Patents by Inventor Akiyoshi Satake

Akiyoshi Satake 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: 9317028
    Abstract: An electric motor control device for performing tandem control for driving one movable component includes, for each electric motor, a position controller, a speed controller, and a current controller. Further, each electric motor also has a preload controller for adding a preload torque to a torque command Tm calculated by the speed controller, and to a torque command Ts calculated by the speed controller. The preload controller calculates a minimum necessary preload torque for eliminating backlash in accordance with a position of the movable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: OKUMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakai, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Publication number: 20140306644
    Abstract: An electric motor control device for performing tandem control for driving one movable component includes, for each electric motor, a position controller, a speed controller, and a current controller. Further, each electric motor also has a preload controller for adding a preload torque to a torque command Tm calculated by the speed controller, and to a torque command Ts calculated by the speed controller. The preload controller calculates a minimum necessary preload torque for eliminating backlash in accordance with a position of the movable component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: OKUMA Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Sakai, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Publication number: 20130015742
    Abstract: A synchronous motor 100 includes a rotor 20 having a permanent magnet 26 on the surface of or inside the rotor, a stator 10 made of a soft magnetic material and having tooth members T1 to T18 and slots S1 to S18, and element coils 11, 12 wound around each of the tooth members T1 to T18 as concentrated windings and arranged in multiple layers along the extending direction of the tooth members T1 to T18. The element coils 11, 12 are provided three coils each for each phase in a circumferential direction to form rotating direction windings 101 to 206 for each phase. For each phase, the rotating direction windings 101 to 206 are displaced from each other by one slot in the rotating direction between adjacent layers. As a result, torque ripples are reduced in motors using concentrated windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: OKUMA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Inoue, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 7906923
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a reluctance type synchronous motor wherein slit-shaped gaps or a nonmagnetic material are included within a rotor to provide level differences of the magnetic reluctance in a rotating direction, and a permanent magnet is included at a portion of the slit-shaped gaps or the nonmagnetic material to provide magnetic polarities at a rotor surface. The control apparatus includes a q-axis current calculation unit, a d-axis current calculation unit, a speed coefficient calculation unit, a q-axis current compensation value calculation unit, and an output unit which outputs a compensated q-axis current command value in which the calculated q-axis current compensation value is added to the q-axis current command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Satake
  • Publication number: 20090026997
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a motor (in FIG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Applicant: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 6208108
    Abstract: A controller for a reluctance type synchronous motor. When field current control depends solely on a rotor speed, large power consumption and heat generation of a motor may be caused. Also, when a field current is small, torque consumption becomes small, resulting in a prolonged acceleration time. To address the above problems, there is provided a section for generating a field current command SIFC using a field current compensation coefficient SKF having been obtained based on a torque command STC. With this arrangement, a large field current SIFC flows when a torque is needed, and a small field current SIFC flows when torque is not needed. There is also provided a section for generating an armature current command SIAC using armature current command compensation SKA having been obtained based on a field current command SIFC. With this arrangement, variation of a torque constant due to variation of a field current is converted into an armature current command SIAC based on a field current command SIFC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 5936372
    Abstract: In an armature current limit value calculator section, limitation is applied to a pre-limitation torque command ST in correspondence with a presently detected speed SPD, to calculate a torque command STC. Meanwhile, in a field current calculator section 12, a pre-correction field current command value SF is decreased in correspondence with the detected speed SPD when the speed is large. In addition, a coefficient K.tau. which increases when the torque command is large is calculated on the basis of the pre-limitation torque command ST at this time. Further, a field current command is calculated from an equation SFC=K.tau.*SF. A current command calculator section 3 prepares a current command on the basis of the torque command STC and the field current command SFC supplied, and drives an electric motor 5 via a current control section 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 5903080
    Abstract: A reluctance type synchronous motor comprises: a stator with a plurality of slots placed at an even pitch angle wherein stored inside each slot is a stator winding for creating stator magnetic poles with a predetermined phase alternating current being supplied thereto. A rotor sustained by a shaft and changing magnetic reluctance in its circumferential direction by inclusion inside of a plurality of magnetic isolating portions creates desired magnetic poles. At least one of the central angles between magnetic poles created at the rotor is shifted from the other central angles so that torque ripples during rotation can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nashiki, Akiyoshi Satake
  • Patent number: 5345133
    Abstract: High permeability material plates used to construct the stators and the rotor of a motor are formed of the same material, thus reducing the number of fabrication processes and material cost. Also, the rotor containing permanent magnets is cylindrical and two stators are arranged around the inner circumference and the outer circumference of the permanent magnets, respectively, thereby increasing efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Okuma Corporation
    Inventor: Akiyoshi Satake