Patents by Inventor Yuji Enomoto

Yuji Enomoto 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: 20240128824
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine comprising: a stator core with plurality of slots, a coil covered with insulated conductor wire, wherein the coil comprising plurality of storages stored in the slots and plurality of coil ends that are outside of the slots, conductor of coil end close to the conductor of the heterophase coil having insulating materials at only one of the surfaces, either the inner diameter surface close to the conductor of the heterophase coil or outer diameter surface of the heterophase coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kenji IKEDA, Yuji ENOMOTO, Hirooki TOKOI, Mizuki NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki MIKAMI, Toshifumi SUZUKI, Toru SAKAI, Masaru AMAIKE, Yuji TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20230072665
    Abstract: The invention is to provide a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus system and a semiconductor device manufacturing method for reducing particles having an adverse effect in a manufacturing step of a semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Toru Aramaki, Go Saito, Kenichiro Komeda, Yuji Enomoto, Takashi Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 11557948
    Abstract: A radial-gap-type rotary electric machine, a production method therefore, a production device for a rotary electric machine teeth piece, and a production method therefore can achieve a high efficiency and have excellent productivity. A radial-gap-type rotary electric machine includes a rotation shaft, a rotator including an inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core rotatable around the rotation shaft and an outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core arranged on an outer peripheral side of the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and rotatable around the rotation shaft, and a stator disposed between the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and the outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core. A permanent magnet is provided on at least one of an outer-peripheral-side surface of the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and an inner-peripheral-side surface of the outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11522401
    Abstract: A radial gap type rotating electrical machine using amorphous metal that can realize high efficiency and is excellent in productivity is provided. The radial gap type rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and a rotor iron core that rotates around the rotary shaft, and a stator including a stator iron core that is disposed to face the rotor iron core. The stator iron core has an annular shape and has a back yoke (4) having a plurality of recesses provided along inner periphery, and a tooth (3) having one end fitted to the recess and the other end protruding toward the rotor iron core, the tooth (3) has a laminate in which amorphous metal foil strips are laminated in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and an insulating member (2) that holds the laminate, and a magnetic material (1) is provided in an end portion on a side facing the rotor of the insulating member (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11480697
    Abstract: A plurality of electrochemical corrosion protection systems (30) for underground buried structure installed geographically dispersed are utilized so as to predict an earthquake. Changes in amounts of current flowing through closed loop electric circuits (W) for electrochemical corrosion protection in the electrochemical corrosion protection systems (30) are detected and an earthquake is predicted based on the detected changes in the amounts of current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Genesis Research Institute, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinshu University
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kondo, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11444502
    Abstract: A coil bobbin of the present disclosure is a coil bobbin attached to a stator core of a distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine, and includes a teeth holding portion and a slot insulator which are made of an insulator. The teeth holding portion has: a first wall surface that covers a first circumferential side surface of a tooth of the stator core; a second wall surface that covers at least a part of a second circumferential side surface of the tooth; and a third wall surface that covers both side surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth. The slot insulator is formed integrally with the first wall surface of the teeth holding portion, and has a plurality of through-holes extending in the axial direction and arrayed in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Seiji Okita, Keisuke Suzuki, Kohei Eto, Eiji Katayama
  • Patent number: 11251670
    Abstract: An axial air-gap rotary electric machine includes a stator, a coil, and a bobbin. The bobbin includes a tube and a flange. The coil is wound on the outer periphery of the tube portion with regular winding. A number of turns of each of a plurality of layers wound around an external side of a last layer in contact with the flange is at least one less than a number of turns of each of a plurality of layers wound around an adjacent internal side of the last layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Daisuke Kitajima, Tomonori Kawagoe, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Toru Sakai, Shuuichi Takahashi, Toshifumi Suzuki, Norihisa Iwasaki, Ryousou Masaki, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 11205935
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain a structure with which it is possible to improve the heat dissipation performance and efficiency of an axial gap dynamo-electric machine. Accordingly, the present invention is an axial gap dynamo-electric machine of such construction that a disc-shaped rotor in which permanent magnets are disposed is provided in the axial direction and a stator is disposed in the axial-direction center portion, wherein the outer circumferential side of a stator winding is in intimate contact with the inside diameter of a housing, embedding with a mold resin is used for the housing and a stator core and for a stator coil and the housing so that a connection is established with the housing, and the housing comprises a nonmagnetic, electrically nonconductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Hirooki Tokoi, Kenta Deguchi
