Patents by Inventor Atsushi Sakaue

Atsushi Sakaue 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: 20180278111
    Abstract: Slot accommodation portions of single coils forming an armature coil are arranged so as to be stacked in the radial direction in a slot. On the anti-wire-connection side, a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the first layer, and a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the second layer, extend in the same direction. No insulation sheet is provided in intervals between coil ends extending in the same direction, such as the extending portions (23b) and (21b) and extending portions (21d) and (22d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Shinkichi SAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180183286
    Abstract: The rotor includes: a rotor core having a plurality of insertion holes penetrating in an axial direction at intervals in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes. A space is formed between a hole inner side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet inner side peripheral surface of each magnet. An adhesion layer portion is formed between a hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and a magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet, and the hole outer side peripheral surface of each insertion hole and the magnet outer side peripheral surface of each magnet with which the adhesion layer portion contacts are formed in a flat-surface shape. A width in a radial direction of the space is longer than a width in the radial direction of the adhesion layer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE
  • 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: 20180067709
    Abstract: A control device includes circuitry to generate a plurality of pieces of plain data corresponding to a plurality of colors of one page according to image data transferred from a higher-level device. The control device is connectable to an image forming apparatus via a single communication path or a plurality of communication paths. The circuitry sets a transfer request flag of one piece of plain data to a transfer requesting state when a serial transfer method is set as transfer method management information and sets transfer request flags of all pieces of plain data to the transfer requesting state when a parallel transfer method is set as the transfer method management information; and controls transfer of one piece or all pieces of plain data from the control device to the image forming apparatus according to a set state of the transfer request flags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventor: Atsushi SAKAUE
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9906085
    Abstract: Small coil groups are each configured by connecting a plurality of winding bodies in series by passing crossover portions that are formed by bending first conductor terminals radially outward axially outside a coil end and joining the crossover portions to second conductor terminals that are subject to joining, the first conductor terminals that constitute first ends of the small coil group are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially inner side of a circular arc-shaped region that extends circumferentially around the coil end, the second conductor terminals that constitute second ends of the small coil group are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially outer side of the circular arc-shaped region of the coil end, and a stator winding is produced by connecting the small coil groups within the circular arc-shaped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20180041080
    Abstract: This rotor includes: a rotor core in which a plurality of insertion holes each penetrating the rotor core in an axial direction are formed with intervals interposed thereamong in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes, wherein a hole-inside-peripheral-surface of each insertion hole does not contact with a magnet-inside-peripheral-surface of a corresponding one of the magnets, a hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and a magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet contact with each other at two locations of a first location and a second location, an adhesive layer portion is formed between the first location and the second location and between the hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and the magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet, and a first protruding portion which protrudes toward outside in a radial direction and which contacts with the magnet is formed at the hole-inside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Masaya INOUE, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI
  • 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
  • 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: 9831734
    Abstract: In the electric machine according to the present invention, conductor wires are housed inside slots so as to be arranged into multiple layers in one column so as to contact each other in a slot depth direction in each column such that a longitudinal direction of a long side of an oblong cross section of a conductor portion faces in the slot depth direction, and a thickness of a portion of an insulating coating that is formed on a surface of the conductor portion that faces in the slot depth direction is thinner than a thickness of a portion of the insulating coating that is formed on a surface of the conductor portion that faces in a direction of slot arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9819238
    Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine by which a share of coil slots for a stator winding in slots, which are formed in a stator core, can be increased, and heat generation at a central portion of a stator can be decreased. The stator winding is composed of coil slots, which are inserted to the slots, and coil ends extended toward the outside in the axis direction of the stator core; and the coil conductors of the coil slots are configured in such a way that cross-sectional areas at central portions in the axis direction are wider cross-sectional areas at both end portions, and the cross-sectional areas of the coil conductors are reduced along the coil slots from the central portions to the both end portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Ikura, Shinkichi Sawa, Tatsuro Hino, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20170294812
    Abstract: A tooth groove is provided at a border portion between a tooth body portion and a protrusion. The angle between a tooth body portion lateral face which is a lateral face in the circumferential direction of the tooth body portion and a tooth body portion stop portion which is a face, of the tooth groove, continued from the tooth body portion lateral face is the right angle or an acute angle. The protrusion is rotated toward the outer side in the circumferential direction, to bring a protrusion stop portion into close contact with the tooth body portion stop portion, the protrusion stop portion being an outer-circumferential-side lateral face of the protrusion, thereby forming a shoe in a tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Kazunori MUTO, Yoshihiro HARADA, Shinkichi SAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170288480
    Abstract: While lamination of steel sheets to be included in a stator core having a plurality of tooth portions is performed through swaging at yoke portions and through swaging at tooth portions, the stator core is formed in such a way as to include the tooth portion having a portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging and the tooth portion having no portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi MURAKAMI, Naomi KIKUCHI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinji NISHIMURA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 9735641
    Abstract: Four layers of first coil rows formed by arranging first coil ends at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction are arranged in a radial direction to configure a first coil end group, three layers of second coil rows formed by arranging second coil ends at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction are arranged in a radial direction to configure a first coil end group, a cylindrical first insulating paper is housed inside the first coil end rows and inside the second coil end rows, and a cylindrical second insulating paper is housed between the first coil end rows and between the second coil end rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue, Shinkichi Sawa, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9712012
    Abstract: An armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, jointless, and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions, and first gaps are formed between radially adjacent coil end portions to allow a cooling medium to pass through the first gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hirohisa Yokota, Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki, Tatsuro Hino, Shinkichi Sawa, Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9705374
    Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihiro Yamamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akira Hashimoto, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Atsushi Sakaue, Kazunori Muto
  • Publication number: 20170179780
    Abstract: Bridge portions forming coil end portions, at both ends in an axial direction, of a stator of the rotating electrical machine according to the present invention are configured coaxially about an axis of the stator; at least one bridge portion of the bridge portions of each coil at both ends in the axial direction is located outward of an inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a gap is present between an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction and each bridge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Koji KAWAMURA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Atsushi SAKAUE
  • Patent number: 9680358
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a winding body includes: a bulging portion forming step in which bulging portions are formed by bending at a set pitch on a conductor wire; a crank portion forming step in which the crank portions are formed by bending on central portions of the bulging portions; an inclined portion and rectilinear portion forming step in which inclined portions and rectilinear portions are formed by bending on the conductor wire on which the bulging portions are formed at a set pitch and on which the crank portions are formed on each of the bulging portions after completion of the bulging portion forming step and the crank portion forming step; and a circular arc portion forming step in which the inclined portions are bent and formed into a circular arc shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Akita, Atsushi Sakaue, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170163133
    Abstract: A predetermined part of one conductive wire is pressurized and plastically worked to form a slot portion having a desired cross section, a part separated from the slot portion by a predetermined dimension is pressed to form a top portion, and then a part separated from the top portion by a predetermined dimension is plastically worked to form the next slot portion. Through repetition of such steps, a conductive wire in which necessary numbers of slot portions and top portions are formed is manufactured. Using the top portion as a reference, the conductive wire is folded to form a coil end portion and is wound by a plurality of turns into a hexagonal shape, thereby forming a hexagonal coil in which the conductive wire is wound by a predetermined number of turns. In the hexagonal coil, bundles of the slot portions become two opposite sides and are inserted in the slots of the armature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Kazunori MUTO, Hironori TSUIKI
  • Patent number: 9646764
    Abstract: Provided is a rectangular wire edgewise-bending processing device for performing an edgewise-bending process for a rectangular wire to form a coil, the rectangular wire edgewise-bending processing device including a fixing unit for fixing the rectangular wire, a pressing tool for pressing a surface formed by a long side of a rectangular cross section of the rectangular wire, and a bending tool for bending the rectangular wire into a predetermined coil shape, wherein the edgewise-bending process is performed while the surface formed by the long side of the rectangular cross section of the rectangular wire is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaro Shirai, Hiroyuki Akita, Atsushi Sakaue, Shinichiro Yoshida, Masaya Inoue