Patents by Inventor Kentaro Haruno

Kentaro Haruno 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: 11539261
    Abstract: A breather device includes an intake path configured to communicate between an interior space of a target case and an exterior space, an exhaust path configured to communicate between the interior space and the exterior space and at least partially separated from the intake path, an intake valve inserted in the intake path and configured to allow outside air to flow into the interior space only when an internal pressure Pi is lower, at least by a fixed extent, than an external pressure Po, and an exhaust valve inserted in the exhaust path and configured to allow gas within the interior space to flow toward the exterior space only when the internal pressure Pi is higher, at least by a fixed extent, than the external pressure Po, and a water stop filter disposed downstream of the intake valve in an intake air flowing direction in the intake path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutaka Aoki, Kentaro Haruno
  • Patent number: 11223247
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core includes an annular back yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a plurality of slots. The stator coil, being housed in the slots and wound around the teeth of the stator core, includes coil ends protruding from the respective end faces of the stator core in the axial direction. The rotary electric machine stator further includes an insulating sleeve which is wound around root portion of the coil end on the end face of the stator core in the axial direction and disposed along the circumferential direction of the back yoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Makoto Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210066992
    Abstract: A breather device includes an intake path configured to communicate between an interior space of a target case and an exterior space, an exhaust path configured to communicate between the interior space and the exterior space and at least partially separated from the intake path, an intake valve inserted in the intake path and configured to allow outside air to flow into the interior space only when an internal pressure Pi is lower, at least by a fixed extent, than an external pressure Po, and an exhaust valve inserted in the exhaust path and configured to allow gas within the interior space to flow toward the exterior space only when the internal pressure Pi is higher, at least by a fixed extent, than the external pressure Po, and a water stop filter disposed downstream of the intake valve in an intake air flowing direction in the intake path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutaka AOKI, Kentaro HARUNO
  • Publication number: 20190052135
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a stator coil. The stator core includes an annular back yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a plurality of slots. The stator coil, being housed in the slots and wound around the teeth of the stator core, includes coil ends protruding from the respective end faces of the stator core in the axial direction. The rotary electric machine stator further includes an insulating sleeve which is wound around root portion of the coil end on the end face of the stator core in the axial direction and disposed along the circumferential direction of the back yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro HARUNO, Makoto YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10199898
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator core, a coil, and a molded portion. The stator core includes an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. The teeth protrude radially inward from the annular yoke. The coils are wound around the teeth respectively. The coil includes a coil end that protrudes toward an axially outer side from an axially end surface of the stator core. The molded portion is a resin member that covers the coil end. The molded portion includes a first member. The first member includes a communication portion that communicates inside of the molded portion with outside of the molded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MATSUO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Haruki Kusamaki, Yuki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 10177610
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, an insulating body, a coil, and a resin-molded product. The stator core includes a circumferentially side surface and an axially upper surface. The insulating body includes a side wall and an upper wall. The side wall covers the circumferentially side surface of the stator core. The upper wall covers the axially upper surface of the stator core. A radially inner side end surface of the upper wall is positioned farther toward a radially outer side than a radially inner side end surface of the side wall. The resin-molded product covers the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Tatsuo Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9991757
    Abstract: Communication grooves for communicating an outer circumferential side with an inner circumferential side of a stator core are formed at a contact face, that contacts the stator core, of a three-phase terminal fixing member. Furthermore, a retention part deeper than the communication grooves is formed. When resin is injected, air between the stator core and a stationary mold and between the stator core and a movable mold is discharged to the outside through the communication grooves, and thus it is possible to suppress formation of voids between the stator core and the stationary mold and between the stator core and the movable mold. In addition, the resin expands by releasing its pressure at the retention part, and thus it is possible to suppress the resin from flowing to the outside through the communication grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Kazuki Asada
  • Publication number: 20160336819
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, an insulating body, a coil, and a resin-molded product. The stator core includes a circumferentially side surface and an axially upper surface. The insulating body includes a side wall and an upper wall. The side wall covers the circumferentially side surface of the stator core. The upper wall covers the axially upper surface of the stator core. A radially inner side end surface of the upper wall is positioned farther toward a radially outer side than a radially inner side end surface of the side wall. The resin-molded product covers the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Tatsuo Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20160336829
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator core, a coil, and a molded portion. The stator core includes an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. The teeth protrude radially inward from the annular yoke. The coils are wound around the teeth respectively. The coil includes a coil end that protrudes toward an axially outer side from an axially end surface of the stator core. The molded portion is a resin member that covers the coil end. The molded portion includes a first member. The first member includes a communication portion that communicates inside of the molded portion with outside of the molded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, MATSUO INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro HARUNO, Haruki KUSAMAKI, Yuki YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160149457
    Abstract: Communication grooves for communicating an outer circumferential side with an inner circumferential side of a stator core are formed at a contact face, that contacts the stator core, of a three-phase terminal fixing member. Furthermore, a retention part deeper than the communication grooves is formed. When resin is injected, air between the stator core and a stationary mold and between the stator core and a movable mold is discharged to the outside through the communication grooves, and thus it is possible to suppress formation of voids between the stator core and the stationary mold and between the stator core and the movable mold. In addition, the resin expands by releasing its pressure at the retention part, and thus it is possible to suppress the resin from flowing to the outside through the communication grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro HARUNO, Kazuki ASADA
  • Patent number: 9143021
    Abstract: A structure which enables highly accurate detection of the temperature of the stator windings of a dynamo-electric machine. A terminal base (12) integrated with a stator by resin molding is provided with: positioning sections (13, 14, 15) for three-phase stator windings (100, 101, 102); and a positioning section (16) for a thermistor (17). The positioning section (16) is disposed between the positioning sections (14, 15). The thermistor (17) is insert molded on the terminal base (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Yuki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 9003639
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixedly attached to a rotational shaft and having a plurality of hole portions arranged in the circumferential direction, a magnet inserted into a plurality of hole portions each, and a filling portion injected into the hole portion. The filling portion is injected into the hole portion from a gate facing a central part in the width direction of the magnet in the opening of the hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsui High-Tec, Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Taketo Takeuchi, Atsushi Watanabe, Kenichiro Fukumaru, Katsumi Amano, Kazutoshi Ueda, Takashi Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 8939795
    Abstract: A shield structure of a conductor cable includes a first case that accommodates a rotating electrical machine, a first terminal block that is provided on the first case, a second case that accommodates an inverter, a second terminal block that is provided on the second case, a conductor cable that electrically connects the first terminal block and the second terminal block to each other, and a metal shell that is arranged across the first case and the second case and covers at least part of a periphery of the conductor cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukio Tsuchiya, Kentaro Haruno
  • Publication number: 20140217858
    Abstract: A structure which enables highly accurate detection of the temperature of the stator windings of a dynamo-electric machine. A terminal base (12) integrated with a stator by resin molding is provided with: positioning sections (13, 14, 15) for three-phase stator windings (100, 101, 102); and a positioning section (16) for a thermistor (17). The positioning section (16) is disposed between the positioning sections (14, 15). The thermistor (17) is insert molded on the terminal base (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Yuki Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 8653779
    Abstract: A rotating electrical-machine control system is provided with: a rotating electrical-machine comprising a rotor further comprising permanent magnets that are divided into a dividing-number of sections; an inverter circuit that drives the rotating electrical-machine by PWM control, using a carrier wave having a carrier frequency; a storage unit that has stored therein a relationship file that indicates the relationship between the dividing-number of the magnets, the magnet temperature, and the carrier frequency; and a control apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takahisa Yashiro, Hiroki Kato, Kentaro Haruno
  • Publication number: 20130097852
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator of a rotating electrical machine includes: winding coils of a plurality of phases respectively around corresponding teeth; fixing the coils by supplying direct currents to the coils such that Lorentz forces are generated toward a radially outer side of the stator; and connecting neutral points of the coils to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Kentaro Haruno, Isao Kato
  • Publication number: 20130065405
    Abstract: A shield structure of a conductor cable includes a first case that accommodates a rotating electrical machine, a first terminal block that is provided on the first case, a second case that accommodates an inverter, a second terminal block that is provided on the second case, a conductor cable that electrically connects the first terminal block and the second terminal block to each other, and a metal shell that is arranged across the first case and the second case and covers at least part of a periphery of the conductor cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukio Tsuchiya, Kentaro Haruno
  • Publication number: 20120285004
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixedly attached to a rotational shaft and having a plurality of hole portions arranged in the circumferential direction, a magnet inserted into a plurality of hole portions each, and a filling portion injected into the hole portion. The filling portion is injected into the hole portion from a gate facing a central part in the width direction of the magnet in the opening of the hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicants: MITSUI HIGH-TEC, INC, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro HARUNO, Taketo TAKEUCHI, Atsushi WATANABE, Kenichiro FUKUMARU, Katsumi AMANO, Kazutoshi UEDA, Takashi FUKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20120256511
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core that has at least one tooth which extends radially inward from the stator core and has a shape of a quadrangular prismoid, an insulator that is made of a resin, and a coil that is formed by winding a rectangular wire around the tooth via the insulator. The insulator has a thickness which varies depending on a relative positional relationship between the rectangular wire and the tooth, or the coil is formed in a staircase configuration to conform to the quadrangular prismoid shape of the tooth and the insulator has a varying thickness to conform to the staircase configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kentaro HARUNO
  • Publication number: 20120242268
    Abstract: A rotating electrical-machine control system is provided with: a rotating electrical-machine comprising a rotor further comprising permanent magnets that are divided into a dividing-number of sections; an inverter circuit that drives the rotating electrical-machine by PWM control, using a carrier wave having a carrier frequency; a storage unit that has stored therein a relationship file that indicates the relationship between the dividing-number of the magnets, the magnet temperature, and the carrier frequency; and a control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahisa Yashiro, Hiroki Kato, Kentaro Haruno