Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Funakoshi
Hiroshi Funakoshi 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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Patent number: 10927491Abstract: A motor has a two rotors which are independently operated using a single inverter and without being supplied with a complex current. Further the motor is capable of shifting a rotation direction of each of two rotors by performing a magnetizing operation one time and reversing polarities of the shifting magnets when a mode of the motor is shifted from a synchronous mode in which the first rotor and the second rotor rotate in the same direction to a counter mode in which the first rotor and the second rotor rotate in opposite directions, and shifting the mode of the motor to the counter mode while the magnetizing operation is performed one time times and relative positions of the first rotor and the second rotor are changed when the first rotor and the second rotor inertially rotate in the synchronous mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Kenji Kitajima, Masaki Oshige, Nakagawa Yukinori, Tomonori Ueno, Yasumasa Nagasaki, Yasuyuki Sonoda
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Patent number: 10804823Abstract: Provided is a washing machine including: a stator including a coil; a rotor including a plurality of variable magnets each having a magnetic force variable, and rotatable with respect to the stator; a controller configured to control an energizing of the coil to increase or decrease a magnetic force of the variable magnet; and a plurality of position sensors each having a output voltage changed according to a magnetic flux of the variable magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomonori Ueno, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Taro Yoshida, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Yukinori Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Yasumasa Nagasaki
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Patent number: 10753031Abstract: Provided is a washing machine motor capable of efficiently generating torque by improving a winding factor of coils with a relatively simple configuration. The washing machine motor (12) has an outer rotor (20), an inner rotor (30), and a stator (60). The outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) share coils (63) of the stator (60), and a composite current is supplied to the coils (63) such that the outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) are independently driven. The outer rotor (20) has forty eight outer magnets (24) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The inner rotor (30) has forty-two inner magnets (34) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The stator (60) has thirty-six I-shaped cores (61) and the coils (63).Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Yukinori Nakagawa, Kenji Kitajima, Toshihiro Kamii, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Nobuharu Nishikoori, Yasumasa Nagasaki, Takehiro Nakanishi, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Minoru Yoshida, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Tomoyuki Okuno, Katsuyuki Shimakage, Hiroshi Wanatabe, Yuji Akita, Yoshinori Takashima
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Patent number: 10704559Abstract: A vertical pump includes: a rotary shaft; multi-stage impellers; a casing accommodating the multi-stage impellers; a mechanical seal provided in a penetration part of the casing for the rotary shaft; a balance sleeve, the balance sleeve being positioned between a final stage impeller of the multi-stage impellers and the mechanical seal in the penetration part for the rotary shaft; an intermediate chamber provided between the rotary shaft and the casing and provided on an opposite side of the multi-stage impellers across the balance sleeve in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, the intermediate chamber communicating with an intermediate stage impeller among the multi-stage impellers; a low pressure chamber provided between the rotary shaft and the casing, the low pressure chamber communicating with a low pressure side compared to the intermediate chamber; and a partition wall part dividing the intermediate chamber and the low pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Yasushi Ueda, Akio Maeda, Yasuhiro Koyama, Hidetoshi Fukuta, Masahide Ikunami
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Publication number: 20200080246Abstract: Provided is a washing machine motor capable of efficiently generating torque by improving a winding factor of coils with a relatively simple configuration. The washing machine motor (12) has an outer rotor (20), an inner rotor (30), and a stator (60). The outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) share coils (63) of the stator (60), and a composite current is supplied to the coils (63) such that the outer rotor (20) and the inner rotor (30) are independently driven. The outer rotor (20) has forty eight outer magnets (24) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The inner rotor (30) has forty-two inner magnets (34) arranged such that the N and S poles thereof are continuously and alternately aligned in the circumferential direction thereof. The stator (60) has thirty-six I-shaped cores (61) and the coils (63).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: March 12, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Yukinori NAKAGAWA, Kenji KITAJIMA, Toshihiro KAMII, Hidekazu FUNAKOSHI, Nobuharu NISHIKOORI, Yasumasa NAGASAKI, Takehiro NAKANISHI, Hiroshi KATSUMOTO, Minoru YOSHIDA, Yasuyuki SONODA, Masaki OSHIGE, Tomoyuki OKUNO, Katsuyuki SHIMAKAGE, Hiroshi WANATABE, Yuji AKITA, Yoshinori TAKASHIMA
