Patents by Inventor Kiyotaka Koga

Kiyotaka Koga 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: 11594926
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11557930
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11509181
    Abstract: This armature has a core leg portion fixing member that is provided in a slot so as to overlap with a part at a position different from a position in an axial direction corresponding to a joint portion, and that includes a first fixing layer for fixing an armature core and a leg portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga
  • Patent number: 11509180
    Abstract: In this stator, a first coil portion, a second coil portion, a third coil portion, and a fourth coil portion each include a one-side coil part that is disposed so as to extend over a first slot and a third slot, and an other-side coil part that is disposed so as to extend over a second slot and a fourth slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga
  • Patent number: 11496013
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine stator and a method for manufacturing a rotating electrical machine stator with high productivity. A rotating electrical machine stator includes a stator core having a slot; and a coil having a leg part including a held-in-slot part held in the slot and a portion extending from the held-in-slot part, and a resin foam is provided between an inner surface of the slot and an outer surface of the held-in-slot part facing the inner surface of the slot. The coil is formed by joining together a plurality of segment conductors each having a joint part, and a conductive joint material is disposed between a pair of joint parts facing each other in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara, Tetsuya Funayama, Shinya Katayama, Takahiro Kobuchi
  • Patent number: 11489374
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core and a coil wound around the armature core, wherein: the coil is formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other; the segment conductors have respective conductor side portions that extend along the axial direction; the conductor side portions are provided with respective joint portions; the joint portions have respective facing surfaces; the joint portions of a pair of the segment conductors are joined to each other with the facing surfaces of the joint portions facing each other; and a facing surface of the facing surfaces is formed so as to have a portion that faces a radial direction and so as not to have portions that overlap each other as viewed in the radial direction over the entire facing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11469650
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing an armature includes a step of independently pressing pressing-target segment conductors by a plurality of pressing jigs disposed for each of the pressing-target segment conductors, such that the plurality of pressing jigs are movable relative to each other, at least either one of first segment conductors and second segment conductors serving as the pressing-target segment conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20220302787
    Abstract: In the stator, a slot insulating member that includes a first insulating part provided at least between an inner surface of a slot and a slot inserting part and that provides electrical isolation between a stator core and a coil part is configured to overlap an end part of an insulating coating part on a slot inserting part side of a coil end part as viewed in a direction along an end surface in an axial direction of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Takahiro KOBUCHI
  • Patent number: 11451120
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature includes: a step of preparing first segment conductors in which a plurality of end portions, or an end portion and a power terminal member, are electrically connected to each other; a step of disposing leg portions of the first segment conductors and leg portions of second segment conductors in an armature core; and a step of joining the leg portions of the first segment conductors and the leg portions of the second segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20220294320
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature includes: a step of preparing first segment conductors in which a plurality of end portions, or an end portion and a power terminal member, are electrically connected to each other; a step of disposing leg portions of the first segment conductors and leg portions of second segment conductors in an armature core; and a step of joining the leg portions of the first segment conductors and the leg portions of the second segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Tomotsugu SUGIHARA
  • Publication number: 20220263378
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine for vehicle driving that includes a stator core made of a first metal material which is a magnetic material; and a case part that is integrally joined to the stator core and made of a second metal material which is a non-magnetic material, and a joint surface between the case part and the stator core forms a heat receiving surface where the case part receives heat from the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, ART METAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Masaki IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11411476
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature includes: a step of placing a bonding agent on bonding surfaces of the distal ends of a plurality of segment conductors; a step of placing the plurality of segment conductors on an armature core; a step of bonding the distal ends to each other; and a step of increasing a viscosity of the bonding agent placed on the distal ends, after the step of placing the bonding agent on the distal ends, and before the step of bonding the distal ends to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Patent number: 11296584
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotary electric machine armature that includes a cylindrical armature core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are disposed in a circumferential direction and a coil wound around the armature core, the slots having respective radial openings that open in a radial direction, and the coil being formed by joining a plurality of segment conductors to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Koga, Tomotsugu Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20210391763
    Abstract: In the armature, a first connecting part and a second connecting part that are disposed so as to be adjacent to a connecting part of a different phase have a higher insulatable voltage value than a first leg part and a second leg part that are disposed so as to be adjacent to a leg part of the same phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa YAMAMOTO, Kiyotaka KOGA, Takahiro KOBUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210351653
    Abstract: In this armature, between the first segment conductor and the second segment conductor that are joined to each other in the joint portion, a first clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the first leg portion and the second leg portion body portion in the axial direction, and a second clearance portion is provided between the tip end portion of the second leg portion and the first leg portion body portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Takahiro KOBUCHI, Takashi KATO
  • Publication number: 20210344243
    Abstract: In this stator armature, a first leg portion has a first surface side part that has a thickness in a radial direction smaller than a thickness of a first leg portion body portion in the radial direction, a second leg portion has a second surface side part that has a thickness in the radial direction smaller than a thickness of a second leg portion body portion in the radial direction, and in the radial direction, a thickness of a joint portion is equal to or more than a thickness of a part other than the joint portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Takahiro KOBUCHI, Takashi KATO
  • Publication number: 20210273514
    Abstract: This armature has a core leg portion fixing member that is provided in a slot so as to overlap with a part at a position different from a position in an axial direction corresponding to a joint portion, and that includes a first fixing layer for fixing an armature core and a leg portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyotaka KOGA
  • Patent number: 11095177
    Abstract: A coil wound around a core in which a plurality of slots that extend in an axial direction are arranged in a circumferential direction, the coil including a plurality of slot-housed portions respectively disposed in the plurality of slots; and a plurality of crossover portions that each connect between a first slot-housed portion and a second slot-housed portion, which are a pair of slot-housed portions of the plurality of slot-housed portions disposed in slots of the plurality of slots that are different from each other, on an outer side in the axial direction with respect to the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga
  • Publication number: 20210234439
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing an armature includes a step of independently pressing pressing-target segment conductors by a plurality of pressing jigs disposed for each of the pressing-target segment conductors, such that the plurality of pressing jigs are movable relative to each other, at least either one of first segment conductors and second segment conductors serving as the pressing-target segment conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Tomotsugu SUGIHARA
  • Patent number: 11063487
    Abstract: A stator that includes a stator core having a plurality of slots; a first coil that is disposed in a first slot of the plurality of slots; and a second coil that is disposed in a second slot of the plurality of slots that is different from the first slot in which the first coil is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Koga