COIL ASSEMBLY DEVICE, COIL ASSEMBLY METHOD AND MANUFACTURING DEVICE OF ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE

To provide a coil assembly device and a coil assembly method, which can easily and quickly assemble a coil formed of a plurality of or multilayer coil segments, and to provide a manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine.SOLUTION: A coil assembly device comprises: transportation means for sequentially transporting a plurality of coil segments 17S; a segment arrangement body in which a plurality of segment holding sections 109 into which the plurality of transported coil segments can be inserted from an outer side of a radiation direction are annularly arranged and which is rotatable around a center axis C; and guide means 112 which is constituted to guide one slot insertion section 17b in a pair of slot insertion sections in each of the plurality of coil segments, to one segment holding section to be inserted whenever the segment arrangement body is rotated by a first prescribed angle, and to guide the other slot insertion section 17c in a pair of slot insertion sections to the other segment holding section to be inserted when the segment arrangement body rotates by a second prescribed angle from insertion of one slot insertion section.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2A 【課題】複数のあるいは多層のコイルセグメントからなるコイルを容易にかつ迅速に組立てることができるコイル組立装置、コイル組立方法及び回転電機の製造装置を提供する。【解決手段】コイル組立装置は、複数のコイルセグメント１７Ｓを順次搬送する搬送手段と、搬送された複数のコイルセグメントを放射方向外側から挿入可能な複数のセグメント保持部１０９が円環状に配列されており中心軸Ｃの回りを回転可能なセグメント配置体と、セグメント配置体が第１の所定角度回転する毎に複数のコイルセグメントの各々の１対のスロット挿入部のうちの一方のスロット挿入部１７ｂを１つのセグメント保持部に案内して挿入させ、一方のスロット挿入部の挿入から第２の所定角度回転した際に、１対のスロット挿入部のうちの他方のスロット挿入部１７ｃを他の１つのセグメント保持部に案内して挿入させるように構成されたガイド手段１１２と、を備えている。【選択図】図２Ａ