Composite Article Winding Patents (Class 242/430)
  • Patent number: 7748424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for winding filament to create a structure. In one embodiment, the invention includes the application of filament to a rotating mandrel to create a desired shape. The invention includes the filament winding of both simple and complex shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan H. Anderson, Mike Glen Allman, Larry Jed Ashton, Craig Bjamson Simpson, Benko Samasoni Ta'ala, Troy Larry White
  • Publication number: 20100146922
    Abstract: A cylindrical wound wire filter with an inner bore, suitable for use with an airbag inflator, has at least two different outer diameters and/or at least two different inner diameters. Wires in adjacent layers can be bonded together by adhesive or brazing, or have a sheet-like material therebetween, such as a ceramic filter paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: ACS Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: George Greenwood
  • Publication number: 20100084501
    Abstract: A roller dice device includes a pair of rolling rollers respectively including circumferential rolling grooves formed at outer circumferential surfaces thereof, a supporting portion rotatably supporting the pair of rolling rollers respectively around roller axes extending in parallel with each other, a spaced portion configured by a rolling portion, through which a rolling material moves, and formed by the circumferential rolling grooves facing each other, and a restricting portion formed at the outer circumferential surfaces of the pair of the rolling rollers and restricting displacement of the pair of rolling rollers relative to each other in the axial direction of the roller axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori HOSHINO, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui, Tomoko Hiramatsu, Hideyuki Aikyo, Nobuhisa Nakajima, Shigeharu Yamamoto, Yousuke Iguchi
  • Publication number: 20100032510
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus reduces fluctuations in a winding operation by bringing a plurality of guide portions that guide fiber bundles to a liner close to the liner in a winding unit. Each of the guide portions is a tubular member having a guide hole penetrated from a base end to a leading end portion. The leading end portion has a smaller thickness width. Each of the guide portions guides a second fiber bundle to the liner by passing the second fiber bundle from a side of the base end portion to a side of the leading end portion of the guide hole. By rotating each of the guide portions about an axis of the guide portion, and by sliding the guide portions in the radius direction of the liner, the guide portions can be brought close to the liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventors: Motohiro TANIGAWA, Tadashi UOZUMI
  • Publication number: 20100018816
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a friction lining. Said friction lining is wound in three layers with different winding ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
    Inventors: Christian SPANDERN, Michael HOFMANN
  • Publication number: 20100012449
    Abstract: A method for producing a friction lining. The friction lining is wound in three layers with different winding ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: LUK LAMELLEN UND KUPPLUNGSBAU BETEILIGUNGS KG
    Inventors: Christian SPANDERN, Michael HOFMANN
  • Publication number: 20090296746
    Abstract: A fiber laser thermal coil form and related manufacturing techniques that are substantially suitable for automation. The fiber laser thermal coil form including a thermally conductive substrate to support a fiber placed thereon and to dissipate a heat of the fiber, and a fiber guide groove defined in a surface of the substrate to guide the fiber and dimensioned to partially enclose the fiber and to enhance a thermal contact of the fiber and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: Morgan Research Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Christopher Heaton, Jeff Williams
  • Publication number: 20090272834
    Abstract: 3-D Strip Winding System for a special giant all-steel radial OTR tire comprising: a movable base plate, a pivoting device, a support, a winding and applying device, and a bracket. The pivoting device comprises a spin orbit of an external gear ring, a positioning and rotating inner race, a support plate, a servo motor, and a drive gear. The spin orbit of an external gear ring is fixed on the plane of movable base plate. The positioning and rotating inner race is flexibly attached inside the spin orbit of an external gear ring. One end of the support plate is fixed to the positioning and rotating inner race. The servo motor is fixedly disposed on the support plate, the output end of which is connected with the drive gear after passing through the support plate. The drive gear is engaged with the outer edge of the spin orbit of the external gear ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Zhiquan ZHANG, Jianhao ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20090219667
    Abstract: A capacitor element for a power capacitor. The capacitor element includes a plurality of series-connected cylindrical sub-elements. Each sub-element includes at least two strips of dielectric material wound in a number of turns. A layer of electrically conductive material is disposed between the turns of the winding. The sub-elements are disposed one outside the other as seen in a direction transversely to the plane of the strip. A strip in an outermost sub-element is longer than the strip in each inwardly lying sub-element. A power capacitor includes a plurality of the capacitor elements, and a capacitor battery includes a plurality of the power capacitors. A method of manufacturing the inventive capacitor element and the use of the inventive power capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Inventor: Esbjorn Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20090191390
    Abstract: A paint roller assembly and method of assembling the paint roller assembly is disclosed. The paint roller assembly comprises a core layer, a first reinforcement layer, a second reinforcement layer, a fabric cover, and adhesive for joining the layers and fabric cover together. The method of assembling the paint roller assembly includes the steps of helically winding a core material around a mandrel, applying adhesive to an exposed portion of the core material, helically winding a first reinforcement layer around the core material, applying the adhesive to an exposed portion of the first reinforcement layer, helically winding a second reinforcement layer around the first reinforcement layer, applying the adhesive to an exposed portion of the second reinforcement layer, and helically winding a fabric cover over the second reinforcement layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Applicant: Linzer Products Corp.
