Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Akita

Hiroyuki Akita 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: 20150162787
    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: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9024714
    Abstract: A static apparatus includes an iron core which includes a plurality of magnetic plates stacked in one direction and in which a shaft portion having a main surface and a side surface is formed, and a coil wound around the shaft portion. Slits extending in an axial direction of the shaft portion are formed in at least a surface layer magnetic plate constituting the main surface, of the plurality of magnetic plates. Some of the slits are formed in the main surface, at an end portion close to the side surface, at a predetermined formation density. The formation density of the slits is highest at the predetermined formation density, and is reduced as at least one of a minimum distance from the side surface within the main surface and a distance from the main surface on a side close to the slits in the stacking direction is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Matsuda, Ryuichi Nishiura, Hiroyuki Akita, Takeshi Imura, Yasuo Fujiwara, Yoshinori Shimizu, Kazuaki Aono
  • Patent number: 8981614
    Abstract: Included are a pair of insulators arranged on axial end surfaces of a split core, and an insulating film attached to lateral side surfaces of the tooth part, for insulating the split core from a coil wound around the tooth part. Each insulator includes projections projecting further than a tooth front end part in the circumferential direction, slits which are formed in the respective projections to a corresponding axial end surface side of the tooth front end part and into which the insulating film is inserted, and ribs formed, on an end surface side in the circumferential direction, in the respective projections. The insulating film inserted into the slits is folded back to a back yoke part side with the ribs interposed therein, and fixed by being interposed between the ribs at tip portions of projections of adjacent insulators. Accordingly, the insulating film can be assuredly fixed and prevented from escaping from a slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita, Toshio Arai
  • Publication number: 20150064529
    Abstract: Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 which, in cases where separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on only one face thereof are used, has an excellent thermal stability and thus a higher safety and reliability when the battery 10 reaches a high temperature. Such a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery 10 includes a positive electrode 30 in which a positive electrode active material layer 34 is provided on both faces of a positive electrode current collector 32, a negative electrode 50 in which a negative electrode active material layer 54 is provided on both faces of a negative electrode current collector 52, at least two separators 70 each having a heat-resistant layer 74 on one face of a base material 72, and an electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery has an electrode assembly 20 in which the positive electrode 30 and the negative electrode 50 are stacked on top of one another with the separators 70 interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Nagai, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Tamaki, Katsushi Saito, Masato Kamiya, Shinji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20150028710
    Abstract: Provided is a rotor for a rotating electric machine which includes: an N pole integrally-stacked core in which a plurality of stacked tooth portions that contact with N pole side portions of adjacent ones of first permanent magnets are integrated with each other; and an S pole integrally-stacked core in which a plurality of stacked tooth portions that contact with S pole side portions of adjacent ones of the first permanent magnets are integrated with each other, and in which the N pole integrally-stacked core and the S pole integrally-stacked core are disposed around a rotation shaft having a non-magnetic outer circumferential surface so as to dispose the first permanent magnets and a gap therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Publication number: 20150028715
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator in which a plurality of armatures each have a coil formed by a winding wire wound in plural layers around bobbins mounted to a magnetic pole tooth, which are disposed annularly on an inner circumference of a cylindrical frame. The coil is formed by the winding wire being wound with a constant feed pitch in parallel with slots of the bobbins in plural layers. The winding wire forming a first layer of the coil is shifted by half the feed pitch between a left side and a right side of a center axis of the coil as viewed from a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of a stacked iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Shinichiro YOSHIDA, Yutaro SHIRAI, Hiroyuki AKITA, Masaya INOUE, Daisuke SHIJO, Shogo OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20150022048
    Abstract: Provided are an armature for rotary electric machine, an insulator therefor, and a coil winding device for winding a conductive wire on a tooth to which the insulator has been attached, wherein in each of all forward-wound coils and reversely-wound coils, a part wound on a first side surface of two side surfaces of each tooth that are opposed to the respective adjacent teeth forms a straight portion in which conductive wires in respective layers of the coil are parallel, a part wound on a second side surface forms a cross portion in which the conductive wire in an upper layer is wound in a crossed manner on the conductive wire in an adjacent lower layer, and an insulator has a guide for guiding the conductive wire along a base of an inner flange of the insulator at a first turn of each coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita, Kunihiro Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 8872614
