Patents by Inventor Hiromichi Hiramatsu
Hiromichi Hiramatsu 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: 11970242Abstract: A brake lever and a transmission with a novel antenna are provided. The brake lever is attachable to the handlebar. The brake lever includes a long portion configured as including an electrically conductive material and an antenna located on the long portion. The antenna includes a first conductor, a second conductor facing the first conductor in a first direction, a third conductor, a fourth conductor, and a power supply line configured to be electromagnetically connected to the third conductor. The third conductor is located between the first conductor and the second conductor, is configured to capacitively connect the first conductor and the second conductor, and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor is connected to the first conductor and the second conductor and extends in the first direction. The fourth conductor faces the long portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hikaru Nekozuka, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Sunao Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11955736Abstract: An antenna includes a housing, a first conductor group, and a power supply line. The housing includes a first surface including at least three first corner portions, a second surface including at least three second corner portions and facing the first surface, and a side surface connecting the first and second surfaces. A housing portion is surrounded by the first, second and side surfaces. The first conductor group includes a first conductor extending along the first surface, at least three second conductors separated from one another, and a second conductor group. The second conductors extend along the side surface from the first corner portions to the second corner portions and are electrically connected to the first conductor. The second conductor group extends along the second surface and capacitively couples the at least three second conductors. The power supply line is connected to any one portion of the second conductor group.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
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Patent number: 11942691Abstract: The present disclosure provides a novel antenna. An antenna according to an example of a plurality of embodiments of the present disclosure includes a radiation conductor, a ground conductor, a first feeding line, a second feeding line, and a connecting conductor. The first feeding line is electromagnetically connected to the radiation conductor and configured to excite the radiation conductor in a first direction. The second feeding line is electromagnetically connected to the radiation conductor and configured to excite the radiation conductor in a second direction. The connecting conductor is positioned apart from the center of the radiation conductor. The connecting conductor is spaced apart from the first feeding line by a first distance. The connecting conductor is spaced apart from the second feeding line by a second distance. The first distance is substantially equal to the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi Yoshikawa, Nobuki Hiramatsu, Masamichi Yonehara
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Publication number: 20240090050Abstract: A communication control method used in a mobile communication system including a gNB 200 and a UE performing wireless communication with the gNB 200, the communication control method including: establishing, by an RIS-UE 100B, a wireless connection with the gNB 200, the RIS-UE 100B controlling an RIS device 500 that changes a propagation direction of a radio wave incident from the gNB 200; and transmitting, by the RIS-UE 100B to the gNB 200 through wireless communication, RIS device information indicating at least one of a capability of the RIS device 500 and a control state of the RIS device 500.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Chiharu YAMAZAKI, Nobuki HIRAMATSU
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Publication number: 20240089744Abstract: A communication control method used in a mobile communication system including a gNB and a UE performing wireless communication with the gNB, the communication control method including: establishing, by an RIS-UE, a wireless connection with the gNB, the RIS-UE controlling an RIS device that changes a propagation direction of a radio wave incident from the gNB; and transmitting, by the gNB to the RIS-UE through the wireless communication, one or more pieces of RIS control information used to control the RIS device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Masato FUJISHIRO, Hiromichi YOSHIKAWA, Chiharu YAMAZAKI, Nobuki HIRAMATSU
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Patent number: 8384263Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator including at least two element coils of the same phase each having a plurality of turns and connected to each other through a coil-to-coil connection wire, the element coils being arranged in adjacent slots, respectively; and a rotor rotatably provided to the stator through a gap. The element coils of the same phase are fitted in the adjacent slots so that wound around portions of the element coils partially overlap each other. The coil-to-coil connection wire connects at a coil end portion conductor wires extending from linear conductor wire portions of innermost wires of the element coils contained in the slots.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Takashi Ishigami, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenichi Nakayama, Yutaka Matsunobu, Noriaki Hino
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Patent number: 8237322Abstract: To provide a well balanced squirrel-cage rotor for an electric motor, quantities of braze used to bond various rotor components are different from each other so as to serve as balance weight in order to improve balance.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Seiichi Baba, Toru Sakai, Takeshi Abe, Kazuhide Ebine
