On Irregularly Shaped Core Patents (Class 242/437)
  • Patent number: 10611596
    Abstract: A method of filament winding a golf shaft to form an upper section, an intermediate, rapid tapered section and a lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Inventor: Robin D. Arthur
  • Patent number: 10163565
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for winding a dual-layer flat wire coil, and to method for winding a multi-layer flat wire coil. Furthermore, the present invention is related to a device for winding such coils and to a dual-layer flat wire coil and to a multi-layer flat wire coil obtainable by performing the method of the present invention. Finally, the invention is related to a linear motor comprising such a dual-layer flat wire coil and/or multi-layer flat wire coil. According to the invention, an auxiliary winding core is used to temporarily store wire that is intended to form the odd layer of any pair of layers in the multi-layer coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: TECNOTION B.V.
    Inventors: Erwin Gerardus Bernardus Hofste, Roel Toon Hendrik Huinink
  • Patent number: 8955787
    Abstract: A filament winding apparatus that prevents excessive unraveling of a fiber bundle due to variations in the speed at which the fiber bundle is wound includes a hoop winding device having a wrapping table, a bobbin support unit, a braking unit, a slack removal unit, a detector, and a controller. The slack removal unit absorbs slack caused by the difference between winding and unraveling speeds of the fiber bundle. The detector detects whether the amount of slack absorbed is equal to or greater than or is less than, a predetermined amount. When the amount of slack is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, the controller increases the braking force of the braking unit for braking rotation of a bobbin. When the amount of slack is less than the predetermined amount, the controller reduces the braking force of the braking unit for braking rotation of the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: Murata Machinery, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motohiro Tanigawa, Tadashi Uozumi, Daigoro Nakamura, Ken Hatta
  • Patent number: 8807473
    Abstract: An automatic winding device for cell core includes a mounting seat, a locking cap mounted on one end of the mounting seat, a winding assembly driving mechanism mounted on the other end of the mounting seat and a winding assembly. The winding assembly includes two winding needles and two winding plates. One end of the winding needles is fixed to the winding driving mechanism and the other end is opposite to the locking cap. One end of the winding plates is fixed to the winding driving mechanism and the other end thereof opposite to the locking cap. The winding plates are disposed on opposing sides of the pair of winding needles and separably contact the pair of winding needles. The winding needles are held together by complementary concave and convex portions, and a groove and a ring groove are formed in the locking cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventor: Wei Feng
  • Patent number: 8480085
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for temporarily storing at least one item of media. The apparatus includes a rotatable item support member arranged to rotate about a support member axis of rotation and comprising an outer support surface. The apparatus also includes a pair of drive tape members, each arranged along a respective tape pathway, each tape pathway comprising a pathway portion in which the tape members extend in a co-operating relationship supported by said outer support surface. The outer support surface includes at least one support region that supports the tape members and an item located therebetween in a flat orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Cooke, Steven Carnegie
  • Patent number: 8424794
    Abstract: A magnetic fixing device for fixing a magnetic coil to a rotor of an autowinder includes a first clip element and a second element. The first clip element is disposed on the rotor of the autowinder, and the second clip element corresponds to the first clip element for cooperatively clipping the magnetic coil by magnetic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu-Bin Wang
  • Publication number: 20120273604
    Abstract: Disclosed therein is a spring tube winding machine including: a winding roller (10) formed in a cylindrical shape to wind a first rubber sheet (T1), a first code topping paper (C1), a second code topping paper (C2) and a second rubber sheet (T2), which are the spring tube materials, in order, the winding roller (10) including an uneven portion (12) formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof, a nozzle (14) disposed at an end for injecting compressed air, and a. plurality of discharge holes (16) for ejecting compressed air injected through the nozzle (14) outwardly from the inside; and a table (20) having a reference line (22) for setting a seating angle in such a fashion that the spring tube materials wound on the winding roller (10) are seated in an unfolded state and the codes (C) embedded in the first code topping paper (C1) and the second code topping paper (C2) are intersected with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: Sunjin Precision Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jong hun Kim
