Cleft Magnet Manufacturing Device with Foreign Matter Removal

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing methods for manufacturing cleft magnets in electric motors and generators often result in abnormal breakage due to foreign matters caught between the magnet plate and the die during the cleaving process, leading to reduced manufacturing quality and accuracy.

Innovation Solution

A manufacturing device equipped with a cleaving mechanism, a carry-in mechanism, and a foreign matter removal mechanism that includes a dust collector, blower, brush, air supply holes, and air suction ports to remove foreign substances before the cleaving process, ensuring precise cleaving at the intended groove locations and preventing abnormal breakage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If a pressing force is applied onto the magnet plate at the location corresponding to the groove to cleave the magnet plate, then the magnet plate is cleft at the center of the groove, but abnormal breakage occurs when foreign matter is caught between the magnet plate and the die

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecleaving accuracyVSAvoidmanufacturing quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by introducing a foreign matter removal mechanism that operates before the cleaving process. This mechanism includes air supply holes and air suction ports that blow and suction air to remove foreign matter from the magnet plate surface and groove before the pressing force is applied, preventing abnormal breakage while maintaining cleaving accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses air flow as an intermediary substance to remove foreign matter. The air supply holes introduce air that flows through the groove, and air suction ports create negative pressure to extract foreign matter, serving as a mediating mechanism between the magnet plate and the cleaving process to prevent direct contact between foreign matter and the die

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Strength

If foreign matter is caught between the magnet plate and the die, then a bending moment is created in the magnet plate, but the foreign matter causes abnormal breakage and displacement of the cleaving line

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemagnet plate integrityVSAvoidcleaving accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The foreign matter removal mechanism performs preliminary cleaning action before cleaving by supplying air through air supply holes and creating suction through air suction ports, removing foreign matter that would otherwise cause bending moments and cleaving line displacement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the potentially harmful presence of foreign matter into a beneficial cleaning opportunity by using the air flow system to actively remove foreign matter, transforming a source of problems into a quality enhancement feature

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution effectively prevents abnormal breakage and enhances the accuracy and quality of cleft magnets by ensuring foreign matters are removed before the cleaving process, resulting in high-quality cleft pieces with minimal dimensional variation.

Implementation Method 1

a blower, brush, air supply holes, and air suction ports to remove foreign substances before the cleaving process

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAir flow:

Implementation Method 2

air suction ports to remove foreign substances before the cleaving process

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectNegative pressure:

Data Source

PatentUS9779871B2Manufacturing device for cleft magnet
Publication Date: 2017.10.03 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A manufacturing device for cleft magnets comprises a cleaving mechanism for cleaving a magnet plate by applying a pressing force to the magnet plate corresponding to a back of a groove formed on one surface of the magnet plate and a carry-in mechanism for carrying the magnet plate to a cleaving position by the cleaving mechanism. By comprising a foreign matter removal mechanism for removing a foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate before the magnet plate is carried to the cleaving position by the carry-in mechanism, the foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate is removed before cleaving.