Patents by Inventor Itsuro Sawada
Itsuro Sawada 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: 9431879Abstract: To uniformly cool down armature windings along the circumferential direction of a stator in a generator motor. A generator motor includes a stator 1 fixed to the inner diameter side of a housing 18, a rotor 130 rotatably supported by bearings 5, and armature windings wound around the teeth of a stator core 110. Each of brackets 200 provided via the bearings 5 has a passage 201, 202 through which cooling oil flows and injection holes 204 which communicate with the passage and inject cooling oil at positions opposite to winding ends of the armature windings. Cooling oil is injected toward the winding ends of the armature windings from the injection holes 204 of the brackets 200 arranged on opposite axial sides of a shaft 6. In the flow rate distribution of the oil from the plurality of the injection holes 204, the flow rate of the oil from any of the injection holes 204 is set to be greater as the position of the injection hole 204 is higher above the level of the shaft 6.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignees: HITACHI CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY CO., LTD., HITACHI INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Seiji Ishida, Tsutomu Miyoshi, Itsuro Sawada, Makoto Ishijima, Shigenori Aoki
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Patent number: 9300179Abstract: An electric rotating machine having high cooling performance is provided. The electric rotating machine is configured to include a rotor rotating around a rotational axis; and a stator disposed to face the circumferential surface of the rotor. The stator includes a stator core having a cylindrical core back and a plurality of teeth radially extending from the core back, and a stator coil wound around the teeth in concentrated winding via an insulation material. A spacer having electric insulation performance is attached between the stator coils each wound around the respective teeth adjacent to each other. The spacer has a coefficient of linear expansion greater than that of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Hiroshi Hamano, Taisuke Ikeda, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuji Kano
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Patent number: 9203273Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a stator that includes a stator core and a stator coil; a rotor that rotates with respect to the stator; a refrigerant supply port through which a cooling medium is supplied to a coil end protruding from the stator core; and a guide member, disposed along at least a part of the coil end, for causing the cooling medium supplied through the refrigerant supply port to flow along the coil end.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Kenichi Nakayama, Tomoaki Kaimori
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Publication number: 20150022050Abstract: An electric rotating machine having high cooling performance is provided. The electric rotating machine is configured to include a rotor rotating around a rotational axis; and a stator disposed to face the circumferential surface of the rotor. The stator includes a stator core having a cylindrical core back and a plurality of teeth radially extending from the core back, and a stator coil wound around the teeth in concentrated winding via an insulation material. A spacer having electric insulation performance is attached between the stator coils each wound around the respective teeth adjacent to each other. The spacer has a coefficient of linear expansion greater than that of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2013Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Hiroshi Hamano, Taisuke Ikeda, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuji Kano
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Patent number: 8909398Abstract: A cooling system of an electric vehicle includes a cooling medium circulation path that circulates a cooling medium to an electrically powered drive unit of a vehicle, a heat exchange unit between the cooling medium and external air, a cooling medium circulation unit, a blower unit that blows air against the heat exchange unit, and a control unit that controls the cooling medium circulation unit and the blower unit, thus controlling cooling of the electrically powered drive unit. The control unit controls the cooling medium circulation unit and the blower unit in a first cooling mode, when a drive force for the vehicle is in a first operational region, and controls in a second cooling mode that provides a higher cooling capability than the first cooling mode, when the drive force for the vehicle is in a second operational region that is higher than the first operational region.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Tadashi Osaka, Atsushi Yokoyama, Shingo Nasu, Yuto Imanishi, Sachio Sekiya
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Patent number: 8839894Abstract: An electric drive system for a vehicle includes: an electric drive unit that electrically drives the vehicle; and a cooling unit that cools the electric drive unit, wherein: the electric drive unit and the cooling unit are mounted at a body frame of the vehicle via an elastic support member, the electric drive unit and the cooling unit being configured as an integrated unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Yokoyama, Masatsugu Arai, Tadashi Osaka, Itsuro Sawada
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Publication number: 20140236409Abstract: A control system for an electric vehicle includes: an electricity storage device that performs charging and discharging of electrical power; a plurality of load devices that receive supply of electrical power from the electricity storage device and perform operations; and a control device that controls the electricity storage device and the plurality of load devices. And when electrical power is supplied from the electricity storage device to the plurality of load devices, the control device calculates a charge/discharge efficiency of the electricity storage device and a working efficiency of each of the load devices, and regulates an amount of electrical power supplied from the electricity storage device to each of the load devices, so as to enhance an overall efficiency of the electricity storage device and the plurality of load devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo NASU, Atsushi YOKOYAMA, Tadashi OSAKA, Itsuro SAWADA
