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).

  • Patent number: 10601274
    Abstract: A 10-pole/9-slot synchronous motor includes nine teeth that are divided into three phases, each having three adjacent teeth. A stator iron core is configured such that a value obtained by dividing b by a is larger than 0.5 where the a is a width of a teeth tip, which is provided on an inner diameter side of a tooth of the teeth formed on the stator iron core, from a base portion between the teeth tip and the tooth to a circumferential end of the teeth tip and the b is a thickness of the teeth tip from the base portion to an inner-diameter side surface of the teeth tip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Kazuhiko Baba, Hiroki Aso, Yuto Urabe
  • Patent number: 10389215
    Abstract: A motor including a rotor, and a stator having a plurality of coils wound around slots, wherein at least any one of the coils includes a single aluminum wire, a single copper wire joined to the aluminum wire, a stranded wire (lead wire) joined to the copper wire, a cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion) joined between the aluminum wire and the copper wire by cold pressure welding, and a non-pressure welded joint portion (joint portion) provided between the copper wire and the stranded wire (lead wire). A burr covered by an insulation member (insulation tube) is provided in the cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion). A thickness of the insulation member (insulation tube) is larger than a height of the burr.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Tomoaki Oikawa
  • Patent number: 10348144
    Abstract: A rotor iron core includes: a plurality of first iron cores and arranged in an outer side in a radial direction of each permanent magnet; and a second iron core with mechanical strength higher than mechanical strength of each first iron core and that includes an inner iron core arranged on an inner side in the radial direction of each permanent magnet and a plurality of inter-magnetic pole iron cores formed integrally with the inner iron core and arranged between magnetic poles of each permanent magnet, wherein each inter-magnetic pole iron core is formed from an end part in a circumferential direction of each first iron core to the inner iron core, and a flux barrier is formed between each permanent magnet and each inter-magnetic pole iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10348145
    Abstract: A rotor is connected to a shaft member and rotates about a central axis. The rotor includes a shaft hole having at least part of the shaft member disposed therein; and flow paths disposed around the shaft member and penetrating the rotor in a direction parallel with the central axis. Each flow path has a first surface facing outward in the radial direction; a second surface disposed outward of the first surface in the radial direction and facing the first surface; a third surface connecting the first and second surfaces at one end in a rotational direction about the central axis; a fourth surface connecting the first and second surfaces at the other end in the rotational direction. The condition C<D is satisfied, where C is the distance between both ends of the first surface, and D is the distance between both ends of the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba, Takahiro Tsutsumi
  • Patent number: 10284030
    Abstract: A permanent magnet embedded electric motor includes a stator core disposed inside the frame and having a back yoke and a plurality of magnetic pole teeth; a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of the plurality of magnetic pole teeth; and compression sections in which compression stress higher than compression stress occurring in the back yoke due to pressing force generated between the frame and the back yoke occurs. A compression section group having a set of two or more compression sections and of the plurality of compression sections is disposed on an outer circumferential section of the stator core. A sum of the rotating direction widths of the plurality of compression sections constituting the compression section group is smaller than a radial direction thickness of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Patent number: 10277099
    Abstract: A synchronous motor includes a stator that includes nine teeth that are divided into three phases, each of which includes three adjacent teeth, windings being concentratedly wound around the teeth. The circumferential width of a tip portion of a central tooth among three teeth forming each phase is made smaller than the circumferential widths of tip portions of both-side teeth, and the tooth thickness of the tip portion of the central tooth is made smaller than the tooth thicknesses of the tip portions of the both-side teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Matsuoka, Kazuhiko Baba
  • Publication number: 20190081519
    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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO
  • Publication number: 20190081521
    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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO
  • Publication number: 20190081520
    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: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO
  • Publication number: 20190068015
    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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Koji YABE, Kazuhiko BABA
  • Publication number: 20190028009
    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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuhiko BABA, Koji YABE, Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Junichiro OYA, Hiroki ASO, Yuto URABE
  • Publication number: 20190027980
    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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuhiko BABA, Koji YABE
  • Publication number: 20190006896
    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: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Atsushi ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180358846
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator core, a rotor core that is disposed on an inner side of the stator core and has a plurality of magnet holes arrayed in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of permanent magnets respectively disposed in the magnet holes. The stator core is constructed by a plurality of plates formed from a first magnetic material, each of which has a first thickness. The rotor core is constructed by a plurality of plates formed from a second magnetic material, each of which has a second thickness. The first thickness is smaller than the second thickness, and a silicon content rate of the first soft magnetic material is larger than a silicon content rate of the second soft magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Kazuhiko BABA, Masahiro NIGO
  • Patent number: 10116176
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet embedded electric motor, a rotor iron core of a rotor disposed on an inner diameter side of a stator includes: a plurality of first slits that are formed on a radial direction outer side of a magnet insertion hole, and communicate with the magnet insertion hole; a plurality of second slits formed at positions opposed to and spaced apart from the first slits; inter-slit iron core portions formed between the first slits and the second slits; outer side iron core portions formed between the second slits and an outer circumferential surface of the rotor iron core; space portions communicating with rotating direction end portions of the magnet insertion hole; and thin iron core portions that are formed between the space portions and the outer circumferential surface of the rotor iron core, and extend in a rotating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10103588
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core having a plurality of magnet receiving holes, and a plurality of permanent magnets are received in each of the magnet receiving holes. A plurality of slits are formed at a part between an outer peripheral surface of the rotor and an outer-side defining line of the each of the magnet receiving holes. At least one space portion is secured between the plurality of permanent magnets, and the space portion is opposed to any one of the plurality of slits in a direction parallel to a magnetic pole center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida, Atsushi Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 10090726
    Abstract: The motor includes a motor body to rotate a shaft by generating a rotating magnetic field; a bearing supporting the shaft; and a bracket being electrically non-conductive, surrounding an outer periphery of the bearing, and supporting the bearing, wherein the bracket is not in contact with any member formed of conductive material at an outer periphery of the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihiko Kawanori, Hironori Yabuuchi, Nobuaki Miyake, Kazuhiko Baba, Tomoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10090743
    Abstract: In an interior permanent magnet motor, a magnet insertion hole of a rotor core is curved into an arc shape, and a convex portion side of the arc shape is arranged on a center side of a rotor. The magnet insertion hole has a first line, a second line, and a pair of third lines. The first line is located on the radially outer side of the second line. Each of the third lines connects the first line and the second line to each other. The first line includes an arc portion and a pair of concave portions. Each of the concave portions is located at an end of the arc portion of the first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Nigo, Kazuhiko Baba, Kazuchika Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 10084354
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet motor capable of increasing an output of a motor without reducing torque by increasing demagnetization resistance. The interior permanent magnet motor includes a rotator including a rotator core, and a stator. The rotator core includes a plurality of magnet accommodating holes and a plurality of permanent magnets. The thickness in the short-side direction of each of the magnet accommodating holes is minimum at the center portion of the magnetic pole, and is gradually increased toward the radially outer side of the rotator core. At least the thickness in the short-side direction of the permanent magnet at the center portion of the magnetic pole is equal to the thickness in the short-side direction of the magnet accommodating hole at the center portion of the magnetic pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Baba, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuchika Tsuchida
  • Patent number: 10056795
    Abstract: Provided is an interior permanent magnet motor including: a stator; and a rotor, the rotor including separated permanent magnets for one magnetic pole, in which: a rotor core includes the same number of separated magnet insertion holes as that of the plurality of permanent magnets for one magnetic pole; bridges are formed between respective adjacent ones of the magnet insertion holes in each magnetic pole; each of the bridges includes a pair of parallel linear portions and two pairs of curved portions; under a state in which the permanent magnets are inserted into the magnet insertion holes, the pair of linear portions are in contact with edge surfaces of the permanent magnets; the pair of curved portions are connected to ends of the linear portions; and an interval between the pair of curved portions becomes larger as the interval becomes away from the linear portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro Oketani, Kazuhiko Baba