the plate. The pegs have structure for holding wire onto the pegs. In addition, the kit contains a plurality of spacers which can be placed over one or more of the pegs to produce different shapes in the wire as it is being bent. Also, one of the pegs has an aperture therein which allows an end of a wire to be inserted to produce spiral shapes.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a winding for a stator of a dynamoelectric machine comprises a form (3) and a rotating unit (11) for winding a wire (W) around the form (3). The form (3) comprises two form sections (4) which are movable toward and away from each other along a direction orthogonal to the form axis (5). The apparatus further comprises motorized means (37b, 34, 32) for controlling the relative movement of said form sections (4), which can be activated even while the winding unit (11) is being rotated.