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Publication number: 20140217842Abstract: To uniformly cool down armature windings along the circumferential direction of a stator in a generator motor. A generator motor includes a stator 1 fixed to the inner diameter side of a housing 18, a rotor 130 rotatably supported by bearings 5, and armature windings wound around the teeth of a stator core 110. Each of brackets 200 provided via the bearings 5 has a passage 201, 202 through which cooling oil flows and injection holes 204 which communicate with the passage and inject cooling oil at positions opposite to winding ends of the armature windings. Cooling oil is injected toward the winding ends of the armature windings from the injection holes 204 of the brackets 200 arranged on opposite axial sides of a shaft 6. In the flow rate distribution of the oil from the plurality of the injection holes 204, the flow rate of the oil from any of the injection holes 204 is set to be greater as the position of the injection hole 204 is higher above the level of the shaft 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Seiji Ishida, Tsutomu Miyoshi, Itsuro Sawada, Makoto Ishijima, Shigenori Aoki
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Publication number: 20140167556Abstract: Disclosed is an electric rotating machine that includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a housing and a cylindrical stator core secured to the housing by shrinkage fitting. The rotor is rotatably disposed inside the stator. The stator core is formed of two or more circumferentially split cores. Spilt surfaces of the split cores are shaped in such a manner that the amount of distortion caused on the split surfaces on the outside diameter side by the shrinkage fitting is greater than the amount of distortion caused on the split surfaces on the inside diameter side by the shrinkage fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Kanako Nemoto, Hideaki Mori, Satoshi Yamamura, Satoshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 8733126Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning apparatus, including: a refrigerant circulation channel that flows a refrigerant, the refrigerant circulation channel provided in a refrigeration cycle system including, as connected in a cyclic pattern, a compressor for the refrigerant, an outdoor heat-exchanger exchanging heat between the refrigerant and an outdoor air, an expansion valve reducing pressure of the refrigerant, and an air-conditioning heat-exchange circuit exchanging heat between the refrigerant and air to be introduced into a vehicle interior; and an equipment heat-exchange circuit connected in parallel to the circuit and exchanging heat between the refrigerant and in-vehicle equipment. The circuit includes a cooling heat-transfer medium circulation channel that circulates a heat-transfer medium for cooling.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Sachio Sekiya, Tadashi Osaka, Itsuro Sawada, Yuto Imanishi
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Publication number: 20130294888Abstract: A motor is provided which can detect a rotor temperature with high precision with a simple configuration not taking an influence on a temperature caused by circulation of a cooling oil into account. In a motor including a rotor, a stator arranged around the rotor, and a temperature sensor, the rotor includes an oil reservoir unit that reserves an oil on a rotating shaft line in an interior thereof, and the temperature sensor detects a temperature of the oil reserved in the oil reservoir unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Yokoyama, Itsuro Sawada
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Publication number: 20130118820Abstract: An electric drive system for a vehicle includes: an electric drive unit that electrically drives the vehicle; and a cooling unit that cools the electric drive unit, wherein: the electric drive unit and the cooling unit are mounted at a body frame of the vehicle via an elastic support member, the electric drive unit and the cooling unit being configured as an integrated unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Yokoyama, Masatsugu Arai, Tadashi Osaka, Itsuro Sawada
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Publication number: 20120222446Abstract: An air-conditioning system for a vehicle includes an air-conditioning apparatus having a compressor 1 that compresses a first refrigerant 40 and a first heat exchanger 2 that exchanges heat between the first refrigerant 40 and external air and performing temperature regulation; and an equipment cooling apparatus that circulates a second refrigerant 41B between equipment 53, 54, 55 for electrically driving the vehicle and a second heat exchanger 7B to release heat absorbed from the equipment 53, 54, 55 to air in the vehicle interior in the heat exchanger 7B. The system further includes a heat-radiation suppressing structure 60 that suppresses heat dissipation from the equipment 53, 54, 55 to surrounding environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Sachio Sekiya, Tadashi Osaka, Itsuro Sawada, Yuto Imanishi
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Publication number: 20120222441Abstract: A heat cycle system for a mobile object includes: a refrigeration cycle system 10 in which a refrigerant flows; a first heat transfer system 20 in which a heat medium that controls a temperature of a heat-generating body 2 flows; a second heat transfer system 30 in which a heat medium that controls a state of air in an interior of the mobile object flows; a first intermediate heat exchanger 40 which is provided between the refrigeration cycle system 10 and the first heat transfer system 20 and in which the refrigerant and the heat medium exchange heat therebetween; a second intermediate heat exchanger 50 which is provided between the refrigeration cycle system 10 and the second heat transfer system 30 and in which the refrigerant and the heat medium exchange heat therebetween; a first interior heat exchanger 23 which is provided in the first heat transfer system 20 and in which air taken into the interior of the mobile object and the heat medium exchange heat therebetween; a second interior heat exchanger 32Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Tadashi Osaka, Yuto Imanishi, Sachio Sekiya
