Patents by Inventor Manabu Yazaki

Manabu Yazaki 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: 11634997
    Abstract: An engine housing of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of leg members. An air intake space is formed between the plurality of leg members. A shroud case supported by the engine housing is disposed in the air intake space. A rotary electric machine housing of a rotary electric machine system includes a rectifying member. The rectifying member includes a distal end facing toward the shroud case, and the distal end is inserted inside the shroud case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 11629636
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine housing, a first bearing and a second bearing are provided for supporting a rotating shaft. A lubricating oil is supplied to the first bearing and the second bearing. Further, a gas is supplied to the first bearing and the second bearing. The lubricating oil and the gas are recovered by a single recovery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20230115303
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has a plurality of teeth portions. Slots are formed between adjacent ones of the plurality of teeth portions. The rotor faces the teeth portions. The rotor has a rotor core and a rotating shaft. The rotor core retains permanent magnets. Magnetic poles formed by the permanent magnets have the number of poles of 16 to 32. When the rotor is viewed in an axial direction of the rotor, an average number of the slots for one magnetic pole is six.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: Manabu Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20230101565
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core. The rotor core is a stacked body in which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets are stacked. In the electromagnetic steel sheet, a plurality of through holes are formed between an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion. The inner annular portion and the outer annular portion that are separated via the through holes are coupled with each other by a plurality of coupling portions. An intersection angle between one coupling portion and another coupling portion adjacent thereto is within a range of 12° to 36°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Manabu Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20230094056
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core. The rotor core is a stacked body in which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets are stacked. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion. A first insertion hole into which a rotating shaft is inserted is formed in the inner annular portion. A rotor inner diameter is defined as twice a distance from a center of the first insertion hole to an inner circumferential edge of the inner annular portion. A rotor outer diameter is defined as twice a distance from the center of the first insertion hole to an outer circumferential edge of the outer annular portion. A ratio of the rotor inner diameter to the rotor outer diameter is within a range of 1:1.5 to 1:3.5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventor: Manabu Yazaki
  • Publication number: 20230047255
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine housing, a first bearing and a second bearing are provided for supporting a rotating shaft. A lubricating oil is supplied to the first bearing and the second bearing. Further, a gas is supplied to the first bearing and the second bearing. The lubricating oil and the gas are recovered by a single recovery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20230053171
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine housing, a first bearing and a second bearing are provided for supporting a rotating shaft. A lubricating oil is supplied to the first bearing and the second bearing. At least one of the first bearing or the second bearing is sandwiched between the compressed air supplied from one side of the rotating shaft in an axial direction thereof and the compressed air supplied from another side of the rotating shaft in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20230051720
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine housing, a first bearing and a second bearing are provided for supporting a rotating shaft. The rotary electric machine housing includes a sub-housing. A collection flow path is formed in the sub-housing, and communicates with a plurality of air bleed passages formed in a gas turbine engine, collectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20230047728
    Abstract: A compressor wheel is provided for the output shaft. Air bleed ports are formed in a shroud case that surrounds the compressor wheel. A plurality of air bleed passages are formed in the engine housing that surrounds the shroud case. An annular chamber is formed between the air bleed ports and the air bleed passages, for storing compressed air that is extracted from the air bleed ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 11502581
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor unit that includes: a rotary electrical machine that has a cylindrical stator, a rotor disposed coaxially with the stator, a shaft disposed coaxially with the rotor, and a cylindrical case that houses the stator and the rotor; and a drive unit that has a swell swelling toward the case and is fixed to a circumferential surface that is located in a radial direction of the rotor and is the case. The case has a recess that corresponds to the swell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Tomoyuki Suzuki, Heisuke Kobayashi, Takeshi Hoshinoya, Sachio Kawada, Akira Fujiwara, Yasuyuki Saito, Hiroshi Hamano, Tsuyoshi Harada
  • Publication number: 20220325632
    Abstract: For a rotary electric machine housing, a cooling jacket and compressed air flow passages are formed on an outer circumferential side of the cooling jacket. On an outer side wall of the rotary electric machine housing, a terminal casing is formed and electric terminal portions are accommodated in the terminal casing. Air bleed ports are formed in a shroud case of a gas turbine engine. Compressed air that is compressed by a compressor wheel flows into the air bleed ports. The compressed air that has passed through the air bleed ports flows through air bleed passages formed in an engine housing and the compressed air flow passages. Then, the compressed air reaches the terminal casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220325664
