Patents by Inventor Kanji Shinkawa
Kanji Shinkawa 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: 10931158Abstract: A plurality of magnet holes are arranged in a circumferential direction. Void portions are provided at both ends in the circumferential direction of each magnet hole. Flow holes penetrating in the axial direction are formed, between the magnet holes adjacent in the circumferential direction, on an inner side in a radial direction with respect to the magnet holes. Each core has: first groove portions via which the void portions and the flow holes communicate with each other; and second groove portions via which the void portions and the outer circumferences of the cores communicate with each other and which serve as discharge ports. The end plates have: first holes through which the flow holes are exposed and which serve as intake ports; and tab portions which are located on downstream sides in a rotation direction of the first holes and which assist air intake.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shono, Shinichi Ito, Yuki Tamura, Kanji Shinkawa, Mizuho Shimizu
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Patent number: 10892655Abstract: A plurality of magnet holes are arranged in a circumferential direction. Void portions are provided at both ends in the circumferential direction of each magnet hole. Flow holes penetrating in the axial direction are formed, between the magnet holes adjacent in the circumferential direction, on an inner side in a radial direction with respect to the magnet holes. Each core has: first groove portions via which the void portions and the flow holes communicate with each other; and second groove portions via which the void portions and the outer circumferences of the cores communicate with each other and which serve as discharge ports. The end plates have: first holes through which the flow holes are exposed and which serve as intake ports; and tab portions which are located on downstream sides in a rotation direction of the first holes and which assist air intake.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Shono, Shinichi Ito, Yuki Tamura, Kanji Shinkawa, Mizuho Shimizu
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Publication number: 20190190337Abstract: A plurality of magnet holes are arranged in a circumferential direction. Void portions are provided at both ends in the circumferential direction of each magnet hole. Flow holes penetrating in the axial direction are formed, between the magnet holes adjacent in the circumferential direction, on an inner side in a radial direction with respect to the magnet holes. Each core has: first groove portions via which the void portions and the flow holes communicate with each other; and second groove portions via which the void portions and the outer circumferences of the cores communicate with each other and which serve as discharge ports. The end plates have: first holes through which the flow holes are exposed and which serve as intake ports; and tab portions which are located on downstream sides in a rotation direction of the first holes and which assist air intake.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Shono, Shinichi Ito, Yuki Tamura, Kanji Shinkawa, Mizuho Shimizu
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Patent number: 9006954Abstract: A rotor includes: a plurality of first magnetic pole members that are disposed such that first end portions and second end portions are respectively coupled magnetically and mechanically to a first magnetic end plate and to a second magnetic end plate and so as to be separated from a magnetic intermediate plate magnetically; a plurality of second magnetic pole members that are disposed such that intermediate portions are coupled magnetically and mechanically to the magnetic intermediate plate and so as to be separated from each of the magnetic end plates magnetically; a plurality of permanent magnets that are disposed between the first and second magnetic pole members in a circumferential direction; and a nonmagnetic holding body for separating the first magnetic pole members magnetically from the magnetic intermediate plate, and for separating the second magnetic pole members magnetically from the magnetic end plates.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masao Morita, Masaya Inoue, Yoichi Kuroda, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Kanji Shinkawa
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Publication number: 20140354101Abstract: A rotor is formed with a partition wall interposed between a first magnetic body and a second magnetic body. Projections of the partition wall block gaps between salient poles of the first magnetic body and salient poles of the second magnetic body which are arranged at shifted positions when seen in an axial direction of a rotating shaft to shield a flow of air flowing in the axial direction. Notches are formed in parts other than the gaps to decrease a volume thereof and to reduce inertia thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Goto, Hideaki Arita, Kanji Shinkawa, Akihiro Daikoku
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Publication number: 20140346913Abstract: A rotor includes: a plurality of first magnetic pole members that are disposed such that first end portions and second end portions are respectively coupled magnetically and mechanically to a first magnetic end plate and to a second magnetic end plate and so as to be separated from a magnetic intermediate plate magnetically; a plurality of second magnetic pole members that are disposed such that intermediate portions are coupled magnetically and mechanically to the magnetic intermediate plate and so as to be separated from each of the magnetic end plates magnetically; a plurality of permanent magnets that are disposed between the first and second magnetic pole members in a circumferential direction; and a nonmagnetic holding body for separating the first magnetic pole members magnetically from the magnetic intermediate plate, and for separating the second magnetic pole members magnetically from the magnetic end plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masao Morita, Masaya Inoue, Yoichi Kuroda, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Kanji Shinkawa
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Patent number: 8525448Abstract: The circular accelerator comprises: a bending electromagnet that generates a bending magnetic field; a radio-frequency power source that generates a radio-frequency electric field in accordance with an orbital frequency of charged particles; a radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part connected to the radio-frequency power source; an acceleration electrode connected to the radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part; and an acceleration-electrode-opposing ground plate provided to form an acceleration gap between the plate itself and the acceleration electrode, for generating the radio-frequency electromagnetic field in an orbiting direction of the charged particles; wherein the bending electromagnet generates the bending magnetic field varying in such a way that the orbital frequency of the charged particles varies in a variation range of 0.7% to 24.7% with respect to an orbital frequency at the charged-particles' extraction portion, during a time of injection to extraction of the particles.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2012Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hirofumi Tanaka, Kazuo Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Haruna, Yuehu Pu, Kanji Shinkawa, Takayuki Kashima
