Method for producing an insulated wire

1. A method for producing an insulated wire having a cross section of a desired shape, in which a conductor having a cross section of a desired shape is coated with an insulating film, comprising the steps of:

supplying a raw conductor while passing through a rolling unit composed of at least one pair of rolling rolls that are capable of freely rotating without a drive mechanism that have a desired shape, thereby forming a conductor having a cross section of a desired shape;

annealing said conductor by routing said conductor through an annealer;

coating the conductor with an insulating film by routing the conductor having the cross section of the desired shape through a coating apparatus; and

wherein the insulated wire having the cross section of the desired shape is produced in a continuous manner from an uninsulated wire stock without interrupting the production process to store partially produced wire for a period of time prior to routing the wire to the next step in the production process.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said supplying step is carried out by winding said rolled conductor around a capstan with a drive mechanism provide at a rear position of said rolling unit, to give tensile force to the conductor.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said rolled conductor is passed through a drawing die.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the raw conductor is rolled by two-direction rolls in the thickness direction, and the resultant conductor is drawn by the drawing die.

5. The method according to claim 3 , wherein said drawing die is provided at any one of or both front and rear positions of the capstan with a drive mechanism.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said rolling unit is composed of two-direction rolls (one pair of rolling rolls).

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said conductor is passed through the rolling unit comprising a plurality of rolls composed of two-direction rolls and/or four-direction rolls.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said coating with the insulating film is carried out by coating and curing said insulating film.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein said conductor having a cross section of a desired shape is a rectangular wire.

10. The method according to claim 1 , where said coating with the insulating film is carried out by extrusion-coating an insulating resin.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said conductor having a cross section of a desired shape is a rectangular wire.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the shape of the cross section of said raw conductor is round, elliptical or rectangle.