    Inventors: Makoto Saji, Brent Swenson
  • Publication number: 20090021093
    Abstract: Electric motors, for example wet rotor motors, include a rotor, a winding support, and plurality of electrical windings surrounding the rotor. In some implementations, the winding support is a rotor housing, e.g., the can of a wet rotor motor. The windings define the stator of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: TACO, INC.
    Inventor: Michael McNamara
  • Publication number: 20080223517
    Abstract: Mold-free resin-insulated coil windings are obtained by applying continuous fibers embedded in a quasi-solid-state epoxy-resin matrix, e.g. in the form of a tape, to the coil windings. The tape is locally heated up to the melting point of its polymer matrix, and is subsequently pressed against the winding body. The heated and fused resin of the tape, which is pressed onto the coil, flows under pressure into the voids and gaps between the coil windings and fills them up, thereby hermetically insulating the coil windings. After leaving the heating and pressing apparatus the fused epoxy resin becomes solid again. The resulting curing process is thus considerably simplified and shortened, compared to the state of the art.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: ABB RESEARCH LTD
    Inventors: Uwe KALTENBORN, Guido Meier, Stephane Schaal, Jens Rocks
  • Publication number: 20080190507
    Abstract: A flexible tubular conduit for transporting hydrocarbons comprising at least two metal sheathing covers which are separated by a plastic anti-wear layer. Each cover is produced by helically winding a metal longitudinal element. The anti-wear layer is produced by helically winding a plastic material strip. The plastic material comprises an amorphous polymer with a glass transition temperature ranging from 175 to 255° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: Jean Hardy
  • Publication number: 20080185014
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for permanently reshaping the keratin fibers, for example for permanently reshaping the hair, comprising: mechanically setting the keratin fibers under tension by winding the same around at least one mechanical tensioning device, said at least one device being flexible and closable upon itself, so as to form a curl, applying onto the keratin fibers at least one reducing composition, so as to reduce the keratin disulfide bonds, an optional rinsing, drying the keratin fibers, and applying at least one oxidizin composition, to reform said bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventor: Catherine Campain
  • Publication number: 20080136286
    Abstract: A concentrated winding coil according to the present invention comprises a plurality of coil layers each of which comprises a plurality of wire turns wound in alignment winding; and a bobbin comprising an inner flange, an outer flange and a bobbin body on which the wire is wound, wherein: each of the coil layers includes a turn shift portion where the wire is shifted from an n-th turn to an (n+1)-th turn; the turn shift portion is located only on a side of a coil end section of the coil; and the bobbin body has no guide grooves. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing the concentrated winding coil according to the present invention comprises steps of: winding the wire on the bobbin; and pressing the wire by a wire guiding/holding member toward the inner flange or toward the outer flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Takashi Ishigami, Takashi Naganawa
  • Publication number: 20080022985
    Abstract: An ignition coil includes primary and secondary coils. The primary coil includes a primary spool and a primary winding wound on the spool. The primary winding has a second winding layer wound around a first winding layer. The primary spool has first and second overhangs protruding radially outwardly from a first spool end portion of the primary spool. The first overhang is positioned away from the second overhang toward a second spool end portion. The first winding layer has a first winding end portion extending from the first winding layer through a space between the first overhangs, and being wound on the first spool end portion between the first and second overhangs. The second winding layer has a second winding end portion extending from the second winding layer between the first overhangs, and being wound on the first spool end portion between the first and second overhangs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Norihito Fujiyama
  • Patent number: 7124797
    Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for winding filament to create a structure. In one embodiment, the invention includes the application of filament to a rotating mandrel to create a desired shape. The invention includes the filament winding of both simple and complex shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan H. Anderson, Mike Glen Allman, Larry Jed Ashton, Craig Bjarnson Simpson, Benko Samasoni Ta'ala, Troy Larry White
  • Patent number: 6921042
    Abstract: Concentric tilted double-helix magnets, which embody a simplified design and construction method for production of magnets with very pure field content, are disclosed. The disclosed embodiment of the concentric tilted double-helix dipole magnet has the field quality required for use in accelerator beam steering applications, i.e., higher-order multipoles are reduced to a negligibly small level. Magnets with higher multipole fields can be obtained by using a simple modification of the coil winding procedure. The double-helix coil design is well-suited for winding with superconducting cable or cable-in-conduit conductors and thus is useful for applications that require fields in excess of 2 T. The coil configuration has significant advantages over conventional racetrack coils for accelerators, electrical machinery, and magneto-hydrodynamic thrusting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Inventors: Carl L. Goodzeit, Rainer B. Meinke, Millicent Ball
  • Publication number: 20040011911
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for wire winding and fabrication for dynamo-electric machine components such as ferromagnetic armature or stator cores for motors or the like. Wire may be wound onto individual portions of dynamo-electric machine components, which may then be assembled to form complete components. Wire may be wound by steering a rotating flyer or the like in a trajectory that closely follows the surface of the core onto which the wire is being wound. Wire may also be wound by rotating the portions during winding. The same holding members that are used to hold the portions during winding may be used to hold the portions during assembly of the portions into machine components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: AXIS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Raffaele Becherucci, Gianfranco Stratico
  • Publication number: 20040004149
    Abstract: A spiral wound abrasive belt is formed from an abrasive media including a plurality of webs. The webs of the abrasive media may include coated abrasives joined by splicing media or other suitable joining material. Alternatively, the webs may include individual single or multiple layers that form a coated abrasive simultaneously along with the spiral belt without the use of additional joining material. A method of forming the spiral belt includes draping the abrasive media over a fixed hub at an angle to form the spiral belt while abutting the edges of the outermost web and overlapping the outermost web and adjacent web or webs. Heat and pressure may be applied to the joined edges to form a strong bond along the spiral seam. Another method includes introducing the webs forming the abrasive media at an angle and draping the webs over a fixed hub. The abrasive media may then be passed around an adjustable hub that provides tension in the spiral belt while allowing for different circumferentially sized belts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Stephen J. Yoos, Douglas C. Hunt, Gary L. Heacox
  • Publication number: 20030098379
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for winding and placing windings on the magnetic core of a motor without transferring the windings prior to insertion. The method and apparatus include using a single coil winding/injection device having a plurality of gap defining elongate blades arranged in a circular array for use in winding coils and then insertion into a stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Michael L. Stockman, Michael R. Mills
  • Publication number: 20030089811
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (12) for winding up and unwinding metal strips, used in particular for cold-rolling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Alberto Pollastrelli, Angelo Coari
  • Patent number: 6560854
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: Neodyne Korea Co. LTD
    Inventors: Sang S. Nam, Hyo S. Hyun
  • Publication number: 20030029957
    Abstract: A coil winding system includes a scale configured to determine a weight of new spool of wire destined for inclusion in the system. The scale is electrically coupled to a controller portion of the system to automatically provide the determined weight. The controller is configured to automatically receive the weight information and associate it with a particular spindle. The controller calculates the maximum number of complete winding cycles possible, based on the weight, and stops winding after such maximum number has been completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventors: Ronald D. Smith, Stuart W. Perry
  • Publication number: 20020141712
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable is manufactured by wrapping a cable core with a corrugated steel reinforcing tape coated on each surface by a polymer material and extruding a jacket over the tape such that the polymer material on the outer surface is bonded to the jacket and the edges of the tape are overlapped and bonded. The tape is formed and spooled so as to be continuous through the spool to a required length to match the intended length of the cable which can be as much as 18 to 30 kms. The required length of the tape is obtained by slitting master rolls of steel web into individual tapes and forming welded butt splices in the steel so that each spooled tape is of the required length. A series of the spooled tapes are then unwound side by side, simultaneously laminated with two sheets of the polymer, separated each from the next and re-wound to form a spool of single tape of the required length. If the tapes are spaced side to side, the polymer material encapsulates the tape edges also.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Lawrence O'Connor, Robert J. Krul
  • Publication number: 20020131206
    Abstract: Pancake of media in strip or tape form and method of making the pancake, the pancake including a hub onto which the media is wound until an outer wound layer is formed on the pancake, and a sealing element attached to the outer wound layer of the pancake such that a free end of the outer wound layer of the pancake is formed in a region beneath the sealing element. The process provides for winding the media onto a hub and attaching a sealing element to an outer layer of the media, wherein the sealing element is attached to the outer wound layer of the pancake such that a free end of the outer wound layer of the pancake is formed in a region beneath the sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: EMTEC MAGNETICS GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Scholtysik
  • Patent number: 6439497
    Abstract: In a method for mounting a cable winding, cable by cable, on a stator (S) for a generator a number of cables (K) of predetermined lengths are used for the intended winding. The method implies mounting each such cable starting at the stator slot representing the middle of an intended coil arc, the first cable half being mounted according to a winding diagram in one direction from the said center slot and other cable half being mounted according to the winding diagram in the opposite direction starting from the same center slot. The method is carried out by means of a device comprising a drum means, for instance in the form of a capstan machine (2), which originally supports the entire predetermined cable length of a cable. Further, there are two cable feeders (A, B) disposed on either side of the stator (S), which alternatively lay the cable (k) in the stator slots according to the winding diagram by means of intermediate storage means (3, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Alberti Backlund, Mats Leijon
  • Patent number: 6357688
    Abstract: A device for coiling and uncoiling elongated goods (K), such as wire, cable or the like, onto a drum (13) comprises a support (12) with driving means (25) for a spreader arm (10). The spreader arm (10) is rotatably mounted on the support (12) and supports a gripping arm (14) for coiling and uncoiling the elongated goods (K) onto the stationary drum (13). The gripping arm (14) is formed as a curved V-profile having a running track arranged for the elongated goods (K), which running track is oriented towards the drum (13). The said running track is defined by feeding rollers mounted within the gripping arm (14). The feeding rollers are spherical in shape and have a rolling resistance near zero to eliminate twisting of the elongated goods (K) during coiling and uncoiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: ABB AB
    Inventors: Alberti Backlund, Mats Leijon
  • Patent number: 6217595
    Abstract: A method of forming an elongate, flexible drive shaft which has utility as a rotational atherectomy device. In accordance with this method, an inner helical coil having a lumen and a proximal end is formed by winding a plurality of wires about a forming mandrel. An outer helical coil having a lumen and a proximal end is formed by winding a single wire with a mandrel-less coil forming machine. The inner helical coil is positioned within the outer helical coil to define a drive shaft. The inner and outer helical coils are oriented such that the inner helical coil is wound in a direction opposite that in which the outer helical coil is wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Shturman Cardiology Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonid Shturman, Andrei Nevzorov
  • Patent number: 6020074
    Abstract: Process for depositing at least one thread or tape (3a, . . . 3d), generally a metal thread or tape, in particular made of magnetic material having a high permeability for an antitheft protection system, on a thin sheet (2) especially a plastic, paper or aluminum sheet, this sheet (2) being able to be joined to another sheet (1) with the thread or tape (3a, . . . 3d) sandwiched between them, the sheet (2) thus furnished with the thread or tape being intended subsequently to be wound up into a reel. The thread or tape (3a. . . 3d) is placed on the sheet (2) along a line (S) which is sinuous with respect to the longitudinal direction (D) of the sheet, the parameters (p, a) of the sinuosity being chosen so that, in a reel formed with the sheet, in one and the same plane passing through the axis of the reel, the thread or tape sections lying in two adjacent turns in the reel and in one and the same plane passing through the axis of the reel are offset transversely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Soplaril S.A.
    Inventors: Salvatore Scandagliato, Didier Seigneur
  • Patent number: 5744221
    Abstract: Composite structures which are cost-effectively fabricated using conventional resin transfer molding or filament winding technique, featuring utilization of fiber fabric material or individually stranded fiber tow material as the fiber reinforcement material for high strain-to-failure viscoelastic matrix material, and affording desired structural performance and superior performance in terms of flexibility, damping and damage-tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Roger M. Crane, Armando L. Santiago, Wayne C. Jones
  • Patent number: 5683059
    Abstract: A bobbin for superconducting coils, which is made of a fiber-reinforced plastic material containing: (1) a matrix resin; (2) a polyethylene fiber having a negative thermal expansion coefficient in the fiber lengthwise direction, the angle between the polyethylene fiber and the longitudinal axis of the bobbin being in the range of .+-.35.degree. to 90.degree.; and (3) a substance having an elastic modulus higher than that of the polyethylene fiber. The bobbin of the present invention is useful for superconducting coils because it only exhibits a quite low degree of deformation, even when used under external stress at cryogenic temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignees: Toyo Boseki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo Electric Power Co., Ltd., Toshiba Corporation
    Inventors: Tsukushi Hara, Masahiko Nakade, Takeshi Ohkuma, Kenji Tasaki, Takashi Yazawa, Hideaki Maeda, Eriko Yoneda, Shunji Nomura, Toshihiro Kashima, Atsuhiko Yamanaka