Patents by Inventor Mamoru Kimura

Mamoru Kimura 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: 20120147075
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a direct current voltage which has positive and negative potentials relative to a ground potential interposed therebetween is used as a drive voltage for electric charging/discharging to/from an actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teruyuki HIYOSHI, Noboru NITTA, Mamoru KIMURA, Tomohisa YOSHIMARU
  • Publication number: 20120146336
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine comprises a stator with a stator coil applied in a plurality of slots provided in a stator core, a rotor disposed opposite to the stator with a predetermined gap interposed therebetween, the rotor including a permanent magnet embedded in each of magnet-insertion holes provided in a rotor core of the rotor while polarity of the permanent magnet being varied on a pole-by-pole basis, and end plates disposed at ends of the rotor core, in the axial direction thereof, respectively, in which one end plate of the end plates disposed at the ends of the rotor core, in the axial direction thereof, respectively, is also provided with magnet-insertion holes, and each of the magnet-insertion holes provided in the one endplate is filled up with a non-magnetic material, thereby stopping up each of the magnet-insertion holes provided in the end plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Masahiro HORI, Mamoru Kimura, Akiyoshi Komura, Takayuki Koizumi, Masayasu Fujieda, Seikichi Masuda, Nobuhiko Obata
  • Publication number: 20120091850
    Abstract: A rotor slot is asymmetrically shaped with respect to a straight line drawn from the central axis of the rotation of the rotor in a radial direction, and has a slot opening, the circumferential width of which is smaller than that of the rotor slot, at the top of the rotor slot, so that a loss generated in the rotor due to a carrier harmonic component can be reduced and the power factor can be improved, enabling a current generated in an armature winding to be suppressed and thereby improving efficiency in a rated operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Masanori Sawahata, Mamoru Kimura, Satoshi Kikuchi, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 8148865
    Abstract: Movement of magnets due to centrifugal force is restricted. In a permanent magnet rotating electrical machine 100 having a stator 1 and a rotor core 5 provided with a plurality of permanent magnets 3 inserted in an outer circumferential portion of the rotor 5, each permanent magnet 3 has inclined surfaces on the outer circumferential side of the rotor 2 and the thinnest portions of the inclined surfaces are adjacent to permanent magnets of the opposite polarity. Further, each magnet 3 has a convex-shaped cross section and is divided into two magnet segments 3, 3. A magnetic pole bridge 15 is formed at the boundary of the permanent magnet segments 3, 3. Thus, movement of the permanent magnet segments 3, 3 due to centrifugal force is firmly restricted, and the peeling off of the rotor core 5 and the permanent magnet segments 3, 3 from each other is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Daisuke Kori, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Masayasu Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20120032539
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating machine has a stator, in which armature windings are formed in a plurality of slots formed in a stator iron core, and also has a rotor, in which two magnet insertion slots are formed for each pole in a rotor iron core in a V shape when viewed from the outer circumference of the rotor and one permanent magnet is embedded in each magnet insertion slot with polarity alternating for each pole; a wall at one end of the magnet insertion slot on the external diameter side of the rotor is formed with three arcs having different curvatures, one of the three arcs being parallel to the outer circumference of the rotor, and a wall at the other end of the magnet insertion slot on the internal diameter side of the rotor is formed in an arc shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro HORI, Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura, Seikichi Masuda, Mamoru Kimura, Nobuhiko Obata, Takayuki Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20110241350
    Abstract: The permanent magnet rotating electric machine comprising a stator with a stator coil wound on a stator iron core, a rotor with a plurality of permanent magnets disposed in the circumferential direction in a rotor iron core, which is disposed opposite to the stator iron core of the stator with a predetermined spacing therebetween and is fixed to a shaft, a water-cooling unit disposed around the outer circumference of the stator iron core, and a fan fixed to the shaft on the same side as at least one axial end of the rotor iron core to circulate cooling air in the permanent magnet rotating electric machine; further comprising ventilation paths, through which the cooling air flows, formed around the outer circumference of the water-cooling unit; wherein after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation paths to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation paths and the water-cooling unit, after which the cooling
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Shogo Serita, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Ai Nagano, Mamoru Kimura, Motonobu Ilzuka, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 7994666
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20110163624
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine, wherein the rotation direction of a rotor is a defined direction, a groove is provided in a rotor core on the radial outside with respect to permanent magnets, and the groove is provided in a position inclined from the centerline between the permanent magnets within a magnetic pole head and at the same time in a position excluding an end portion of a permanent magnet insertion hole on the radial outside, in order to enable a reduction in a no-load induced electromotive force and prevention of a decrease in output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Masahiro HORI, Daisuke Kori, Akiyoshi Komura, Hiroshi Kanazawa, Seikichi Masuda, Mamoru Kimura, Nobuhiko Obata
  • Patent number: 7952249
    Abstract: A rotor is deployed such that the rotor becomes coaxially rotatable with a stator. A shaft is fixed onto the axis of a rotor iron-core. 1-pole constituting magnet slots are deployed into V-character pattern along an outer circumference portion of the rotor iron-core. Permanent magnets are embedded into the magnet slots. For the 1 pole, the 2 pieces of same-polarity permanent magnets are embedded into the V-character pattern. The configuration of each embedded permanent magnet is designed as follows: From the thickness of the permanent-magnet edge portion on the inner-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which becomes the center of the V-character pattern, the thickness of the permanent magnet gradually increases toward the outer-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which become the right and left edge portions of the V-character pattern. Simultaneously, curved lines are provided on both edge portions of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Mamoru Kimura, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Masayasu Fujieda