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Patent number: 8368274Abstract: Dynamoelectric machine having holding grooves recessed into yoke portions with openings on respective facing portions of inner wall surfaces of trough portions, at axially inner ends of the yoke portions, having axial groove directions, and an end surface in a groove length direction constitutes a stopping surface. Magnet material holders are disposed spanning the trough portions radially inside inner circumferential surfaces near tip ends of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, fitted from axially inside into each holding groove, are recessed to face each other on the trough portions restricting circumferential and radial motion by inner wall surfaces of the holding grooves and axially outward movement restricted by the stopping surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Masaya Inoue, Ryuichi Shimomura, Takuma Wada, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Kazuya Nakamachi, Kazunori Tanaka
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Patent number: 8324768Abstract: A rotational angle detection device for a permanent magnet dynamo-electric machine, including: a stator (10); a rotor (20); and a conductive circuit that includes first conductors (1a1, 1a2) extending in a direction parallel to a rotational axis of the rotor and being disposed in at least two places in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and second conductors (1b1, 1b2) for electrically interconnecting the first conductors. In this case, the first conductors are each disposed within a range of an electrical angle between ?45° and +45° in the circumferential direction with a magnetic pole center being set as a reference, and the conductive circuit is disposed in at least one place in the circumferential direction, and the rotational angle detection device further comprising a detection means for detecting a rotational angle of the rotor by measuring a value of a current flowing through the armature winding.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Akira Satake, Kanji Shinkawa, Hiroyuki Akita, Sachiko Kawasaki
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Patent number: 8324780Abstract: An automotive dynamoelectric machine that achieves disposing of permanent magnets and thickening of field coil wire by disposing trough portions on yoke portions and disposing magnet holders that hold the permanent magnets so as to span the trough portions to ensure outlet space for field coil lead wires. In the dynamoelectric machine, trough portions are formed on respective portions of yoke portions between circumferentially adjacent claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, a magnet holder is disposed so as to span over a trough portion, and a permanent magnet is held by the magnet holder. A lead wire is led out of a rotor from a field coil so as to pass through a space that is bounded by the trough portion and the magnet holder.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Kanji Shinkawa, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hirokazu Akai, Kazunori Tanaka, Shinji Nishimura, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura
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Patent number: 8304950Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine that can suppress increases in rotor inertia to extend belt service life and increase field magnetomotive force to increase output. In the dynamoelectric machine, first and second magnetic guidance members are fitted into first and second holding grooves that are disposed so as to extend axially on facing portions of first and second trough portions radially outside inner wall surfaces, and are disposed so as to span over first and second trough portions. First and second permanent magnets that are magnetically oriented in a reverse direction to a magnetic field that originates from a field coil are fitted into and held by interfitting grooves of the first and second magnetic guidance members so as to face inner circumferential surfaces near tip ends of second and first claw-shaped magnetic pole portions so as to have a predetermined clearance.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Masaya Inoue, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takeshi Mori, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura, Kazunori Tanaka, Shinji Nishimura
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Publication number: 20120217903Abstract: The circular accelerator comprises: a bending electromagnet that generates a bending magnetic field; a radio-frequency power source that generates a radio-frequency electric field in accordance with an orbital frequency of charged particles; a radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part connected to the radio-frequency power source; an acceleration electrode connected to the radio-frequency electromagnetic field coupling part; and an acceleration-electrode-opposing ground plate provided to form an acceleration gap between the plate itself and the acceleration electrode, for generating the radio-frequency electromagnetic field in an orbiting direction of the charged particles; wherein the bending electromagnet generates the bending magnetic field varying in such a way that the orbital frequency of the charged particles varies in a variation range of 0.7% to 24.7% with respect to an orbital frequency at the charged-particles' extraction portion, during a time of injection to extraction of the particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hirofumi TANAKA, Kazuo YAMAMOTO, Nobuyuki HARUNA, Yuehu PU, Kanji SHINKAWA, Takayuki KASHIMA
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Patent number: 8222984Abstract: Two layers of a plurality of rod-like permanent magnets each having a width Wm, a thickness Tm and a predetermined length are aligned on a plane in such a way that they have opposite magnetic pole orientations alternately and are aligned at a fixed pole pitch ?p are arranged to be opposed to each other with the magnetic pole orientation of each magnet in one of the layers being identical to that of the opposing magnet in the other layer. The opposing surfaces of the magnets are spaced a distance 2×lg from each other, and a vibrating membrane on which coils each having a conductive pattern are arranged is placed in a gap between any two adjacent rod-like permanent magnets in each of the two layers, where lg is a distance from the vibrating membrane to the surface of a magnet. The arrangement of the rod-like permanent magnets is optimized by using Wm, Tm, ?p, and lg.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Co., LtdInventors: Shinichi Sakai, Seiki Suzuki, Kanji Shinkawa
