Yun Shang1, Sebastian Theilenberg1, Jalal Ghazouani1,2, and Christoph Juchem1,3
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, 2Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, 3Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, 2Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany, 3Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
A coil winding machine has been designed for wet-winding copper
wire coils with curved geometries for advanced multi-coil setups. This machine
allows automated coil winding and resin impregnation with detailed quality
control of the coil elements.
Figure 3:
Coil winding machine. A) CAD model of the
developed coil winding system. B) Working implementation of this design.
Figure 2: Selection of curved and tampered
coil elements used in the multi-coil array. A) CAD models of the three
basic coil shapes to be produced (cf. Fig. 1).
B) Example CAD model of the aluminum mold used to wind and cure a curved
100-turn coil element.
