Claims
- 1. A method of making a coil assembly of the kind comprising insulated wire coiled on a bobbin provided with terminals to which the winding is connected, comprising the steps of:
- providing a bobbin having two spaced apart drum-like coil support portions with side flanges and a bridging section extending between the support portions, said bridging section having three terminal housings each having walls projecting outwardly and defining inwardly extending axially displaced terminal-receiving cavities, each of said support portions surrounding a winding axis and said flanges extending radially outward relative to said axis, at least one of said flanges including a rim and having an outward portion, at least two of said terminal-receiving cavities having slotted walls allowing a wire to extend through each of the cavities in a substantially circumferential direction relative to said axis,
- winding a number of turns of insulated wire under tension on said bobbin, wherein the winding of the wire is started in one of said cavities next to one support portion and wound into a coil on said one support portion, guided across said bridging section and passed through an intermediate one of said three cavities, wound into a coil on the other support portion, then guided into the cavity next to said other support portion
- and inserting a terminal having insulation penetrating means into each of said cavities to provide connections for said coil.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 125,657, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,771,257, filed Nov. 27, 1987, which, in turn is a divisional application of Ser. No. 091,562, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,730,178, filed Aug. 31, 1987, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 912,676, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,721,935, filed Sept. 25, 1986, which, in turn is a continuation of parent application Ser. No. 652,233 filed Sept. 19, 1987 now abandoned.
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