Patents by Inventor Tomoya UEDA
Tomoya UEDA 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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Publication number: 20240162764Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor in which a plurality of permanent magnets are embedded in an outer peripheral portion, the rotor being rotatable; a stator fixed around the rotor and provided with a plurality of coils in a stator core; and a motor housing that accommodates the rotor and the stator therein. The stator is fixed to the motor housing by a bolt (fastener) inserted into a plurality of fixing portions protruding radially outward from an outer periphery of the stator core, and a flux barrier penetrating in an axial direction is formed near the fixing portion of the stator core and at a position not overlapping the fixing portion in a radial direction. Here, the fixing portions are disposed at equiangular pitches in the circumferential direction of the stator core, and the flux barriers are formed on both sides of the fixing portion in a circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventor: Tomoya UEDA
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Publication number: 20240149824Abstract: A gas generator includes a housing main body made of metal, a holder assembly, and an igniter. The holder assembly includes a holder portion made of metal and a connector portion made of resin. The holder portion includes a first barrel portion and an annular projection. The connector portion includes a second barrel portion and a cylindrical portion. The cylindrical portion is inserted in the housing main body and externally attached to the first barrel portion. As a portion of the housing main body corresponding to the cylindrical portion is decreased in diameter, the cylindrical portion is compressed by being sandwiched between the portion of the housing main body decreased in diameter and the first barrel portion so as to seal a gap between the housing main body and the first barrel portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomoya SHIMIZU, Shinya UEDA, Haruki TAKIZAWA, Yuji INOUE
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Patent number: 11958543Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, and a control calculation unit that feedback-controls the inverter. The control calculation unit includes a voltage control calculation unit that calculates a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to the motor from the inverter on the basis of a current deviation between a current command value and an actual current detection value, a torque ripple compensation calculation unit that adds a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control calculation unit, and a current limit calculation unit that limits the current command value by adaptive control based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11962199Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a cylindrical rotor core, a connector, magnets and a cover. The shaft extends along a central axis. The rotor core surrounds the shaft. The connector is provided radially inside the rotor core and connects the rotor core and the shaft. The magnets are provided radially outside the rotor core along a circumferential direction. The cover is provided radially outside the magnets. The connector includes a cylindrical body surrounding the shaft and a flange. The flange extends radially outward from one axial end of the body and faces the magnets in the axial direction. The cover includes a peripheral surface and an eave. The peripheral surface faces the magnets in a radial direction. The eave extends radially inward from an other axial end of the peripheral surface and faces the magnets in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Toshiyuki Sasaki
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Patent number: 11952057Abstract: A motor control system includes an inverter, a voltage control calculating a voltage command value indicating a voltage to be applied to a motor from the inverter based on a deviation between the current command value and the actual current detection value, and a torque ripple compensation unit adding a compensation value for compensating a torque ripple in the motor to a signal value on an upstream side in a signal flow that passes through the voltage control unit. The torque ripple compensation unit includes a phase compensator calculating a compensation value component in the voltage control unit based on an actual angular velocity value indicating an angular velocity at which the motor rotates, and an inverse characteristic processor calculating a compensation value component for compensating the torque ripple based on an inverse characteristic of an open loop transfer function in a feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shuji Endo, Tokuji Tatewaki, Tomoya Ueda, Masanori Watahiki, Tomonari Mori
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Patent number: 11949293Abstract: A rotor used in an outer rotor motor includes a rotor holder in a tubular shape extending along a center axis, a rotor core in a tubular shape extending in an axial direction and being fixed to a surface of the rotor holder, directed radially inward, and permanent magnets bonded to an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core and side by side in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes projection portions projecting radially inward from the inner circumferential surface of the rotor core. One or more of the projection portions are in a gap between the permanent magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. Each of the projection portions has an axial length shorter than an axial length of each of the permanent magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shinji Takemoto, Tomoya Ueda, Mitsuhiro Takemoto, Yusuke Isogai
