ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,072, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Coil forming apparatus and coil forming method" was invented by Eishi Yoshida (Tokyo), Yutaka Matsumoto (Tokyo), Junya Ochiai (Tokyo) and Shuhei Okuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil forming apparatus is configured so as to, upon forming a band-shaped coil having side ends at both ends of a plurality of straight portions, in the course of pivotally conveying the band-shaped coil along the outer circumference of a coil winding jig by a coil conveying mechanism, sandwich the side end by a reforming portion of guide member, reform the band-shaped coil in...