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Publication number: 20120066897Abstract: A concentrated winding coil includes a plurality of coil layers each of which comprises a plurality of wire turns wound in alignment winding; and a bobbin including an inner flange, an outer flange and a bobbin body on which the wire is wound, wherein: each of the coil layers includes a turn shift portion where the wire is shifted from an n-th turn to an (n+1)-th turn; the turn shift portion is located only on a side of a coil end section of the coil; and the bobbin body has no guide grooves. A method of manufacturing the concentrated winding coil includes steps of: winding the wire on the bobbin; and pressing the wire by a wire guiding/holding member toward the inner flange or toward the outer flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Hiromichi HIRAMATSU, Takashi Ishigami, Takashi Naganawa
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Patent number: 8093779Abstract: A concentrated winding coil includes a plurality of coil layers each of which comprises a plurality of wire turns wound in alignment winding; and a bobbin including an inner flange, an outer flange and a bobbin body on which the wire is wound, wherein: each of the coil layers includes a turn shift portion where the wire is shifted from an n-th turn to an (n+1)-th turn; the turn shift portion is located only on a side of a coil end section of the coil; and the bobbin body has no guide grooves. A method of manufacturing the concentrated winding coil includes steps of: winding the wire on the bobbin; and pressing the wire by a wire guiding/holding member toward the inner flange or toward the outer flange.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Takashi Ishigami, Takashi Naganawa
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Publication number: 20110074240Abstract: To provide a well balanced squirrel-cage rotor for an electric motor, quantities of braze used to bond various rotor components are different from each other so as to serve as balance weight in order to improve balance.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2010Publication date: March 31, 2011Inventors: Hiromichi HIRAMATSU, Seiichi Baba, Toru Sakai, Takeshi Abe, Kazuhide Ebine
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Publication number: 20110025164Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a stator in which a stator winding is inserted in a plurality of slots extending in an axial direction in an inner circumference of a stator core, and a rotor that is rotatable in the stator. A plurality of the stator windings are constituted with continuously wound coils in which rectangular conductors are connected by cross-over conductors spanning over the plurality of slots, and end positions of the cross-over conductors vary in the circumferential direction of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2008Publication date: February 3, 2011Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Takashi Ishigami, Takashi Naganawa, Hiromichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 7825562Abstract: In a distribution winding stator using a coil for a rectangular conductor, a coil end is made smaller than before, and the reduction in the current density is aimed, so that a rotary electric machine of a small size and a high power output is obtained. A conductive wire of a rectangular shape in cross section is double-wound, and is allowed to be shifted by the whole width of the wire having double-wound the crowns of both ends, and is formed to crank shape so as to become a length within the range of the intervals of the adjacent slots, so that the conductive wire is formed by being inserted into the slot of the stator.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Naganawa, Takashi Ishigami, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Kenichi Nakayama, Tsuyoshi Goto, Yoshimi Mori, Tomohiro Adachi
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Publication number: 20090267441Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator including at least two element coils of the same phase each having a plurality of turns and connected to each other through a coil-to-coil connection wire, the element coils being arranged in adjacent slots, respectively; and a rotor rotatably provided to the stator through a gap. The element coils of the same phase are fitted in the adjacent slots so that wound around portions of the element coils partially overlap each other. The coil-to-coil connection wire connects at a coil end portion conductor wires extending from linear conductor wire portions of innermost wires of the element coils contained in the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi HIRAMATSU, Takashi Ishigami, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuichiro Tanaka, Kenichi Nakayama, Yutaka Matsunobu, Noriaki Hino
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Publication number: 20090001841Abstract: The invention provides a distributed winding stator using a rectangle conductor as coil, realizing a miniaturized coil end and reduced current density compared to the prior art stator, so as to obtain a miniaturized rotation electric machine with high power. The distributed winding stator is formed by wave winding a conductor source wire having a rectangular cross-section, wherein the wire is cranked so that parietal regions on both ends are displaced corresponding to the width of the source wire and that the length is within the range of intervals between adjacent slots, and inserting the wave winding coil into slots of the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Takashi Naganawa, Takashi Ishigami, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Yuichiro Tanaka
