Patents by Inventor Hideaki Matsuo

Hideaki Matsuo 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: 11946543
    Abstract: A parking mechanism includes an actuator having a manual shaft rotating around the first axis, a flange provided on an outer periphery of the manual shaft, a cam rod having a coupling portion coupled to the flange and a rod body moveable along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis with a movement of the flange, a coil spring attached to the rod body, a cam that is attached to the rod body and moves along the second axis by motion of the rod body transmitting via the coil spring, a pawl member having a meshing portion and operating with a movement of the cam, and a parking gear having a tooth portion with which the meshing portion meshes. The self-holding torque of the actuator is larger than the torque applied to the manual shaft at the time of maximum compression of the coil spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuo, Mitsuhiro Hara, Masashi Yuboku
  • Publication number: 20230313886
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a housing including a motor, a power transmission unit, a parking mechanism, and a gear accommodation portion. The parking mechanism includes a parking gear, a pawl, a transmission unit, and a sleeve. The transmission unit includes a cam rod and a cam attached to the cam rod to operate the pawl. The cam is guided by the sleeve. The gear accommodation portion has first and second housing members, a breather, and a dividing wall partitioning a space where the breather opens inside the gear accommodation portion. The second housing member is provided with a holding recess that opens to a first side in an axial direction and holds the sleeve. The first housing member is provided with a retaining wall that covers a surface facing a second side in the axial direction of the sleeve. The retaining wall is a part of the dividing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUO, Mitsuhiro HARA, Keisuke ASO, Naohiro WADA, Yusuke MAKINO
  • Patent number: 11739839
    Abstract: A parking mechanism includes: a parking gear rotatable about a major axis with a wheel of a vehicle; a parking pawl rotatable about a first axis parallel to the major axis, and having a meshing portion facing a tooth portion of the parking gear; a cam rod extending and operating along a first direction orthogonal to the major axis; a cam attached to the cam rod, contacting the parking pawl, and movable along the first direction with the operation of the cam rod to rotate the parking pawl around the first axis and move the meshing portion toward the parking gear; a U-shaped sleeve open toward the parking pawl and supporting the cam; and a pawl stopper to contact and restrict movement of the parking pawl toward the cam rod. The cam rod is inserted into the sleeve. The pawl stopper is between the parking pawl and the cam rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideaki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11708902
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a power assembly rotatable about a first axis, a transmission to transmit power of the power assembly, and a parking assembly provided in the transmission. The transmission includes a first gear rotatable around a first axis, a second gear to mesh with the first gear and rotatable around a second axis, a third gear to rotate around the second axis together with the second gear, and a fourth gear to mesh with the third gear and rotatable around a third axis. The parking assembly includes a parking gear rotatable around the first axis together with the first gear, a parking pawl that includes a meshing portion and is rotatable around a fourth axis, and a drive assembly to rotationally move the parking pawl around the fourth axis and operate the parking pawl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuo, Shuhei Nakamatsu, Tsubasa Tamura, Keisuke Aso
  • Publication number: 20230204102
    Abstract: A parking mechanism includes an actuator having a manual shaft rotating around the first axis, a flange provided on an outer periphery of the manual shaft, a cam rod having a coupling portion coupled to the flange and a rod body moveable along a second axis orthogonal to the first axis with a movement of the flange, a coil spring attached to the rod body, a cam that is attached to the rod body and moves along the second axis by motion of the rod body transmitting via the coil spring, a pawl member having a meshing portion and operating with a movement of the cam, and a parking gear having a tooth portion with which the meshing portion meshes. The self-holding torque of the actuator is larger than the torque applied to the manual shaft at the time of maximum compression of the coil spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUO, Mitsuhiro HARA, Masashi YUBOKU
  • Publication number: 20220243811
    Abstract: A parking mechanism includes: a parking gear rotatable about a major axis with a wheel of a vehicle; a parking pawl rotatable about a first axis parallel to the major axis, and having a meshing portion facing a tooth portion of the parking gear; a cam rod extending and operating along a first direction orthogonal to the major axis; a cam attached to the cam rod, contacting the parking pawl, and movable along the first direction with the operation of the cam rod to rotate the parking pawl around the first axis and move the meshing portion toward the parking gear; a U-shaped sleeve open toward the parking pawl and supporting the cam; and a pawl stopper to contact and restrict movement of the parking pawl toward the cam rod. The cam rod is inserted into the sleeve. The pawl stopper is between the parking pawl and the cam rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventor: Hideaki MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20220178442