  • Patent number: 11165312
    Abstract: This invention reduces the shaft voltage of an axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine while ensuring high output and high efficiency. Said axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine comprises the following: a stator comprising a plurality of stator cores, each of which comprises a core and a coil, arranged in a circle around a shaft; a housing, the inside surface of which faces the stator radially; and at least one rotor, the surface of which faces the surface of the stator with a prescribed air gap interposed therebetween in the radial direction of the shaft. The rotor has, on the outside thereof, a conductive section comprising a conductive member. This axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine has a first region where the inside surface of the housing faces the aforementioned conductive section radially and a second region, closer to the stator than the first region is, that extends to the coil side surfaces that face the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Shuuichi Takahashi, Yasuei Yoneoka, Toshifumi Suzuki, Toru Sakai, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Norihisa Iwasaki, Ryousou Masaki, Yuji Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20210249926
    Abstract: A coil bobbin of the present disclosure is a coil bobbin attached to a stator core of a distributed winding radial gap-type rotating electric machine, and includes a teeth holding portion and a slot insulator which are made of an insulator. The teeth holding portion has: a first wall surface that covers a first circumferential side surface of a tooth of the stator core; a second wall surface that covers at least a part of a second circumferential side surface of the tooth; and a third wall surface that covers both side surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth. The slot insulator is formed integrally with the first wall surface of the teeth holding portion, and has a plurality of through-holes extending in the axial direction and arrayed in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji ENOMOTO, Seiji OKITA, Keisuke SUZUKI, Kohei ETO, Eiji KATAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210013760
    Abstract: A radial gap type rotating electrical machine using amorphous metal that can realize high efficiency and is excellent in productivity is provided. The radial gap type rotating electrical machine according to the present invention includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and a rotor iron core that rotates around the rotary shaft, and a stator including a stator iron core that is disposed to face the rotor iron core. The stator iron core has an annular shape and has a back yoke (4) having a plurality of recesses provided along inner periphery, and a tooth (3) having one end fitted to the recess and the other end protruding toward the rotor iron core, the tooth (3) has a laminate in which amorphous metal foil strips are laminated in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, and an insulating member (2) that holds the laminate, and a magnetic material (1) is provided in an end portion on a side facing the rotor of the insulating member (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200333486
    Abstract: A plurality of electrochemical corrosion protection systems (30) for underground buried structure installed geographically dispersed are utilized so as to predict an earthquake. Changes in amounts of current flowing through closed loop electric circuits (W) for electrochemical corrosion protection in the electrochemical corrosion protection systems (30) are detected and an earthquake is predicted based on the detected changes in the amounts of current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicants: GENESIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, SHINSHU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hitoshi KONDO, Yuji ENOMOTO
  • Patent number: 10804765
    Abstract: A highly reliable electromechanical integral motor is provided. In the electromechanical integral motor including an axial gap type motor and a power conversion control device, the power conversion control device is mounted on an end bracket portion of the motor. Additionally, a space is provided between the end bracket portion of the motor and the power conversion control device. Further, the end bracket portion of the motor and the power conversion control device are fixed by a plurality of fixing members, and at least one set of the plurality of fixing members is disposed to be spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisashi Tanie, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Yuji Enomoto, Hirooki Tokoi, Takayoshi Nakamura, Naoki Sakurai, Fusao Houjyou, Kohei Matsushita
  • Patent number: 10763716
    Abstract: An axial-air-gap rotating electric machine with a stator bobbin is provided. The bobbin renders the respective turn counts of windings in the machine the same and minimizes the lengths of connecting wires between continuous windings regardless of the continuous turn count, the direction in which each winding is wound, and whether the number of stages is odd or even. The bobbin, which has a tubular shape that substantially matches the exterior shape of a core, is provided with flanges that extend outwards from near the respective openings in the bobbin. One of the flanges has two first notches, and the other flange has a second notch. The axial positions of the starting and finishing ends of coils on adjacent stator cores are the same, and the flanges containing the notches through which the ends of the coils are run are on the same side with respect to the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Daisuke Kitajima, Tomonori Kawagoe, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Toru Sakai, Shuuichi Takahashi, Toshifumi Suzuki, Norihisa Iwasaki, Ryousou Masaki, Yuji Enomoto
  • Patent number: 10756600
