Provided is a rotor capable of improving the reliability of a connection between a lead conductor and a terminal member. A stator includes a winding wound around a stator core and having a lead conductor at an end thereof, and a terminal member having a connection portion to the lead conductor of the winding. The connection portion of the terminal member includes a winding-side connection portion that fixes the lead conductor, and a leading-end-side connection portion that fixes a portion closer to a leading end of the lead conductor than the winding-side connection portion.

Provided is a manufacturing method of a wire rod for forming a coil, the manufacturing method including the steps of: placing an element wire in a forming space surrounded by a plurality of split dies; and pressure-forming the element wire by moving the plurality of split dies in a direction of narrowing the forming space. In the step of pressure-forming the element wire, at least one of the plurality of split dies is moved, and the plurality of split dies each having a surface that changes in shape in a longitudinal direction of an element wire to pressure-form the element wire into the wire rod having a plurality of different cross-sectional shapes in the longitudinal direction.

An armature winding includes a plurality of winding segments each of which is made of a winding of a conductor wire member. The winding segments are arranged at a given interval away from each other in a circumferential direction of the armature winding and face a magnet unit. Each of the conductor wire members is made of a bundle of a plurality of wires. Each winding segment includes a pair of straight portions and link portions. The straight portions extend straight in an axial direction of a rotor. The link portion connect the straight portions together. Each of the straight portions is made of turns of the conductor wire member which are arranged in the form of multiple columns and layers. Each link portion is shaped to have a space factor lower than those in the straight portions of the winding segment.

A method for manufacturing an electromagnetic coil with an intentionally engineered heat flow path is provided. The method includes defining at least one preferential heat flow path for heat to flow for the electromagnetic coil. A coil cartridge in which to encase the electromagnetic coil is designed by selecting dimensions of different portions of the insulating coil cartridge that will result in the at least one preferential heat flow path. The electromagnetic coil is then encased in coil cartridge material to produce an encased electromagnetic coil.

A coil is configured with stacked n turns (where n is an integer of 2 or more) of spirally wound conductive wire having a rectangular cross-section. A k-th turn (where k is an integer and 1≤k≤n) of the coil has at least a straight portion and a corner portion extending from an end part of the straight portion. On an outer peripheral surface of the corner portion, there are formed at least a first bent portion bent toward an inner peripheral side and a second bent portion bent toward the outer peripheral side, and curvature C1 of the first bent portion is different from curvature C2 of second bent portion.

Discloses is a method of manufacturing a stator and a jig for manufacturing a stator. An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a stator, the method including a preparation step of preparing a coil material and a stator core having a plurality of slots provided in a circumferential direction C, a winding step of manufacturing a winding coil by winding the coil material, and an insertion step of positioning the winding coil in upper regions of at least some of the plurality of slots and then dropping the winding coil into the slot.

A motor winding includes a wire defining a rectangular cross-section and wound in a continuous direction about a coil axis to form a continuous coil including: a first coil segment spiraling in a first plane, defining a first external terminal, and defining a first interior end inset from the first external terminal and arranged on a first side of a coil axis; a second coil segment spiraling in a second plane parallel and offset from the first plane, defining a second exterior terminal parallel to the first external terminal, and defining a second interior end inset from the second exterior coil end and arranged on a second side of the coil axis opposite the first interior end; and a junction extending between the first plane and the second plane to couple the first interior end of the first coil segment to the second interior end of the second coil segment.

A method of manufacturing a voice coil (1a . . . 1d) is disclosed, wherein windings (4a . . . 4g) in a first section (B1) are arranged one above the other and are arranged next to each other in a second section (B2) when viewed in said cross sectional plane (D). In a first step, a first and a second winding (4a, 4a′, 4b) of the windings (4a . . . 4g) are arranged over one another but offset sideways to each other in the second section (B2). In a second step, the first winding (4a, 4a′) is moved into a height position of the second winding (4b) in the second section (B2) by pressing and/or folding. Moreover, an electrodynamic actuator (17a . . . 17c), comprising a voice coil (1a . . . 1d) of the above kind is disclosed. Finally, an electrodynamic transducer (32a, 32b), a speaker (21) and an output device comprising such an electrodynamic actuator (17a . . . 17c) is disclosed.

An apparatus for manipulating a material is provided. The apparatus may comprise a magnetic device arranged in a three-dimensional configuration. The apparatus may comprise a surface on which at least one carrier is configured to move. The magnetic device may be configured to provide a magnetic field for driving the carrier on the surface to manipulate a material. The apparatus may comprise a controller configured to control the magnetic device to modulate the magnetic field. The controller may be further configured to detect a position and/or motion of the carrier.

A stator for a rotary electric machine has a tooth whose width in a circumferential direction is substantially constant in a radial direction of the stator, and a concentrated winding coil including winding conducting wires around the tooth. A height of a first conducting wire of the sixth turn at a tooth's top end side measured from a surface of the tooth is lower than a height of a conducting wire adjacent to a tooth's root end side of the conducting wire measured from the tooth surface. Conducting wires of the first to fifth turns, that is, second conducting wires, have the same height from the surface of the tooth.