Patents by Inventor Yoshichika Kawashima

Yoshichika Kawashima 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: 20240072605
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a motor part and a gear part. The motor part includes: a rotating shaft, having a first gear; a rotor, having a bottom wall and a side wall, the bottom wall being fixed to the rotating shaft; magnets, fixed to the side wall and arranged side by side in a circumferential direction of the rotor; a stator, provided between the rotating shaft and the magnets in a radial direction of the rotor and wound with a coil; and a motor housing, rotatably supporting the rotating shaft, and accommodating the rotor and the stator. The gear part includes: a second gear, meshed with the first gear; an output shaft, having an output part, having a base end side thereof fixed to the second gear, and parallel to the rotating shaft; and a gear housing, rotatably supporting the output shaft, and accommodating the second gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: TEPPEI TOKIZAKI, Motoaki Kobayashi, Satoshi Tamura, Masaki Hayata, Masakazu Saito, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20240063689
    Abstract: A deceleration mechanism is provided with first and second gears, a first tooth part arranged in the first gear and extending spirally in an axial direction of the first gear, an engagement projected part arranged on the first tooth part, second tooth parts arranged on the second gear, and an engagement recessed part arranged between the adjacent second tooth parts. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and has a curvature center eccentric from a rotation center of the first gear. The second tooth parts are inclined with respect to the axial direction of the first gear and arranged in a circumferential direction of the second gear. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc-shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and engaged with the engagement projected part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: NAOKI KOJIMA, MOTOAKI KOBAYASHI, TEPPEI TOKIZAKI, Yoshichika KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11894753
    Abstract: A deceleration mechanism is provided with first and second gears, a first tooth part arranged in the first gear and extending spirally in an axial direction of the first gear, an engagement projected part arranged on the first tooth part, second tooth parts arranged on the second gear, and an engagement recessed part arranged between the adjacent second tooth parts. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and has a curvature center eccentric from a rotation center of the first gear. The second tooth parts are inclined with respect to the axial direction of the first gear and arranged in a circumferential direction of the second gear. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc-shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and engaged with the engagement projected part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Kojima, Motoaki Kobayashi, Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20230258248
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a motor with a deceleration mechanism capable of suppressing disengagement of gears even when a large external force is applied to an output shaft. A backup member 70 maintaining engagement between a pinion gear 61 and a helical gear 62 is provided on a side of the pinion gear 61 opposite to the side of the helical gear 62 in a gear case 20. Thus, even when a large external force is applied to the output shaft, disengagement of the gears (disengagement of the pinion gear 61 and the helical gear 62) can be suppressed. Therefore, damage to the pinion gear 61 and the helical gear 62 (deceleration mechanism 60) can be prevented for a long period of time, and consequently the life of the motor 10 with the deceleration mechanism can be extended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: TEPPEI TOKIZAKI, MOTOAKI KOBAYASHI, KUMIKO MASUBUCHI, TSUBASA ISHIZEKI, Yoshichika Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20210021174
    Abstract: A deceleration mechanism is provided with first and second gears, a first tooth part arranged in the first gear and extending spirally in an axial direction of the first gear, an engagement projected part arranged on the first tooth part, second tooth parts arranged on the second gear, and an engagement recessed part arranged between the adjacent second tooth parts. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and has a curvature center eccentric from a rotation center of the first gear. The second tooth parts are inclined with respect to the axial direction of the first gear and arranged in a circumferential direction of the second gear. The engagement projected part is formed in an arc-shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the first gear and engaged with the engagement projected part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBA Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki KOJIMA, Motoaki KOBAYASHI, Teppei TOKIZAKI, Yoshichika KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10876595
    Abstract: A speed reducer-attached motor includes a rotation shaft on which a worm gear is provided and which is supported rotatably around a central axis via a plurality of bearings, a motor part that is driven to be rotated around the rotation shaft as a central axis, a speed reducer part that includes at least one or more gears which include a worm wheel that is engaged with the worm gear, and a casing on which a shaft accommodation groove that accommodates the rotation shaft, a bearing accommodation recess part that accommodates the bearing, and an accommodation recess part that accommodates the speed reducer part are formed, wherein the shaft accommodation groove, the bearing accommodation recess part, and the accommodation recess part open at a top surface portion side of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sugiyama, Yoshichika Kawashima, Yosuke Harigai, Masaki Hayata
  • Patent number: 10756584
    Abstract: In an electric motor (2) which includes four permanent magnets (12) and in which the number of teeth (20) and the number of slots (23) are set to 6, when a polar arc angle of the permanent magnet (12) is ?1, and a skew angle of the teeth (20) and the slots (23) is ?2, the polar arc angle ?1 and the skew angle ?2 are set so as to satisfy 50°??1<70° and 0°<?2?20°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima, Natsumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 10734858
    Abstract: When teeth (12) are allocated in a circumferential direction in sequence of a U phase, a V phase and a W phase, a forward wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as a coil of the U phase, the V phase and the W phase, and a reverse wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as the coil of a ?U phase, a ?V phase and a ?W phase, the coils are electrically connected between the neighboring segments in an order of the U phase, the ?W phase, the ?W phase, the V phase, the ?U phase, the ?U phase, the W phase, the ?V phase and the ?V phase, and the wire (14) drawn between the armature core (8) and the commutator (10) is drawn around the rotation shaft in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 10615650
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having a cylindrical section, two pairs of permanent magnets disposed at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical section to oppose each other, and an armature rotatably supported further inside in a radial direction than the permanent magnets, wherein at least a pair of first flat sections opposing each other in the radial direction are formed at the cylindrical section, and the permanent magnets are disposed at positions distant from the first flat sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Naoki Kojima