    Abstract: A transformer includes a leg iron core including a plurality of magnetic sheets stacked in one direction (Z axis direction), and a coil wound around the leg iron core. A slit is formed in at least a magnetic sheet which faces an inner peripheral surface of the coil in a stacking direction of the plurality of magnetic sheets, of the plurality of magnetic sheets. Since eddy current is divided by the slit, eddy current density can be reduced. By reducing the eddy current density, loss density in an iron core can be reduced. By reducing the loss density in the iron core, loss in the transformer can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nishiura, Yasuo Fujiwara, Yoshinori Shimizu, Tetsuya Matsuda, Takeshi Imura, Kazuaki Aono, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Publication number: 20140139068
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method is linearly arranging and punching out a plurality of separate core pieces formed of a back yoke portion and a magnetic-pole teeth portion protruding from the back yoke portion and die-cut caulking. The manufacturing method includes: a first step of punching out a first region located on an opposite side to the magnetic-pole teeth portion between adjacent ends of the back yoke portions of the core pieces; a second step of punching out a second region located on a side of the magnetic-pole teeth portion between the adjacent ends of the back yoke portions of the core pieces; a third step of punching out a region that brings the first region punched out in the first step and the second region punched out in the second step into communication; and a fourth step of forming the magnetic-pole teeth portion by punching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Shijo, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Patent number: 8677608
    Abstract: An annular core member having an opening portion located at a position rotated by 90 degrees from a reference position, where the opening portion is oriented in the counterclockwise direction, and an annular core member having the opening portion located at the reference position, where the opening portion is oriented in the clockwise direction, are prepared to form an iron core by a rotary lamination apparatus by rotating the annular core members and by a predetermined angle (90 degrees) such that a first end, in the annular core member, which is at the position rotated by 90 degrees from the reference position and has no rotation uneven part, is circumference-positionally identical in the laminating direction with that of a fourth end, in an annular core member, which is at the reference position and has no rotation uneven part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Akita, Kimiyasu Furusawa
  • Patent number: 8661651
    Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes a rotor, and a stator including an stator core that is formed by laminating and integrating magnetic steel plates, and concentrated winding coils that are mounted to respective teeth, the stator being disposed so as to surround the rotor. Bobbins each including a trunk portion and first and second guide portions that are disposed so as to protrude from two longitudinal ends of an upper surface of the trunk portion are disposed so as to place bottom surfaces of the trunk portions alongside two axial end surfaces of the teeth. The concentrated winding coils are configured by winding a conductor wire a predetermined number of times around the teeth so as to pass through a concave space that is formed by the trunk portions and the first and second guide portions at two axial ends of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Yukinobu Karata, Shinichiro Yoshida, Hiroyuki Akita, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20140035428
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine, in which an insulating capacity higher than or equal to an insulating capacity of a flat portion of a stator core can be maintained at edge portions of the stator core. The stator of the rotary electric machine includes a core-sheet laminate that is formed by laminating a plurality of core sheets made of metal plates; a coating film that is made of an insulating paint coated on a surface of the core-sheet laminate; a stator coil that is made of a conductive wire wound around the core-sheet laminate via the coating film; and bobbins made of an insulating material, which are inserted between the coating film and the stator coil and prevent the conductive wire of the stator coil from contacting the coating film that is coated on edge portions of the core-sheet laminate, or relieve pressure caused by the contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Yuya, Daisuke Shijo, Hiroyuki Akita, Haruyuki Hasegawa, Takenori Aomi, Ryoko Komaki
  • Patent number: 8631564
    Abstract: To provide a spool for a coil winding device capable of preventing poor insulation caused by a leakage of coil wires without initially inserted coil wires staying at the vicinity of slot openings. A spool for a coil winding device of this invention includes a plurality of coil winding surfaces increased stepwise in diameter from the bottom upward in a state where the spool is disposed on the coil winding device. The spool includes a front spool part and a rear spool part, which are placed at a distance from each other so that each turn of coil has a length corresponding to arbitrary lamination thickness of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Shijo, Masaya Motohashi, Hiroyuki Akita, Toshio Arai
  • Publication number: 20140009028
    Abstract: In a method for winding a core having an arch-like yoke portion, a tooth portion, and a tooth end portion by revolving a nozzle for feeding a conductive wire, when winding is performed in a bow-like area surrounded by an inner circumferential arc of the yoke portion and the chord thereof, upon winding on an end surface of the core, the nozzle moves so as to draw a convex-shaped trajectory proceeding from the tooth end portion side toward the yoke portion side with reference to the chord of the bow-like area, and upon winding on a side surface of the core, the nozzle returns from the yoke portion side to the tooth end portion side with reference to the chord of the bow-like area, and then moves along the side surface of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Shijo, Takahiro Tanaka, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Patent number: 8568928
    Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery has a positive electrode (1), a negative electrode (2), and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode has a positive electrode mixture layer containing a positive electrode active material, a binder agent, and a conductive agent. The positive electrode active material in the positive electrode mixture layer contains an olivine-type lithium-containing metal phosphate represented by the general formula LixMPO4, where M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Mn, and Fe, and x is 0<x<1.3. The conductive agent in the positive electrode mixture layer is composed of a mixture of carbon particles and carbon fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Shirakata, Koji Hasumi, Hiroyuki Akita, Kazunori Donoue, Yoshinori Kida
  • Patent number: 8519583
    Abstract: It is necessary to secure a workspace for connection between jumper wires and a wire connecting material. A rotary electric machine includes a plurality of magnetic teeth and a wire connecting material for wire connection. The rotary electric machine further includes a plurality of jumper sections, which are portions of one conductive wire continuously wound around the magnetic teeth and continuously connect coils formed of the conductive wire wound around the magnetic teeth. The jumper section includes first jumper sections which each are not connected by the wire connecting material with another jumper section, and second jumper sections which each are connected by the wire connecting material with another jumper section. Each first jumper section and each second jumper section are configured differently in shape and position from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Nakaue
  • Patent number: 8487501
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an armature of an electric motor that provides a maximum of space for winding without causing an increase of the magnetic resistance and reduction of the coil space factor. The armature of the electric motor includes a stator yoke 5 of a stator core 1 wherein a plurality of the stator cores 1 forms a substantially annular shape; and a film insulator 4 formed corresponding to a tooth 6 and a stator yoke 5 of the tooth 6, shoes 2b and 3b being provided at locations corresponding to both side ends of a front portion of a protrusion 6a of the tooth 6, the film insulator 4 being fittingly fixed to grooves 2c and 3c by its being sandwiched between a connection-side insulator 2 and an opposite-side-of-connection insulator 3, the insulators 2 and 3 having grooves 2c and 3c at roots of the shoes 2b and 3b, respectively, along both side ends 6b of the front portion of the tooth 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita, Toshio Arai
  • Patent number: 8471419
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotating electric machine stator that includes connecting members for connecting jumper wires to each other between neighboring magnetic pole coils of the rotating electric machine stator, and its manufacturing method. In a conventional connecting member, its portions to be connected to the jumper wires are figure-U shaped and have openings on the opposite side to a core's end-face where the jumper wires are disposed, so that, in order to insert the jumper wires into the openings, complex drive controls have been required for the connecting portions being figure-U shaped. In order to simplify the drive controls, such connecting portions being made in curved shapes have openings each facing the end-face of a core. It is possible to generally apply the present invention to rotating electric machine stators that obey coil connection specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Shimomura, Hiroyuki Akita, Takumi Nakaue, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Patent number: 8334633
    Abstract: The present invention provides a dynamoelectric machine that enables heat that is generated in a permanent magnet to be transmitted to a fan and be radiated from the fan effectively, that suppresses occurrences of damage to the fan that result from centrifugal forces that act on the permanent magnet, and that also enables the fan to be prepared easily and inexpensively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura, Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Shinji Nishimura, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8324780
    Abstract: An automotive dynamoelectric machine that achieves disposing of permanent magnets and thickening of field coil wire by disposing trough portions on yoke portions and disposing magnet holders that hold the permanent magnets so as to span the trough portions to ensure outlet space for field coil lead wires. In the dynamoelectric machine, trough portions are formed on respective portions of yoke portions between circumferentially adjacent claw-shaped magnetic pole portions, a magnet holder is disposed so as to span over a trough portion, and a permanent magnet is held by the magnet holder. A lead wire is led out of a rotor from a field coil so as to pass through a space that is bounded by the trough portion and the magnet holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Kanji Shinkawa, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Hirokazu Akai, Kazunori Tanaka, Shinji Nishimura, Hiroyuki Akita, Ryuichi Shimomura