Patents by Inventor Masanori Arata

Masanori Arata 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: 8138653
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine is provided, where a generator has an increased capacity and a reduced size achieved by electromagnetically effectively utilizing that parts of a rotor core which are outside the narrowest parts of magnetic poles of the rotor core to permit large field current and suppress an increase in temperature of rotor coils. The rotating electric machine includes a stator constructed by winding armature coils around a stator core (1), and a hollow circular cylindrical rotor. The rotor has at least one pair of magnetic poles (2), non-polar portions (3) between the magnetic poles, and interpolar portions (6) arranged in the non-polar portions. In the non-polar portions (3), a plurality of rotor slots (4) are arranged at predetermined intervals. Field windings are wound in each rotor slot (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Taniyama, Yasuo Kabata, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Ken Nagakura
  • Publication number: 20120038212
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a power-fluctuation reducing apparatus in a power generation system to control a converter connected to the power generation system and connected to secondary batteries. The power-fluctuation reducing apparatus includes adjusting direct current voltages output from the secondary batteries, respectively, detecting the directing current voltages output from the secondary batteries, respectively, controlling to adjust the direct current voltages output from the secondary batteries to make the direct current voltages uniform, based on the detected direct current voltages, and controlling the converter to reduce power fluctuations in the power generation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Masanori ARATA, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Kazuya Yasui
  • Publication number: 20110309706
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor 1 has rotor cores 2a, 2b divided in the axial direction. a permanent magnet 30 is mounted at the position of each of the magnetic poles of cores. The permanent magnet 30 of each magnetic pole is configured by a single tabular member that penetrates the two divided cores in the axial direction. Convex parts 31a, 31b are respectively provided on the outer peripheries of the respective magnetic poles of the rotor cores along the axial direction of the rotor. The convex parts 31a, 31b are provided to positions that are displaced for each of the two divided cores. The magnetic flux density increases in the convex parts, which becomes the magnetic pole center. Since the convex parts positions are displaced to each other, a skew function can be exhibited even if the permanent magnet is mounted at the same position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Yutaka Hashiba, Kazuaki Yuuki, Masanori Arata, Yusuke Matsuoka, Tadashi Tokumasu
  • Publication number: 20110304235
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a rotor is configured by a rotor core and magnetic poles. Two or more types of permanent magnets are used such that each product of coercivity and thickness in the magnetization direction becomes different. A stator is located outside the rotor with air gap therebetween and configured by an armature core winding. At least one permanent magnet is magnetized by a magnetic field by a current of the armature winding to change a magnetic flux content thereof irreversibly. A short circuited coil is provided to surround a magnetic path portion of the other permanent magnet excluding the magnet changed irreversibly and a portion adjacent to the other permanent magnet where the magnetic flux leaks. A short-circuit current is generated in the short circuited coil by the magnetic flux generated by conducting a magnetization current to the winding. A magnetic field is generated by the short-circuit current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yutaka Hashiba, Kazuto Sakai, Norio Takahashi, Kazuaki Yuuki, Masanori Arata, Yusuke Matsuoka, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Tadashi Tokumasu
  • Patent number: 8044548
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing a variable-speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability. The permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes a stator provided with a coil and a rotor in which there are arranged a low-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is of such a level that a magnetic field created by a current of the stator coil may irreversibly change the flux density of the magnet and a high-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is equal to or larger than twice that of the low-coercive-force permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 8030817
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention has a plurality of magnetic poles in point symmetry with respect to a rotation center of a rotor core 2. For each of the magnetic poles, there are arranged a permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small and a permanent magnet 4 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is large. The permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small is irreversibly magnetized by a magnetic field created by a current of an armature coil 21, to change a total linkage flux amount. This realizes a wide-range variable-speed operation of high output, to provide the rotating electrical machine with a wide operating range and high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 7893575
    Abstract: The depth from the open end of a rotor slot closest to a magnetic pole of a rotary core to a slot bottom or the bottom of a subslot provided as a coolant ventilation path on a rotor slot bottom is made less than the depth of slots at and after a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference, and when a shortest distance between the bottoms of the rotor slots opposed to each other through a magnetic pole or a shortest distance between the bottoms of the subslots is assumed to be a magnetic pole width of the slots, a magnetic pole width Wp1 of a slot closest to the magnetic pole side is set to 85% or more of a magnetic pole width Wp2 of a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Masanori Arata, Takashi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20100301697
    Abstract: 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 (2) that are stacked together, a plurality of permanent magnets (6a, 6b) axially divided by the rotor cores (2) and circumferentially arranged on each of the rotor cores (2), to circumferentially form magnetic irregularities, and a rotor blank (14a) made of nonmagnetic material arranged between those of the rotor cores (2) that are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Mikio Takabatake, Masanori Arata, Kazuto Sakai, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Tadashi Tokumasu, Masakatsu Matsubara
  • Patent number: 7804216
