Patents by Inventor Masakatsu Matsubara
Masakatsu Matsubara 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: 11909267Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet are disposed in each magnetic pole of a rotor core. When angular coordinates of intersections of a flux line in a d-axial direction passing an outer end A1 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing through an inner end A2 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an outer end B1 of the second permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an inner end B2 of the second permanent magnet and a circumscribing circle of the rotor core are respectively defined as ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2, the ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2 satisfy a formula (?34/p<(?dB1-?dA1)<22/p, ?34/p<(?dB2??dA2)<22/p).Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki Makino, Makoto Matsushita, Katsutoku Takeuchi, Daisuke Misu, Fumiaki Ito, Masakatsu Matsubara, Mikio Takabatake
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Publication number: 20240014701Abstract: An interior magnet rotor includes: a rotor shaft extending in an axial direction; a rotor core including two permanent magnet housing holes that are formed in a radially outer portion of the rotor core, disposed with circumferential intervals therebetween and arranged across each d-axis; and plate-shaped permanent magnets respectively housed in the permanent magnet housing holes. The permanent magnet housing hole is communicated with an outside of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, and the permanent magnet housing hole includes gaps between the permanent magnet and a housing portion that houses the permanent magnet, and the gaps are filled with a filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Masaru Kano, Daisuke Mori, Naoya Sasaki
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Patent number: 11837919Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor core satisfies a relationship: W2/W1?(A1+A2)/A1. Where, A1 represents an area of a region defined by a polar central axis, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first imaginary linear line extending on an outer circumferential-side long edge of an embedding hole, A2 represents an area of a region defined by the polar central axis, a q-axis, the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, a second imaginary linear line extending on an inner circumferential-side long edge of the embedding hole, a third imaginary linear line extending on a first edge of the cavity hole, W1 represents a half-width of a first bridge portion, and W2 represents a half-width of the second bridge portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Matsuoka, Masakatsu Matsubara, Kazuo Aoki
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Publication number: 20230318379Abstract: According to an embodiment, an embedded magnet rotor comprises a rotor shaft, a rotor core, permanent magnets and two end plates. The rotor core has electromagnetic steel sheets laminated axially, and two permanent magnet housing holes formed in a radially outer portion of the rotor core and arranged in a V-shape across each d axis with a circumferential interval. Each end plate has smaller outside diameter than the rotor core and is arranged at axial end to prevent the permanent magnets from protruding axial outward. The permanent magnet housing holes communicate with an outer side of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. The electromagnetic steel sheets in regions axially near the end plates of the rotor core have connection portions for connecting the electromagnetic steel sheets mutually.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Masaru KANO, Daisuke YAMAGISHI, Naoya SASAKI
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Publication number: 20230318373Abstract: According to an embodiment, an embedded magnet rotor comprises: a rotor shaft, a rotor core having permanent magnet housing spaces; and flat plate-shaped permanent magnets. Permanent magnet housing spaces each extend more radially outward than a position where the permanent magnet is held by a magnet holding outer projection and each have a communication opening communicating with a gap space. A radial thickness of each of the two chips sandwiching the communication opening and a circumferential width of the communication opening are in such a dimensional relation as to prevent a fragment produced by break of the permanent magnet from protruding from the communication opening and coming into contact with the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Masaru KANO, Daisuke YAMAGISHI, Naoya SASAKI
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Publication number: 20230283126Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotating electric machine rotor includes a shaft rotating about the center axis line, a rotor core coaxially fixed to the shaft, and a polyhedral permanent magnet housed in a slot portion passing through the rotor core in a direction along the center axis line. The permanent magnet has a face portion through which adjacent magnets can face and contact each other in the slot portion in which the permanent magnet is housed. The face portion is provided with a surface layer portion having an electric resistance value that is two or more times the electric resistance value of the face portion of the permanent magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Naoya SASAKI, Naoto SHINKAWA, Masakatsu MATSUBARA
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Patent number: 11289959Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a rotor core including magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction, a cavity formed on an axis q and extending toward a central axis, and a flux barrier band formed in the magnetic pole between a pair of the cavities to cross an axis d and including a first bridge part facing one cavity, a second bridge part facing the other cavity, and a magnet embedding hole formed between the first and the second bridge parts, a first permanent magnet formed of a fixed magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the first bridge part, and a second permanent magnet formed of a variable magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the second bridge part.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru Kano, Hideki Hisada, Masakatsu Matsubara, Yusuke Matsuoka
