System and method for forming a hairpin for motors
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorJiwon Yu
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Abstract
A system and method are provided for forming a head portion and a leg portion of a hairpin applied to a hairpin type drive motor. The method includes: unwinding a material coil wound around a bobbin by an unwinder unit; flattening the material coil supplied from the unwinder unit by flattening rollers; cutting the material coil supplied from the flattening rollers to a preset length by a feeding unit; and forming the hairpin having a head portion and a leg portion by press-molding the material coil of the preset length supplied from the feeding unit by a plurality of forming blocks.
Claims5
A method for forming a hairpin, the method comprising:
- unwinding a material coil wound around a bobbin by an unwinder unit;
- flattening the material coil supplied from the unwinder unit by flattening rollers;
- cutting the material coil supplied from the flattening rollers to a preset length by a feeding unit;
- and
- forming a hairpin having a head portion and a leg portion by
- press-molding the material coil of the preset length supplied from the feeding unit by a plurality of forming blocks,
- positioning a mold device of a forming unit corresponding to the hairpin to be formed to a home position,
- loading the material coil by a plurality of clampers of the mold device,
- primarily forming the head portion between an upper forming surface of a first forming block of the forming unit and a lower forming surface of a second forming block of the forming unit by lowering the first forming block while the material coil is disposed between the first forming block and the second forming block,
- forming the leg portion between a pair of forming roller units of the forming unit and slant surfaces of the second forming block, and
- secondarily forming the head portion between a forming groove formed in the first forming block and a forming protrusion formed in a third forming block of the forming unit after raising the first forming block by a preset distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.