Patents by Inventor Katsuhide Kitagawa
Katsuhide Kitagawa 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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Publication number: 20220416616Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator housed in a case, from which a power line is pulled out, and a temperature sensing element provided on the stator. The rotating electric machine includes a harness retainer that guides a wire harness that extends from the temperature sensing element, toward an inner circumferential wall of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Akifumi KUROKAWA
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Patent number: 11539264Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated on each other; a rotor disposed inside the stator core so as to be rotated about an axis; and a housing storing therein the tubular-shaped stator core and the rotor, and including a circumferential wall and axially opposite end walls that are opposed to each other in a direction parallel with the axis. The stator core is fixed at one of its axially end portions to one of the axially opposite end walls of the housing. The housing includes a stator-core-inclination restraining portion that protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the housing toward a part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, wherein the part is located on a side of the other of the axially end portions of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki Takeno, Yoshitada Yamagishi, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Masaki Mori, Taketo Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11444498Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by laminated steel sheets; a casing including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein an axial end portion of the stator core; a casing cover including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein another axial end portion of the stator core, and a rotor disposed inside the stator core. The stator core includes fastened portions protruding radially outwardly from respective portions of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core which are circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The stator core is fastened at the fastened portions to the bottom wall of one of the casing and the casing cover. The other of the casing and the casing cover includes protrusion portions protruding from its inner wall surface toward the stator core so as to restrain inclination of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki Takeno, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Masaki Mori, Taketo Takeuchi
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Patent number: 11418092Abstract: A lubrication mechanism for supplying oil to a bearing of a vehicle electric motor that includes the bearing, a housing, a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably held by the housing through the bearing. The housing defines an oil passage to which oil discharged from an oil pump is to be supplied. The oil passage and the bearing are located on respective opposite sides of a wall of the housing. The lubrication mechanism includes: a bolt hole passing through the wall; and a bolt engaged in the bolt hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Masaki Mori
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Patent number: 11411458Abstract: A rotating machine lubrication structure is applied to a rotating machine including a cylindrical stator, a rotor and a shaft. A resolver is disposed concentrically with the rotating machine center line between the bearing and the rotor in a direction of the rotating machine center line in the casing, the resolver includes an annular resolver stator fixed to an inner side surface of the casing in an outer circumferential portion of the resolver stator, and a resolver rotor disposed on an inner circumferential side of the resolver stator and fixed to and integrally rotated with the shaft, and the resolver stator is provided with an oil through-hole allowing the lubricating oil to flow through at a portion on an inner circumferential side relative to a part fixed to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20200343791Abstract: A lubrication mechanism for supplying oil to a bearing of a vehicle electric motor that includes the bearing, a housing, a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft rotatably held by the housing through the bearing. The housing defines an oil passage to which oil discharged from an oil pump is to be supplied. The oil passage and the bearing are located on respective opposite sides of a wall of the housing. The lubrication mechanism includes: a bolt hole passing through the wall; and a bolt engaged in the bolt hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Masaki MORI
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Publication number: 20200336026Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by laminated steel sheets; a casing including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein an axial end portion of the stator core; a casing cover including an outer circumferential wall and a bottom wall, and storing therein another axial end portion of the stator core, and a rotor disposed inside the stator core. The stator core includes fastened portions protruding radially outwardly from respective portions of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core which are circumferentially spaced apart from each other. The stator core is fastened at the fastened portions to the bottom wall of one of the casing and the casing cover. The other of the casing and the casing cover includes protrusion portions