Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Urano
Hiroaki Urano 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).
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Publication number: 20230369951Abstract: To reduce the power supply voltage during induction heating using a coil provided in a stator core. A method for manufacturing a stator according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: disposing a three-phase coil in an annular stator core; and making a three-phase alternating current pass through the three-phase coil, thereby inductively heating the stator core. Capacitors are respectively provided between a power supply configured to supply the three-phase alternating current to ends of the three-phase coil and each one of the ends of coils of respective phases in the three-phase coil, whereby a circuit comprising the three-phase coil serves as a resonant circuit when the three-phase alternating current is made to pass through the three-phase coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki URANO, Akihide Shimmei, Akihide Takehara
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Patent number: 11808736Abstract: The fixing force evaluation method of the present embodiment includes the natural frequency measurement step of measuring the natural frequency of the stator in which the tooth portions and the stator coil are fixed by the insulating paper, and the fixing force evaluation step of evaluating that the fixing force of the insulating paper is larger, when the natural frequency of the stator measured in the natural frequency measurement step is equal to more than a predetermined determination frequency, compared to when the natural frequency is lower than the determination frequency. Thus, since the fixing force of the insulating paper is evaluated in the fixing force evaluation step based on the natural frequency of the stator measured in the natural frequency measurement step, the fixing force of the insulating paper can be evaluated by measuring the natural frequency of the stator without destroying the stator.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Urano, Akihide Shimmei
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Publication number: 20220018813Abstract: The fixing force evaluation method of the present embodiment includes the natural frequency measurement step of measuring the natural frequency of the stator in which the tooth portions and the stator coil are fixed by the insulating paper, and the fixing force evaluation step of evaluating that the fixing force of the insulating paper is larger, when the natural frequency of the stator measured in the natural frequency measurement step is equal to more than a predetermined determination frequency, compared to when the natural frequency is lower than the determination frequency. Thus, since the fixing force of the insulating paper is evaluated in the fixing force evaluation step based on the natural frequency of the stator measured in the natural frequency measurement step, the fixing force of the insulating paper can be evaluated by measuring the natural frequency of the stator without destroying the stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki URANO, Akihide SHIMMEI
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Patent number: 10326342Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a rotor such that a permanent magnet is inserted into a slot hole of a rotor core with a spacer includes: a step of placing, on the rotor core, a guide whose upper end has a curved guide surface such that the guide space continues with the slot hole in the up-down direction; a step of placing the spacer on the guide so that the spacer lies across the guide space; a step of inserting the permanent magnet into the guide space with the spacer being wound around the permanent magnet; and a step of inserting, into the slot hole, the permanent magnet around which the spacer is wound.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Kino, Hiroaki Urano, Kenta Chimata
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Patent number: 10058960Abstract: A caulking method includes: determining a caulking depth which becomes equal to or larger than a necessary release torque that has been set in advance, determining a stroke amount of a push-in part which becomes equal to or larger than the caulking depth that has been determined; determining the stroke amount of a drive unit which becomes equal to or larger than the stroke amount of the push-in part that has been determined, and controlling the drive unit at a target control stroke amount that is equal to or larger than the stroke amount of the drive unit that has been determined but is smaller than the stroke amount of the drive unit at which the caulk part is damaged.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki Urano, Koji Yamada, Masahiko Matsuda, Mitsuhiro Ide, Masayuki Ikemoto
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Patent number: 10020714Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a rotor for performing a magnetizing process of magnetizing a plurality of magnet materials that are assembled in a rotor core. A magnetization device is used which has a coil group configured of a plurality of coils that are disposed side by side in a manner that winding directions of adjacent coils are opposite to each other, the coil group is configured of sub coils at both ends and two or more main coils between the sub coils, and all of the coils are connected in series. Further, in the magnetizing process, a partial magnetization of magnetizing the magnet material among the plurality of magnet materials to which magnetic flux interlinking with two adjacent main coils is applied is performed a plurality of times, so as to magnetize all the plurality of magnet materials.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro Okada, Hiroaki Urano, Katsuhiko Tatebe, Fumiki Tanahashi, Michitaka Hori
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Publication number: 20170040875Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a rotor such that a permanent magnet is inserted into a slot hole of a rotor core with a spacer includes: a step of placing, on the rotor core, a guide whose upper end has a curved guide surface such that the guide space continues with the slot hole in the up-down direction; a step of placing the spacer on the guide so that the spacer lies across the guide space; a step of inserting the permanent magnet into the guide space with the spacer being wound around the permanent magnet; and a step of inserting, into the slot hole, the permanent magnet around which the spacer is wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro KINO, Hiroaki URANO, Kenta CHIMATA
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Publication number: 20160296992Abstract: A caulking method includes: determining a caulking depth which becomes equal to or larger than a necessary release torque that has been set in advance, determining a stroke amount of a push-in part which becomes equal to or larger than the caulking depth that has been determined; determining the stroke amount of a drive unit which becomes equal to or larger than the stroke amount of the push-in part that has been determined, and controlling the drive unit at a target control stroke amount that is equal to or larger than the stroke amount of the drive unit that has been determined but is smaller than the stroke amount of the drive unit at which the caulk part is damaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki URANO, Koji YAMADA, Masahiko MATSUDA, Mitsuhiro IDE, Masayuki IKEMOTO
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Publication number: 20160233750Abstract: A rotor core heating device (100) is configured to heat an inner peripheral side surface and an outer peripheral side surface of a rotor core (150) through induction heating. The rotor core has a hollow cylindrical shape. The rotor core heating device includes a first coil (110), a second coil (120) and a magnetic flux shielding jig (170). The first coil is disposed inside the rotor core and is configured to heat the inner peripheral side surface of the rotor core through induction heating. The second coil is disposed outside the rotor core and is configured to heat the outer peripheral side surface of the rotor core through induction heating. The magnetic flux shielding jig has a hollow cylindrical shape and is disposed opposite a first end surface of the rotor core with a gap provided between the first end surface and the magnetic flux shielding jig in an axial direction of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobutaka NIBE, Masayuki MATSUSHITA, Koji YAMADA, Hiroaki URANO, Kohei YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20160079833Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a rotor for performing a magnetizing process of magnetizing a plurality of magnet materials that are assembled in a rotor core. A magnetization device is used which has a coil group configured of a plurality of coils that are disposed side by side in a manner that winding directions of adjacent coils are opposite to each other, the coil group is configured of sub coils at both ends and two or more main coils between the sub coils, and all of the coils are connected in series. Further, in the magnetizing process, a partial magnetization of magnetizing the magnet material among the plurality of magnet materials to which magnetic flux interlinking with two adjacent main coils is applied is performed a plurality of times, so as to magnetize all the plurality of magnet materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: March 17, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO, Katsuhiko TATEBE, Fumiki TANAHASHI, Michitaka HORI
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Patent number: 9251926Abstract: A collective conductor includes a plurality of conductive wires that is arranged collectively; and a copper foil that is wound around the collectively-arranged conductive wires and fusion-bonded to the conductive wires, and the copper foil has a tin plating on the side in contact with the conductive wires.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro Okada, Hiroaki Urano
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Publication number: 20150340146Abstract: A magnetizing device of a rotor core capable of suppressing deformation of electromagnetic steel sheets is provided. A magnetizing device of a rotor core according to one aspect of the present invention is a magnetizing device of a rotor core in which electromagnetic steel sheets are laminated. The magnetizing device includes: a magnetizing yoke to magnetize the rotor core; and holding means for holding peripheries of the electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated from a direction in which the electromagnetic steel sheets are laminated. It is therefore possible to suppress deformation of the electromagnetic steel sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki MATSUSHITA, Hirotaka Mori, Hiroaki Urano
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Patent number: 9088192Abstract: The present application has a purpose to provide a conductor wire for motor capable of improving durability against bending, and a coil for motor using the conductor wire for motor. One aspect of the invention, therefore, provides a conductor wire for motor comprising a fine wire assembly and a coating member covering an outer peripheral surface of the fine wire assembly, the fine wire assembly consisting of a plurality of fine wires assembled in a bundle, and each of the fine wires including a conductor and an insulating part provided on an outer peripheral surface of the conductor, wherein the coating member is made of metal, and the coating member has an electrical resistance value larger than an electrical resistance value of the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Urano
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Patent number: 8973251Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator wherein a stator core is fixed by a centering jig, and in this state, a fixing hole is formed in a flange portion provided on a fastening ring for the stator core, using a central position as a reference for position, by drilling with a drill. The fixing hole is opened to be located at a distance relative to the central position. In a plan view, the fixing hole is opened at a predetermined central angle interval (for example, intervals of 120°) relative to the central position.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2009Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hiroaki Urano, Atomi Arakawa
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Patent number: 8803378Abstract: A rotating electrical machine (100) is driven by a three-phase AC current and is provided with a stator core (13), a molded resin (12) for covering a coil wound on the stator core, a rotor core (40), a shaft (11) provided to the rotor core (40), a terminal base (20) provided to a coil end section, and a case (30) for covering the rotating electrical machine (100). Power cables extending from the terminal base (20) are led out of the case (30) through a case terminal box (31). A temperature sensor (22) is affixed in a hole in the molded resin (12) by the terminal base (20) and measures the temperature in the vicinity of a heat producing source.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomoka Sonohara, Hiroaki Urano, Yasuji Taketsuna, Satoshi Murata, Yasuaki Tahara, Kenji Ishida
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Patent number: 8720042Abstract: A stator manufacturing method which manufactures an insulated conductor coil and mounts this coil to the core, the insulated conductor coil being formed by deforming an insulated conductor into a shape having rectilinear in-slot conductor sections and coil end sections having bent sections, the conductor having an enamel layer formed on the outer periphery thereof and also having an extruded resin coating layer formed on the outer periphery of the enamel layer, comprises: a first step of forming the conductor coil by deforming the conductor to form the bent sections while the coating layer of the conductor is in a non-crystalline resin state; a second step of heating the extruded resin coating layer of the conductor coil to change into a crystalline resin state to a temperature higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature; and a third step of mounting the conductor coil to the core.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hideaki Kimura, Hiroaki Urano
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Publication number: 20140115876Abstract: A manufacturing method of a segment coil includes i) bending a wire assembly in which a plurality of conducting wires are twisted together in a manner such that the conducting wires are able to slide with respect to one another, and ii) compression molding the bent wire assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO
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Publication number: 20140096999Abstract: A collective conductor includes a plurality of conductive wires that is arranged collectively; and a copper foil that is wound around the collectively-arranged conductive wires and fusion-bonded to the conductive wires, and the copper foil has a tin plating on the side in contact with the conductive wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO
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Publication number: 20140015367Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator of a rotary electric machine, the stator including cassette coils each formed of a flat rectangular conductor wire wound in a distributed winding form and a stator core including slots in which the cassette coils are inserted, includes the steps of: assembling a plurality of adjacent in-phase cassette coils to form a set of assembled coils; winding an insulation sheet cut in a predetermined shape around an outer periphery of a proximity section of the assembled coils in which the cassette coils are located close to each other; fixing end portions of the wound insulation sheet to each other; and overlapping sets of the assembled coils in a circumferential direction of the stator core, each set being bound together by the insulation sheet having the fixed end portions, and inserting the assembled coils in the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2011Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuji Umehara, Hiroaki Urano, Hideaki Kimura
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Patent number: 8590137Abstract: A stator provided with annular split stator cores, formed by stacking steel plates. Each plate includes a yoke and a stator tooth. The cores include a yoke portion a stator tooth portion. The stator is manufactured by arranging an electromagnetic steel plate between a first die and a second die. The first die has a hole shaped as a steel plate. The second die has a projection inserted into the hole and shaped as a steel plate. The steel plates are formed by the first and the second dies. In a gap between an inner surface of the first die that defines the hole and an outer surface of the projection, a gap at a part that forms the stator tooth portion is larger than a gap at a part that defines a circumferential end surface of the yoke portion located in a circumferential direction of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Yasuaki Tahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Kenji Honda