    Abstract: A rotating shaft of a rotary electric machine is supported by a rotary electric machine housing. For the rotary electric machine housing, compressed air flow passages are formed. In a gas turbine engine, an air bleed port is formed in a shroud case, and compressed air that is compressed by a compressor wheel flows into the air bleed port. The compressed air that has passed through the air bleed port flows through air bleed passages formed in an engine housing and the compressed air flow passages. Then, the compressed air flows into a rotary electric machine housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220316394
    Abstract: A combined power system includes a rotary electric machine system and an internal combustion engine. The rotary electric machine system includes a rotating shaft. A first end part and a second end part of the rotating shaft are rotatably supported by a rotary electric machine housing via a first bearing and a second bearing, respectively. The internal combustion engine includes an output shaft. One end of the rotating shaft in an axial direction is connected to one end of the output shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220320966
    Abstract: A combined power system includes a rotary electric machine housing in which a rotating shaft of a rotary electric machine is rotatably supported. For the rotary electric machine housing, a cooling jacket and compressed air flow passages are formed on an outer circumferential side of the cooling jacket. On an outer side wall of the rotary electric machine housing, a terminal casing is formed and electric terminal portions are accommodated in the terminal casing. Compressed air is supplied to the terminal casing. An electrical current converter formed on the outer side wall of the rotary electric machine housing is cooled by the cooling jacket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji
  • Publication number: 20220320945
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system making part of a combined power system is equipped with a rotary electric machine having a rotor including a rotating shaft and a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated. In such a rotary electric machine, a first bearing and a second bearing are disposed between the rotary electric machine housing and the rotating shaft. The gas supplied from the gas supply source flows on an upstream side through a terminal casing in which electric terminal portions are accommodated, and on a downstream side through the first bearing and the second bearing inside the rotary electric machine housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220316354
    Abstract: An engine housing of a gas turbine engine includes a plurality of leg members. An air intake space is formed between the plurality of leg members. A shroud case supported by the engine housing is disposed in the air intake space. A rotary electric machine housing of a rotary electric machine system includes a rectifying member. The rectifying member includes a distal end facing toward the shroud case, and the distal end is inserted inside the shroud case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Publication number: 20220320969
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system of a combined power system includes a rotary electric machine, a rotary electric machine housing in which the rotary electric machine is accommodated, and a rotation parameter detector that detects a rotation parameter of a rotating shaft constituting the rotary electric machine. The rotating shaft includes a first end part and a second end part, a first bearing is provided between the first end part and the housing, and a second bearing is provided between the second end part and the housing. The first end part includes a protruding distal end that passes through the first bearing and protrudes to an exterior of the housing. The rotation parameter detector is disposed on the protruding distal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 11437876
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating electrical machine capable of fixing a permanent magnet at a defined position of a magnet insertion hole without providing a filling groove for injection of a filler in a rotor core and, of course, without lowering performance as the rotating electric machine. A rotating electrical machine of the present invention includes: a rotor; and a stator, the rotor including: a rotor core provided with a plurality of magnet insertion holes; a permanent magnet inserted into the magnet insertion hole; and a filler configured to fix the permanent magnet to the magnet insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nitta, Yasuyuki Saito, Yuji Kobayashi, Manabu Yazaki, Keiichiro Kashiwabara, Atsushi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20220263389
    Abstract: A driving unit includes a rotary electric machine which has a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction, a rotary electric machine case, and an electric power conversion device. The electric power conversion device is disposed on one side of the rotary electric machine in an orthogonal direction. A first coolant is stored in a rotary electric machine accommodating portion of the rotary electric machine case. The driving unit has a first connecting portion electrically connecting the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device and a second connecting portion electrically connecting a sensor provided to the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are disposed between the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device in the orthogonal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Heisuke KOBAYASHI, Takeshi HOSHINOYA, Keiichiro KASHIWABARA, Norifumi YASUDA, Manabu YAZAKI, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Akira FUJIWARA, Hideaki NOTO, Shunsuke ISOGAI, Yu ASAKURA
  • Publication number: 20220255393
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine including a rotating shaft, and a housing for housing the rotary electric machine. A first bearing and a second bearing are provided between the housing and the rotating shaft. Gas supplied from a gas supply source that is located outside of the housing flows with a terminal casing for housing electric terminal portions as an upstream side and the housing as a downstream side. Further, the first bearing and the second bearing are disposed in a flow path within the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Yazaki, Tatsuya Choji