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Publication number: 20120222438Abstract: An air-conditioning system for a vehicle for performing cooling/air-heating of a temperature controlling object includes: a temperature detection unit 63 that detects a temperature of the temperature controlling object; a controller 61 that controls the air-conditioning system based on a temperature detected by the temperature detection unit 63; a prediction unit 61 that predicts a forward temperature of the temperature controlling object based on at least either one of a detected temperature detected by the temperature detection unit 63 and a current vehicle driving state; a target temperature change unit 61 that changes a target temperature of the temperature controlling object or a target temperature of a cooling medium in the air-conditioning system for a vehicle based on a result of prediction by the prediction unit 61; wherein the controller 61 controls cooling/air-heating of the temperature controlling object based on a target temperature changed by the target temperature change unit 61.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Osaka, Sachio Sekiya, Itsuro Sawada, Yuto Imanishi
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Publication number: 20120169145Abstract: A linear actuator has an alternating drive apparatus, an alternating motion member, a fixing member fixed to a housing member, a direct acting member, a first wedge joining mechanism incorporated between the alternating motion member and the direct acting member, and a second wedge joining mechanism incorporated between the fixing member and the direct acting member. The first wedge joining mechanism and the second wedge joining mechanism have an inclined surface, a non-inclined surface at a constant distance from the central axis, and a wedge member arranged between the inclined surface and the non-inclined surface. The non-inclined surfaces of the first and second wedge joining mechanisms are formed on the direct acting member. The inclined surface of the first wedge joining mechanism is formed on the alternating motion member, and the inclined surface of the second wedge joining mechanism is formed to the fixing member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Isao Hayase, Kenichiro Tokuo, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Itsuro Sawada
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Publication number: 20120161555Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a stator that includes a stator core and a stator coil; a rotor that rotates with respect to the stator; a refrigerant supply port through which a cooling medium is supplied to a coil end protruding from the stator core; and a guide member, disposed along at least a part of the coil end, for causing the cooling medium supplied through the refrigerant supply port to flow along the coil end.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Itsuro Sawada, Kenichi Nakayama, Tomoaki Kaimori
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Patent number: 8156833Abstract: A linear actuator has an alternating drive apparatus, an alternating motion member, a fixing member fixed to a housing member, a direct acting member, a first wedge joining mechanism incorporated between the alternating motion member and the direct acting member, and a second wedge joining mechanism incorporated between the fixing member and the direct acting member. The first wedge joining mechanism and the second wedge joining mechanism have an inclined surface, a non-inclined surface at a constant distance from the central axis, and a wedge member arranged between the inclined surface and the non-inclined surface. The non-inclined surfaces of the first and second wedge joining mechanisms are formed on the direct acting member. The inclined surface of the first wedge joining mechanism is formed on the alternating motion member, and the inclined surface of the second wedge joining mechanism is formed to the fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Isao Hayase, Kenichiro Tokuo, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Itsuro Sawada
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Publication number: 20120024517Abstract: A heat cycle system includes: a refrigerating cycle system that circulates a refrigerant; a medium circulation circuit that includes a circulation pump for circulating a heat-transfer medium, and adjusts a temperature of a temperature control target with the heat-transfer medium; a heat exchanger that executes heat exchange between the refrigerant in the refrigerating cycle system and the heat-transfer medium in the medium circulation circuit; and a volume altering unit that alters a volume of the heat-transfer medium circulating in the medium circulation circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuto Imanishi, Itsuro Sawada, Tadashi Osaka, Sachio Sekiya
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Publication number: 20110118924Abstract: A control system for an electric vehicle includes: an electricity storage device that performs charging and discharging of electrical power; a plurality of load devices that receive supply of electrical power from the electricity storage device and perform operations; and a control device that controls the electricity storage device and the plurality of load devices. And when electrical power is supplied from the electricity storage device to the plurality of load devices, the control device calculates a charge/discharge efficiency of the electricity storage device and a working efficiency of each of the load devices, and regulates an amount of electrical power supplied from the electricity storage device to each of the load devices, so as to enhance an overall efficiency of the electricity storage device and the plurality of load devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2010Publication date: May 19, 2011Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Nasu, Atsushi Yokoyama, Tadashi Osaka, Itsuro Sawada