Patents by Inventor Kohei EGASHIRA

Kohei EGASHIRA 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: 11722029
    Abstract: To provide a rotary electric machine which is improved in cooling performance. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor; and a stator which, being disposed opposite the rotor, has a stator core having a plurality of slots therein and a stator winding wound in the plurality of slots, wherein the stator has a plurality of coil ends which are formed protruding from an axial end face of the stator core and between adjacent ones of which is provided a radial clearance passing through from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side, and wherein the stator includes a bus bar which, being disposed on the inner diameter side of the plurality of coil ends so as to occlude the clearances between the plurality of coil ends, guides a refrigerant, which is supplied from the radial direction of the stator, to the plurality of coil ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Hino
  • Patent number: 11569700
    Abstract: To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of downsizing the rotating electric machine in an axial direction and in a radial direction. A first inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a first conductor-exposed portion and a second inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a second conductor-exposed portion opposed to the first conductor-exposed portion. An opposing portion being a portion, at which the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion are opposed to each other, extends in a radial direction, and at least a part of the opposing portion of the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion is arranged on an inner side in the radial direction compared to the first outer-peripheral-side terminal and the second outer-peripheral-side terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Shinya Matsunaga, Yasuhiro Hayasaka, Norihiro Murata, Kazuya Hasegawa, Katsuya Ito
  • Patent number: 11569697
    Abstract: An annular stator core in which, out of slots arrayed in a circumferential direction and extending in a radial direction, q slots are formed per pole and per phase; and stator windings, for respective phases, attached to the stator core. For each stator winding, q*n unit coils obtained by winding wire conductors at regular intervals into concentric winding forms are used to obtain n coils in each of which the q unit coils wound in a same direction are connected so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction, and the stator winding is composed of two coil groups each obtained by joining the n/2 coils together. The two coil groups are connected in parallel to each other between power feed portions and neutral points, and two coils that are connected to the power feed portions are disposed so as to share the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiko Ayukawa, Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Kazuya Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Hayasaka, Kenji Maekawa
  • Patent number: 11496029
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
  • Publication number: 20210408849
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine stator core according to the present invention includes: a laminated core in which a plurality of teeth are arranged circumferentially so as to each protrude radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of an annular back yoke; and a plurality of rib members that each have a bolt passage portion, that are joined to an outer circumferential surface of the laminated core such that a bolt insertion direction of the bolt passage portion is oriented in an axial direction, and that are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Tatsuro Hino, Atsuki Hashiguchi, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11177713
    Abstract: Provided is an excellent insulating rotating electric machine having a small axial size and a small number of components. In the rotating electric machine according to the present invention, radially outer-side terminals and radially inner-side terminals extend from slots while a circumferential bending direction is alternately changed for each group of n radially outer-side terminals or n radially inner-side terminals after the extension thereof from the slots. A first angle formed between at least one of an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially inner-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction of the stator core and are bent in the same circumferential bending direction, and an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially outer-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction and are bent the same circumferential bending direction, and an end surface of a stator core monotonously decreases in the circumferential bending direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Masashi Nakamura, Tatsuro Hino
  • Publication number: 20210296975
    Abstract: A laminated core manufacturing method according to the present invention is a manufacturing method for a laminated core including: a laminated body that is configured by laminating core strips that are made of a magnetic material, the laminated body including: a core back portion; and a tooth portion; and electrically insulating members that are disposed on two side portions of the tooth portion, wherein the laminated core manufacturing method includes a bonding step in which the insulating members are pressed onto each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion of the laminated body so as to integrate the laminated body and also so as to fix the insulating members to the laminated body, by means of at least one of an adhesive and a pressure-sensitive adhesive that is disposed between each of the side surfaces of the tooth portion and the insulating members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihito Mori, Naohiko Ayukawa, Kenichi Hirooka, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Shinichiro Yoshida, Daisuke Shijo
  • Patent number: 11114913
