Patents by Inventor Koichi KASHIWA

Koichi KASHIWA 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).

  • Publication number: 20190013710
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine in which lengths of routing portions of coil terminals are made uniform and a coil terminal portion is downsized. A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator, the stator including teeth each wound with a coil, in which the coil consists of a first coil set and a second coil set, each of the first coil set and the second coil set is continuously wound around the two teeth, and includes a first coil terminal, and a second coil terminal to which a routing portion is formed, the first coil terminal of each of the first coil set and the second coil set is directly connected to the second coil terminal of another of the first coil set and the second coil set, the first coil terminal and the second coil terminal of each of the first coil set and the second coil set are arranged on an identical coil end, and the second coil terminal of each of the first coil set and the second coil set is arranged not to cross any other coil terminal in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Shozo KAWASAKI, Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Yasunaga HAMADA, Kenji NAKAYAMA, Koichi KASHIWA, Masahiro HOSOYA
  • Patent number: 10170954
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a direct current motor wherein the number of coil-connecting wires that cross the outer surface of a coil end part is reduced. In a direct current motor that is provided with an armature that has a plurality of armature slots and has an armature coil that is wound so as to span two armature slots that are separated by a fixed number of armature slots, a lowermost layer of a coil end part is provided with at least four armature coils that are wound through other armature slots so as not to coincide with the wound armature coil, and a layer above the four armature coils that are wound on the bottommost layer is provided with at least four armature coils that are wound in the same manner as the four armature coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Taniguchi, Hidefumi Iwaki, Koichi Kashiwa, Masahiro Hosoya
  • Patent number: 10069362
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, in the case where a cylindrical component is fixed by press fitting or the like, the opening edge of the cylindrical component is widened toward the end to provide peeps for facilitating the insertion of the cylindrical component. However, the outer shape of a rotor expands due to the peeps, and a gap needs to be provided between the rotor and a stator in consideration of the expanded portion of the outer shape, which causes the degradation of the performance of the rotating electrical machine. In addition, in the case where magnets are fixed only by the tightening force of a magnet cover, the greater the centrifugal force becomes, the larger the clamping margin becomes and similarly the larger the peeps become, and thus the expanded portion also becomes larger. However, if the opening edge is not widened to the end, the absence of the peeps makes it difficult to insert the magnet cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shozo Kawasaki, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Koichi Kashiwa, Kenji Nakayama, Yasunaga Hamada
  • Publication number: 20160352171
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a direct current motor wherein the number of coil-connecting wires that cross the outer surface of a coil end part is reduced. In a direct current motor that is provided with an armature that has a plurality of armature slots and has an armature coil that is wound so as to span two armature slots that are separated by a fixed number of armature slots, a lowermost layer of a coil end part is provided with at least four armature coils that are wound through other armature slots so as not to coincide with the wound armature coil, and a layer above the four armature coils that are wound on the bottommost layer is provided with at least four armature coils that are wound in the same manner as the four armature coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Tsukasa TANIGUCHI, Hidefumi IWAKI, Koichi KASHIWA, Masahiro HOSOYA
  • Publication number: 20160141930
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric power steering motor is configured to include a rotor core having a step skew structure constituted of two independent cores as well as to use shrink fitting to fasten the two cores to a shaft. It may also be configured such that a magnetic center of the rotor core is adjusted by controlling a dimension thereof from a tip of the shaft and by shrink fitting the two cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Shozo KAWASAKI, Kenji NAKAYAMA, Yasunaga HAMADA, Koichi KASHIWA, Masahiro HOSOYA
  • Publication number: 20160126793
    Abstract: In a rotating electrical machine, in the case where a cylindrical component is fixed by press fitting or the like, the opening edge of the cylindrical component is widened toward the end to provide peeps for facilitating the insertion of the cylindrical component. However, the outer shape of a rotor expands due to the peeps, and a gap needs to be provided between the rotor and a stator in consideration of the expanded portion of the outer shape, which causes the degradation of the performance of the rotating electrical machine. In addition, in the case where magnets are fixed only by the tightening force of a magnet cover, the greater the centrifugal force becomes, the larger the clamping margin becomes and similarly the larger the peeps become, and thus the expanded portion also becomes larger. However, if the opening edge is not widened to the end, the absence of the peeps makes it difficult to insert the magnet cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Shozo KAWASAKI, Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Koichi KASHIWA, Kenji NAKAYAMA, Yasunaga HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20140145542
    Abstract: In an electrical actuator having a motor in which a plurality of teeth including a continuous winding are formed into a stator core of a ring shape, one wire being continuously wound around the teeth adjacent to each other in the continuous winding, the stator core is configured that step sections of an uneven shape in the axial direction are arranged in butting sections between the teeth connected by the continuous winding, and the uneven shapes are fitted to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KANAZAWA, Hirotaka TAKIMOTO, Koichi KASHIWA, Masahiro HOSOYA, Yasunaga HAMADA, Shozo KAWASAKI, Kenji NAKAYAMA