Patents by Inventor Tetsuo Fujigaki

Tetsuo Fujigaki 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: 10658898
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a neutral ring includes connecting a cut-off neutral ring to an arc-shaped connection element. The method also includes filling an insulator between the cut-off neutral ring and a connection element. The neutral ring shunts the rotor coil in three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10389194
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine is provided which is capable of contributing to protected permanent magnets and increased cooling performance during operation. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine includes: permanent magnets; rotor cores that have the permanent magnets mounted thereto and are laminated in a rotating axis direction; spacers that are placed between adjacent rotor cores; and permanent magnet protection members that are installed between the permanent magnets and the rotor cores and also placed to maintain radial continuity in space partitioned by the spacers between the rotor cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Masahiro Hori, Youichi Matsumoto, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Motonobu Iiduka, Yoshihiro Yasui, Eiichirou Tokizaki, Masanori Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10177621
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kunihiro, Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Atsushi Fukunaga, Yasunori Otsuki, Masakatsu Sato, Masanori Matsumoto, Takeshi Nakayama, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Yasushi Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20180301952
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a neutral ring includes connecting a cut-off neutral ring to an arc-shaped connection element. The method also includes filling an insulator between the cut-off neutral ring and a connection element. The neutral ring shunts the rotor coil in three phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yasushi HAYASAKA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yasunori OTSUKI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Yoshihiro YASUI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Masaaki ENDOU, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Takeshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10033237
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a rotor shaft, a coil, a bind, a lead-out wire of which one end is connected to the coil and the other end is connected to a neutral ring. A filling is filled between the coil and the neutral ring. The neutral ring is formed with a plurality of members that are connected with one another to have flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9935512
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet rotating electrical machine including a stator, a rotor obtained by stacking a plurality of rotor cores arranged with magnet insertion holes in layers with gaps, and permanent magnets inserted to the magnet insertion holes, the magnet insertion holes are formed on both sides of the duct piece so as to depart from the duct piece disposed between the rotor cores as the magnet insertion holes extend from the side of the center of the rotor core to the outer circumference side, the magnet insertion holes are disposed so as to shift from the duct piece in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and inner circumference side voids having the length in the circumferential direction wider than the thickness in the circumferential direction of the permanent magnets are provided from the inner circumference side ends of the permanent magnets toward the duct piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Masahiro Hori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Youichi Matsumoto, Motonobu Iiduka
  • Publication number: 20170155292
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine is provided which is capable of contributing to protected permanent magnets and increased cooling performance during operation. The permanent magnet electrical rotating machine includes: permanent magnets; rotor cores that have the permanent magnets mounted thereto and are laminated in a rotating axis direction; spacers that are placed between adjacent rotor cores; and permanent magnet protection members that are installed between the permanent magnets and the rotor cores and also placed to maintain radial continuity in space partitioned by the spacers between the rotor cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Mamoru KIMURA, Masahiro HORI, Youichi MATSUMOTO, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Motonobu IIDUKA, Yoshihiro YASUI, Eiichirou TOKIZAKI, Masanori MATSUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170117769
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Naoki KUNIHIRO, Daisuke KORI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Yasunori OTSUKI, Masakatsu SATO, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Takeshi NAKAYAMA, Masaaki ENDO, Yoshihiro YASUI, Yasushi HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 9484793
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine system that can be easily maintained and can provide improved power generation efficiency. The electrical rotating machine system includes: a first electrical rotating machine having a first stator that has first stator windings, and a first rotor that has first rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the first stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the first stator and the first rotor itself; a second electrical rotating machine having a second stator that has second stator windings, and a second rotor that has second rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the second stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the second stator and the second rotor itself; and at least one power converter that is electrically connected to the first rotor windings and the second rotor windings, and configured to rotate when the first rotor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Nobuhiro Kusuno, Tomomichi Ito, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Publication number: 20160043603
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a rotor shaft, a coil, a bind, a lead-out wire of which one end is connected to the coil and the other end is connected to a neutral ring. A filling is filled between the coil and the neutral ring. The neutral ring is formed with a plurality of members that are connected with one another to have flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi HAYASAKA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yasunori OTSUKI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Yoshihiro YASUI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Masaaki ENDOU, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Takeshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9225213
