Methods for making electric motor parts employing pallet with removable workpiece holder
AssigneeAxis AB
InventorsLuciano Santandrea, Massimo Lombardi
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Abstract
A pallet system for supporting a workpiece (such as an electric motor stator or rotor) during processing of the workpiece includes a pallet member on which a workpiece holder can be removably placed. The workpiece holder may have multiple workpiece-engaging sites, each of which is adapted to hold a differently configured workpiece, and multiple pallet-engaging sites, each of which is associated with a respective one of the workpiece-engaging sites and any one of which can be used to engage the pallet so that the workpiece holder can hold a workpiece of the appropriate configuration at the associated workpiece-engaging site. Methods and apparatus for storing and manipulating the workpiece holders are also disclosed.
Claims3
A method of processing electric motor parts having a magnetic core each said electric motor part being a selected one of a plurality of differently dimensioned electric motor parts, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a pallet member;
- positioning a workpiece holder on said pallet member, said workpiece holder having a plurality of workpiece-engaging sites, each site uniquely shaped and dimensioned for independently securely engaging an electric motor part of a different predetermined dimension, said electric motor part having a magnetic core;
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- positioning a selected electric motor part on said workplace holder at one of said workpiece-engaging sites;
- whereby the workpiece-engaging sites become inaccessible for engagement with another electric motor part having a magnetic core upon completion of both of said positioning steps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.