Patents by Inventor Akinori Hoshino

Akinori Hoshino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230412055
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a coil includes a cross section forming step for transforming an outer shape of a part to be housed in a slot in a coil wire that has a circular cross section and is not subjected to an insulation coating process, and an insulation step for performing, after the cross section forming step, the insulation coating process on the coil wire after cross section forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230387765
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a stator includes, after a cross section forming step for forming a sectional shape of a coil portion by compressing the coil portion and a coating step for applying an insulation coating to the coil portion, a common heat treatment step for performing, by the same heat treatment, annealing of the coil portion whose sectional shape has been formed in the cross section forming step and baking of the insulation coating applied to the coil portion in the coating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20230378857
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil with an insulating film 130 is provided that includes: a preparation step of preparing a formed workpiece W to which the insulating film has not yet been applied; and an electrodeposition coating step of generating, with the workpiece W immersed in an electrodeposition bath, a potential difference between a first electrode connected to the workpiece W and a second electrode in the electrodeposition bath. In the electrodeposition coating step, the insulating film is simultaneously applied to a portion of the workpiece W and another portion of the workpiece W in such a manner that a film thickness on the portion is thicker than a film thickness on the other portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru NAKAYAMA, Shunsuke KOYABU, Takahisa KANIE, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20220294322
    Abstract: This rotor core manufacturing method includes a step of retracting a resin injection portion of a resin injection apparatus relative to a stacked core that remains pressed by a jig, while maintaining a resin material stored in the resin injection portion in a molten state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko HIRAMATSU, Akinori HOSHINO, Naotaka HAYASHI, Tomoyasu HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20220140708
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a motor core in which a magnet is fixed in a magnet accommodating portion using synthetic resin material includes: a fixing step of fixing the a permanent magnet in the a magnet accommodating portion using a synthetic resin material, wherein the fixing step includes: an injection step of setting a temperature of the synthetic resin material to a first temperature and injecting, with an injection device having a container capable of maintaining the synthetic resin material in the softened state, the softened synthetic resin material into the magnet accommodating portion; and a curing step of raising the temperature of the synthetic resin material injected into the stacked body to a second temperature to cure the synthetic resin material, with the injection device being moved away from the stacked body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko HIRAMATSU, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 10858276
    Abstract: A stirrer for glass melting which can be used over a prolonged life expectancy, while maintaining a high strength, even in an environment exposed to a high temperature and an oxygen-containing gas atmosphere for a long period of time, and can prevent the air bubbles from being mixed into the glass melt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FURUYA METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akinori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10834923
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an agent for improving plant growth, the agent significantly improving resistances to a wide variety of stress possibly subjected to a plant, such as resistances to chemical stress and ultraviolet ray stress as well as resistances to temperature stress and dry stress, the agent having a high safety. This agent for improving plant growth alleviates an environmental stress on a plant, promotes plant growth, or a plant quality. This agent for improving plant growth contains, as its main ingredient, zerumbone, an analog of zerumbone, or a salt of zerumbone or the analog. Furthermore, in this agent for improving plant growth, the analog of zerumbone is ?-humulene or ?-caryophyllene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: FUSO CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kishimoto, Shigetoyo Matsumura, Takaya Nishinokawa, Mari Kado, Akinori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 10686350
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator provided with a stator iron core, which is cylindrical and in which slots are formed in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface, and coils of phases that are each inserted into the slots, and a movable element provided with a movable element iron core supported in a rotatable manner relative to the stator and at least a pair of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element iron core. The method includes: a split flux coil formation step; a coil setting step; a stator iron core setting step; and a split flux coil collective insertion step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Yusaku Kawanishi, Akinori Hoshino, Hiroaki Yabui, Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20190150436
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an agent for improving plant growth, the agent significantly improving resistances to a wide variety of stress possibly subjected to a plant, such as resistances to chemical stress and ultraviolet ray stress as well as resistances to temperature stress and dry stress, the agent having a high safety. This agent for improving plant growth alleviates an environmental stress on a plant, promotes plant growth, or a plant quality. This agent for improving plant growth contains, as its main ingredient, zerumbone, an analog of zerumbone, or a salt of zerumbone or the analog. Furthermore, in this agent for improving plant growth, the analog of zerumbone is ?-humulene or ?-caryophyllene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KISHIMOTO, Shigetoyo MATSUMURA, Takaya NISHINOKAWA, Mari KADO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20180145569
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator provided with a stator iron core, which is cylindrical and in which slots are formed in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface, and coils of phases that are each inserted into the slots, and a movable element provided with a movable element iron core supported in a rotatable manner relative to the stator and at least a pair of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element iron core. The method includes: a split flux coil formation step; a coil setting step; a stator iron core setting step; and a split flux coil collective insertion step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Yusaku KAWANISHI, Akinori HOSHINO, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO
  • Publication number: 20180014536
