Patents by Inventor Kunitomo Ishiguro
Kunitomo Ishiguro 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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Patent number: 12095326Abstract: An inter-phase insulating paper, including: a plurality of insulating papers arranged in a stator core in a manner of circulating in a circumferential direction and configured to perform inter-phase insulation of each phase coil provided in the stator core, wherein the insulating paper includes a pair of leg portions to be respectively inserted into a pair of slots among a plurality of slots formed in the stator core, and a pair of flat portions connected to the pair of leg portions and protruding from both end surfaces of the stator core in an axial direction to perform the inter-phase insulation of each phase coil, and the pair of leg portions are connected to a central portion of an edge of the flat portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunitomo Ishiguro, Takanori Ishikawa, Daigo Iwasaki
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Publication number: 20240266897Abstract: An inter-phase insulating paper, including: a plurality of insulating papers arranged in a stator core in a manner of circulating in a circumferential direction and configured to perform inter-phase insulation of each phase coil provided in the stator core, wherein the insulating paper includes a pair of leg portions to be respectively inserted into a pair of slots among a plurality of slots formed in the stator core, and a pair of flat portions connected to the pair of leg portions and protruding from both end surfaces of the stator core in an axial direction to perform the inter-phase insulation of each phase coil, and the pair of leg portions are connected to a central portion of an edge of the flat portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2021Publication date: August 8, 2024Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kunitomo ISHIGURO, Takanori ISHIKAWA, Daigo IWASAKI
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Patent number: 11575300Abstract: An inter-phase insulating paper is inserted, using a guide jig, into slots formed in the inner circumferential surface of a stator core. The guide jig is disposed at a predetermined position on one end surface side of the stator core. The inter-phase insulating paper is inserted into the guide jig along the stator core central axis line. The guide jig deforms the inter-phase insulating paper to a predetermined shape when the inter-phase insulating paper passes through the inside of the guide jig. The guide jig inserts both side portions of the inter-phase insulating paper simultaneously into different two slots of the stator core along the stator core central axis line.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shioji, Kunitomo Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20210159766Abstract: An inter-phase insulating paper is inserted, using a guide jig, into slots formed in the inner circumferential surface of a stator core. The guide jig is disposed at a predetermined position on one end surface side of the stator core. The inter-phase insulating paper is inserted into the guide jig along the stator core central axis line. The guide jig deforms the inter-phase insulating paper to a predetermined shape when the inter-phase insulating paper passes through the inside of the guide jig. The guide jig inserts both side portions of the inter-phase insulating paper simultaneously into different two slots of the stator core along the stator core central axis line.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiyuki SHIOJI, Kunitomo ISHIGURO
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Patent number: 10583579Abstract: A field-pole magnet manufacturing apparatus fractures a magnet fixed on a die serving as a lower tool by causing a punch of an upper tool to press the magnet while in contact with the magnet. At least one projection is formed in the punch of the upper tool symmetrically with respect to the central position of the magnet in the width direction of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hiroharu Takeuchi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhisa Koike
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Patent number: 10241080Abstract: A magnet evaluation device is provided for evaluating a magnet having at least two magnetic pieces bonded to an insulating material sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the magnetic pieces. The magnet evaluation device has an excitation coil and a detection coil. The excitation coil is configured to generate a magnetic field that has a size in a range that corresponds to a region including the insulating material. The detection coil has a coil diameter that is smaller than a length of one of the magnetic pieces in a direction in which the magnetic pieces are aligned.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2012Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Komai, Yutaka Suzuki, Kiyoshi Yoshida, Kohei Murota, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike, Hideo Mogi
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Patent number: 9899148Abstract: A device for manufacturing a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in a lengthwise direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction for positioning the plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments; a lengthwise direction pressing means that presses the magnet fragments from the lengthwise direction to the lengthwise direction reference surface; a width direction pressing means that presses them from the width direction to the width direction reference surface; and a thickness pressing means that presses them from the thickness direction to the thickness direction reference surface. The lengthwise direction pressing means is operated to press the magnet fragments in a state in which a pressing force of at least one of the width direction pressing means and the thickness direction pressing means is suppressed to be weaker than a pressing force generated by the lengthwise direction pressing means or is released.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2012Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