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Patent number: 11183893Abstract: A rotary electric device includes a stator, and a rotor including a rotor core having magnetic poles and permanent magnets at the magnetic poles. Each of two embedding holes in each magnetic pole includes a loading region in which the permanent magnet is loaded, an inner periphery-side gap, and an outer periphery-side gap. Defining D as the minimum distance from the outer periphery-side gap to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, Was the width of a teeth of the stator, H0 as the sum of the magnetomotive forces generated in the portion corresponding to a magnetic pole angle ? in one magnetic pole, and H1 as the magnetomotive force generated in one tooth, the rotor core is formed such that D?W×(H0/H1).Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Hideki Hisada, Yusuke Matsuoka
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Patent number: 11146129Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor of an electric rotating machine includes a shaft, a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets. Two first permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with a pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two first permanent magnets extend from first ends toward second ends thereof. Two second permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with the pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two second permanent magnets extend from third ends toward fourth ends thereof. Angles ?1, ?2 are set to satisfy the relationships of ?1>?2, and 70 degrees??2?110 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Yusuke Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20210135521Abstract: According to one embodiment, a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet are disposed in each magnetic pole of a rotor core. When angular coordinates of intersections of a flux line in a d-axial direction passing an outer end A1 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing through an inner end A2 of the first permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an outer end B1 of the second permanent magnet, a flux line in the d-axial direction passing an inner end B2 of the second permanent magnet and a circumscribing circle of the rotor core are respectively defined as ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2, the ?dA1, ?dA2, ?dB1 and ?dB2 satisfy a conditional formula (?34/p<(?dB1-?dA1)<22/p, ?34/p<(?dB2??dA2)<22/p).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroaki MAKINO, Makoto MATSUSHITA, Katsutoku TAKEUCHI, Daisuke MISU, Fumiaki ITO, Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Mikio TAKABATAKE
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Publication number: 20210006111Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor core satisfies a relationship: W2/W1 (A1+A2)/A1. Where, A1 represents an area of a region defined by a polar central axis, an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and a first imaginary linear line extending on an outer circumferential-side long edge of an embedding hole, A2 represents an area of a region defined by the polar central axis, a q-axis, the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core, a second imaginary linear line extending on an inner circumferential-side long edge of the embedding hole, a third imaginary linear line extending on a first edge of the cavity hole, W1 represents a half-width of a first bridge portion, and W2 represents a half-width of the second bridge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke MATSUOKA, Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Kazuo AOKI
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Publication number: 20200212738Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor includes a rotor core including magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction, a cavity formed on an axis q and extending toward a central axis, and a flux barrier band formed in the magnetic pole between a pair of the cavities to cross an axis d and including a first bridge part facing one cavity, a second bridge part facing the other cavity, and a magnet embedding hole formed between the first and the second bridge parts, a first permanent magnet formed of a fixed magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the first bridge part, and a second permanent magnet formed of a variable magnetic force magnet and disposed in the magnet embedding hole to be adjacent to the second bridge part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2020Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masaru KANO, Hideki Hisada, Masakatsu Matsubara, Yusuke Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20200127511Abstract: A rotary electric device includes a stator, and a rotor including a rotor core having magnetic poles and permanent magnets at the magnetic poles. Each of two embedding holes in each magnetic pole includes a loading region in which the permanent magnet is loaded, an inner periphery-side gap, and an outer periphery-side gap. Defining D as the minimum distance from the outer periphery-side gap to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, Was the width of a teeth of the stator, H0 as the sum of the magnetomotive forces generated in the portion corresponding to a magnetic pole angle ? in one magnetic pole, and H1 as the magnetomotive force generated in one tooth, the rotor core is formed such that D?W×(H0/H1).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Hideki Hisada, Yusuke Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20200044501Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor of an electric rotating machine includes a shaft, a rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnets. Two first permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with a pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two first permanent magnets extend from first ends toward second ends thereof. Two second permanent magnets are arranged in line symmetry with the pole center and are arranged gradually away from the pole center as the two second permanent magnets extend from third ends toward fourth ends thereof. Angles ?1, ?2 are set to satisfy the relationships of ?1>?2, and 70 degrees??2?110 degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Masakatsu MATSUBARA, Yusuke MATSUOKA
