Patents by Inventor Atsushi TARODA

Atsushi TARODA 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: 11201521
    Abstract: A hybrid stepping motor has a connector housing formed integrally with an insulator having an upper insulator and a lower insulator. The hybrid stepping motor includes a stator core and output terminals concentrically disposed outside the stator core. A wiring pattern serving as the output terminals has connector pins and land portions disposed eccentrically with respect to one another. The land portions are formed on an outer edge side of the wiring pattern. A surface, which is an uppermost surface of the wiring pattern, is located below a lowermost surface, in which jumper wires and lead wires pass, of the lower insulator. The lead wires are pulled out from a lower side, and are pulled out to guiding grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MINEBEA MITSUMI INC.
    Inventors: Takamasa Inuzuka, Mitsushi Goto, Masaaki Matsubara, Tomohisa Suzuki, Atsushi Taroda
  • Patent number: 10378547
    Abstract: An axial flow fan includes an impeller having a hub and vanes disposed at equal intervals on an outer peripheral portion of the hub; a rotor shaft located at the center of the impeller; a motor portion rotating the impeller around the rotor shaft as an axis; a casing surrounding an outer periphery of the impeller; a base portion supporting the motor portion; and a stationary blade located in a blowout opening side of air flow, the stationary blade connecting the base portion and the casing, wherein the stationary blade has on its surface a guide portion allowing air flow flowing along the surface to be rectified and guided from a direction of the blowout opening to an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Taroda, Yukihiro Higuchi, Tomoyoshi Sasajima
  • Publication number: 20180342926
    Abstract: A hybrid stepping motor has a connector housing formed integrally with an insulator having an upper insulator and a lower insulator. The hybrid stepping motor includes a stator core and output terminals concentrically disposed outside the stator core. A wiring pattern serving as the output terminals has connector pins and land portions disposed eccentrically with respect to one another. The land portions are formed on an outer edge side of the wiring pattern. A surface, which is an uppermost surface of the wiring pattern, is located below a lowermost surface, in which jumper wires and lead wires pass, of the lower insulator. The lead wires are pulled out from a lower side, and are pulled out to guiding grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Takamasa Inuzuka, Mitsushi Goto, Masaaki Matsubara, Tomohisa Suzuki, Atsushi Taroda
  • Patent number: 10113551
    Abstract: A axial flow fan includes an impeller having a plurality of blades, a motor arranged to rotate the impeller, and a casing accommodating the impeller and the motor. The casing includes a cylindrical housing, a motor base configured to hold the motor, and a plurality of spokes connecting the housing with the motor base. The plurality of spokes include a spoke having a straight shape and a spoke having a curved shape that is convex toward a rotational direction of the impeller. The axial flow fan further includes a lead wire for supplying electric power to the motor. When a radial length of the spoke having the straight shape is defined as L and an amount of the curvature of the spoke having the curved shape is defined as X, a displacement of the curved shape (X/L) is less than 0.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Taroda, Takako Otsuka, Masaki Ogushi, Yoichi Kawai
  • Patent number: 9664196
    Abstract: An axial flow fan motor 100 comprises: a casing outer frame 61; an impeller 10; a rotor shaft 20 as a rotation axis at a center of the impeller 10; a bearing housing 30 in an inside of a rotor housing 11; and a base portion hub 62 in an air blowout opening side 2, wherein, in a cross-sectional view along the rotation axis, the base portion hub 62 has an outer peripheral portion 65 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?1 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis, and the casing outer frame 61 has an inner peripheral portion 67 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?2 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Higuchi, Atsushi Taroda
  • Publication number: 20150064029
    Abstract: An axial flow fan motor 100 comprises: a casing outer frame 61; an impeller 10; a rotor shaft 20 as a rotation axis at a center of the impeller 10; a bearing housing 30 in an inside of a rotor housing 11; and a base portion hub 62 in an air blowout opening side 2, wherein, in a cross-sectional view along the rotation axis, the base portion hub 62 has an outer peripheral portion 65 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?1 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis, and the casing outer frame 61 has an inner peripheral portion 67 at least partially inclined to the rotation axis side by an angle ?2 toward the air blowout opening side 2 with regard to a straight line parallel to the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Atsushi TARODA
  • Publication number: 20150030474
    Abstract: An axial flow fan of the present invention includes: an impeller having a hub and vanes disposed at equal intervals on an outer peripheral portion of the hub; a rotor shaft located at the center of the impeller; a motor portion rotating the impeller around the rotor shaft as an axis; a casing surrounding an outer periphery of the impeller; a base portion supporting the motor portion; and a stationary blade located in a blowout opening side of air flow, the stationary blade connecting the base portion and the casing, wherein the stationary blade has on its surface a guide portion allowing air flow flowing along the surface to be rectified and guided from a direction of the blowout opening to an outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi TARODA, Yukihiro HIGUCHI, Tomoyoshi SASAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20130251559
    Abstract: The present invention provide an axial flow fan which comprises an impeller having a plurality of blades, a motor arranged to rotate the impeller, a casing accommodating the impeller and the motor, and a lead wire for supplying electric power to the motor, wherein the casing comprises a cylindrical housing, a motor base installing the motor, and a plurality of spokes connecting the housing with the motor base, and wherein the plurality of spokes include a spoke having a straight shape and a spoke having a curved shape convexly toward a rotational direction of the impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: MINEBEA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi TARODA, Takako OTSUKA, Masaki OGUSHI, Yoichi KAWAI