Armature coil conductor and method of manufacture therefor

• US 6,140,732 A
• Filed: 08/21/1998
• Issued: 10/31/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Morimoto, Yoshihiro, Yamada, Yoshiharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Nestor
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waks, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US09/138,070
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 310/195, 310/261, 310/234, 29/597, 29/598
• US Class Current: 310/195
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 39/32 Connections of conductor to commutator segment
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/0207 Ultrasonic-, H.F.-, cold- or impact welding
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 13/04 Connections between commutator segments and windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0056 Manufacturing winding connections
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0081 for form-wound windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/0421 consisting of single conductors, e.g. hairpins
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 15/064 Windings consisting of separate segments, e.g. hairpin windings H02K15/063 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/12 arranged in slots
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49011 Commutator or slip ring assembly

Abstract

The lead portions have oval cross sections such that the dimensions of the cross sections of the lead portions parallel to the circumference of the armature are smaller than those of the straight portions parallel to the circumference of the armature are. Preferably, the cross-sectional area of the lead portions may be substantially equal to that of the straight portions. The lead portions may have circular cross sections such that the cross-sectional diameter of the lead portions is smaller than that of the straight portions. The method of manufacture for an armature coil conductor comprises the steps of working, which may be ironing preferably, the ends of the straight portions so that the lead portions have oval cross sections. Preferably, the working performed on the ends of the straight portions may comprise inserting a plurality of the straight portions into the slots in the armature core; overlapping a plurality of the lead portions and forming pairs of lead portions comprising an upper lead and a lower lead; and simultaneously ironing the pairs of lead portions by passing the pairs of lead portions through a die having a plurality of die holes capable of ironing the pairs of lead portions simultaneously.

Claims

1. An armature coil conductor for a direct-current motor having straight portions which fit into slots in an armature core and corresponding lead portions, disposed at ends of said straight portions, which are to be connected by ultrasonic welding to commutator segments arranged parallel to a circumference of an armature core, characterized in that said lead portions have oval cross sections such that dimensions of the oval cross sections of said lead portions parallel to the circumference of the armature are smaller than dimensions of cross sections of said corresponding straight portions parallel to the circumference of said armature.

2. The armature coil conductor according to claim 1, characterized in that a cross-sectional area of each of said lead portions is substantially equal to a cross-sectional area of each of said corresponding straight portions.

3. The armature coil conductor according to claim 1, characterized in that one of said cross sections of said straight portions is circular.

4. The armature coil conductor according to claim 1, wherein each of said straight portions has a circular cross section.

5. A motor comprising:

an armature core;

a rotating shaft which rotates about a central axis;

a commutator segment; and

an armature coil conductor having a first portion which is connected to said commutator segment and a second portion which is connected to said armature core;

wherein a first cross section of said first portion, made in a first plane perpendicular to the central axis, has a first dimension taken in a radial direction of said armature which is larger than a second dimension of the first cross section taken in a direction perpendicular to the first dimension; and

wherein a second cross section of said second portion, made in a second plane perpendicular to the central axis, has a corresponding third dimension taken in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction of said armature which is larger than the second dimension.

6. The motor according to claim 5, characterized in that

a cross-sectional area of said first portion in the first plane is substantially equal to a cross-sectional area of said second portion in the second plane.

7. The motor according to claim 5, characterized in that

said first portion has an oval cross-section.

8. The motor according to claim 7, characterized in that

said second portion has a circular cross-section.

9. The motor according to claim 7, characterized in that said motor is a DC motor.

10. The motor according to claim 5, characterized in that said second dimension is a maximum dimension of the first cross section taken in the direction perpendicular to said first dimension.

11. The motor according to claim 10, characterized in that

said third dimension is a maximum dimension of the second cross section taken in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction of said armature.

12. A motor comprising:

an armature core;

a rotating shaft which rotates about a central axis;

a commutator segment; and

an armature coil conductor having a first portion which is connected to said commutator segment and a second portion which is connected to said armature core; and

wherein a maximum dimension of a cross section of said first portion, made in a first plane perpendicular to the central axis, is larger than a maximum dimension of a cross section of said second portion made in a second plane perpendicular to the central axis.

13. The motor according to claim 12, characterized in that

a cross-sectional area of said first portion in the first plane is substantially equal to a cross-sectional area of said second portion in the second plane.

14. The motor according to claim 12, characterized in that

said first portion has an oval cross-section.

15. The motor according to claim 14, characterized in that

said second portion has a circular cross-section.

16. The motor according to claim 14, characterized in that said motor is a DC motor.

17. The motor according to claim 12, wherein a maximum dimension of the cross section of said first portion, made in the first plane perpendicular to the central axis and taken in a direction perpendicular to a radial direction of said armature, is smaller than a maximum dimension of the cross section of said second portion made in the second plane perpendicular to the central axis and taken in the direction perpendicular to the radial direction of said armature.