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Publication number: 20190211833Abstract: A vertical pump includes: a rotary shaft; multi-stage impellers; a casing accommodating the multi-stage impellers; a mechanical seal provided in a penetration part of the casing for the rotary shaft; a balance sleeve, the balance sleeve being positioned between a final stage impeller of the multi-stage impellers and the mechanical seal in the penetration part for the rotary shaft; an intermediate chamber provided between the rotary shaft and the casing and provided on an opposite side of the multi-stage impellers across the balance sleeve in an axial direction of the rotary shaft, the intermediate chamber communicating with an intermediate stage impeller among the multi-stage impellers; a low pressure chamber provided between the rotary shaft and the casing, the low pressure chamber communicating with a low pressure side compared to the intermediate chamber; and a partition wall part dividing the intermediate chamber and the low pressure chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Yasushi Ueda, Akio Maeda, Yasuhiro Koyama, Hidetoshi Fukuta, Masahide Ikunami
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Publication number: 20190186065Abstract: The present disclosure includes a washing machine including an inner rotor and an outer rotor. An outer rotor and an inner rotor may be rotated in a synchronous rotation mode or a counter rotation mode by converting the number of magnetic poles of the outer rotor. When the outer rotor becomes inoperable when the outer rotor is set to the number of magnetic poles for performing the counter rotation mode, it is converted to the number of magnetic poles for performing the synchronous rotation mode while the outer rotor is stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Tomonori Ueno, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Taro Yoshida, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Yukinori Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Yasumasa Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20190190413Abstract: Provided is a washing machine including: a stator including a coil; a rotor including a plurality of variable magnets each having a magnetic force variable, and rotatable with respect to the stator; a controller configured to control an energizing of the coil to increase or decrease a magnetic force of the variable magnet; and a plurality of position sensors each having a output voltage changed according to a magnetic flux of the variable magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Tomonori Ueno, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Taro Yoshida, Hidekazu Funakoshi, Yukinori Nakagawa, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Yasumasa Nagasaki
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Publication number: 20190186066Abstract: Disclosed herein is a washing machine. The washing machine includes a housing provided with an inlet for laundry disposed on a front surface thereof, a water tub provided inside of the housing and configured to store water, a drum rotatably provided inside of the water tub, a pulsator provided inside of the drum and configured to be rotated independently of the drum, a motor provided with a stator, and a first and second rotor connected to the drum and the pulsator, respectively, and at least one processor configured to apply a q-axis current to the stator to rotate the second rotor and configured to apply a d-axis current to the stator to rotate the first rotor based on a phase difference between the first rotor and the second rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Hidekazu Funakoshi, Tomonori Ueno, Yukinori Nakagawa, Hiroshi Katsumoto, Taro Yoshida, Yasuyuki Sonoda, Masaki Oshige, Yasumasa Nagasaki
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Patent number: 10287200Abstract: Provided are a novel method and device for treating a liquid that can be utilized for treating ballast water used in ships, etc. The method and device for treating a liquid provided herein allow aquatic organisms contained in a liquid to be sufficiently inactivated or separated by being configured in such a manner as to, in supplying the liquid containing aquatic organisms, carry out at least one of an aquatic organism-inactivating treatment and a physical treatment using a centrifugal force and then store the liquid in a storage means, and in discharging the liquid thus stored, determine whether or not the aquatic organism-inactivating treatment is required, carry out the treatment based on the determination, and carry out the physical treatment using a centrifugal force.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Akiyoshi Edagawa, Takashi Sakakibara, Kazumi Osamura, Hideki Nagaoka, Takuya Kotanagi, Hidenori Funakoshi
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Patent number: 9791046Abstract: A rotary machine has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, and stationary rings that contact the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped, the stationary rings being positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are defined between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts a temperature of the fluid in the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Hiroshi Funakoshi, Manabu Maeda, Hidekazu Uehara, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Zenichi Yoshida
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Patent number: 9382859Abstract: A motor vehicle to which a control device is applied includes an idling stop control section for stopping operation of an engine when a predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled while the engine is idling, and a neutral-at-idle control section for shifting a transmission of the vehicle into neutral when a predetermined shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled. While a post-stoppage elapsed time measured by a timer is shorter than or equal to a predetermined time after the vehicle stops moving, operation of the engine is stopped by the idling stop control section if the predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled but shifting of the transmission into neutral by the neutral-at-idle control section is prohibited even if the shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Katsuyoshi Noda
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Patent number: 9303568Abstract: An output control device configured to control the output of a running drive source mounted on a vehicle includes an anomaly discriminator which judges that the output control device is anomalous, if excess acceleration G (output difference index) of the vehicle remains greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value G1, . . . , G7 for a predetermined time t1, . . . , t7 or longer, wherein the predetermined time t1, . . . , t7 for the anomaly discrimination is set so as to shorten with increase in the threshold value G1, . . . , G7 of the excess acceleration of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Satoru Nakamura