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Patent number: 9379588Abstract: A stator of a rotating electrical machine includes a stator core, plural stator coil groups constituting plural phases, plural pieces of interphase insulation paper for insulation of coils belonging to different phases, and plural connecting strips formed integrally with the interphase insulation paper pieces. Each interphase insulation paper piece has ends inserted between coil ends of unit coils belonging to an identical phase thereby to function as interphase insulation paper for insulation of coils belonging to the identical phase. Each interphase insulation paper piece for insulation of coils belonging to the different phases, functioning as the interphase insulation paper piece for insulation of coils of the identical phase, insulates between coil ends of the first unit coils of respective first and second series circuits constituting the inner circumference side phase and a coil end of the unit coil constituting the outer circumference side phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Yoichi Seo, Takashi Hanai, Wataru Ito
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Patent number: 9118231Abstract: A stator of rotating electrical machine includes a stator core and stator coils. The stator coils have n number (where n?6) unit coils, a first coil group and a second coil group. The unit coils of the first coil group include a first unit coil located nearest the first power supply terminal. The unit coils of the first coil group include a second unit coil. The unit coils of the first coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the first power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the second coil group. The unit coils of the second coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the second power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the first coil group.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Wataru Ito
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Patent number: 8994240Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine includes a rotor having a rotor core. Magnet holes circumferentially arranged at regular intervals in the rotor core include pairs of first magnet holes and pairs of second magnet holes. Each pair of first magnet holes are symmetric with respect to an imaginary line extending through a rotor core center. Each pair of second magnet holes are located on a radially inner side of the rotor core and are symmetric with respect to the imaginary line. Each pair of second magnet holes are located on an inner circumferential side of the paired first magnet holes with respect to a radial direction of the rotor core. A first magnet angle made by permanent magnets located in each pair of first magnet holes is larger than a second magnet angle made by permanent magnets located in each pair of second magnet holes.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Yusuke Matsuoka, Masakatsu Matsubara, Wataru Ito
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Publication number: 20130127290Abstract: A stator of a rotating electrical machine includes a stator core which is annular in shape, a plurality of stator coil groups constituting a plurality of phases, each-phase stator coil group being wound on the stator core and including a plurality of unit coils connected to each other, and a plurality of pieces of interphase insulation paper for insulation of coils belonging to different phases, disposed between coil ends of the unit coils belonging to different phases at both axial ends of the stator core, the interphase insulation paper pieces having ends which are inserted between the coil ends of the unit coils belonging to an identical phase, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Yoichi Seo, Takashi Hanai, Wataru Ito
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Patent number: 8362668Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electrical machine suppresses demagnetization of permanent magnets without deteriorating motor characteristics, is low-cost, and is highly reliable. The rotor has a plurality of rotor cores that are stacked together, a plurality of permanent magnets axially divided by the rotor cores and circumferentially arranged on each of the rotor cores, to circumferentially form magnetic irregularities, and a rotor blank made of nonmagnetic material arranged between those of the rotor cores that are adjacent to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 29, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Norio Takahashi, Mikio Takabatake, Masanori Arata, Kazuto Sakai, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Tadashi Tokumasu, Masakatsu Matsubara
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Publication number: 20120306309Abstract: A stator of rotating electrical machine includes a stator core and stator coils. The stator coils have n number (where n?6) unit coils, a first coil group and a second coil group. The unit coils of the first coil group include a first unit coil located nearest the first power supply terminal. The unit coils of the first coil group include a second unit coil. The unit coils of the first coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the first power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the second coil group. The unit coils of the second coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the second power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the first coil group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Wataru Ito