Patent ID: 9641056
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B65G,H02K

Claim:
1. A conductive wire piece supply method for supplying a receiving unit with conductive wire pieces each with a rectangular cross section and having a predetermined length, width, and thickness, which is sent from a sending unit, the method comprising: an arrangement step of arranging a first slot portion at a position where the sending unit sequentially sends the conductive wire pieces one by one with a posture in which a thickness direction coincides with a vertical direction and a length direction coincides with a sending direction; a superposing step in which the first slot portion arranged in the arrangement step receives the conductive wire pieces sent from the sending unit by a predetermined number in such a way that the conductive wire pieces are superposed in the thickness direction to obtain a conductive wire piece set including the predetermined number of conductive wire pieces; a carrying step of carrying the conductive wire piece set obtained in the superposing step from the first slot portion to a second slot portion; and a rotation step of rotating the second slot portion, to which the conductive wire piece set has been carried, about a rotation axis line parallel to the second slot portion by a rotation angle so that the conductive wire piece set has a posture corresponding to the receiving unit.