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Publication number: 20080136286Abstract: A concentrated winding coil according to the present invention comprises a plurality of coil layers each of which comprises a plurality of wire turns wound in alignment winding; and a bobbin comprising an inner flange, an outer flange and a bobbin body on which the wire is wound, wherein: each of the coil layers includes a turn shift portion where the wire is shifted from an n-th turn to an (n+1)-th turn; the turn shift portion is located only on a side of a coil end section of the coil; and the bobbin body has no guide grooves. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing the concentrated winding coil according to the present invention comprises steps of: winding the wire on the bobbin; and pressing the wire by a wire guiding/holding member toward the inner flange or toward the outer flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Takashi Ishigami, Takashi Naganawa
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Publication number: 20070169136Abstract: In a joint of a first flexible printed circuit board (FPC board) dividedly manufactured and fixed to an optical pickup device main body and a second FPC board dividedly manufactured and inserted into a drive side connector in an optical pickup drive apparatus, the present invention is characterized in that an end face of a base film of at least one of the FPC boards extends outward from an end face of wiring conductor. In solder bonding of a first FPC board to a second FPC board, the present invention is characterized by having a solder dam formed at a leading end of wiring of the first FPC board so as to ensure a predetermined amount of solder for re-joint when the second FPC board is removed from the first FPC board and by narrowing an end of wiring of the second FPC board.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Hiroaki Furuichi, Satoshi Arai, Rika Nomura, Mitsuo Satake
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Patent number: 6229241Abstract: A motor having a lap winding structure and a manufacturing method therefor, wherein inserts of two different coils are installed side by side in one slot of a stator in a circumferential direction of the stator. All the coils are inserted in slots in succession. Further, a stator having semi-closed type slots formed by protuberances oriented in different directions, is used to control a reduction in the magnetic flux at the inlet of a slot and also to prevent coils from coming off. In a motor having coils of a plurality of phases for generating a rotating magnetic field at a stator, the contact portion of the coil of the desired phase among the coils of the plurality of phases and a portion rising from a slot toward the axis of a core are aligned and disposed to have a shape which prevents them from interferring with end portions of the coils of other phases.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1998Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Ishigami, Yukinori Taneda, Toshihiko Sakai, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yuji Enomoto, Motoya Ito, Fumio Tajima, Suetaro Shibukawa, Masaharu Senoh, Osamu Koizumi
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Patent number: 6222296Abstract: An electric motor, wherein a space factor of a coil in a stator or a rotor is enhanced, and which has a central part core comprising a plurality of laminated electromagnetic steel plates stamped out into a predetermined slot sectional shape and an end part core which is disposed on at least one end part toward a laminating direction of the central part core and a core shape of the end part core is different from the core shape of the central part core.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 1998Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiko Sakai, Yukinori Taneda, Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yuji Enomoto, Takashi Ishigami, Motoya Ito, Fumio Tajima, Masaharu Senoh, Suetaro Shibukawa
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Patent number: 5886444Abstract: The present invention is characterized in that a rotary machine attempts to lower the resistance of each coil and realize improvement of efficiency and miniaturization of a motor by shortening the end portion of a coil to be inserted into a stator, and the constitution thereof is that the coil end portion of a stator coil has a shape that a conductor raised and looped back from a slot provided in the core on the rotor side is closer to the end face of the aforementioned core than a conductor raised and looped back in the aforementioned slot on the opposite side of the rotor, and the aforementioned constitution has a stator coil having a loopback shape passing a location other than above the adjacent slot surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1997Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Noriaki Yamamoto, Yukinori Taneda, Hiromichi Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 4882833Abstract: A coil mounting method and apparatus is disclosed, for example, for mounting coils to the inner periphery of a cylindrical core in assembling a cylindrical rotary transformer of a VTR cylinder. A wire is wound round the outer periphery of a coil holding jig that is capable of opening and closing in a radial direction. After the coil is formed, the coil holding jig is inserted into a cylindrical article and opened radially to have the coil fitted in a coil groove formed in the inner periphery of the cylindrical article. The mounting of the coil to the inner periphery of a cylindrical article can be done in a short time through a reduced number of steps.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1988Date of Patent: November 28, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Hiramatsu, Hitoshi Odashima, Kuniaki Hirayama, Toshio Ohji