Patents by Inventor Masahiko Fujita

Masahiko Fujita 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: 7893594
    Abstract: An alternating-current dynamoelectric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator including: a stator core in which slots that extend in an axial direction are formed on an inner side; and a stator winding that is mounted to the stator core by winding conducting wires into the slots; and a rotatable rotor including: a field winding that is disposed inside the stator; a rotor core constituted by a first pole core and a second pole core that each have claw-shaped magnetic poles that are disposed so as to cover the field winding and that alternately intermesh with each other; and first and second permanent magnets that are respectively disposed on two facing side surfaces of adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles and that have magnetic fields that are oriented so as to reduce leakage of magnetic flux between the claw-shaped magnetic poles, and a magnetic body is disposed between a pair of the first and second permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Haruyuki Kometani
  • Patent number: 7853163
    Abstract: In a fixing unit, a fixing roller is rotated under driving force transmitted from a paper discharge unit-side gear of a driving section via a fixing roller driving gear, and holds and conveys a recording medium in cooperation with a pressure roller in a nip region. When a control section determines that acceleration conditions are fulfilled, the driving section increases the rotating speed of the paper discharge unit-side gear so that it is rotated at higher speed than before-acceleration speed over predetermined high-speed rotating period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norichika Katsura, Tadasu Taniguchi, Masahiko Fujita, Masaharu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20100308700
    Abstract: An inverter power module includes: a heatsink that is shaped into a ring-shaped flat plate; a plurality of power MOSFETs that are mounted onto substrates, and mounted to a front surface of the heatsink; a circuit board that is a resin-molded body into which a plurality of inserted conductors are insert molded; and a bus bar that is fixed to the heatsink so as to be disposed on an opposite side of the circuit board facing the heatsink, and that is connected to a power source line of an inverter power circuit by means of a battery electric potential connecting terminal, the heatsink is electrically connected to the rear bracket by being fixed to the rear bracket, and the rear bracket is connected to a ground line of the inverter power circuit by means of the ground electric potential connecting terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Patent number: 7845634
    Abstract: A shifting mechanism includes a guide plate, a bearing, a rotating shaft, a delivery roller, and a bearing unit. The shifting mechanism delivers a sheet of paper along a delivery passage and offsets the sheet horizontally and perpendicularly to the passage while delivering it. The guide plate has an opening forming part of the delivery passage and an end hole formed through the front end of the plate horizontally and perpendicularly to the passage. The rotating shaft extends through the end hole. The delivery roller is fixed to the rotating shaft. The sheet passes through the nip between the delivery roller and the guide plate. The bearing unit extends movably through the end hole and includes a sleeve, which supports the rotating shaft horizontally and perpendicularly to the delivery passage. The bearing unit rotates the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaya Asakawa, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Masahiko Fujita, Norichika Katsura
  • Patent number: 7847463
    Abstract: A projected shape of permanent magnets is contained within a plane of projection formed by adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles overlapping when the claw-shaped magnetic poles are viewed in a direction of rotation of a rotor, and is generally similar in shape to a shape of the plane of projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Haruyuki Kometani, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20100301692
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine capable of securing safety against collision. Included are a rotor having a field winding and cooling fans, and a stator having a stator winding, arranged so as to surround the rotor. A bracket 1 is fixed to a load side end of the stator, and a heat sink is disposed inside the bracket. On the anti-load side of the heat sink, a field circuit unit and power circuit units for controlling the field winding and the stator winding, respectively, are mounted, whereas on the load side thereof, cooling fins are disposed. The anti-load side and lateral side of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units are surrounded by the bracket. Accordingly, a whole of the field circuit unit and the power circuit units is surrounded by the bracket and the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji SHIRAKATA, Masao Kikuchi, Masahiko Fujita, Hitoshi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20100289351
    Abstract: The electric rotating machine is provided with an intermediate plate having a power circuit connection portion that is connected with an outgoing lead drawn out from a power circuit unit and an armature winding connection portion that is connected with the power circuit connection portion and an outgoing lead drawn out from an armature winding. The power circuit connection portion and the armature winding connection portion are arranged at desired positions and outgoing leads from the armature winding of the stator are drawn out in such a way as to fall within a given space, so that intermediate connection lines for connecting windings can be shortened. Accordingly, not only the breakage of an intermediate connection line caused by a vibration can be prevented, but also the switching elements can separately be arranged so as to reduce thermal interference between the switching elements; therefore, the switching elements can effectively be cooled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naohide MAEDA, Masahiko Fujita, Masaki Kato
  • Publication number: 20100289352
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electrical rotating machine that prevents heat generated from a stator winding from being transmitted to an inverter circuit. A rotor having a field winding, and a stator having a stator winding arranged so as to surround the rotor are provided. One end of a rear bracket is connected to the stator, and arranged inside the rear bracket is a heat sink assembly including a heat sink having switching elements for controlling the field winding and the stator winding mounted thereto. The heat sink assembly is fixed to protruding portions protruding from an end surface of the rear bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi TAKECHI, Masao KIKUCHI, Hitoshi ISODA, Masaki KATO, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100231080
