Patents by Inventor Koji Mizukami

Koji Mizukami 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: 11777438
    Abstract: A motor drive device includes a first drive circuit to control an energization period of a first upper arm switch and a first lower arm switch connected to one end of a coil, a second drive circuit to control an energization period of a second upper arm switch and a second lower arm switch connected to another end of the coil, a current detection circuit to detect current flowing through the coil and output a current detection signal indicating a detection result of the current, a first protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a first enable signal indicating a determination result to the first drive circuit, and a second protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a second enable signal indicating a determination result to the second drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Mizukami, Junya Kaneko, Katsuaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230073943
    Abstract: A motor drive device includes a first drive circuit to control an energization period of a first upper arm switch and a first lower arm switch connected to one end of a coil, a second drive circuit to control an energization period of a second upper arm switch and a second lower arm switch connected to another end of the coil, a current detection circuit to detect current flowing through the coil and output a current detection signal indicating a detection result of the current, a first protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a first enable signal indicating a determination result to the first drive circuit, and a second protection circuit to determine whether overcurrent has occurred based on the current detection signal and output a second enable signal indicating a determination result to the second drive circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Koji MIZUKAMI, Junya KANEKO, Katsuaki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11437881
    Abstract: A motor includes a sheet-metal cover accommodating a stator and a substrate and a wiring assembly electrically connected to the substrate. The cover includes a wiring lead port, which is open to a wall of the cover and communicates with an outside and an inside of the cover. The wiring assembly includes cables connected to the substrate and extending from the inside of the cover to the outside through the wiring lead port, a sleeve with a tubular shape into which the cables are inserted, the sleeve having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of a coated portion of the cable, and a binder that bundles the cables through the sleeve. The sleeve is opposed to the wiring lead port from the inside of the cover, and an outer diameter of the sleeve is larger than an inner diameter of the wiring lead port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11245310
    Abstract: A motor includes binding pins around which a coil lead wire is wound, and an end on one side in an axial direction of the binding pin and the coil lead wire are fixed to a surface facing one side in the axial direction of a substrate. An insulator assembly includes a substrate receiver contacting with the substrate from the other side in the axial direction. A heat sink is fixed to a cover, and an end on the other side in the axial direction of the heat sink presses down the integrated circuit mounted on the substrate toward the other side in the axial direction. The heat sink and the substrate receiver are disposed at positions where the heat sink and the substrate receiver overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11171546
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each including a bottomed tubular shape. The first cup body and the second cup body are disposed with openings of the peripheral wall portions facing each other. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion provided with stud bolts projecting from the bottom wall portion to one axial direction and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. An end surface of a heat sink, facing the one axial direction, is in contact with a portion positioned between the stud bolts adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in a surface of the bottom wall portion of the second cup body in the other axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Patent number: 11128195
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover with first and second cup bodies. A flange portion of each of the first and second cup bodies includes first recesses recessed radially inward from an outer peripheral edge of the flange portion and evenly spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the flange portion, second recesses recessed radially inward from the outer peripheral edge of the flange portion, have a same circumferential width as that of the first recess, and are evenly spaced apart in the circumferential direction, a total number of the second recesses is the same as a total number of first recesses, and claw portions extending radially outward from a bottom surface of the corresponding second recess and have a circumferential width narrower than that of the second recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryotaro Takahashi, Koji Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20210167669
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each including a bottomed tubular shape. The first cup body and the second cup body are disposed with openings of the peripheral wall portions facing each other. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion provided with stud bolts projecting from the bottom wall portion to one axial direction and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. An end surface of a heat sink, facing the one axial direction, is in contact with a portion positioned between the stud bolts adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in a surface of the bottom wall portion of the second cup body in the other axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210091627
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover with first and second cup bodies. A flange portion of each of the first and second cup bodies includes first recesses recessed radially inward from an outer peripheral edge of the flange portion and evenly spaced apart in a circumferential direction of the flange portion, second recesses recessed radially inward from the outer peripheral edge of the flange portion, have a same circumferential width as that of the first recess, and are evenly spaced apart in the circumferential direction, a total number of the second recesses is the same as a total number of first recesses, and claw portions extending radially outward from a bottom surface of the corresponding second recess and have a circumferential width narrower than that of the second recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200350801
    Abstract: A motor includes a sheet-metal cover accommodating a stator and a substrate and a wiring assembly electrically connected to the substrate. The cover includes a wiring lead port, which is open to a wall of the cover and communicates with an outside and an inside of the cover. The wiring assembly includes cables connected to the substrate and extending from the inside of the cover to the outside through the wiring lead port, a sleeve with a tubular shape into which the cables are inserted, the sleeve having an elastic modulus smaller than an elastic modulus of a coated portion of the cable, and a binder that bundles the cables through the sleeve. The sleeve is opposed to the wiring lead port from the inside of the cover, and an outer diameter of the sleeve is larger than an inner diameter of the wiring lead port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200195099
    Abstract: A motor includes binding pins around which a coil lead wire is wound, and an end on one side in an axial direction of the binding pin and the coil lead wire are fixed to a surface facing one side in the axial direction of a substrate. An insulator assembly includes a substrate receiver contacting with the substrate from the other side in the axial direction. A heat sink is fixed to a cover, and an end on the other side in the axial direction of the heat sink presses down the integrated circuit mounted on the substrate toward the other side in the axial direction. The heat sink and the substrate receiver are disposed at positions where the heat sink and the substrate receiver overlap each other as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20200161930
    Abstract: A motor includes a cover including a first cup body and a second cup body, each with a bottomed tubular shape. At least the second cup body of the first cup body and the second cup body is made of sheet metal. The second cup body includes a bottom wall portion with a surface facing the other axial direction and including a flat surface in a ring shape perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a central axis, disposed at a radial position radially outward from a bearing holding portion, and a connection surface disposed between the bearing holding portion and the flat surface to connect the bearing holding portion and the flat surface. A heat sink includes a first end portion in the other axial direction, in thermal contact with an integrated circuit, and a second end portion in the one axial direction, being disposed at a radial position radially outward from the first end portion, in contact with the flat surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Ryotaro TAKAHASHI, Koji MIZUKAMI
  • Patent number: 10284123
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor; a driving circuit that supplies a driving current to the motor; a shunt resistor; a rotation command input terminal; a pulse output terminal; a current detection unit detects a driving current measured by the shunt resistor; a driving control unit that controls supplying of the driving current; a storage unit that previously stores allowable range information; a current value determination unit that determines whether or not the current value of the driving current is included in the allowable range, and the allowable range information stored in the storage unit; and a signal generation unit that generates the pulse signal by setting a duty ratio of the pulse signal as a first duty ratio, and setting the duty ratio of the pulse signal as a second duty ratio different from the first duty ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Mizukami, Masatomo Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180248503
    Abstract: A motor unit includes a motor; a driving circuit that supplies a driving current to the motor; a shunt resistor; a rotation command input terminal; a pulse output terminal; a current detection unit detects a driving current measured by the shunt resistor; a driving control unit that controls supplying of the driving current; a storage unit that previously stores allowable range information; a current value determination unit that determines whether or not the current value of the driving current is included in the allowable range, and the allowable range information stored in the storage unit; and a signal generation unit that generates the pulse signal by setting a duty ratio of the pulse signal as a first duty ratio and setting the duty ratio of the pulse signal as a second duty ratio different from the first duty ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: NIDEC SERVO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji MIZUKAMI, Masatomo ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9300238
    Abstract: A motor driving device includes a microcomputer, a command voltage adjusting circuit, and a driving IC. The command voltage adjusting circuit converts a first command voltage signal from the microcomputer to a second command voltage signal. The driving IC generates a drive pulse based on the second command voltage signal. An upper and a lower limit of an input voltage range of the driving IC are larger than an upper and a lower limit of a voltage range of the first command voltage signal, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: NIDEC TECHNO MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Mizukami, Hiroyuki Shitabo
  • Publication number: 20150061552
    Abstract: A motor driving device includes a microcomputer, a command voltage adjusting circuit, and a driving IC. The command voltage adjusting circuit converts a first command voltage signal from the microcomputer to a second command voltage signal. The driving IC generates a drive pulse based on the second command voltage signal. An upper and a lower limit of an input voltage range of the driving IC are larger than an upper and a lower limit of a voltage range of the first command voltage signal, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Koji MIZUKAMI, Hiroyuki SHITABO
  • Patent number: 7548240
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a management part managing data recorded in a recording part, a first obtaining part obtaining data for drawing, which is used in common by a plurality of programs, without using the management part, when the management part is not started up or cannot be used and a drawing part performing drawing based on the data for drawing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Koji Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20070219495
    Abstract: A control system for a liquid infusion apparatus comprises a plurality of liquid infusion devices, each having a common connector of liquid infusion device side for an electric power supply line and a communication line, a plurality of racks stacked one another, each for receiving each of the liquid infusion devices, a plurality of common connectors of rack side, each mounted on each of the racks a base unit, and a connector provided on the base unit so as to connect an electric power supply line and a communication line to the connectors of lack side. Each of the common connectors of rack side is connected to each of the common connectors of liquid infusion device side, when each of the liquid infusion devices is inserted into each of the respective racks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: JAPAN SERVO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kato, Shunichi Kawamata, Seiji Kojima, Yoshihisa Kagawa, Koji Mizukami, Takahiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20040246253
    Abstract: A drawing apparatus includes a management part managing data recorded in a recording part, a first obtaining part obtaining data for drawing, which is used in common by a plurality of programs, without using the management part, when the management part is not started up or cannot be used and a drawing part performing drawing based on the data for drawing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Koji Mizukami
  • Publication number: 20030102830
    Abstract: The driving circuit comprises a current control signal generator means and a current switching circuit. The current control signal generator means comprises a current mode switching circuit and a current mode switching time setting means that counts reference clock pulses and outputs a counter signal until the number of pulses counted reaches a predetermined value. The current mode switching circuit chooses a three-phase current mode or a two-phase current mode according to the counter signal being transmitted or not and transmits the current mode chosen to the current switching circuit as current control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Eiji Kubozuka, Koji Mizukami