Patents by Inventor Tomohiro WAKANA

Tomohiro WAKANA 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).

  • Publication number: 20240171029
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a bus bar holder provided on one side of a stator in an axial direction, and a plurality of bus bar terminals that electrically connect the stator and a control unit. A lead wire is drawn out to a bus bar terminal side in an axial direction from a lead-out portion located on the bus bar terminal side among a plurality of windings provided all around a circumferential direction of the stator and between a plurality of adjacent windings. The bus bar terminal includes a winding side terminal portion having at least one connection part and a board side terminal portion connected to a board. The bus bar terminals are gathered in a part in the circumferential direction. The lead wire is wired so as to extend from one of the lead-out portions scattered all around the circumferential direction to one of the connection parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: TAMON YAMADA, JUN MORIMOTO, TSUYOSHI TASHIMA, TOMOHIRO AOYAMA, TAKESHI WAKANA, AKIHIRO UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20220118519
    Abstract: A three-dimensional deposition method and a three-dimensional object are provided. Included are: a step of supplying a powder toward an outer peripheral surface of a shaft, irradiating the powder with a laser beam, and sintering or melting and solidifying at least a part of the powder irradiated with the laser beam to form a formed layer, so as to form a three-dimensional object body in which an internal space communicates with an exterior through an opening; a step of discharging a residue such as the powder in the internal space from the opening to an exterior; and a step of emitting the laser beam toward an end surface of the opening to melt and solidify the formed layer, so as to close the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing
    Inventor: Tomohiro WAKANA
  • Publication number: 20220097143
    Abstract: In the three-dimensional deposition device and the three-dimensional deposition method, included are: a powder passage and a nozzle injection opening serving as a powder supply unit that supplies powder toward an object to be processed; a laser path serving as a light irradiation unit that irradiates the powder with a laser beam to sinter or melt and solidify at least a part of the powder irradiated with the laser beam to form a formed layer; an interference information acquisition unit that acquires interference information on the object to be processed with the powder injected from the nozzle injection opening based on the shape of the object to be processed; and a controller that changes the powder passage of the powder that the nozzle injection opening supplies to the object to be processed based on the interference information acquired by the interference information acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing
    Inventor: Tomohiro WAKANA
  • Publication number: 20220097142
    Abstract: A three-dimensional deposition device and a three-dimensional deposition device method are provided. Included are: a powder passage and a nozzle injection opening that supply a powder toward a working surface of an object to be processed; a laser path that irradiates the powder with a laser beam to sinter or melt and solidify at least a part of the powder irradiated with the laser beam so as to form formed layers; a rotation table unit serving as an irradiation angle changing unit that changes an irradiation angle of the laser beam emitted from the laser path to the working surface; and a controller that controls the rotation table unit so that the irradiation angle on an overhanging side with respect to the working surface is less than 90° in a range in which the formed layers can be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing
    Inventor: Tomohiro WAKANA
  • Publication number: 20210387265
    Abstract: A surface processing device, a surface processing method, and a three-dimensional deposition device are provided. Included are: a powder passage serving as a powder supply unit, which supplies a powder toward a working surface of an object to be processed; and a laser path serving as a light irradiation unit, which irradiates the powder before reaching the object to be processed with a light beam. An irradiation position of the light beam and an injection position of the powder on the working surface are offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Technology Research Association for Future Additive Manufacturing
    Inventors: Haruhiko NIITANI, Tomohiro WAKANA
  • Publication number: 20180141159
    Abstract: The shaping precision is improved without performing finishing processing. A three-dimensional laminating and shaping apparatus includes a material ejector that ejects a material of a three-dimensional laminated and shaped object onto a shaping table on which the three-dimensional laminated and shaped object is shaped, a light beam irradiator that irradiates the ejected material with a light beam, a cutter that cuts a bead formed when the material irradiated with the light beam is melted and solidified, and a controller that controls ejection of the material by the material ejector, irradiation with the light beam by the light beam irradiator, and cutting of the bead by the cutter. The cutter cuts an upper surface of the bead by a dimension which is smaller than a laminating height and is ½ or less of a bead thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR FUTURE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
    Inventors: Haruhiko NIITANI, Satoru AKAMA, Tomohiro WAKANA