The present invention relates to a winding method and a winding apparatus of a coil including a plurality of coil layers.
As shown in
As a manufacturing method of such a coil 2, a method of continuously forming a first unit wound portion 25, a second unit wound portion 26, and a third unit wound portion 27 having different inner circumferential lengths from each other in the winding axis direction by winding a conductive wire in a swirl form as shown in
As a method of manufacturing the interim product 20 of the air core coil shown in
However, with the method of using the stepped winding jig, a winding task is a manual task. Thus, there is a problem that production efficiency is bad.
With the automatic winding machine for winding the conductive wire around the winding core member while changing the form of the winding core member for each wire winding step of the unit wound portion, there is a problem that a configuration for changing the form of the winding core member for each wire winding step of the unit wound portion is complicated.
Provided herein are systems, methods and apparatuses for a coil in which a plurality of unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other is continuously formed in the winding axis direction, each of the unit wound portions is wound along a loop shape winding route having a plurality of arc shape corner parts, and unit coil portions including the pluralities of unit wound portions are continuously formed in the winding axis direction, wherein the pluralities of corner parts formed at the same phase angle with respect to the winding axis in the plurality of unit wound portions forming each of the unit coil portions are formed in an arc shape having curvature center at the same position.
The methods, systems, and apparatuses are set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or can be learned by practice of the methods, apparatuses, and systems. The advantages of the methods, apparatuses, and systems will be realized and attained by means of the elements and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the methods, apparatuses, and systems, as claimed.
In the accompanying figures, like elements are identified by like reference numerals among the several preferred embodiments of the present invention.
The foregoing and other features and advantages of the invention are apparent from the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments, read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. The detailed description and drawings are merely illustrative of the invention rather than limiting, the scope of the invention being defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.
An object of the present invention is to provide a winding method and a winding apparatus of a coil, capable of manufacturing a coil in which unit coil portions including pluralities of unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other are continuously formed in the winding axis direction with a simple configuration.
In a coil according to the present invention, a plurality of unit coil portions formed by winding one conductive wire about a winding axis is placed side by side in the winding axis direction, each of the unit coil portions is formed by a plurality of unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other, the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof by pushing at least a part of the unit wound portion having a small inner circumferential length inside the unit wound portion having a large inner circumferential length, and the unit wound portion is wound along a loop shape winding route having a plurality of arc shape corner parts.
In the plurality of unit wound portions forming the unit coil portion, pluralities of corner parts formed at the same phase angle with respect to the winding axis are formed in an arc shape having curvature center at the same position.
A winding method of a coil according to the present invention is a winding method of a coil in which a plurality of unit coil portions formed by winding one conductive wire about a winding axis is placed side by side in the winding axis direction, each of the unit coil portions is formed by a plurality of unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other, the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof by pushing at least a part of the unit wound portion having a small inner circumferential length inside the unit wound portion having a large inner circumferential length, and the unit wound portion is wound along a loop shape winding route having a plurality of arc shape corner parts, including a first step of transferring a conductive wire 22 by a predetermined distance along a straight transition path crossing a shaft body 5, and fitting the conductive wire 22 along an outer circumferential surface of the shaft body 5, and a second step of winding the conductive wire 22 on the outer circumferential surface of the shaft body 5 by a predetermined angle by rotating a pressing member 61 to be pressed onto the conductive wire 22 along a circumferential route about the shaft body 5, so as to form arc shape corner parts, wherein one unit wound portion is formed by repeating the first step and the second step by the number of times of the corner parts, and by changing an outer diameter of the shaft body 5 at the time of formation of the unit wound portions in a process of forming one unit coil portion, the pluralities of corner parts formed at the same phase angle with respect to the winding axis in the plurality of unit wound portions forming the unit coil portion are formed in an arc shape having curvature center at the same position and having different radiuses.
In a specific mode, the winding method has a third step of, after manufacturing the coil in which the unit coil portions including the pluralities of unit wound portions are continuously formed in the winding axis direction, compressing the coil in the winding axis direction and pushing at least a part of the unit wound portion having a small inner circumferential length inside the unit wound portion having a large inner circumferential length among the plurality of unit wound portions forming the unit coil.
Thereby, the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof.
A winding apparatus of a coil according to the present invention is a winding apparatus of a coil in which a plurality of unit coil portions formed by winding one conductive wire about a winding axis is placed side by side in the winding axis direction, each of the unit coil portions is formed by a plurality of unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths from each other, the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof by pushing at least a part of the unit wound portion having a small inner circumferential length inside the unit wound portion having a large inner circumferential length, and the unit wound portion is wound along a loop shape winding route having a plurality of arc shape corner parts, the apparatus including; a shaft body 5, a conductive wire transfer mechanism 4 for transferring a conductive wire 22 along a straight transition path crossing the shaft body 5, and fitting the conductive wire 22 along an outer circumferential surface of the shaft body 5, and a bending mechanism 6 for bending the conductive wire 22 along the outer circumferential surface of the shaft body 5 by rotating a pressing member 61 to be pressed onto the conductive wire 22 along a circumferential route about the shaft body 5.
In a specific mode, the shaft body 5 is formed by a plurality of shaft portions 51, 52, 53 arranged on the same axis as the winding axis, and the shaft body 5 is connected to a driving and reciprocating mechanism for letting, with respect to the center shaft portion 51, the other shaft portions 52, 53 respectively reciprocate and move along the winding axis.
In another specific mode, a guide plate 9 surrounding the shaft body 5 for guiding the conductive wire 22 bent into a loop shape by the bending mechanism 6 is installed.
In a further specific mode, a surface of the guide plate 9 has an inclination in accordance with a lead angle of the unit wound portions with respect to a surface orthogonal to the shaft body 5.
With the coil manufactured by the winding method and the winding apparatus of the coil according to the present invention, the pluralities of corner parts formed at the same phase angle with respect to the winding axis in the plurality of unit wound portions forming the unit coil portion are formed in an arc shape having the curvature center at the same position. Thus, when the unit coil portion is multi-layered in at least a part thereof, a space between the unit wound portion on the inner side and the unit wound portion on the outer side comes as close to zero as possible in the multi-layered part. As a result, a space factor of the conductive wire is increased.
Hereinafter, a winding method and a winding apparatus for manufacturing an interim product 20 of an air core coil shown in
In the winding apparatus according to the present invention, as shown in
A second reciprocating platform 13 slidable in the front and rear direction at an initial position of the rotation platform 12 shown in
The first reciprocating platform 11 includes a pair of reciprocating guide mechanisms 71, 72 in left and right ends thereof as shown in
In the first reciprocating platform 11, a conductive wire feeding mechanism 3 for feeding the conductive wire 22 from the upstream side toward the downstream side is coupled to a right end on the upstream side of the conductive wire 22.
A conductive wire transfer mechanism 4 is arranged along the transition path of the conductive wire 22 on the first reciprocating platform 11. The conductive wire transfer mechanism 4 includes a first grip mechanism 41 and a second grip mechanism 42. A motor 44 is coupled to the first grip mechanism 41 via a shaft 43 shown in
By moving from a downstream position to the upstream side in a state of gripping the conductive wire 22, the first grip mechanism 41 transfers the conductive wire 22 in accordance with a moving distance thereof, and then returns to the original downstream position in a state of not gripping the conductive wire 22. The second grip mechanism 42 does not grip the conductive wire 22 while the first grip mechanism 41 grips the conductive wire 22, and grips the conductive wire 22 while the first grip mechanism 41 does not grip the conductive wire 22.
The shaft body 5 is arranged along the transition path of the conductive wire 22, and as shown in
Thereby, a first state where only the first shaft portion 51 protrudes as in
As shown in
As shown in
As shown in
In a winding step by the winding apparatus, as shown in
Next, by rotating the pressing member 61 by a predetermined rotation angle θ exceeding 90 degrees from an initial position where the pressing member 61 is fitted along the conductive wire 22, the conductive wire 22 is bent by 90 degrees while being fitted along the outer circumferential surface of the first shaft portion 51, the second shaft portion 52, or the third shaft portion 53 of the shaft body 5. It should be noted that by setting the rotation angle θ of the pressing member 61 to be slightly larger than 90 degrees, the conductive wire 22 has a bending angle of 90 degrees by springback. In this bending process of the conductive wire 22, the conductive wire 22 extending over the shaft body 5 slides along a surface of the guide plate 9.
The guide plate 9 has an inclination angle in accordance with a lead angle of the unit wound portion. When the conductive wire 22 slides along the surface of the guide plate 9, a predetermined lead angle is provided to the conductive wire 22.
By repeating a transfer step and a bending step of the above conductive wire 22 four times, one unit wound portion having four arc shape corner parts is formed.
In a state where the shaft portion of the shaft body 5 on which the conductive wire 22 is to be wound is changed with the other shaft portion having a different outer diameter, and the first reciprocating platform 11 and the second reciprocating platform 13 are moved forward and rearward in accordance with the outer diameter of the shaft portion, by similarly repeating the transfer step and the bending step of the conductive wire 22 four times, the next unit wound portion having four arc shape corner parts is formed.
In such a way, three unit wound portions having different inner circumferential lengths are wound, and thereby, one unit coil portion is formed. As shown in
Thereby, as shown in
Further, by repeating a formation step of the above unit coil portion, as shown in
Next, as in Step S4, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of a short side of the unit wound portion) in Step S5, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S6. Thereby, a second arc shape corner part in accordance with the outer diameter of the first shaft portion 51 is formed.
Next, as in Step S7, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the long side of the unit wound portion) in Step S8 of
Then, as in Step S10, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the short side of the unit wound portion) in Step S11, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S12. Thereby, a fourth arc shape corner part in accordance with the outer diameter of the first shaft portion 51 is formed, and the first unit wound portion 25 is wound.
Then, as in Step S13, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the long side of the unit wound portion) in Step S14 of
Then, as in Step S18, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the short side of the unit wound portion) in Step S19, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S20 of
Then, as in Step S21, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the long side of the unit wound portion) in Step S22, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S23. Thereby, a third arc shape corner part in accordance with the outer diameter of the second shaft portion 52 is formed.
Then, as in Step S24, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the short side of the unit wound portion) in Step S25, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S26 of
Then, as in Step S27, the pressing member 61 is returned to the initial position. After the conductive wire 22 is transferred by a predetermined distance (length of the long side of the unit wound portion) in Step S28, the first reciprocating platform 11 and the second reciprocating platform 13 are retreated by the distance in accordance with the outer diameter of the conductive wire 22 in Step S29. Next, after the third shaft portion 53 is raised as in Step S30, the pressing member 61 is rotated and the conductive wire 22 is bent in Step S31. Thereby, a first arc shape corner part in accordance with the outer diameter of the third shaft portion 53 is formed.
By repeating the same actions, the third unit wound portion 27 is wound, and the first unit coil portion 23 is formed. Next, the wound shaft is changed in order of the third shaft portion 53, the second shaft portion 52, and the first shaft portion 51, and while bringing the first reciprocating platform 11 and the second reciprocating platform 13 forward by the distance in accordance with the outer diameter of the conductive wire 22, the third unit wound portion 27, the second unit wound portion 26, and the first unit wound portion 25 are wound in this order, so that the next unit coil portion 23 is formed. By repeating this formation of the unit coil portion 23, the interim product 20 of the air core coil shown in
In the above winding apparatus, the guide plate 9 shown in
By compressing the interim product 20 of the air core coil obtained as above in the winding axis direction as shown in
In the interim product 20 of the air core coil manufactured by the above winding method and the winding apparatus, as shown in
The coil 2 serving as the finished product functions as a reactor in a state where a core (not shown) is inserted into a center hollow part thereof, or is used as a primary wire or a secondary wire of an electric transformer.
It should be noted that the configurations of the parts of the present invention are not limited to the above embodiment but can be variously modified within the technical scope described in the claims. For example, the conductive wire 22 is not limited to a round wire but may be a square wire having a rectangular section.
2 Coil
20 Interim product
21 Finished product
22 Conductive wire
23 Unit coil portion
25 First unit wound portion
26 Second unit wound portion
27 Third unit wound portion
1 Base
11 First reciprocating platform
12 Rotation platform
13 Second reciprocating platform
3 Conductive wire feeding mechanism
4 Conductive wire transfer mechanism
5 Shaft body
51 First shaft portion
52 Second shaft portion
53 Third shaft portion
6 Bending mechanism
61 Pressing member
62 Motor
7 First driving and reciprocating mechanism
8 Second driving and reciprocating mechanism
9 Guide plate
S Winding axis
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2011-151444 | Jul 2011 | JP | national |
The present application claims priority from and is a continuation from PCT application No. PCT/JP2012/066327, filed Jun. 27, 2012; which claims priority from Japanese Patent Application Serial No. JP 2011-151444, filed Jul. 8, 2011, all herein incorporated by reference in their entireties.
Number | Date | Country | |
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Parent | PCT/JP2012/066327 | Jun 2012 | US |
Child | 14149778 | US |