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Publication number: 20150240728Abstract: An output control device configured to control the output of a running drive source mounted on a vehicle includes an anomaly discriminator which judges that the output control device is anomalous, if excess acceleration G (output difference index) of the vehicle remains greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value G1, . . . , G7 for a predetermined time t1, t7 or longer, wherein the predetermined time t1, t7 for the anomaly discrimination is set so as to shorten with increase in the threshold value G1, . . . , G7 of the excess acceleration of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi FUNAKOSHI, Satoru NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 8575099Abstract: The present invention discloses an agent for treating a polyglutamine aggregation-caused disease or suppressing its onset, which comprises, as an active ingredient, (1) (i) HGF protein, (ii) a partial peptide of HGF protein that is substantially equivalent in activity to HGF protein, or a salt of either of them, or (2) DNA containing (i) DNA encoding HGF protein, (ii) DNA encoding a partial peptide of HGF protein that is substantially equivalent in activity to HGF protein or (iii) DNA which encodes a protein or a peptide that is substantially equivalent in activity to HGF protein and hybridizes with DNA comprising a complementary base sequence of either of the above-mentioned DNAs under a stringent condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignees: Osaka University, Kringle Pharma Inc.Inventors: Toshikazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Funakoshi, Daisuke Miyazawa, Kunio Iwatani
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Patent number: 8518880Abstract: Disclosed is a therapeutic agent effective for the fundamental treatment of a spinal cord injury and a demyelinating disease. Specifically disclosed are a therapeutic agent for a spinal cord injury and a therapeutic agent for a demyelinating disease, each of which comprises an HGF protein as an active ingredient.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignees: Keio University, Osaka University, Kringle Pharma Inc.Inventors: Hideyuki Okano, Yoshiaki Toyama, Masaya Nakamura, Akio Iwanami, Kazuya Kitamura, Toshikazu Nakamura, Hiroshi Funakoshi, Keigo Hanada
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Publication number: 20130106062Abstract: The dry gas seal structure has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, stationary rings that contact with the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped and stationary positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are formed between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts the temperature of the fluid flowing through the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: May 2, 2013Inventors: Takumi Hori, Hiroshi Funakoshi, Manabu Maeda, Hidekazu Uehara, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Zenichi Yoshida
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Publication number: 20120316740Abstract: A motor vehicle to which a control device is applied includes an idling stop control section for stopping operation of an engine when a predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled while the engine is idling, and a neutral-at-idle control section for shifting a transmission of the vehicle into neutral when a predetermined shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled. While a post-stoppage elapsed time measured by a timer is shorter than or equal to a predetermined time after the vehicle stops moving, operation of the engine is stopped by the idling stop control section if the predetermined stopping condition is fulfilled but shifting of the transmission into neutral by the neutral-at-idle control section is prohibited even if the shift-into-neutral condition is fulfilled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Katsuyoshi Noda
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Patent number: 8258742Abstract: The control device, which is driven by an engine mounted on the vehicle, generates electric power and determines a power generation voltage for supplying the electric power to an electrical load and an electricity storage unit, comprising an electricity storage amount detection unit for detecting an amount of electricity stored in the electricity storage unit, by integrating an input/output current to/from the electricity storage unit a voltage lowering unit for lowering the power generation voltage when a predetermined electricity storage amount is detected by the electricity storage amount detection unit, a time measuring unit for measuring time elapsed after termination of charging/discharging of the electricity storage unit, and a lowering prohibition unit for prohibiting the power generation voltage from being lowered by the voltage lowering unit if the time elapsed after termination of the charging/discharging is longer than or equal to a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroshi Funakoshi
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Patent number: 8143741Abstract: An electric power generation control device for a motor vehicle is provided which ensures a satisfactory regenerative effect without entailing flickering of or reduction in life of headlights even if the headlights are turned on at all times. The electric power generation control device lowers the power generation voltage of an alternator when the electricity storage amount of a battery is at or above a predetermined level. While lighting of a headlight bulb is detected, lowering of the power generation voltage is restrained if the state of sunlight is equivalent to nighttime, and the power generation voltage is allowed to be lowered if the sunlight state is equivalent to daytime.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Funakoshi, Hidehito Tomonari, Hitoshi Kamura