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an agent for improving plant growth, the agent significantly improving resistances to a wide variety of stress possibly subjected to a plant, such as resistances to chemical stress and ultraviolet ray stress as well as resistances to temperature stress and dry stress, the agent having a high safety. This agent for improving plant growth alleviates an environmental stress on a plant, promotes plant growth, or a plant quality. This agent for improving plant growth contains, as its main ingredient, zerumbone, an analog of zerumbone, or a salt of zerumbone or the analog. Furthermore, in this agent for improving plant growth, the analog of zerumbone is ?-humulene or ?-caryophyllene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KISHIMOTO, Shigetoyo MATSUMURA, Takaya NISHINOKAWA, Mari KADO, Akinori HOSHINO
  • Publication number: 20170137312
    Abstract: A stirrer for glass melting which can be used over a prolonged life expectancy, while maintaining a high strength, even in an environment exposed to a high temperature and an oxygen-containing gas atmosphere for a long period of time, and can prevent the air bubbles from being mixed into the glass melt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: FURUYA METAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Akinori HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 8336357
    Abstract: A roller dice device includes a pair of rolling rollers respectively including circumferential rolling grooves formed at outer circumferential surfaces thereof, a supporting portion rotatably supporting the pair of rolling rollers respectively around roller axes extending in parallel with each other, a spaced portion configured by a rolling portion, through which a rolling material moves, and formed by the circumferential rolling grooves facing each other, and a restricting portion formed at the outer circumferential surfaces of the pair of the rolling rollers and restricting displacement of the pair of rolling rollers relative to each other in the axial direction of the roller axes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui, Tomoko Hiramatsu, Hideyuki Aikyo, Nobuhisa Nakajima, Shigeharu Yamamoto, Yousuke Iguchi
  • Patent number: 8234775
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated rotor core includes a punching process for punching a strip-shaped material to make a core piece, a placing process, which is performed simultaneously with the punching process of the core piece, for placing the core piece in a die so that the core piece is placed on another core piece previously punched and placed in the die and a joining process for joining the core pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
  • Patent number: 8087154
    Abstract: A motor includes a core having a plurality of laminations, which are stacked together and an end-plate provided at an end surface of the core and supporting the core, wherein the end-plate is formed by pressing a hollow material in one direction thereof in order to plastically deform the hollow material in a plate-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
  • Patent number: 8058766
    Abstract: A rotational motor includes a stator formed by a core member including: a magnetic core portion extending in a radial direction of the rotational motor and formed into a fixed shape in every cross section thereof extending orthogonally relative to the radial direction, a coil wound around the magnetic core portion to form a plurality of layers and an engagement member engaging with the coil. A gap is generated between windings of the coil at a predetermined position when an uppermost layer winding portion of the coil is wound in series with a second layer winding portion from an outer side to an inner side of the uppermost layer winding portion in the radial direction. The coil is wound to fill the gap when a winding position of the coil is returned from an innermost side to the outer side of the uppermost layer winding portion in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui
  • Patent number: 8047040
    Abstract: A wire winding apparatus for winding a wire on a bobbin includes a forming device forming the wire having a rounded cross section to have a polygonal cross section and a winding device winding the wire formed by the forming device on the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobutaka Kanoh, Hisashi Kato, Tetsuya Morita, Akinori Hoshino
  • Patent number: 7928627
    Abstract: A laminated core (10) and a method for manufacturing the same formed with multiple continuous segment core pieces (13) wound in a spiral form by bending connecting portions (12) mutually connecting the segment core pieces (13), the connecting portions (12) being formed in an outer peripheral area (11), while the connecting portions (12) of vertically adjacent layers being displaced in a circumferential direction with inner edges or outer edges of the segment core pieces (13) fitted, the laminated core comprising: a concave cutout (21) provided in a radial exterior of each connecting portion (12) to dispose a radially expanded portion (20) within an outer circle of the laminated core (10), the radially expanded portion (20) being formed with each connecting portion (12) expanding radially outward at the time of bending each connecting portion (12); an interior cutout (22) provided in a radial interior of each connecting portion (12) to define a bending position of each connecting portion (12); and a receptacle
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Nagai, Iwao Myojin, Akinori Hoshino, Masafumi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Haruji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7827879
    Abstract: A webbed spiral bevel gear formed by cold forging includes: gear teeth formed at a peripheral surface of the gear basis to be integral therewith. Each gear tooth includes a tooth top land and a tooth bottom land both in a slanting and curved manner relative to a center axis of the gear basis. The webbed spiral bevel gear includes a web portion formed at radially outer end portions of the gear teeth to be integral therewith and closing the tooth bottom lands at the radially outer end portions of the gear teeth. The web portion is continuous with the radially outer end portions of the tooth top lands. A profile of the radially outer end portion of the tooth top land of each gear tooth has two edges extending at a slant from each other and expanding in a direction of the web portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
  • Publication number: 20100270888
    Abstract: A laminated core (10) and a method for manufacturing the same formed with multiple continuous segment core pieces (13) wound in a spiral form by bending connecting portions (12) mutually connecting the segment core pieces (13), the connecting portions (12) being formed in an outer peripheral area (11), while the connecting portions (12) of vertically adjacent layers being displaced in a circumferential direction with inner edges or outer edges of the segment core pieces (13) fitted, the laminated core comprising: a concave cutout (21) provided in a radial exterior of each connecting portion (12) to dispose a radially expanded portion (20) within an outer circle of the laminated core (10), the radially expanded portion (20) being formed with each connecting portion (12) expanding radially outward at the time of bending each connecting portion (12); an interior cutout (22) provided in a radial interior of each connecting portion (12) to define a bending position of each connecting portion (12); and a receptacle
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC.
    Inventors: Akira Nagai, Iwao Myojin, Akinori Hoshino, Masafumi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Haruji Suzuki