Patents by Inventor Kodai OKAZAKI

Kodai OKAZAKI 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: 11901772
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai Okazaki, Kenta Motoyoshi, Yuji Takizawa, Hiroko Ikeda, Hidenori Sasaki, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu, Masafumi Okazaki, Natsumi Sugi
  • Publication number: 20230246536
    Abstract: In the magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear which uses pole pieces, improvement in demagnetization resistance and suppression of the reduction in torque were issues. Therefore, to the pole pieces provided in a torus shape, a magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear arranges concentrically a first rotator on the inside of the pole piece and a second rotator on the outside, so that the rotors can be rotated relatively, with the center of the pole pieces as the rotation axis, wherein a first hole part stores, on the inside of the rotator, a first permanent magnet prepared in the rotator, having inclination of a predetermined angle, with respect to the line segment which shows a magnetic pole center, when viewed from the rotation axis. The magnetic gear is configured so as to use the amount of permanent magnets as much as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230120571
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine comprises: a rotor which has a rotor core and permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core on its outer circumference side, and which is supported rotatably; and a stator which has a stator core having teeth projecting toward a radial center and arranged circumferentially, and which is located coaxially with the rotor to be spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor; wherein, on a condition that a ratio of the circumferential width of each of sub poles to the circumferential width of each of main poles is 0.625 or less, a top width of each of the teeth is set on the basis of two calculation formulas to be used differently according to the rotor skew angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kengo KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20230111062
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixed to a shaft, a pair of magnet slots arranged in a V-shape in the rotor core so as to be separated away from each other toward a radially outer side, permanent magnets inserted into the magnet slots, and a hole provided on the radially outer side of the magnet slots. The distance between each permanent magnet and the hole increases toward the radially outer side. The distance between an outer circumference of the rotor core and the hole is not less than the distance between each magnet slot and the outer circumference of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kosho YAMANE, Junji KITAO, Kodai OKAZAKI, Tatsuo NISHIMURA, Tomohira TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20220224172
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Tatsuya MORI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Kenji IKEDA, Yosuke SUGINO, Seiji SAWADA, Kenta KUBO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20220149681
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Hidenori SASAKI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Hiroko IKEDA
  • Patent number: 11329525
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine, including: a stator including: an annular core back; and a plurality of teeth projecting in a radial direction from the core back and being arranged in a circumferential direction, the plurality of teeth having slots each formed between the plurality of teeth adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction; and a rotor including: an annular rotor core which is arranged coaxially with the stator through a magnetic gap; and a plurality of magnetic poles arranged on the rotor core in the circumferential direction, wherein the rotor core includes a plurality of segment cores formed by dividing the rotor core in the circumferential direction with at division surfaces, and wherein the number of segments of the rotor core is different from a divisor and a multiple of the greatest common divisor of the number of poles of the rotor and the number of slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kodai Okazaki, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Tomoya Uchimura, Shunta Kashima, Takashi Umeda
  • Publication number: 20220037942
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Kenta MOTOYOSHI, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Hiroko IKEDA, Hidenori SASAKI, Yu HIROTANI, Satoru AKUTSU, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Natsumi SUGI
  • Patent number: 11152875
    Abstract: A multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine control device including: a control target calculator to calculate an initial current command value of each phase based on a torque command value; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate a per-group correction coefficient corresponding to each group from a spatial mode M (M is 0 or a positive integer) of an electromagnetic force caused by magnetic flux density variation with respect to a rotational periodicity at the time of rotation of the multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine; and a current command value corrector to calculate a current command value of the each phase, which is corrected based on the initial current command value and the per-group correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Kodai Okazaki
  • Patent number: 10903724
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotation angle detector capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotor in the same manner as at normal time even when abnormality such as disconnection or a short circuit occurs, and capable of reducing the number of terminals. When one spatial order cycle of the output winding is an electrical angle of 360°, a phase difference between a first output winding and a second output winding and a phase difference between the second output winding and a third output winding are set at an electrical angle ?, and ??180°×n (n is an integer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yusuke Morita, Kazumasa Ito, Yu Hirotani, Kodai Okazaki, Satoru Akutsu, Yuji Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20200395875
    Abstract: A multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine control device including: a control target calculator to calculate an initial current command value of each phase based on a torque command value; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate a per-group correction coefficient corresponding to each group from a spatial mode M (M is 0 or a positive integer) of an electromagnetic force caused by magnetic flux density variation with respect to a rotational periodicity at the time of rotation of the multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine; and a current command value corrector to calculate a current command value of the each phase, which is corrected based on the initial current command value and the per-group correction coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Kodai OKAZAKI
  • Patent number: 10855121
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine capable of reducing an amount of leakage magnetic flux passing through connecting portions. A cutout portion is formed in the connecting portion so as to be located on a side closer to a magnetic air gap portion. The connecting portion has a slot portion-side thin connecting portion formed so as to be closer to a slot portion than the cutout portion. A slot projecting portion projecting from the slot portion toward the magnetic air gap portion with respect to the slot portion-side thin connecting portion is formed in a portion of the connecting portion that is shifted in the circumferential direction from a portion of the connecting portion in which the slot portion-side thin connecting portion is formed. The slot projecting portion is arranged on each of circumferential sides of the cutout portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Kazumasa Ito, Hiroko Ikeda, Kodai Okazaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10833549
    Abstract: In the armature winding of a rotary electric machine, in a series coil portion group, the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the coil portions that have an electrical angular phase difference of ?k that satisfies ?1<?k?m are different than the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the ?1 and ?m coil portions, and are also different than the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the coil portions that are adjacent to the ?k coil portions on two sides in a circumferential direction of the stator core, and phases of the ?k coil portions are also different than phases of each of the coil portions that are adjacent to the ?k coil portions on the two sides in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kodai Okazaki, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Yu Hirotani, Hiroko Ikeda, Koji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20200185987
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine, including: a stator including: an annular core back; and a plurality of teeth projecting in a radial direction from the core back and being arranged in a circumferential direction, the plurality of teeth having slots each formed between the plurality of teeth adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction; and a rotor including: an annular rotor core which is arranged coaxially with the stator through a magnetic gap; and a plurality of magnetic poles arranged on the rotor core in the circumferential direction, wherein the rotor core includes a plurality of segment cores formed by dividing the rotor core in the circumferential direction with at division surfaces, and wherein the number of segments of the rotor core is different from a divisor and a multiple of the greatest common divisor of the number of poles of the rotor and the number of slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Ryuichi TAKIGUCHI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Tomoya UCHIMURA, Shunta KASHIMA, Takashi UMEDA
  • Patent number: 10404124
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator including: a stator core; and an armature winding that is mounted to the stator core. The armature winding includes by a plurality of identical-phase winding portions in which identical-phase coil portions among coil portions in which conducting wires are wound in concentration onto respective teeth are connected together into a series circuit by crossover wires, and that also have lead wires at two end portions. Each of the lead wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions is led out in a first axial direction of the rotor from coil portions that have identical phase, that are disposed to be adjacent in a circumferential direction of the stator core; and all of the crossover wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions are led out in a second axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yu Hirotani, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Kodai Okazaki, Koji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20190097474
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine capable of reducing an amount of leakage magnetic flux passing through connecting portions. A cutout portion is formed in the connecting portion so as to be located on a side closer to a magnetic air gap portion. The connecting portion has a slot portion-side thin connecting portion formed so as to be closer to a slot portion than the cutout portion. A slot projecting portion projecting from the slot portion toward the magnetic air gap portion with respect to the slot portion-side thin connecting portion is formed in a portion of the connecting portion that is shifted in the circumferential direction from a portion of the connecting portion in which the slot portion-side thin connecting portion is formed. The slot projecting portion is arranged on each of circumferential sides of the cutout portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu HIROTANI, Kazumasa ITO, Hiroko IKEDA, Kodai OKAZAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180351437
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotation angle detector capable of detecting a rotation angle of a rotor in the same manner as at normal time even when abnormality such as disconnection or a short circuit occurs, and capable of reducing the number of terminals. When one spatial order cycle of the output winding is an electrical angle of 360°, a phase difference between a first output winding and a second output winding and a phase difference between the second output winding and a third output winding are set at an electrical angle ?, and ??180°×n (n is an integer).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Yusuke MORITA, Kazumasa ITO, Yu HIROTANI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Satoru AKUTSU, Yuji TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20180248433
    Abstract: In the armature winding of a rotary electric machine, in a series coil portion group, the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the coil portions that have an electrical angular phase difference of ?k that satisfies ?1<?k?m are different than the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the ?1 and ?m coil portions, and are also different than the numbers of turns of conducting wire in the coil portions that are adjacent to the ?k coil portions on two sides in a circumferential direction of the stator core, and phases of the ?k coil portions are also different than phases of each of the coil portions that are adjacent to the ?k coil portions on the two sides in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Kazumasa ITO, Yu HIROTANI, Hiroko IKEDA, Koji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180248432
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator including: a stator core; and an armature winding that is mounted to the stator core. The armature winding includes by a plurality of identical-phase winding portions in which identical-phase coil portions among coil portions in which conducting wires are wound in concentration onto respective teeth are connected together into a series circuit by crossover wires, and that also have lead wires at two end portions. Each of the lead wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions is led out in a first axial direction of the rotor from coil portions that have identical phase, that are disposed to be adjacent in a circumferential direction of the stator core; and all of the crossover wires of each of the identical-phase winding portions are led out in a second axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Yu HIROTANI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Kazumasa ITO, Kodai OKAZAKI, Koji KAWAMURA