Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Fuji Electronics Industry Co., Ltd.

Hiroaki Mase

Ryosuke Fukuchi

Hiroko Watanabe

Junko Tanaka

Yasuaki Matsumoto

Yasufumi Nakai

Masayuki Orihara

Akihiro Hanaki

A heating apparatus () includes a high frequency power supply (), a left conductive plate (), a right conductive plate (), a left heating coil (), and a right heating coil (). The left heating coil () includes a left conductor portion (). The left conductor portion () faces a gear tooth () of a helical gear () and extends in a direction orthogonal to the direction in which the gear tooth () extends. The left heating coil () includes a focusing magnetic body () which focuses magnetic flux in the left conductor portion () and concentrates the magnetic flux on a surface of the gear tooth (). The left heating coil () includes an upper inducing magnetic body () which induces a part of the magnetic flux flowing in a tooth root of the gear tooth () into a tooth tip of the gear tooth ().

Heating coil

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Tochigi, Japan

Hiroaki Mase