US Patent Issued to NIDEC on July 8 for "Winding machine and method of manufacturing coil" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,790, issued on July 8, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Winding machine and method of manufacturing coil" was invented by Shigeharu Sumi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding machine includes a winding core around which a winding is wound, a first winding jig and a second winding jig positioned with the winding core interposed therebetween in an axial direction of a central axis of the winding core, and a first gripper and a second gripper that are located on an outer side of the winding core in a radial direction around the central axis. An outer edge portion of the first winding jig in the radial directi...