Patents by Inventor Makoto Taniguchi
Makoto Taniguchi 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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Publication number: 20200336032Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present disclosure provides a rotary electric machine including: a rotor; and a concentrated winding stator arranged coaxially to the rotor, in which the number of teeth of the concentrated winding stator is set to be a value where an integer which is multiple of 3 between adjacent prime numbers in a prime number sequence is multiplied by 2 and the number of poles of the rotor is set to be a value where any prime number between the adjacent prime numbers is multiplied by 2.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10734853Abstract: A rotating electric machine is equipped with a consequent-pole type rotor that includes a magnetic pole having a permanent magnet buried therein and a soft magnetic material pole that interposes two magnetic poles. The thickness of the permanent magnet and a circumferential width of the soft magnetic material pole have a relationship that prevents a spread of magnetic flux distribution in the circumferential direction within a gap between the soft magnetic material pole and a stator. As a result, a magnetic flux density difference in the circumferential direction is prevented, which enables a reduction of cogging torque based on an effective reduction of low-frequency space order components that originate from components other than a main component.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Hiroki Tomizawa
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Publication number: 20200234831Abstract: A machine learning device that includes a training section configured perform training based on plural training data each configured from oral cavity information detected from a specimen and at least one determination value selected from the group consisting of a probability of periodontal disease contraction of a provider of the specimen or a state of periodontal disease, so as to train the function to decide the determination value. The training section includes a reward calculation section, a function updating section, and a convergence determination section. The reward calculation section calculates a reward for a defined result of the probability of periodontal disease contraction or the state of periodontal disease based on the training data. The function updating section updates the function so as to increase the reward calculated by the reward calculation section. The convergence determination section causes repeated calculations and updates until a predetermined convergence condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.Inventor: Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200234870Abstract: Disclosed are a core sheet and a manufacturing method thereof. The core sheet has an annular core back portion and a plurality of tooth portions extending from the core back portion toward a radial center thereof. The core sheet is obtained by performing a blanking step, a rolling step and a removing step. In the removing step, an insulation coating, which is on a region of a grain-oriented magnetic steel sheet for forming a band-shaped core back portion, on a band-shaped core back portion of a sheet piece or on the core back portion of the core sheet, is at least partially removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Tetsuya AOKI, Makoto TANIGUCHI, Atsuo ISHIZUKA, Satoshi DOI, Keiichi OKAZAKI, Hiroshi FUJIMURA, Tatsuya TAKASE
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Publication number: 20200161951Abstract: A rotary electrical machine includes a switch for supplying power to a field winding and controller. A ratio of an on-time to one switching cycle of the switch is defined as a duty ratio, and a duty ratio which is larger than the duty ratio corresponding to the field current that gives the maximum reduction amount of the inductance of the field winding with respect to an increasing amount of the field current in a range that the current can take and has a value less than 100% is set as a predetermined value. The controller calculates the duty ratio wherein an upper limit of the ratio is the predetermined value and turns on/off the switch based on the calculated duty ratio. Also, a relay and abnormality detection part that detects abnormality in the switch. The relay is switched to off in response to the occurrence of abnormality being detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200162003Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a magnetic field-producing unit, an armature with a multi-phase armature winding, and a rotor. The magnetic field-producing unit includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is located closer to a d-axis in a d-q axis coordinate system than the second position is. The second position is located closer to a q-axis in the d-q axis coordinate system than the first position is. The magnetic field-producing unit is magnetically oriented to meet a condition where an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the first portion makes with the d-axis is smaller than an angle which an easy axis of magnetization of the second portion makes with the q-axis. The magnetic field-producing unit is configured to have an intrinsic coercive force of 400 kA/m and also have a remanent flux density of 1.0 T or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200161939Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a magnet unit. The rotating electrical machine also includes a cylindrical stator and a housing. The stator is equipped with a stator winding made up of a plurality of phase windings. The stator is arranged coaxially with the rotor and faces the rotor. The housing has the rotor and the stator disposed therein. The rotor includes a cylindrical magnet retainer to which the magnet unit is secured and an intermediate portion which connects between a rotating shaft of the rotor and the magnet retainer and extends in a radial direction of the rotating shaft. A first region located radially inside an inner peripheral surface of a magnetic circuit component made up of the stator and the rotor is greater in volume than a second region between the inner peripheral surface of the magnetic circuit component and the housing in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki TAKAHASHI, Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200162002Abstract: A rotating electric machine drive system includes: a rotating electric machine equipped with: a rotor having one magnetic pole configured by permanent magnets, and a salient pole portion that is magnetically convex in a radial direction; and a stator wound with a multiphase stator winding; an inverter for supplying electric power to the stator winding; and a control unit for controlling energization current of the inverters. The control unit performs energization control of the stator winding such that a fundamental wave current at a fundamental frequency synchronized with a rotational speed of the rotor, and a harmonic current that is triple the fundamental frequency flow in the stator winding, and such that energization of the harmonic current generates a stator magnetic field having a specified lead phase or delay phase with respect to a third-order magnetic field of the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Takumi INOUE, Kazushige OKUMOTO, Akira FUKUSHIMA
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Patent number: 10644621Abstract: A rotating electric machine apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a full-bridge inverter. The full-bridge inverter includes first high-side switches, first low-side switches, second high-side switches, and second low-side switches. The rotating electric machine apparatus includes: first and second neutral point switches; a full-wave driving unit that performs a full-wave driving process in which switching control of the switches is performed in a state in which the first and second neutral point switches are turned off; a half-wave driving unit that performs a half-wave driving process in which switching control of the first high-side switches and the second low-side switches is performed in a state in which the first and second neutral point switches are turned on, and the first low-side switches and the second high-side switches are turned off; and an executing unit that selects and performs either of the full-wave driving process and the half-wave driving process.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Asaka Kimura, Makoto Taniguchi, Keiji Kondo
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Publication number: 20200127591Abstract: A control apparatus is provided to control a rotating electric machine whose number of poles is switched from a pre-switching number of poles to a post-switching number of poles. The control apparatus includes a pre-switching control unit, a post-switching control unit and a transition control unit. The pre-switching control unit controls the torque generated by the machine before the switching of the number of poles. The post-switching control unit controls the torque generated by the machine after the switching. During a pole-number switching period, the transition control unit controls electric currents flowing in stator coils of the machine or voltages applied to the stator coils to make each magnetic pole formed with control by the pre-switching control unit not coincident with any magnetic pole formed with control by the post-switching control unit and having the same polarity as the magnetic pole formed with the control by the pre-switching control unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Jun ISHIDA, Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Publication number: 20200106312Abstract: A rotary electrical machine is equipped with a rotor that is rotatably supported, and a stator having a stator core that is disposed coaxially with the rotor. The stator core is configured as a plurality of stacked steel plates, and has a yoke portion that is of annular shape, a plurality of teeth extending radially from the yoke portion, and slots between adjacent teeth. A stator winding is wound in the slots. The yoke portion has holes that extend in the stacking direction of the steel plates, at positions of radial-direction extension of the slots, and molded powder bodies formed from a magnetic powder are provided within the holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Akira FUKUSHIMA, Ken MATSUBARA, Satoshi DOI
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Publication number: 20200052638Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, a rotor, and a stator. The stator includes slots provided in a circumferential direction thereof, and stator windings wound in the slots. The stator windings include n groups of three-phase windings, where n is a power of 2. The slots include first slots each accommodating portions of same-group and same-phase windings in the n groups of three-phase windings. The energizing directions of the same-group and same-phase windings are identical to each other. The second slots each accommodate different-group and same-phase windings in the n groups of three-phase windings. The first slots and the second slots are arranged in the stator at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the stator, and the three-phase windings of each group are wound around the stator with regular intervals therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi KINJO, Toru WAKIMOTO, Makoto TANIGUCHI, Keiji KONDO, Jun ISHIDA, Tomoya TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10523070Abstract: In a rotor for a rotary electric machine, a claw pole assembly includes first claw poles and second claw poles. An annular cover member covers the outer circumferential surfaces of the first and second claw poles. The pole cover segments and the inter-pole cover segments are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotor. Each of the pole cover segments has a circular-arc shape around a first center, and each of the inter-pole cover segments has a circular-arc shape around a second center different from the first center. The first circumferential width of each pole cover segment and the second circumferential width of a corresponding one of the inter-pole segment adjacent to the pole cover segment have a predetermined ratio. The predetermined ratio varies in an axial direction of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Akira Fukushima, Yuuki Takahashi, Makoto Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20190379252Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, each of teeth of a stator core is provided with a covering portion. The covering portion of each of the teeth is made of a soft magnetic material having a lower iron loss factor than each steel plate. The covering portion of each of the teeth covers at least a part of a surface of the corresponding one of the teeth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Akira FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20190372408Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a rotor having a plurality of magnetic pole parts in a peripheral direction, and at least one stator arranged coaxially with the rotor and on at least one of an outer peripheral side and an inner peripheral side of the magnetic pole parts. The stator comprises a stator core having a plurality of slots in the peripheral direction, and a stator winding wound around the slots. The stator core comprises an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth extending in a radial direction from the yoke toward the magnetic pole parts, and the teeth are configured such that their width in the peripheral direction becomes narrower and their thickness in an axial direction becomes thicker toward a radially inner side from a radially outer side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Akira FUKUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20190341867Abstract: A rotary electric machine is equipped with a stator and a rotor. The rotor has a d-axis magnetic circuit that is produced by a magnetomotive force of a field winding, and magnet magnetic circuits that are produced by a magnetic force of permanent magnets. The d-axis magnetic circuit and a q-axis magnetic circuit have at least a part thereof that is common to both. The permeance of the d-axis magnetic circuit is smaller than the permeance of the q-axis magnetic circuit, when a load is being applied to the rotor. A control apparatus of the rotary electric machine has a switching circuit that controls the field current in the field winding, and a control section that makes the switching frequency of the switching circuit become higher when the field current is above a threshold value than when the field current is less than or equal to the threshold value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Yuuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190334425Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes: a field core having at least one boss portion, a pair of disc portions and a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a field coil arranged between the at least one boss portion and the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; a plurality of permanent magnets each of which is arranged between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions; and a ring-shaped fixing member fixed to radially inner parts of the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions to support the claw-shaped magnetic pole portions from the radially inner side. Moreover, a d-axis magnetic circuit and a magnet magnetic circuit are at least partially coincident with each other to share a common circuit portion. When field current is supplied to the field coil, the permeance of the d-axis magnetic circuit is lower than the permeance of a q-axis magnetic circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto TANIGUCHI, Yuuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20190312487Abstract: A rotating electric machine unit includes a rotating electric machine, a high heat generation circuit and a low heat generation circuit both of which are electrically connected with the rotating electric machine, a first cooler, a first-coolant supplier, a second cooler and a second-coolant supplier. The first cooler is configured to cool both the high heat generation circuit and the low heat generation circuit with a first coolant. The first-coolant supplier is configured to supply the first coolant to the first cooler. The second cooler is configured to cool the rotating electric machine with a second coolant. The second-coolant supplier is configured to supply the second coolant to the second cooler. The second-coolant supplier is formed integrally with a low heat generation circuit-cooling part of the first cooler. The second-coolant supplier includes a heat exchanger via which heat is exchanged between the first coolant and the second coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryotaro OKAMOTO, Hirofumi KINJO, Makoto TANIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10435061Abstract: A case is formed of aluminum. A rotation axis has one end affixed with an input rotor element and is rotational with a rotor. A first bearing is equipped to the case and is located between the input rotor element and the rotor to rotationally support the rotation axis. A second bearing is equipped to the case and is located on an opposite side of the rotor from the first bearing to rotationally support the rotation axis. A multilayered helical wave washer is wound for three rounds or more in a spiral wave form and is located in an axial gap formed between the case and an outer ring of one of the first bearing and the second bearing to apply a spring load to the outer ring in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Makoto Taniguchi, Koji Isogai
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Publication number: 20190238073Abstract: A rotating electric machine apparatus includes a rotating electric machine and a full-bridge inverter. The full-bridge inverter includes first high-side switches, first low-side switches, second high-side switches, and second low-side switches. The rotating electric machine apparatus includes: first and second neutral point switches; a full-wave driving unit that performs a full-wave driving process in which switching control of the switches is performed in a state in which the first and second neutral point switches are turned off; a half-wave driving unit that performs a half-wave driving process in which switching control of the first high-side switches and the second low-side switches is performed in a state in which the first and second neutral point switches are turned on, and the first low-side switches and the second high-side switches are turned off; and an executing unit that selects and performs either of the full-wave driving process and the half-wave driving process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Asaka KIMURA, Makoto TANIGUCHI, Keiji KONDO