Patents by Inventor Atsushi Matsuoka

Atsushi Matsuoka 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: 11962191
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction, and a second permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction. The rotor core includes a first magnet insertion hole, a second magnet insertion hole, and a center lib. The first magnet insertion hole includes a first outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a first inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The second magnet insertion hole includes a second outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a second inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The rotor satisfies R1>R2 and 0<(R1+R2)/W1<0.082.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki Masuko, Atsushi Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20240109986
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydrogenated diene polymer, having a branch number (Bn) measured by viscosity detector-equipped GPC-light scattering measurement of 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shogo Sumitani, Daigo Matsuoka, Atsushi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20240102184
    Abstract: An organic hydride production device comprises: an electrolyzer having an anode electrode that oxidizes water to generate a proton, a cathode electrode that hydrogenates a substance to be hydrogenated with the proton to generate an organic hydride, and a membrane that moves the proton together with dragged water from the side of the anode electrode to the side of the cathode electrode; an anolyte supplier that supplies the anolyte to the anode electrode; a water separator that separates the dragged water from the catholyte fed from the cathode electrode; and a water returner that sends the dragged water separated by the water separator to the anolyte supplier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: ENEOS Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Kota MIYOSHI, Tomomi NAGATSUKA, Toru TAKAMURA, Koji MATSUOKA
  • Patent number: 11912858
    Abstract: A molded bale of a rubber-like block copolymer, the rubber-like block copolymer containing 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (a) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 22% by mass or less; and 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (b) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 23% by mass or more and less than 50% by mass, in which the rubber-like block copolymer has an iodine value of 10 to 250, an ethylene structure content of 3% by mass or more, and a vinyl aromatic monomer block content of less than 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Araki, Atsushi Yasumoto, Daigo Matsuoka, Yoshihisa Inoue, Tomohiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 11916438
    Abstract: A magnetization ring is disposed between a rotor and a core portion surrounding the rotor, the rotor having permanent magnets and inter-pole portions which are arranged in a circumferential direction about an axis. The magnetization ring has a magnetic portion facing the center of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction, and a nonmagnetic portion facing the inter-pole portion of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Atsushi Matsuoka, Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11888370
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots in a circumferential direction about an axis and having an end surface in a direction of the axis, and a first coil and a second coil of different phases which are wound on the stator core in distributed winding. A winding factor is 1. Each of the first coil and the second coil has winding portions, the number of which corresponds to the number of poles. The winding portions include first and second winding portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first and second winding portions are inserted into one slot of the plurality of slots and extend from the one slot to both sides in the circumferential direction on the end surface. The first and second coils are annularly disposed in different positions in a radial direction about the axis on the end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Koji Yabe, Toshio Arai
  • Publication number: 20240030791
    Abstract: A magnetizing apparatus is to magnetize a permanent magnet of a motor. The motor includes an annular stator mounted to an inner side of a compressor shell and having a winding, and a rotor provided on an inner side of the stator and having the permanent magnets. The magnetizing apparatus includes an outer circumferential yoke detachably mounted to an outer side of the compressor shell and being made of a magnetic material, and a power supply device applying a magnetization current to the winding of the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIKAWA, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230327598
    Abstract: Even when generation of resistance value increase abnormality is detected in one of GND harnesses of two systems, current restriction is not immediately executed on the abnormal system but the start of current restriction is delayed within a range in which a rise in temperature of a low heat resistance component in an ECU does not exceed a limit in terms of the heat resistance performance and/or the durability performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230318381
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, three-phase coils attached to the stator core by distributed winding, and a first insulator insulating the three-phase coils. The three-phase coils include 2 × n U-phase coils, 2 × n V-phase coils, and 2 × n W-phase coils in a coil end. Each of the 2 × n U-phase coils, the 2 × n V-phase coils, and the 2 × n W-phase coils includes n first coils and n second coils. The n second coils are disposed outward from the n first coils in the coil end. The first insulator is disposed in the slot where the second coils are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIKAWA, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230299623
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having an inner circumference and an outer circumference each of which is annular, and slots which open to the inner circumference, and a coil wound on the stator core in distributed winding. The coil has an inner circumferential side coil disposed on an inner circumference side in the slot and an outer circumferential side coil disposed on an outer circumference side in the slot. The inner circumferential side coil and the outer circumferential side coil are of the same phase and connected in parallel. A resistance of the inner circumferential side coil is smaller than a resistance of the outer circumferential side coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki IWATA, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230291263
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core and three-phase coils attached to the stator core by distributed winding. The three-phase coils include 6×n U-phase coils, 6×n V-phase coils, and 6×n W-phase coils in a coil end. The 6×n U-phase coils, the 6×n V-phase coils, and the 6×n W-phase coils each include 2×n sets of coil groups each including a set of first to third coils. Each of the first to third coils is disposed in the stator core at two-slot pitch. A part of the third coil is disposed in the slot in which a part of the second coil is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventor: Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230231456