protruding from its inner wall surface toward the stator core so as to restrain inclination of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki TAKENO, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Masaki MORI, Taketo TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20200251955Abstract: A rotating machine lubrication structure is applied to a rotating machine including a cylindrical stator, a rotor and a shaft. A resolver is disposed concentrically with the rotating machine center line between the bearing and the rotor in a direction of the rotating machine center line in the casing, the resolver includes an annular resolver stator fixed to an inner side surface of the casing in an outer circumferential portion of the resolver stator, and a resolver rotor disposed on an inner circumferential side of the resolver stator and fixed to and integrally rotated with the shaft, and the resolver stator is provided with an oil through-hole allowing the lubricating oil to flow through at a portion on an inner circumferential side relative to a part fixed to the casing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Masaki Mori
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Publication number: 20200153310Abstract: A vehicle electric motor including: a tubular-shaped stator core constituted by electromagnetic steel sheets that are laminated on each other; a rotor disposed inside the stator core so as to be rotated about an axis; and a housing storing therein the tubular-shaped stator core and the rotor, and including a circumferential wall and axially opposite end walls that are opposed to each other in a direction parallel with the axis. The stator core is fixed at one of its axially end portions to one of the axially opposite end walls of the housing. The housing includes a stator-core-inclination restraining portion that protrudes from an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall of the housing toward a part of an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, wherein the part is located on a side of the other of the axially end portions of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Motoki TAKENO, Yoshitada YAMAGISHI, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Masaki MORI, Taketo TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 10094377Abstract: An oil pump for a vehicle includes a driven gear, a drive gear, a pump body, and a plate. The drive gear engages the driven gear. The pump body is secured to a rear cover of a transaxle case. The plate is interposed between the rear cover and the pump body. A pump chamber is formed between the rear cover and the pump body. The driven gear and the drive gear are housed in the pump chamber. The pump chamber is formed: between the plate and the pump body, or between the plate and the rear cover.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Obata, Hiromichi Kimura, Takeshi Kuwahara, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Kunio Morisawa, Masamitsu Seno, Hirotaka Yata, Tomoo Atarashi
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Patent number: 9740195Abstract: To further optimize an operation of a power plant. The system has a storage cell which charges utilizing surplus electric power generated by a power plant 10 and a database 23 which accumulates at least information on power consumption for each power plant apparatus 11 (hereinafter, described as an in-plant apparatus). An integrated controller 225 compares power consumption of the power plant apparatus 11 in operation in the case of executing each function among a plurality of functions and an electric discharge capacity of the storage cell, and selects an executable function within a range of the electric discharge capacity of the storage cell. Then, it controls to execute the selected function utilizing electric power supplied from the storage cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Kazuyasu Asakura, Tohru Akatsu, Hiroto Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20160233744Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a rotor shaft. The rotor has a cooling flow passage and the rotor shaft is fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the rotor. The rotor shaft has a hollow part to which the liquid coolant is supplied, a coolant flow inlet that provides communication between the hollow part and the cooling flow passage, and a coolant supply shaft extending through the hollow part. The coolant supply shaft has a coolant discharge port that discharges the liquid coolant to the hollow part. A position in a rotor axial direction of the coolant flow inlet deviates from a position in the rotor axial direction of the coolant discharge port.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Keiichi KANESHIGE, Masashi MATSUMOTO, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Yasuaki SHIRASAKI
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Patent number: 9154005Abstract: A cylindrical rotor core 10 for a rotating electrical machine having magnetic steel plates integrally connected by laminating in an axial direction, and having magnet insertion holes 24, 26 formed for inserting permanent magnets inside, wherein the magnet insertion holes 24, 26 are formed extending in the axial direction in a core inner section in the vicinity of an outer peripheral surface 11c of the rotor core 10, and with openings formed in axial direction end sections of the rotor core 10, and a plurality of magnetic steel plates, including magnetic steel plates at outermost sides in the axial direction in which the openings are formed, are fixed by welding at inner wall surfaces 42 of the magnet insertion holes 24, 26.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Makoto Yoshida, Masashi Matsumoto
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Publication number: 20150277437Abstract: To further optimize an operation of a power plant. The system has a storage cell which charges utilizing surplus electric power generated by a power plant 10 and a database 23 which accumulates at least information on power consumption for each power plant apparatus 11 (hereinafter, described as an in-plant apparatus). An integrated controller 225 compares power consumption of the power plant apparatus 11 in operation in the case of executing each function among a plurality of functions and an electric discharge capacity of the storage cell, and selects an executable function within a range of the electric discharge capacity of the storage cell. Then, it controls to execute the selected function utilizing electric power supplied from the storage cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Kazuyasu Asakura, Tohru Akatsu, Hiroto Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20140341757Abstract: A plate is interposed between a rear cover and a pump body. The pump chamber is formed between the plate and the pump body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tatsuo Obata, Hiromichi Kimura, Takeshi Kuwahara, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Kunio Morisawa, Masamitsu Seno, Hirotaka Yata, Tomoo Atarashi
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Patent number: 8742636Abstract: A rotary electric machine terminal block fits into an opening of a case that contains a rotary electric machine, and is fixed to the case by a plate. The rotary electric machine terminal block has: a mount that is formed by fixing the electric power line connector and the signal line connector to the steel-made plate and performing insert molding so that an anti-vibration plate is formed on an upper surface of the plate; projected portions of the plate which each have a fixture hole for fixing the plate to the case; an edge seal member that covers an edge of the projected portion; a face seal member for tight attachment of the mount to the case; and two positioning pins.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2011Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Katsunori Ueki, Daisuke Akuta, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
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Publication number: 20130127283Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor is provided in which a cylindrical rotor core that is formed by stacked magnetic steel sheets and includes permanent magnets is crimp-fixed to a rotor shaft. The rotor core is directly fixed, in the axial direction of the rotor shaft, between a flange portion that is provided on an outer periphery of the rotor shaft and abuts against one axial end surface of the rotor core, and a crimping member that is crimp-fixed on the rotor shaft while pressure-contacting the other axial end surface of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi Matsumoto, Katsuhide Kitagawa, Makoto Yoshida
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Patent number: 8314521Abstract: A vehicle drive device (1) comprises a motor unit which is provided with a motor case (10), a motor cover (23), a stator (20), a rotor (24), a rotor shaft (25), a resolver (15) for detecting the rotation angle of the rotor (24), a temperature sensor (12) for detecting the temperature of a stator coil (21), a rotor bearing (17) for supporting the rotor shaft (25), a terminal base (11) to which the terminals of U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase from the end of the coil are connected, and to which a resolver harness (14) and a temperature sensor harness (13) are also connected, and a delivery pipe (30) which has a clamp part (35) for holding the resolver harness (14) and delivers a cooling oil to the end of the coil.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Katsuhide Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20120262361Abstract: In a screen displayed on site in a data format of image data, if a portion of the screen is changed, from among the image data of the entire screen, only an image data subjected to the change is converted to a vector graphics and is transmitted to a remote site via a network. At the remote site, the transmitted vector graphics is reconverted to the image data and is displayed. Further, information necessary for searching an image data is transmitted in association with a vector graphics. This allows a search to be made only from a data which actually requires to be displayed at the remote site.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2012Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Junichi Suzuki, Yoshio Maruyama, Kazuo Furudate, Hiroshi Suzuki, Masafumi Ishii
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Publication number: 20120206007Abstract: A cylindrical rotor core 10 for a rotating electrical machine having magnetic steel plates integrally connected by laminating in an axial direction, and having magnet insertion holes 24, 26 formed for inserting permanent magnets inside, wherein the magnet insertion holes 24, 26 are formed extending in the axial direction in a core inner section in the vicinity of an outer peripheral surface 11c of the rotor core 10, and with openings formed in axial direction end sections of the rotor core 10, and a plurality of magnetic steel plates, including magnetic steel plates at outermost sides in the axial direction in which the openings are formed, are fixed by welding at inner wall surfaces 42 of the magnet insertion holes 24, 26.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Katsuhide Kitagawa, Makoto Yoshida, Masashi Matsumoto