Patents by Inventor Akihito Nakahara
Akihito Nakahara 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: 10530207Abstract: An object is to provide a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing degradation of strength in high-speed rotation and reducing a torque ripple. A rotor of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a rotor core provided with a magnet insertion hole that forms a space into which a permanent magnet is inserted and a non-magnetic portion facing the space to form a part of the magnet insertion hole, wherein the non-magnetic portion is provided asymmetrically with respect to a d-axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2015Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Yutaka Matsunobu
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Publication number: 20180294686Abstract: The present invention provides a stator for a rotating electric machine that has a high efficiency and an excellent cooling performance. The stator of the present invention, includes: a stator iron core having a plurality of slots; and coil windings made by connecting segment conductors and disposed in the slots, in which each slot contains two or more of the coil windings electrically connected in parallel and at least one of the coil windings electrically connected in series with the coil windings connected in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Itsurou SAWADA, Yutaka MATSUNOBU, Akihito NAKAHARA
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Patent number: 9985491Abstract: Stator coils each consist of a plurality of rectangular conductor coil pieces, the adjacent connection ends of which are connected to each other on the outer diameter side of a stator. The coil pieces each have: a folded portion folded in a rotation axis direction on the inner diameter side of the stator; inner diameter-side open leg portions opened from both sides of the folded portion toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis; linear portions each bent from each of the inner diameter-side open leg portions and disposed so as to pass through the stator from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side; and an outer diameter-side open leg portions opened from the linear portions toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis and extending to the connection ends.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Koichi Watanabe, Satoshi Kikuchi, Akihito Nakahara, Kenta Deguchi
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Publication number: 20170346355Abstract: An object is to provide a rotary electric machine capable of suppressing degradation of strength in high-speed rotation and reducing a torque ripple. A rotor of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a rotor core provided with a magnet insertion hole that forms a space into which a permanent magnet is inserted and a non-magnetic portion facing the space to form a part of the magnet insertion hole, wherein the non-magnetic portion is provided asymmetrically with respect to a d-axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: November 30, 2017Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Yutaka MATSUNOBU
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Publication number: 20160329766Abstract: Stator coils each consist of a plurality of rectangular conductor coil pieces, the adjacent connection ends of which are connected to each other on the outer diameter side of a stator. The coil pieces each have: a folded portion folded in a rotation axis direction on the inner diameter side of the stator; inner diameter-side open leg portions opened from both sides of the folded portion toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis; linear portions each bent from each of the inner diameter-side open leg portions and disposed so as to pass through the stator from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side; and an outer diameter-side open leg portions opened from the linear portions toward the circumferential directions of the rotation axis and extending to the connection ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2014Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Yuichiro TANAKA, Koichi WATANABE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Akihito NAKAHARA, Kenta DEGUCHI
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Publication number: 20150349608Abstract: Provided is an axial gap motor provided with a rotor fixed to a rotary shaft, a stator facing the rotor along a shaft direction, a flow passage forming body that forms a flow passage through which a cooling refrigerant is flowed, and a housing that houses the rotor and the stator and that holds the flow passage forming body. The flow passage forming body forms an inflow port provided on a first surface of the housing facing the shaft direction, a flow passage portion passing from the inflow port through a lateral portion of the rotor in a radial direction, and a discharge port connected to the flow passage portion and provided closer to the stator than the rotor in the shaft direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Yoshitsugu TSUTSUMI, Kenta DEGUCHI, Akihito NAKAHARA, Satoshi KIKUCHI
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Patent number: 8760028Abstract: An electrical rotating machine including a stator core is provided. The stator core is formed of substantially sector-shaped sheet segments die-cut from electrical steel sheets and arranged in a circumferential direction of the stator core to form circular sheets which are stacked in an axial direction of the stator core. In the electrical rotating machine, end regions of the stator core are formed of stacked sheet segments die-cut from non-grain oriented steel sheets, and the other region of the stator core is formed of stacked sheet segments die-cut from grain oriented steel sheets.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Junya Kaneda, Kenichi Hattori, Takashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 8624462Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
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Patent number: 8304953Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
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Publication number: 20120229144Abstract: This invention aims to provide an electric rotating machine which is free from the procedure of selecting different preset neutral current values for different types of machines, and which can detect a ground fault in a phase coil of the armature winding without suffering any erroneous operation. An electric rotating machine having an armature winding including three phase coils, which has been provided to attain the object of this invention, comprises a grounding resistor connected at a neutral of the armature winding, and current measuring apparatuses furnished for at least two phase coils, wherein phase currents through the phase coils are compared with each other, and the detection of a coil ground fault is determined when harmonic components of the phase currents differ from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Masayuki Okada, Shigehiro Kayukawa