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a connection switching unit. The stator includes a stator core including 6×n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 1) slots, and three-phase coils forming 2×n magnetic poles. The connection switching unit switches a connection state of the three-phase coils between a first connection state and a second connection state. The three-phase coils include 2×n U-phase coils, 2×n V-phase coils, and 2×n W-phase coils in a coil end. Each coil of the three-phase coils is disposed in two slots across one slot on one end side of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Tomoki MASUKO, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230208232
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having 9×n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 1) slots and three-phase coils to form 4×n magnetic poles. The three-phase coils include 2×n U-phase coils, 2×n V-phase coils, and 2×n W-phase coils in a coil end. Each of 2×n U-phase coils, 2×n V-phase coils, and 2×n W-phase coils includes n first coil(s) disposed in the stator core at two-slot pitch and n second coils(s) disposed in the stator core at three-slot pitch. The stator satisfies 0.928?N1/N2<2 or 2<N1/N2?3.294, where N1 is the number of turns of each of the n first coil(s) and N2 is the number of turns of each of the n second coil(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Atsushi ISHIKAWA, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20230050144
    Abstract: A control device of an electric power steering device includes an arithmetic processing device having a comparison unit, a failure diagnosis unit, and a drive control unit. The comparison unit compares a difference between a first output signal output from a first sensor and a second output signal output from a second sensor with a first threshold value to determine a magnitude relationship, and compares a difference between the first output signal and a third output signal output from a third sensor with a second threshold value to determine a magnitude relationship. Based on a result of the comparison unit, the failure diagnosis unit identifies one abnormal sensor among the first, second and third sensor. Using output values from two normal sensors that are not identified as abnormal sensors among the first, second and third sensor, the drive control unit generates a drive control signal for driving an electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita YASU, Kazuya YAMANO, Atsushi MATSUOKA, Makoto GOTO
  • Publication number: 20220286004
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core including first electromagnetic steel sheets and second electromagnetic steel sheets; and a permanent magnet. Each of the first electromagnetic steel sheets includes a first magnet insertion hole, a first thin portion, and a magnet locking portion that is in contact with an end portion of the permanent magnet. Each of the second electromagnetic steel sheets includes a second magnet insertion hole and a second thin portion. Each of the second electromagnetic steel sheets does not include a portion that is in contact with the end portion of the permanent magnet. W1>W2 is satisfied, where W1 is a minimum width of the first thin portion and W2 is a minimum width of the second thin portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20220239171
    Abstract: A rotor includes at least one first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet and has 2n (n is a natural number) magnetic poles. The at least one first permanent magnet forms part of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and is magnetized to have polar anisotropy. The second permanent magnet is adjacent to the at least one first permanent magnet in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and has lower magnetic force than magnetic force of the at least one first permanent magnet. The second permanent magnet has 3×2n magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroki ASO, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20220231554
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a first permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction, and a second permanent magnet that is W1 mm long in a longitudinal direction. The rotor core includes a first magnet insertion hole, a second magnet insertion hole, and a center lib. The first magnet insertion hole includes a first outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a first inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The second magnet insertion hole includes a second outside opening part having a radius of curvature of R1 mm, and a second inside opening part having a radius of curvature of R2 mm. The rotor satisfies R1>R2 and 0<(R1+R2)/W1<0.082.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoki MASUKO, Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20220216752
    Abstract: A magnetization ring is disposed between a rotor and a core portion surrounding the rotor, the rotor having permanent magnets and inter-pole portions which are arranged in a circumferential direction about an axis. The magnetization ring has a magnetic portion facing the center of the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction, and a nonmagnetic portion facing the inter-pole portion of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Atsushi MATSUOKA, Atsushi ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220216757
    Abstract: A stator includes: a stator core; three-phase coils attached to the stator core by distributed winding; and a lacing material. A first phase coil is a coil through which a largest current flows among the three-phase coils when a current flows through the three-phase coils from a source of electric power for magnetizing a magnetic material. The first phase coil has a first region, a second region, and a third region. The lacing material is wound on the first region more than at least one of the second region or the third region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Atsushi MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20220190697
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric motor includes: connecting a first phase coil of three-phase coils to a positive side of a source of electrical power for magnetizing; passing an electric current through the three-phase coils in a state where a center of a magnetic pole of a rotor is rotated a first angle with respect to a center of a magnetic pole of the first phase coil; switching a connection with the positive side of the source of electrical power from the first phase coil to a second phase coil; and passing an electric current through the three-phase coils in a state where the center of the magnetic pole of the rotor is rotated a second angle with respect to a center of a magnetic pole of the second phase coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoki MASUKO, Atsushi MATSUOKA