Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Matsunaga

Toshihiro Matsunaga 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: 11936265
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes an annular coil connection body provided coaxially with a stator. The coil connection body has, in a groove provided on a holder, an overhang portion for restricting an axial-direction movement of a terminal, and a positioning projection for restricting a radial-direction movement of the terminal. The positioning projection positions the terminal such that a part of the terminal overlaps the overhang portion in the axial direction. In this structure, when the terminal moves in a direction from a terminal holding portion toward a groove opening, the terminal comes into contact with a side surface of the overhang portion, whereby lifting and coming-off of the terminal can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Akira Kimishima, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Kengo Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 11828591
    Abstract: Even using the redundant system resolver in which the magnetic interference between systems occurs, to provide an angle detection apparatus which can reduces the influence of the magnetic interference and can calculate the rotational angle with good accuracy, without performing synchronous control between systems in real time. An angle detection apparatus is provided with a resolver which has the first system windings and the second system windings in which magnetic interference occurs between systems; a first system removal processing unit that performs a second cycle component removal processing which removes component of the second cycle of the second system, to detection values of the first system winding output signals; and a first system angle calculation unit that calculates a first angle of rotor, based on the detection values of the first system winding output signals after the second cycle component removal processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Hiroko Ikeda, Seiji Sawada, Kenta Kubo, Kenji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11750134
    Abstract: To provide an AC rotary machine apparatus which can determine the operation stop of the control circuit of the other system with good accuracy. An AC rotary machine apparatus, including: a resolver is provided with a first system excitation winding, first system two output windings, a second system excitation winding, and second system two output windings, in which a magnetic interference occurs between a first system and a second system; a first system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a first period to the first system excitation winding; and a second system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a second period to the second system excitation winding, wherein the first system control circuit determines whether the operation of the second system control circuit stops, based on the components of the second period extracted from the first system output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya Mori, Hiroko Ikeda, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Kenji Ikeda, Kenta Kubo
  • Publication number: 20230194313
    Abstract: To provide an angle detection apparatus which can reduce the error of the angle which is caused by the eccentricity, by performing the reduction processing about smallest possible number of frequency bands and the lowest possible order of frequency band. An angle detection apparatus performs a first-order component reduction processing which reduces a first-order component which is a component of one rotation period in a mechanical angle of the rotor, to each of the first system two output signals; and calculates a first angle (?1) of the rotor, based on the first system two output signals to which the first-order component reduction processing was performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Hiroko IKEDA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Publication number: 20230155528
    Abstract: In an electric motor control device which controls rotation of an AC electric motor having two sets of three-phase windings and provided with a resolver having two systems by calculating voltage command values on dq axes, dq conversion of currents of first three-phase windings is performed using a first angle calculated from output of the first system of the resolver, and dq conversion of currents of second three-phase windings is performed using a second angle calculated from output of the second system of the resolver. With both d-axis current command values set at the same value, respective voltage command values on dq axes are calculated and respectively converted into voltage command values for voltage application to the first three-phase windings, using the first angle, and converted into voltage command values for voltage application to the second three-phase windings, using the second angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko ORII, Tatsuya MORI, Hiroko IKEDA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Patent number: 11641143
    Abstract: A control device-integrated rotary electric machine that has a light weight and a small radial-direction dimension. A cylindrical member is provided between a stator formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets and a frame retaining the stator, such that the cylindrical member is in a press-fitted state against the stator and the frame. The cylindrical member has a flange portion at one end thereof, and the flange portion is fixed by being held between the frame and a heat sink which is a member composing a control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori Ishizaki, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Takashi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230125647
    Abstract: A resolver body including a rotor having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, a stator facing the rotor and having Ns (Ns is an integer equal to or larger than 3) teeth arranged in a circumferential direction, and an excitation winding and two phases of output windings wound on each tooth; and an excitation circuit configured to apply voltage to the excitation winding. The excitation winding and the two phases of output windings wound on each of Nsm (Nsm is an integer equal to or larger than 2) teeth among the Ns teeth are set to be of a main system. The excitation winding and the two phases of output windings wound on each of Ns-Nsm teeth are set to be of a sub-system. The number Nsm of the teeth corresponding to the main system is larger than the number Ns-Nsm of the teeth corresponding to the sub-system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA, Tatsuya MORI, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230112554
