Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Muto
Hirofumi Muto 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: 20240113577Abstract: A rotor includes stacked core plates, a hole, and a magnet inserted into the hole. A holding core plate has a through hole as part of the hole, a protrusion protruding inwardly from an inner surface of the through hole and being in contact with the magnet, and a displacement permission portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the protrusion and permitting displacement of the protrusion in the opposite direction. The rotor includes at least one of a magnet-side chamfered portion in which the front side edge portion of the magnet is chamfered or a protrusion-side chamfered portion in which the tip end edge portion of the protrusion is chamfered. A sum of lengths of the magnet-side and protrusion-side chamfered portions is equal to or longer than a length of the protrusion in the protrusion direction as the rotor is viewed from the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
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Publication number: 20240113576Abstract: A rotor includes core plates, a hole, and a magnet in the hole. The core plates include a first core plate and a second core plate frontward of the first core plate. The first core plate includes a first hole, a first protrusion protruding inward of the first hole, and a first portion located in an opposite direction to a protrusion direction of the first protrusion as viewed from the axial direction and permitting deformation of the first protrusion in the opposite direction. The second core plate includes a second hole, and at least one of a recess recessed in the opposite direction and overlapping the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction, or a second portion located in the opposite direction with respect to the first protrusion as viewed in the axial direction and permitting deformation of an inner surface of the second hole in the opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Yosuke TANAKA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Hideki TSUJI, Yuya DANJO
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Patent number: 11316416Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuaki Nakahara, Keisuke Saito, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto
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Patent number: 11056938Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets are inserted into the rotor core. Each of the laminate steel plates includes a base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The magnets are inserted into the penetrating portions and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. Space portions are provided between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A circumferential length of the pieces is shorter than a circumferential length of the magnets.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
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Patent number: 10923974Abstract: A rotor core includes first and second laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The first laminate steel plate includes a first base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately positioned on a radially outer side of the first base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The second laminated steel sheet includes a second base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the second base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and extending in a circumferential direction. The rotor core is defined by the first laminate steel plates and at least one of the second laminate steel plates laminated in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
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Patent number: 10833569Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Migita, Takeshi Honda, Hirofumi Muto, Osamu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Yasuaki Nakahara
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Publication number: 20190214865Abstract: A rotor core includes first and second laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The first laminate steel plate includes a first base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately positioned on a radially outer side of the first base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and disposed at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The second laminated steel sheet includes a second base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and annular portions separately disposed on a radially outer side of the second base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and extending in a circumferential direction. The rotor core is defined by the first laminate steel plates and at least one of the second laminate steel plates laminated in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20190214889Abstract: A rotor core includes laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis. The laminate steel plates each include a base portion on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The laminate steel plates are laminated in an axial direction. The laminated steel plate at an upper end in the axial direction includes at least one of an outward projection extending radially outward from an outer edge portion of the base portion and an inward projection extending radially inward from an inner edge portion of the piece, and the laminated steel plate at a lower end in the axial direction includes an intervening portion between the base portion and the piece portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20190214866Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core in which laminate steel plates extending in a radial direction with respect to a central axis are laminated in an axial direction, and magnets are inserted into the rotor core. Each of the laminate steel plates includes a base portion positioned on a radially outer side of the central axis, and pieces separately disposed on a radially outer side of the base portion with penetrating portions therebetween, and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction. The magnets are inserted into the penetrating portions and arranged side by side at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. Space portions are provided between the magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A circumferential length of the pieces is shorter than a circumferential length of the magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Takayuki MIGITA, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi KITAGAKI, Yasuaki NAKAHARA
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Publication number: 20190190360Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor includes forming plates each including a scrap portion that has a center hole and core plate portions that are disposed continuously with the scrap portion on an inner side of the center hole and that each defines a portion of a corresponding one of the outer cores forming a multilayer body including the outer cores by stacking the plates, setting at least a portion of the multilayer body and a portion of the inner core in a mold with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, forming a molded body by pouring a molten filling material into a gap in the mold and forming the filling section, at least a portion of the filling section being positioned between the outer cores, and separating the scrap portion and the core plate portions from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Yasuaki NAKAHARA, Keisuke SAITO, Takeshi HONDA, Hirofumi MUTO, Osamu FUJIMOTO
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Patent number: 7721563Abstract: An apparatus for calculating torque of a variable capacity compressor, including: a sensor configured to detect internal and external states of an air conditioner; an OFF-torque calculator configured to calculate and store a steady-state torque according to a state detected by the sensor just before a clutch is turned off; a start torque calculator configured to calculate a start torque according to a state detected by the sensor after the clutch is turned on; a steady-state full-stroke calculator configured to calculate a steady-state full-stroke torque based on an assumption that the compressor was in a full-stroke-state according to a state detected by the sensor after the clutch is turned on; and a determiner configured to provide, when an elapsed time after the clutch is turned on is less than a predetermined time, a maximum one of the torque values calculated by the OFF-torque calculator, start torque calculator, and steady-state full-stroke calculator.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2006Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignees: Calsonic Kansei Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Masaki Kawachi, Masanori Ogawa, Hirofumi Muto, Daisuke Shimizu
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Publication number: 20060272343Abstract: An apparatus for calculating torque of a variable capacity compressor, including: a sensor configured to detect internal and external states of an air conditioner; an OFF-torque calculator configured to calculate and store a steady-state torque according to a state detected by the sensor just before a clutch is turned off; a start torque calculator configured to calculate a start torque according to a state detected by the sensor after the clutch is turned on; a steady-state full-stroke calculator configured to calculate a steady-state full-stroke torque based on an assumption that the compressor was in a full-stroke-state according to a state detected by the sensor after the clutch is turned on; and a determiner configured to provide, when an elapsed time after the clutch is turned on is less than a predetermined time, a maximum one of the torque values calculated by the OFF-torque calculator, start torque calculator, and steady-state full-stroke calculator.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventors: Eiji Takahashi, Masaki Kawachi, Masanori Ogawa, Hirofumi Muto, Daisuke Shimizu
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Patent number: 6548954Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has a panel portion in which a black matrix layer and plural phosphor layers are formed on the inner surface of its faceplate. The black matrix layer is provided with first-color holes for a first phosphor layer and second-color holes for a second phosphor layer. The first-color holes and the second-color holes become gradually larger in diameter from the central portion toward the corner portions of the faceplate, and the rate of variation in the diameters of the first-color holes and the rate of variation in the diameters of the second-color holes are different from each other. According to the above-described construction, there is provided a cathode ray tube in which white uniformity is improved over the entire screen.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2000Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.Inventors: Kazuki Ishii, Hirofumi Muto