  • Patent number: 7810754
    Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to increase production efficiency while reducing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Murata Machinery, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Uozumi, Hiroki Takashima, Motohiro Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 7694909
    Abstract: A method of winding a flexible core includes forming a flexible core member having a first end portion, a second end portion and a plurality of teeth each having a central axis with the plurality of teeth being arranged in a substantially linear array. The method also includes manipulating the flexible core member into an inverted core form having an outer portion and an inner portion with the plurality of teeth extending out from the outer portion away from the inner portion, positioning a winding member including an amount of wire adjacent one of the plurality of teeth, and rotating the flexible core member about the central axis of the one of the plurality of teeth. The method further includes applying wraps of the wire to the one of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Remy Technologies, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Bradley D. Chamberlin, Mark A. Stephenson, Larry A. Kubes
  • Patent number: 7475843
    Abstract: A polygonal coil having a substantially square shape is manufactured by winding a conductive wire in the diameter direction of the core on the core in an overlapping manner by the use of a winding jig in which a first collar portion and a second collar portion are disposed at both ends of a core so as to be opposed to each other and four rod-shaped protrusions are disposed on a surface of the first collar portion opposed to the second collar portion so as to protrude in a radial shape centered on an end of the core,. As a result, it is possible to obtain a polygonal coil with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Yonezawa Electric Wire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Ueki, Teruo Tamada, Teiji Wagatsuma, Takashi Fujimi, Koichi Igarashi
  • Patent number: 7472859
    Abstract: The invention comprises a portable apparatus for the manufacture of bowstrings that facilitates application of bowstring serving cord when producing new custom built archery bowstrings, particularly for compound bows. The invention provides a power driveable device for rotating and advancing a serving tool utilizing a winder head that is pivotable and stowable to allow use of a bowstring jig without interference from the winder power head when not needed and then pivoting the power head into a drive position when serving is to be wound around the bowstring. The power serving winder also provides for serving from both ends of a bowstring without remounting the string on a jig apparatus, and for applying tension to the bowstring while being manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Inventor: Philip Gerald McMahan
  • Patent number: 7467648
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 7467760
    Abstract: A coil arrangement for radio-frequency identification devices, process and an apparatus for making such a coil arrangement are described herein. The coil arrangement includes first and second terminals having a geometry different from one another and from the active coil winding of the arrangement. The apparatus is in the form of a spindle having three axially adjacent portions defining cross-sectional profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Allflex Europe SAS
    Inventors: Nicolas Schieli, Christian Bussiére
  • Publication number: 20080035780
    Abstract: A wire winding apparatus for winding a wire on a bobbin includes a forming device forming the wire having a rounded cross section to have a polygonal cross section and a winding device winding the wire formed by the forming device on the bobbin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kanoh, Hisashi Kato, Tetsuya Morita, Akinori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7201344
    Abstract: In a multilayer coil which winds “n” wire rods (4) (“n” is an integer number of two or more) in line around a winding core (2) having a cross section of a polygonal shape. An intersection portion (5) is formed on a face where feeding of the winding core is made by feeding the wire rods by an amount of “n” wire rods during a period when the wire rods (4) are wound by one round around the winding core (2), so that the wire rods in a lower layer and an upper layer intersect therein. A twist portion (6) is formed at an end of at least one face out of the faces where the feeding is made, wherein two wire rods out of “n” wire rods are twisted to replace an arrangement of the wire rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Nittoku Engineering Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuji Higeta
  • Patent number: 7017851
    Abstract: To provide a coil bobbin structure that allows intersection of the wire to be avoided with a simple structure and improved reliability to be attained, while at the same time, allowing the possible use of automatic winding machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Matsuura, Genta Yoshii
  • Patent number: 6915978
    Abstract: This invention relates to rolling and in particular to the process of rod coil forming, for instance, of steel and nonferrous metals, and to a set of equipment for its realization. The method of rod coil forming includes continuous rod feeding through a wire-rod guide, forming of waps with a variable diameter by means of speed variation of wire-rod guide rotation and stacking of waps by horizontal layers throughout the height of a coil. The difference of the applied method is in the fact that the rod is fed at a speed of 35-300 m/s. Forming of waps with a variable diameter is realized under the influence of dynamic forces by means of rod declination at the wire-rod guide outlet at an angle of 15-80° with the axis of rotation and its following feeding in a curved concave path with rotation at an angle of 80-90° with the axis of wire-rod guide rotation, in this case speed of wire-rod guide rotation is varied with respect to the following ratio: ? ? ? ? ? 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: OOO MT Group
    Inventor: Vladimir Stanislavovich Nekipelov
  • Patent number: 6887032
    Abstract: There is provided a rotor for a turbo/drag vacuum pump, the rotor comprising an upstream rotor segment of the turbine type made of metal or alloy, and a downstream rotor segment of Holweck type made of composite material. The downstream segment of the rotor has a reinforcing structure made of long fibers that are distributed in a manner that varies as a function of the section under consideration: in the annular connection region connected to the upstream segment of the rotor, the fibers are inclined and/or spaced apart in order to conserve sufficient flexibility for the composite material to enable it to deform so as to track deformation of the metal of the upstream rotor segment while it is in operation; in contrast, the fibers are close together and form turns that touch in the downstream region of the skirt, thereby guaranteeing greater stiffness in order to withstand the mechanical stresses that occur during high-speed rotation of the rotor in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Lionel Favre-Felix, Olivier Dauvillier, André Bouille
  • Publication number: 20040094653
    Abstract: Method and winding apparatus for winding a coil that may be used in a high voltage coil assembly. The method allows providing a bobbin. The bobbin may include at one end thereof a start wedge having a wedge angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the bobbin. Relative alignment is provided between the bobbin and a wire feeder device so that a strand of wire from the wire-feeder device is fed perpendicular relative to a layer of winding that, upon rotation of the bobbin, progressively propagates along the longitudinal axis of the bobbin with a predefined winding angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Roderick D. Fair, Stuart W. Perry
  • Publication number: 20040000609
    Abstract: The invention provides an apparatus (with a corresponding method) for manufacturing a magnetic wound core of a toroidal transformer. The apparatus in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a control device for controlling the apparatus based on parameters of the core material and the wound core, a supplying device for providing the core material ribbon, a grinding device for grinding the lateral edges of the core material ribbon under the control of the control device, and a winding device for receiving and winding the core material ribbon into the wound core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2002
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Dinkle Enterprise Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Wei-Chang Tsao
  • Patent number: 6651920
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Airex Corporation
    Inventors: James Sedgewick, Richard Sedgewick, David Carroll, Michael Drew
  • Patent number: 6540171
    Abstract: An apparatus for winding a thread around a surface of an object while rotating the object. The apparatus includes a plurality of guide members. The guide members selectively guide a plurality of threads to the surface of the object. One guide member corresponds to one thread. The guide members move along the object. A moving device moves a selected one of the guide members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Yasui, Masaaki Amano
  • Publication number: 20030006334
    Abstract: A presently-preferred process for manufacturing a magnetic-induction device comprises stacking a plurality of laminae to form a winding leg, a first yoke, and a second yoke, and fixedly coupling a first end of the winding leg to the first yoke. The presently-preferred process also comprises winding a length of insulated conductive cabling on the winding leg to form a phase winding after fixedly coupling the winding leg to the first yoke, and fixedly coupling a second end of the winding leg to the second yoke after forming the phase winding. Alternatively, the length of insulated conductive cabling may be wound on the winding leg after the second end of the winding leg has been fixedly coupled to the second yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Roland Hoffmann, Thomas J. Lanoue, Benjamin Weber
