Patents by Inventor Akira Hashimoto

Akira Hashimoto 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: 20180272310
    Abstract: The present invention provides a film deterioration preventing material for using together with a record storage film having a triacetyl cellulose film as the base film thereof, wherein the material includes an alkali metal carbonate or an alkali metal hydrogen carbonate as an acetic acid gas removing agent to remove the acetic acid gas in an atmosphere. The present invention also provides an acid gas removing agent to remove the acid gas in an atmosphere, wherein the acid gas in the atmosphere is removed by an alkali metal carbonate or an alkali metal hydrogen carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: ASHIGARA MANUFACTURING INC.
    Inventors: Kazunori MATSUI, Terumitsu ISHII, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180226846
    Abstract: A stacked iron core for an armature includes: an annular iron core piece having first iron core piece tooth portions, and connecting portions each for connecting circumferential ends of an end portion on an inner circumference side of each of the first iron core piece tooth portions; and an iron core piece stacked between the first iron core piece tooth portions of two of the annular iron core pieces, the iron core piece including: a second iron core piece tooth portion having an identical shape to that of the first iron core piece tooth portion; and flange portions protruding to both sides in a circumferential direction from an inner-circumference-side end of the second iron core piece tooth portion, and the iron core piece is separated from the iron core piece adjacent thereto in the circumferential direction, the connecting portion has a width y that is constant in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180163316
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrical Al plating bath that poses little danger of exploding or igniting as a result of contacting air or water, and contains no benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, or 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, which have detrimental effects to humans. The present invention provides an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath that is obtained by heat treatment of an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath containing (A) a halogenated aluminum as the primary component and (B) at least one other type of halide after adding (C) one, two or more reducible compounds selected from the group consisting of hydrides of elements in Group 1 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and/or hydrides of Group 13 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and amine borane compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Akira Hashimoto, Tadahiro Onuma, Toshiki Inomata, Keisuke Nonomura, Naruaki Konno
  • Publication number: 20180145553
    Abstract: An annular conductor retaining device has a retention guide portion formed by blades arranged in a cylindrical shape with gaps therebetween. An annular conductor is inserted into two of the gaps across a plurality of the blades. The next annular conductor is inserted into the gaps to partially overlap the previously arranged annular conductor. This step is repeated so that the annular conductors are arranged in a spiral shape in the retention guide portion. The retention guide portion and the inner circumferential part of the core are fitted to each other, and the gaps and the slots of the core are made to coincide with each other. A pusher is inserted into the inner circumferential part of the retention guide portion so that the annular conductors are caught on the pusher, to move them in the axial direction into the slots of the core, and thus become the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180145549
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator including an outer core, a plurality of inner cores, and a coil accommodated in slots, each slot being surrounded by opposing circumferential side surfaces of tooth portions of adjacent inner cores and by inner circumferential surfaces of projections of the adjacent inner cores; and a rotor. A gap is provided between the circumferential side surfaces of the adjacent inner cores. The coil has a first slot-accommodated portion and a second slot-accommodated portion accommodated in different slots, and a turn portion connecting the two slot-accommodated portions on one end surface, in an axial direction, of a stator core. The turn portion is elastically urged in a direction in which the first slot-accommodated portion and the second slot-accommodated portion move away from each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Kohei EGASHIRA, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Shinkichi SAWA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Masaya INOUE, Akira HASHIMOTO, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9960644
    Abstract: In a core for a rotary electric machine, first end portions of back yoke portions are linked to second end portions of back yoke portions of adjacent core segments so as to be rotatable around pivot portions. Each of the core segments is configured by alternately laminating first core segment sheets and second core segment sheets. The pivot portions are constituted by interfitting protruding portions that are formed on the first core segment sheets. The core segments are displaceable relative to the adjacent core segments between a contracted position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is contracted and an expanded position in which spacing between the magnetic pole tooth portions is expanded, when the core segment linked body is opened out rectilinearly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Hashimoto, Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki, Yuji Nakahara, Takashi Umeda, Katsunori Oki, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Takanori Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20180109154
