Method of manufacturing coil for torque sensor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11664158-B2
Application number	US-202016789653-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2020
Priority date	Feb 14, 2019
Publication date	May 30, 2023
Grant date	May 30, 2023

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a coil for a torque sensor includes: holding a bobbin with a jig, the bobbin being formed in a cylindrical shape and provided with first inclined grooves and second inclined grooves on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the bobbin, the first inclined grooves being inclined at a preset specified angle with respect to an axial direction of the cylindrical shape, and the second inclined grooves being inclined at the specified angle with respect to the axial direction in a direction opposite to the first inclined grooves; and rotating the bobbin while simultaneously supplying insulated wires from nozzles arranged to surround the bobbin, and driving the nozzles in a direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the bobbin so as to wind the insulated wires around the bobbin along the first inclined grooves or the second inclined grooves.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of manufacturing a coil for a torque sensor, the method comprising:
holding a bobbin with a jig, the bobbin being formed in a cylindrical shape and provided with first inclined grooves and second inclined grooves on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the bobbin, a first side passage formed on the cylindrical outer peripheral surface on one side in an axial direction of the cylindrical shape, and a second side passage formed on the cylindrical outer peripheral surface on the other side opposite to the one side in the axial direction of the cylindrical shape, the first inclined grooves being inclined at a preset specified angle with respect to the axial direction of the cylindrical shape, and the second inclined grooves being inclined at the specified angle with respect to the axial direction in a direction opposite to the first inclined grooves; and
rotating the bobbin while simultaneously supplying insulated wires from nozzles arranged to surround the bobbin, and driving the nozzles in a direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the bobbin so as to wind the insulated wires around the bobbin along the first inclined grooves or the second inclined grooves,
wherein when the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin so as to form one parallelogram along two adjacent first inclined grooves, a part of the first side passage, and a part of the second side passage, the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin along the first side passage and the second side passage in a same direction, and
wherein when the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin so as to form one parallelogram along two adjacent second inclined grooves, a part of the first side passage, and a part of the second side passage, the insulated wires are wound along the first side passage and the second side passage in the same direction.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bobbin has intersections for the first inclined grooves and the second inclined grooves, the intersections indicating portions where the first inclined grooves and the second inclined grooves intersect at substantially center of the bobbin in the axial direction, and
wherein the method further comprises sequentially stacking first wires and second wires at the intersections, the first wires being the insulated wires to be arranged along the first inclined grooves, and the second wires being the insulated wires to be arranged along the second inclined grooves.

3. The method according to claim 2 , further comprising:
stacking the same number of the first wires and the second wires at the intersections.

4. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first inclined grooves are formed to be inclined at +45 degrees with respect to the axial direction, and
wherein the second inclined grooves are formed to be inclined at −45 degrees with respect to the axial direction.

5. The method according claim 1 , further including using four nozzles, as the nozzles, arranged at every 90 degrees to surround the bobbin.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the nozzles are spaced apart from each other and are arranged along a circumferential path around and spaced apart from the bobbin.

7. A method of manufacturing a coil for a torque sensor, the method comprising:
holding a bobbin with a jig, the bobbin being formed in a cylindrical shape and provided with first inclined grooves and second inclined grooves on a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the bobbin, the first inclined grooves being inclined at a preset specified angle with respect to an axial direction of the cylindrical shape, and the second inclined grooves being inclined at the specified angle with respect to the axial direction in a direction opposite to the first inclined grooves; and
rotating the bobbin while simultaneously supplying insulated wires from nozzles arranged to surround the bobbin, and driving the nozzles in a direction orthogonal to a rotation direction of the bobbin so as to wind the insulated wires around the bobbin along the first inclined grooves or the second inclined grooves,
wherein the method further includes using four nozzles, as the nozzles, arranged at every 90 degrees to surround the bobbin.

8. The method according to claim 7 ,
wherein the bobbin has intersections for the first inclined grooves and the second inclined grooves, the intersections indicating portions where the first inclined grooves and the second inclined grooves intersect at substantially center of the bobbin in the axial direction, and
wherein the method further comprises sequentially stacking first wires and second wires at the intersections, the first wires being the insulated wires to be arranged along the first inclined grooves, and the second wires being the insulated wires to be arranged along the second inclined grooves.

9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising stacking the same number of the first wires and the second wires at the intersections.

10. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the first inclined grooves are formed to be inclined at +45 degrees with respect to the axial direction, and wherein the second inclined grooves are formed to be inclined at −45 degrees with respect to the axial direction.

11. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the bobbin further includes:
a first side passage formed on the cylindrical outer peripheral surface on one side in the axial direction of the cylindrical shape, and
a second side passage formed on the cylindrical outer peripheral surface on the other side opposite to the one side in the axial direction of the cylindrical shape,
wherein when the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin so as to form one parallelogram along two adjacent first inclined grooves, a part of the first side passage, and a part of the second side passage, the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin along the first side passage and the second side passage in a same direction, and
wherein when the insulated wires are wound around the bobbin so as to form one parallelogram along two adjacent second inclined grooves, a part of the first side passage, and a part of the second side passage, the insulated wires are wound along the first side passage and the second side passage in the same direction.

12. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the nozzles are spaced apart from each other and are arranged along a circumferential path around and spaced apart from the bobbin.

Assignees

• Proterial Ltd

Inventors

• Shimizu Hiroki

Classifications

• H01F41/066 Primary

  with insulation · CPC title

• G01L3/102

  involving magnetostrictive means (magnetostrictive sensors H10N35/101) · CPC title

• H01F41/096

  Dispensing or feeding devices · CPC title

• H01F41/071

  Winding coils of special form (winding conductors onto closed formers or cores H01F41/08) · CPC title

• H01F41/069

  Winding two or more wires, e.g. bifilar winding · CPC title