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).

  • Patent number: 10530207
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Yutaka Matsunobu
  • Publication number: 20180294686
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Itsurou SAWADA, Yutaka MATSUNOBU, Akihito NAKAHARA
  • Patent number: 9985491
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tanaka, Koichi Watanabe, Satoshi Kikuchi, Akihito Nakahara, Kenta Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20170346355
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Yutaka MATSUNOBU
  • Publication number: 20160329766
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yuichiro TANAKA, Koichi WATANABE, Satoshi KIKUCHI, Akihito NAKAHARA, Kenta DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20150349608
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu TSUTSUMI, Kenta DEGUCHI, Akihito NAKAHARA, Satoshi KIKUCHI
  • Patent number: 8760028
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Junya Kaneda, Kenichi Hattori, Takashi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8624462
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 8304953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20120229144
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Masayuki Okada, Shigehiro Kayukawa
  • Patent number: 8174156
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20110241455
    Abstract: 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 direct
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun YOSHIDA, Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Publication number: 20110140566
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki MIKAMI, Kazumasa IDE, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI, Kenichi HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20110140582
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 7825559
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mamoru Kimura, Akitomi Semba
  • Patent number: 7755230
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kengo Iwashige, Kenichi Hattori
  • Patent number: 7750525
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mitsuru Saeki, Kenichi Hattori, Masami Sukeda, Akihito Nakahara
  • Patent number: 7732958
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20090267428
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Inventors: Akihito NAKAHARA, Hiroyuki Mikami, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kenichi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20090195091
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kengo Iwashige, Kenichi Hattori