  • Patent number: 10404112
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles; a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner; an armature core (6) which has teeth (36) attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots (37) formed between the teeth; an armature coil (7) which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and a commutator (13) which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core (6) and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments (41) to which the armature coil (7) is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20190186596
    Abstract: A speed reducer-attached motor includes a rotation shaft on which a worm gear is provided and which is supported rotatably around a central axis via a plurality of bearings, a motor part that is driven to be rotated around the rotation shaft as a central axis, a speed reducer part that includes at least one or more gears which include a worm wheel that is engaged with the worm gear, and a casing on which a shaft accommodation groove that accommodates the rotation shaft, a bearing accommodation recess part that accommodates the bearing, and an accommodation recess part that accommodates the speed reducer part are formed, wherein the shaft accommodation groove, the bearing accommodation recess part, and the accommodation recess part open at a top surface portion side of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sugiyama, Yoshichika Kawashima, Yosuke Harigai, Masaki Hayata
  • Publication number: 20180351423
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles; a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner; an armature core (6) which has teeth (36) attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots (37) formed between the teeth; an armature coil (7) which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and a commutator (13) which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core (6) and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments (41) to which the armature coil (7) is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 10075031
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having six magnetic poles; a rotary shaft which is provided inside the yoke in a freely rotatable manner; an armature core (6) which has teeth (36) attached to the rotary shaft, radially extending in a radial direction and set in an arrangement of an even number, and an even number of slots (37) formed between the teeth; an armature coil (7) which is wound around the teeth in a single wave winding; and a commutator (13) which is provided in the rotary shaft to be adjacent to the armature core (6) and has a plurality of circumferentially disposed segments (41) to which the armature coil (7) is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20180226853
    Abstract: When teeth (12) are allocated in a circumferential direction in sequence of a U phase, a V phase and a W phase, a forward wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as a coil of the U phase, the V phase and the W phase, and a reverse wound coil wound on each of the phases is provided as the coil of a ?U phase, a ?V phase and a ?W phase, the coils are electrically connected between the neighboring segments in an order of the U phase, the ?W phase, the ?W phase, the V phase, the ?U phase, the ?U phase, the W phase, the ?V phase and the ?V phase, and the wire (14) drawn between the armature core (8) and the commutator (10) is drawn around the rotation shaft in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Natsumi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20180083501
    Abstract: In an electric motor (2) which includes four permanent magnets (12) and in which the number of teeth (20) and the number of slots (23) are set to 6, when a polar arc angle of the permanent magnet (12) is ?1, and a skew angle of the teeth (20) and the slots (23) is ?2, the polar arc angle ?1 and the skew angle ?2 are set so as to satisfy 50°??1<70° and 0°<?2?20°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima, Natsumi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20180041078
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having a cylindrical section, two pairs of permanent magnets disposed at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical section to oppose each other, and an armature rotatably supported further inside in a radial direction than the permanent magnets, wherein at least a pair of first flat sections opposing each other in the radial direction are formed at the cylindrical section, and the permanent magnets are disposed at positions distant from the first flat sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Naoki Kojima
  • Patent number: 9837776
    Abstract: In an electric motor, a brush holder stay (33) has an opening section through which a commutator (23) is able to be inserted in a rotary shaft direction (O1), brush holders (41) extend in the rotary shaft direction (O1) and are formed in a flat spring shape biased toward the inside in a radial direction, base end sections of the brush holders (41) are supported by the brush holder stay (33) at intervals in a circumferential direction around the rotary shaft (3), and brushes (31) are held by the front end sections of the brush holders (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Tokizaki, Yoshichika Kawashima, Natsumi Tamura
  • Patent number: 9831728
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having a cylindrical section, two pairs of permanent magnets disposed at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical section to oppose each other, and an armature rotatably supported further inside in a radial direction than the permanent magnets, wherein at least a pair of first flat sections opposing each other in the radial direction are formed at the cylindrical section, and the permanent magnets are disposed at positions distant from the first flat sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki, Naoki Kojima
  • Patent number: 9705380
    Abstract: An electric motor equipped with deceleration device (1) is provided with a main shaft component (200) that is formed substantially in a circular rod shape, and has one end portion (201) that is rotatably supported at a substantial center of a bottom portion (111) of a motor housing (110) and another end portion (202) that protrudes towards an outer side through an aperture in the motor housing (110), the main shaft component (200) is fixed to the motor housing (110) via the one end portion (201).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Nagase, Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki
  • Patent number: 9496771
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a yoke having a plurality of magnetic poles, a rotary shaft, an armature core (8) attached to the rotary shaft, the armature core (8) having a plurality of teeth (12) and slots (13), an armature coil (9) wound on the teeth (12) through an intensive winding method, a commutator having a plurality of segments (15) installed at the rotary shaft and disposed in a circumferential direction, a low speed brush (21a) and a high speed brush (21b) configured to supply power to the armature coil (9) via the segments (15), and a common brush (21c) commonly used in these brushes, wherein, when n is a natural number of 3 or more, a ratio of the numbers of magnetic poles, slots (13), and segments (15) is set to 2:3:3n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshichika Kawashima, Teppei Tokizaki