Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenichi Ohno

Yutaka Matsumoto

Daisuke Ueno

Shinichi Kawano

Kanji Kubo

Mitsuhiro Yamada

Toru Yoshida

Yoshihisa Matsuoka

Satoru Saito

Yoshito Otake

Takeshi Nakamura

Shuhei Okuda

Mitsutaka Igaue

Ryo Nakajima

Kenichi Omagari

Kazuhito Hiraga

Junji Nakajima

Seiji Isotani

Kanomi Hayashi

Kenichiro Ono

Nobuhisa Takahashi

Mitsugu Ueno

Provided are an alignment method and an alignment device by which, immediately before aligning, the leg parts of adjacent conductors do not interfere with each other. The alignment method, in which by providing a plurality of coil elements () in an annular shape and moving the plurality of coil elements () in a direction in which the diameter of the annular shape is reduced, the plurality of coil elements () are aligned in a state where turn sections () provided at substantially apex portions are alternately overlapped, wherein the plurality of coil elements () are aligned by moving each of the plurality of coil elements () toward an annularly shaped center, and while doing so, rotating the plurality of coil elements about a rotation axis () that is parallel to the central axis (C) of the annular shape.

Motor component alignment method

The alignment method of the electrical conductors includes an aligning step of aligning a plurality of electrical conductorsin an annular shape while being overlapped in a circumferential direction of the annular shape by moving gripping devicesinward in a radial direction of the annular shape, in which the gripping devicehas a pair of clawsandcapable of pinching one leg portionsof the substantially U-shaped electrical conductorsone by one, one clawhas a length capable of gripping one leg portion, and the other clawhas a length capable of gripping one leg portionof one substantially U-shaped electrical conductor-and gripping the other leg portionof the other substantially U-shaped electrical conductor-

Alignment method and alignment device for annularly aligned conductors

An alignment apparatus is configured to include an alignment mechanism. At least one of first legs or second legs of electric conductors are retained so as to be aligned in an arcuate shape or a circular shape by a plurality of holders that make up the alignment mechanism. Thereafter, the plurality of holders are rotated. Accordingly, the electric conductors, which are aligned in an arcuate or circular shape, are rotated and arranged on the same circumference. In other words, the electric conductors are aligned in an annular shape.

Alignment method and apparatus for electric conductors

Provided are an insertion method and an insertion apparatus for efficiently and reliably inserting a plurality of coil elements aligned in a ring shape into respective slots of a stator core. In an insertion method of inserting, the insertion method includes a coil element alignment process Sof forming an assembly bodyby assembling the plurality of coil elementsin a ring shape in the state where the turn portionsalternately overlap each other, a supporting process Sof supporting the assembly bodyby using the turn portions, and an insertion process Sof allowing the assembly bodyand the stator coreto be close to each other and inserting the leg portionsof the coil elementsof the assembly bodyinto the slots

Insertion apparatus which inserts U-shaped conductors

An electrical conductor aligning device that can, without mutual interference, easily, and in a short period of time, align a plurality of electrical conductors in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction. The coil element aligning device includes: holding sections, a slide mechanism and a cylinder mechanism. One leg of each coil element is held by the plurality of holding sections, the plurality of coil elements being aligned in an annular shape at a spacing such that there is no overlapping in the peripheral direction, and then the plurality of holding sections being moved inwards in the radial direction by the slide mechanism and the cylinder mechanism, thereby aligning the plurality of coil elements in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction.

Electrical conductor aligning method

Electrical conductor aligning device

Insertion method of U-shaped conductors

A conductive wire piece supply method includes the steps of: obtaining a conductive wire piece set using a first slot which receives conductive wire pieces, having been sent, with the conductive wire pieces vertically superposed on each other; carrying the conductive wire piece set from the first slot portion to the second slot portion; and rotating the second slot portion.

Conductive wire piece supply method and conductive wire piece supply device

An insertion system for electrical conductors is provided that can widen the gap between insulating paper. An insertion system () includes: a first moving part () that causes a leg of the coil element () to move in an insertion direction of a slot (); a guide part () that guides the leg into the slot (); and a pair of first spreader plates (A) and a pair of second spreader plates (B) that can spread at a leading end side thereof, in which these pairs of spreader plates are formed so as to extend inclined relative to the insertion direction so as to approach each other towards a leading end side, and a gap therebetween is narrower than a width of insulating paper () at the leading end side, and is wider than a width of the leg of the coil element () at a base end side.

Insertion system for electrical conductor

A fastening device includes a rotational drive portion that rotationally drives a socket, an advance/retract drive portion that causes this socket to advance or retract along a rotational axis thereof, a magazine that retains a plurality of heads that retain bolts, and a switching portion that moves this magazine to selectively position one of a plurality of heads ahead and on the rotational axis of the socket. One of the heads is selected and positioned on the rotational axis of the socket by the switching portion, then the socket is advanced by the advance/retract drive portion and the head thus selected is retained by the socket, then the socket is advanced further by the advance/retract drive portion and the head to detach is detached from the magazine, and then the head is rotated by driving the rotational drive portion, thereby fastening a bolt retained in the head.

Fastening device, method of loading fastening member, and device for loading fastening member

An apparatusfor coupling a first memberand a second memberby a clip and a screw is constituted by member moving meansL,R for moving the second memberrelative to the first member, reaction force detecting meansL,R provided to the member moving meansL,R for detecting a press reaction force generated when the second memberis matched to the first member, clip fitting determining meansL,R for determining whether the clip is correctly fitted to a clip hole by reading the reaction force detected by the reaction force detecting meansL,R, and screw fastening meansfor fastening the screw when acceptable information is provided by the clip fitting determining meansL,R.

Method and apparatus of integrating work

A four-wheel steerable motor vehicle has a mechanism for steering front wheels in response to turning motion of a steering wheel, and a mechanism for steering rear wheels in response to steering of the front wheels. The rear wheels have camber with respect to ground which is more negative than camber of the front wheels with respect to ground. The motor vehicle also has front wheel suspensions supporting said front wheels, respectively, and rear wheel suspensions supporting said rear wheels, respectively, the front and rear wheel suspensions being of the double-wishbone type.

Four-wheel steerable motor vehicle

In a rear wheel steering device for a front and rear wheel steering system of a wheeled vehicle wherein rear wheels are steered by displacement of tie rods connected to the knuckles of the rear wheels and disposed in the lateral direction of the vehicle in an opposite phase relationship relative to the front wheels at least under a certain condition such as a small steering angle or a low vehicle speed, the centers of the turning radii of the rear wheels are made to coincide with each other by determining the geometry of the tie rods and the knuckle arms in such a manner that a pair of imaginary lines formed by connecting the pivot points between the knuckle arms and the tie rods to the points of intersection between a horizontal plane containing the said pivot points and the center lines of rotation of the knuckles relative to the vehicle body intersect at a point which is located ahead of the center line of the rear wheel axle. As a result, the slip angle of the rear wheels is minimized, particularly when the steering angle is great.

Rear wheel steering device for front and rear wheel steering system

Disclosed is a rear wheel suspension device for a front and rear wheel steering vehicle wherein rear wheels are steered in an opposite phase relationship relative to the front wheels at least under a certain condition. The structure of the suspension for the rear wheels is so determined that a caster angle of each of the rear wheels relatively sharply increases as the distance between the vehicle body and the rear wheel is increased from a neutral state and maintains a smaller positive value as the distance between the vehicle body and the rear wheel is decreased from the neutral state. This can be accomplished by pivotably connecting the knuckle for each of the rear wheels by an upper arm and a lower arm to the vehicle body, respectively, and a rotational axial line of the upper arm inclines downward at its forward portion while the rotational axial line of the lower arm extends substantially parallel to the length of the vehicle. Preferably, the rotational axial line of the upper arm additionally inclines inward at its forward portion. Thus, the force required to maintain a certain steering angle changes smoothly as the steering angle is increased and at the same time the tendency of the rear wheels to take a straight course is maintained.

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Kenichi Ohno