Patents by Inventor Ippei Suzuki
Ippei Suzuki 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: 12107470Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator including a coil, and a rotor in an inner peripheral side of the stator. The rotor core comprises a soft magnetic metal and a magnet within a magnet insertion hole, a first magnet stopper on a q axis side of the magnet in the magnet insertion hole, a magnet accommodation between the first magnet stopper on both sides of the magnet insertion hole, a first space portion communicating with the magnet insertion hole, a second space portion whose distance from the magnet is equal to or less than a thickness of the magnet and a radial length of a magnetic pole center is long, the second space portion formed on an inner peripheral side relative to the magnet, and a third space portion that has a convex shape on an inner peripheral side of a q axis of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kazutami Tago, Itsuki Shimura, Junnosuke Nakatsugawa, Wataru Yokoyama, Ippei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20230313500Abstract: A hydraulic excavator which is a work vehicle includes a traveling apparatus, a revolution frame mounted on the traveling apparatus and including a lower frame, and a first radar arranged on a side surface of the lower frame, the side surface of the lower frame extending in a fore/aft direction and being arranged on left and right, the first radar being provided at a position closer to a rear end portion of the lower frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: KOMATSU LTD.Inventors: Ippei SUZUKI, Kei SHINOHARA, Kiwa TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20230024138Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator including a coil, and a rotor in an inner peripheral side of the stator. The rotor core comprises a soft magnetic metal and a magnet within a magnet insertion hole, a first magnet stopper on a q axis side of the magnet in the magnet insertion hole, a magnet accommodation between the first magnet stopper on both sides of the magnet insertion hole, a first space portion communicating with the magnet insertion hole, a second space portion whose distance from the magnet is equal to or less than a thickness of the magnet and a radial length of a magnetic pole center is long, the second space portion formed on an inner peripheral side relative to the magnet, and a third space portion that has a convex shape on an inner peripheral side of a q axis of the magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Kazutami TAGO, Itsuki SHIMURA, Junnosuke NAKATSUGAWA, Wataru YOKOYAMA, Ippei SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11339747Abstract: An engine device including an exhaust manifold provided on an exhaust side surface of a cylinder head, and an exhaust pressure sensor configured to detect an exhaust gas pressure in the exhaust manifold. The exhaust pressure sensor is attached to the cylinder head. The exhaust pressure sensor is connected to the exhaust manifold through an exhaust pressure bypass path provided in the cylinder head and an exhaust pressure detection pipe connecting the exhaust pressure bypass path to the exhaust manifold. A cooling water passage is provided nearby the exhaust pressure bypass path, in the cylinder head.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: YANMAR POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Ippei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20200102916Abstract: An engine device including an exhaust manifold provided on an exhaust side surface of a cylinder head, and an exhaust pressure sensor configured to detect an exhaust gas pressure in the exhaust manifold. The exhaust pressure sensor is attached to the cylinder head. The exhaust pressure sensor is connected to the exhaust manifold through an exhaust pressure bypass path provided in the cylinder head and an exhaust pressure detection pipe connecting the exhaust pressure bypass path to the exhaust manifold. A cooling water passage is provided nearby the exhaust pressure bypass path, in the cylinder head.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2017Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ippei SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10411549Abstract: A small and low-price rotating electric machine has a structure where a magnet end surface and a metal tube end are not in contact with each other. The rotating electric machine has a cylindrical stator core, a rotor having a shaft provided on the inner circumferential side of the stator core, a yoke fixed to the shaft, at least one ferrite magnet provided on the outer circumferential surface of the yoke, and a protective cover provided on the outer circumference of the ferrite magnet. The ferrite magnet end surface is projected with respect to an end surface of the yoke, and has a step portion to form a gap between the end surface of the ferrite magnet and a bottom surface of the protective cover.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yohei Kono, Hisashi Wada, Junnosuke Nakatsugawa, Ippei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20180316242Abstract: Provided is a brushless motor having high vibration resistance without fixing a lead wire with varnish or an adhesive. A brushless motor is configured to include: an insulator attached to a salient magnetic pole portion of an armature core; and an armature winding wound around the insulator, in which the insulator has a protrusion at an end portion in an axial direction, the armature winding includes two lead wires of a winding start lead wire and a winding end lead wire and a winding portion formed between the two lead wires, and one of the lead wires is wound around the protrusion before reaching an electrical connection portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2016Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, LTD.Inventors: Ippei SUZUKI, Youhei KOUNO, Hisashi WADA
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Publication number: 20160149461Abstract: A small and low-price rotating electric machine has a structure where a magnet end surface and a metal tube end are not in contact with each other. The rotating electric machine has a cylindrical stator core, a rotor having a shaft provided on the inner circumferential side of the stator core, a yoke fixed to the shaft, at least one ferrite magnet provided on the outer circumferential surface of the yoke, and a protective cover provided on the outer circumference of the ferrite magnet. The ferrite magnet end surface is projected with respect to an end surface of the yoke, and has a step portion to form a gap between the end surface of the ferrite magnet and a bottom surface of the protective cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Yohei KONO, Hisashi WADA, Junnosuke NAKATSUGAWA, Ippei SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20150236626Abstract: Provided are a brushless motor control device and a brushless motor system capable of preventing impossibility of intended control of a brushless motor resulting from false recognition that the brushless motor is in operation in spite of stoppage of the brushless motor. A brushless motor control unit calculates a voltage instruction, representing voltages to be applied to the brushless motor, according to a control instruction supplied from an upper control device. A position error calculation unit calculates and estimates a position error between d-q-axes and dc-qc-axes as rotational coordinate axes by use of the voltage instruction outputted by the brushless motor control unit, current values acquired by a coordinate transformation unit and revolution speed for control of the brushless motor. A fault detection unit judges whether the brushless motor is faulty or not based on the position error calculated by the position error calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: HITACHI CAR ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ota, Yuukou Nojiri, Ippei Suzuki, Junichi Noda
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Patent number: 8827656Abstract: Motor control apparatus for an electric oil pump includes the control command generating section configured to drive the motor control section by the first current command signal obtained from the fixed second target torque signal of the second signal generating section in a first stage, when the control command generating section receives the start command of the motor from the host control device when engine stops, to output the sum signal of the first current command signal and the second current command signal to the current control section, and to drive the motor control section by the third current command signal in a second stage, and to switch the output of the target torque switching section from the fixed second target torque signal to the first target torque signal of the first signal generating section in a third stage.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: JATCO Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yukihiro Sano, Ippei Suzuki, Yuukou Nojiri, Jyunichi Noda
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Patent number: 8618765Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling a sensorless electric motor that drives an electric oil pump, in a case where a rotational speed of the motor deviates from a first range defined between a first upper limit value and a first lower limit value, a rotational speed limiting section generates a current command signal acting for controlling the rotational speed of the motor to suppress deviation of the rotational speed of the motor from the first range, and in a case where deviation of the rotational speed of the motor from the first range is continued for a predetermined time or more, the rotational speed limiting section sets a second range defined between a second upper limit value and a second lower limit value which are respectively displaced from the first upper limit value and the first lower limit value in a direction in which the deviation is continued.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2011Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Yukihiro Sano, Yuukou Nojiri, Ippei Suzuki, Jyunichi Noda
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Patent number: 8480537Abstract: The second clutch is caused to transition to an engaged state after setting the second clutch in a slip state when the vehicle starts in the hybrid start mode, the temperature of a magnet of the electric motor is estimated based on the temperature of the hydraulic oil and an operating condition of the electric motor when the second clutch is controlled to be in the slip state; and an output torque and a lower limit rotation speed of the electric motor is restricted and reduced when the estimated temperature of the magnet exceeds a restrictive temperature.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Jatco LtdInventors: Yukihiro Sano, Ippei Suzuki, Yuukou Nojiri
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Publication number: 20120108385Abstract: The second clutch is caused to transition to an engaged state after setting the second clutch in a slip state when the vehicle starts in the hybrid start mode, the temperature of a magnet of the electric motor is estimated based on the temperature of the hydraulic oil and an operating condition of the electric motor when the second clutch is controlled to be in the slip state; and an output torque and a lower limit rotation speed of the electric motor is restricted and reduced when the estimated temperature of the magnet exceeds a restrictive temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Yukihiro SANO, Ippei Suzuki, Yuukou Nojiri
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Publication number: 20120063922Abstract: Motor control apparatus for an electric oil pump includes the control command generating section configured to drive the motor control section by the first current command signal obtained from the fixed second target torque signal of the second signal generating section in a first stage, when the control command generating section receives the start command of the motor from the host control device when engine stops, to output the sum signal of the first current command signal and the second current command signal to the current control section, and to drive the motor control section by the third current command signal in a second stage, and to switch the output of the target torque switching section from the fixed second target torque signal to the first target torque signal of the first signal generating section in a third stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Yukihiro SANO, Ippei Suzuki, Yuukou Nojiri, Jyunichi Noda