    Abstract: For an electrical reluctance rotary machine, a stator has a winding as an armature, and a rotor has permanent magnet implanting slots provided in a rotor core at lateral sides magnetic poles configured to produce reluctance torque along directions of magnetic flux passing through the magnetic poles to produce reluctance torque, and permanent magnets inserted in the permanent magnet implanting slots so as to cancel magnetic flux of the armature intersecting that magnetic flux, to control a magnetic field leaking at ends of the magnetic poles, having circumferential magnetic unevenness. The electrical reluctance rotary machine is configured to meet a relationship, such that 1.6 ? P × W pm R ? 1.9 where Wpm [mm] is a width of permanent magnet, R [mm] is a radius of the rotor, and P is the number of poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Mikio Takabatake, Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai
  • Publication number: 20100171385
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention has a plurality of magnetic poles in point symmetry with respect to a rotation center of a rotor core 2. For each of the magnetic poles, there are arranged a permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small and a permanent magnet 4 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is large. The permanent magnet 3 whose product of a coercive force and a magnetizing direction thickness is small is irreversibly magnetized by a magnetic field created by a current of an armature coil 21, to change a total linkage flux amount. This realizes a wide-range variable-speed operation of high output, to provide the rotating electrical machine with a wide operating range and high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 7705503
    Abstract: Included are a ring-shaped stator and a ring-shaped rotor arranged inside the stator; the stator includes a stator core with armature windings; the rotor includes a rotor core in which a plurality of permanent magnets are inserted and cooling holes are formed, a coolant flowing in each of the cooling holes; and each of the cooling holes is formed so as to have a sectional view which is a convex toward the outer periphery thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Yoshio Hashidate, Masanori Arata, Wataru Ito, Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Yasuo Hirano
  • Publication number: 20100084942
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine is provided, where a generator has an increased capacity and a reduced size achieved by electromagnetically effectively utilizing that parts of a rotor core which are outside the narrowest parts of magnetic poles of the rotor core to permit large field current and suppress an increase in temperature of rotor coils. The rotating electric machine includes a stator constructed by winding armature coils around a stator core (1), and a hollow circular cylindrical rotor. The rotor has at least one pair of magnetic poles (2), non-polar portions (3) between the magnetic poles, and interpolar portions (6) arranged in the non-polar portions. In the non-polar portions (3), a plurality of rotor slots (4) are arranged at predetermined intervals. Field windings are wound in each rotor slot (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Taniyama, Yasuo Kabata, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Ken Nagakura
  • Publication number: 20090261679
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an internal permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine capable of maintaining compactness and high output and reducing vibration and noise caused by electromagnetic force. The rotating electrical machine of the present invention has an annular stator and a rotor that is arranged inside the stator with an air gap interposed between the stator and the rotor. The stator has a stator iron core provided with a plurality of slots at circumferential intervals and a coil received in each of the slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Masakatsu Matsubara, Yasuo Hirano, Takashi Hanai
  • Publication number: 20090236923
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing a variable-speed operation at high output in a wide range from low speed to high speed and improving efficiency and reliability. The permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes a stator provided with a coil and a rotor in which there are arranged a low-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is of such a level that a magnetic field created by a current of the stator coil may irreversibly change the flux density of the magnet and a high-coercive-force permanent magnet whose coercive force is equal to or larger than twice that of the low-coercive-force permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
  • Patent number: 7592732
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Patent number: 7579739
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Publication number: 20080296989
    Abstract: The depth from the open end of a rotor slot closest to a magnetic pole of a rotary core to a slot bottom or the bottom of a subslot provided as a coolant ventilation path on a rotor slot bottom is made less than the depth of slots at and after a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference, and when a shortest distance between the bottoms of the rotor slots opposed to each other through a magnetic pole or a shortest distance between the bottoms of the subslots is assumed to be a magnetic pole width of the slots, a magnetic pole width Wp1 of a slot closest to the magnetic pole side is set to 85% or more of a magnetic pole width Wp2 of a second slot counted from the magnetic pole side in the direction of internal circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Masanori Arata, Takashi Ueda
  • Publication number: 20080252168
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Publication number: 20080252169
    Abstract: Sub core sections are arranged at the end portions and the center portion of a stator core, and strand conductors are twisted and transposed by 360 degrees continuously toward the extending direction of winding slot. The length corresponding to transposition pitch 180 degrees of the strand conductors of the stator core is set as one core unit area, the sub core sections including portions whose space factors are different are arranged such that the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the odd-numbered core unit area from one end portion of the stator core offsets the sum of voltages in the strands induced in the strand conductors in the even-numbered core unit area from the end portion of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
  • Publication number: 20080093944
    Abstract: For an electrical reluctance rotary machine, a stator has a winding as an armature, and a rotor has permanent magnet implanting slots provided in a rotor core at lateral sides magnetic poles configured to produce reluctance torque along directions of magnetic flux passing through the magnetic poles to produce reluctance torque, and permanent magnets inserted in the permanent magnet implanting slots so as to cancel magnetic flux of the armature intersecting that magnetic flux, to control a magnetic field leaking at ends of the magnetic poles, having circumferential magnetic concavo-convex. The electrical reluctance rotary machine is configured to meet a relationship, such that 1.6 ? P × W pm R ? 1.9 where Wpm [mm] is a width of permanent magnet, R [mm] is an outer-diametrical radius of the rotor, and P is the number of poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING CORP.
    Inventors: Norio TAKAHASHI, Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Mikio Takabatake, Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai