Patents Assigned to Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20110040434
    Abstract: A motorcycle that transmits a rotation of an engine to a driving wheel via a power transmission device having a main clutch comprises a sub-clutch inserted between the power transmission device and an output shaft of the engine and a motor generator having a rotating shaft coupled to the power transmission device and is comprised so that the rotating shaft of the motor generator is coupled to the engine via the sub-clutch and to the driving wheel via the main clutch, and the motorcycle can be moved backward by turning off the sub-clutch and transmitting a rotation of the motor generator to the driving wheel via the main clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Patent number: 7888828
    Abstract: A starter generator which includes a rotor having a cuplike-shaped rotor yoke and magnets attached to an inner periphery of the rotor yoke, a stator mounted on a stator bracket and a protecting cover covering said rotor and stator, in which a hermetically sealed casing is constituted by said protecting cover and stator bracket, wherein a plurality of fans are provided on an outer surface of a bottom wall portion of said rotor yoke, a plurality of vent holes are provided through said bottom wall portion, said plurality of fans constitute a centrifugal fan which draws out air inside the rotor yoke through said vent holes and sends the air to an outer periphery of the rotor yoke, and a guide surface which guides the air sent to the outer periphery of the rotor yoke to a space inside the rotor yoke is provided on the stator bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Takahashi, Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Patent number: 7878173
    Abstract: A control device for a marine engine comprised so that a section of an angle sufficiently narrower than a crank angle corresponding to each stroke of a combustion cycle of the engine is set as an instantaneous speed detection section, a crank angle position that appears every time the engine rotates in the instantaneous speed detection section is detected as a specific crank angle position, an instantaneous rotational speed of the engine is detected every time each specific crank angle position is detected, it is determined whether the engine needs to be assisted from the degree of reduction in the instantaneous rotational speed, and a motor-generator including a rotor directly connected to a crankshaft of the engine is driven to apply a drive force from the motor-generator to the engine when it is determined that the engine needs to be assisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Patent number: 7868451
    Abstract: A resin sealing semiconductor device (2) having a structure in which a portion to be sealed of components including a plurality of chip mounting board, a semiconductor chip mounted to a front surface of each chip mounting board, and a plurality of leads provided correspondingly to each chip mounting board is embedded in resin molded portions (41 and 42) molded into a generally plate shape, and outer lead portions of the plurality of leads (16 and 17) are led out in line from a side surface at one end in a width direction of the resin molded portions, and back surfaces as exposed surfaces (11u1 to 11w1 and 12u1 to 12w1) of each chip mounting board are placed on one surfaces of the resin molded portions (41 and 42), wherein a plurality of positioning protrusions (50) are provided on one surfaces of the resin molded portions (41 and 42), and a protrusion height of the positioning protrusions is set so that a gap to be filled with insulating resin is formed between each part of the exposed surface of each chip mo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Muramatsu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomoyuki Sato, Kazuo Hara
  • Patent number: 7808755
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic control unit including: input terminals connected to output terminals of a magneto generator driven by an engine; DC output terminals; a control power supply circuit that converts an AC voltage input between the input terminals into a DC voltage equal to a set value; and a microprocessor that controls electrical components of the engine, wherein the electronic control unit further includes an interruption signal generation circuit that compares an output voltage of the control power supply circuit with a certain abnormality determination voltage and generates an interruption signal when the output voltage of the control power supply circuit becomes the abnormality determination voltage or less, and an abnormality state storage unit for storing that an abnormality occurs in a power supply portion when the interruption signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kawagoe, Tsuneaki Endou, Mitsuyoshi Shimazaki, Mitsugu Koike
  • Patent number: 7741708
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a plurality of semiconductor chips mounted on a lead frame (10) and required portions covered with seal portions in which: the plurality of semiconductor chips are divided into a first group of semiconductor chips (Dx to Dz) and a second group of semiconductor chips (Du to Dw and Thx to Thz); both groups of semiconductor chips are mounted on the lead frame (10) at a distance from each other; the seal portions are comprised of first and second resin-seal portions (41 and 42) which cover the first and second groups of semiconductor chips, respectively, along with required portions of the lead frame; both resin-seal portions are mechanically coupled with each other by coupling portions; and a group of read terminals respectively connected to circuits within the first resin-seal portion and circuits within the second resin-seal portion are led out through a gap between the first resin-seal portion (41) and the second resin-seal portion (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Muramatsu, Hidetoshi Suzuki, Tomoyuki Sato, Kazuo Hara, Motoki Yamazaki, Masaki Asari, Hirofumi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7709987