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Publication number: 20120062164Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling a sensorless electric motor that drives an electric oil pump, in a case where a rotational speed of the motor deviates from a first range defined between a first upper limit value and a first lower limit value, a rotational speed limiting section generates a current command signal acting for controlling the rotational speed of the motor to suppress deviation of the rotational speed of the motor from the first range, and in a case where deviation of the rotational speed of the motor from the first range is continued for a predetermined time or more, the rotational speed limiting section sets a second range defined between a second upper limit value and a second lower limit value which are respectively displaced from the first upper limit value and the first lower limit value in a direction in which the deviation is continued.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Yukihiro SANO, Yuukou NOJIRI, Ippei SUZUKI, Jyunichi NODA
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Publication number: 20120062157Abstract: Provided are a brushless motor control device and a brushless motor system capable of preventing impossibility of intended control of a brushless motor resulting from false recognition that the brushless motor is in operation in spite of stoppage of the brushless motor. A brushless motor control unit calculates a voltage instruction, representing voltages to be applied to the brushless motor, according to a control instruction supplied from an upper control device. A position error calculation unit calculates and estimates a position error between d-q-axes and dc-qc-axes as rotational coordinate axes by use of the voltage instruction outputted by the brushless motor control unit, current values acquired by a coordinate transformation unit and revolution speed for control of the brushless motor. A fault detection unit judges whether the brushless motor is faulty or not based on the position error calculated by the position error calculation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Hiroyuki Ota, Yuukou Nojiri, Ippei Suzuki, Junichi Noda
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Patent number: 7469785Abstract: A high-durability storage case is provided in which a disc can be smoothly inserted into and taken out from the storage case, and in which attachment and detachment operations of the disc can be stably performed. According to the storage case (2), a case body (3), a case cover (4), and a supporting plate (5) supporting a disc (1) are pivotally supported in a mutually openable/closeable manner by a four-link mechanism (16) defined by first, second, third, and fourth hinges (11), (12), (14), (15) and an arm segment (13). When the case cover (4) is opened or closed with respect to the case body (3), the supporting plate (5) is drawn into or drawn away from the case body (3) together with the case cover (4).Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2005Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Morihiro Murata, Mitsunori Matsumura, Ippei Suzuki
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Publication number: 20060243613Abstract: A high-durability storage case is provided in which a disc can be smoothly inserted into and taken out from the storage case, and in which attachment and detachment operations of the disc can be stably performed. According to the storage case (2), a case body (3), a case cover (4), and a supporting plate (5) supporting a disc (1) are pivotally supported in a mutually openable/closeable manner by a four-link mechanism (16) defined by first, second, third, and fourth hinges (11), (12), (14), (15) and an arm segment (13). When the case cover (4) is opened or closed with respect to the case body (3), the supporting plate (5) is drawn into or drawn away from the case body (3) together with the case cover (4).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2005Publication date: November 2, 2006Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Morihiro Murata, Mitsunori Matsumura, Ippei Suzuki
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Disc, disc manufacturing method, recording/reproducing system, and semiconductor recording apparatus
Publication number: 20040120236Abstract: It is a disc in which it is possible to know with ease what contents are recorded on which disc without reproducing the contents of the disc, and a fabrication method as well as a recording reproducing system thereof. A recording surface (110) of an optical disc (100) is formed as an inner area (111A), a clamping area (111B), a transition area (113), an information recording area (114), and a rim area (115), each of an annular shape and aligned from the inner side to the outer side of the radial direction. Disc identification information is recorded in the transition area (113) of the optical disc (100) as a format for recording information in the transition area (113) mentioned above. Further, the disc identification information recorded on the optical disc (100) is provided in a spot on the optical disc (100) so as to be visible from outside.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2004Publication date: June 24, 2004Inventors: Ippei Suzuki, Kiyoshi Nishitani, Mitsunori Matsumura, Manabu Obata -
Patent number: 6456586Abstract: A magneto-optical recording medium comprising a reproducing magnetic layer having a magnetic layer which is in an in-plane magnetization state at room temperature but shifts to a perpendicular magnetization state as temperature rises, a dielectric layer and a recording magnetic layer having a magnetic layer which exhibits a perpendicular magnetization, sequentially from a photo-receptive side, the recording medium being further comprising a metal layer between the reproducing magnetic layer and the dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ippei Suzuki, Naoyasu Iketani, Yoshiteru Murakami, Akira Takahashi