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Patent number: 11916440Abstract: One aspect of a rotor of the present invention includes: a rotor core rotatable about a central axis; and a rotor magnet fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. The rotor magnet has a plurality of magnetized portions arranged along a circumferential direction in a Halbach array. The plurality of magnetized portions include a plurality of radially magnetized portions whose magnetization direction is a radial direction and a plurality of non-radially magnetized portions whose magnetization direction is different from the radial direction. The rotor core is a non-magnetic member that has a hole, recessed from a surface on one side in an axial direction of the rotor core to the other side in the axial direction and is made of a non-magnetic material. The hole is located on the radially inner side of the radially magnetized portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Junya Tanaka, Tomoya Ueda
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Publication number: 20240014700Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having a hole, and a magnet inside the hole. A stator includes a stator core having an annular core back surrounding the rotor core and teeth extending inward from the core back and arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction, and coils attached to the stator core. The hole has an arc shape protruding inward. The magnet is in the hole and has an arc shape extending along the hole. The rotor core has cavity portions sandwiching the magnet. A curved outer surface of the hole is in close contact with a curved outer surface of the magnet at a portion closer to a center in the circumferential direction than an end portion in the circumferential direction. At least a part of the cavity portion extends to the outer side in the circumferential direction with respect to the center of a pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Yukie YAMADA, Tomoya UEDA
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Publication number: 20230351909Abstract: An academic ability estimation model generation device to generate an academic ability estimation model with which current academic ability is accurately estimated without requiring comprehensive learning data. The academic ability estimation model generation device includes a decision tree generator that generates a decision tree by using correct/incorrect-answer information as teacher data, the correct/incorrect-answer information indicating that a plurality of answerers who have answered a question group consisting of a plurality of predetermined questions have answered each question correctly or incorrectly; a pruner that deletes a leaf node when an entropy of a classification result indicated by the leaf node being a terminal end of the decision tree which is generated is equal to or lower than a predetermined value. Further, there is a category generator that sets each new terminal end of the decision tree after deleting the leaf node as a category to which any of the answerers belongs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Z-kai Inc.Inventors: Jun WATANABE, Tomoya UEDA, Shoko WATANABE
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Patent number: 11784522Abstract: A rotor includes: a shaft; a tubular rotor core; and a plurality of magnets. The shaft extends along a center axis. The rotor core surrounds the shaft. The plurality of magnets is disposed outside the rotor core in a radial direction and is aligned in a circumferential direction. A plurality of first recessed portions recessed outward in the radial direction is aligned in the circumferential direction in an inner surface of the rotor core in the radial direction. Each of the first recessed portions overlaps each of the magnets in the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Toshiyuki Sasaki, Yabo Hu
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Publication number: 20230318375Abstract: A rotor including a pair of first magnets extending in directions away from each other in the circumferential direction as extending from the radially inner side toward the radially outer side when viewed in the axial direction and a second magnet at a circumferential position between the pair of first magnets and extending in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction when viewed in the axial direction. The rotor core includes a pair of holes extending in the axial direction or a pair of groove portions each arranged in the first pattern at the position of the first angle from the d-axis with the d-axis interposed therebetween on an outer peripheral side in the radial direction as viewed in the axial direction and a pair of holes extending in the axial direction or a pair of groove portions each arranged in the second pattern at the second angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventor: Tomoya UEDA
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Publication number: 20230251263Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a polymer material having cancer cell adhesion properties while having biocompatibility. [Means to Solve the Problem] A composition for cancer cell adhesion according to the present invention comprises a biocompatible copolymer comprising: at least one repeating unit (A) represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents a methyl group or an ethyl group; and at least one repeating unit (B) represented by the following formula (2): wherein R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicants: MARUZEN PETROCHEMICAL CO., LTD., KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORP.Inventors: Kento FUJIURA, Tomoya UEDA, Masaru TANAKA
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Publication number: 20230155432Abstract: A motor includes a cylindrical rotor core, and a magnet group including first magnets and second magnets alternately arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. A first magnetic flux line generated in the first magnets extends along a radial direction of the rotor core, and a second magnetic flux line generated in the second magnets is inclined with respect to the first magnetic flux line. The rotor core includes an inner portion located on a radially inner side of the magnet group and an outer portion located on a radially outer side of the magnet group. The outer portion includes a first iron core that covers the first magnet from the radially outer side, and a second iron core that covers at least a portion of the second magnet in the central axis direction of the rotor core from the radially outer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventor: Tomoya UEDA
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Publication number: 20220403112Abstract: A polymer compound in which a polymer chain containing a structure contributing to the inclusion of intermediate water is bound as at least a part of the organic component R group of a silsesquioxane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONInventors: Shinnosuke NISHIMURA, Tomoya UEDA, Masaru TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220398496Abstract: A learning effect estimation apparatus includes a model storage memory storing a model that takes learning data as input, the learning data being data on learning results of users and being assigned with categories for different learning purposes. There is a correct answer probability generation unit that inputs the learning data to the model to generate the correct answer probability of each of the categories; a correct answer probability database that accumulates time-series data of the correct answer probability for each of the users; and a comprehension and reliability generation unit that acquires range data, the range data being data specifying a range of categories for estimating a learning effect for a specific user, and generates a comprehension.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Z-kai Inc.Inventors: Jun WATANABE, Tomoya UEDA, Toshiyuki SAKURAI
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Patent number: 11502563Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets and a support supporting the permanent magnet. The support includes at least one of an outside support fixed to a radial outside of the outer cores to circumferentially support an end face of the permanent magnet from both sides and an inside support fixed to a radial inside of the outer cores to circumferentially support the end face of the permanent magnet from both sides. Each of the outer cores includes an opposite face parallelly opposed to the end face of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction. The outside support and the inside support each includes a support face circumferentially supporting the end face. The support face is disposed on a side closer to a center line of the permanent magnet than the opposite face in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Shinji Takemoto, Yusuke Isogai
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Patent number: 11489380Abstract: According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including an inner core and a plurality of outer cores, a mold resin unit covering, the mold resin unit, and a plurality of permanent magnets. The mold resin unit includes a gate mark in a region between the outer cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction, and the gate mark is provided in all regions between the adjacent outer cores or in a region between the outer cores, the region being adjacent to a region between the even-numbered adjacent outer cores in which the gate mark is not disposed in all the regions between the adjacent outer cores.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoya Ueda, Shinji Takemoto, Yusuke Isogai
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Publication number: 20220344997Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core including teeth; pins including a working portion extending in an axial direction in a slot between the teeth; and bus bars electrically connected to the pins. In each slot, the working portions are disposed over stages in a radial direction. The pins include the two working portions across the teeth, first and second pins each including a connection portion connecting the working portion in a circumferential direction, and a third pin connected to the bus bar. The working portion of the second pin is disposed on one of the outermost and innermost stages of the slot, and the working portion of the third pin is disposed on one or the other of the outermost and innermost stages of the slot. A number of teeth straddled by the second pin is larger by two than a number of teeth straddled by the first pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hibiki TAKADA, Tomoya UEDA, Takahiro HIWA
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Publication number: 20220345011Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core including teeth; pins including a working portion extending in an axial direction in a slot between the teeth; and bus bars electrically connected to the pins. In each slot, the working portions are disposed over stages in a radial direction. The pins include the two working portions disposed across the teeth, a first pin and a second pin each including a connection portion connecting the working portion in a circumferential direction, and a third pin connected to the bus bar. Each of the working portions of the second pin and the third pin is disposed in one of an outermost stage and an innermost stage of the slot. A number of teeth straddled by the second pin is smaller than a number of teeth straddled by the first pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Hibiki TAKADA, Tomoya UEDA, Takahiro HIWA
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Publication number: 20220278573Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotor with permanent magnets spaced apart in a circumferential direction, and a rotor core with core pieces positioned between adjacent permanent magnets. The permanent magnets include a pair of corner portions at each of an end on an outside in a radial direction and an end on an inside in the radial direction. Each of the core pieces includes at least one of an outer support portion that supports one corner portion of the pair of corner portions at the end of the permanent magnets on the outside in the radial direction or an inner support portion that supports one corner portion of the pair of corner portions at the end of the permanent magnets on the inside in the radial direction, and restricts movement of the permanent magnets in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Yabo HU, Tomoya UEDA, Kosuke MIZUIKE