Patents by Inventor Hironori TSUIKI

Hironori TSUIKI 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: 20230344298
    Abstract: Provided is an armature for a rotating electric machine, including: an armature core; and a plurality of windings, wherein the armature core includes a plurality of teeth, wherein each of the plurality of windings includes: a slot portion; and a coil end portion, wherein a coil terminal which is an end portion of each of the plurality of windings is formed on the coil end portion, wherein the armature further includes a wire connection plate including: a power feeding unit to which power is supplied from an outside; and a component having an insulating property and being integrated together with the power feeding unit, wherein the power feeding unit is joined to the coil terminal of at least one winding of the plurality of windings through a first connecting portion, and wherein the wire connection plate is fixed to the coil end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Kazuya HASEGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230327523
    Abstract: Provided is a stator in which size increase in the radial direction is suppressed and accuracy of temperature detection is improved. The stator includes: a cylindrical stator core; a plurality of coil conductors each having a coil body located in a slot of the stator core and a conductor end protruding from the stator core; a plurality of connection wires extending in a circumferential direction of the stator core and connecting the conductor ends separated from each other in the circumferential direction; and a temperature sensor, wherein at least two of the connection wires have parts arranged with an interval therebetween in an axial direction of the stator core, and the temperature sensor is located in the interval and held between the connection wires on both sides in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Jumpei YASUTOMI, Hironori Tsuiki, Kazuya Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20230108657
    Abstract: In the electric rotating machine, a crank portion that is displaced in a radial direction of an armature iron core is provided in an apex portion of a coil end portion; a first oblique side that slants with respect to an axis-direction endface of the armature iron core connects a first coil conductor portion with the crank portion; a second oblique side that slants with respect to the axis-direction endface of the armature iron core connects a second coil conductor portion with the crank portion; at least one of the first oblique side and the second oblique side has an inflection point, before being connected with the crank portion, that functions as a base point of a bending portion that is bent toward a radially outside of the armature iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Jumpei YASUTOMI
  • Patent number: 11469638
    Abstract: Two types of insulating members, i.e., end surface insulators and slot insulators are provided. On tooth portion sides of both side surfaces in the circumferential direction of tooth end surface covering portions of the end surface insulator, first cutouts recessed in the circumferential direction are provided so as to extend in the radial direction. A part axially upward of the first cutouts protrudes in the circumferential direction to form a first overhang portion, and the slot insulator is accommodated between the first overhang portions of two end surface insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kitano, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuya Kumagai, Ryo Ishida, Hironori Tsuiki, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Patent number: 11271457
    Abstract: The rotating electrical machine includes a rotor held so as to be able to rotate, and a stator that opposes the rotor and has a stator iron core in which a multiple of slots are formed. The stator includes a coil wound around a toothed portion that forms the multiple of slots and an annular frame that holds an outer periphery of the stator iron core, a trunk portion and a flange portion are formed in the frame, a notch portion is provided in the trunk portion and the flange portion, the stator iron core is held by the trunk portion, and a reinforcing member that straddles the notch portion is provided on the flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Onoue, Hiroyuki Takashima, Hironori Tsuiki, Takuya Uryu
  • Patent number: 11050312
    Abstract: A stator includes an iron core cylindrical part, multiple teeth, and a coil. The iron core cylindrical part has multiple circular arc-shaped core back parts. The teeth radially inwardly protrude from an inner circumferential wall surface of the iron core cylindrical part. The coil is wound around each of the teeth. A first coil and a second coil are disposed so as to hold a temperature measuring element therebetween. The first coil has an outer surface provided with a gap made of a recess or a space, which is formed by skipping winding a coil wire. The temperature measuring element for measuring temperature of the coil is inserted in the gap and is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Totsuka, Hironori Tsuiki, Yuki Yamamoto, Takanori Onoue
  • Publication number: 20210143692
    Abstract: The rotating electrical machine includes a rotor held so as to be able to rotate, and a stator that opposes the rotor and has a stator iron core in which a multiple of slots are formed. The stator includes a coil wound around a toothed portion that forms the multiple of slots and an annular frame that holds an outer periphery of the stator iron core, a trunk portion and a flange portion are formed in the frame, a notch portion is provided in the trunk portion and the flange portion, the stator iron core is held by the trunk portion, and a reinforcing member that straddles the notch portion is provided on the flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Onoue, Hiroyuki Takashima, Hironori Tsuiki, Takuya Uryu
