IP Library Granted Patent US 8,020,282
Granted Patent B2
US 8,020,282 · App. 12/750,830 · Granted Sep 20, 2011

Apparatus for producing a coil winding for stators or rotors of electrical machines

Assignee: Elmotec Statomat Vertriebs GmbH
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Patent No.
US 8,020,282
App. No.
12/750,830
Granted
Sep 20, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for producing a coil winding for stators is described, in which each coil turn rests, with one fillet ( 14 ) each, in two stator slots, and the two fillets ( 14 ) are joined by a head portion ( 16 ). A plurality of coil turns are made simultaneously by winding up n parallel wires ( 10 ) with intermediate spacing onto a rotatable former ( 20 ). To obtain small winding heads, alternatingly in a work step A, one fillet ( 14 ) and the wire length of one head portion ( 16 ) are made from each of the n parallel wires ( 10 ) on the former ( 20 ). Then in a work step B, the resultant fillets ( 14 ) together with the adjoining first end of the respective associated head portions ( 16 ), and the wire guide together with the second end of these head portions ( 16 ), are displaced relative to one another along the former ( 20 ) by n times the intermediate spacing of the wires ( 10 ).

Claims (27)

1. An apparatus for producing a wave-type winding pattern made of a series of fillets and head portions for an electrical element of an electrical machine from coil windings of a group of n wires, wherein two associated fillets of a wire are joined by a respective gable-shaped head portion, said apparatus for producing a wave-type winding pattern comprising:

a wire guide which pays out n parallel wires in a plane with a predetermined intermediate distance between adjacent wires;

a flat former having opposite first and second long flat sides which alternatively take up the n parallel wires from the wire guide while maintaining the intermediate distances of the n wires, said flat former being operative to undergo repeated 180° winding rotations about a pivot axis whereby n fillets of the n parallel wires are wound flat against the respective first and then second flat sides of the flat former;

first and second shaping bodies which are oppositely spaced a same radial distance from both the first and second sides of the former, the first and second shaping bodies being operative to undergo

a) a stepwise 180° rotation with the 180° winding rotation of the flat former so that the n parallel wires paying out from the wire guide are alternately rotated with the first and second shaping bodies to form n fillets on the respective first and second flat sides of the former and to form respective n head portions extending laterally away from the n fillets on the flat former, and

b) a removal from adjacent the n head portions formed by the 180° rotation, to reduce tension on the just-formed n head portions;

means for holding n ends of each respective previously-formed fillets; and

first and second guide devices which displace the n just-formed fillets relative to the former such that legs of each n head portions are spread apart and gable shaped head portions are formed.

2. The apparatus for producing a wave-type winding pattern as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a striplike or rail-like coil holder with unilaterally disposed transverse slots and being operative for receiving and transferring the fillets of the winding stripped from the former into radially outward open slots of a rotor or rotorlike transfer tool for further transfer into radially inward open slots of a stator or rotor lamination pocket.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the first and second shaping bodies are respective first and second bolts; and

further including a disk that is rotatable with the former on which the first and second bolts are mounted for being operative to each move

a) axially outward from the disk and located at a radial spacing from the short sides of the former that is dimensioned in accordance with the wire length of a head portion, and into an operative position parallel to the pivot axis of the former, and

b) retracted inward into the disk before the forming of the gable shaped head portions take place.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the first and second guide devices are each formed by a pair of guide shoes on each of the first and second long flat faces of the former, and both guide shoes of each pair can be pressed side by side, in the manner of an intermittent conveyor, against the fillets, made on the former, of the coil windings and against the former.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein for each pair of guide shoes, an inner guide shoe is located in the middle region of the fillets, and an outer guide shoe is located in the two outer end regions of the fillets.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the wire guide is moved during one work cycle unilaterally, relative to the former, approximately in a semicircle about the former, in which motion the wire guide accompanies one of the shaping bodies at a time.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the former upon each spreading of the n head portions is axially advanced to the extent of the spreading motion and in the same direction.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first and second shaping bodies are respective first and second bolts; and

further including a disk that is rotatable with the former on which the first and second bolts are mounted for being operative to each move

a) axially outward from the disk and located at a radial spacing from the short sides of the former that is dimensioned in accordance with the wire length of a head portion, and into an operative position parallel to the pivot axis of the former, and

b) retracted inward into the disk before the forming of the gable shaped head portions take place.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second guide devices are each formed by a pair of guide shoes on each of the first and second long flat faces of the former, and both guide shoes of each pair can be pressed side by side, in the manner of an intermittent conveyor, against the fillets, made on the former, of the coil windings and against the former.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein for each pair of guide shoes, an inner guide shoe is located in the middle region of the fillets, and an outer guide shoe is located in the two outer end regions of the fillets.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the wire guide is moved during one work cycle unilaterally, relative to the former, approximately in a semicircle about the former, in which motion the wire guide accompanies one of the shaping bodies at a time.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the former upon each spreading of the n head portions is axially advanced to the extent of the spreading motion and in the same direction.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 5, 2021
From: ELMOTEC STATOMAT VERTRIEBS GMBH
To: SCHAEFFLER ELMOTEC STATOMAT GMBH
Reel/Frame 055418/0612 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2004 035 084 · Jul 20, 2004 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 11184983 · Jul 20, 2005
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