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).
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Publication number: 20240429805Abstract: A magnetic flux modulated type magnetic gear includes a small number of poles mechanism which has a plurality of magnetic poles, a large number of poles mechanism which has more magnetic poles than the small number of poles mechanism, and a pole piece which is provided between the small number of poles mechanism and the large number of poles mechanism, wherein, in the magnetic pole of the large number of poles mechanism, a permanent magnet and a magnetic field coil are provided. And the magnetic field coil is connected to a direct current power supply, which can be turned on and off.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO
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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: 20240162790Abstract: Provided is a magnetic gap length estimating device in which neither a current sensor nor a current load is necessary, and a voltage at a connection-wire neutral point does not need to be measured. A magnetic gap length estimating device for estimating a magnetic gap length in an M-group N-phase rotating electric machine to be driven by an inverter includes: a voltage acquiring unit which acquires a no-load-induced line-to-line voltage induced under no load; and a magnetic gap estimating unit. The magnetic gap estimating unit includes: a spectrum analysis unit which converts the no-load-induced line-to-line voltage acquired by the voltage acquiring unit into amplitudes and phases for respective frequencies; a frequency analysis unit which extracts amplitudes and phases of a fundamental wave component and an Nth-order harmonic component of the no-load-induced line-to-line voltage; and an estimating-and-calculating unit which estimates the magnetic gap length.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, National University Corporation YOKOHAMA National UniversityInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Kan AKATSU
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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: 20230246536Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230120571Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kengo KUMAGAI
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Publication number: 20230111062Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kosho YAMANE, Junji KITAO, Kodai OKAZAKI, Tatsuo NISHIMURA, Tomohira TAKAHASHI
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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: 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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Patent number: 11329525Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kodai Okazaki, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Tomoya Uchimura, Shunta Kashima, Takashi Umeda
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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: 11152875Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Kodai Okazaki
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Patent number: 10903724Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yusuke Morita, Kazumasa Ito, Yu Hirotani, Kodai Okazaki, Satoru Akutsu, Yuji Takizawa
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Publication number: 20200395875Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Kodai OKAZAKI
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Patent number: 10855121Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 26, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Hirotani, Kazumasa Ito, Hiroko Ikeda, Kodai Okazaki, Shinichi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 10833549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kodai Okazaki, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Yu Hirotani, Hiroko Ikeda, Koji Kawamura
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Publication number: 20200185987Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Ryuichi TAKIGUCHI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Tomoya UCHIMURA, Shunta KASHIMA, Takashi UMEDA
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Patent number: 10404124Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroko Ikeda, Yu Hirotani, Masatsugu Nakano, Kazumasa Ito, Kodai Okazaki, Koji Kawamura
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Publication number: 20190097474Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yu HIROTANI, Kazumasa ITO, Hiroko IKEDA, Kodai OKAZAKI, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI
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Publication number: 20180351437Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Yusuke MORITA, Kazumasa ITO, Yu HIROTANI, Kodai OKAZAKI, Satoru AKUTSU, Yuji TAKIZAWA