Patents by Inventor Kimio Nishimura

Kimio Nishimura 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: 9613749
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in the lengthwise direction, width direction, and thickness direction for positioning a plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state. The manufacturing device further includes a first pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface from the thickness direction of a magnet body to align them in the thickness direction, and a second pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface from the width direction of the magnet body to align them in the width direction. An operational axis line of a pressing part of at least one of the first and second pressing means is arranged to be tilted such that it approaches the lengthwise direction reference surface at the side that abuts the magnet fragments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 9562279
    Abstract: A boring cutter body (5) is inserted into a circular hole (3) and is rotated and moved in an axial direction, whereby screw-shaped groove parts (11) are formed by using a tool bit (9) provided on a tip end of an outer peripheral portion, and broken surfaces (15) are formed by breaking tips of ridge parts generated by formation of the groove parts (11). Moreover, the groove parts (11) are processed through electric discharge machining using a wire electrode (17) provided to the boring cutter body (5) behind the tool bit (9) in the rotating direction, thereby forming finely roughened portions (41) having more finely roughened shapes than the broken surfaces (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Shuuji Adachi, Mitsuo Uchiyama, Yoshirou Noguchi, Takahiro Iwasaki, Kimio Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20160243719
    Abstract: A manufacture method that includes positioning the permanent magnet body of which a surface is coated with a coating film for deterioration prevention, a scheduled cleavage portion of the permanent magnet body being located between two fulcrums, which are edge portions of a die, supporting the permanent magnet body, and cleaving the permanent magnet body into a cleaved magnet body and the magnet piece by pressing the scheduled cleavage portion of the permanent magnet body is provided. The manufacture method also includes cutting the coating-film between the cleaved magnet body and the magnet piece by pressing an end portion of the cleaved magnet piece from a pressing side of the scheduled cleavage portion, the end portion being on a side opposite to a cleavage surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi OHSHIMA, Kiyoshi HASEGAWA, Kimio NISHIMURA, Takashi SEKIKAWA, Yasushi MATSUSHITA, Akihisa HORI, Michito KISHI
  • Publication number: 20160211073
    Abstract: A cutting method and a cutting device of cutting a magnet body including a coating film feed, in a state where the magnet body in which cutout grooves serving as brittle sections are provided on a lower surface along cutting planned positions is supported by dies serving as two support points from the lower side, the magnet body to a position where the brittle section is arranged between both the support points, and press the magnet body from the upper side of a position offset rearward in the feeding direction from the brittle section between both the support points, so as to cut the magnet body into a cut magnet body and a magnet piece smaller than the cut magnet body while cutting the coating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi OHSHIMA, Kiyoshi HASEGAWA, Kimio NISHIMURA, Takashi SEKIKAWA, Yasushi MATSUSHITA, Akihisa HORI, Michito KISHI
  • Publication number: 20160136835
    Abstract: The magnet cutting device includes a pair of supporting portions spaced apart by a predetermined distance and configured to support the magnet from a bottom side, a blade configured to press the magnet supported by the pair of supporting portions from an upper side of the magnet, and a magnet supporting tool arranged between the pair of supporting portions to support the magnet from the bottom side of the magnet. A surface of the magnet supporting tool to be held in contact with the magnet is shaped such that a central part of an upper end is higher than the upper ends of the pair of supporting portions and an end part of the upper end is lower than the upper ends of the pair of supporting portions when the magnet is placed on the surface, the upper end having a slope connecting the central part and the end part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Takumi OHSHIMA, Kiyoshi HASEGAWA, Kimio NISHIMURA, Takashi SEKIKAWA, Yasushi MATSUSHITA, Akihisa HORI, Michito KISHI
  • Patent number: 9330840
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a field pole magnetic body formed by laminating magnet segments produced by cutting and dividing a permanent magnet and to be arranged in a rotary electric machine includes a housing part adapted to successively house a plurality of the magnet segments having adhesive applied to cut surfaces with the cut surfaces facing each other and has an inner side surface adjacent to outer side surfaces of the housed magnet segments, and a pressing unit adapted to press the magnet segments housed in the housing part toward a bottom part of the housing part in a longitudinal direction. The magnet segments are restrained in a width direction and a thickness direction by the inner side surface of the housing part when the magnet segments are pressed by the pressing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi
  • Patent number: 9251951
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet segment of a field pole magnet body includes cleaving a magnet material at a plurality of cleavage target regions arranged with an interval in a longitudinal direction of the magnet material. The cleavage process includes cleaving the magnet material sequentially from the cleavage target region closer to one side edge of the longitudinal direction of the magnet material, wherein a notch is formed in each of the plurality of cleavage target regions of the magnet material such that a depth of the notch closer to the one side edge becomes deeper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
  • Publication number: 20160011282
    Abstract: A magnet evaluating device evaluates an evaluation magnet by passing the evaluation magnet, which is formed by connecting a plurality of magnetic sections with insulating material in between, and a master magnet of the same form through an alternating magnetic field generated by an excitation coil, measuring the eddy current occurring in the magnetic section as voltage or current occurring in a detection coil and comparing the measured value for the evaluation magnet and the measured value for the master magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji HIGAKI, Kimio NISHIMURA, Masahiro OMATA, Hideki WATANABE, Yasuhisa KOIKE, Takashi SEKIKAWA, Yasushi MATSUSHITA, Akihisa HORI, Takumi OHSHIMA, Michito KISHI, Kiyoshi HASEGAWA, Hiroaki SHIBUKAWA, Kazuhiro TAKAICHI, Hideo SAKUYAMA, Yuhei YAMANE, Yoshito OZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150270060
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for cleft magnets comprises a cleaving mechanism for cleaving a magnet plate by applying a pressing force to the magnet plate corresponding to a back of a groove formed on one surface of the magnet plate and a carry-in mechanism for carrying the magnet plate to a cleaving position by the cleaving mechanism. By comprising a foreign matter removal mechanism for removing a foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate before the magnet plate is carried to the cleaving position by the carry-in mechanism, the foreign matter adhering to the magnet plate is removed before cleaving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Shibukawa, Kimio Nishimura, Masahiro Omata, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Hideki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9109276
    Abstract: A cylindrical internal surface processing method comprises forming a cylinder bore, roughening an upper section of the bore, depositing coating onto the bore, and machining a lower section of the bore and the coating. The forming of the cylinder bore includes forming the upper and lower sections with the lower section being axially spaced from the upper section and having an axial length greater than zero. The roughening creates a roughened surface such that a radially innermost edge of the roughened surface has an internal diameter smaller than an internal diameter of the lower section. The coating is deposited to cover the upper section and at least a portion of the lower section. The machining forms a tapered portion and a cylindrical portion, a radially outermost edge of the cylindrical portion having an internal diameter larger than that of a radially outermost edge of the roughened surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kanai, Kiyokazu Sugiyama, Eiji Shiotani, Kimio Nishimura, Junichi Uchiyama, Kiyohisa Suzuki, Jun Inomata, Daisuke Terada, Akira Shimizu, Hidenobu Matsuyama, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Takashi Iiya
  • Patent number: 9074276
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided to reduce the defect rate and decrease production yield by removing foreign objects even when the foreign objects are mixed in with the thermally sprayed film. The operation for forming thermally sprayed film on inner surface of cylinder bore is paused, and protrusions generated in the thermally sprayed film by foreign objects are detected by visual observation and removed by a manual operation. The thermal spraying operation is then performed until thermally sprayed film reaches the prescribed film thickness. After formation of the thermally sprayed film, a finishing operation is performed by means of honing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Kanai, Eiji Shiotani, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20150158197
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing magnet segments constituting a field pole magnetic body by cleaving a magnetic body having a coating applied to outer surfaces at a plurality of scheduled cleaving parts includes placing tables on which the magnetic body is to be placed, a pressing unit adapted to cleave the magnetic body by pressing the magnetic body at the scheduled cleaving part arranged between two placing tables, and a cutting unit adapted to cut the coating present at the scheduled cleaving part pressed by the pressing unit after the magnetic body is cleaved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi
  • Publication number: 20150143691
    Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a field pole magnetic body formed by laminating magnet segments produced by cutting and dividing a permanent magnet and to be arranged in a rotary electric machine includes a housing part adapted to successively house a plurality of the magnet segments having adhesive applied to cut surfaces with the cut surfaces facing each other and has an inner side surface adjacent to outer side surfaces of the housed magnet segments, and a pressing unit adapted to press the magnet segments housed in the housing part toward a bottom part of the housing part in a longitudinal direction. The magnet segments are restrained in a width direction and a thickness direction by the inner side surface of the housing part when the magnet segments are pressed by the pressing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi
  • Publication number: 20150034691
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet segment of a field pole magnet body includes cleaving a magnet material at a plurality of cleavage target regions arranged with an interval in a longitudinal direction of the magnet material. The cleavage process includes cleaving the magnet material sequentially from the cleavage target region closer to one side edge of the longitudinal direction of the magnet material, wherein a notch is formed in each of the plurality of cleavage target regions of the magnet material such that a depth of the notch closer to the one side edge becomes deeper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
  • Publication number: 20150000114
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in a lengthwise direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction for positioning the plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state with their cleaved faces facing each other; a lengthwise direction pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the lengthwise direction in which they are arranged to the lengthwise direction reference surface in order to align the magnet fragments in the lengthwise direction; a width direction pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the width direction of the magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface to align them in the width direction; and a thickness pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the thickness direction of the magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface to align them in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20140360009
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in the lengthwise direction, width direction, and thickness direction for positioning a plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state. The manufacturing device further includes a first pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface from the thickness direction of a magnet body to align them in the thickness direction, and a second pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface from the width direction of the magnet body to align them in the width direction. An operational axis line of a pressing part of at least one of the first and second pressing means is arranged to be tilted such that it approaches the lengthwise direction reference surface at the side that abuts the magnet fragments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
  • Publication number: 20140331483
    Abstract: A one-piece field-pole magnet is manufactured by filling a gap formed between magnetic pieces placed on a plane with an adhesive or resin. During the process, a pushing member applies a pushing force onto each of the magnet pieces in a thickness direction thereof. The pushing member comprises pushing parts each of which pushes each of the magnet pieces, thereby equalizing the pushing forces applied to the respective magnet pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watababe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
  • Patent number: 8859041
    Abstract: The adhesiveness of a thermal spray coating and a cylinder internal surface is improved by forming a sufficient roughened surface on an internal surface. A processing roller is installed on the main shaft of a processing device via a pressurizing mechanism. An uneven surface is provided on the external periphery of the processing roller. By pressing the processing roller against the internal surface while the roller rotates and moves, a fine unevenness that corresponds to the unevenness of the roller is formed on the cylinder internal surface. A thermal spray coating is formed on the internal surface where the inner surface has been roughened by forming the above-mentioned unevenness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Sekikawa, Masahiko Iizumi, Takashi Ogino, Kimio Nishimura, Eiji Shiotani, Hideo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140231483
    Abstract: A field-pole magnet manufacturing apparatus fractures a magnet fixed on a die serving as a lower tool by causing a punch of an upper tool to press the magnet while in contact with the magnet. At least one projection is formed in the punch of the upper tool symmetrically with respect to the central position of the magnet in the width direction of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hiroharu Takeuchi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhisa Koike
  • Publication number: 20140144337
    Abstract: A field-pole magnet manufacturing apparatus manufactures magnet pieces that constitute a field-pole magnet arranged in a rotary electric machine by fracturing the magnet. This manufacturing apparatus includes: a support unit on which the magnet is placed; a fracture unit that is arranged opposite to the support unit across the magnet and is configured to fracture the magnet by pressing the magnet while in contact with the magnet; and a powder removal unit that is configured to remove crush powder produced by fracture of the magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Yasuhisa Koike, Kimio Nishimura, Hiroharu Takeuchi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yoshinori Izawa