Patents by Inventor Masaaki Tasai

Masaaki Tasai 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: 4497111
    Abstract: A coil inserting apparatus for inserting coils into slots of a stator core of an electric rotary machine. The apparatus includes a plurality of groups of blades for guiding the coils into the slots, a plurality of blade holders, a coil pusher, a rotary driving means for driving the coil pusher and the plurality of the blade holders and a mechanism for converting a rotary motion into a linear reciprocating motion, so that the coil pusher and the plurality of the blade holders are caused to make linear reciprocating motions in the axial direction of the plurality of the blade holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1985
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai, Tadashi Kubota
  • Patent number: 4470436
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus of the type in which a coil (16) formed by winding a wire (1) around a winding frame (6, 7) having a plurality of winding steps (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) of successively increased diameters is dropped into a coil receiving jig (3) disposed below the winding frame (6, 7) characterized in that pusher plates (21) adapted to vertically slide in slits formed in the winding frame (6, 7) to downwardly push the coil (16) formed on the winding steps are in stepped form corresponding to the contour of the winding of the winding frame and projecting a predetermined amount radially outwardly of the contour of each winding step and the vertical slide stroke is substantially equal to the height of each winding step, thus making it possible to reduce the overall height of the apparatus, shorten the coil forming time and facilitate the wire treatment between oils and at the terminal ends of coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kubota, Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai
  • Patent number: 4457067
    Abstract: An apparatus reduces the insertion-required force in a coil inserting apparatus. A coil and an insulating material piece are automatically inserted into the groove of a stator core by the operation of a coil pusher. A current flows from a piezo-electric element accommodated within the coil pusher, when insertion resistance applied upon the coil pusher has increased, through the relay solenoid valve to drive a hydraulic cylinder thereby raising the coil wrapping jig. When the insertion pressure has suddenly increased, the current stops to keep fundamentally the coil wrapping jig synchronous to the motion of the coil pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: July 3, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai
  • Patent number: 4434819
    Abstract: A coil forming machine comprises a coil former assembly for the formation of a coil therearound, a flier for winding a wire around the former assembly to form the coil and a coil receiving jig for the support of the coil which has been transferred from the former assembly. The former assembly is provided with a high frequency energy generator for converting electrical energies into mechanical energies and an amplitude transducer for increasing mechanical vibrations generated by the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kubota, Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai
  • Patent number: 4434945
    Abstract: An improved winding apparatus for winding wires and the like, which includes a flyer having a passage for passing the wire through it and driven for rotation around a winding form or winding frame for winding the wire onto the winding form, a roller movably mounted on the flyer for movement in approximately radial direction from a rotational axis of the flyer so as to depress the wire disposed approximately along a direction parallel to rotational axis of the flyer, by a centrifugal force during rotation of the flyer, and biasing members for urging the roller towards the rotational axis of the flyer against the centrifugal force, so that the tension for the wire may be increased during high speed rotation of the flyer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai
  • Patent number: 4433475
    Abstract: An improved coil insertion apparatus for inserting coils, for example, into stator cores of electrical rotary machines, in which blades and a coil pusher of the apparatus are arranged to be movable at optimum timing and speed suitable for various winding specifications of stators so as to make it possible to efficiently insert coils having low coil ends and a short circumferential length into stator cores, with simultaneous reduction of coil inserting resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kubota, Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai
  • Patent number: 4383360
    Abstract: Coils are manually inserted into respective guide paths of a coil inserting jig which is placed with respect to an advancing mechanism. A coil advancing pusher is movably located inside the jig to move the inner portions of the coils toward a core structure mounted on the jig. A coil holding device is provided externally of the jig for engaging the outer portions of the coils when the inner coil portions are initially advanced toward the core structure. The inner coil pusher and the outer coil holding device are simultaneously moved by the advancing mechanism for coaction with each other to advance the inner and outer coil portions toward the core structure with the coil orientations substantially aligned with the grooves of the core structure to ensure smooth insertion of the coils respectively into the core grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Limited
    Inventors: Tokuhito Hamane, Masaaki Tasai