Patents by Inventor Akira Minamiura

Akira Minamiura 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: 11444508
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and an electric motor casing. The electric motor casing forms a first accommodating space accommodating a rotary shaft and a rotor core and a stator, and has an inner peripheral surface including an abutting inner peripheral surface in contact with a top portion on the radially outer side of a core convex portion. An outer peripheral-side flow path through which a cooling medium is capable of flowing is formed between the core convex portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction. The outer peripheral-side flow path is defined by an outer peripheral surface of the core main body and the inner peripheral surface of the electric motor casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Kanada, Takaaki Kimura, Ryuichi Kuramae, Teiichirou Chiba, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20210189687
    Abstract: A rotary drive system includes an electric motor, a speed reducer, and a lubricating oil-circulating unit. The electric motor has an electric motor casing forming a first accommodating space and a communication hole communicating downward. The speed reducer has a speed reducer casing forming a second accommodating space communicating with the first accommodating space through the communication hole. The lubricating oil-circulating unit has a lubricating oil flow path and a lubricating oil pump. The lubricating oil flow path connects the first accommodating space and the second accommodating space at the outside. The lubricating oil pump pumps lubricating oil from the second accommodating space side to the first accommodating space side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Minamiura, Masahiko Ishiyama, Naoyuki Iwamoto, Teiichirou Chiba
  • Publication number: 20210194313
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and an electric motor casing. The electric motor casing forms a first accommodating space accommodating a rotary shaft and a rotor core and a stator, and has an inner peripheral surface including an abutting inner peripheral surface in contact with a top portion on the radially outer side of a core convex portion. An outer peripheral-side flow path through which a cooling medium is capable of flowing is formed between the core convex portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction. The outer peripheral-side flow path is defined by an outer peripheral surface of the core main body and the inner peripheral surface of the electric motor casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takuya Kanada, Takaaki Kimura, Ryuichi Kuramae, Teiichirou Chiba, Atsuyoshi Koshiba, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20210189686
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having a rotary shaft rotating around a vertically extending axis and a rotor core fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft, a stator surrounding the rotor core from an outer peripheral side, a lower bottom portion as a partition wall partitioning a first space where the rotor and the stator are disposed and a lubricating oil is supplied from an outside, a storage portion configured to store the lubricating oil supplied into the first space, a brake mechanism as a drive unit discharging the lubricating oil inside the storage portion into the first space, and sliding portions into each of which the lubricating oil discharged from the inside of the storage portion is introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Akira Minamiura, Teiichirou Chiba
  • Publication number: 20200284310
    Abstract: A speed reducer includes a transmission unit rotating around an axis, an annular member having a cylindrical shape surrounding the axis, rotating around the axis together with the transmission unit, and having an oil sump having a recessed groove recessed in an inner peripheral surface and a lubricating oil supply hole extending and opening radially outward from the recessed groove, and a sliding portion provided radially outward of the lubricating oil supply hole of the annular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Akira Minamiura, Masahiko Ishiyama, Naoyuki Iwamoto, Teiichirou Chiba
  • Patent number: 9660502
    Abstract: A motor includes: a shaft to which a rotor is attached and having an internal cooling medium passage in an inside of the shaft, a cooling medium passing through the internal cooling medium passage; a housing including the shaft disposed therein and configured to rotatably support the shaft; and a cooling medium reservoir provided in the housing and provided on an upstream side of an inlet of the internal cooling medium passage in a flowing direction of the cooling medium, the cooling medium reservoir being configured to store the cooling medium and then flow the cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20160336826
    Abstract: Conductor segments that form a coil in a stator are formed by rectangular wires and are disposed in slots such that wide first faces are parallel to the radial direction. A plurality of conductor segments are disposed in the slots so that narrow second faces are opposite each other. The conductor segment disposed at the i-th (where i is an integer greater than or equal to 1) position from the inside of a stator core is joined to the conductor segment disposed in the (i+1)-th position in another slot such that vertical parts and horizontal parts thereof are opposite each other. The joined opposing first faces are formed parallel to the radial direction and are provided on both a first protrusion side and a second protrusion side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kouhei ICHIKAWA, Hitoshi NAKAGAWA, Shinya KANOU, Mutsuo KOGA, Akira MINAMIURA
  • Patent number: 9379594
    Abstract: It is an object to decrease an amount of a cooling medium which stays in a housing of an electric motor and is not discharged to the outside when cooling the electric motor by the cooling medium. For this reason, an electric motor includes a first discharge port which is provided in a first flange of a housing so that the cooling medium passes therethrough, a second discharge port which is provided in the first flange so that the cooling medium in the housing passing a bearing passes therethrough, and a discharge passageway which discharges the cooling medium passing the first discharge port and the second discharge port to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20150015099
    Abstract: A motor includes: a shaft to which a rotor is attached and having an internal cooling medium passage in an inside of the shaft, a cooling medium passing through the internal cooling medium passage; a housing including the shaft disposed therein and configured to rotatably support the shaft; and a cooling medium reservoir provided in the housing and provided on an upstream side of an inlet of the internal cooling medium passage in a flowing direction of the cooling medium, the cooling medium reservoir being configured to store the cooling medium and then flow the cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Patent number: 8749102
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a shaft having an internal cooling medium passageway; a cooling medium supply portion provided inside a housing at a side of one end of the shaft and supplying a cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passageway; a rotation angle detection sensor attached at the side of the one end of the shaft and detecting a rotation angle of the shaft; a push member including a penetration hole through which the cooling medium supplied from the cooling medium supply portion passes and interposed between the cooling medium supply portion and the one end of the shaft to guide the cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passageway and pressing the rotation angle detection sensor from the side of the one end of the shaft; and a connector holding a terminal connected to a signal cable from the rotation angle detection sensor and attached to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Kozaka, Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20140097712
    Abstract: An electric motor includes: a shaft having an internal cooling medium passageway; a cooling medium supply portion provided inside a housing at a side of one end of the shaft and supplying a cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passageway; a rotation angle detection sensor attached at the side of the one end of the shaft and detecting a rotation angle of the shaft; a push member including a penetration hole through which the cooling medium supplied from the cooling medium supply portion passes and interposed between the cooling medium supply portion and the one end of the shaft to guide the cooling medium to the internal cooling medium passageway and pressing the rotation angle detection sensor from the side of the one end of the shaft; and a connector holding a terminal connected to a signal cable from the rotation angle detection sensor and attached to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Kozaka, Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura
  • Publication number: 20130342045
    Abstract: It is an object to decrease an amount of a cooling medium which stays in a housing of an electric motor and is not discharged to the outside when cooling the electric motor by the cooling medium. For this reason, an electric motor includes a first discharge port which is provided in a first flange of a housing so that the cooling medium passes therethrough, a second discharge port which is provided in the first flange so that the cooling medium in the housing passing a bearing passes therethrough, and a discharge passageway which discharges the cooling medium passing the first discharge port and the second discharge port to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Matsuki, Akira Minamiura