ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,255, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Coil forming apparatus and coil forming method" was invented by Yutaka Matsumoto (Tokyo), Shuhei Okuda (Tokyo), Eishi Yoshida (Tokyo) and Junya Ochiai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil molding apparatus being capable of easily forming the band-shaped coil into a wound state, without the winding posture in the coil winding jig being disturbed by spring back of the band-shaped coil. The coil molding apparatus includes: a coil winding jig for winding the band-shaped coil with inserting straight portions thereof into a plurality of comb-shaped grooves in the ...