Patents by Inventor Keiji Aota

Keiji Aota 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: 20170353075
    Abstract: A stator for a motor of a compressor includes a stator core, insulator, coil, slot insulator, and inter-coil insulator. The stator core has a plurality of tooth portions arrayed circumferentially. The insulator is fitted to axial end faces of the stator core. The coil is wound on the tooth portions. The slot insulator is placed within slot portions that are spaces between circumferentially neighboring ones of the tooth portions, and which are interposed between the stator core and the coil. The inter-coil insulator is placed between circumferentially mutually neighboring windings of the coil. The inter-coil insulator is sheet shaped and folded over a width equal to double a sheet thickness at a folding-bottom portion extending along an axial direction. The folding-bottom portion is positioned on a distal end side of the tooth portions. Movement of the folding-bottom portion in a radial direction toward the rotor is restricted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Akinobu ISHIZAKI, Hidemi TANJI, Keiji AOTA, Akio MUTOU
  • Patent number: 9740067
    Abstract: In a display device, in which an IC chip, which has an output and an input bump group, is mounted onto a display panel via an ACF, and a total area of end surfaces of output bumps that form the output bump group is larger than a total area of end surfaces of input bumps that form the input bump group, a concentration of conductive particles in a portion of the ACF corresponding to the output bump group is lower than a concentration of conductive particles in a portion of the ACF corresponding to the input bump group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Keiji Aota
  • Patent number: 9608490
    Abstract: A compressor includes a casing, a compression mechanism arranged inside the casing, a motor arranged inside the casing, and an insulation sheet. The motor drives the compression mechanism. The motor is a concentrated-winding motor having a stator that has a plurality of teeth, and an insulator adjacent to the stator, with windings wound about the teeth with the insulator interposed between the windings and the teeth. The insulation sheet is arranged between the casing and crossover wires of the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Akinobu Ishizaki
  • Publication number: 20160315517
    Abstract: A compressor includes a casing, a compression mechanism arranged inside the casing, a motor arranged inside the casing, and an insulation sheet. The motor drives the compression mechanism. The motor is a concentrated-winding motor having a stator that has a plurality of teeth, and an insulator adjacent to the stator, with windings wound about the teeth with the insulator interposed between the windings and the teeth. The insulation sheet is arranged between the casing and crossover wires of the windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Keiji AOTA, Akinobu ISHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 9207477
    Abstract: A display module 1 of the present invention includes a first board 3, a second board 4, a base film 5, and a circuit member 2. The first board 3 and the second board 4 are bonded together to face with each other. The base film 5 is provided between the first board 3 and the second board 4 and extends outwardly from an end of the first board 3. The base film 5 has an insulating property and the extended portion is bent to an outer surface side of one of the first board 3 and the second board 4. The circuit member 2 is formed on the base film 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyazaki, Motoji Shiota, Takatoshi Kira, Gen Nagaoka, Seiji Muraoka, Makoto Tamaki, Keiji Aota, Yukio Shimizu, Takashi Matsui, Hiroki Nakahama, Hiroki Makino, Minoru Horino
  • Publication number: 20150226995
    Abstract: In a display device (S), in which an IC chip (30), which has an output and an input bump group (31G, 33G), is mounted onto a display panel (10) via an ACF (34), and a total area of end surfaces (31s) of output bumps (31) that form the output bump group (31G) is larger than a total area of end surfaces (33s) of input bumps (33) that form the input bump group (33G), a concentration of conductive particles (37) in a portion (35a) of the ACF (34) corresponding to the output bump group (31G) is lower than a concentration of conductive particles (37) in a portion (35b) of the ACF (34) corresponding to the input bump group (33G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiji Aota
  • Patent number: 8853909
    Abstract: A first non-magnetic portion, a second non-magnetic portion, and a third non-magnetic portion are arranged around an axis, from an end toward the center of a permanent magnet burying hole. A fourth non-magnetic portion is further provided between the second non-magnetic portion and the third non-magnetic portion. Angles around the axis are determined as follows with reference to a position between permanent magnet burying holes. The position between the first non-magnetic portion and the second non-magnetic portion is expressed by a first angle. The position between the third non-magnetic portion and the fourth non-magnetic portion is expressed by a second angle, and the second angle is twice the first angle. The end of the third non-magnetic portion located closer to the pole center is expressed by a third angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Akio Yamagiwa, Yoshiki Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20140092338
    Abstract: A display module 1 of the present invention includes a first board 3, a second board 4, a base film 5, and a circuit member 2. The first board 3 and the second board 4 are bonded together to face with each other. The base film 5 is provided between the first board 3 and the second board 4 and extends outwardly from an end of the first board 3. The base film 5 has an insulating property and the extended portion is bent to an outer surface side of one of the first board 3 and the second board 4. The circuit member 2 is formed on the base film 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Miyazaki, Motoji Shiota, Takatoshi Kira, Gen Nagaoka, Seiji Muraoka, Makoto Tamaki, Keiji Aota, Yukio Shimizu, Takashi Matsui, Hiroki Nakahama, Hiroki Makino, Minoru Horino
  • Patent number: 8598763
    Abstract: A field element core has a perimeter exposed around a rotation axis and a plurality of field magnet insertion holes circularly disposed around the rotation axis P. A radius between the perimeter and the rotation axis P decreases in a monotonically non-increasing manner from a pole center toward an interpole and then increases in a monotonically non-decreasing manner in a region between the pole center and the interpole in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshihito Sanga, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 8040009
    Abstract: The field magnet is formed of, for example, two permanent magnets, and a width of the field magnet increases from a center toward both ends thereof in a monotonically non-decreasing manner. The field magnet includes, at the both ends thereof, projecting portions projecting to a side opposite to a rotation axis. The field core includes a penetration hole through which the field magnet is caused to penetrate. The penetration hole includes penetration surfaces which cover magnetic pole surfaces of the field magnet, respectively. Specifically, the penetration surface includes concave portions with which the projecting portions are fitted. When the field magnet is inserted, the penetration surfaces serve as a guide which guides the field magnet, and accordingly the field magnet can be caused to penetrate through the penetration hole with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8013700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a field element which reduces a harmonic component of a magnetic flux density. Permanent magnets (20) are in contact with first magnetic plates (1, 3) in a direction parallel to a rotation axis (P). The first magnetic plate (1) includes first and second magnetic members (10, 12) and first and second non-magnetic members (11, 13). The first magnetic member (10) includes a pole center and is in contact with one of the permanent magnets. The first magnetic member (10), the first non-magnetic member (11), the second magnetic member (12) and the second non-magnetic member (13) are disposed in the stated order in a circumferential direction with the pole center and the rotation axis being as a starting point and a center, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8004139
    Abstract: A compressor motor includes a rotor and a stator disposed radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, and a plurality of magnets circumferentially arranged on the rotor core at center angles of equal intervals. The rotor core has an axial length L and a radial length D. Each of the magnets has a thickness t. L/D <0.7, and t>(1×K×N)/(L1.5×D×P), where P is the number of poles, K is 100000, and N is a factor that depends on a compressor output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kataoka, Keiji Aota, Shin Nakamasu
  • Patent number: 7948137
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core extending in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of magnets. The core has parts formed by magnetic materials and extending in the predetermined direction. The parts are arranged in a loop around the part, and face the part through gaps. The magnets are buried in the gaps in the form of a loop in the core. The magnets have pole faces extending in the predetermined direction. In each of the magnets, at least one of ends of the magnet protrudes forward in parallel to the predetermined direction with respect to an end of the part that is on the same side with the at least one of the ends of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Ohyama, Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano, Toshinari Kondo, Keiji Aota
  • Publication number: 20110062815
    Abstract: A field element core has a perimeter exposed around a rotation axis and a plurality of field magnet insertion holes circularly disposed around the rotation axis P. A radius between the perimeter and the rotation axis P decreases in a monotonically non-increasing manner from a pole center toward an interpole and then increases in a monotonically non-decreasing manner in a region between the pole center and the interpole in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshihito Sanga, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 7777382