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine includes: a rotating shaft; a rotor, equipped with permanent magnets, and formed to rotate with the rotating shaft, a stator disposed in opposition on an outside-diametral side and via a clearance with respect to the rotor; and anti-demagnetization conductors extending in the axial direction of the shaft, the conductors each being disposed inside the rotor, wherein: the anti-demagnetization conductors are provided in pairs of two for each of magnetic poles of the rotor; the two anti-demagnetization conductors forming a pair are electrically interconnected; and, inside the rotor, the two paired anti-demagnetization conductors are disposed at different-polarity sides of two corresponding permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor, the different-polarity sides each being more adjacent to the circumferential direction of the rotor than to an end portion of one of the two corresponding permanent magnets existing close to each other in one magnetic pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Akiyoshi Komura, Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Motonobu Iizuka
  • Publication number: 20150194851
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet rotating electrical machine including a stator, a rotor obtained by stacking a plurality of rotor cores arranged with magnet insertion holes in layers with gaps, and permanent magnets inserted to the magnet insertion holes, the magnet insertion holes are formed on both sides of the duct piece so as to depart from the duct piece disposed between the rotor cores as the magnet insertion holes extend from the side of the center of the rotor core to the outer circumference side, the magnet insertion holes are disposed so as to shift from the duct piece in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and inner circumference side voids having the length in the circumferential direction wider than the thickness in the circumferential direction of the permanent magnets are provided from the inner circumference side ends of the permanent magnets toward the duct piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Mamoru KIMURA, Masahiro HORI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Youichi MATSUMOTO, Motonobu IIDUKA
  • Patent number: 8653703
    Abstract: The permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprising a stator with a stator coil wound on a stator iron core, a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the circumferential direction in a rotor iron core, which is disposed opposite to the stator iron core of the stator with a predetermined spacing therebetween and is fixed to a shaft, a water-cooling unit disposed around the outer circumference of the stator iron core, and a fan fixed to the shaft on the same side as at least one axial end of the rotor iron core to circulate cooling air in the permanent magnet rotating electric machine; further comprising ventilation paths, through which the cooling air flows, formed around the outer circumference of the water-cooling unit; wherein after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation paths to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation paths and the water-cooling unit, after which the cool
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Shogo Serita, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Ai Nagano, Mamoru Kimura, Motonobu Iizuka, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Publication number: 20140001912
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine includes: a rotating shaft; a rotor, equipped with permanent magnets, and formed to rotate with the rotating shaft, a stator disposed in opposition on an outside-diametral side and via a clearance with respect to the rotor; and anti-demagnetization conductors extending in the axial direction of the shaft, the conductors each being disposed inside the rotor, wherein: the anti-demagnetization conductors are provided in pairs of two for each of magnetic poles of the rotor; the two anti-demagnetization conductors forming a pair are electrically interconnected; and, inside the rotor, the two paired anti-demagnetization conductors are disposed at different-polarity sides of two corresponding permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor, the different-polarity sides each being more adjacent to the circumferential direction of the rotor than to an end portion of one of the two corresponding permanent magnets existing close to each other in one magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Mamoru KIMURA, Akiyoshi KOMURA, Daisuke KORI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Motonobu IIZUKA
  • Publication number: 20130340256
    Abstract: A bearing replacement method for a rotating machine of the present invention includes the steps of: when at least one bearing of a rotating machine is to be replaced with a new one, mounting at an end portion of the rotating machine a plurality of bendable arms for removing a first bearing covering part, a power supply unit outer frame, and a slipring, respectively; removing with the arms the first bearing covering part, the power supply unit outer frame, and the slipring, respectively; and thereafter replacing the at least one bearing with a new one.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Osamu TSUCHITANI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Shuji MIZUTANI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Masaaki ENDO, Yoshihiro YASUI, Shogo SERITA, Masakazu SHINDEN
  • Patent number: 8546991
    Abstract: A synchronous generator 1 including a rotor having a field winding placed in the slots thereof and a stator having an armature winding placed in the slots thereof, wherein the value of the number of slots per two poles in stator minus the number of slots per two poles in rotor is equal to or greater than +9, or equal to or smaller than ?9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Sawahata, Kazuo Nishihama, Hiroyuki Mikami, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Motonobu Iizuka, Shuji Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20110241350
    Abstract: The permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprising a stator with a stator coil wound on a stator iron core, a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the circumferential direction in a rotor iron core, which is disposed opposite to the stator iron core of the stator with a predetermined spacing therebetween and is fixed to a shaft, a water-cooling unit disposed around the outer circumference of the stator iron core, and a fan fixed to the shaft on the same side as at least one axial end of the rotor iron core to circulate cooling air in the permanent magnet rotating electric machine; further comprising ventilation paths, through which the cooling air flows, formed around the outer circumference of the water-cooling unit; wherein after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation paths to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation paths and the water-cooling unit, after which the cooling
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Shogo Serita, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Ai Nagano, Mamoru Kimura, Motonobu Ilzuka, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 7994666
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Patent number: 7847456
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100194221
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura