Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Isoda

Hitoshi Isoda 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).

  • Patent number: 8853898
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine that prevents heat generated from a stator winding from being transmitted to an inverter circuit. A rotor having a field winding, and a stator having a stator winding arranged so as to surround the rotor are provided. One end of a rear bracket is connected to the stator, and arranged inside the rear bracket is a heat sink assembly including a heat sink having switching elements for controlling the field winding and the stator winding mounted thereto. The heat sink assembly is fixed to protruding portions protruding from an end surface of the rear bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Takechi, Masao Kikuchi, Hitoshi Isoda, Masaki Kato, Masahiko Fujita
  • Publication number: 20140125168
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine including a brush used to supply a field current to a field winding of a rotor, a brush holder holding the brush, a power circuit portion connected to a heat sink having fins, and a case covering the power circuit portion and the brush holder. An air passage is provided between the brush holder and the fins of the heat sink, and an opening is provided to the case so as to cover component members of the brush holder in a shape conforming to an outer peripheral portion of the brush holder, from which cooling air is allowed to pass through the air passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukase, Masahiko Fujita, Dai Nakajima, Hitoshi Isoda, Naohide Maeda
  • Publication number: 20140070646
    Abstract: Provided is a stator for a rotary electric machine, capable of reducing a space on an end surface of a stator core on an inner diameter side to reduce a size in an axial direction to realize a compact size by maintaining an insulating distance corresponding to a potential difference. In the stator for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a coil portion includes a coil main-body portion (21) and a second connecting wire (23). The second connecting wire (23) includes a first bent portion (24) and a second connecting-wire end portion (23A). The second connecting wire (23) is configured so that a differential value of a length z in the axial direction of the stator to a length r in the radial direction of the stator is ?z/?r?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20140035431
    Abstract: To obtain a rotating electrical machine preventing a functional failure and shortening of the life of brushes caused by a temperature rise of the brushes installed to a vehicle AC power generator or a motor generator. A brush holder holding brushes supplying a field current to a rotor is provided with brush temperature suppressing metal members installed substantially parallel to the brushes in the vicinity of abutment portions of the brushes and slip rings in point-, line-, or surface-contact with the brushes at least at one point besides energization terminals. The brush temperature suppressing metal members not only diffuse heat generated at the brushes, but also function as a heat capacity for a case where a large amount of heat is generated in a short time, such as during regenerative power generation and a start-up operation, and thereby prevent an excessive temperature rise of the brushes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukase, Hitoshi Isoda, Naohide Maeda, Masahiko Fujita, Dai Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8643234
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine capable of securing safety against collision. Included are a rotor having a field winding and cooling fans, and a stator having a stator winding, arranged so as to surround the rotor. A bracket 1 is fixed to a load side end of the stator, and a heat sink is disposed inside the bracket. On the anti-load side of the heat sink, a field circuit unit and power circuit units for controlling the field winding and the stator winding, respectively, are mounted, whereas on the load side thereof, cooling fins are disposed. The anti-load side and lateral side of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units are surrounded by the bracket. Accordingly, a whole of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units is surrounded by the bracket and the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Shirakata, Masao Kikuchi, Masahiko Fujita, Hitoshi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20140001915
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine is provided that efficiently radiates heat, caused in the vicinity of a portion where a brush and a slip ring makes contact with each other, to the outside of a brush holder and that can prevent the temperature of the brush from excessively rising. The brush holder holding the brush that supplies a magnetic-field current to a magnetic-field winding by way of the slip ring is provided with an energization terminal that electrically connects a magnetic-field circuit with the brush and a brush cooling metal member that cools the brush; the brush cooling metal member radiates heat, generated in the vicinity of a contact portion between the brush and the slip ring, to the outside of the brush holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Fukase, Hitoshi Isoda, Naohide Maeda, Masahiko Fujita, Dai Nakajima
  • Publication number: 20130320786
    Abstract: A first cooling air passage is formed to let first cooling air generated by a cooling fan in from a radially outside of an inverter apparatus to cool a heat sink and out through exhaust holes provided on an outer peripheral side of a rear bracket by passing an inner periphery of the rear bracket. Also, a second cooling air passage is formed to let second cooling air generated by the cooling fan into a hollow portion of the inverter apparatus from an axially rear of a rotation shaft to cool a brush holder and a magnetic pole position detection sensor and out through the exhaust holes by passing the inner periphery of the rear bracket. Hence, cooling performance for the magnetic pole position detection sensor and the brush holder may be enhanced and an axial dimension may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Yoshinobu UTSUMI, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20130154407
    Abstract: A controller-integrated electric rotating machine according to the present invention is provided with a heat sink on which a plurality of power modules included in an electric-power conversion circuit are mounted, a power-input/output conductor that is fixed to a bus bar electrically connected with a DC power source and is electrically connected with the DC power source and the bus bar, and a case, made of an insulator, that is fixed to the heat sink and is provided with a terminal that is electrically connected with the bus bar and the plurality of power modules; the bus bar is provided with a single electric connection portion and at least one mechanical connection portion other than the electric connection portion, electrically connected with the terminal by means of the single electric connection portion, and mechanically connected with the heat sink or the bracket through an insulating material by means of the at least one mechanical connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8461733
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine main body that includes: a housing that is constituted by a rear bracket and a front bracket; a rotor; a stator; and a fan, and a power supply unit that is mounted integrally onto the dynamoelectric machine main body are included, the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the rear bracket has: air discharge ports that are formed on portions that are positioned radially outside the fan; and air suction ports that have openings nearer to a bottom portion than the power supply unit, and includes a partitioning member for configuring a ventilation channel that extends from the air suction ports to the air discharge ports that is disposed between the power supply unit and the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Takechi, Dai Nakajima, Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8299667
    Abstract: A controlling apparatus-integrated dynamoelectric machine Includes: a metal housing that includes a front bracket and a rear bracket; a rotor that is rotatably disposed inside the housing by being fixed to a shaft that is rotatably supported by the front bracket and the rear bracket; a stator that includes: a cylindrical stator core that is disposed so as to be held between the front bracket and the rear bracket so as to surround the rotor; and a stator winding that is mounted to the stator core; and a controlling apparatus that includes: a direct-current alternating-current power interconverting circuit portion that passes electric current to the stator winding; and a controlling circuit portion that controls the direct-current alternating-current power interconverting circuit portion, the controlling apparatus being disposed inside the rear bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8253287
    Abstract: An inverter power module includes: a heatsink that is shaped into a ring-shaped flat plate; a plurality of power MOSFETs that are mounted onto substrates, and mounted to a front surface of the heatsink; a circuit board that is a resin-molded body into which a plurality of inserted conductors are insert molded; and a bus bar that is fixed to the heatsink so as to be disposed on an opposite side of the circuit board facing the heatsink, and that is connected to a power source line of an inverter power circuit by means of a battery electric potential connecting terminal, the heatsink is electrically connected to the rear bracket by being fixed to the rear bracket, and the rear bracket is connected to a ground line of the inverter power circuit by means of the ground electric potential connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita
  • Patent number: 8188626
    Abstract: There is obtained a controller-integrated electric rotating machine that is superior in terms of a cooling effect. In a controller-integrated electric rotating machine provided with a stator 3 configured with an iron core 3B and a stator winding 3A, a rotor 4 having a cooling fan 5, an inverter power circuit 20 that is a control apparatus for applying a stator current to the stator winding 3A, and a bus bar 30 that supplies the inverter power circuit 20 with electric power from a battery, the inverter power circuit 20 includes a power module 21 that has a function of switching the stator current, a heat sink 23 on which the power module 21 is mounted by the intermediary of an insulating layer, and an insulator case 25 that incorporates the power module 21 and holds respective terminals of the power module 21; and the bus bar 30 is connected with terminals 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d of the inverter power circuit 20 and has a cooling fin 30a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Isoda, Masahiko Fujita, Atsushi Takechi
  • Publication number: 20110273042
    Abstract: A controlling apparatus-integrated dynamoelectric machine Includes: a metal housing that includes a front bracket and a rear bracket; a rotor that is rotatably disposed inside the housing by being fixed to a shaft that is rotatably supported by the front bracket and the rear bracket; a stator that includes: a cylindrical stator core that is disposed so as to be held between the front bracket and the rear bracket so as to surround the rotor; and a stator winding that is mounted to the stator core; and a controlling apparatus that includes: a direct-current alternating-current power interconverting circuit portion that passes electric current to the stator winding; and a controlling circuit portion that controls the direct-current alternating-current power interconverting circuit portion, the controlling apparatus being disposed inside the rear bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Patent number: 8004130
    Abstract: There is provided a rotating electric machine including a rotation sensor unit capable of demonstrating a shielding effect over a wide frequency bandwidth and a manufacturing method therefor. In the rotating electric machine, a power unit provided with a switching element that controls an electric current that flows in a stator winding and a magnetic-field current control circuit unit provided with a switching element that controls an electric current that flows in a rotor winding are arranged on a predetermined surface of one of a pair of brackets that pivotably support a rotor shaft, and the rotation sensor unit is disposed in the vicinity of the predetermined surface of the one bracket; The rotating electric machine is characterized in such a way that there is provided a ring-shaped member that is fixed on the outer surface of the rotation sensor unit, and the ring-shaped member is configured with a non-magnetic unit having an electric conductivity and a magnetic unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Kikuchi, Yoshinobu Utsumi, Hitoshi Isoda, Yuji Shirakata, Masahiko Fujita
  • Publication number: 20110193432
    Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine main body that includes: a housing that is constituted by a rear bracket and a front bracket; a rotor; a stator; and a fan, and a power supply unit that is mounted integrally onto the dynamoelectric machine main body are included, the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the power supply unit is disposed between the fan and a bottom portion of the rear bracket, and the rear bracket has: air discharge ports that are formed on portions that are positioned radially outside the fan; and air suction ports that have openings nearer to a bottom portion than the power supply unit, and includes a partitioning member for configuring a ventilation channel that extends from the air suction ports to the air discharge ports that is disposed between the power supply unit and the fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKECHI, Dai NAKAJIMA, Hitoshi ISODA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20110101804
    Abstract: There is obtained a controller-integrated electric rotating machine that is superior in terms of a cooling effect. In a controller-integrated electric rotating machine provided with a stator 3 configured with an iron core 3B and a stator winding 3A, a rotor 4 having a cooling fan 5, an inverter power circuit 20 that is a control apparatus for applying a stator current to the stator winding 3A, and a bus bar 30 that supplies the inverter power circuit 20 with electric power from a battery, the inverter power circuit 20 includes a power module 21 that has a function of switching the stator current, a heat sink 23 on which the power module 21 is mounted by the intermediary of an insulating layer, and an insulator case 25 that incorporates the power module 21 and holds respective terminals of the power module 21; and the bus bar 30 is connected with terminals 22a, 22b, 22c, and 22d of the inverter power circuit 20 and has a cooling fin 30a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masahiko FUJITA, Atsushi TAKECHI
  • Publication number: 20100308700
    Abstract: An inverter power module includes: a heatsink that is shaped into a ring-shaped flat plate; a plurality of power MOSFETs that are mounted onto substrates, and mounted to a front surface of the heatsink; a circuit board that is a resin-molded body into which a plurality of inserted conductors are insert molded; and a bus bar that is fixed to the heatsink so as to be disposed on an opposite side of the circuit board facing the heatsink, and that is connected to a power source line of an inverter power circuit by means of a battery electric potential connecting terminal, the heatsink is electrically connected to the rear bracket by being fixed to the rear bracket, and the rear bracket is connected to a ground line of the inverter power circuit by means of the ground electric potential connecting terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100301692
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine capable of securing safety against collision. Included are a rotor having a field winding and cooling fans, and a stator having a stator winding, arranged so as to surround the rotor. A bracket 1 is fixed to a load side end of the stator, and a heat sink is disposed inside the bracket. On the anti-load side of the heat sink, a field circuit unit and power circuit units for controlling the field winding and the stator winding, respectively, are mounted, whereas on the load side thereof, cooling fins are disposed. The anti-load side and lateral side of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units are surrounded by the bracket. Accordingly, a whole of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units is surrounded by the bracket and the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji SHIRAKATA, Masao Kikuchi, Masahiko Fujita, Hitoshi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20100289352
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine that prevents heat generated from a stator winding from being transmitted to an inverter circuit. A rotor having a field winding, and a stator having a stator winding arranged so as to surround the rotor are provided. One end of a rear bracket is connected to the stator, and arranged inside the rear bracket is a heat sink assembly including a heat sink having switching elements for controlling the field winding and the stator winding mounted thereto. The heat sink assembly is fixed to protruding portions protruding from an end surface of the rear bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKECHI, Masao KIKUCHI, Hitoshi ISODA, Masaki KATO, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100133961
    Abstract: A controller-integrated rotating electrical machine includes a rotating electrical machine main body having a stator winding and a field winding and provided with a rotation detector that detects a rotation angle of a rotation shaft, a power circuit that controls a current flowing into the stator winding according to a detection output of the rotation detection portion, a field switching circuit that controls a current to flow into the field winding, and a capacitor connected in parallel with the power circuit and the field switching circuit. Both ends of the capacitor portion are connected to an external battery. The capacitor is disposed in closer proximity to the field switching circuit than the rotation detector, and connected to the field switching circuit via a common connection terminal. Noises superimposed on the rotation detection portion are thus reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji SHIRAKATA, Masao KIKUCHI, Hitoshi ISODA, Takamasa ASAI, Katsuya TSUJIMOTO