Patents by Inventor Naohiro Oketani

Naohiro Oketani 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: 12003136
    Abstract: A stator includes a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line, a tooth extending from the yoke in a first direction toward the axis line, and a coil wound around and fixed to the tooth. The yoke has an inner wall surface facing the axis line. The tooth has a root part connected to the yoke. The inner wall surface of the yoke is a flat surface extending from an end of the root part of the tooth in the circumferential direction to an inner circumferential side relative to a plane passing through the end and perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Publication number: 20230136107
    Abstract: A stator includes a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line, a tooth extending from the yoke in a first direction toward the axis line, and a coil wound around and fixed to the tooth. The yoke has an inner wall surface facing the axis line. The tooth has a root part connected to the yoke. The inner wall surface of the yoke is a flat surface extending from an end of the root part of the tooth in the circumferential direction to an inner circumferential side relative to a plane passing through the end and perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Patent number: 11637461
    Abstract: A stator includes a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line, a tooth extending from the yoke in a first direction toward the axis line, and a coil wound around and fixed to the tooth. The yoke has an inner wall surface facing the axis line. The tooth has a root part connected to the yoke. The inner wall surface of the yoke is a flat surface extending from an end of the root part of the tooth in the circumferential direction to an inner circumferential side relative to a plane passing through the end and perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 11509194
    Abstract: A motor comprises a rotor including: a rotor core to rotate on a rotary shaft; a permanent magnet inserted in a magnet insertion hole formed in the rotor core; first and second end plates provided on both end faces of the rotor core respectively in a direction of the rotary shaft; and a blade part provided on a surface of the first end plate to surround the rotary shaft. The rotor includes a cooling hole having an opening between the blade part of the first end plate and the rotary shaft and passing through the rotor core and the second end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 11462956
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a first rotor end and a second rotor end. The stator includes a stator core, a first plate formed in an L shape in a cross section, and a second plate formed in an L shape in a cross section. The first plate includes a first facing part facing the rotor core and a first base part. The second plate includes a second facing part facing the rotor core and a second base part. The first facing part and the second facing part adjoin in a circumferential direction with a gap in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 11435092
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rare-earth magnet magnetized in a radial direction, a rotor core, and a thermal conduction sheet formed of a deformable material. The rotor core includes a first part, a thin-wall part including a second part that is harder than the first part, and a magnet insertion hole. The thin-wall part is situated between a region of end of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction and an outer edge of the rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 11309772
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, and a metal component that is in contact with the stator. The stator includes a first tooth, a second tooth, a first winding wound around the first tooth by concentrated winding, a second winding wound around the second tooth by concentrated winding, and a thermal conduction sheet held between the first winding and the second winding. The thermal conduction sheet is held between the metal component and the first winding in a deformed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 10862357
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator core including a yoke and a plurality of teeth, a rotor core including a plurality of magnet insertion holes, and a plurality of permanent magnets respectively inserted into the magnet insertion holes, each being arranged with a lateral direction set in a radial direction of the rotor core and with a longitudinal direction set in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction. When a width of base sections of the teeth is represented as S1, a width of a distal end sections of the teeth is represented as S2, a width of the permanent magnets in the longitudinal direction is represented as R1, and a width of the magnet insertion holes in an extension direction thereof is represented as R2, relations of S1?R1<S2 and S1?R2?R1 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Naohiro Oketani, Koji Yabe
  • Publication number: 20200381961
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor core, a first rotor end and a second rotor end. The stator includes a stator core, a first plate formed in an L shape in a cross section, and a second plate formed in an L shape in a cross section. The first plate includes a first facing part facing the rotor core and a first base part. The second plate includes a second facing part facing the rotor core and a second base part. The first facing part and the second facing part adjoin in a circumferential direction with a gap in between.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Publication number: 20200321830
    Abstract: A motor comprises a rotor including: a rotor core to rotate on a rotary shaft; a permanent magnet inserted in a magnet insertion hole formed in the rotor core; first and second end plates provided on both end faces of the rotor core respectively in a direction of the rotary shaft; and a blade part provided on a surface of the first end plate to surround the rotary shaft. The rotor includes a cooling hole having an opening between the blade part of the first end plate and the rotary shaft and passing through the rotor core and the second end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Patent number: 10784751
