Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Fukasaku

Hiroshi Fukasaku 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: 20120057999
    Abstract: The motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft and an electric motor all disposed in the housing, a protective film and a fixing resin. The electric motor is adapted to rotate the rotary shaft thereby to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor has a rotor fixed on the rotary shaft and a stator supported by the housing. The rotor has a permanent magnet and a magnet hole in which the permanent magnet is inserted. The magnet hole extends in an axial direction of the rotor. The protective film is formed on a surface of the permanent magnet for improving corrosion resistance of the permanent magnet. The fixing resin is filled in at least part of a gap between the permanent magnet and a wall of the magnet hole for fixing the permanent magnet to the wall of the magnet hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Minoru Mera, Kensuke Ikai, Takayuki Kato, Takahiro Sugioka, Takahiro Hoshida
  • Publication number: 20120055193
    Abstract: The motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft and an electric motor all disposed in the housing, and a resin film. The housing has a suction port and a discharge port. The compression mechanism is adapted to compress refrigerant drawn into the housing through the suction port and to discharge the compressed refrigerant out of the housing through the discharge port. The electric motor is adapted to rotate the rotary shaft to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor has a rotor fixed on the rotary shaft and a stator supported by the housing. The rotor has a rotor body, a permanent magnet and an end plate. The rotor body has a magnet hole in which the permanent magnet is inserted. The end plate closes an opening of the magnet hole. The resin film coats an outer surface of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Publication number: 20110236234
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a compression mechanism and an electric motor. The housing includes a suction port and a discharge port. The compression mechanism is disposed in the housing and compresses refrigerant flowed through the suction port into the compression mechanism and discharges the refrigerant through the discharge port. The electric motor is disposed in the housing and drives the rotary shaft to rotate to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor includes a rotor fixedly mounted on the rotary shaft and a stator fixed to the housing. The rotor includes a permanent magnet and a compressor interior environment improvement agent containing at least one of an absorbent for absorbing moisture and a neutralizer for neutralizing acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUKASAKU, Atsushi Saito, Masato Takamatsu
  • Publication number: 20110210639
    Abstract: A stator of a motor includes a stator core having a plurality of teeth forming slots between any two adjacent teeth and a plurality of phase coils provided in the slots, each formed by wave winding and made of a continuous wire. Each phase coil includes a first wave winding bundle and a second wave winding bundle that is passed through a first slot and a second slot. The first slot is located adjacent to one side of a group of slots through which the phase coils other than said each phase coil are passed and the second slot is located adjacent to the other side of the group of slots. The first wave winding bundle is passed through a third slot and a fourth slot. The third slot is located adjacent to the first slot on the opposite side of the first slot from the group of slots and the fourth slot is located adjacent to the second slot on the opposite side of the second slot from the group of slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taku Adaniya, Shinichi Okuyama, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Publication number: 20110140551
    Abstract: A heat recovery system includes an electric rotary device, a heat exchanger, a pipe and a reservoir. The electric rotary device has a stator core and a housing. The stator core is wounded with a coil. The heat exchanger provides heat exchanging between first and second heat medium. The first heat medium is in contact with the coil and absorbs heat from the coil. The pipe connects the electric rotary device to the heat exchanger and transfers the first heat medium. The reservoir is formed in the housing and stores the first heat medium. The electric rotary device has an insulative body. The insulative body prevents heat of the first heat medium from being dissipated outside of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taku ADANIYA, Hiroshi Fukasaku, Naoya Yokomachi, Junya Suzuki, Masahiro Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110113809
    Abstract: A heating and cooling system, which includes a refrigerant circulation circuit, first and second targets, first and second refrigerant circuits, a first switching section, and a control device, is disclosed. The first switching section is selectively switched between a first position at which a refrigerant discharged from a discharge area of a compressor is permitted to flow to the first target and a second position at which the refrigerant is not permitted to flow to the first target. The control device switches the first switching section to the first position so that the refrigerant circulation circuit functions as a first refrigerant circuit, thereby heating the first target and cooling the second target. The control device switches the first switching section to the second position so that the refrigerant circulation circuit functions as a second refrigerant circuit, thereby cooling only the second target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taku ADANIYA, Hiroshi Fukasaku, Naoya Yokomachi, Junya Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20110062814
    Abstract: The permanent magnet embedded rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a plurality of flat permanent magnets. The rotor has on an outer periphery thereof a plurality of pairs of concave portions and a plurality of convex portions. Each of the convex portions is located between the pair of concave portions. The concave portions are formed at radially outward of respective adjacent magnetic pole ends of the permanent magnet. A bridge is provided in the rotor at an angular position about an axis of the rotor between opposed magnetic pole ends of two adjacent permanent magnets. Each concave portion at radially outward of the magnetic pole end of the permanent magnet is located close to the center of the same permanent magnet in relation to the bridge next to the permanent magnet in the circumferential direction of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Taku ADANIYA, Minoru MERA, Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Publication number: 20100315024
    Abstract: An inverter device includes a filter circuit, an inverter circuit, an electric current detecting circuit, a voltage detecting circuit, a control circuit for outputting a drive signal so as to switch switching devices ON and OFF and an internal power supply. The control circuit includes a shutdown circuit for stopping outputting the drive signal from the control circuit to the switching devices when an electric current flowing through a motor is an overcurrent or a voltage across the inverter circuit is an overvoltage. The shutdown circuit also stops outputting the drive signal from the control circuit to the switching devices when the voltage outputted from the internal power supply is not stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Kazuki NAJIMA, Fumihiro KAGAWA, Hiroshi FUKASAKU
  • Patent number: 7767105
    Abstract: A method of fixing a stator core in a cylindrical housing includes the following steps. The first step is a step of blanking a plurality of stator core sheets from an electromagnetic steel sheet by using a die. The die has a circular outside contour for blanking the stator core sheets from the electromagnetic steel sheet and each of the blanked stator core sheets has an outside contour. The second step is a step of forming the stator core by laminating the blanked stator core sheets one on another. The third step is a step of setting a non-fixing position of the stator core to the housing in such an angular position where difference in diametral dimension of the outside contour between the die and the stator core is relatively large.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Patent number: 7683517
    Abstract: A method for mounting coil onto stator for rotary electric machine. The method includes forming coil pieces by winding wire with flat cross section into single row lamination state including wire layers aligned along perpendicular line to flat surfaces of wire. The coil is formed for first portion to be inserted in slot and second portion not inserted in slot appear alternately along the coil. The method displaces wire layers at the first portion changing the single row lamination state to connectively laminated state where wire layers at portion to be inserted in slot each adjacent pair of the wire layers partially overlap with respect to direction perpendicular to flat wire surfaces. The method includes inserting wires of first portion into slot, passing each wire layer through slot opening successively from the top wire layer of lamination and displacing each wire layer at first portion from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Taku Adaniya
  • Patent number: 7652405
    Abstract: A plurality of convex portions are located inside of a virtual circumferential surface. Each convex portion connects an adjacent pair of circumferential portions with each other. Each convex portion is an arcuate curve bulging radially outward. Each convex portion defines a minimum radius. A difference between a radius R and the minimum radius is a depth Dh. Dhr=Dh×25.5/R. A range of an angular width A in relation to circumferential portion and a range of the depth Dh are set by the following expression, (5.6×Dhr+11.3)°×6/p?A<35°×6/p and A<[360/p?2×arccos]°??(1) Therefore, decrease in torque is prevented. Torque pulsation is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Taku Adaniya, Minoru Mera, Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Ai Saeki, Masatoshi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Patent number: 7649296
    Abstract: A stator includes a first through a third windings, and a first and a second interphase insulators. The first interphase insulator has a first pair of strip-shaped insulating sheets and a first connecting portion. End portions of the insulating sheets are connected to the respective opposite end portions to form joints. The first connecting portion connects the insulating sheets so that the joints are shifted so as to be disposed in a region avoiding an interference with the first winding on both of a lead-extending side and the opposite side. In the second interphase insulator similarly constructed, a second connecting portion connects a second pair of the strip-shaped insulating sheets so that joints are shifted so as to be disposed in a region avoiding an interference with the third winding on both of the lead-extending side and the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Minoru Mera, Kiyoshi Uetsuji
  • Publication number: 20090269222
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a cylindrical stator that is formed with a plurality of slots. The cylindrical stator has polyphase coils that are formed by winding a plurality of conductive wires in the slots to have polyphase, a wire bundle and an insulating tube covering the wire bundle. Each conductive wire includes a core wire and an insulator that covering the core wire. The wire bundle has a drawing portion, a connecting portion and an elongated portion that is elongated between the drawing portion and the connecting portion for increasing creepage distance between the connecting portion and the housing thereby to increase insulation resistance. The connecting portion of the wire bundle provides a neutral point of the electric motor. The elongated portion and the connecting portion of the wire bundle are covered with the insulating tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUKASAKU, Ken SUITOU
  • Patent number: 7560850
    Abstract: An interphase insulating sheet is used in a stator including a core and a multiphase winding having a plurality of phase windings for insulating the phase windings from one another. The interphase insulating sheet includes a cut portion formed in the interphase insulating sheet. The cut portion indicates a direction opposite to a direction in which the interphase insulating sheet is inserted in the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Uetsuji, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Publication number: 20090162221
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor includes a housing having an inlet port, a compression mechanism for compression of refrigerant introduced from an external refrigerant circuit via the inlet port into the housing, an inverter having a heat-generating component, an electric motor driven by the inverter, and a rotary shaft rotated by the electric motor thereby to drive the compression mechanism. The electric motor, the compression mechanism and the inverter are aligned in the housing in axial direction of the rotary shaft. An inlet pipe is connected to the inlet port. The housing has an outer peripheral surface in contact with the inlet pipe. The heat-generating component of the inverter is disposed adjacent to or in contact with the inlet pipe so as to be thermally coupled to the inlet pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Masao Iguchi, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ken Suitou, Tatsushi Mori, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Publication number: 20090162222
    Abstract: A compressor includes a housing having an inlet port, a compression mechanism for compression of refrigerant introduced via the inlet port into the housing, a motor having a stator core and a coil, an inverter for driving the motor, and a rotary shaft rotated by the motor thereby to drive the compression mechanism. The compression mechanism, the motor and the inverter are aligned in the order in the housing in axial direction of the rotary shaft. The coil has a coil end projecting toward the inverter from the stator core and being disposed adjacent to an inner peripheral surface of the housing. The inlet port is located so as to face the coil end. A recess is formed on the inner peripheral surface of the housing for communicating with the inlet port. The recess extends in the axial direction of the rotary shaft toward the inverter beyond the coil end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Masao IGUCHI, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ken Suitou, Tatsushi Mori, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Publication number: 20090151389
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor has a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a motor drive circuit and a housing assembly. The compression mechanism, the electric motor and the motor drive circuit are disposed along the axial direction of the rotary shaft in the housing assembly. The housing assembly has first and second housings. The first housing mounts the electric motor and the compression mechanism. The first housing has first and second mounting lugs formed integrally with the peripheral surface of the first housing. The second housing is joined to the first housing for accommodating the motor drive circuit. The second housing has a third mounting lug formed integrally with the second housing. The first through third mounting lugs are fastened to a mounting object to which the motor-driven compressor is to be mounted by means of fastening members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Masao IGUCHI, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ken Suitou, Hiroshi Fukasaku, Tatsushi Mori, Kazuo Murakami
  • Publication number: 20090155101
    Abstract: A motor-driven compressor has a compression mechanism, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a motor drive circuit, a connecting terminal and a housing assembly. The compression mechanism, the electric motor, and the motor drive circuit are disposed along the axial direction of the rotary shaft in the housing assembly having first through third housings. The first housing is used for mounting the electric motor and the compression mechanism. The second housing has a terminal mounting portion for fixing the connecting terminal. The first and second housings have fastening portions at the radially peripheral portion thereof. The third housing is joined to the second housing to form an accommodation space for accommodating the motor drive circuit. The closed casing is formed by fastening the fastening portions of the first and second housings by means of a first bolt and connecting the second housing to the open end of the first housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Tatsushi Mori, Kazuo Murakami, Masao Iguchi, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Ken Suitou
  • Patent number: 7538468
    Abstract: A housing of an electric motor includes an inner circumferential surface, which includes recesses arranged along the circumferential direction. On an outer circumferential surface of a stator core of a stator are provided protrusions arranged along the circumferential direction. Fitting each protrusion to the corresponding recess fixes the stator core to the housing. A rotor is provided radially inward of the stator. In a state where each protrusion is fitted to the corresponding recess, a pair of side surfaces of each protrusion are retained by a pair of inner side surfaces of the corresponding recess in the circumferential direction of the housing. A gap is formed between an end face of each protrusion and an inner bottom surface of the corresponding recess facing the end face along the entire surface of the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kobayashi, Minoru Mera, Taku Adaniya, Ai Saeki, Hiroshi Fukasaku
  • Patent number: 7531936
    Abstract: A stator includes a cylindrical stator core and a coil. The stator core is formed by stacking a plurality of core sheets. The stator core has a groove formed in an outer circumferential surface thereof and a slot. The coil is inserted in the slot. The groove is located parallel to an axis of the stator core and the slot is skewed with respect to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukasaku, Minoru Mera, Tatsuya Horiba