Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Tanaka

Kuniaki Tanaka 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: 11784521
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including a pair of accommodation holes, and a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The pair of magnets extend in directions away from each other in a circumferential direction from the radially inside toward the radially outside. A flux barrier is radially outside the magnet. The rotor core includes a first gap between magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first gap is sandwiched between the flux barriers of the magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A radially outside surface of the rotor core includes a pair of core recesses provided in a portion located on the radially outside of the flux barrier and a core protrusion located between the pair of core recesses in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11784524
    Abstract: A rotor includes an axially extending in an axial direction, a rotor core including a central hole through which the shaft passes and accommodation holes radially outside the central hole, and magnets accommodated in the accommodation holes. The accommodation holes include a pair of accommodation holes extends in a direction away from each other in a circumferential direction from a radially inside toward a radially outside when viewed in the axial direction. The magnets include a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes through-holes made at intervals in the circumferential direction, and is configured by laminating plates. The through-holes are located radially outside the central hole and radially inside the accommodation hole. The stacked plates are fixed to each other by a caulking portion in which a portion of the plate is caulked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230102659
    Abstract: In a rotor, magnetic poles having a pair of first magnets and second magnets are provided along a circumferential direction. The magnetic pole includes a pair of first flux barrier portions radially outside the first magnets, and a pair of second flux barrier portions between the pair of first flux barrier portions in the circumferential direction. The first flux barrier portion has a first end close to the adjacent second flux barrier portion. The second flux barrier portion has a second end close to the adjacent first flux barrier portion. A relative position of the first end in the circumferential direction with respect to a circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles. A relative position of the second end in the circumferential direction with respect to the circumferential center of the magnetic pole is different between the adjacent magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230079337
    Abstract: Provided is a wet atomizer for processing all-solid-state battery raw materials while ensuring sealing property, operability after completion of processing, and maintenance property. The wet atomizer includes a liquid supply pump for supplying the all-solid-state battery raw materials, a pressure intensifier for pressurizing the all-solid-state battery raw materials supplied from the liquid supply pump, a high-pressure filter for filtering the all-solid-state battery raw materials pressurized by the pressure intensifier, a chamber for injecting the all-solid-state battery raw materials filtered by the high-pressure filter, a sealing member for sealing the space for processing the all-solid-state battery raw materials, and an inert gas supply unit for supplying an inert gas to the sealing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yuuya YAMADA, Kenichi HARASHIMA, Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220368203
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor with a rotor core formed of stacked electromagnetic steel sheets and rotor magnets, and a stator surrounding the rotor. The rotor core includes pairs of magnet insertion hole portions with an opposing distance sequentially increasing radially outwardly. The rotor magnets are in the magnet insertion hole portions. The rotor core includes first blocks arranged by dividing the rotor core into two blocks in the axial direction, and a second block between the two first blocks. An angle formed by the rotor magnets in the pair of magnet insertion hole portions in the first block is a first magnet opening angle ?1. An angle formed by the rotor magnets in the pair of magnet insertion hole portions in the second block is a second magnet opening angle ?2. The second magnet opening angle ?2 is larger than the first magnet opening angle ?1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220352799
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor includes a frame coupled to a rotation shaft and a magnet fixed to the frame, with a direction from the stator toward the rotor as a first direction, the magnet includes a plurality of lower part main pole magnets having a magnetization direction in the first direction and pluralities of lower part second rightward sub-magnets and lower part second leftward sub-magnets having a magnetization direction in a direction different from the first direction, the lower part main pole magnet includes a lower part first upward main magnet placed at a negative side in the first direction and a lower part second upward main magnet fixed to the frame, when the magnet is seen along the first direction, the lower part first upward main magnet and the lower part second rightward sub-magnet and lower part second leftward sub-magnet partially overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki NISHIDA, Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11482662
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum nitride film in which, aluminum nitride crystal grains containing a metal element differing from aluminum and substituting for aluminum are main crystal grains of a polycrystalline film formed of crystal grains, and a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in at least one region of first and second regions corresponding to both end portions of the polycrystalline film in a film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a center region of the aluminum nitride crystal grain in the at least one region, and is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in a third region located between the first region and the second region in the film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Tokihiro Nishihara, Tomonori Yamatoh
  • Publication number: 20220239207
    Abstract: A lower part first main magnet, a lower part first sub-magnet, a lower part second main magnet, and a lower part second sub-magnet of a motor are sequentially repeatedly placed along a circumference of a rotation axis for relative rotation, a magnetization direction of the lower part first main magnet is a lower part first direction, a magnetization direction of the lower part second main magnet is a lower part second direction, magnetization directions of the lower part first sub-magnet and the lower part second sub-magnet are circumferential directions, the lower part first sub-magnet and the lower part second sub-magnet have recessed portions in parts facing a first stator and facing the lower part first main magnet or the lower part second main magnet, and lower part first auxiliary magnet to lower part fourth auxiliary magnet in magnetization directions different from the lower part first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Hideaki NISHIDA, Kuniaki TANAKA, Shigekazu TAKAGI, Hiroshi KOEDA, Hiroshi WADA
  • Publication number: 20220166272
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a rotor core including a pair of accommodation holes, and a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The pair of magnets extend in directions away from each other in a circumferential direction from the radially inside toward the radially outside. A flux barrier is radially outside the magnet. The rotor core includes a first gap between magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The first gap is sandwiched between the flux barriers of the magnetic poles adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. A radially outside surface of the rotor core includes a pair of core recesses provided in a portion located on the radially outside of the flux barrier and a core protrusion located between the pair of core recesses in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20220166276
    Abstract: A rotor includes an axially extending in an axial direction, a rotor core including a central hole through which the shaft passes and accommodation holes radially outside the central hole, and magnets accommodated in the accommodation holes. The accommodation holes include a pair of accommodation holes extends in a direction away from each other in a circumferential direction from a radially inside toward a radially outside when viewed in the axial direction. The magnets include a pair of magnets accommodated in the pair of accommodation holes. The rotor core includes through-holes made at intervals in the circumferential direction, and is configured by laminating plates. The through-holes are located radially outside the central hole and radially inside the accommodation hole. The stacked plates are fixed to each other by a caulking portion in which a portion of the plate is caulked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Kuniaki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20220149683
    Abstract: A rotary motor includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate around a rotation axis. The rotor includes a frame including a first surface facing the stator and a plurality of first recesses arrayed along a circumferential direction around the rotation axis and opened on the first surface, the frame being formed in an annular shape, main magnets disposed in the first recesses or among the first recesses, and sub-magnets disposed in the first recesses when the main magnets are disposed among the first recesses and disposed among the first recesses when the main magnets are disposed in the first recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroshi KOEDA, Kuniaki TANAKA, Shigekazu TAKAGI, Hiroshi WADA, Michio SATO, Hideaki NISHIDA, Makoto MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20220149684
    Abstract: An axial gap motor includes a stator including a coil and a rotor disposed to be separated from the stator and configured to rotate around a rotating shaft. The rotor includes a first magnet and a second magnet adjacent to the first magnet. The first magnet includes a projection provided at an end portion in a circumferential direction in a plan view from an axial direction of the rotating shaft. The second magnet includes a recess provided at an end portion in the circumferential direction in the plan view from the axial direction and fitting with the projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Kuniaki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10886887
    Abstract: An aluminum nitride film contains a Group IV element and a Group II or Group XII element, and an atomic composition ratio of the Group II or Group XII element to the Group IV element is less than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Tokihiro Nishihara
  • Patent number: 10868891
    Abstract: A vehicle information transmission system that carries out communication with a management server that manages a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire vehicle information in accordance with a third sampling pattern that is a combination of a first sampling pattern and a second sampling pattern. The vehicle information is transferred within an in-vehicle network installed in the vehicle. The first sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at a change point at which a predetermined change has occurred. The second sampling pattern is a sampling pattern in which the vehicle information is sampled at intervals of a predetermined period. The electronic control unit is configured to transmit the acquired vehicle information to the management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashige Hori, Kuniaki Tanaka, Eiji Murata, Masatoshi Takahara, Kouji Maeno, Toshio Kato, Shoji Kamiya
  • Publication number: 20200312257
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, and a display panel. The first substrate unit is a substrate unit on which a driver circuit is mounted. The driver circuit outputs multiple driver output signals. The second substrate unit includes branching lines, through which one driver output signal is caused to branch to multiple branching signals, for each of the driver output signals. The display panel receives the branching signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: KOHJI NAGASAKA, KUNIAKI TANAKA, FUMIKAZU SHIMOSHIKIRYOH
  • Patent number: 10761178
    Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki Tanaka, Kentaro Asai
  • Publication number: 20190363243
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum nitride film in which, aluminum nitride crystal grains containing a metal element differing from aluminum and substituting for aluminum are main crystal grains of a polycrystalline film formed of crystal grains, and a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in at least one region of first and second regions corresponding to both end portions of the polycrystalline film in a film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a center region of the aluminum nitride crystal grain in the at least one region, and is higher than a concentration of the metal element in a grain boundary between the aluminum nitride crystal grains in a third region located between the first region and the second region in the film thickness direction of the polycrystalline film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki TANAKA, Tokihiro NISHIHARA, Tomonori YAMATOH
  • Patent number: 10479362
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain lane information of a road on which a vehicle is traveling, and set a planned target section for which a lane change plan of the vehicle is to be created. The systems, methods, and programs obtain, for each lane, an obstructive factor present on the road on which the vehicle is traveling and that obstructs continuation of autonomous driving assistance executed on the vehicle, and set, for each obtained obstructive factor, an avoidance route that passes through a lane avoiding the obstructive factor. The systems, methods, and programs create a lane change route that defines the lane change plan of the vehicle in the planned target section and that is set so as to preferentially pass through the avoidance route set for each obtained obstructive factor, and execute the autonomous driving assistance of the vehicle based on the lane change route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10399571
    Abstract: Autonomous driving assistance systems, methods, and programs obtain road information that specifies classification of lanes located ahead in a direction in which a vehicle is traveling and road connection for each lane. The systems, methods, and programs specify, based on the road information, a planned route that is to be taken by the vehicle on a presumption that the vehicle travels without changing lanes, when the vehicle travels with autonomous driving assistance, and execute the autonomous driving assistance for the vehicle according to the specified planned route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hirohiko Goto, Yuji Sato, Kuniaki Tanaka, Masaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20190170850
    Abstract: An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki TANAKA, Kentaro ASAI