Patents by Inventor Akihiko Mori

Akihiko Mori 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: 20200055542
    Abstract: When detecting an abnormality in a portion related to control of an electric motor, a CPU that calculates a control amount for controlling the electric motor calculates a control amount different from a control amount at a normal time so as to continue the control of the electric motor and changes a threshold value for detecting the abnormality to a value different from a value at a normal time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Munenori YAMAMOTO, Akihiko MORI, Jun SUZUMURA
  • Publication number: 20200036244
    Abstract: According to the present invention, provided is an IPM rotor of the present invention, which includes a plurality of core sheets, having hole portions configured to accommodate magnets and being laminated on one another, and the magnets are inserted in the hole portions. The IPM rotor includes a first core sheet having a spring plate portion provided to the hole portion, and a second core sheet having a recessed portion provided the hole portion. A protruding portion is provided to the hole portion of at least one of the plurality of the laminated core sheets. The protruding portion is provided to at least one of the hole portion of the first core sheet, the hole portion of the second core sheet, or a hole portion of a third core sheet to be further arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi AIDA, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Satoru AKUTSU, Hideya NISHIKAWA, Akihiko MORI
  • Patent number: 10479398
    Abstract: A control unit for controlling an electric motor has on a wiring board at least an inverter circuit including two or more switching devices for supplying an electric current to the electric motor and a CPU for outputting command signals to the inverter circuit; the control unit, as an inverter module in which the wiring board is mounted in a housing with which a connector is integrated, is integrally fixed to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Urimoto, Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20190291778
    Abstract: Two sets of independent armature windings and two sets of control units are provided; a single power-source connector branches into at least four lines in the vicinity of a power-source terminal; a power source relay, a filter, and an inverter circuit are connected, in that order, with a line where a large current flows; a control circuit unit is connected with a line where a small current flows and a detection circuit for detecting an abnormality in the control circuit unit is provided in that line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko NAGASHIMA, Akihiko MORI
  • Patent number: 10422104
    Abstract: A stand 18 is maintained under a stored posture when the stand 18 is pivoted toward the stored posture side in association with a dumping actin of a bucket 13 and a lock mechanism 25 is switched to a locking state. The stand is switched to an in-use posture when the lock mechanism 25 is switched to a releasing state while the stand 18 is maintained under the stored posture by the lock mechanism 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Mori, Masataka Takagi, Takahiro Yonekura, Masaki Abe
  • Publication number: 20190276071
    Abstract: There are provided two sets of control units for driving an electric motor having two sets of independent windings; a power source is supplied through a single power-source connector; a conductive member connected with a terminal of the power-source connector branches into at least two portions in the vicinity of the power-source connector; two sets of power source relays, filters, and inverter circuits are arranged symmetrically with respect to the power-source connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko NAGASHIMA, Akihiko MORI
  • Publication number: 20190280543
    Abstract: In an armature coil according to the present invention and, more particularly, in an armature coil including a plurality of coil conductors wound around a plurality of slots which are formed in a stator core and opened on the radially inner side, the circumferential width of the plurality of the coil conductors is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji TAMURA, Shuichi TAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Issei DOI, Hiroyuki MATSUO, Yasukazu NISHIMURA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Akihiko MORI
  • Patent number: 10373896
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor module having an integrated insulating sheet structure, wherein detachment of the insulating sheet can be suppressed and improved reliability of the semiconductor module is achieved, by adopting a structure in which at least one location of the insulating sheet is sunken inside a mold, and a sealing resin body and the insulating sheet of the semiconductor module form a protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Fushie, Yu Kawano, Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10343713
    Abstract: Each of two control units configured in a double system has a CPU, each CPU obtains input information of the control unit of the other CPU, each CPU independently drives an electric motor at a normal time, and continues the motor drive by utilizing the input information of the control unit of the other CPU when an abnormality relating to input information is detected, and when an abnormality relating to information other than input information is detected, the control unit in which the abnormality has occurred controls the electric motor so as to continue the drive or stop the drive in accordance with details of the abnormality, and the control unit on the normal side controls the electric motor so as to at least continue the drive as normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10321554
    Abstract: The shape of an abutting portion where a heat sink and an electronic component or the heat sink and a connection wire abut against each other, through the intermediary of an intermediate member, is contrived so that there is provided an electronic control unit that can raise the easiness of production including the intermediate member, while securing the heat radiation performance. There is provided an electric power converter in which an intermediate member having an insulating property and a heat-conductive property is provided in a gap between a heat sink and a connection wire abutting portion or an electronic component, in which the top surface of a maximum heat generating component is a plane, and in which the portion, of the heat sink, that faces the top surface of the maximum heat generating component is part of a basic plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10285286