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Patent number: 8174156Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
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Publication number: 20110241455Abstract: In an electric rotating machine, for reducing losses that occur in clamping plates and their shield, the electric rotating machine includes a rotor formed with field winding wound around a rotor core, a stator placed opposite to the rotor at a predetermined space and formed with stator winding wound around a stator core formed by stacking multiple magnetic steel sheets in the axial direction, clamping plates clamping and retaining the stator core from both axial end parts thereof in the stacking direction of the magnetic steel sheets, and a magnetic shield placed around the clamping plates to shield flux leakage flowing into the clamping plates, and the magnetic shield is formed of a cylinder of stacked steel sheets stacked in a form of a cylinder about the rotor shaft and powder magnetic core segments and powder magnetic core segments having portions which are stuck to the cylinder of stacked steel sheets on the stacking cross section, and arranged to cover side surfaces and an inner surface of radial directType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura
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Publication number: 20110140566Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki MIKAMI, Kazumasa IDE, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kenichi HATTORI
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Publication number: 20110140582Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2011Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
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Patent number: 7825559Abstract: A rotation machine is configured such that permanent magnets and pole shoes holding the permanent magnets at the outer diameter side of the permanent magnets are provided for a rotor, and an outer diameter size (Ra) in the axial end portion of the pole shoe is made smaller than an outer diameter size (Rb) in the axial center portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mamoru Kimura, Akitomi Semba
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Patent number: 7755230Abstract: A rotary electric machine which is smoothly operated with high efficiency by adequately controlling the cooling gas flow as needed to keep the highest temperature inside the rotary electric machine below a predetermined limit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator with armature windings wound around a stator core, a rotor placed inside the stator in a rotatable manner, and a cooling device for controlling cooling gas flow. It further includes a device for measuring an ambient temperature and a device for detecting armature voltage and/or armature current and/or field current. The temperature inside the rotary electric machine is calculated from the measured ambient temperature, detection value by the detecting device and an directive value of cooling gas flow. And a calculated suitable value of cooling gas flow is determined according to the calculated temperature inside the rotary electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2008Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kengo Iwashige, Kenichi Hattori
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Patent number: 7750525Abstract: An electric rotating machine comprising a stator core having a plurality of slots that are equally spaced on the inner surface of the stator core in the peripheral direction, a rotor that rotates inside the stator core, and an armature winding that is applied to each of the slots, wherein the armature winding is made up with a plurality of serially-connected single-turn coils that are respectively applied to the slots and the serially-connected coils of respective phases are connected in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Akihito Nakahara
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Patent number: 7732958Abstract: A rotating shaft is required to have an overhang for the mounting of a generator for an AC-exciter, the shaft length being increased correspondingly. The overhang may become the cause of generating shaft vibrations. A turbogenerator has a rotor over which a field winding is disposed, a coupling co-cut from a rotor shaft, an AC exciter for supplying a DC current to the field winding through a rectifier, and a generator for the AC-exciter, the generator including a permanent magnet as a field generator and supplying a DC current to a field winding of the AC exciter through the rectifier. The AC exciter and the generator are disposed over the rotor shaft. The rotor is rotated through engagement between a turbine and the coupling. The generator for the AC-exciter is mounted in a position on the side nearer to the turbine than a stator of the turbogenerator.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2005Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
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Publication number: 20090267428Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
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Publication number: 20090195091Abstract: A rotary electric machine which is smoothly operated with high efficiency by adequately controlling the cooling gas flow as needed to keep the highest temperature inside the rotary electric machine below a predetermined limit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator with armature windings wound around a stator core, a rotor placed inside the stator in a rotatable manner, and a cooling device for controlling cooling gas flow. It further includes a device for measuring an ambient temperature and a device for detecting armature voltage and/or armature current and/or field current. The temperature inside the rotary electric machine is calculated from the measured ambient temperature, detection value by the detecting device and an directive value of cooling gas flow. And a calculated suitable value of cooling gas flow is determined according to the calculated temperature inside the rotary electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kengo Iwashige, Kenichi Hattori