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a power assembly rotatable about a first axis, a transmission to transmit power of the power assembly, and a parking assembly provided in the transmission. The transmission includes a first gear rotatable around a first axis, a second gear to mesh with the first gear and rotatable around a second axis, a third gear to rotate around the second axis together with the second gear, and a fourth gear to mesh with the third gear and rotatable around a third axis. The parking assembly includes a parking gear rotatable around the first axis together with the first gear, a parking pawl that includes a meshing portion and is rotatable around a fourth axis, and a drive assembly to rotationally move the parking pawl around the fourth axis and operate the parking pawl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki MATSUO, Shuhei NAKAMATSU, Tsubasa TAMURA, Keisuke ASO
  • Patent number: 11247169
    Abstract: A biogas combustion system that obtains a stable output and saves energy is realized. A combustion system comprises a separation portion 14 that removes carbon dioxide from a treatment target gas containing a mixture gas containing methane as a main component and containing carbon dioxide to obtain methane gas of a high purity in which at least a content of carbon dioxide has been reduced, and a combustion portion 15 that combusts the methane gas. The separation portion 14 includes a first treatment chamber 11 and a second treatment chamber 12 separated from each other by a separation membrane 13 therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: RENAISSANCE ENERGY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Okada, Nobuaki Hanai, Peng Yan, Hideaki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11214746
    Abstract: A power generation system comprises a fuel gas supply device 13 for controlling methane concentration or carbon dioxide concentration in a mixed gas MG containing methane and carbon dioxide within a setting range for the concentration in the fuel gas of a gas engine 11, and for supplying the mixed gas MG to the gas engine 11 as the fuel gas, and a gas concentration sensor 14 for measuring the carbon dioxide concentration or the methane concentration of the mixed gas MG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: RENAISSANCE ENERGY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Okada, Nobuaki Hanai, Junya Miyata, Hideaki Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20210023499
    Abstract: A biogas combustion system that obtains a stable output and saves energy is realized. A combustion system comprises a separation portion 14 that removes carbon dioxide from a treatment target gas containing a mixture gas containing methane as a main component and containing carbon dioxide to obtain methane gas of a high purity in which at least a content of carbon dioxide has been reduced, and a combustion portion 15 that combusts the methane gas. The separation portion 14 includes a first treatment chamber 11 and a second treatment chamber 12 separated from each other by a separation membrane 13 therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Applicant: Renaissance Energy Research Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu OKADA, Nobuaki HANAI, Peng YAN, Hideaki MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20200239797
    Abstract: A power generation system comprises a fuel gas supply device 13 for controlling methane concentration or carbon dioxide concentration in a mixed gas MG containing methane and carbon dioxide within a setting range for the concentration in the fuel gas of a gas engine 11, and for supplying the mixed gas MG to the gas engine 11 as the fuel gas, and a gas concentration sensor 14 for measuring the carbon dioxide concentration or the methane concentration of the mixed gas MG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Renaissance Energy Research Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu OKADA, Nobuaki HANAI, Junya MIYATA, Hideaki MATSUO
  • Patent number: 10590934
    Abstract: The present invention includes a refrigeration cycle circuit that includes compressor, indoor heat exchanger, expansion valve, and outdoor heat exchanger that are connected to each other. A working fluid containing R1123 (1,1,2-trifluoroethylene) and R32 (difluoromethane) is used as a refrigerant sealed in the refrigeration cycle circuit, and an electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor of compressor includes a rotational speed estimator. The rotational speed estimator estimates rotational speed based on information on a detection value of an electric current input to the electric motor or a magnetic pole position of a rotor that constitutes the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuminori Sakima, Akira Fujitaka, Hiroaki Nakai, Akihiro Kyogoku, Hideaki Matsuo, Shigehiro Sato, Kenji Takaichi
  • Publication number: 20190060826
    Abstract: A biogas combustion system that obtains a stable output and saves energy is realized. A combustion system comprises a separation portion 14 that removes carbon dioxide from a treatment target gas containing a mixture gas containing methane as a main component and containing carbon dioxide to obtain methane gas of a high purity in which at least a content of carbon dioxide has been reduced, and a combustion portion 15 that combusts the methane gas. The separation portion 14 includes a first treatment chamber 11 and a second treatment chamber 12 separated from each other by a separation membrane 13 therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: Renaissance Energy Research Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu OKADA, Nobuaki HANAI, Peng YAN, Hideaki MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20180156217
    Abstract: The present invention includes a refrigeration cycle circuit that includes compressor, indoor heat exchanger, expansion valve, and outdoor heat exchanger that are connected to each other. A working fluid containing R1123 (1,1,2-trifluoroethylene) and R32 (difluoromethane) is used as a refrigerant sealed in the refrigeration cycle circuit, and an electric motor driving device that drives an electric motor of compressor includes a rotational speed estimator. The rotational speed estimator estimates rotational speed based on information on a detection value of an electric current input to the electric motor or a magnetic pole position of a rotor that constitutes the electric motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: FUMINORI SAKIMA, AKIRA FUJITAKA, HIROAKI NAKAI, AKIHIRO KYOGOKU, HIDEAKI MATSUO, SHIGEHIRO SATO, KENJI TAKAICHI
  • Patent number: 9214838
    Abstract: A brushless motor capable of high speed rotation by field weakening operation is designed to reduce torque ripple at a maximum load point with current phase advance so that the torque ripple at the maximum load point is 1 to 1.5 times the torque ripple at a low speed load point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Yuichiro Tashiro, Hideaki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 8816554
    Abstract: A clutch mechanism moving together with an actuator allows coupling or decoupling an inner rotor to or from a power shaft, thereby controlling a rotation angle. This structure allows a polarity of a magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be the same as that of an opposing magnetic pole of an outer rotor when the motor is driven at a low rpm, so that magnetic fluxes inter-linking with windings can be increased, which results in greater torque. When the motor is driven at a high rpm, the structure allows the polarity of the magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be different from that of the opposing magnetic pole of the outer rotor, so that an amount of leakage flux is increased, and the magnetic fluxes inter-linking with the winding are decreased. As a result, an induction voltage is lowered and a high rpm range is widened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hideaki Matsuo, Yuichiro Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20140001906
    Abstract: A brushless motor capable of high speed rotation by field weakening operation is designed to reduce torque ripple at a maximum load point with current phase advance so that the torque ripple at the maximum load point is 1 to 1.5 times the torque ripple at a low speed load point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Yuichiro Tashiro, Hideaki Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130055771
    Abstract: A brushless motor for washing machine of this invention is a motor suitable for application to a drum-type washing machine. The brushless motor for washing machine comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a mounting section for fixing to a water tub, a stator core, a winding and a winding insulation material. The rotor includes a motor pulley for connection to a belt, a rotatably supported motor shaft, a rotor core and a magnet. At least one of the stator and the rotor has a mold portion formed of a resin material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tashiro, Hideaki Matsuo, Hideharu Hiwaki, Masahiko Morisaki
  • Publication number: 20130042655
    Abstract: A brushless motor for washing machine applicable to a drum-type washing machine is provided with a rotary drum having an axis of rotation in a horizontal direction or an inclined direction, and power is transmitted to the rotary drum via a pulley and a belt. The brushless motor for washing machine comprises a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes a rotor mold portion formed of a resin material on both end surfaces in an axial direction of a rotor core. The rotor mold portion has a resin protrusion projecting in an annular shape in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Matsuo, Yuichiro Tashiro, Hideharu Hiwaki, Masahiko Morisaki
  • Publication number: 20120286616
    Abstract: A clutch mechanism moving together with an actuator allows coupling or decoupling an inner rotor to or from a power shaft, thereby controlling a rotation angle. This structure allows a polarity of a magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be the same as that of an opposing magnetic pole of an outer rotor when the motor is driven at a low rpm, so that magnetic fluxes inter-linking with windings can be increased, which results in greater torque. When the motor is driven at a high rpm, the structure allows the polarity of the magnetic pole of the inner rotor to be different from that of the opposing magnetic pole of the outer rotor, so that an amount of leakage flux is increased, and the magnetic fluxes inter-linking with the winding are decreased. As a result, an induction voltage is lowered and a high rpm range is widened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hu Li, Yuichi Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Murakami, Hideaki Matsuo, Yuichiro Tashiro