Patents by Inventor Keiichiro Oka

Keiichiro Oka 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: 11387720
    Abstract: A wave winding coil (9) has a first linear part (11a), second linear part (11b), arm part (12) and turn part (13). A retaining apparatus (1) retains the first linear part (11a) along the axis line direction between middle pins (3b, 3b) of a middle body part (3), and retains the second linear part (11b) between upper pins (2b, 2b), middle pins (3b, 3b), and lower pins (4b, 4b), in a state where sections of both ends of the second linear part (11b) in the axis line direction deviate to each other in circumferential opposite sides of the wave winding coil (9) to the axis line direction of the wave winding coil (9) and in a state where a bent angle ?b? between the second linear part (11b) and the connecting part is smaller than a bent angle ?a? between the first linear part (11a) and the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 11108307
    Abstract: A coil (1) for a rotary electric machine is annularly formed by twelve coil members (10), each coil member (10) is configured of four coil elements (10A) to (10D), the coil elements (10A) to (10D) integrally include a plurality of sets of coil element structures each set of coil element structures including a pair of base portions (11), and four arm portions (12) and two curl portions (13), and the plurality of sets of coil element structures are annularly configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 11018482
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of coating-peeling and a coating-peeling apparatus. The method of coating-peeling includes a gripping step and a peeling step, and peels by a pair of peeling blades peeling target portions of an insulating coating covering peeling target side surfaces of a rectangular conductor wire. In the gripping step, abutting sections of a pair of gripping members abut on gripping target portions of the insulating coating, whereby the rectangular conductor wire is gripped between the abutting sections. In the peeling step, in a state where the rectangular conductor wire has been gripped by the gripping members, the peeling blades are moved relatively following a surface direction of the peeling target side surfaces while opposing each other sandwiching the peeling target side surfaces, whereby the peeling target portions are peeled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Yosuke Komatsu, Kenji Masai, Tomotsugu Takahashi, Junya Shigeno
  • Patent number: 10951079
    Abstract: A coil for a rotary electric machine is mounted in a plurality of slots of a stator core having the slots in a circumferential direction. An overlapping coil-type wave winding coil constituted by a coil wire having a plurality of slot accommodating portions accommodated in the slots and a plurality of coil end portions interconnecting, in a chevron shape, the slot accommodating portions next to each other outside the slots in an axial direction of the stator core constitutes the coil. At least two layers of the coil wire are connected by a continuous wire-based connecting portion, folded back in the connecting portion, and stacked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Kenichi Omagari, Takahiro Ide
  • Patent number: 10910900
    Abstract: A coil (3) for a rotary electric machine (3) is constituted by eight layers, and includes an inner coil member (10B) constituting one layer, three layers, five layers, and seven layers, and an outer coil member (10A) constituting two layers, four layers, six layers, and eight layers. An outer upper right arm bending part (31), an outer upper left arm bending part (32), an outer lower right arm bending part (33), and an outer lower left arm bending part (34) of the outer coil member (10A) are formed, at a position where some portions are not overlaid on each other, when six inner coil members (10B) constituting seven layers are arranged to be overlaid on six outer coil members (10A) constituting eight layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Patent number: 10843249
    Abstract: A machining apparatus includes a movement direction converting mechanism that converts lowering movement of a first punch into raising movement of a second punch and converts lowering movement of the second punch into raising movement of the first punch. The first punch and the second punch are raised and lowered in an alternating manner by this movement direction converting mechanism. Accordingly, machining by the first punch and machining by the second punch are performed individually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Takayuki Motojima, Yosuke Komatsu, Yasuhiro Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 10749417
    Abstract: A stator core constituting a stator at least includes first core members and a second core member. Each first core member includes a first annular portion in which slots are formed and first tab portions. On the other hand, the second core member includes a second annular portion in which the slots are formed and that is superposed on the first annular portions, and has a shape obtained by removing the first tab portions from the first core member. Electrical conductors are partially fitted in the overlapping slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Kenji Masai
  • Patent number: 10556767
    Abstract: A first leading end plate and a first rear end plate are provided at an upper part of a rotary table. When a conductor piece contacts the first leading end plate, a first contact detection sensor detects a contact of the conductor piece, and transmits a contact detection signal to a storage control unit. Upon receiving the contact detection signal, the storage control unit drives an air supply device for a predetermined period to spray air toward the conductor piece from a first air nozzle. The air spray brings the conductor piece into a tilted state with the rear end thereof moved downward. Even when the conductor piece contacts the first leading end plate and rebounds, the rear end thereof contacts an inner wall surface of the first rear end plate, thereby preventing the rear end of the conductor piece from getting over the first rear end plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Daisuke Ueno, Tsutomu Ogasawara, Hideki Shigematsu
  • Publication number: 20190305622
    Abstract: A coil (3) for a rotary electric machine (3) is constituted by eight layers, and includes an inner coil member (10B) constituting one layer, three layers, five layers, and seven layers, and an outer coil member (10A) constituting two layers, four layers, six layers, and eight layers. An outer upper right arm bending part (31), an outer upper left arm bending part (32), an outer lower right arm bending part (33), and an outer lower left arm bending part (34) of the outer coil member (10A) are formed, at a position where some portions are not overlaid on each other, when six inner coil members (10B) constituting seven layers are arranged to be overlaid on six outer coil members (10A) constituting eight layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Publication number: 20190305621
    Abstract: The wound coil (7) includes first to fourth inner bases (11a) to (11d), first to fourth outer bases (12a) to (12d). The wound coil (7) includes first to fourth upper connection portions (16a) to (16d), first to third lower connection portions (17a) to (17c), and first to fourth winding portions (18a) to (18d). In the first to fourth winding portions (18a) to (18d), the third and fourth upper connection portions (16c) and (16d) are stacked on the first and second upper connection portions (16a) and (16b) in the circumferential direction D1 and the first and third lower connection portions (17a) and (17c) are continuously stacked on the second lower connection portion (17b) in the circumferential direction D1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Kazuhito Hiraga, Kenichi Omagari
  • Publication number: 20190260249
    Abstract: A coil for a rotary electric machine is mounted in a plurality of slots of a stator core having the slots in a circumferential direction. An overlapping coil-type wave winding coil constituted by a coil wire having a plurality of slot accommodating portions accommodated in the slots and a plurality of coil end portions interconnecting, in a chevron shape, the slot accommodating portions next to each other outside the slots in an axial direction of the stator core constitutes the coil. At least two layers of the coil wire are connected by a continuous wire-based connecting portion, folded back in the connecting portion, and stacked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Kenichi Omagari, Takahiro Ide
  • Publication number: 20190222104
    Abstract: A wave winding coil (9) has a first linear part (11a), second linear part (11b), arm part (12) and turn part (13). A retaining apparatus (1) retains the first linear part (11a) along the axis line direction between middle pins (3b, 3b) of a middle body part (3), and retains the second linear part (11b) between upper pins (2b, 2b), middle pins (3b, 3b), and lower pins (4b, 4b), in a state where sections of both ends of the second linear part (11b) in the axis line direction deviate to each other in circumferential opposite sides of the wave winding coil (9) to the axis line direction of the wave winding coil (9) and in a state where a bent angle ?b? between the second linear part (11b) and the connecting part is smaller than a bent angle ?a? between the first linear part (11a) and the connecting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Publication number: 20190103734
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of coating-peeling and a coating-peeling apparatus. The method of coating-peeling includes a gripping step and a peeling step, and peels by a pair of peeling blades peeling target portions of an insulating coating covering peeling target side surfaces of a rectangular conductor wire. In the gripping step, abutting sections of a pair of gripping members abut on gripping target portions of the insulating coating, whereby the rectangular conductor wire is gripped between the abutting sections. In the peeling step, in a state where the rectangular conductor wire has been gripped by the gripping members, the peeling blades are moved relatively following a surface direction of the peeling target side surfaces while opposing each other sandwiching the peeling target side surfaces, whereby the peeling target portions are peeled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Yosuke Komatsu, Kenji Masai, Tomotsugu Takahashi, Junya Shigeno
  • Publication number: 20190103790
    Abstract: A coil (1) for a rotary electric machine is annularly formed by twelve coil members (10), each coil member (10) is configured of four coil elements (10A) to (10D), the coil elements (10A) to (10D) integrally include a plurality of sets of coil element structures each set of coil element structures including a pair of base portions (11), and four arm portions (12) and two curl portions (13), and the plurality of sets of coil element structures are annularly configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventor: Keiichiro Oka
  • Publication number: 20190099798
    Abstract: A machining apparatus includes a movement direction converting mechanism that converts lowering movement of a first punch into raising movement of a second punch and converts lowering movement of the second punch into raising movement of the first punch. The first punch and the second punch are raised and lowered in an alternating manner by this movement direction converting mechanism. Accordingly, machining by the first punch and machining by the second punch are performed individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Takayuki Motojima, Yosuke Komatsu, Yasuhiro Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20190089230
    Abstract: A stator core constituting a stator at least includes first core members and a second core member. Each first core member includes a first annular portion in which slots are formed and first tab portions. On the other hand, the second core member includes a second annular portion in which the slots are formed and that is superposed on the first annular portions, and has a shape obtained by removing the first tab portions from the first core member. Electrical conductors are partially fitted in the overlapping slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Kenji Masai
  • Publication number: 20190081540
    Abstract: An electric conductor insertion device and insertion method with which the impact of variations in axial direction length of a stator core can be suppressed. An insertion device includes: a guide part that guides a leg part into a slot; a pair of expanding plates that extend in an insertion direction and are capable of expanding at the distal end side; a relative movement part that relatively moves the guide part or a stator core in the axial direction so that distal ends of the expanding plates are disposed on the inside of a protruding part of the insulation paper; a pressing part that presses a top surface of the stator core downwards in the axial direction; and an insertion movement part that inserts the leg part and presses the leg part in the insertion direction to insert the leg part into the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Yutaka Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20180009621
    Abstract: A first leading end plate and a first rear end plate are provided at an upper part of a rotary table. When a conductor piece contacts the first leading end plate, a first contact detection sensor detects a contact of the conductor piece, and transmits a contact detection signal to a storage control unit. Upon receiving the contact detection signal, the storage control unit drives an air supply device for a predetermined period to spray air toward the conductor piece from a first air nozzle. The air spray brings the conductor piece into a tilted state with the rear end thereof moved downward. Even when the conductor piece contacts the first leading end plate and rebounds, the rear end thereof contacts an inner wall surface of the first rear end plate, thereby preventing the rear end of the conductor piece from getting over the first rear end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Daisuke Ueno, Tsutomu Ogasawara, Hideki Shigematsu
  • Patent number: 9608489
    Abstract: Provided are an armature for rotary electric machine, an insulator therefor, and a coil winding device for winding a conductive wire on a tooth to which the insulator has been attached, wherein in each of all forward-wound coils and reversely-wound coils, a part wound on a first side surface of two side surfaces of each tooth that are opposed to the respective adjacent teeth forms a straight portion in which conductive wires in respective layers of the coil are parallel, a part wound on a second side surface forms a cross portion in which the conductive wire in an upper layer is wound in a crossed manner on the conductive wire in an adjacent lower layer, and an insulator has a guide for guiding the conductive wire along a base of an inner flange of the insulator at a first turn of each coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichiro Oka, Hiroyuki Akita, Kunihiro Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20160380500
    Abstract: A cold-welded conductor wire has a connection portion formed by a first conductor wire and a second conductor wire being connected by cold welding, and has: a bent portion bent at a location different from the connection portion; and an insulating case formed by an insulating sheet wrapping the connection portion and being bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keiichiro OKA, Kazuyuki YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki AKITA