  • Patent number: 7847456
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Patent number: 7825559
    Abstract: A rotation machine is configured such that permanent magnets and pole shoes holding the permanent magnets at the outer diameter side of the permanent magnets are provided for a rotor, and an outer diameter size (Ra) in the axial end portion of the pole shoe is made smaller than an outer diameter size (Rb) in the axial center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mamoru Kimura, Akitomi Semba
  • Publication number: 20100194221
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein: a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed; a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100176682
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotary electric machine has a rotor having a rotor core and permanent magnets buried into the rotor core by being incorporated into respective permanent magnet slots. The permanent magnet slot per one pole is divided at least into four slots along an outer circumferential direction in the rotor core, and in respective rest core-portions between adjacent divided permanent magnet slots in the rotor core, a width of a first rest core-portion at the middle of each pole and a width of a second rest core-portion between adjacent poles of different polarities are formed larger than that of the others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Mamoru Kimura
  • Patent number: 7737593
    Abstract: An electric rotation machine for windmill power generation equipped with a stator slot structure having distributed windings and a rotor pole structure having permanent magnets, wherein the number of slots per pole per phase (Nspp) is undividable by 3 times P (where P is the number of poles), and pole width rate Pw obtained by dividing pole piece width Tp by pole pitch Tr at the outermost diameters of the adjoining poles of the rotor is satisfied any of Pw?0.6, 0.67?Pw?0.71, and 0.78?Pw. The distortion factors of induced voltages in a permanent magnet type electrical rotation machine, particularly for windmill power generation, can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuo Nishihama, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7732958
    Abstract: A rotating shaft is required to have an overhang for the mounting of a generator for an AC-exciter, the shaft length being increased correspondingly. The overhang may become the cause of generating shaft vibrations. A turbogenerator has a rotor over which a field winding is disposed, a coupling co-cut from a rotor shaft, an AC exciter for supplying a DC current to the field winding through a rectifier, and a generator for the AC-exciter, the generator including a permanent magnet as a field generator and supplying a DC current to a field winding of the AC exciter through the rectifier. The AC exciter and the generator are disposed over the rotor shaft. The rotor is rotated through engagement between a turbine and the coupling. The generator for the AC-exciter is mounted in a position on the side nearer to the turbine than a stator of the turbogenerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100129495
    Abstract: The serum cholesterol-lowering material of the invention contains lactic acid-fermented egg white. The food composition having a serum cholesterol-lowering effect of the invention contains a serum cholesterol-lowering material. The pharmaceutical composition having a serum cholesterol-lowering effect of the invention contains a serum cholesterol-lowering material as an active component. The process for producing the serum cholesterol-lowering material of the invention comprises adding lactobacillus to an aqueous solution containing the egg white and fermenting the egg white.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Yasunobu Masuda, Yuji Ogino
  • Publication number: 20100026145
    Abstract: In a sealed type electric rotating machine, in which a cooling medium inflows from both end sides of a rotating shaft of a claw-pole type rotor, a cooling medium having passed through a heat exchanging part divides into one on an exhaust side and one on an intake air side to be used again for cooling of the claw-pole type rotor and a stator. On the exhaust side, a cooling medium being high in temperature as compared with that on the intake air side performs cooling, and the rotor and the stator are made higher in temperature on the exhaust side than on the intake air side. In order to level temperature profiles of the claw-pole type rotor and the stator in an axial direction, a partition, which cuts off an axial duct, is provided toward the exhaust side relative to a center in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi IWAI, Kengo IWASHIGE, Motonobu IIZUKA, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Mamoru KIMURA, Daisuke KORI
  • Publication number: 20090322175
    Abstract: A rotor is deployed such that the rotor becomes coaxially rotatable with a stator. A shaft is fixed onto the axis of a rotor iron-core. 1-pole constituting magnet slots are deployed into V-character pattern along an outer circumference portion of the rotor iron-core. Permanent magnets are embedded into the magnet slots. For the 1 pole, the 2 pieces of same-polarity permanent magnets are embedded into the V-character pattern. The configuration of each embedded permanent magnet is designed as follows: From the thickness of the permanent-magnet edge portion on the inner-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which becomes the center of the V-character pattern, the thickness of the permanent magnet gradually increases toward the outer-diameter side of the rotor iron-core, which become the right and left edge portions of the V-character pattern. Simultaneously, curved lines are provided on both edge portions of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Mamoru KIMURA, Hiroyuki MIKAMI, Seikichi MASUDA, Masayasu FUJIEDA
  • Publication number: 20090160284
    Abstract: An electric rotation machine for windmill power generation equipped with a stator slot structure having distributed windings and a rotor pole structure having permanent magnets, wherein the number of slots per pole per phase (Nspp) is undividable by 3 times P (where P is the number of poles), and pole width rate Pw obtained by dividing pole piece width Tp by pole pitch Tr at the outermost diameters of the adjoining poles of the rotor is satisfied any of Pw?0.6, 0.67?Pw?0.71, and 0.78?Pw. The distortion factors of induced voltages in a permanent magnet type electrical rotation machine, particularly for windmill power generation, can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuo Nishihama, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7535147
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a generator easy to assemble even if there is an obstacle such as a turbine in the axial direction of the rotor of the generator. A generator comprising: a rotor having a permanent magnet placed therein and supported to be rotatable, and a stator having a field coil wound thereon, characterized in that, the rotor is provided with a seating made of a magnetic material for supporting the permanent magnet and a pole shoe made of a magnetic material placed in the outward radial direction of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura, Kazuhiko Takahashi