    Abstract: To reduce an axial voltage while securing a high output, high efficiency, and assemblability of an axial gap rotary electric machine. An axial gap rotary electric machine includes: a stator, formed by arranging a plurality of core members circularly about a shaft in a direction in which magnetic lines are parallel with the shaft, the core member having at least an iron core and a coil wound around an outer circumference of the iron core; at least one rotor facing the stator with a predetermined air gap interposed therebetween in a shaft axial direction; and a housing having an inner circumferential surface opposing the stator and the rotor in a radial direction. The axial gap rotary electric machine further includes a wiring board that has: a bus portion continuous in the circumferential direction; a coil connection portion protruding from the bus portion and connected to the coil; and an external connection portion protruding from the bus portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Yuji Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20200259403
    Abstract: A radial-gap-type rotary electric machine, a production method therefore, a production device for a rotary electric machine teeth piece, and a production method therefore can achieve a high efficiency and have excellent productivity. A radial-gap-type rotary electric machine includes a rotation shaft, a rotator including an inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core rotatable around the rotation shaft and an outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core arranged on an outer peripheral side of the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and rotatable around the rotation shaft, and a stator disposed between the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and the outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core. A permanent magnet is provided on at least one of an outer-peripheral-side surface of the inner-peripheral-side rotator iron core and an inner-peripheral-side surface of the outer-peripheral-side rotator iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji ENOMOTO
  • Patent number: 10566876
    Abstract: To significantly improve a heat dissipation property of an axial gap rotary electric machine within a size necessary for configuring a motor. In an axial gap rotary electric machine comprising a stator and a rotor in an axial direction, the stator has a plurality of stator cores arranged in a circumferential direction and coils wound around the stator cores, and a heat pipe obtained by filling an inside of a metal hollow pipe with a refrigerant is arranged in a gap between adjacent coils formed in an outer diameter portion of the stator in a radial direction and a housing with a necessary insulation distance between the coils and the heat pipe. The heat pipe extends in a direction of a rotation axis and an opposite output side, and is in contact with a heat dissipating fin outside an end bracket on the opposite output side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Hirooki Tokoi, Naoki Sakurai, Hisashi Tanie, Kenta Deguchi
  • Patent number: 10530210
    Abstract: To ensure ready assembly of a stator and reliably reduce the shaft voltage in an axial air gap rotating electric machine, an axial air gap rotating electric machine has a circular ring-shaped stator formed by a plurality of stator cores arranged about a rotational axis direction in a ring shape. Each stator core comprises a tubular bobbin and a coil, with the tubular bobbin having an iron core inserted into a bobbin inner tubular portion substantially matching the peripheral shape of the iron core. The axial air gap rotating electric machine has a first conductive member having a horizontal portion and a vertical portion contacting the end surface of the bobbin opening portion. The horizontal portion contacts parts of the iron core outer peripheral surface and the inner peripheral surface of the bobbin inner tubular portion, and the vertical portion is conductively connected to the inner circumferential housing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirooki Tokoi, Shuuichi Takahashi, Yasuei Yoneoka, Toshifumi Suzuki, Toru Sakai, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Ryousou Masaki, Norihisa Iwasaki, Yuji Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20200006998
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to obtain a structure with which it is possible to improve the heat dissipation performance and efficiency of an axial gap dynamo-electric machine. Accordingly, the present invention is an axial gap dynamo-electric machine of such construction that a disc-shaped rotor in which permanent magnets are disposed is provided in the axial direction and a stator is disposed in the axial-direction center portion, wherein the outer circumferential side of a stator winding is in intimate contact with the inside diameter of a housing, embedding with a mold resin is used for the housing and a stator core and for a stator coil and the housing so that a connection is established with the housing, and the housing comprises a non-magnetic, electrically nonconductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuji ENOMOTO, Hirooki TOKOI, Kenta DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190058375
    Abstract: To reduce an axial voltage while securing a high output, high efficiency, and assemblability of an axial gap rotary electric machine. An axial gap rotary electric machine includes: a stator, formed by arranging a plurality of core members circularly about a shaft in a direction in which magnetic lines are parallel with the shaft, the core member having at least an iron core and a coil wound around an outer circumference of the iron core; at least one rotor facing the stator with a predetermined air gap interposed therebetween in a shaft axial direction; and a housing having an inner circumferential surface opposing the stator and the rotor in a radial direction. The axial gap rotary electric machine further includes a wiring board that has: a bus portion continuous in the circumferential direction; a coil connection portion protruding from the bus portion and connected to the coil; and an external connection portion protruding from the bus portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hirooki TOKOI, Yuji ENOMOTO