US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 1 for "Coil insertion apparatus and coil insertion method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,091, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Coil insertion apparatus and coil insertion method" was invented by Norihiko Hikima (Tokyo), Yasuto Ohashi (Tokyo) and Takumi Miyamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil insertion apparatus includes a coil diameter expander that expands a diameter of a coil assembly in a wound state from inside a stator core to insert the coil assembly into slots of the stator core, the coil diameter expander including a coil end pressing part that presses coil ends of the coil assembly from inside toward outside to expand the diameter, and a coil straight part pressing ...