  • Patent number: 6484960
    Abstract: The coil winding machine includes bobbin holding means for holding a coil bobbin having at each end portion a circumferential guide groove, a nozzle for feeding out a conducting wire for a deflection coil, the nozzle being movable along the inner peripheral surface of the coil bobbin, and a winding guide for restricting the position of the conducting wire. The winding guide has a tip portion movable in and out of the circumferential guide groove of the coil bobbin. The tip portion has a stepped portion capable of being engaged/disengaged with/from the conducting wire due to the relative positional relationship between the stepped portion and the nozzle in the center axial direction of the coil bobbin and a guide portion for restricting the feeding position of the conducting wire released from the stepped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Ono
  • Patent number: 6112792
    Abstract: A composite fiber placement mid-span redirect device (10) mounted on a fiber placement assembly (12) guides a plurality of composite material tows (14) along a fiber path from a material supply creel (20) to a fiber placement head (30) during a composite forming process. The mid-span redirect device (10) includes a frame assembly (38) to which a plurality of outer swivel roller assemblies (80) and a plurality of inner swivel roller assemblies (90) are attached. Each outer swivel roller assembly (80) contains an outer roller (82), an outer capture roller (84), an outer swivel bracket assembly (86), and a counterbalancing member (88). Each inner swivel assembly (90) contains an inner roller (92), an inner swivel bracket assembly (96), and a counterbalancing member (98).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Roy L. Barr, Daniel D. Bloch, Andrew R. Mallow, Charles A. Rhodes
  • Patent number: 6098913
    Abstract: A machine for applying one or more protective layers of material onto a tubular member, for example a pipe, in a substantially wrinkle free and continuous manner. The machine includes a brake tension unit for applying a constant tension to the protective material in order to neck down the material as it is applied onto the pipe, and a base unit for supporting and rotating the pipe. The constant brake tension unit preferably includes a conventional disc brake and a mounting arm for holding a core of material in engagement with the brake tension unit. Pressure applied to the rotor slows rotation of the rotor and the attached core which restricts the unwinding of the protective material from the core. Thus, as the material attempts to unwind from the core a preselected force is applied to resist the unwinding. The material is therefore placed under tension and, due to the nature of the protective material, the material elongates and necks down under the applied pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Tek-Rap, Inc.
    Inventor: John C. Demore
  • Patent number: 6060973
    Abstract: An electromagnetic coil which may be employed as an ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The electromagnetic coil includes a lower voltage winding portion and a higher voltage winding portion. The lower voltage winding portion is wound around a spool and includes a plurality of winding layers overlapped with each other and inclined at a given angle to the length of the spool. Each of the winding layers includes a collection of turns made up of a leading portion of wire. The higher voltage winding portion is wound around the spool adjacent the lower voltage winding portion and includes a plurality of winding layers overlapped with each other and inclined at a given angle to the length of the spool. Each of the winding layers includes a collection of turns made up of a trailing portion of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kawano, Kazutoyo Oosuka, Masami Kojima, Akimitsu Sugiura, Yoshitaka Satou, Katsumi Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 5775626
    Abstract: An apparatus which includes a nozzle unit, a guide unit, a first winding assemblage and a second winding assemblage, operates such that the first winding assemblage forms a first winding (e.g., a deflection coil on a deflection yoke for use with a cathode ray tube) by moving the wire material from the nozzle unit in a three-dimensional direction after binding the wire material to the workpiece through the guide unit cooperating with the nozzle unit and the second winding assemblage forms a second winding (e.g., a leakage magnetic field shielding coil) different from the first winding by moving the nozzle unit in directions parallel and normal to the axis of the workpiece, respectively. Unlike the conventional apparatus, it is possible to wind a wire material in a variety of ways in different directions while keeping the position of the workpiece in a certain posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ono, Hiroyuki Takubo, Hideaki Kawaura