Sony Corporation

Yoshihiko Hakozaki

Yasuhiro Watanabe

Takao Kosaka

A coil winding apparatus includes a wire feed assembly having a wire feed nozzle that can be moved along a first axis (Z-axis) parallel to the center axis of a core and along a second axis (X-axis) perpendicular to the first axis and that can also be moved and positioned inside and outside the core, a guide device having a guide member is capable of catching a wire fed through the wire feed nozzle and can also be moved along the first and second axes and positioned relative to the core. A guide member guides the wire to a first circumferential groove, to a second circumferential groove, and to slots, all of which are formed in the core. A core holding device is included for holding and indexing the core during the coil winding operation.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshihiko Hakozaki