  • Publication number: 20210050757
    Abstract: Two types of insulating members, i.e., end surface insulators and slot insulators are provided. On tooth portion sides of both side surfaces in the circumferential direction of tooth end surface covering portions of the end surface insulator, first cutouts recessed in the circumferential direction are provided so as to extend in the radial direction. A part axially upward of the first cutouts protrudes in the circumferential direction to form a first overhang portion, and the slot insulator is accommodated between the first overhang portions of two end surface insulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi KITANO, Masahiro NIGO, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Ryo ISHIDA, Hironori TSUIKI, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Patent number: 10903709
    Abstract: An insulating holder is provided with a bobbin portion and bus bar supporting portions, and the bus bar supporting portions have bus bar walls which electrically separate each of the bus bars, and step portions are formed, in a lamination direction of the bus bars, at the bus bar walls. Gap portions are formed, between the bus bars and the bus bar walls, in a longitudinal direction of the bus bars and in a lamination direction of the cores, at the step portion, and an insulating cap, which complements the gap portions from the outside and maintains the bus bars, is provided, in a state where the bus bars are installed to the bus bar walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitta, Hironori Tsuiki
  • Patent number: 10693337
    Abstract: An annular conductor retaining device has a retention guide portion formed by blades arranged in a cylindrical shape with gaps therebetween. An annular conductor is inserted into two of the gaps across a plurality of the blades. The next annular conductor is inserted into the gaps to partially overlap the previously arranged annular conductor. This step is repeated so that the annular conductors are arranged in a spiral shape in the retention guide portion. The retention guide portion and the inner circumferential part of the core are fitted to each other, and the gaps and the slots of the core are made to coincide with each other. A pusher is inserted into the inner circumferential part of the retention guide portion so that the annular conductors are caught on the pusher, to move them in the axial direction into the slots of the core, and thus become the coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10680481
    Abstract: Insulators are respectively disposed such that longitudinal directions of trunk portions are oriented in a radial direction of teeth, and so as to place bottom surfaces of the trunk portions alongside two axial end surfaces of the teeth, concentrated winding coils are configured by winding conductor wires so as to be wound in multiple layers around the teeth so as to pass through a concave space that is formed by the trunk portions and first and second flange portions at two axial ends of the teeth, the second flange portion is disposed on an end surface of a core back of a stator core, and a temperature detecting element is installed by being inserted into an element insertion aperture that is formed on the second flange portion so as to be able to detect a temperature of a coil end of the concentrated winding coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Tomohiro Bessho, Kazuyuki Iwamoto, Hironori Tsuiki, Shogo Okamoto, Ken Nishikawa, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20200169135
    Abstract: A stator includes an iron core cylindrical part, multiple teeth, and a coil. The iron core cylindrical part has multiple circular arc-shaped core back parts. The teeth radially inwardly protrude from an inner circumferential wall surface of the iron core cylindrical part. The coil is wound around each of the teeth. A first coil and a second coil are disposed so as to hold a temperature measuring element therebetween. The first coil has an outer surface provided with a gap made of a recess or a space, which is formed by skipping winding a coil wire. The temperature measuring element for measuring temperature of the coil is inserted in the gap and is assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka Totsuka, Hironori Tsuiki, Yuki Yamamoto, Takanori Onoue
  • Patent number: 10658888
    Abstract: A stator is assembled by stacking, in the axial direction, a plurality of magnetic steel sheets having tooth portions. The steel sheets include connected tooth steel sheets in which the inner-circumferential-side end portions of the tooth portions are connected via connection portions in an annular shape along the circumferential direction, and non-connected tooth steel sheets which are separated from each other with the tooth portions not connected to each other. The connected tooth steel sheets and the non-connected tooth steel sheets are joined to each other in the axial direction via swage portions provided in the tooth portions. The thickness of each connection portion is smaller than the thickness of the other part of each steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Koji Kawamura, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10594195
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stator winding coil includes: a bulging portion forming step that forms a bulging portion on a conductor wire; a crank portion forming step that forms a crank portion on the central portion of the bulging portion; an oblique portion forming step that forms oblique portions on the conductor wire at two ends of the bulging portion; a rectilinear portion forming step that forms rectilinear portions on the conductor wire at opposite ends of the oblique portions from the bulging portion; and a circular arc forming step that forms the oblique portions into a circular arc shape after forming the rectilinear portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Tatsuro Hino, Atsushi Sakaue, Kazunori Muto, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Kohei Egashira, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Patent number: 10491056
    Abstract: A stator in which stator coils are formed by a plurality of unit coils arranged so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction and each having: a first slot-accommodated portion; a second slot-accommodated portion; a first terminal wire extending from the first slot-accommodated portion; a second terminal wire extending from the second slot-accommodated portion and shifted from the first terminal wire by one line of a conductive wire; a terminal-side coil end portion; and first and second anti-terminal-side coil end portions, wherein the first terminal wire and the second terminal wire of the respective different unit coils are joined with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Motoishi, Hiroyuki Akita, Koji Kawamura, Akira Hashimoto, Hironori Tsuiki, Wakaki Miyaji, Koji Tamura
  • Publication number: 20190356190
    Abstract: An insulating holder is comprised of a bobbin portion and bus bar supporting portions, and the bus bar supporting portions have bus bar walls which electrically separate each of bus bars, and step portions are formed, in a lamination direction of the bus bars, at the bus bar walls, and gap portions are formed, between the bus bars and the bus bar walls, in a longitudinal direction of the bus bars and in a lamination direction of cores, at the step portion, and an insulating cap, which complements the gap portions from the outside and maintains the bus bars, is included, in a state where the bus bars are installed to the bus bar walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KITTA, Hironori TSUIKI
  • Patent number: 10461591
    Abstract: A stator winding is formed by mounting winding bodies individually into pairs of slots of a stator core separated by a predetermined number of slots, the winding bodies each being formed by winding a jointless, continuous conductor wire coated with insulation for m turns into a helical shape such that end portions of rectilinear portions are linked by coil ends, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, and the coil ends include a top portion that displaces by a predetermined amount in a radial direction at an approximately central portion between the linked rectilinear portions, the radial displacement at the top portions is approximately a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (m?1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10432070
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator having an armature core having slots formed between magnetic pole teeth, and a plurality of coils each of which is wound so as to straddle a plurality of the magnetic pole teeth; and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed at certain intervals on an outer peripheral surface of the magnetic yoke, and the coils include an armature coil for driving the rotating electric machine and a non-armature coil for magnetizing or demagnetizing the permanent magnets of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Hironori Tsuiki, Akira Hashimoto, Takashi Umeda
  • Patent number: 10333360
    Abstract: An iron core member has: first divided yoke portions; second divided yoke portions alternately arranged with the first divided yoke portions; a first tooth portion extending from one circumferential end of each first divided yoke portion, a second tooth portion extending from the other circumferential end; a third tooth portion extending from one circumferential end of the second divided yoke portion on the second tooth portion side, and a fourth tooth portion extending from the other circumferential end. A tooth end portion of the first tooth portion and a tooth end portion of the adjacent fourth tooth portion are integrally joined at a first tooth end joint portion, and a tooth end portion of the second tooth portion and a tooth end portion of the adjacent third tooth portion are integrally joined at a second tooth end joint portion, thereby providing one continuous sheet of the core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akira Hashimoto, Masaya Inoue, Akihiro Yamamura, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki
  • Patent number: 10250092
    Abstract: Winding bodies are configured such that radially inner terminals of a conductor wire extend outward at a first axial end of an armature core from a radially innermost position inside slots, and radially outer terminals of the conductor wire extend outward at the first axial end of the armature core from a radially outermost position inside the slots, and respective phase windings of an armature winding are configured by directly joining together the radially inner terminals and by directly joining together the radially outer terminals of the winding bodies that constitute identical phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto