Patent ID: 6012670
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: H02K,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of operating a machine for simultaneously winding a plurality of coils of wire on each of two dynamo-electric machine armature cores, each coil being wound by wire emanating from a respective moving wire dispenser, each wire dispenser associated with each of said cores being powered to move in common with a wire dispenser associated with the other of said cores, said method comprising the steps of:monitoring the wire extending via each of said wire dispensers to the associated core for possible breakage of the wire;when breakage of any wire is detected, controlling that wire to prevent further dispensing of that wire from the associated wire dispenser; andafter performing said controlling step, continuing to move said wire dispensers so that the wire dispensers associated with the core for which no wire is broken continue to wind coils on that core.