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Patent number: 8148864Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine includes first and second magnet seat portions disposed to project from portions of first and second yoke portions that face respective inner circumferential surfaces near tip ends of second and first claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and magnet housing portions disposed integrally to extend axially outward from outer circumferential portions of a pair of flange portions of a bobbin, extend near the first and second yoke portions that face the inner circumferential surfaces near the tip ends of the first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and be held by the first and second magnet seat portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Masaya Inoue, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hiroyuki Akita, Shinji Nishimura, Norihiro Murata
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Patent number: 7994684Abstract: An automotive generator that includes a Lundell rotor. First and second protruding portions are disposed so as to project from inner wall surfaces of portions of first and second yoke portions at root portions of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, and first and second recess portions are recessed into inner wall surfaces of portions of the first and second yoke portions that face the second and first protruding portions. In addition, a shape of a region in which the field coil is disposed is configured into a wave shape that has a cross-sectional shape in a plane that includes a central axis of the pole core that is approximately constant in a circumferential direction and that zigzags alternately in an axial direction at positions of each of the first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaya Inoue, Kouki Naka, Hiroyuki Akita, Kanji Shinkawa, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Haruyuki Kometani
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Publication number: 20110181142Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamoelectric machine and a method for manufacturing a rotor therefor that can hold permanent magnets stably for a long time by a simple magnet holding construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2008Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Masaya Inoue, Ryuichi Shimomura, Takuma Wada, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Yoshiharu Hayashi, Kazuya Nakamachi, Kazunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20110043068Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine that can suppress increases in rotor inertia to extend belt service life and increase field magnetomotive force to increase output. In the dynamoelectric machine, first and second magnetic guidance members are fitted into first and second holding grooves that are disposed so as to extend axially on facing portions of first and second trough portions radially outside inner wall surfaces, and are disposed so as to span over first and second trough portions. First and second permanent magnets that are magnetically oriented in a reverse direction to a magnetic field that originates from a field coil are fitted into and held by interfitting grooves of the first and second magnetic guidance members so as to face inner circumferential surfaces near tip ends of second and first claw-shaped magnetic pole portions so as to have a predetermined clearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2008Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Masaya Inoue, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takeshi Mori, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura, Kazunori Tanaka, Shinji Nishimura
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Publication number: 20110001374Abstract: An automotive dynamoelectric machine that achieves disposing of permanent magnets and thickening of field coil wire by disposing trough portions on yoke portions and disposing magnet holders that hold the permanent magnets so as to span the trough portions to ensure outlet space for field coil lead wires. In the dynamoelectric machine, trough portions are formed on respective portions of yoke portions between circumferentially adjacent claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, a magnet holder is disposed so as to span over a trough portion, and a permanent magnet is held by the magnet holder. A lead wire is led out of a rotor from a field coil so as to pass through a space that is bounded by the trough portion and the magnet holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2008Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Kanji Shinkawa, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hirokazu Akai, Kazunori Tanaka, Shinji Nishimura, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura
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Patent number: 7843107Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine including first and second permanent magnets held by first and second magnet seats on first and second yoke portions so as to face inner circumferential surfaces of tip end portions of first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The first and second permanent magnets are magnetically oriented in a reverse direction to orientation of a magnetic field that the field coil produces. The dynamoelectric machine enables permanent magnet holding reliability to be increased, induced voltage during no-load de-energization to be suppressed, and thermal demagnetization of magnets due to high-frequency magnetic fields that are induced by stator slots to be avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masaya Inoue, Kanji Shinkawa, Masao Morita, Haruyuki Kometani, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Keiichi Ito, Takeshi Mori, Hiroyuki Akita, Yoshinori Miyamoto, Shinji Nishimura
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Publication number: 20100214047Abstract: Two layers in each of which a plurality of rod-like permanent magnets each having a width Wm, a thickness Tm and a predetermined length are aligned on a plane in such a way that they have opposite magnetic pole orientations alternately and are aligned at a fixed pole pitch ?p are arranged to be opposed to each other with the magnetic pole orientation of each magnet in one of the layers being identical to that of the opposing magnet in the other layer, and with the opposing surfaces of the magnets being spaced a distance 2×lg apart from each other, and a vibrating membrane on which coils each having a conductive pattern are arranged is placed in a gap between any two adjacent rod-like permanent magnets in each of the above-mentioned two layers. The arrangement of the rod-like permanent magnets is optimized by using Wm, Tm, ?p, and lg.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, LimitedInventors: Shinichi Sakai, Seiki Suzuki, Kanji Shinkawa