    Abstract: To provide an abnormality detection apparatus for resolver which can determine the abnormality of at least the first system, even if the period of the excitation AC voltage of the first system and the period of the excitation AC voltage of the second system are different periods, and the magnetic interference between systems occurs. An abnormality detection apparatus for resolver applies an AC voltage of a first period to a first system excitation winding; applies an AC voltage of a second period different from the first period to a second system excitation winding; calculates DC values of first system two output signals by performing a DC extraction processing; and determines abnormality of first system based on whether or not the DC values of first system two output signals are within a normal range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Hiroko IKEDA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Publication number: 20230099339
    Abstract: The rotating electrical machine disclosed in the present application provides a rotor shafts supported by bearings, a rotor attached to the rotor shaft and rotates with the rotor shaft, a stator that surrounds the rotor through a gap so that the rotor can rotate, a frame that surrounds the rotor and the stator, an outer circumference of the stator is attached to an inner circumference of the frame, and an annular member provided along the inner circumference of the frame to prevent foreign matter existing at the boundary part between the frame and the stator from moving to a region different from the boundary part, it prevents foreign matter generated in the manufacturing process of the rotating electrical machine, such as shavings of a frame, from being scattered inside the rotating electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitoru YABE, Takayuki NAKAO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Takashi YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230078128
    Abstract: To solve a problem that the accuracy of angle detection deteriorates owing to noise voltage generated by eccentricity or variation in shape among rotors according to the number of magnetic poles of a rotor core of a multiple-system rotation sensor, the number S of magnetic poles of a stator core is, with the number R of the magnetic poles of the rotor core and the number N (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) of systems for stator windings, in a relationship of S=nRN (n is a natural number), system windings of each system are wound so as to be divided for every R magnetic poles among the S magnetic poles of the stator core, and a winding arrangement of the system windings of each system is made so as to achieve R-times rotational symmetry about a rotor rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei FUJIKURA, Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20230055461
    Abstract: To provide an abnormality detection apparatus for resolver which can determine the abnormality of at least the first system, even if the period of the excitation AC voltage of the first system and the period of the excitation AC voltage of the second system are different periods, and the magnetic interference between systems occurs. An abnormality detection apparatus for resolver applies an AC voltage of a first period to a first system excitation winding; applies an AC voltage of a second period different from the first period to a second system excitation winding; calculates a first system square sum which is a sum of square values of the detection values of output signals of first system two output windings after the second period component reduction processing: and determines abnormality of first system based on whether or not the first system square sum is within a normal range of first system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Hiroko IKEDA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Publication number: 20230013379
    Abstract: Provided is a resolver capable of increasing an accuracy of a detected angle of the resolver. The resolver includes: a stator; and a rotor, wherein the rotor includes a plurality of salient poles; wherein the stator includes: a stator core having a plurality of teeth, and a plurality of winding groups each of which is provided on each of the plurality of teeth, wherein the winding groups are divided into two systems, wherein the numbers of turns of the excitation windings are distributed in a form of a sine wave of Ne-th spatial order, wherein each of the numbers of turns of a first output windings and the numbers of turns of a second output windings are distributed in a form of a sine wave of |Ne±Nx|-th spatial order, and wherein the following expressions are satisfied, Nout1=N1 cos{|Ne±Nx|(i?1)/Ns×2?+?}, Nout2=N1 cos{|Ne±Nx|(i?1)/Ns×2?+?}, and 90(deg)<|???|<140(deg).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Patent number: 11512977
    Abstract: A redundant resolver is configured of a stator and a rotor that form a pair, wherein the rotor is a rotor with a shaft angle multiplier of Nx having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, the stator is such that n teeth T1 to Tn, where n is a natural number, are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction, configuring M systems by being divided into M in the circumferential direction, and having an angle of 360/M degrees when angles of the teeth configuring one system are totaled, a one-phase excitation winding and a two-phase output winding are wound around each of the teeth T1 to Tn, excitation signals of the same frequency are applied by differing excitation circuits to the respective excitation windings, an output order per system is Nout (Nout is a natural number), and an abnormality is detected based on output signals of the M systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Cornoration
    Inventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yuji Takizawa, Kazumasa Ito, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Yosuke Sugino
  • Publication number: 20220376641
    Abstract: To provide an AC rotary machine apparatus which can determine the operation stop of the control circuit of the other system with good accuracy. An AC rotary machine apparatus, including: a resolver is provided with a first system excitation winding, first system two output windings, a second system excitation winding, and second system two output windings, in which a magnetic interference occurs between a first system and a second system; a first system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a first period to the first system excitation winding; and a second system control circuit that applies AC voltage with a second period to the second system excitation winding, wherein the first system control circuit determines whether the operation of the second system control circuit stops, based on the components of the second period extracted from the first system output signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Hiroko IKEDA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220363310
    Abstract: The redundant resolver includes: a resolver body having a rotor, a stator opposed to the rotor and having Ns teeth arranged in a circumferential direction, and an excitation winding and two phases of output windings wound on the stator; an excitation circuit configured to supply power to the excitation winding; and an angle calculation unit configured to calculate a rotation angle on the basis of signals from the two phases of output windings. The stator is divided in the circumferential direction into M pieces which serve as M tooth blocks, N (M?N) redundancy systems are formed on the basis of the M tooth blocks. The excitation circuit and the angle calculation unit are provided to each system so as be independent among the systems. Gap magnetic flux densities at both end portions of each tooth block are set to change mildly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kenji IKEDA, Kenta KUBO
  • Publication number: 20220224172
    Abstract: In a redundancy resolver device, winding groups of different systems are arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction of a stator core. The winding groups of each system include: an excitation winding group consisting of a plurality of excitation windings, and being connected to corresponding one of excitation circuits; a first output winding group; and a second output winding group. Each of the teeth has corresponding one of the excitation windings wound therearound. When two of the excitation windings belonging to different systems and being arranged side by side is the circumferential direction of the stator core are defined as a first end excitation winding and a second end excitation winding, respectively, the first end excitation winding and the second end excitation winding are applied with excitation signals to generate magnetic fluxes in the same direction of radial directions of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Kenji IKEDA, Yosuke SUGINO, Seiji SAWADA, Kenta KUBO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 11342809
    Abstract: To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of suppressing vibrations generated at the time of driving and achieving downsizing. The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; a stator including a stator core provided on an outer side with respect to the rotor in a radial direction of the rotor; a motor frame, which includes a tubular portion provided on an outer side with respect to the stator core in the radial direction, and has the stator fixed thereto; and an intermediate member, which is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the stator core in the radial direction, and is held in a state of being press-fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion in the radial direction, wherein a stiffness of the intermediate member per unit length is higher than a stiffness of the tubular portion per unit length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Takashi Yamamoto, Akira Kimishima
  • Publication number: 20220018646
    Abstract: Even using the redundant system resolver in which the magnetic interference between systems occurs, to provide an angle detection apparatus which can reduces the influence of the magnetic interference and can calculate the rotational angle with good accuracy, without performing synchronous control between systems in real time. An angle detection apparatus is provided with a resolver which has the first system windings and the second system windings in which magnetic interference occurs between systems; a first system removal processing unit that performs a second cycle component removal processing which removes component of the second cycle of the second system, to detection values of the first system winding output signals; and a first system angle calculation unit that calculates a first angle of rotor, based on the detection values of the first system winding output signals after the second cycle component removal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya MORI, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Hiroko IKEDA, Seiji SAWADA, Kenta KUBO, Kenji IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210384804
    Abstract: For the purpose of preventing damage to the frame when assembling the stator, improving the holding force for holding the stator, and making it possible to reduce the size of the rotating electrical machine body in the radial direction, the rotating electrical machine with integrated control device for vehicles integrates the rotating electrical machine main body and the control device arranged on the rear side of the rotating electrical machine main body and controlling the rotating electrical machine, the rotating electrical machine main body provides a first annular shape member located between the stator and the frame, a second annular shape member located between the and the first annular shape member, the stator is press-fitted into the frame via the first annular shape member and the second annular shape member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori ISHIZAKI, Takayuki NAKAO, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20210281137
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes an annular coil connection body provided coaxially with a stator. The coil connection body has, in a groove provided on a holder, an overhang portion for restricting an axial-direction movement of a terminal, and a positioning projection for restricting a radial-direction movement of the terminal. The positioning projection positions the terminal such that a part of the terminal overlaps the overhang portion in the axial direction. In this structure, when the terminal moves in a direction from a terminal holding portion toward a groove opening, the terminal comes into contact with a side surface of the overhang portion, whereby lifting and coming-off of the terminal can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Akira KIMISHIMA, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Kengo FUJIMOTO