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic control device, including: a connector case; two or more connectors including a power supply connector and another connector, the connectors being mounted to an external side of the case; a control unit mounted to an inner side of the case; and a power supply circuit unit including circuit components mounted to the external side of the case, the connectors being mounted apart from each other. The another connector is connected to the control unit by passing through the case not via the power supply circuit unit. The power supply circuit unit includes power supply conducting bars adjacent to each other on an inner side of the case. The power supply conducting bars are connected to the circuit components and the power supply connector by passing through the case and are also connected to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10211709
    Abstract: In an electric power steering device, a power module includes a plurality of terminals including a motor control terminal and a power supply terminal connected to a power supply, each having a distal end portion being oriented toward a control board. A holder has holes through which the terminals pass. The terminals each have the distal end portion to be connected to the control board. A winding terminal has a distal end portion to be connected to the distal end portion of the motor control terminal. The control unit further includes a junction terminal. The junction terminal and the power supply terminal each having a distal end portion extending from the control board toward the connector assembly are respectively connected to connector terminals of the connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10208451
    Abstract: A stand 18 is maintained under a stored posture when the stand 18 is pivoted toward the stored posture side in association with a dumping action of a bucket 13 and a lock mechanism 25 is switched to a locking state. The stand is switched to an in-use posture when the lock mechanism 25 is switched to a releasing state while the stand 18 is maintained under the stored posture by the lock mechanism 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Mori, Masataka Takagi, Takahiro Yonekura, Masaki Abe
  • Patent number: 10205416
    Abstract: A control unit for driving a motor mainly includes an input circuit for inputting various kinds of information pieces, an output circuit for driving the coil windings of the motor, an MPU for calculating a control amount based on the information from the input circuit and outputting a control signal to the output circuit; the control unit has two pieces each of the input circuit, the output circuit, and the, and can supply respective electric currents to the windings of the motor or can cut off the supply; the MPUs each have a CPU incorporated therein, a trigger circuit for a trigger signal having a predetermined period; the two CPUs synchronize at least control commands in accordance with the trigger signal and output the control commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Furukawa, Akihiko Mori, Jiro Okada
  • Patent number: 10167012
    Abstract: With an object of allowing steering wheel operation to be carried out easily at a normal time and when an abnormality occurs, the invention includes a motor having two windings and a control unit having two control systems that supply control signals to each winding of the motor and when an abnormality occurs in one winding of the motor or in one system inside the control unit, a supply of current to the winding in which the abnormality has occurred is cut to zero, and the motor is driven by a predetermined current necessary at a normal time being supplied to the other winding, while at a time of a normal drive when no abnormality has occurred, the current supply is shared between the two windings, whereby the motor is driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10144447
    Abstract: A connector assembly body has: on an end surface on an opposite side to an output side of a motor; a large-current connector of a power supply system, with large-current connector being disposed in the same direction as the motor output shaft; a small-current connector of a signal system, with the small-current connector being disposed in the same direction as the motor output shaft; and a component mounting section including at least one of a capacitor and a coil, and the large-current connector, the small-current connector and the component mounting section are disposed separately in respective regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10100488
    Abstract: A support for and/or a front loader includes a first main frame fixed to one of a left and right side of a vehicle body and a second main frame fixed to the other of the left and right sides of the vehicle body. A rear end of the second main frame is positioned further forward than a rear end of the first main frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuta Ozeki, Akihiko Mori, Masataka Takagi
  • Patent number: 10071763
    Abstract: The invention includes an electric motor that causes a vehicle steering device to rotate, and a control unit that controls the electric motor, wherein the electric motor has a stator including two independent sets of coil winding group, the control unit has a control portion that computes and outputs a control amount and a drive circuit that independently drives each winding group of the electric motor, and the control portion detects a multiple of failures, categorizes the failures into at least two kinds of failure mode, continues control on a normal side after detecting a first failure, and continues control by employing a set in which control nearer to that at a normal time can be carried out, including a past failure, when detecting a second or subsequent failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Furukawa, Akihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20180237058
    Abstract: In an electric power steering device including a controller, which is configured to carry out feedback control for a motor including independent two coil winding groups and being configured to rotate a steering mechanism of a vehicle, when one of the two groups recovers from a failure that has occurred in the one group while control is continued solely by another group due to the failure, the controller resumes cooperative control by the two groups, and when starting the cooperative control, sets target current values of the one group and the another group to values different from a final target current value based on an actual current value or a target current value of the another group at a time of the recovery, to thereby output respective control amounts for the cooperative control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira FURUKAWA, Akihiko MORI, Eiji IWAMI
  • Publication number: 20180230668
    Abstract: A stand 18 is maintained under a stored posture when the stand 18 is pivoted toward the stored posture side in association with a dumping actin of a bucket 13 and a lock mechanism 25 is switched to a locking state. The stand is switched to an in-use posture when the lock mechanism 25 is switched to a releasing state while the stand 18 is maintained under the stored posture by the lock mechanism 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Akihiko Mori, Masataka Takagi, Takahiro Yonekura, Masaki Abe