    Abstract: A stator is assembled by stacking, in the axial direction, a plurality of magnetic steel sheets having tooth portions. The steel sheets include connected tooth steel sheets in which the inner-circumferential-side end portions of the tooth portions are connected via connection portions in an annular shape along the circumferential direction, and non-connected tooth steel sheets which are separated from each other with the tooth portions not connected to each other. The connected tooth steel sheets and the non-connected tooth steel sheets are joined to each other in the axial direction via swage portions provided in the tooth portions. The thickness of each connection portion is smaller than the thickness of the other part of each steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Koji KAWAMURA, Hiroyuki AKITA, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9926638
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an electrical Al plating bath that poses little danger of exploding or igniting as a result of contacting air or water, and contains no benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, or 1,3,5-trimethylbenzene, which have detrimental effects to humans. The present invention provides an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath that is obtained by heat treatment of an electrical aluminum or aluminum alloy fused salt plating bath containing (A) a halogenated aluminum as the primary component and (B) at least one other type of halide after adding (C) one, two or more reducible compounds selected from the group consisting of hydrides of elements in Group 1 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and/or hydrides of Group 13 Periods 2 through 6 of the Periodic Table of Elements and amine borane compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: DIPSOL CHEMICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Inoue, Akira Hashimoto, Tadahiro Onuma, Toshiki Inomata, Keisuke Nonomura, Naruaki Konno
  • Publication number: 20180076674
    Abstract: This invention, is concerning a rotary electrical machine, wherein, where Q is the number of a plurality of slots, P is the number of a plurality of magnets, gcd(Q, P) is the greatest common divisor of Q and P, m is the number of phases, and one position group is defined as a set of m positions spaced from each other along the circumferential direction of the armature core by a pitch of an angle of [360/{gcd(Q, p)×m}]°, an armature core is: formed by connection of a plurality of core pieces at connection positions that are set to positions included in one or more respective position groups from among gcd(Q, P) position groups formed at equal pitch along the circumferential direction of the armature core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi UMEDA, Yasuki KIMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180069446
    Abstract: X1>X2 and X3<X4 are satisfied when a distance in a radial direction at an axial end portion of the armature core between two slot-housed portions adjacent to each other and connected to two slot lead-out portions bent along a circumferential direction in the same direction is denoted by X1, a distance in the radial direction between the slot lead-out portions is denoted by X2, a distance in the radial direction at the axial end portion of the armature core between two slot-housed portions adjacent to each other and connected to two slot lead-out portions bent along the circumferential direction in directions opposite to each other is denoted by X3, and a distance in the radial direction between the two slot lead-out portions bent along the circumferential direction in the directions opposite to each other is denoted by X4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Kohei EGASHIRA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Hiroyuki AKITA
  • Publication number: 20180056433
    Abstract: A metallic member bonding device includes a pressurizing unit, a current supply unit, and a deformation suppressing unit. The pressurizing unit pressurizes a first metallic member toward a hole portion of a second metallic member to press the first metallic member therein. The current supply unit supplies a welding current between the first metallic member and the second metallic member. The deformation suppressing unit suppresses deformation of one of the first metallic member and the second metallic member, the one member having a constituent metallic material with at least one of a proof stress and a melting temperature lower than that of the other member, the deformation being in a direction of a cross section crossing a direction of the press-in. Then, the deformation suppressing unit is provided in a region covering at least a plastic flow range in the press-in direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanori NAKAI, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9903091
    Abstract: A quick coupler includes a coupler body having a first hook, a lock member, a slidable second hook, a hydraulic cylinder, and a connecting pin connecting the cylinder and coupler body. The lock member is movable between locking and unlocking positions in which the lock member protrudes into and retracts from an opening of the first hook. The cylinder includes first and second end portions connected to the coupler body and the second hook, respectively. The cylinder extends and contracts to cause the second hook to slide away from and towards the first hook, respectively. The coupler body includes a support hole moveably supporting the connecting pin in an extension and contraction direction of the cylinder. The first end portion of the cylinder moves away from the second end portion within a movability range of the connecting pin to move the lock member from the unlocking to locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Tsukada, Kenichi Higuchi, Akira Hashimoto, Hisao Asada, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Daijiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20180054103
    Abstract: A unit coil includes: first, second, third, and fourth turn portions extending in a bent manner from first, second, third, and fourth slot accommodation portions and each connecting the slot accommodation portions to each other; and first, second, third, and fourth leg portions. Recesses are formed in surfaces opposed to each other at bent parts of the turn portions or bent parts of the turn portion and the leg portion, that extend in a bent manner toward the same side in the circumferential direction from the slot accommodation portions adjacent to each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Kohei EGASHIRA, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Hiroyuki AKITA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9887599
    Abstract: A stator winding includes forty-eight winding bodies 22 that are each produced by winding a jointless continuous conductor wire that is coated with insulation, and that are arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction so as to be mounted into a first slot 131, a second slot 132, and a third slot 133 that are circumferentially consecutive at an angular spacing of six slots. The winding bodies 22 are configured into a ?-shaped coil pattern that is formed by inserting the conductor wire 19 sequentially into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, the third slot 133, and the second slot 132, so as to alternate an axial direction of insertion into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, and the third slot 133.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180026502
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator having an armature core having slots formed between magnetic pole teeth, and a plurality of coils each of which is wound so as to straddle a plurality of the magnetic pole teeth; and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed at certain intervals on an outer peripheral surface of the magnetic yoke, and the coils include an armature coil for driving the rotating electric machine and a non-armature coil for magnetizing or demagnetizing the permanent magnets of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sachiko KAWASAKI, Hironori TSUIKI, Akira HASHIMOTO, Takashi UMEDA
  • Patent number: 9859764
    Abstract: A U-phase coil that constitutes the armature winding includes four (first through fourth) small coil groups U101, U102, U201, and U202 that make approximately one round circumferentially that are formed by connecting in series in order of circumferential arrangement winding bodies that are housed in slot pairs that are separated by 360 electrical degrees. The U-phase coil is configured by consecutively or alternately connecting the four first through fourth small coil groups U101, U102, U201, and U202 in series such that two of the small coil groups that are housed in identical slots are positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Masaya Inoue, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9847688
    Abstract: An insertion groove is disposed on a tubular portion overlapping portion that is overlapped with an inner circumferential surface of a tubular portion of the stator core. Inter-coil insulating bodies that are disposed between a plurality of stator coils include a groove inserted portion. The groove inserted portion includes: a first inserted portion that can be inserted inside the insertion groove when the insulating film is in a bent and folded state; and a second inserted portion that is contiguous to the first inserted portion, a shape of a visible outline of a cross section of the second inserted portion being different than that of the first inserted portion. The second inserted portion generates a stronger elastic force of recovery than the first inserted portion when the groove inserted portion is inserted into the insertion groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Hirota, Akira Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Boku
  • Publication number: 20170241040
    Abstract: Provided is a copper-nickel alloy electroplating apparatus which is capable of stably forming a copper-nickel plated coating on a workpiece with a uniform composition and which enables a plating bath to be used for a long period. The present invention provides a copper-nickel alloy electroplating apparatus (1), comprising: a cathode chamber (4) in which a workpiece (5) is to be placed; an anode chamber (6); an anode (7) placed in the anode chamber; an electrically conductive diaphragm (14) placed to separate the cathode chamber and the anode chamber from each other; a cathode chamber oxidation-reduction potential adjusting tank (8) for adjusting the oxidation-reduction potential of a plating liquid in the cathode chamber; an anode chamber oxidation-reduction potential adjusting tank (10) for adjusting the oxidation-reduction potential of a plating liquid in the anode chamber; and a power supply unit (36) that provides an electric current to flow between the workpiece and the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURAI, Kazunori ONO, Akira HASHIMOTO, Satoshi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20170241031
    Abstract: The present invention provides a copper-nickel alloy electroplating bath which contains (a) a copper salt and a nickel salt, (b) a metal complexing agent, (c) a conductivity imparting agent, (d) a sulfur-containing organic compound and (e) a redox potential regulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: Dipsol Chemicals Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi SAKURAI, Kazunori ONO, Akira HASHIMOTO, Satoshi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20170201134
    Abstract: A stator in which stator coils are formed by a plurality of unit coils arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction and each having: a first slot-accommodated portion; a second slot-accommodated portion; a first terminal wire extending from the first slot-accommodated portion; a second terminal wire extending from the second slot-accommodated portion and shifted from the first terminal wire by one line of a conductive wire; a terminal-side coil end portion; and first and second anti-terminal-side coil end portions, wherein the first terminal wire and the second terminal wire of the respective different unit coils are joined with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro MOTOISHI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Koji KAWAMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Hironori TSUIKI, Wakaki MIYAJI, Koji TAMURA