    Abstract: In the rotating electric machine, a first terminal and a second terminal extend from two of the slots and a third terminal extends from one of the slots, which is located between the two slots. The first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other with use of a bus bar. The bus bar has: a first end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the first terminal; a second end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the second terminal; and an interconnecting portion configured to couple the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, which is arranged in the circumferential direction on the stator core side of the first end portion and the second end portion so as to pass on the slot side of the third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Hironobu Ogura, Shohei Matsuoka, Shogo Okamoto, Shinichiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11088601
    Abstract: This method includes: a coil assembly step of combining a plurality of coil units to form a coil basket; a core insertion step of inserting inner cores of in the radial direction to the coil basket; and a fixation member insertion step of inserting a fixation member to the outer circumference of the inner core. In the core insertion step, the radial-direction position of the coil basket is retained at a core insertion time position shifted outward in the radial direction relative to a normal position after armature completion, and the inner cores are inserted in the radial direction to the coil basket. After the core insertion step, the radial-direction positions of the coil basket and the inner cores are moved inward in the radial direction to the normal position after armature completion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Yuichiro Ikeuchi, Kohei Egashira, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Masashi Nakamura, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20210184532
    Abstract: To provide a rotary electric machine which is improved in cooling performance. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor; and a stator which, being disposed opposite the rotor, has a stator core having a plurality of slots therein and a stator winding wound in the plurality of slots, wherein the stator has a plurality of coil ends which are formed protruding from an axial end face of the stator core and between adjacent ones of which is provided a radial clearance passing through from the inner diameter side to the outer diameter side, and wherein the stator includes a bus bar which, being disposed on the inner diameter side of the plurality of coil ends so as to occlude the clearances between the plurality of coil ends, guides a refrigerant, which is supplied from the radial direction of the stator, to the plurality of coil ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Kazuya Hasegawa, Tatsuro Hino
  • Publication number: 20210184526
    Abstract: To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of downsizing the rotating electric machine in an axial direction and in a radial direction. A first inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a first conductor-exposed portion and a second inner-peripheral-side terminal includes a second conductor-exposed portion opposed to the first conductor-exposed portion. An opposing portion being a portion, at which the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion are opposed to each other, extends in a radial direction, and at least a part of the opposing portion of the first conductor-exposed portion and the second conductor-exposed portion is arranged on an inner side in the radial direction compared to the first outer-peripheral-side terminal and the second outer-peripheral-side terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Kohei EGASHIRA, Shinya MATSUNAGA, Yasuhiro HAYASAKA, Norihiro MURATA, Kazuya HASEGAWA, Katsuya ITO
  • Publication number: 20210175758
    Abstract: An annular stator core in which, out of slots arrayed in a circumferential direction and extending in a radial direction, q slots are formed per pole and per phase; and stator windings, for respective phases, attached to the stator core. For each stator winding, q*n unit coils obtained by winding wire conductors at regular intervals into concentric winding forms are used to obtain n coils in each of which the q unit coils wound in a same direction are connected so as to be shifted from each other in the circumferential direction, and the stator winding is composed of two coil groups each obtained by joining the n/2 coils together. The two coil groups are connected in parallel to each other between power feed portions and neutral points, and two coils that are connected to the power feed portions are disposed so as to share the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiko Ayukawa, Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Kazuya Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Hayasaka, Kenji Maekawa
  • Patent number: 10819175
    Abstract: A unit coil includes: first, second, third, and fourth turn portions extending in a bent manner from first, second, third, and fourth slot accommodation portions and each connecting the slot accommodation portions to each other; and first, second, third, and fourth leg portions. Recesses are formed in surfaces opposed to each other at bent parts of the turn portions or bent parts of the turn portion and the leg portion, that extend in a bent manner toward the same side in the circumferential direction from the slot accommodation portions adjacent to each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Kohei Egashira, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20200274413
    Abstract: In a stator of the present invention, oblique-side portions of a pair of terminal wires to be welded to each other extend so as to approach each other and are located at different positions in a radial direction of a stator core, and straight portions of the pair of the terminal wires to be welded to each other are parallel to each other when viewed in the radial direction, and one of the straight portions is inclined in a direction toward another one of the straight portions through a boundary portion between the one straight portion and the oblique-side portion corresponding to the one straight portion as a bent portion in the radial direction so that a distal end portion of the one straight portion and a distal end portion of the another one of the straight portions overlap with each other when viewed in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Tatsuro HINO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shohei MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20200091787
