Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Kado

Haruhiko Kado 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: 10348141
    Abstract: A motor of this invention comprises a rotor having a permanent magnet, the number of which magnet poles is P, and a stator including M pcs of teeth, the teeth arranged in a circumferential direction in a manner to face the permanent magnet through a spatial gap, wherein the stator includes stator core having the number M of the teeth, and a winding wire wound about each of the tooth, wherein the number P of the magnet poles and the number M of the teeth have a relation defined by formulae (2/3)M<P<(4/3)M, and M?P, and wherein ratio (t1/Ds) of teeth tip width t1 to stator inside diameter Ds is given by a formula 0.18<(t1/Ds)<0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Haruhiko Kado, Kiyomi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20180115206
    Abstract: An electric motor element according to the present invention includes a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core constituted by a plurality of punched steel sheets laminated in a rotational shaft direction, magnet positioning holes penetrating the rotor core, and a bonded magnet portion constituting a permanent magnet. The magnet positioning holes are filled with the bonded magnet portion. A length of the rotor core in the rotational shaft direction is larger than a length of a stator core in the rotational shaft direction. The bonded magnet portion is shaped such that a position of the bonded magnet portion, the position being located between both axial ends of the rotor and in a plane facing the stator core, is closer to a rotation shaft holding the rotor, than to a position of the bonded magnet portion, the position being located at one of the axial ends of the rotor in the rotational shaft direction and in the plane facing the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: YUSUKE OKUMURA, YUICHI YOSHIKAWA, HARUHIKO KADO, YUKIHIRO OKADA, SHIZUKA YOKOTE, TAKASHI OGAWA
  • Patent number: 9893575
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator having a coil wound on a stator core, and a rotor disposed rotatably inside the stator through a gap to an inner circumferential surface of the stator core. The rotor is provided with a rotor core formed of laminated steel plates having a plurality of magnet-embedding holes, and a permanent magnet housed and retained in each of the magnet-embedding holes. A thickness of the bridge portions formed between edges of the magnet-embedding holes and an outer circumference of the rotor core, and a thickness of a thinned link portion connecting adjoining two of the bridge portions are thinner than a thickness of the steel plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyomi Kawamura, Hiroaki Kawasaki, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Yasushi Kato, Haruhiko Kado, Noritaka Aso
  • Publication number: 20170201166
    Abstract: Electric motor (100) according to the present invention includes stator (40), rotor (10), and a pair of bearings (30). Stator (40) has stator core (41) which is annularly formed. Rotor (10) is located on the inner circumferential side of stator core (41), and includes shaft (12), rotor core (11), and bonded magnets (14). Bonded magnets (14) are filled in magnet holes (13). Bonded magnets (14) are formed with high density portion (14b) having a high density and low density portion (14c) having a density lower than high density portion (14b). In electric motor (100), center position (11b) of rotor core (11) is located on the side where high density portion (14b) is present with respect to center position (41b) of stator core (41) in the direction of shaft center (12a) of shaft (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Takashi OGAWA, Yuichi YOSHIKAWA, Haruhiko KADO, Yukihiro OKADA, Hiroshi UEDA, Shin'ichi TSUTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20170170696
    Abstract: Motor according to the present invention includes rotor core and rotor. Rotor core includes outer circumferential surface formed along shaft center, and a plurality of magnet holes. Each of magnet holes has a convex surface located on a side of rotary shaft and a concave surface located on a side of outer circumferential surface. ?1 is a distance between the convex surface and the concave surface on an end part located on the side of outer circumferential surface. ?1 is a distance between the convex surface and the concave surface on a central part located on the side of rotary shaft. In magnet hole, ?1 is larger than ?1. Bonded magnets are filled in magnet holes. ?2 is a thickness of a magnet component located on the end part in an oriented direction of the magnet component. ?2 is a thickness of a magnet component located on the central part in an oriented direction of the magnet component. In each of the plurality of bonded magnets, ?2 is larger than ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: TAKASHI OGAWA, YUICHI YOSHIKAWA, HARUHIKO KADO, YUKIHIRO OKADA, YUSUKE OKUMURA
  • Publication number: 20170005536
    Abstract: A motor of this invention comprises a rotor having a permanent magnet, the number of which magnet poles is P, and a stator including M pcs of teeth, the teeth arranged in a circumferential direction in a manner to face the permanent magnet through a spatial gap, wherein the stator includes stator core having the number M of the teeth, and a winding wire wound about each of the tooth, wherein the number P of the magnet poles and the number M of the teeth have a relation defined by formulae (2/3)M<P<(4/3)M, and M#P, and wherein ratio (t1/Ds) of teeth tip width t1 to stator inside diameter Ds is given by a formula 0.18<(t1/Ds)<0.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Hu LI, Yuichi YOSHIKAWA, Hiroshi MURAKAMI, Haruhiko KADO, Kiyomi KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 9502928
    Abstract: A motor of this invention comprises a rotor having a permanent magnet, the number of which magnet poles is P, and a stator including M pcs of teeth, the teeth arranged in a circumferential direction in a manner to face the permanent magnet through a spatial gap, wherein the stator includes stator core having the number M of the teeth, and a winding wire wound about each of the tooth, wherein the number P of the magnet poles and the number M of the teeth have a relation defined by formulae (2/3)M<P<(4/3)M, and M?P, and wherein ratio (t1/Ds) of teeth tip width t1 to stator inside diameter Ds is given by a formula 0.18<(t1/Ds)<0.25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Haruhiko Kado, Kiyomi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20160285326
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator having a coil wound on a stator core, and a rotor disposed rotatably inside the stator through a gap to an inner circumferential surface of the stator core. The rotor is provided with a rotor core formed of laminated steel plates having a plurality of magnet-embedding holes, and a permanent magnet housed and retained in each of the magnet-embedding holes. A thickness of the bridge portions formed between edges of the magnet-embedding holes and an outer circumference of the rotor core, and a thickness of a thinned link portion connecting adjoining two of the bridge portions are thinner than a thickness of the steel plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: KIYOMI KAWAMURA, HIROAKI KAWASAKI, YUICHI YOSHIKAWA, YASUSHI KATO, HARUHIKO KADO, NORITAKA ASO
  • Patent number: 8987955
    Abstract: A stator, a rotor, bearings, and conductive brackets are provided. The stator has a stator iron core having a winding wound thereon. The rotor has a rotating body that holds a permanent magnet in the circumferential direction so that the permanent magnet faces the stator, and a shaft that has the rotating body fastened thereto so as to penetrate through the center of the rotating body. Both of the bearing on the output shaft side and the bearing opposite the output shaft side journal the shaft. One of the brackets fixes the bearing on the output shaft side, and the other of the brackets fixes the bracket opposite the output shaft side. The brackets are electrically connected to each other, and a dielectric layer is formed between the shaft and the outer periphery of the rotating body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa, Haruhiko Kado
  • Patent number: 8975796
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator integrally molded together with a stator member, which includes a stator iron-core wound with a winding, by insulating resin, a rotor mounted on a shaft as a center and confronting the stator, two bearings supporting the shaft rotatably, brackets fixing the bearings, and a drive circuit board including a drive circuit which supplies an electric current to the winding and drives the rotor. Either one of the two bearings includes an outer ring and an inner ring both of which are electrically insulated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kado, Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8957553
    Abstract: A brushless motor includes a stator molded integrally with a resin having a fixing member including a stator iron core and a winding wound thereon, a rotor of a disk-like iron core holding a ferrite resin magnet in a circumferential direction, the rotor arranged to face the stator about a shaft, a bearing rotatably supporting the shaft, and conductive brackets fixing the bearing. The brackets are electrically connected to each other with a conducting pin in the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Hasegawa, Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Haruhiko Kado
  • Patent number: 8901788
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor driven by an inverter of PWM method, and devised to retard electrolytic corrosion in a bearing. A rotating body of a rotor comprises an outer iron core configuring an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body, an inner iron core configuring an inner peripheral portion connected to a shaft, a dielectric layer disposed between the outer iron core and the inner iron core, a plurality of insertion holes penetrating the outer iron core in the axial direction, and permanent magnets inserted individually in the plurality of insertion holes. It thus becomes possible to increase impedance of the rotor side (inner ring side of bearing) to approximate it to impedance of the stator side (outer ring side of the bearing) to thereby bring high frequency potentials balanced between the inner ring side and the outer ring side of the bearing, so as to provide the electric motor that retards electrolytic corrosion liable to occur in the bearing, and an electric device equipped with the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa, Hirofumi Mizukami, Haruhiko Kado, Genki Kondo
  • Patent number: 8587167
    Abstract: A motor includes: a stator molded integrally with an insulating resin having a fixing member including a stator iron core and a winding wound thereon; a rotor arranged to face the stator about a shaft; a bearing rotatably supporting the shaft; a bracket fixing the bearing; and a drive circuit substrate having a drive circuit mounted thereon for driving the winding. The stator iron core is electrically connected to a ground serving as a reference point of a zero potential on the drive circuit substrate through a conductive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kado, Akihiko Watanabe, Hirofumi Mizukami, Takehiko Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8536756
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator iron-core on which a winding is wound, a rotor having a rotary body holding a permanent magnet opposed to the stator along a circumferential direction and a shaft joined to the rotary body such that it extends through the rotary body at the center, bearings supporting the shaft, two conductive brackets for fixing the bearings, and a printed circuit board on which a drive circuit for driving the winding is mounted. A dielectric layer is provided between an outer wall of the rotary body and the shaft, the two brackets are electrically connected together, and a capacitor is connected between the stator iron-core and the brackets for adjusting impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Hirofumi Mizukami, Takehiko Hasegawa, Haruhiko Kado
  • Patent number: 8502427
    Abstract: A motor includes: a stator including a stator iron core on which a winding is wound; a rotor including a rotating body that holds a magnet in a circumferential direction to face the stator and a shaft that fastens the rotating body to penetrate a center of the rotating body; a bearing that supports the shaft; and two conductive brackets that fix the bearing. The two brackets are electrically connected to each other, and a capacitor serving as an impedance adjusting member that adjusts impedances between the stator iron core and the electrically connected two brackets is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa, Haruhiko Kado
  • Publication number: 20130076195
    Abstract: A motor of this invention comprises a rotor having a permanent magnet, the number of which magnet poles is P, and a stator including M pcs of teeth, the teeth arranged in a circumferential direction in a manner to face the permanent magnet through a spatial gap, wherein the stator includes stator core having the number M of the teeth, and a winding wire wound about each of the tooth, wherein the number P of the magnet poles and the number M of the teeth have a relation defined by formulae (2/3)M<P<(4/3)M, and M?P, and wherein ratio (t1/Ds) of teeth tip width t1 to stator inside diameter Ds is given by a formula 0.18<(t1/Ds)<0.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Haruhiko Kado, Kiyomi Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20130043748
    Abstract: A stator, a rotor, bearings, and conductive brackets are provided. The stator has a stator iron core having a winding wound thereon. The rotor has a rotating body that holds a permanent magnet in the circumferential direction so that the permanent magnet faces the stator, and a shaft that has the rotating body fastened thereto so as to penetrate through the center of the rotating body. Both of the bearing on the output shaft side and the bearing opposite the output shaft side journal the shaft. One of the brackets fixes the bearing on the output shaft side, and the other of the brackets fixes the bracket opposite the output shaft side. The brackets are electrically connected to each other, and a dielectric layer is formed between the shaft and the outer periphery of the rotating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa, Haruhiko Kado
  • Publication number: 20120112588
    Abstract: Provided is an electric motor driven by an inverter of PWM method, and devised to retard electrolytic corrosion in a bearing. A rotating body of a rotor comprises an outer iron core configuring an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body, an inner iron core configuring an inner peripheral portion connected to a shaft, a dielectric layer disposed between the outer iron core and the inner iron core, a plurality of insertion holes penetrating the outer iron core in the axial direction, and permanent magnets inserted individually in the plurality of insertion holes. It thus becomes possible to increase impedance of the rotor side (inner ring side of bearing) to approximate it to impedance of the stator side (outer ring side of the bearing) to thereby bring high frequency potentials balanced between the inner ring side and the outer ring side of the bearing, so as to provide the electric motor that retards electrolytic corrosion liable to occur in the bearing, and an electric device equipped with the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa, Hirofumi Mizukami, Haruhiko Kado, Genki Kondo
  • Publication number: 20120038229
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a stator iron-core on which a winding is wound, a rotor having a rotary body holding a permanent magnet opposed to the stator along a circumferential direction and a shaft joined to the rotary body such that it extends through the rotary body at the center, bearings supporting the shaft, two conductive brackets for fixing the bearings, and a printed circuit board on which a drive circuit for driving the winding is mounted. A dielectric layer is provided between an outer wall of the rotary body and the shaft, the two brackets are electrically connected together, and a capacitor is connected between the stator iron-core and the brackets for adjusting impedance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Watanabe, Hirofumi Mizukami, Takehiko Hasegawa, Haruhiko Kado
  • Publication number: 20120032536
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator integrally molded together with a stator member, which includes a stator iron-core wound with a winding, by insulating resin, a rotor mounted on a shaft as a center and confronting the stator, two bearings supporting the shaft rotatably, brackets fixing the bearings, and a drive circuit board including a drive circuit which supplies an electric current to the winding and drives the rotor. Either one of the two bearings includes an outer ring and an inner ring both of which are electrically insulated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Kado, Hirofumi Mizukami, Akihiko Watanabe, Takehiko Hasegawa