Patents by Inventor Eiji Yamada

Eiji Yamada 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).

  • Patent number: 8294322
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, when a stator winding is wound in concentrated winding, an improvement in performance is achieved by reducing a magnetomotive force harmonic without reducing a fundamental wave magnetic flux generated by a stator. A rotating electrical machine (10) includes a rotor (18), and two stators (14, 16) opposed with the rotor (18) being interposed therebetween either on both sides of the rotor (18) in the axial direction or on both sides of the rotor (18) in the radial direction. Stator windings (22) provided in a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction of each stator (14, 16) are wound in concentrated winding. The directions of magnetic fluxes generated by stator windings (22) having the same phase in the stators (14, 16) are in mutually opposite directions with respect to either the axial direction or the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kosuke Aiki, Hideo Nakai, Takaji Umeno, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Norimoto Minoshima, Toshihiko Yoshida, Tatsuya Uematsu, Kenji Endo
  • Patent number: 8288794
    Abstract: On a processed substrate having an engraved region as a depressed portion formed thereon, a nitride semiconductor thin film is laid. The sectional area occupied by the nitride semiconductor thin film filling the depressed portion is 0.8 times the sectional area of the depressed portion or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamikawa, Eiji Yamada, Masahiro Araki
  • Publication number: 20120256510
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator that creates a rotating magnetic field, and a rotor around which a rotor winding is wound so that induced electromotive force is created by a harmonic component of the rotating magnetic field, and in which a magnetic pole is created through the induced electromotive force. The stator has an auxiliary pole that is a leading portion that leads the harmonic component from the stator to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji YAMADA, Ryoji MIZUTANI, Shintaro CHINEN, Kenji HIRAMOTO, Hideo NAKAI, Norimoto MINOSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20120242272
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine system includes a stator that has stator windings of a plurality of phases, and that generates a stator magnetomotive force in accordance with stator current of different phases, which is supplied to the stator windings of the plurality of phases; a rotor on which rotor windings are wound such that rotor current is generated in accordance with the stator magnetomotive force generated by the stator and a magnetic pole is formed by the rotor current; and a control unit that controls an output torque from the rotor, by controlling the stator current. In a case where a predetermined torque is output from the rotor, the control unit applies a pulse to the stator current so as to increase the stator current and reduce the rotor current, when a temperature of the rotor is high as compared with when the temperature of the rotor is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Yamada, Kenji Hiramoto, Hideo Nakai, Norimoto Minoshima
  • Publication number: 20120235621
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes: a stator that has multi-phase stator coils and that generates stator magnetomotive forces based on respective stator currents having different phases supplied to the multi-phase stator coils; a rotor on which rotor coils are wound such that magnetic poles are formed by rotor currents generated in response to the stator magnetomotive forces generated by the stator; a regulating unit that regulates a flow direction of each of the rotor currents to one direction to thereby regulate a polarity of each of the magnetic poles; and a control unit that controls currents supplied to the stator coils on the basis of a target torque. The control unit superimposes a pulse on the stator currents to adjust the ratio of each of the stator currents and each of the rotor currents so as to minimize a copper loss in the stator and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiji Yamada, Kenji Hiramoto, Hideo Nakai, Norimoto Minoshima
  • Patent number: 8269387
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes an annular stator including a coil formed by winding a part of a coil wire around a stator core, and the coil wire includes the coil wound around stator teeth, a terminal portion drawn out from one end portion of the coil over a yoke portion, and a wiring drawn out from the other end portion of the coil over the yoke portion and connected to a terminal portion of another coil wire including another coil provided at a distance from the coil in a circumferential direction of the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Eiji Yamada
  • Patent number: 8246104
    Abstract: A vehicular reinforcing bar structure includes: a reinforcing bar fixedly fastened at its opposite end portions to a pair of opposed vehicle body frame members, the reinforcing bar having a uniform closed sectional shape from one of the end portions to the other; collars fitted in the respective opposite end portions of the reinforcing bar for imparting fastening force to the end portions; and mounting brackets provided in corresponding relation to the opposite end portions, each of the mounting brackets being formed in a closed section and fixedly fastening the corresponding end portion by sandwiching the end portion with the corresponding vehicle body frame member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohkubo, Eiji Yamada, Kengo Ishibashi, Kiyohito Koizumi
  • Patent number: 8242645
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotation shaft arranged rotatably, a rotor having a storing hole capable of storing a permanent magnet, including the permanent magnet stored in the storing hole, and being fixed to the rotation shaft, a stator facing the rotor and including a coil, an end plate provided at an axial end of the rotor, a coolant passage formed in the end plate and running along an axial end of the permanent magnet for allowing a coolant to flow, and a discharge hole located at a radially inner side of the rotor with respect to a cooling target region including the permanent magnet and being located at an outer circumferential side of the rotor from a radially inner end of the permanent magnet, the discharge hole communicating with the coolant passage and being capable of discharging the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tatematsu, Eiji Yamada, Atomi Arakawa
  • Publication number: 20120086292
    Abstract: In the stator, a thermistor housed in a tube is arranged to be sandwiched between a coil end and a U-phase bus bar, allowing the thermistor to receive heat from above and below at two faces, that is a face of the U-phase bus bar and a top face of the coil end. Moreover, the thermistor can be placed substantially in close contact with the coil end. Accordingly, the temperature followability by the thermistor can be realized at high accuracy. As a result, there can be provided a stator having a configuration in which temperature followability of high accuracy can be achieved in measuring the temperature of a coil of a stator using a temperature detection element, and that can correspond to further downsizing of a rotating electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Ishida, Eiji Yamada
  • Patent number: 8138640
    Abstract: Heat discharging property of the stator coil end is improved effectively in a rotating electric machine. A motor as the rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator core and resin mold coil ends provided on both axial ends thereof. Column-shaped projections projecting in the axial direction are provided on axial side surfaces of resin mold coil ends at a plurality of positions. Cooling oil supplied from above the resin mold coil ends effectively cools the resin mold coil ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuji Taketsuna, Atomi Arakawa, Akihiro Tanaka, Sadahisa Onimaru, Hirohito Matsui, Ryotaro Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20120025642
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine that can be improved in cooling performance is provided. An end plate includes an annular plate portion arranged to be spaced from a rotor in an axial direction and secured to a rotation shaft, and a tubular portion protruding from an outer edge of the annular plate portion to abut on an axial end surface of the rotor. A partition plate arranged between the rotor and an end plate forms a first space between the rotor and the partition plate and a second space between the annular plate portion and the partition plate. A communication passage allowing the first space and the second space to communicate with each other is formed in the partition plate at a radially outer side relative to a permanent magnet. A through hole extending through the annular plate portion in the axial direction is formed in the annular plate portion at a radially inner side relative to the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NIPPON SOKEN, INC
    Inventors: Sadahisa Onimaru, Ryotarou Okamoto, Hirohito Matsui, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Eiji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20110258840
    Abstract: A stator provided with an annular stator core formed by annularly arranging split stator cores, and also with coils mounted to the stator core. The split stator cores each includes a yoke portion extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core and a stator tooth protruding from the yoke portion. On at least part of side surfaces of the stator tooth that are arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core, a radial end surface of the stator tooth that is located radially inward of the stator core, and, of radial end surfaces of the yoke portion that are arranged in a radial direction of the stator core, the radial end surface at which the stator tooth is formed, a rough surface portion is formed having surface roughness greater than that of circumferential end surfaces of the yoke portion that are located in a circumferential direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Yasuaki Tahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Kenji Honda
  • Patent number: 8044633
    Abstract: An electric motor has a field pole formed by a field current passing through a field winding. A voltage booting converter converts output voltage of a battery and outputs the voltage between a power source line and a grounding line. Field winding is electrically connected onto an electric current channel between battery and power source line and formed so that voltage switched by a switching element is applied to both ends. A controller controls the field current so as to adjust density of magnetic flux between a rotor and a stator by performing switching control on switching element and a switching element connected in parallel to field winding and converts the output voltage of battery into voltage in accordance with a voltage command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tatematsu, Ryoji Mizutani, Eiji Yamada, Nobuyuki Matsui, Takashi Kosaka
  • Patent number: 8035271
    Abstract: A stator core includes: an assembled stator core formed of annularly arranged, divided stator cores; a fixing member disposed at an outer circumferential surface of the assembled stator core and capable of pressing the divided stator cores inward in a radial direction of the assembled stator core to annularly arrange and thus fix the divided stator cores; and a weak portion provided between the divided stator cores and the fixing member and deformable by a force exerted from the fixing member to press the divided stator cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Sano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu
  • Publication number: 20110241598
    Abstract: An electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor including a field winding, a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor and the stator each foam a field pole by passing a field current through the field winding, includes: a power supply device; a converter including a reactor that at least partially serves as the field winding shared with the electric motor, and configured to receive a voltage from the power supply device to carry out voltage conversion between first and second power lines and to pass the field current through the field winding during voltage conversion operation; an inverter configured to convert a direct-current power received from the converter to an alternating-current power for driving the electric motor; and a controller controlling the converter so that a current flows through the field winding in the same direction both during power running and regeneration of the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicants: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Eiji Yamada, Ryoji Mizutani, Nobuyuki Matsui, Takashi Kosaka
  • Patent number: 8030110
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device uses a substrate with low defect density, contains reduced strains inside a nitride semiconductor film, and thus offers a satisfactorily long useful life. On a GaN substrate (10) with a defect density as low as 106 cm?2 or less, a stripe-shaped depressed portion (16) is formed by etching. On this substrate (10), a nitride semiconductor film (11) is grown, and a laser stripe (12) is formed off the area right above the depressed portion (16). With this structure, the laser stripe (12) is free from strains, and the semiconductor laser device offers a long useful life. Moreover, the nitride semiconductor film (11) develops reduced cracks, resulting in a greatly increased yield rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamikawa, Eiji Yamada, Masahiro Araki, Yoshika Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20110190970
    Abstract: A structure for controlling an engine is simplified in a power generation device equipped on a vehicle which generates power by a driving force of an engine. An operation unit (32) outputs to a controller (12) drive operation information based on an operation of a user. The controller (12) controls a vehicle driving circuit (28) and determines an engine output power target value based on the drive operation information and a running state of the vehicle. An engine output power/control voltage table stored in a storage unit (34) is referred to, and a value of a control voltage (Va) correlated to the engine output power target value is determined. The controller (12) controls a voltage adjusting circuit (24) such that the control voltage (Va) is set to the value determined based on the engine output power/control voltage table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari MORIYA, Hideo NAKAI, Yuichi OHTERU, Eiji YAMADA, Makoto HIRAI, Toru ANDO, Ryoji MIZUTANI, Kenji KIMURA, Mitsumasa FUKUMURA, Hidehiro OBA
  • Patent number: 7969056
    Abstract: A rotating electric motor includes a stator core, a rotational shaft capable of rotation, a field yoke allowing a flow of magnetic flux in an axial direction, first and second rotor cores fixedly installed on the rotational shaft, a first magnet fixedly installed between the first rotor core and the second rotor core, a first rotor teeth formed at the first rotor core, a second magnet provided alongside of the first rotor teeth in the circumferential direction of the first rotor core, a second rotor teeth formed at the outer surface of the second rotor core, protruding outwardly in the radial direction, a third magnet provided alongside of the second rotor core in the axial direction, and windings that can control the density of magnetic flux between at least one of the first rotor core and second rotor core and the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, National University Corporation Nagoya Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Ryoji Mizutani, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Eiji Yamada, Nobuyuki Matsui, Takashi Kosaka
  • Publication number: 20110136276
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor laser device uses a substrate with low defect density, contains reduced strains inside a nitride semiconductor film, and thus offers a satisfactorily long useful life. On a GaN substrate (10) with a defect density as low as 106 cm?2 or less, a stripe-shaped depressed portion (16) is formed by etching. On this substrate (10), a nitride semiconductor film (11) is grown, and a laser stripe (12) is formed off the area right above the depressed portion (16). With this structure, the laser stripe (12) is free from strains, and the semiconductor laser device offers a long useful life. Moreover, the nitride semiconductor film (11) develops reduced cracks, resulting in a greatly increased yield rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi KAMIKAWA, Eiji Yamada, Masahiro Araki, Yoshika Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7915753
    Abstract: A battery is arranged outside a compartment. A service plug is arranged in the compartment. The service plug is a shutoff device that can shut off an output path of the battery by a manual operation. When a vehicle is hard hit at the front and a circuit of PCU is damaged, an excessive current may flow to the PCU, possibly generating heat or smoke from the PCU. When the vehicle goes wrong, a person on board the vehicle may pull out the service plug, whereby the power supply path from battery to PCU can be shut off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Ryoji Mizutani, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuaki Tahara