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Patent number: 9825513Abstract: A rectangular wire is wound on a stator core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots. A plurality of rectangular wire elements is provided by cutting a rectangular wire into a predetermined length and bending into a substantial U-shape. A plurality of rectangular wire pieces configured to form a coil by connecting predetermined end portions of the rectangular wire elements is molded as a sub-assembly. Each of the plurality of the rectangular wire elements is inserted into a predetermined pair of the slots from a first end face of the stator core such that the respective end portions of the rectangular wire elements project from a second end face of the stator core. The rectangular wire pieces of the sub-assembly are fixed to the end portions of the rectangular wire elements, thereby manufacturing a stator coil having compact coil ends easily.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Masahiro Omata, Yasushi Matsushita, Min Wu, Takumi Ohshima, Hiroaki Shibukawa, Koji Higaki, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yuhei Yamane
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Patent number: 9796150Abstract: A field-pole magnet manufacturing apparatus manufactures magnet pieces that constitute a field-pole magnet arranged in a rotary electric machine by fracturing the magnet. This manufacturing apparatus includes: a support unit on which the magnet is placed; a fracture unit that is arranged opposite to the support unit across the magnet and is configured to fracture the magnet by pressing the magnet while in contact with the magnet; and a powder removal unit that is configured to remove crush powder produced by fracture of the magnet.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2012Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasuhisa Koike, Kimio Nishimura, Hiroharu Takeuchi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yoshinori Izawa
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Publication number: 20170187271Abstract: A rectangular wire is wound on a stator core having a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots. A plurality of rectangular wire elements is provided by cutting a rectangular wire into a predetermined length and bending into a substantial U-shape. A plurality of rectangular wire pieces configured to form a coil by connecting predetermined end portions of the rectangular wire elements is molded as a sub-assembly. Each of the plurality of the rectangular wire elements is inserted into a predetermined pair of the slots from a first end face of the stator core such that the respective end portions of the rectangular wire elements project from a second end face of the stator core. The rectangular wire pieces of the sub-assembly are fixed to the end portions of the rectangular wire elements, thereby manufacturing a stator coil having compact coil ends easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi SEKIKAWA, Kimio NISHIMURA, Masahiro OMATA, Yasushi MATSUSHITA, Min WU, Takumi OHSHIMA, Hiroaki SHIBUKAWA, Koji HIGAKI, Kunitomo ISHIGURO, Yuhei YAMENE
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Patent number: 9659707Abstract: A one-piece field-pole magnet is manufactured by filling a gap formed between magnetic pieces placed on a plane with an adhesive or resin. During the process, a pushing member applies a pushing force onto each of the magnet pieces in a thickness direction thereof. The pushing member comprises pushing parts each of which pushes each of the magnet pieces, thereby equalizing the pushing forces applied to the respective magnet pieces.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
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Patent number: 9613749Abstract: A manufacturing device for a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in the lengthwise direction, width direction, and thickness direction for positioning a plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state. The manufacturing device further includes a first pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface from the thickness direction of a magnet body to align them in the thickness direction, and a second pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface from the width direction of the magnet body to align them in the width direction. An operational axis line of a pressing part of at least one of the first and second pressing means is arranged to be tilted such that it approaches the lengthwise direction reference surface at the side that abuts the magnet fragments.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
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Patent number: 9251951Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet segment of a field pole magnet body includes cleaving a magnet material at a plurality of cleavage target regions arranged with an interval in a longitudinal direction of the magnet material. The cleavage process includes cleaving the magnet material sequentially from the cleavage target region closer to one side edge of the longitudinal direction of the magnet material, wherein a notch is formed in each of the plurality of cleavage target regions of the magnet material such that a depth of the notch closer to the one side edge becomes deeper.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
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Patent number: 9203274Abstract: A stator is provided with a tooth, an insulator attached to the tooth, and a coil wound around the insulator. The insulator is provided with a winding barrel around which the coil is wound in a plurality of layers, a flange projecting in a radial direction from one end of the winding barrel, and a notch formed in the flange and through which the line material of the coil is inserted. Projecting lengths of the flange from the winding barrel on the both sides of the notch are set different from each other. When the line material of the coil is guided from the outside of the flange to the winding barrel through the notch for winding the coil on the winding barrel, by supporting and bending the line material at a portion having a longer projecting length of the flange, the line material passes the notch easily.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keiichi Tashiro, Futoshi Kojima, Hisanobu Higashi, Masaru Yuhara, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Takashi Kotsuji
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Publication number: 20150034691Abstract: A method of manufacturing a magnet segment of a field pole magnet body includes cleaving a magnet material at a plurality of cleavage target regions arranged with an interval in a longitudinal direction of the magnet material. The cleavage process includes cleaving the magnet material sequentially from the cleavage target region closer to one side edge of the longitudinal direction of the magnet material, wherein a notch is formed in each of the plurality of cleavage target regions of the magnet material such that a depth of the notch closer to the one side edge becomes deeper.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
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Publication number: 20150000114Abstract: A device for manufacturing a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in a lengthwise direction, a width direction, and a thickness direction for positioning the plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state with their cleaved faces facing each other; a lengthwise direction pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the lengthwise direction in which they are arranged to the lengthwise direction reference surface in order to align the magnet fragments in the lengthwise direction; a width direction pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the width direction of the magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface to align them in the width direction; and a thickness pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments from the thickness direction of the magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface to align them in the thickness direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2012Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20140360009Abstract: A manufacturing device for a field pole magnet body includes a reference jig having reference surfaces in the lengthwise direction, width direction, and thickness direction for positioning a plurality of cleaved and divided magnet fragments in an aligned state. The manufacturing device further includes a first pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the thickness direction reference surface from the thickness direction of a magnet body to align them in the thickness direction, and a second pressing means that presses the plurality of magnet fragments to the width direction reference surface from the width direction of the magnet body to align them in the width direction. An operational axis line of a pressing part of at least one of the first and second pressing means is arranged to be tilted such that it approaches the lengthwise direction reference surface at the side that abuts the magnet fragments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2012Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Matsushita, Hideki Watanabe, Takashi Sekikawa, Kimio Nishimura, Kazuhiro Takaichi, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20140331483Abstract: A one-piece field-pole magnet is manufactured by filling a gap formed between magnetic pieces placed on a plane with an adhesive or resin. During the process, a pushing member applies a pushing force onto each of the magnet pieces in a thickness direction thereof. The pushing member comprises pushing parts each of which pushes each of the magnet pieces, thereby equalizing the pushing forces applied to the respective magnet pieces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hideki Watababe, Takashi Sekikawa, Yasushi Matsushita, Akihisa Hori, Takumi Ohshima, Michito Kishi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike
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Publication number: 20140312889Abstract: A magnet evaluation device is provided for evaluating a magnet having at least two magnetic pieces bonded to an insulating material sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the magnetic pieces. The magnet evaluation device has an excitation coil and a detection coil. The excitation coil is configured to generate a magnetic field that has a size in a range that corresponds to a region including the insulating material. The detection coil has a coil diameter that is smaller than a length of one of the magnetic pieces in a direction in which the magnetic pieces are aligned.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Komai, Yutaka Suzuki, Kiyoshi Yoshida, Kohei Murota, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Yasuhisa Koike, Hideo Mogi
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Publication number: 20140231483Abstract: A field-pole magnet manufacturing apparatus fractures a magnet fixed on a die serving as a lower tool by causing a punch of an upper tool to press the magnet while in contact with the magnet. At least one projection is formed in the punch of the upper tool symmetrically with respect to the central position of the magnet in the width direction of the magnet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventors: Kazuhiro Takaichi, Kimio Nishimura, Hiroharu Takeuchi, Kunitomo Ishiguro, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhisa Koike