Patents by Inventor Akeshi Takahashi
Akeshi Takahashi 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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Patent number: 10270303Abstract: In a permanent magnet electric motor, a plurality of projections are formed at least partially along an axial direction in the magnet insertion openings, the projection positioning both edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction so that vacant spaces are defined at each sides of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction; a plurality of slits arranged along the circumferential direction are provided in regions, the region being positioned radially outward from the permanent magnet and being sandwiched at the edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction by the projections; and the shortest distance between the slit and the magnet insertion opening is set to be greater than the shortest distance between the slit and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Hitachi-Johnson Controls Air Conditioning, Inc.Inventors: Yusuke Asaumi, Akihiro Ishikawa, Akeshi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20190109514Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotating electrical machine body including a stator, a rotor, a fan configured to circulate a coolant for cooling the stator and the rotor, and a casing containing the stator, the rotor and the fan; and a cooler connected to the rotating electrical machine body. The coolant flows from the machine body into the cooler. The cooler cools the coolant. The coolant flows out of the cooler into the machine body. The cooler has a flow resistance Ra satisfying a relation 0.15<(Ra/Rm)<(P0/P1), wherein Ra is a flow resistance of the coolant in the cooler, Rm is a flow resistance of the coolant in the rotating electrical machine body, P0 is a shutoff pressure of the fan, and P1 is a pressure at an operating point of the fan when the flow resistance Ra of the cooler is assumed to be zero.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Ryuuichirou IWANO, Masanori SAWAHATA, Akeshi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160072347Abstract: In a permanent magnet electric motor, a plurality of projections are formed at least partially along an axial direction in the magnet insertion openings, the projection positioning both edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction so that vacant spaces are defined at each sides of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction; a plurality of slits arranged along the circumferential direction are provided in regions, the region being positioned radially outward from the permanent magnet and being sandwiched at the edges of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction by the projections; and the shortest distance between the slit and the magnet insertion opening is set to be greater than the shortest distance between the slit and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Yusuke ASAUMI, Akihiro ISHIKAWA, Akeshi TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 8729762Abstract: To provide a permanent magnet synchronous machine capable of expanding a high-speed operation range without reducing torque, and a pressing machine or an extrusion machine using the permanent magnet synchronous machine. In order to achieve the object described above, the present invention provides a permanent magnet synchronous electric machine having at least one permanent magnet on a radial surface of a rotor core, the permanent magnet having a rotor constituting a field pole, wherein a plurality of slits constituted by nonmagnetic material is provided on a core part between adjacent permanent magnets with opposite magnetic polarities of the rotor. According to the present invention, expansion of a high-speed operation range can be achieved without reducing torque.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Shinichi Wakui
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Publication number: 20110241466Abstract: To provide a permanent magnet synchronous machine capable of expanding a high-speed operation range without reducing torque, and a pressing machine or an extrusion machine using the permanent magnet synchronous machine. In order to achieve the object described above, the present invention provides a permanent magnet synchronous electric machine having at least one permanent magnet on a radial surface of a rotor core, the permanent magnet having a rotor constituting a field pole, wherein a plurality of slits constituted by nonmagnetic material is provided on a core part between adjacent permanent magnets with opposite magnetic polarities of the rotor. According to the present invention, expansion of a high-speed operation range can be achieved without reducing torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Shinichi Wakui
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Patent number: 7902713Abstract: A self-starting type permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator and a rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core having a plurality of slots provided in an outer periphery thereof and a cage winding comprising conductive bars embedded in the slots and conductive end rings that short-circuit the conductive bars on both end faces of the bars in an axial direction thereof. The rotor core comprises at least one magnet insertion hole arranged on an inner peripheral side from the slots, and at least one permanent magnet embedded in the at least one magnet insertion hole. When a pole center axis is denoted as a d-axis and an axis deviating from the pole center axis by an electrical angle 90° is denoted as a q-axis, a flux content generated by the cage winding during start-up becomes maximal in the vicinity of and on one of the d-axis and the q-axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2008Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Keiji Tanaka, Masashi Miyake, Baiying Huang, Masaru Ohtahara, Kenji Tojo, Hideyuki Kumakura
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Patent number: 7772736Abstract: The inventive self-initiated permanent magnet synchronous motor has a rotor that has two-pole permanent magnets, as well as magnetic substances in a peripheral direction between the magnetic poles of the permanent magnets. The present invention provides a high-efficiency, high-torque permanent magnet synchronous motor with an improved power factor, its rotor, and a compressor using the permanent magnet synchronous motor, without a reduction in the maximum torque and an increase in costs.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Haruo Koharagi, Satoshi Kikuchi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang
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Patent number: 7592734Abstract: A three-phase permanent magnet brushless motor comprises a stator having three-phase windings, and a rotor having a permanent magnet with a plurality of poles for serving as a field magnet. The stator comprises a stator core which includes a powder core that is compacted at a high density in at least teeth thereof. A combination of the number of magnetic poles of the rotor with the number of slots of the stator satisfies a condition that a least common multiple of the number of slots and the number of magnetic poles is 60 or more in a region in which the number of magnetic poles is 16 or less, and the number of slots is 12 or less. The powder core is made by compacting magnetic powders to have a green density of 7.5 g/cm3 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 22, 2009Assignees: Hitachi Industrial Equipment System Co., Ltd., Japan Servo Co., Ltd., Hitachi Powered Metals Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Akeshi Takahashi, Motoya Ito, Ryoso Masaki, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Masahide Yamazaki, Masashi Kitamura, Chio Ishihara, Kazuo Asaka, Shoji Ohiwa, Yasuaki Motegi
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Publication number: 20090200885Abstract: The present invention provides a permanent magnet that a fluorine compound is formed on the surfaces of Fe-based magnetic particles, and a recoil permeability is determined in a range of 1.05 to 1.30 by controlling an iron concentration in the fluorine compound to a range of 1 to 50% to reduce a loss due to magnetization rotation, thereby remedying reduction of a residual magnetic flux density and degradation of steady-state characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Yuuichi Satsuu, Matahiro Komuro, Hiroyuki Mikami, Akeshi Takahashi
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Publication number: 20090160285Abstract: A self-starting type permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator and a rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core having a plurality of slots provided in an outer periphery thereof and a cage winding comprising conductive bars embedded in the slots and conductive end rings that short-circuit the conductive bars on both end faces of the bars in an axial direction thereof. The rotor core comprises at least one magnet insertion hole arranged on an inner peripheral side from the slots, and at least one permanent magnet embedded in the at least one magnet insertion hole. When a pole center axis is denoted as a d-axis and an axis deviating from the pole center axis by an electrical angle 90° is denoted as a q-axis, a flux content generated by the cage winding during start-up becomes maximal in the vicinity of and on one of the d-axis and the q-axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2008Publication date: June 25, 2009Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Keiji Tanaka, Masashi Miyake, Baiying Huang, Masaru Ohtahara, Kenji Tojo, Hideyuki Kumakura
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Patent number: 7531934Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a self-start synchronous motor for preventing deterioration of permanent magnets used in a rotor, and also for enhancing the efficiency of the self-start synchronous motor, the self-start synchronous motor comprising a stator having a stator core and windings wound around the stator core, and a rotor having an outer diameter slightly smaller than an inner diameter of the stator and arranged inside of the stator. The rotor is provided with a rotor core, a plurality of conductor bars embedded in the outer peripheral portion of the rotor core over an entire periphery thereof, end rings provided on opposite end sides of the conductor bars and constituting a squirrel cage conductor in cooperation with the conductor bars, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core and arranged at a position inner than that of an inner peripheral surface of the conductor bars.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Baiying Hang, Tomio Yoshikawa, Yasuro Ohishi, Akeshi Takahashi, Haruo Koharagi
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Patent number: 7501734Abstract: The invention provides a motor comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator core includes a laminated stator core made of laminated stator core plates in which straight cut surfaces are formed on a circular outer peripheral surface of the laminated stator core plates. The straight cut surfaces of the laminated stator core plates are circumferentially displaced every predetermined laminated stator core plates so that the straight cut surfaces are uniformly distributed in an axial and a circumferential direction of the laminated stator core. Therefore, a flow passage for lubricating oil is ensured, while local magnetic saturation of the stator core is dissolved and a cogging torque and an induced voltage waveform distortion rate are improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang, Shigekazu Nozawa, Susumu Nakayaka, Haruo Koharagi, Satoshi Kikuchi
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Patent number: 7453181Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a rotor having cage windings and permanent magnets placed on an inner peripheral side of these cage winding bars, where the permanent magnets are placed and polarized so that a ratio ?/? between a circumferential pitch angle ? of magnetic flux distribution of the permanent magnets and a magnet pole pitch angle ? is between 0.67 and 0.91.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2006Date of Patent: November 18, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Appliances, Inc.Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Haruo Koharagi, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang
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Publication number: 20080238235Abstract: A self-starting permanent magnet synchronous motor which demonstrates satisfactory acceleration performance even at a reduced supply voltage or with an increased load torque, and a compressor using the same. The motor comprises a stator having a stator winding and a rotor having a cage winding and a permanent magnet on the rotor core. The torque component generated by the cage winding is maximal at 1 in the slip range of 0 to 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Akeshi TAKAHASHI, Satoshi Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazuo Nishihama, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang
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Publication number: 20070284961Abstract: The inventive self-initiated permanent magnet synchronous motor has a rotor that has two-pole permanent magnets, as well as magnetic substances in a peripheral direction between the magnetic poles of the permanent magnets. The present invention provides a high-efficiency, high-torque permanent magnet synchronous motor with an improved power factor, its rotor, and a compressor using the permanent magnet synchronous motor, without a reduction in the maximum torque and an increase in costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Haruo Koharagi, Satoshi Kikuchi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang
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Publication number: 20070145851Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous motor includes a rotor having cage windings and permanent magnets placed on an inner peripheral side of these cage winding bars, where the permanent magnets are placed and polarized so that a ratio ?/? between a circumferential pitch angle ? of magnetic flux distribution of the permanent magnets and a magnet pole pitch angle ? is between 0.67 and 0.91.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2006Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Haruo Koharagi, Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang
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Publication number: 20070046130Abstract: A three-phase permanent magnet brushless motor comprises a stator having three-phase windings, and a rotor having a permanent magnet with a plurality of poles for serving as a field magnet. The stator comprises a stator core which includes a powder core that is compacted at a high density in at least teeth thereof. A combination of the number of magnetic poles of the rotor with the number of slots of the stator satisfies a condition that a least common multiple of the number of slots and the number of magnetic poles is 60 or more in a region in which the number of magnetic poles is 16 or less, and the number of slots is 12 or less. The powder core is made by compacting magnetic powders to have a green density of 7.5 g/cm3 or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventors: Yuji Enomoto, Akeshi Takahashi, Motoya Ito, Ryoso Masaki, Katsuyuki Yamazaki, Masahide Yamazaki, Masashi Kitamura, Chio Ishihara, Kazuo Asaka, Shoji Ohiwa, Yasuaki Motegi
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Publication number: 20060267441Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a self-start synchronous motor for preventing deterioration of permanent magnets used in a rotor, and also for enhancing the efficiency of the self-start synchronous motor, the self-start synchronous motor comprising a stator having a stator core and windings wound around the stator core, and a rotor having an outer diameter slightly smaller than an inner diameter of the stator and arranged inside of the stator. The rotor is provided with a rotor core, a plurality of conductor bars embedded in the outer peripheral portion of the rotor core over an entire periphery thereof, end rings provided on opposite end sides of the conductor bars and constituting a squirrel cage conductor in cooperation with the conductor bars, and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core and arranged at a position inner than that of an inner peripheral surface of the conductor bars.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventors: Baiying Hang, Tomio Yoshikawa, Yasuro Ohishi, Akeshi Takahashi, Haruo Koharagi
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Publication number: 20060181173Abstract: The invention provides a motor comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator core includes a laminated stator core made of laminated stator core plates in which straight cut surfaces are formed on a circular outer peripheral surface of the laminated stator core plates. The straight cut surfaces of the laminated stator core plates are circumferentially displaced every predetermined laminated stator core plates so that the straight cut surfaces are uniformly distributed in an axial and a circumferential direction of the laminated stator core. Therefore, a flow passage for lubricating oil is ensured, while local magnetic saturation of the stator core is dissolved and a cogging torque and an induced voltage waveform distortion rate are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Tomio Yoshikawa, Baiying Huang, Shigekazu Nozawa, Susumu Nakayaka, Haruo Koharagi, Satoshi Kikuchi