    Abstract: In the rotating electric machine, a first terminal and a second terminal extend from two of the slots and a third terminal extends from one of the slots, which is located between the two slots. The first terminal and the second terminal are connected to each other with use of a bus bar. The bus bar has: a first end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the first terminal; a second end portion to be connected to a distal end portion of the second terminal; and an interconnecting portion configured to couple the first end portion and the second end portion to each other, which is arranged in the circumferential direction on the stator core side of the first end portion and the second end portion so as to pass on the slot side of the third terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Kohei EGASHIRA, Hironobu OGURA, Shohei MATSUOKA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinichiro YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 10594195
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a stator winding coil includes: a bulging portion forming step that forms a bulging portion on a conductor wire; a crank portion forming step that forms a crank portion on the central portion of the bulging portion; an oblique portion forming step that forms oblique portions on the conductor wire at two ends of the bulging portion; a rectilinear portion forming step that forms rectilinear portions on the conductor wire at opposite ends of the oblique portions from the bulging portion; and a circular arc forming step that forms the oblique portions into a circular arc shape after forming the rectilinear portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Tatsuro Hino, Atsushi Sakaue, Kazunori Muto, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Kohei Egashira, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita
  • Publication number: 20200067364
    Abstract: Provided is an excellent insulating rotating electric machine having a small axial size and a small number of components. In the rotating electric machine according to the present invention, radially outer-side terminals and radially inner-side terminals extend from slots while a circumferential bending direction is alternately changed for each group of n radially outer-side terminals or n radially inner-side terminals after the extension thereof from the slots. A first angle formed between at least one of an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially inner-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction of the stator core and are bent in the same circumferential bending direction, and an oblique-side portion of each of the n radially outer-side terminals, which are continuous in the circumferential direction and are bent the same circumferential bending direction, and an end surface of a stator core monotonously decreases in the circumferential bending direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei EGASHIRA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Tatsuro HINO
  • Patent number: 10511202
    Abstract: Slot accommodation portions of single coils forming an armature coil are arranged so as to be stacked in the radial direction in a slot. On the anti-wire-connection side, a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the first layer, and a one-side extending portion which is a coil end extending from the slot accommodation portion in the second layer, extend in the same direction. No insulation sheet is provided in intervals between coil ends extending in the same direction, such as the extending portions (23b) and (21b) and extending portions (21d) and (22d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei Egashira, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino, Shinkichi Sawa, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10411539
    Abstract: Winding bodies include: a first terminal wire that extends outward at a first axial end of a stator core from a radially innermost position inside slots; and a second terminal wire that extends outward at the first axial end of the stator core from a radially outermost position inside the slots, the first terminal wires are each led radially outward over coil ends of the stator winding, the second terminal wires are each led radially outward at positions that are nearer to the stator core than end portions of the first terminal wires that are led radially outward over the coil ends of the stator winding, and end portions of intraphase connecting second terminal wires are stacked in an axial direction with, placed in contact with, and connected to end portions of intraphase connecting first terminal wires that are subject to connection therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira, Tatsuro Hino, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Shinkichi Sawa
  • Patent number: 10355547
    Abstract: Phase windings are configured radially inside first coil ends by connecting together tip portions of first terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are six slots apart, and radially outside the first coil ends by connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are five slots apart, and also connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are seven slots apart in modified positions of an inserted slot group, and by connecting together tip portions of second terminals that are bent so as to extend outward from slots that are six slots apart in regions other than the modified positions of the inserted slot group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Mistubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Masashi Nakamura, Kohei Egashira