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor core, permanent magnets and non-magnetic layers. The permanent magnets are embedded in the rotor core with each of the permanent magnets defining a pole of the rotor having a pole center and a peripheral edge section, with the peripheral edge section located in a vicinity between the poles and a vicinity of the rotor surface. The non-magnetic layers are located in a vicinity of the rotor surface at a pole center side position with respect to the peripheral edge section of each of the permanent magnets. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are positioned to cancel 5-th or 7-th order harmonics of an induction voltage. The poles are disposed at every approximately constant interval, varying in a constant angle. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are independent from one another, and the rotor core is interposed between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Kiyotaka Nishijima, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20100164664
    Abstract: Permanent magnets are in contact with first magnetic plates in a direction parallel to a rotation axis. The first magnetic plate includes first and second magnetic members and first and second non-magnetic members. The first magnetic member includes a pole center and is in contact with one of the permanent magnets. The first magnetic member, the first non-magnetic member, the second magnetic member and the second non-magnetic member are disposed in the stated order in a circumferential direction with the pole center and the rotation axis being as a starting point and a center, respectively. When Pn represents the number of pole pairs and i represents an odd number equal to or more than three, an angle ?1 defined by an end portion of the second non-magnetic member on the pole center side with respect to a pole gap is 0<? 1<180/(i·Pn). An angle ?2 defined by an end portion of the first non-magnetic member on the pole center side with respect to the pole gap is 180/(i·Pn)=?2=180·2/(i·Pn).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20100109467
    Abstract: The field magnet is formed of, for example, two permanent magnets, and a width of the field magnet increases from a center toward both ends thereof in a monotonically non-decreasing manner. The field magnet includes, at the both ends thereof, projecting portions projecting to a side opposite to a rotation axis. The field core includes a penetration hole through which the field magnet is caused to penetrate. The penetration hole includes penetration surfaces which cover magnetic pole surfaces of the field magnet, respectively. Specifically, the penetration surface includes concave portions with which the projecting portions are fitted. When the field magnet is inserted, the penetration surfaces serve as a guide which guides the field magnet, and accordingly the field magnet can be caused to penetrate through the penetration hole with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20100096940
    Abstract: A compressor motor includes a rotor and a stator disposed radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, and a plurality of magnets circumferentially arranged on the rotor core at center angles of equal intervals. The rotor core has an axial length L and, a radial length D. Each of the magnets has a thickness t. L/D<0.7, and t>(1×K×N)/(L1.5×D×P), where P is the number of poles, K is 100000, and N is a factor that depends on a compressor output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kataoka, Keiji Aota, Shin Nakamasu
  • Patent number: 7579733
    Abstract: A motor has a rotor core with a plurality of first non-magnetic layers and a plurality of second non-magnetic layers. The rotor core has a plurality of magnets. The first and second non-magnetic layers are positioned to cancel n-th order harmonics. Therefore, a specific order, for example 5-th order and 7-th order, harmonics component of a magnetic flux distribution waveform (induction voltage waveform) is reduced and unnecessary radial force and thrust force is prevented from occurrence, while sufficient magnetic flux is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Kiyotaka Nishijima, Akio Yamagiwa
  • Publication number: 20090206691
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor core, permanent magnets and non-magnetic layers. The permanent magnets are embedded in the rotor core with each of the permanent magnets defining a pole of the rotor having a pole center and a peripheral edge section, with the peripheral edge section located in a vicinity between the poles and a vicinity of the rotor surface. The non-magnetic layers are located in a vicinity of the rotor surface at a pole center side position with respect to the peripheral edge section of each of the permanent magnets. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are positioned to cancel 5-th or 7-th order harmonics of an induction voltage. The poles are disposed at every approximately constant interval, varying in a constant angle. The peripheral edge sections and the non-magnetic layers are independent from one another, and the rotor core is interposed between them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji AOTA, Kiyotaka NISHIJIMA, Akio YAMAGIWA