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).

  • Patent number: 7498707
    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 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuo Nishihama, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Mizutani
  • Publication number: 20090015090
    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: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Daisuke Kori, Hiroyuki Mikami, Seikichi Masuda, Masayasu Fujieda
  • Publication number: 20080129129
    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: November 21, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Aizawa, Motonobu Iizuka, Yasushi Iwai, Hiroyuki Mikami, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20070278889
    Abstract: A rotating machine including a stator iron core having a plurality of slots installed in the direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of armature windings alternately inserted and wound round an outer layer of one of the slots and an inner layer of another slot, and a rotor having a plurality of magnetic poles for rotating inside the stator iron core and each of the armature windings is composed of a single covered conductor wound and has a leading line on the one-end side of the stator iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Manabu Sasaki, Masakazu Shinden, Yasunori Ohtsuki, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
  • Patent number: 7271500
    Abstract: Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the doubly-fed machine from each primary current I1 and voltage V1 and secondary current I2 and voltage V2 of the doubly-fed machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the estimated slip frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Motoo Futami, Masaya Ichinose, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiro Imaie
  • Publication number: 20070145848
    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: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Mamoru Kimura, Akitomi Semba
  • Patent number: 7157804
    Abstract: Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the doubly-fed machine from each primary current I1 and voltage V1 and secondary current I2 and voltage V2 of the doubly-fed machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the estimated slip frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Motoo Futami, Masaya Ichinose, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiro Imaie
  • Publication number: 20060214528
    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: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura, Kazuhiko Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060202581
    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 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuo Nishihama, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Shuji Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7095133
    Abstract: Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the doubly-fed machine from each primary current I1 and voltage V1 and secondary current I2 and voltage V2 of the doubly-fed machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the estimated slip frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Motoo Futami, Masaya Ichinose, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiro Imaie
  • Publication number: 20060138980
    Abstract: Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the doubly-fed machine from each primary current I1 and voltage V1 and secondary current I2 and voltage V2 of the doubly-fed machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the estimated slip frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Motoo Futami, Masaya Ichinose, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiro Imaie
  • Publication number: 20060138881
    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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Akihito Nakahara, Kazuhiko Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20050151504
    Abstract: Because of the necessity of resolver for detecting a rotating position, which is very expensive, and noise suppression of the rotating position signal line on a doubly-fed machine, cost increase of the generator and reduced reliability due to possible failures are inevitable. In order to solve such problem, a generation system in the present invention is equipped with an exciter that estimates the slip frequency of the doubly-fed machine from each primary current I1 and voltage V1 and secondary current I2 and voltage V2 of the doubly-fed machine and excites the secondary of the doubly-fed machine at the estimated slip frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Motoo Futami, Masaya Ichinose, Kazumasa Ide, Kazuhiro Imaie
  • Publication number: 20040178691
    Abstract: To reduce the stator size and realize a compact, high-efficiency and high-output rotary electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Sanada, Takashi Matsunobu, Shigeo Amagi, Mamoru Kimura
  • Publication number: 20040090134
    Abstract: A generator comprising a generator main section having a stator provided with a winding and a rotor provided with a winding and opposed to the stator with an air gap therebetween, the rotor being rotatably supported by a rotating shaft, and an excitor having a stator provided with a winding and a rotor provided with a winding and opposed to the stator with an air gap therebetween, the rotor being rotatably supported by the rotating shaft of the generator main section, and wherein the winding provided on the rotor of the generator main section and the winding provided on the rotor of the excitor are electrically connected to each other through electronic parts, and the stator and the rotor of the excitor are opposed to each other with an air gap therebetween in a direction along the rotating shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Mamoru Kimura, Shintaro Oku, Masayuki Tani
  • Patent number: 6657350
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine characterized by reduced vibration and noise, or improved efficiency. In a permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine comprising a stator 10 provided with concentrated winding and a rotor with permanent magnets 24 embedded in the rotor core 21, induced voltage waveform is improved by formation of two grooves or holes (flux barriers) extending in the axial direction for each magnetic pole on the bridge 25 of the core between the permanent magnet insertion hole 23 and the outer surface of rotor 20 in such a way that they are placed at an equally spaced interval over the entire circumference of the rotor 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Haruo Koharagi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Miyoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20030141774
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine comprises a shaft, a cylindrical permanent magnet put on the shaft, and a holding ring fixedly put on the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is magnetized by Halbach magnetization, and the holding ring is formed by circumferentially alternately arranging nonmagnetic segments of a nonmagnetic material and magnetic segments of a magnetic material. Another rotor for a rotating electric machine comprises a solid, cylindrical permanent magnet, and a cylindrical holding ring put on the permanent magnet, wherein the permanent magnet is magnetized by Halbach magnetization, and the holding ring is formed by circumferentially alternately arranging nonmagnetic segments of a nonmagnetic material and magnetic segments of a magnetic material. A rotating electric machine is provided with one of the foregoing rotors, and a gas turbine power plant is equipped with a rotating electric machine including one of the foregoing rotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Miyoshi Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura, Takanobu Mori, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Matsunobu
  • Publication number: 20020175583
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine capable of reducing core loss due to armature reaction magnetic flux and making an effective use of reluctance torque. A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine comprising a first rotor core equipped with a permanent magnet stored in a permanent magnet insertion hole, and a second rotor core having a reluctance magnetic circuit, wherein a concave portion is provided between poles in the vicinity of the outer surface of the first rotor core, and a flux barrier constituting the reluctance magnetic circuit of the second rotor core is arranged in a form different from the magnet insertion hole, whereby the magnetic path of the armature reaction magnetic flux is defined, and a permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine delivering a large output is obtained by making an effective use of reluctance torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Satoshi Kikuchi, Haruo Koharagi, Shinichi Wakui, Mamoru Kimura, Ryoichi Takahata, Kohji Maki, Kazuo Tahara, Kenji Miyata, Masashi Kitamura, Miyoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20020175584
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine capable of reducing core loss due to armature reaction magnetic flux and making an effective use of reactance torque. A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine comprising a first rotor core containing a permanent magnet and a second rotor core having a flux barrier without magnet, wherein a concave portion is provided between poles in the vicinity of outer surface the rotor core containing the permanent magnet and the length of the gap in the magnetic path on the q-axis side is increased to ensure easy passage of the magnetic path of the armature reaction magnetic flux on the reluctance torque rotor side, whereby a permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine delivering a large output can be obtained by making an effective use of reluctance torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Haruo Koharagi, Shinichi Wakui, Mamoru Kimura, Satoshi Kikuchi, Ryoichi Takahata, Kohji Maki, Kazuo Tahara, Kenji Miyata, Masashi Kitamura, Miyoshi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20020145353
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine characterized by reduced vibration and noise, or improved efficiency. In a permanent magnet type rotating electrical machine comprising a stator 10 provided with concentrated winding and a rotor with permanent magnets 24 embedded in the rotor core 21, induced voltage waveform is improved by formation of two grooves or holes (flux barriers) extending in the axial direction for each magnetic pole on the bridge 25 of the core between the permanent magnet insertion hole 23 and the outer surface of rotor 20 in such a way that they are placed at an equally spaced interval over the entire circumference of the rotor 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Haruo Koharagi, Hiroyuki Mikami, Miyoshi Takahashi