Patents by Inventor Akihito Mori
Akihito 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).
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Patent number: 11843289Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a core element which is used for a divisional layer stack core of a rotary electric machine, the method includes: a first punch cutting out process for punch cutting out a first core element having a product shape, from a belt like electromagnetic steel sheet, with a press mechanism which has a feeding device of the electromagnetic steel sheet, a feeding process for feeding the electromagnetic steel sheet, with the feeding device, and a second punch cutting out process for positioning with a product shaped pilot which has an external shape of the core element, using a punch cut out trace shape of the first core element, and producing a second core element having the product shape, by punch cutting out with the press mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihito Mori, Naoya Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Nakano, Kazuya Hasegawa, Norihiro Murata, Tomoyuki Kinoshita, Kensaku Kuroki
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Publication number: 20230291291Abstract: A coil alignment device includes: a plate-shaped first jig having a plurality of grooves arranged along a circumferential direction so as to extend toward a radial-direction outer side; and a second jig that can contact with a segment coil inserted in the first jig. Each groove includes a storage portion extending along a radial direction and having a first length so that leg portions of the segment coils can be stored side by side in the radial direction, and a guiding portion extending from the storage portion toward the radial-direction outer side, and has a first shape so that, using, as a fulcrum, one leg portion inserted in the storage portion, the other leg portion is movable toward the storage portion. The second jig is movable to press the segment coil from a radial-direction side and store the other leg portion into the storage portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihito MORI, Hiroyuki YASUDA, Kota HIROHASHI, Masahiro YUYA, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO, Kyosuke YAMAGUCHI, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Katsuya ITO
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Publication number: 20230129627Abstract: A manufacturing method for a laminated core of a rotating electric machine includes a laminating step and a core separating step. In the laminating step, a plurality of core elements are laminated, thereby forming an element laminate. In the core separating step, under a state in which the element laminate is pressed in a lamination direction of the plurality of core elements, a part of the element laminate is moved from the element laminate in a direction orthogonal to the lamination direction by a set dimension in the lamination direction, thereby obtaining a separated laminate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihito MORI, Kota HIROHASHI, Kazuya HASEGAWA, Tomoyuki KINOSHITA, Norihiro MURATA, Kimiyasu FURUSAWA, Masahiro YUYA
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Patent number: 11496029Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
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Publication number: 20220209593Abstract: An outer-circumferential side of a core-back portion of a stator iron core has a welding portion that is provided in such a way as to ride on two or more electromagnetic steel plates including electromagnetic steel plates situated at a stacking-direction end portion of the stator iron core; the welding portion is provided partly in the stacking-direction of the stator iron core.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomoyuki KINOSHITA, Tatsuro HINO, Kouta KATSURAGI, Satoshi EKINO, Kazuya HASEGAWA, Norihiro MURATA, Akihito MORI
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Publication number: 20220109354Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a core element which is used for a divisional layer stack core of a rotary electric machine, the method includes: a first punch cutting out process for punch cutting out a first core element having a product shape, from a belt like electromagnetic steel sheet, with a press mechanism which has a feeding device of the electromagnetic steel sheet, a feeding process for feeding the electromagnetic steel sheet, with the feeding device, and a second punch cutting out process for positioning with a product shaped pilot which has an external shape of the core element, using a punch cut out trace shape of the first core element, and producing a second core element having the product shape, by punch cutting out with the press mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Akihito MORI, Naoya HASHIMOTO, Kiyoshi NAKANO, Kazuya HASEGAWA, Norihiro MURATA, Tomoyuki KINOSHITA, Kensaku KUROKI
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Publication number: 20210296975Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: September 23, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
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Patent number: 10992191Abstract: A rotating electrical machine can increase the strength of divided cores and, in addition, can achieve both a reduction in iron loss and a high rigidity of the divided cores. The stator of the rotating electrical machine includes a stator core having radially divided cores arranged in a ring, each divided core being a laminate of magnetic steel sheets. Each divided core has a swaged portion in which the laminated magnetic steel sheets are bonded by swaging. The swaged portion is disposed in a core back portion, which is in contact with core back portions of divided cores located on both sides of the divided core at a position whose distance from an outer periphery of the core back portion is within ? of a radial length of the core back portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Akihito Mori, Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Yasuda
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Patent number: 10849231Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a silver layer on a substrate, in which the silver layer includes a surface in which Kurtosis of a roughness curve satisfies at least one of Condition (i) the change rate of Kurtosis is greater than or equal to 50% under conditions of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% after 240 hours have elapsed and Condition (ii) the change rate of Kurtosis is greater than or equal to 200% under conditions of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% after 480 hours have elapsed, and a circuit board in which an electronic component is mounted on the surface of the laminate through a conductive joint portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: TOPPAN FORMS CO., LTD.Inventor: Akihito Mori
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Patent number: 10644547Abstract: An armature core is configured by arranging into an annular shape: at least one first core segment that includes: a first core back portion; a first tooth portion; and a mounting portion that is formed on an outer circumferential portion of the first core back portion; and a plurality of second core segments that include: a second core back portion; and a second tooth portion; the mounting portion includes projecting portions that project on two circumferential sides from the first core back portion; and the first core segments and the second core segments that are adjacent to each other are fixed in a state in which facing side surfaces between the first core back portions and the second core back portions contact each other, and inner circumferential surfaces of the projecting portions and outer circumferential surfaces of the second core back portions are in contact.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Yutaka Hirota, Masashi Nakamura
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Publication number: 20190356180Abstract: A rotating electrical machine can increase the strength of divided cores and, in addition, can achieve both a reduction in iron loss and a high rigidity of the divided cores. The stator of the rotating electrical machine includes a stator core having radially divided cores arranged in a ring, each divided core being a laminate of magnetic steel sheets. Each divided core has a swaged portion in which the laminated magnetic steel sheets are bonded by swaging. The swaged portion is disposed in a core back portion, which is in contact with core back portions of divided cores located on both sides of the divided core at a position whose distance from an outer periphery of the core back portion is within ? of a radial length of the core back portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Akihito Mori, Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Yasuda
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Publication number: 20190131829Abstract: An armature core is configured by arranging into an annular shape: at least one first core segment that includes: a first core back portion; a first tooth portion; and a mounting portion that is formed on an outer circumferential portion of the first core back portion; and a plurality of second core segments that include: a second core back portion; and a second tooth portion; the mounting portion includes projecting portions that project on two circumferential sides from the first core back portion; and the first core segments and the second core segments that are adjacent to each other are fixed in a state in which facing side surfaces between the first core back portions and the second core back portions contact each other, and inner circumferential surfaces of the projecting portions and outer circumferential surfaces of the second core back portions are in contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tatsuro HINO, Akihito MORI, Yutaka HIROTA, Masashi NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20160286653Abstract: Provided are a laminate including a silver layer on a substrate, in which the silver layer includes a surface in which Kurtosis of a roughness curve satisfies at least one of Condition (i) the change rate of Kurtosis is greater than or equal to 50% under conditions of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% after 240 hours have elapsed and Condition (ii) the change rate of Kurtosis is greater than or equal to 200% under conditions of a temperature of 85° C. and a relative humidity of 85% after 480 hours have elapsed, and a circuit board in which an electronic component is mounted on the surface of the laminate through a conductive joint portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2014Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventor: Akihito MORI
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Patent number: 8305656Abstract: An image reading apparatus which improved the development efficiency and is capable of reducing the development cost. The image reading apparatus comprises a specific unit 1001 and an alignment unit 1002. The specific unit 1001 has an CPU 1501 that informs the alignment unit 1002 of identification information for identifying an apparatus specification of the specific unit 1001.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Hayashi, Koji Doi, Yoshihiro Funamizu, Kunio Tsuruno, Satoru Kanno, Akihito Mori, Mitsushige Murata
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Patent number: 8077333Abstract: This invention discloses a printing control apparatus capable of allowing even an inexperienced operator to execute a printing process by properly and efficiently using a plurality of printing devices in accordance with the contents of each job, printing conditions, and the like. A printing control apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of this invention determines device combinations suitable for the attributes of a printing job from performance information of the devices and the attributes of the printing job. The printing control apparatus presents the combinations so as to be able to select one of them, and displays an explanation of printing process steps using the selected combination.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Mori, Akihiko Noda
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Patent number: 7965955Abstract: An image forming apparatus is operable in a speed priority mode in which a temperature range that permits a fixing operation via a pressure belt is wide and an image-quality priority mode in which a temperature range that permits a fixing operation via the pressure belt is narrow. A user interface of the image forming apparatus is configured to enable an operator to select the speed priority mode or the image-quality priority mode for a coated paper.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2007Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Keita Takahashi, Akihito Mori, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Tadaaki Saida, Satoshi Okawa
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Patent number: 7941089Abstract: A image forming system that can prevent a toner from coming off while reducing the amount of consumption of a clear toner in binding sheets into a book. An image forming apparatus 100 forms an image on a sheet. A clear coating apparatus 200 forms a clear coating image on the sheet using the clear toner that becomes transparent after fixing. A bookbinding apparatus 600 connected to the image forming apparatus 100 and the clear coating apparatus 200 subjects the sheet to folding process. A job controller 501 and an image controller 502 cause the clear coating apparatus 200 to form the clear toner image at a folding position on the sheet in response to designation of a folding mode in the bookbinding apparatus 600.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2007Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Mori, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Tadaaki Saida, Keita Takahashi
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Patent number: 7924463Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprising an image processing unit configured to execute image processing by selectively using a plurality of image processing patterns, a selecting unit configured to select one of the plurality of image processing patterns according to a user's operation, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not tone correction control has been applied to the image processing pattern selected by the selecting unit, and a notification unit configured to notify, when the determination unit determines that the tone correction control has not been applied yet, a message that advises accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nobuo Sekiguchi, Akihito Mori, Tadaaki Saida, Keita Takahashi
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Patent number: 7860447Abstract: A curling device includes a first curling unit configured to curl a sheet in a first direction and a second curling unit. The second curling unit is for curling a sheet which has passed the first curling unit in a second direction which is opposite to the first direction. The curling device also includes an input unit facilitating manual inputting correction values relating to the curling direction and curling amount to be corrected, and a control unit configured to changeably control the curling amount of each of the first curling unit and the second curling unit, to correspond to the correction values input in the first and second input units.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Mori, Nobuo Sekiguchi, Tadaaki Saida, Satoshi Okawa, Keita Takahashi
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Patent number: 7840150Abstract: An image forming apparatus has: a first heating device which heats recording sheet formed with a developer image; a cooling device which cools the recording sheet passing through the first heating device; a second heating device which heats the recording sheet cooled by the cooling device and gives a gloss to the image on the recording sheet; a conveying device which conveys the recording sheet passing through the first heating device to the second heating device through the cooling device; and a controller which controls a cooling ability of the cooling device in accordance with a conveying time required until the recording sheet is conveyed from the first heating device to the second heating device.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akihito Mori, Keizo Isemura