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).
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Patent number: 7777387Abstract: 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 receptacleType: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.Inventors: Akira Nagai, Iwao Myojin, Akinori Hoshino, Masafumi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Haruji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20100097170Abstract: A linear motor coil includes a first coil portion, a second coil portion, the first coil portion and the second coil portion being arranged across a partition wall, a first connecting portion provided between the first coil portion and the second coil portion and by means of which the conductive wire crosses to the first coil portion from the second coil portion while a winding direction of the conductive wire is reversed, and a second connecting portion by means of which the conductive wire crosses to the second coil portion from the first coil portion while the winding direction of the conductive wire is reversed. The conductive wire is formed by a single wire and of which a winding start point and a winding end point are provided at an end portion of the first coil portion at a side opposite from a side where the partition wall is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuhisa Nakajima, Hideyuki Aikyo, Satoshi Komatsu, Shigeharu Yamamoto, Yousuke Iguchi, Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui, Tomoko Hiramatsu
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Publication number: 20100084501Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2009Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori HOSHINO, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui, Tomoko Hiramatsu, Hideyuki Aikyo, Nobuhisa Nakajima, Shigeharu Yamamoto, Yousuke Iguchi
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Publication number: 20100001612Abstract: 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 receptacleType: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: MITSUI HI-TEC, INC.Inventors: Akira Nagai, Iwao Myojin, Akinori Hoshino, Masafumi Sakuma, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Haruji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090243420Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori HOSHINO, Tetsuya Morita, Hiroaki Yabui
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Publication number: 20090026870Abstract: A fusing structure of a motor, includes a stator and a rotor, wherein the bus ring includes a ring portion and a fusing hook, and the bobbin includes a first engagement portion for changing a direction of an end portion of the wire extending from the coil so as to supply the coil with the power and a second engagement portion guiding the end portion of the wire and formed in a different length from that of the first engagement portion in the radial direction of the motor, the end portion of the wire is held between the first engagement portion and the second engagement portion so as to incline therebetween and held between the opposing surfaces so as to establish an electrical connection with the bus ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori HOSHINO, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
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Publication number: 20080238219Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core made of a magnetic material, a receiving portion provided at the rotor core, a magnet accommodated in the receiving portion, a first end plate provided at a first end portion of the rotor core, a second end plate provided at a second end portion of the rotor core, a tightening device tightening integrally the rotor core, the first end plate, and the second end plate, an opening portion provided at one of the first end plate and the second end plate so as to communicate with the receiving portion, and a magnet fixing member formed by a coagulation of a thermoplastic resin that is injected from the opening portion so as to fix the magnet to the receiving portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita
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Publication number: 20080201936Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
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Patent number: 7396307Abstract: A motor-incorporated hypocycloid-type speed reducer includes: an eccentric portion configured to rotate in response to rotation of a rotor secured to a casing; an internal ring gear fixed to the casing and including a first internal gear coaxial with the rotor; an output shaft including a second internal gear coaxial with the rotor; an external gear including a first external gear and a second external gear and rotatably supported by the eccentric portion so as to rotate in an eccentric manner; a first sliding member held tight in the axial direction between one end surface of the output shaft and the end plate; and a second sliding member held tight in the axial direction between an other end surface of the output shaft and the supporting member.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2006Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichiro Hazama, Akinori Hoshino
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Publication number: 20080121061Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2007Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori HOSHINO, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
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Patent number: 7378774Abstract: A laminated core having a first number of magnetic poles, the first number being a natural number divided by two, of a rotary electric machine, includes a plurality of arc-shaped unit cores each having a second number of magnetic poles, the second number being a natural number except for an aliquot part of the first number. The unit cores are wound and laminated a predetermined number of times in a circumferential direction into a spiral shape in such a manner that an axial lamination amount of the unit cores is obtained by an equation of X=?*t/360, X being the axial lamination amount, ? being a winding angle of the unit cores, and t being a thickness of the unit core. The unit cores are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction connected to each other at a part of an outer circumference thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 27, 2008Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Atsushi Torii, Masafumi Sakuma, Akinori Hoshino, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7354371Abstract: A motor-incorporated hypocycloid-type speed reducer includes: a motor housed in a case; a first larger internal gear; a second smaller internal gear coaxial with a motor shaft; an output shaft coaxial with the motor shaft, the output shaft being provided with the second internal gear; and an external gear. A motor core of the motor is provided with an eccentric portion eccentric to the motor shaft at a predetermined degree. The external gear, which has a first external gear engaged with the first internal gear and a second external gear engaged with the second internal gear, is further provided with a rotor-receiving portion rotatable integrally with the eccentric portion of the motor core. The rotor-receiving portion is coaxial with the first external gear and the second external gear.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: April 8, 2008Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichiro Hazama, Haruo Suzuki, Akinori Hoshino
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Publication number: 20080054754Abstract: An end plate for a motor is provided at an end portion of a layered core and supports the core from both axial directions. The end plate comprises a contact surface, the shape of which corresponds to the shape of a stepped portion provided at the end portion of the core in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
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Publication number: 20080054751Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinori Hoshino, Haruji Suzuki, Shusaku Kamio
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Publication number: 20080035780Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobutaka Kanoh, Hisashi Kato, Tetsuya Morita, Akinori Hoshino
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Publication number: 20080024019Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator core wound by a coil and a vibration-absorbing member provided between the coil and the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2007Publication date: January 31, 2008Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masafumi Sakuma, Katsuhiro Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Fukushima, Akinori Hoshino, Tetsuya Morita
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Publication number: 20070046125Abstract: A laminated core having a first number of magnetic poles, the first number being a natural number divided by two, of a rotary electric machine, includes a plurality of arc-shaped unit cores each having a second number of magnetic poles, the second number being a natural number except for an aliquot part of the first number. The unit cores are wound and laminated a predetermined number of times in a circumferential direction into a spiral shape in such a manner that an axial lamination amount of the unit cores is obtained by an equation of X=?*t/360, X being the axial lamination amount, ? being a winding angle of the unit cores, and t being a thickness of the unit core. The unit cores are adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction connected to each other at a part of an outer circumference thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Atsushi Torii, Masafumi Sakuma, Akinori Hoshino, Hiroyuki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7165310Abstract: A connecting structure includes a first member including a hole which has a narrower width at an opening portion than a width at a bottom portion and a projecting portion projected toward the opening portion at the bottom portion of the hole, and a second member with a longer shape than a depth of the hole of the first member wherein the second member is inserted into the hole of the first member, the second member being plastically deformed by pushing the second member into the bottom portion of the first member with pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2004Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Fumiyoshi Murakami, Akinori Hoshino, Koichi Sakamoto, Noriaki Nonaka, Haruji Suzuki, Tsuneo Shishido
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Publication number: 20060240932Abstract: A motor-incorporated hypocycloid-type speed reducer includes: an eccentric portion configured to rotate in response to rotation of a rotor secured to a casing; an internal ring gear fixed to the casing and including a first internal gear coaxial with the rotor; an output shaft including a second internal gear coaxial with the rotor; an external gear including a first external gear and a second external gear and rotatably supported by the eccentric portion so as to rotate in an eccentric manner; a first sliding member held tight in the axial direction between one end surface of the output shaft and the end plate; and a second sliding member held tight in the axial direction between an other end surface of the output shaft and the supporting member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Shinichiro Hazama, Akinori Hoshino
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Publication number: 20060189430Abstract: A motor-incorporated hypocycloid-type speed reducer includes: a motor housed in a case; a first larger internal gear; a second smaller internal gear coaxial with a motor shaft; an output shaft coaxial with the motor shaft, the output shaft being provided with the second internal gear; and an external gear. A motor core of the motor is provided with an eccentric portion eccentric to the motor shaft at a predetermined degree. The external gear, which has a first external gear engaged with the first internal gear and a second external gear engaged with the second internal gear, is further provided with a rotor-receiving portion rotatable integrally with the eccentric portion of the motor core. The rotor-receiving portion is coaxial with the first external gear and the second external gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2006Publication date: August 24, 2006Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro Hazama, Haruo Suzuki, Akinori Hoshino