Patents by Inventor Kazuhiko Baba

Kazuhiko Baba 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: 20240092724
    Abstract: Provided is a compound that can be used for a resin for a resist having excellent sensitivity, resolution, and etching resistance, or the like, by a compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m represents an integer of 0 to 5, and n represents an integer of 0 to 4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi KAKUTA, Hiromitsu BABA, Teruyo IKEDA, Ryo FUJISAWA, Kazuhiko HABA
  • Patent number: 11919850
    Abstract: Provided is a compound that can be used for a resin for a resist having excellent sensitivity, resolution, and etching resistance, or the like, by a compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, m represents an integer of 0 to 5, and n represents an integer of 0 to 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Maruzen Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kakuta, Hiromitsu Baba, Teruyo Ikeda, Ryo Fujisawa, Kazuhiko Haba
  • Publication number: 20230402695
    Abstract: A multilayer, flexible, impact and puncture resistant, impervious, dielectric insulator sheet and mounting arrangement therewith for an electric vehicle battery pack includes a textile layer having generally planar opposite first and second sides and a fluid impervious film fixed to the first side with an adhesive laminate. The adhesive laminate includes a polymeric film sandwiched between opposite first and second layers of adhesive material. The first layer of adhesive material is bonded to the textile layer and the second layer of adhesive material is bonded to the fluid impervious film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Kazuto Kitagawa, Tetsuaki Ogawa, Naoto Todoroki, Shunsuke Arima, Yukiko Kinoshita, Kentaro Hatta
  • Publication number: 20230366593
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a compression mechanism to compress a refrigerant; an electric motor to drive the compression mechanism; and a container to contain the compression mechanism, the electric motor, the refrigerant, and the lubricating oil. A rotor of the electric motor includes: a rotor core including a plurality of steel sheets laminated with a first gap in between; and a first permanent magnet inserted in a magnet insertion hole of the rotor core. The rotor core includes: a flow channel which is located inward from the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction of the rotor core and through which the refrigerant and the lubricating oil flow; and a first guide part to guide the lubricating oil flowing through the flow channel to the first gap when the rotor rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Kazuhiko BABA
  • Publication number: 20230208223
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor including a rotor core fixed to a rotary shaft of a compressor, and permanent magnets fixed to the rotor core, and a stator including a stator core surrounding the rotor core from outside in a radial direction about a central axis of the rotary shaft. The rotor core has a first core and a second core in a direction of the central axis. The first core has a hole portion at a center thereof in the radial direction, and has magnet insertion holes located on an outer side of the hole portion in the radial direction. The permanent magnet is inserted in the magnet insertion hole. The permanent magnet constitutes a magnet magnetic pole, and a part of the first core constitutes a pseudo magnetic pole. The second core has a shaft hole at a center thereof in the radial direction. The rotary shaft is fixed to the shaft hole. An inner circumference of the hole portion of the first core is distanced from the rotary shaft in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Kazuhiko BABA
  • Publication number: 20220099080
    Abstract: A compressor includes a motor, a compression mechanism portion driven by the motor, and a rotation shaft connecting the motor and the compression mechanism portion. At least a part of the rotation shaft is composed of a material having a higher Young's modulus than that of cast iron, and having a higher thermal conductivity than that of cast iron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventor: Kazuhiko BABA
  • Patent number: 11258319
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable in a rotating direction about an axis, and a stator surrounding the rotor. A rotor core includes a magnet insertion hole corresponding to one magnetic pole, and a plurality of slits on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in the radial direction. The slits include a first slit located most upstream in the rotating direction. Each slit has a tip portion and a root portion. The tip portion of the first slit is located upstream of the root portion of the first slit in the rotating direction, and is located upstream of a magnetic pole center in the rotating direction. The root portions of the slits are disposed more in number in a second region downstream of the magnetic pole center in the rotating direction than in a first region upstream of the magnetic pole center in the rotating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Baba
  • Publication number: 20210296950
    Abstract: A rotor includes a permanent magnet, a rotor core, and a holding part covering an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core. The rotor core includes a magnet insertion hole, an inner core part, an outer core part, and a connecting core part. The holding part is in contact with part of the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core other than an inter-pole part, and is not in contact with the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core at the inter-pole part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuhiko BABA
  • Patent number: 11070112
    Abstract: A sensor magnet includes: a first magnetic-pole part including a magnetic pole of first polarity; a second magnetic-pole part including a magnetic pole of second polarity; and an inter-pole part formed between the first magnetic-pole part and the second magnetic-pole part. A width of the inter-pole part is larger than both of a width of the first magnetic-pole part and a width of the second magnetic-pole part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe
  • Patent number: 11005350
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor includes: an annular stator core; a cylindrical rotor disposed inside the stator core, and having a first end face in an axial direction of the stator core and a second end face in the axial direction; a disk-shaped sensor magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles disposed circumferentially, and having a third end face and a fourth end face; and a magnetic sensor disposed so as to be opposed to the fourth end face in the axial direction, and detecting a rotating position of the sensor magnet. When a first thickness means the axial thickness at the center of each of the magnetic poles and a second thickness means the axial thickness of an inter-magnetic-pole portion between adjacent magnetic poles of the magnetic poles, the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe, Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Hiroki Aso, Yuto Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210083536
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor rotatable in a rotating direction about an axis, and a stator surrounding the rotor. A rotor core includes a magnet insertion hole corresponding to one magnetic pole, and a plurality of slits on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in the radial direction. The slits include a first slit located most upstream in the rotating direction. Each slit has a tip portion and a root portion. The tip portion of the first slit is located upstream of the root portion of the first slit in the rotating direction, and is located upstream of a magnetic pole center in the rotating direction. The root portions of the slits are disposed more in number in a second region downstream of the magnetic pole center in the rotating direction than in a first region upstream of the magnetic pole center in the rotating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventor: Kazuhiko BABA
  • Patent number: 10879760
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor for a compressor includes a stator core and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core including a plurality of magnet insertion holes, and an end plate disposed on an end portion of the rotor core in an axial direction of the rotor core. An outer diameter of the end plate is equal to an outer diameter of the rotor core. The end plate is formed of a magnetic material that is more ferromagnetic than a magnetic material of the rotor core. A plurality of through-holes each communicating with corresponding one of the magnet insertion holes are formed in the end plate, the through-holes extending in the axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10862357
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet-embedded electric motor includes a stator core including a yoke and a plurality of teeth, a rotor core including a plurality of magnet insertion holes, and a plurality of permanent magnets respectively inserted into the magnet insertion holes, each being arranged with a lateral direction set in a radial direction of the rotor core and with a longitudinal direction set in a direction orthogonal to the radial direction. When a width of base sections of the teeth is represented as S1, a width of a distal end sections of the teeth is represented as S2, a width of the permanent magnets in the longitudinal direction is represented as R1, and a width of the magnet insertion holes in an extension direction thereof is represented as R2, relations of S1?R1<S2 and S1?R2?R1 are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Naohiro Oketani, Koji Yabe
  • Patent number: 10833544
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core including a plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets stacked in layers and having an insertion hole penetrating the plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets in an axial direction of the stator and a second core arranged in the insertion hole and including a plurality of oriented electromagnetic steel sheets stacked in layers. The first core has a side wall part adjoining a side surface of the second core extending in the axial direction of the stator, and the side wall part has an opening part that exposes the side surface of the second core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo
  • Patent number: 10797540
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core and a second core. The first core has a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis line and having a second insertion hole, and a tooth extending from the yoke in a direction toward the axis line and having a first insertion hole. The second core has a first part disposed in the first insertion hole and a second part disposed in the second insertion hole and formed of amorphous metal or nanocrystal metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo
  • Patent number: 10778055
    Abstract: In an electric motor, a first magnet and a second magnet are accommodated in magnet accommodating apertures of a rotor core. On outer circumferential core portions that exist on a radially outer side of the magnet accommodating apertures, two slits as a pair of first slits, and two slits that are respectively adjacent to each of the first slits are disposed circumferentially outside the pair of first slits as a pair of second slits. The outer circumferential core portions include: a first magnetic portion that exists between the pair of first slits; and a pair of second magnetic portions that respectively exist between the first slits and the second slits. An inter-magnet space portion that exists between the first magnet and the second magnet is positioned within a range of the first magnetic portion in the circumferential direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10749388
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core including a plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets that is stacked and having an insertion hole penetrating the plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets in an axial direction of the stator and a second core arranged in the insertion hole and including a plurality of oriented electromagnetic steel sheets that is stacked. The first core has a thin-wall part adjoining the second core, and a conditional expression of 0.5tm?ta?2tm is satisfied, where ta denotes a thickness of the thin-wall part when the first core is viewed in the axial direction and tm denotes a sheet thickness of one non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet in the plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo
  • Patent number: 10749392
    Abstract: A motor rotor includes: a shaft; a smaller-radius iron core fixedly attached to an outer peripheral surface of the shaft; a larger-radius iron core disposed spaced apart from the smaller-radius iron core in a radial direction perpendicular to an axis of the shaft, which is formed in a ring shape in cross section by a combination of a plurality of iron core blocks, and disposed to share a common axis with the smaller-radius iron core; and an insulating resin portion used to fix the smaller-radius iron core and the larger-radius iron core. The larger-radius iron core and the smaller-radius iron core are formed of their respective different materials. The material forming the larger-radius iron core has an iron loss less than an iron loss of the material forming the smaller-radius iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Hironori Yabuuchi
  • Patent number: 10630123
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor core that rotates about a rotation axis, a plurality of first magnets disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core and embedded in the rotor core, a second magnet that includes a plurality of magnetic poles disposed in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and is disposed on an end surface of the rotor core in an extending direction of the axis, the second magnet being disposed at a position in a direction orthogonal to the axis, different from positions at which the plurality of first magnets are disposed, and a stator provided on an outer side of the rotor core in the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10608486
    Abstract: Provided is an interior permanent magnet motor, including: a stator; and a rotor, in which an outline of each of magnet insertion holes includes a radially inner-side line, a radially outer-side line, a pair of side lines, a pair of first round portions, and a pair of second round portions, in which a thin portion is formed between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and each of the side lines, in which each of the first round portions is provided between a corresponding end of the corresponding radially outer-side line and a corresponding end of the corresponding side line, and in which each of the second round portions is provided between a corresponding end of the corresponding radially inner-side line and a corresponding end of the corresponding side line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ishikawa, Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida