Patents by Inventor Kenta MOTOYOSHI
Kenta MOTOYOSHI 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: 20240429760Abstract: A rotor according the present disclosure includes: a shaft a first rotor core and a second rotor core a plurality of first magnets that are disposed so as to align in a circumferential direction on an outer circumferential surface of the first rotor core, and a plurality of second magnets that are disposed so as to align in the circumferential direction on the outer circumferential surface of the second rotor core, wherein locations of the plurality of first magnets and the plurality of second magnets are offset in the circumferential direction, and an interval between the plurality of first magnets and the plurality of second magnets in the axial direction is within a range of 0.5 to 3.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takashi YAMAMOTO, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Satoru AKUTSU, Shohei FUJIKURA, Kenta MOTOYOSHI
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Publication number: 20240356394Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a shaft which is disposed inside the rotor core and extends in an axial direction, and a plurality of permanent magnets which are provided in the rotor core, in which the rotor core is provided with a lightening hole, and a number of the lightening hole is different from a number of pole pairs of the plurality of permanent magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: October 24, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Hiroko IKEDA, Yuki NISHIMURA, Takashi Takashi, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Shohei FUJIKURA
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Patent number: 12072392Abstract: Provided is a short-circuit detection device including: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a magnetic flux detector configured to detect a magnetic flux generated in an air gap between a rotor and a stator of a rotating electric machine, a detection signal corresponding to the magnetic flux; a signal processing unit configured to subject the detection signal acquired by the signal acquisition unit to filtering of removing at least one component of odd-order components included in the detection signal, to thereby generate a filtered signal being the detection signal subjected to the filtering; and a short-circuit detection unit configured to detect a short circuit of a field winding through use of the filtered signal generated by the signal processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Takizawa, Haruyuki Kometani, Kenta Motoyoshi, Atsushi Yamamoto, Susumu Maeda, Nobuaki Muroki
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Publication number: 20240235294Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnetic poles, the plurality of magnetic poles includes a plurality of magnet poles formed by permanent magnets, and a plurality of dummy poles, the magnet poles and the dummy poles are alternately disposed in both an axial direction and a circumferential direction, non-magnetic holes are provided between the magnet poles and the dummy poles that are adjacent in the axial direction, and when a length of each magnet pole in the axial direction is tm, a length of each dummy pole in the axial direction is tc, a length of each non-magnetic hole in the axial direction is ta, and a length of the rotor core in the axial direction is lc, the rotating electrical machine satisfies tm>tc and lc<(2×tm)+ta.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori SASAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yu HIROTANI, Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA
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Patent number: 12034334Abstract: A resolver device with redundancy, wherein winding groups of different systems are arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction of a stator core. The winding groups of each system include: an excitation winding group consisting of a plurality of excitation windings, each of which is connected to a corresponding one of plural excitation circuits; and a first output winding group; and a second output winding group. Each of the stator teeth has a corresponding one of the excitation windings wound therearound. When two of the excitation windings belonging to different systems, arranged side by side in the circumferential direction of the stator core, are defined as a first end excitation winding and a second end excitation winding, respectively, the first end excitation winding and the second end excitation winding are supplied with excitation signals which generate magnetic fluxes in the same (not opposite) radial directions of the stator core.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Tatsuya Mori, Kenta Motoyoshi, Kodai Okazaki, Kenji Ikeda, Yosuke Sugino, Seiji Sawada, Kenta Kubo, Toshihiro Matsunaga
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Publication number: 20240159572Abstract: A resolver includes a rotor attached to a shaft of a rotating body, a stator, an excitation circuit, and an angle computation unit configured to compute a rotation angle of the rotor. Each tooth of the stator has line-symmetry with respect to a line connecting a center of a core back of the stator and centers of the teeth in a circumferential direction as viewed from an axial direction. A rotor outline is expressed by a function Rr(x(?), y(?)) defined by Equations (1) to (3), where an x and a y axes are axes of an orthogonal coordinate system having a center of the shaft as an origin, and an angle from a reference axis is ?, where a minimum distance from the center of the core back to the teeth is Ri, and a maximum distance is Ro, and a number of salient poles of the rotor is Nx.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yu HIROTANI, Hidenori SASAKI, Tatsuya MORI
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Publication number: 20240136874Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnetic poles, the plurality of magnetic poles includes a plurality of magnet poles formed by permanent magnets, and a plurality of dummy poles, the magnet poles and the dummy poles are alternately disposed in both an axial direction and a circumferential direction, non-magnetic holes are provided between the magnet poles and the dummy poles that are adjacent in the axial direction, and when a length of each magnet pole in the axial direction is tm, a length of each dummy pole in the axial direction is tc, a length of each non-magnetic hole in the axial direction is ta, and a length of the rotor core in the axial direction is lc, the rotating electrical machine satisfies tm>tc and lc<(2×tm)+ta.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori SASAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yu HIROTANI, Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA
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Patent number: 11901772Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine has interpole bridges each disposed on an outer circumferential side with respect to a permanent magnet in a non-magnetic portion between the poles, and interpole diameter bridges each surrounded by two permanent magnets and an interpole bridge. The outer circumferential surface of each interpole bridge is formed by a first flat surface. Thus, a path of a magnetic flux passing through a magnetic gap is lengthened, so that a q-axis inductance is reduced. In addition, a width in a radial direction of each interpole bridge and a width in a circumferential direction of each interpole diameter bridge are constant, and each interpole bridge and each interpole diameter bridge are disposed so as to be perpendicular to each other to form a T shape. Thus, the concentration of stress during press-fitting of the permanent magnet into a magnet hole can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai Okazaki, Kenta Motoyoshi, Yuji Takizawa, Hiroko Ikeda, Hidenori Sasaki, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu, Masafumi Okazaki, Natsumi Sugi
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Publication number: 20240022125Abstract: A permanent magnet includes a recessed portion to fit therein with a protrusion provide in a rotor core; and, when the shortest distance between outmost part of the recessed portion and an outer periphery's circular arc portion of the magnet is defined as L1, and when the distance between the recessed portion and the outer periphery's circular arc portion is defined as L2 where the distance L2 passes through an intersection point at which a tangential line of outmost part on the recessed portion intersects with a parallel line, which defines as its start point a point from which a changeover to the recessed portion occurs from an adhesion surface between the magnet and the rotor core, and which is in parallel with a radial line extending from the rotor's shaft center toward the center of the magnet, the magnet includes the recessed portion that satisfies L2?L1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yuki NISHIMURA, Yu HIROTANI
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Publication number: 20230378832Abstract: In an electric rotating machine according to this application, a maximum height of a permanent magnet in a rotor and a flange-part root radial thickness of the tooth portion in the stator can be set properly, so that it is possible to eliminate unbalanced magnetic saturation at flange parts of the heads of the tooth portions. This makes it possible to reduce an unbalance between torque ripples that are generated respectively by an upper-side rotor block and a lower-side rotor block when an electric power steering apparatus is driven under static steering conditions, to thereby achieve an electric rotating machine with a suppressed torque ripple. With the use of this electric rotating machine, since the torque-ripple unbalance is reduced, it is possible to achieve an electric power steering apparatus with a suppressed torque ripple.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu HIROTANI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Hiroko IKEDA, Shohei FUJIKURA
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Publication number: 20230208225Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets. The rotor core includes a plurality of core portions. The rotor core includes an annular portion and a plurality of coupling portions. Each of the plurality of coupling portions couples the annular portion and a first core portion of each of the plurality of core portions to each other. Each of the plurality of coupling portions has at least one coupling path. A sum of a width of a portion having the smallest width in at least one coupling path is smaller than a length of a joining boundary between the annular portion and each of the plurality of coupling portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori SASAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Shohei FUJIKURA, Hiroko IKEDA, Koji KAWAMURA
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Publication number: 20220224172Abstract: In a redundancy resolver device, winding groups of different systems are arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction of a stator core. The winding groups of each system include: an excitation winding group consisting of a plurality of excitation windings, and being connected to corresponding one of excitation circuits; a first output winding group; and a second output winding group. Each of the teeth has corresponding one of the excitation windings wound therearound. When two of the excitation windings belonging to different systems and being arranged side by side is the circumferential direction of the stator core are defined as a first end excitation winding and a second end excitation winding, respectively, the first end excitation winding and the second end excitation winding are applied with excitation signals to generate magnetic fluxes in the same direction of radial directions of the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2019Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Kenji IKEDA, Yosuke SUGINO, Seiji SAWADA, Kenta KUBO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
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Publication number: 20220146593Abstract: Provided is a short-circuit detection device including: a signal acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a magnetic flux detector configured to detect a magnetic flux generated in an air gap between a rotor and a stator of a rotating electric machine, a detection signal corresponding to the magnetic flux; a signal processing unit configured to subject the detection signal acquired by the signal acquisition unit to filtering of removing at least one component of odd-order components included in the detection signal, to thereby generate a filtered signal being the detection signal subjected to the filtering; and a short-circuit detection unit configured to detect a short circuit of a field winding through use of the filtered signal generated by the signal processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yuji TAKIZAWA, Haruyuki KOMETANI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Susumu MAEDA, Nobuaki MUROKI
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Publication number: 20220149681Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine, including: a stator; and a rotor, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a plurality of holes formed so as to be arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotor; and at least one permanent magnet, wherein the number of magnetic poles of the rotor is “p”, wherein the plurality of holes include a first hole into which the permanent magnet is inserted, and a second hole into which the permanent magnet is not inserted, the first hole including p/2 first holes, the second hole including p/2 second holes, wherein the first hole and the second hole are formed so as to be alternately arranged in the circumferential direction, and wherein the second hole includes a first opening portion that opens to the stator side in a radial direction of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Hidenori SASAKI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Hiroko IKEDA
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Publication number: 20220037942Abstract: A rotor core of a rotating electrical machine has interpole bridges each disposed on an outer circumferential side with respect to a permanent magnet in a non-magnetic portion between the poles, and interpole diameter bridges each surrounded by two permanent magnets and an interpole bridge. The outer circumferential surface of each interpole bridge is formed by a first flat surface. Thus, a path of a magnetic flux passing through a magnetic gap is lengthened, so that a q-axis inductance is reduced. In addition, a width in a radial direction of each interpole bridge and a width in a circumferential direction of each interpole diameter bridge are constant, and each interpole bridge and each interpole diameter bridge are disposed so as to be perpendicular to each other to form a T shape. Thus, the concentration of stress during press-fitting of the permanent magnet into a magnet hole can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2018Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Hiroko IKEDA, Hidenori SASAKI, Yu HIROTANI, Satoru AKUTSU, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Natsumi SUGI
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Patent number: 11088577Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous machine includes a stator including a plurality of split core blocks that are continuously arranged in a rotation direction of a rotor. The plurality of split core blocks each includes: a permanent magnet; a pair of teeth arranged on both ends of the permanent magnet so as to sandwich the permanent magnet in the rotation direction; and connection teeth, which are provided on axial end portions of the pair of teeth sandwiching the permanent magnet, and are configured to connect the pair of teeth.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshinori Tanaka, Kenta Motoyoshi, Toru Ogawa, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Takiguchi
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Patent number: 10778077Abstract: A synchronous linear motor, including: a stator including projecting poles including magnetic bodies; and a movable element arranged opposed to the projecting poles through a space. The movable element includes a core with a magnetic body, coils, and permanent magnets arrayed along a moving direction. The core includes core backs and teeth projecting from the core backs toward the projecting poles. The coils are at least wound around the teeth on both end sides in the moving direction. The permanent magnets are arranged at center portions of the teeth along a projecting direction of the teeth. A polarity of a magnetic pole of the permanent magnet is the same as a polarity of an opposed magnetic pole in an adjacent permanent magnet. The number of different shapes of the permanent magnets or the number of different magnetic characteristics of the permanent magnets is two or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta Motoyoshi, Ariff Zaini, Kazumasa Ito, Toshinori Tanaka, Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Publication number: 20190148995Abstract: A permanent magnet synchronous machine includes a stator including a plurality of split core blocks that are continuously arranged in a rotation direction of a rotor. The plurality of split core blocks each includes: a permanent magnet; a pair of teeth arranged on both ends of the permanent magnet so as to sandwich the permanent magnet in the rotation direction; and connection teeth, which are provided on axial end portions of the pair of teeth sandwiching the permanent magnet, and are configured to connect the pair of teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Toshinori TANAKA, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Toru OGAWA, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Ryuichi TAKIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20190036437Abstract: A synchronous linear motor, including: a stator including projecting poles including magnetic bodies; and a movable element arranged opposed to the projecting poles through a space. The movable element includes a core with a magnetic body, coils, and permanent magnets arrayed along a moving direction. The core includes core backs and teeth projecting from the core backs toward the projecting poles. The coils are at least wound around the teeth on both end sides in the moving direction. The permanent magnets are arranged at center portions of the teeth along a projecting direction of the teeth. A polarity of a magnetic pole of the permanent magnet is the same as a polarity of an opposed magnetic pole in an adjacent permanent magnet. The number of different shapes of the permanent magnets or the number of different magnetic characteristics of the permanent magnets is two or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Ariff ZAINI, Kazumasa ITO, Toshinori TANAKA, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
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Patent number: 10050508Abstract: An armature has a plurality of armature cores arranged in a line in a first direction, coils wound on an area of the armature cores in a second direction, a carrier provided with a space in which to dispose the coils left in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction with respect to the armature cores, and at least one mounting member to fix the armature cores and the carrier. The armature cores are fixed to the mounting member by first bolts, and the carrier is fixed to the mounting member by second bolts. The at least one mounting member, the first bolts, and the second bolts are disposed in positions not overlapping the coils when viewed from the third direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Wakayama, Ryutaro Inagaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Kazumasa Ito, Kenta Motoyoshi