    Abstract: A magneto rotor which has a cup-like rotor yoke, a plurality of magnets secured on an inner periphery of a peripheral wall portion of the rotor yoke, and a magnet protecting cover having a cylindrical portion that covers inner peripheries of the magnets, and an outer flange being integrated with one axial end of the cylindrical portion and covering end surfaces of the magnets, wherein an annular protrusion protruding toward the opening of the rotor yoke is formed on an area closer to an inner periphery of the outer flange of the magnet protecting cover, an annular adhesive storage portion is formed between the peripheral wall portion closer to the open end of the rotor yoke and the annular protrusion, a groove opening into the adhesive storage portion and continuing circumferentially of the rotor yoke is also formed in the peripheral wall portion closer to the open end of the rotor yoke, and the adhesive storage portion and the groove are filled with an adhesive to seal a boundary between the outer flange of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Watanabe, Reiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20100095932
    Abstract: An ignition device for an internal combustion engine including: an exciter coil that generates an AC voltage having a positive half wave and first and second negative half waves generated before and after the positive half wave with rotation of the internal combustion engine; and an ignition control portion that controls an ignition position of the engine using a microprocessor to which a power supply voltage is supplied from a power supply circuit that converts the voltage having the negative half waves generated by the exciter coil to a DC voltage, wherein the ignition control portion is comprised so as to cause a timer to start a counting operation at the start of the operation of the microprocessor, regard a measurement value of the timer as time between generation of the first negative half wave and generation of the second negative half wave to arithmetically operate counting data for measuring the ignition position based on rotational speed information of the engine obtained from the time, and immediat
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co. LTd
    Inventors: Kiyotada Nakauchi, Akira Shimoyama, Yasukazu Hatano, Masayuki Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7701318
    Abstract: An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine includes: an iron core; a primary coil wound around the iron core via a primary bobbin; a secondary coil provided to externally surround the primary coil; a ground terminal fitting placed with a part thereof being held between the primary bobbin and the iron core; and a resin-molded portion provided to cover the primary coil and the secondary coil, a ground side terminal portion of the primary coil being connected to the ground terminal fitting, wherein at least one protrusion is formed in the part of the ground terminal fitting held between the primary bobbin and the iron core, and the protrusion has a pointed tip that is brought into contact with the iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takuma Ayusawa
  • Patent number: 7688073
    Abstract: A diagnosis device of a capacitor discharge ignition device for an engine that detects, as a singularity, a leading edge or a trailing edge of a voltage between output terminals of an ignition power supply portion that generates a voltage for charging an ignition capacitor, counts the number of singularities detected while a crankshaft rotates through a measurement section, which is a section of a certain crank angle determined with reference to a pulse signal obtained by a signal generator that generates a pulse signal at a specific crank angle position of an engine, and diagnoses an abnormality of the ignition device and a cause of the abnormality by comparing the count value of singularity with the number of times of normal ignition of the engine performed while the crankshaft rotates through the measurement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Shimazaki, Jun Kawagoe
  • Patent number: 7683587
    Abstract: A generation device, having a magneto generator, in which an AC control voltage is applied from a battery charged with a rectified output of the magneto generator to an armature winding of the generator through an inverter to control a battery voltage to a limit value or less, comprising: fixed point detection means for detecting a fixed point on a waveform of a phase current of the generator; phase current phase detection means for detecting a phase angle of the fixed point in relation to a reference phase; arithmetical operation means for arithmetically operating timing for generating the AC control voltage with reference to the phase of the fixed point; and inverter control means for controlling switch elements of the inverter so as to generate the AC control voltage at the timing arithmetically operated by the arithmetical operation means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Inaba, Masanori Nakagawa
  • Publication number: 20100026246
    Abstract: A battery charging apparatus includes a controlled rectifier circuit for rectifying an output of a magneto AC generator and supplying a rectified output to a battery. The controlled rectifier circuit includes thyristors as rectifying elements, and components of the controlled rectifier circuit are mounted on a circuit board. The charging apparatus includes a protection circuit which has a sensor detecting a temperature of the circuit board and inhibits a trigger signal from being supplied to thyristors of said rectifier circuit when a temperature detected by said sensor is equal to or higher than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Yamaguchi, Kenji Kimura, Shuichi Muramatsu, Hiromitsu Saito
  • Publication number: 20090322149
    Abstract: An onboard electric power control device which comprises a power unit, a control unit and a power source unit, in which: an opening portion of a case containing components of the power unit and an opening portion of a case containing components of the control unit are abutted so as to be coupled; a case of the power supply unit is fitted to an opening portion being provided on a side surface of the case of the power unit so that the both cases are coupled; the power unit and the control unit is connected by a flexible connecting conductor; and the connecting conductor is folded and is contained between a resin molded portion formed inside of the case of the power unit and a resin molded portion formed inside of the case of the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Patent number: 7638917
