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).

  • Publication number: 20230369951
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki URANO, Akihide Shimmei, Akihide Takehara
  • Patent number: 11808736
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Akihide Shimmei
  • Publication number: 20220018813
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki URANO, Akihide SHIMMEI
  • Patent number: 10326342
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Kino, Hiroaki Urano, Kenta Chimata
  • Patent number: 10058960
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Koji Yamada, Masahiko Matsuda, Mitsuhiro Ide, Masayuki Ikemoto
  • Patent number: 10020714
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro Okada, Hiroaki Urano, Katsuhiko Tatebe, Fumiki Tanahashi, Michitaka Hori
  • Publication number: 20170040875
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro KINO, Hiroaki URANO, Kenta CHIMATA
  • Publication number: 20160296992
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroaki URANO, Koji YAMADA, Masahiko MATSUDA, Mitsuhiro IDE, Masayuki IKEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160233750
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobutaka NIBE, Masayuki MATSUSHITA, Koji YAMADA, Hiroaki URANO, Kohei YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20160079833
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO, Katsuhiko TATEBE, Fumiki TANAHASHI, Michitaka HORI
  • Patent number: 9251926
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro Okada, Hiroaki Urano
  • Publication number: 20150340146
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki MATSUSHITA, Hirotaka Mori, Hiroaki Urano
  • Patent number: 9088192
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroaki Urano
  • Patent number: 8973251
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Endo, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hiroaki Urano, Atomi Arakawa
  • Patent number: 8803378
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoka Sonohara, Hiroaki Urano, Yasuji Taketsuna, Satoshi Murata, Yasuaki Tahara, Kenji Ishida
  • Patent number: 8720042
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Hiroaki Urano
  • Publication number: 20140115876
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO
  • Publication number: 20140096999
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ichiro OKADA, Hiroaki URANO
  • Publication number: 20140015367
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuji Umehara, Hiroaki Urano, Hideaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 8590137
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroaki Urano, Eiji Yamada, Kazutaka Tatematsu, Yasuhiro Endo, Yasuaki Tahara, Akihiro Tanaka, Kenji Honda