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).
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Patent number: 8138653Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshihiro Taniyama, Yasuo Kabata, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Ken Nagakura
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Publication number: 20120038212Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Inventors: Masanori ARATA, Yoshihiro Taniyama, Kazuya Yasui
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Publication number: 20110309706Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Yutaka Hashiba, Kazuaki Yuuki, Masanori Arata, Yusuke Matsuoka, Tadashi Tokumasu
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Publication number: 20110304235Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2009Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yutaka Hashiba, Kazuto Sakai, Norio Takahashi, Kazuaki Yuuki, Masanori Arata, Yusuke Matsuoka, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Tadashi Tokumasu
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Patent number: 8044548Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
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Patent number: 8030817Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 2, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
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Patent number: 7893575Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Masanori Arata, Takashi Ueda
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Publication number: 20100301697Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicants: 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
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Patent number: 7804216Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 19, 2007Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata, Yutaka Hashiba, Wataru Ito, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Mikio Takabatake, Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai
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Publication number: 20100171385Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2007Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
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Patent number: 7705503Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 27, 2006Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Industrial Products Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Norio Takahashi, Kazuto Sakai, Yoshio Hashidate, Masanori Arata, Wataru Ito, Masakatsu Matsubara, Takashi Hanai, Yasuo Hirano
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Publication number: 20100084942Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2007Publication date: April 8, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yoshihiro Taniyama, Yasuo Kabata, Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Ken Nagakura
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Publication number: 20090261679Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: October 22, 2009Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuto Sakai, Norio Takahashi, Masanori Arata, Motoyasu Mochizuki, Masakatsu Matsubara, Yasuo Hirano, Takashi Hanai
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Publication number: 20090236923Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2006Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Kazuto Sakai, Masanori Arata
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Patent number: 7592732Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
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Patent number: 7579739Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: August 25, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
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Publication number: 20080296989Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Masafumi FUJITA, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Masanori Arata, Takashi Ueda
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Publication number: 20080252168Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
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Publication number: 20080252169Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2007Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Masafumi Fujita, Tadashi Tokumasu, Yasuo Kabata, Masanori Arata, Mikio Kakiuchi, Susumu Nagano
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Publication number: 20080093944Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2007Publication date: April 24, 2008Applicants: 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