Patents by Inventor Akira Hashimoto

Akira Hashimoto 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: 20170241031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper-nickel alloy electroplating bath which contains (a) a copper salt and a nickel salt, (b) a metal complexing agent, (c) a conductivity imparting agent, (d) a sulfur-containing organic compound and (e) a redox potential regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Dipsol Chemicals Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURAI, Kazunori ONO, Akira HASHIMOTO, Satoshi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20170201134
    Abstract: A stator in which stator coils are formed by a plurality of unit coils arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction and each having: a first slot-accommodated portion; a second slot-accommodated portion; a first terminal wire extending from the first slot-accommodated portion; a second terminal wire extending from the second slot-accommodated portion and shifted from the first terminal wire by one line of a conductive wire; a terminal-side coil end portion; and first and second anti-terminal-side coil end portions, wherein the first terminal wire and the second terminal wire of the respective different unit coils are joined with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro MOTOISHI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Koji KAWAMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hironori TSUIKI, Wakaki MIYAJI, Koji TAMURA
  • Patent number: 9705374
    Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihiro Yamamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akira Hashimoto, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Atsushi Sakaue, Kazunori Muto
  • Publication number: 20170179780
    Abstract: Bridge portions forming coil end portions, at both ends in an axial direction, of a stator of the rotating electrical machine according to the present invention are configured coaxially about an axis of the stator; at least one bridge portion of the bridge portions of each coil at both ends in the axial direction is located outward of an inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a gap is present between an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction and each bridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Koji KAWAMURA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Atsushi SAKAUE
  • Publication number: 20170126075
    Abstract: A core segment linked body is configured by linking a plurality of core segments by inserting first shafts of first core segments into first slots of core segments near a first longitudinal end thereof, and inserting second shafts of core segments near the first longitudinal end thereof into second slots of the first core segments, the linked core segments are expandable and contractible between an expanded position in which an interval between the magnetic pole tooth is expanded and a contracted position in which the interval is reduced by the first shafts being guided by the first slots and the second shafts being guided by the second slots, and central axes of the first shafts and the second shafts are: offset in a longitudinal direction of the back yoke in the expanded position; and positioned collinearly in a direction of lamination in the contracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi UMEDA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Katsunori OKI
  • Publication number: 20170117761
    Abstract: A core segment linked body when opened out rectilinearly is configured: such that a distance between adjacent width reduced portions is greater than a width dimension of width expanded portions when adjacent core segments are in an expanded position, and the distance between the adjacent width reduced portions is less than the width dimension of the width expanded portions when the adjacent core segments are in a contracted position; and so as to satisfy (te?tn)/?s?>0, and 0<(te?tn)/te?0.27, where ?s? is a distance between center lines of the adjacent magnetic pole teeth in the expanded position, te is a width dimension of tooth main portions, and to is the width dimension of the width reduced portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi TAKIGUCHI, Akira HASHIMOTO, Takanori KOMATSU, Katsunori OKI, Satoru HASEGAWA, Susumu OSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20170107687
    Abstract: An edge of a guide hole includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, and a guide portion. The first contact portion is in contact with the second connecting pin while the second connecting pin is positioned in the lock actuation position. The second contact portion is in contact with the second connecting pin while the second connecting pin is positioned in the lock release position. The guide portion extends in a direction intersecting the movement direction of the second connecting pin between the first contact portion and the second contact portion. The guide portion is pressed by the second connecting pin that moves from the lock actuation position to the lock release position in order to resist the urging force of an urging member and cause the second lock member to move from the locked position to the unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Daijiro ITO, Tsuyoshi YOSHIDA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Takuya TSUKADA, Kenichi HIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170077768
    Abstract: In a core for a rotary electric machine, first end portions of back yoke portions are linked to second end portions of back yoke portions of adjacent core segments so as to be rotatable around pivot portions. Each of the core segments is configured by alternately laminating first core segment sheets and second core segment sheets. The pivot portions are constituted by interfitting protruding portions that are formed on the first core segment sheets. The core segments are displaceable relative to the adjacent core segments between a contracted position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is contracted and an expanded position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is expanded, when the core segment linked body is opened out rectilinearly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira HASHIMOTO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Hironori TSUIKI, Yuji NAKAHARA, Takashi UMEDA, Katsunori OKI, Ryuichi TAKIGUCHI, Takanori KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170067223
    Abstract: A quick coupler includes a coupler body having a first hook, a lock member, a slidable second hook, a hydraulic cylinder, and a connecting pin connecting the cylinder and coupler body. The lock member is movable between locking and unlocking positions in which the lock member protrudes into and retracts from an opening of the first hook. The cylinder includes first and second end portions connected to the coupler body and the second hook, respectively. The cylinder extends and contracts to cause the second hook to slide away from and towards the first hook, respectively. The coupler body includes a support hole moveably supporting the connecting pin in an extension and contraction direction of the cylinder. The first end portion of the cylinder moves away from the second end portion within a movability range of the connecting pin to move the lock member from the unlocking to locking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Takuya TSUKADA, Kenichi HIGUCHI, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hisao ASADA, Tsuyoshi YOSHIDA, Daijiro ITO
  • Publication number: 20170047808
    Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shuichi TAMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Kazunori MUTO
  • Publication number: 20170022621
    Abstract: The present invention provides a zinc alloy electroplating method comprising applying a current through an alkaline zinc alloy electroplating bath comprising a cathode and an anode, wherein a cathode region including the cathode and an anode region including the anode are separated from each other by an anion exchange membrane, a catholyte contained in the cathode region is an alkaline zinc alloy plating liquid, and an anolyte contained in the anode region is an aqueous alkaline solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro NIIKURA, Takahiro FUJIMORI, Akira HASHIMOTO, Manabu INOUE
  • Patent number: 9549231
    Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a serializer and deserializer configured to convert an input client signal into parallel data at a sampling rate of k times (k is a power of 2) a rate of the input client signal and output the parallel data; a frame generation section configured to generate an optical channel payload unit (OPU) frame from the client signal; and a stuff control section connected to an output of the parallel data and configured to perform, in units of 1/k bits, a stuff operation to map the client signal into the OPU frame and thereby calculate a Cn(n=1/k) value which is a theoretical value of the stuff operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Haruhisa Fukano, Toshiharu Hirose, Akira Hashimoto, Koji Nekoda, Koichi Kinoshita, Akira Hatae
  • Publication number: 20160380492
    Abstract: A contour line on the outer circumferential side of each magnet hole in the first layer is formed to be an arc passing through a total of three intersections, i.e., an intersection of a d axis and a reference magnetic flux line which is a magnetic flux line as a reference positioned inward by a predetermined number of magnetic flux lines from the outer circumferential edge of a rotor core, and intersections of: the reference magnetic flux line; and sides at the circumferential ends of the magnet hole which are positioned inward by a bridge dimension from the outer circumferential edge of the rotor core. Thus, a rotary electric machine that enables maximum utilization of reluctance torque and magnet torque and suppression of torque ripple can be obtained with simple processing and low cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko KAWASAKI, Kimiyasu FURUSAWA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki AKITA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20160372992
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stator winding coil includes: a bulging portion forming step that forms a bulging portion on a conductor wire; a crank portion forming step that forms a crank portion on the central portion of the bulging portion; an oblique portion forming step that forms oblique portions on the conductor wire at two ends of the bulging portion; a rectilinear portion forming step that forms rectilinear portions on the conductor wire at opposite ends of the oblique portions from the bulging portion; and a circular arc forming step that forms the oblique portions into a circular arc shape after forming the rectilinear portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Tatsuro HINO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Kazunori MUTO, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Kohei EGASHIRA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki AKITA
  • Publication number: 20160329767
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, an armature core includes a plurality of magnetic pole teeth and slots are formed between the magnetic pole teeth. An armature coil group includes a plurality of armature coils each including a pair of coil sides arranged in the slots, which are different from one another, and coil ends connecting the pair of coil sides. The armature coil group includes, as the armature coils, a plurality of base coils, of which one coil side is arranged in an upper opening of the slot and the other coil side is arranged in a lower opening of the slot, upper layer coils, of which both one coil side and the other coil side are arranged in an upper opening of the slot, and lower layer coils, of which both one coil side and the other coil side are arranged in the lower opening of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi UMEDA, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160268860
    Abstract: An armature for an electric machine according to the present invention includes: an armature core in which a plurality of slots are arranged in a circumferential direction; and an armature winding that is mounted to the armature core, and includes a plurality of two-lane winding bodies that are each produced by stacking and winding two jointless continuous conductor wires that are coated with insulation such that the two conductor wires are stacked in a radial direction of the armature core, the two-lane winding bodies being arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction so as to be mounted into a third slot, a first slot, and a second slot that line up consecutively in the circumferential direction at an angular spacing of six slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hiroyuki AKITA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 9442353
    Abstract: A projector (1) includes a light source device (2), a light modulating device (5) configured to modulate a light beam emitted from the light source device, a projection optical device (7) configured to project the light beam modulated by the light modulating device, and a flexible printed circuit board (6), one end of which is connected to the light modulating device (5). The light source device (2) includes a light emitting device mounted on the flexible printed circuit board (6). The flexible printed circuit board is bent, whereby the light source device is disposed in an emission position where the light source device (2) emits the light beam to the light modulating device (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norikazu Kadotani, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Kaname Nagatani, Norio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20160261159
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, an armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, that is jointless and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Tatsuro HINO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Akira HASHIMOTO, Kazunori MUTO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinkichi SAWA, Hiroyuki AKITA
  • Publication number: 20160172921
    Abstract: A side surface at the outside of a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core is faced to a side surface of teeth portions of an adjacent separated core, so as to form a second slot which is straddled between the adjacent separated cores, and a first slot is formed by a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core, and a width size of the first slot is identical to a width size of the second slot, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the first slot via a first insulating component, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the second slot via a second insulating component, and a thickness size of the first insulating component is different from a thickness size of the second insulating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu YOSHINORI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Hironori TSUIKI, Shinichi OKADA, Hiroki SHIOTA, Masaya INOUE, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinji NISHIMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Shinkichi SAWA, Yutaka IKURA, Ryuichi KITORA
  • Publication number: 20160156238
    Abstract: Winding bodies are configured such that radially inner terminals of a conductor wire extend outward at a first axial end of an armature core from a radially innermost position inside slots, and radially outer terminals of the conductor wire extend outward at the first axial end of the armature core from a radially outermost position inside the slots, and respective phase windings of an armature winding are configured by directly joining together the radially inner terminals and by directly joining together the radially outer terminals of the winding bodies that constitute identical phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Hiroyuki AKITA, Akira HASHIMOTO