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine with permanent magnets which is configured such that the ratio of the number of magnetic poles of permanent magnets 3 to the number of magnetic poles of coils 12 is at 10:9 or 8:9. The coils 12 are configured such that a middle coil U? and two adjacent coils U+, U+ on both sides thereof are in-phase connected to be in-phase coils for each phase, and there is satisfied the relationship that T2>T1 and T2>T3, where T2 is the turn number of the middle coil U?, and T1 and T3 are the turn numbers of the adjacent coils U+, U+.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Koka, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Susumu Terumoto, Masanori Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 7631633
    Abstract: A capacitor discharge ignition device for an engine including: an exciter coil provided in a magneto generator driven by the engine; a voltage increasing circuit that increases an induced voltage of the exciter coil; a capacitor charged by an output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit; and a discharge switch that is turned on at ignition timing of the engine and discharges charges in the capacitor through a primary coil of the ignition coil, wherein the ignition device further includes a voltage increasing control portion that controls the voltage increasing circuit so as to increase an output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit when a rotational speed of the engine is a set value or less, and limit the output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit when the rotational speed of the engine exceeds the set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouji Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20090284087
    Abstract: A starter generator which comprises a rotor having a cuplike-shaped rotor yoke and magnets attached to an inner periphery of the rotor yoke, a stator mounted on a stator bracket and a protecting cover covering said rotor and stator, in which a hermetically sealed casing is constituted by said protecting cover and stator bracket, wherein a plurality of fans are provided on an outer surface of a bottom wall portion of said rotor yoke, a plurality of vent holes are provided through said bottom wall portion, said plurality of fans constitute a centrifugal fan which draws out air inside the rotor yoke through said vent holes and sends the air to an outer periphery of the rotor yoke, and a guide surface which guides the air sent to the outer periphery of the rotor yoke to a space inside the rotor yoke is provided on the stator bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu TAKAHASHI, Kazuyoshi Kishibata
  • Publication number: 20090272354
    Abstract: A capacitor discharge ignition device for an engine including: an exciter coil provided in a magneto generator driven by the engine; a voltage increasing circuit that increases an induced voltage of the exciter coil; a capacitor charged by an output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit; and a discharge switch that is turned on at ignition timing of the engine and discharges charges in the capacitor through a primary coil of the ignition coil, wherein the ignition device further includes a voltage increasing control portion that controls the voltage increasing circuit so as to increase an output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit when a rotational speed of the engine is a set value or less, and limit the output voltage of the voltage increasing circuit when the rotational speed of the engine exceeds the set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 7603982
    Abstract: A capacitor discharge ignition device in which a coil unit including an ignition coil and an exciter coil wound around a common core, and an ignition unit including a circuit board and components of an ignition circuit mounted to the circuit board are housed in a case and molded with resin poured into the case, wherein the ignition coil and the exciter coil are placed axially with a spacing therebetween and a space is formed between the coils, the circuit board of the ignition unit is placed on a lateral side of the coil unit, and terminals for connecting the ignition coil and the exciter coil to the circuit board are all connected to the circuit board through the space between the ignition coil and the exciter coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sugiyama, Yasukazu Hatano, Akira Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 7558088
    Abstract: A power supply device comprises: a voltage converting portion that converts a voltage generated from a power supply portion into an output voltage to be supplied to a load; a voltage divider circuit that generates an output voltage setting signal for providing a set value of the output voltage; a set value changeover portion that turns on/off set value changeover switches to change a voltage divider ratio of the voltage divider circuit to change the set value; a storage device that stores a state appropriate for each set value changeover switch for keeping the value of the output voltage within a specified range; a set value changeover switch control portion that controls the set value changeover switches so as to bring each set value changeover switch into a state as stored in the storage device when the voltage is supplied from the voltage converting portion to the load; and an output voltage control portion that controls the voltage converting portion so as to make zero a deviation between the value of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Kokusan Denki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kawagoe, Tsuneaki Endou, Mitsuyoshi Shimazaki, Mitsugu Koike
  • Publication number: 20090126686
    Abstract: A capacitor discharge ignition device in which a coil unit including an ignition coil and an exciter coil wound around a common core, and an ignition unit including a circuit board and components of an ignition circuit mounted to the circuit board are housed in a case and molded with resin poured into the case, wherein the ignition coil and the exciter coil are placed axially with a spacing therebetween and a space is formed between the coils, the circuit board of the ignition unit is placed on a lateral side of the coil unit, and terminals for connecting the ignition coil and the exciter coil to the circuit board are all connected to the circuit board through the space between the ignition coil and the exciter coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: KOKUSAN DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Sugiyama, Yasukazu Hatano, Akira Shimoyama