    Abstract: A stator includes a first split core having a first yoke part extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line and a first tooth extending from the first yoke part toward the axis line, a second split core having a second yoke part extending in the circumferential direction and a second tooth extending from the second yoke part toward the axis line, a first insulator arranged to surround the first tooth and having a first holding part located between a tip end part of the first tooth and a tip end part of the second tooth, a second insulator arranged to surround the second tooth and having a second holding part located between the tip end part of the first tooth and the tip end part of the second tooth, and a Hall effect sensor held by the first holding part and the second holding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Mitsumasa Hamazaki
  • Publication number: 20200284443
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rare-earth magnet magnetized in a radial direction, a rotor core, and a thermal conduction sheet formed of a deformable material. The rotor core includes a first part, a thin-wall part including a second part that is harder than the first part, and a magnet insertion hole. The thin-wall part is situated between a region of end of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction and an outer edge of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Publication number: 20200227981
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, and a metal component that is in contact with the stator. The stator includes a first tooth, a second tooth, a first winding wound around the first tooth by concentrated winding, a second winding wound around the second tooth by concentrated winding, and a thermal conduction sheet held between the first winding and the second winding. The thermal conduction sheet is held between the metal component and the first winding in a deformed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Patent number: 10348144
    Abstract: A rotor iron core includes: a plurality of first iron cores and arranged in an outer side in a radial direction of each permanent magnet; and a second iron core with mechanical strength higher than mechanical strength of each first iron core and that includes an inner iron core arranged on an inner side in the radial direction of each permanent magnet and a plurality of inter-magnetic pole iron cores formed integrally with the inner iron core and arranged between magnetic poles of each permanent magnet, wherein each inter-magnetic pole iron core is formed from an end part in a circumferential direction of each first iron core to the inner iron core, and a flux barrier is formed between each permanent magnet and each inter-magnetic pole iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10302136
    Abstract: A motor includes a frame including a first bearing holder, a stator, a first bearing held in the first bearing holder, a rotor rotatably supported by the first bearing, and a preload member generating a preload in a direction of an axis line of the rotor. The frame further includes a first frame part. The first frame part includes a support part supporting the preload member. An outer end part of the preload member faces the support part so as to be covered with the support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Satoshi Hakoda, Mamoru Hayatsu, Takehiko Ajima, Mitsumasa Hamazaki, Yuta Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20190131828
    Abstract: A stator includes a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line, a tooth extending from the yoke in a first direction toward the axis line, and a coil wound around and fixed to the tooth. The yoke has an inner wall surface facing the axis line. The tooth has a root part connected to the yoke. The inner wall surface of the yoke is a flat surface extending from an end of the root part of the tooth in the circumferential direction to an inner circumferential side relative to a plane passing through the end and perpendicular to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventor: Naohiro OKETANI
  • Publication number: 20190036423
    Abstract: A stator includes a first split core having a first yoke part extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line and a first tooth extending from the first yoke part toward the axis line, a second split core having a second yoke part extending in the circumferential direction and a second tooth extending from the second yoke part toward the axis line, a first insulator arranged to surround the first tooth and having a first holding part located between a tip end part of the first tooth and a tip end part of the second tooth, a second insulator arranged to surround the second tooth and having a second holding part located between the tip end part of the first tooth and the tip end part of the second tooth, and a Hall effect sensor held by the first holding part and the second holding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Naohiro OKETANI, Mitsumasa HAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10135307
    Abstract: An end of each of slits of a rotor on a magnet insertion hole side has a triangular shape. A slit inner-side line of each of the slits includes an apex and a pair of side ends. An interval between each of the pair of side ends and the magnet insertion hole is larger than an interval between the apex and the magnet insertion hole, and an interval between the apex and the magnet insertion hole is larger than a plate thickness of each of steel plates forming a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Tomoaki Oikawa, Masahiro Nigo, Naohiro Oketani
  • Patent number: 10110077
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator core; a rotor core disposed on an inner diameter side of the stator core and including a plurality of magnet insertion holes corresponding to the number of magnetic poles; and a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed in a rotating direction in the magnet insertion holes. Gaps between two permanent magnets adjacent to each other among the permanent magnets disposed in the magnet insertion holes are formed such that the gaps on the radially outer side are larger than the gaps on the radially inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Naohiro Oketani
  • Publication number: 20180252266
    Abstract: A motor includes a frame including a first bearing holder, a stator, a first bearing held in the first bearing holder, a rotor rotatably supported by the first bearing, and a preload member generating a preload in a direction of an axis line of the rotor. The frame further includes a first frame part. The first frame part includes a support part supporting the preload member. An outer end part of the preload member faces the support part so as to be covered with the support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Home Appliance Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohiro OKETANI, Satoshi HAKODA, Mamoru HAYATSU, Takehiko AJIMA, Mitsumasa HAMAZAKI, Yuta TAKAHASHI