Patents by Inventor Masafumi Tamai

Masafumi Tamai 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: 11996751
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor in which it is possible to accurately leading-out terminal sections of a magnet wire that constitutes a stator coil in a prescribed leading-out direction as lead wires. A wire cover formed from a hard insulating resin is press-fitted into a wire leading-out hole provided in an end member that closes one end of a motor housing, and lead wires are led out to an exterior through through-holes provided in the wire cover. Crush ribs are provided to side surfaces of a head part of the wire cover, and, due to crushing of the crush ribs and press-fitting of the wire cover into the wire leading-out hole, the wire cover is prevented from inclining within the wire leading-out hole and a leading-out direction of the lead wires is prevented from deviating from the prescribed leading-out direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE ELECTRIC DRIVES JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Ryosuke Suzuki, Yoshio Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20210384791
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor in which it is possible to accurately leading-out terminal sections of a magnet wire that constitutes a stator coil in a prescribed leading-out direction as lead wires. A wire cover formed from a hard insulating resin is press-fitted into a wire leading-out hole provided in an end member that closes one end of a motor housing, and lead wires are led out to an exterior through through-holes provided in the wire cover. Crush ribs are provided to side surfaces of a head part of the wire cover, and, due to crushing of the crush ribs and press-fitting of the wire cover into the wire leading-out hole, the wire cover is prevented from inclining within the wire leading-out hole and a leading-out direction of the lead wires is prevented from deviating from the prescribed leading-out direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Masafumi TAMAI, Ryosuke SUZUKI, Yoshio MATSUKAWA
  • Patent number: 9941767
    Abstract: To provide a compact linear actuator having small back drive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: MOOG JAPAN LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Osamu Goto
  • Publication number: 20160149466
    Abstract: To provide a compact linear actuator having small back drive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicants: MOOG JAPAN LTD., NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi TAMAI, Osamu GOTO
  • Patent number: 8601952
    Abstract: The linear actuator has a hollow main body having open and closed ends, a cylinder fixed to a closed side in the body and having an open end at open side, a linear motion rod having one end extending from the open end of the body and a wear ring on an outer circumference of the other end and slidably housed in the cylinder, and a hollow shaft rotatably supported in the body, wherein the shaft has magnet on outer circumferential surface, a winding section included on an inner surface of the body and the magnet configure a hollow motor, a nut coaxially fixed to the shaft and a screw on an outer surface of the linear motion rod are engaged with each other to configure a rotation/linear motion converter, and oil seals seal a gap between the shaft and the body in both sides are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Moog Japan Ltd., Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Osamu Goto
  • Publication number: 20130112104
    Abstract: A compact linear actuator in which a back drive force is small and sticking due to abrasion powder and the like hardly occurs, and a rocking controller for a railway vehicle having the linear actuator are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, MOOG JAPAN LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Osamu Goto
  • Patent number: 6946755
    Abstract: A small and high rigid linear motor (1), wherein a tabular heat pipe (7) is disposed between a plurality of coil rows forming an armature coil (6) along the longitudinal direction of an armature (5) with a part of the heat absorbing part of the heat pipe (7) fixed to the armature coil (6) and the heat radiating part thereof inserted into a refrigerant passage (11), a block-shaped locking member (8) for fixing the heat pipe (7) to a frame (10) is installed between the portion of the heat pipe (7) for fixing the armature coil thereto and the portion thereof inserted into the refrigerant passage (11), and a hollow recessed part (10a) forming the refrigerant passage (11) and allowing die insertion of the heat radiating part of the heat pipe (7) therein and a locking step part (10c) allowing the locking of the frame (10) to the locking member (8) installed on the heat pipe are provided in the frame (10), whereby the heat of the armature coil can be efficiently transferred to the frame, and the thrust of a rotor ca
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Ryuichirou Tominaga, Fumihiro Tara, Yoshiaki Kubota, Takao Fujii
  • Patent number: 6750571
    Abstract: Stage apparatus are disclosed that provide high-accuracy positioning and movements of a stage platform, while generating reduced stray magnetic-field fluctuations and perturbations. The stage apparatus include at least one linear motor having a stator and a moving coil. Each stator includes a yoke that includes linear arrays of permanent magnets relative to which the moving coil, attached to the stage platform, moves inside a linearly extended coil gap in the yoke. A magnetic-shield plate extends around all outer surfaces and edges of the yoke as well adjacent the coil gap. The magnetic-shield plate is made of a magnetic material having high magnetic permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Ryuichirou Tominaga, Masafumi Tamai, Keiichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6701803
    Abstract: A reduction gears-integrated actuator provided with harmonic reduction gears 14, a motor 7 and a rotation position detector 26, wherein a rotor 11 comprises a cup-shaped rotary yolk 12, a permanent magnet 13 is fixed to the outer periphery of the rotary yolk 12, a circular spline 15 is formed in a silk-hat shape, a flange portion 15a is fixed to one end of an actuator frame 2, and a cylinder portion 15b is disposed opposite to the inner periphery of the rotary yolk 12 via a space, and a cup-shaped housing 18 coupled with an output shaft 5 is disposed between the output shaft 5 and a rotating shaft 6 and on the inner peripheral side of a flexible spline 16, and a preloading elastic member 25 is provided between a rotary shaft 6-supporting bearing 21 and the housing, hence the axial-direction length of the actuator can be reduced, and a driving torque can be increased without compromise in reductions in size and weight, thereby providing a low-cost reduction gears-integrated actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Yasuhiro Miyamoto, Mayumi Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20040032170
    Abstract: A small and high rigid linear motor (1), wherein a tabular heat pipe (7) is disposed between a plurality of coil rows forming an armature coil (6) along the longitudinal direction of an armature (5) with a part of the heat absorbing part of the heat pipe (7) fixed to the armature coil (6) and the heat radiating part thereof inserted into a refrigerant passage (11), a block-shaped locking member (8) for fixing the heat pipe (7) to a frame (10) is installed between the portion of the heat pipe (7) for fixing the armature coil thereto and the portion thereof inserted into the refrigerant passage (11), and a hollow recessed part (10a) forming the refrigerant passage (11) and allowing die insertion of the heat radiating part of the heat pipe (7) therein and a locking step part (10c) allowing the locking of the frame (10) to the locking member (8) installed on the heat pipe are provided in the frame (10), whereby the heat of the armature coil can be efficiently transferred to tie frame, and the thrust of a rotor ca
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Masafumi Tamai, Ryuichirou Tominaga, Fumihiro Tara, Yoshiaki Kubota, Takao Fujii
  • Publication number: 20030155820
    Abstract: Stage apparatus are disclosed that provide high-accuracy positioning and movements of a stage platform, while generating reduced stray magnetic-field fluctuations and perturbations. The stage apparatus include at least one linear motor having a stator and a moving coil. Each stator includes a yoke that includes linear arrays of permanent magnets relative to which the moving coil, attached to the stage platform, moves inside a linearly extended coil gap in the yoke. A magnetic-shield plate extends around all outer surfaces and edges of the yoke as well adjacent the coil gap. The magnetic-shield plate is made of a magnetic material having high magnetic permeability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Ryuichirou Tominaga, Masafumi Tamai, Keiichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6343242
    Abstract: The invention relates to a protective device for a clean robot that includes a base 7 in which actuators 4 and 5 for driving a robot arm 3 are accommodated; a translational guide 8 for causing the base 7 to travel in a rectilinear direction; and a robot controller 10 that drives and controls the drive motor 4A and 5A of the robot arm 3 and an actuator 9 of the translational guide 8; wherein the protective device further includes acceleration sensors 11, which are disposed in the base 7 and are provided in respective axes so that they can detect an impact, when the clean robot 1 interferes with a surrounding substance, as vibration acceleration in the three-dimensional directions; an interference detecting device 13 that outputs a pulse when the detection signals of the acceleration sensors 11 of the respective axes exceed the threshold values that will become standards; and the first AND circuit that converts signals outputted from the interference detection means of the respective axes to interference signal
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki
    Inventors: Akihiro Nomura, Shinji Yamashita, Masafumi Tamai, Satoshi Murakami, Shinobu Satou, Takeo Suzuki