    Abstract: An alternating-current dynamoelectric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator including: a stator core in which slots that extend in an axial direction are formed on an inner side; and a stator winding that is mounted to the stator core by winding conducting wires into the slots; and a rotatable rotor including: a field winding that is disposed inside the stator; a rotor core constituted by a first pole core and a second pole core that each have claw-shaped magnetic poles that are disposed so as to cover the field winding and that alternately intermesh with each other; and first and second permanent magnets that are respectively disposed on two facing side surfaces of adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles and that have magnetic fields that are oriented so as to reduce leakage of magnetic flux between the claw-shaped magnetic poles, and a magnetic body is disposed between a pair of the first and second permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko FUJITA, Toshiyuki YOSHIZAWA, Haruyuki KOMETANI
  • Patent number: 7781934
    Abstract: An alternating-current dynamoelectric machine according to the present invention includes: a stator including: a stator core in which slots that extend in an axial direction are formed on an inner side; and a stator winding that is mounted to the stator core by winding conducting wires into the slots; and a rotatable rotor including: a field winding that is disposed inside the stator; a rotor core constituted by a first pole core and a second pole core that each have claw-shaped magnetic poles that are disposed so as to cover the field winding and that alternately intermesh with each other; and first and second permanent magnets that are respectively disposed on two facing side surfaces of adjacent claw-shaped magnetic poles and that have magnetic fields that are oriented so as to reduce leakage of magnetic flux between the claw-shaped magnetic poles, and a magnetic body is disposed between a pair of the first and second permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Haruyuki Kometani
  • Patent number: 7723933
    Abstract: A vehicular generator-motor control apparatus wherein a winding field type salient-pole generator-motor 1 (in FIG. 1) for a vehicle is subjected to a conduction control by a DC-AC converter 2, characterized in that a stator 1A of the vehicular winding field type salient-pole generator-motor 1 is energized by rectangular wave voltages at those conduction start angles ? of respective phases of the stator 1A which are shifted a predetermined angle relative to a rotor position, and that the conduction start angles ? of the respective phases change substantially continuously in accordance with an input voltage of the DC-AC converter 2 and a revolution speed of the generator-motor 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20100102683
    Abstract: Assembly of a controller-integrated rotating electric machine is facilitated. In a controller-integrated rotating electric machine provided with a rotating electric machine unit having a rotor (2), a stator (3), and brackets (4, 5); a plurality of stator current switching circuit units (13) that are attached on an insulator cover (14) mounted on the brackets (4, 5); and a controller unit having a control circuit board (102), the stator current switching circuit unit (13) is provided with a plurality of switching elements (13a) and a plurality of switching elements (13b); a pair of heat sinks (13g, 13h) with which the drain terminals of the switching elements (13a, 13b) are connected; and a pair of electric connection members (17, 18) that pull out the terminals of the switching elements (13a, 13b) and that hold and integrate the pair of heat sinks (13g, 13h).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Utsumi, Masahiko Fujita, Yoshiharu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100097053
    Abstract: There is provided a rotating electric machine including a rotation sensor unit capable of demonstrating a shielding effect over a wide frequency bandwidth and a manufacturing method therefor. In the rotating electric machine, a power unit provided with a switching element that controls an electric current that flows in a stator winding and a magnetic-field current control circuit unit provided with a switching element that controls an electric current that flows in a rotor winding are arranged on a predetermined surface of one of a pair of brackets that pivotably support a rotor shaft, and the rotation sensor unit is disposed in the vicinity of the predetermined surface of the one bracket; The rotating electric machine is characterized in such a way that there is provided a ring-shaped member that is fixed on the outer surface of the rotation sensor unit, and the ring-shaped member is configured with a non-magnetic unit having an electric conductivity and a magnetic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masao KIKUCHI, Yoshinobu UTSUMI, Hitoshi ISODA, Yuji SHIRAKATA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100047005
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting writing instrument that can indicate characters and figures by utilizing chemiluminescence phenomena and a light-emitting indicator using the light-emitting writing instrument. A light-emitting wiring instrument 1 includes a fluorescent liquid 21 and an oxidizing liquid 31 that are respectively sealed in destructible containers 2 and 3 and that generate a chemiluminescence phenomenon when mixed with each other; a rod-shaped cylindrical container 4 that also functions as a grip and accommodates a mixture of the fluorescent liquid 21 and the oxidizing liquid 31 discharged from the destructible containers 2 and 3; and an application portion 5 liquid-tightly attached to a tip of the cylindrical container 4 so as to be communicated with the cylindrical container 4. A light-emitting indicator 8 using the light-emitting writing instrument 1 (to be continued).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2006
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: LUMICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiro Harada, Masahiko Fujita, Toshifumi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 7660544
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the invention, in an image forming apparatus that reverses the front and back of recording paper by performing switchback transport of the recording paper to perform duplex printing of the recording paper, the image forming apparatus is provided with a control means that, when performing duplex printing of the recording paper, forms a void area at a leading end and a trailing end of the recording paper, the void area preventing curling of the recording paper around a roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Tadasu Taniguchi, Norichika Katsura, Yasunobu Ohkawa, Yasuhiro Takai
  • Patent number: 7657219
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus including: a paper feed cassette; a paper pickup roller; an image forming portion; a fixing unit; a paper discharge portion for discharging paper P with a developer image fused and fixed thereon; and an inversion roller and a paper discharge drive roller for conveying paper P along a paper conveyance path, and is constructed such that guide ribs are provided for a curved portion in a main conveyance path and the first and second curved portions of a sub conveyance path are provided in shapes that will not cause concentration of stress acting on the paper P in abutment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tadasu Taniguchi, Norichika Katsura, Masahiko Fujita, Yasuaki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20100013147
    Abstract: In a sheet transport apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention, coiled springs 82 are fitted in and supported by recess portions 81b at a bottom face 81a of a support frame 81 and recess portions 73c at an upper face 73b of an inner guide 73. In other words, most of the portions of the coiled spring 82 are enclosed inside the recess portions 81b of the support frame 81 and the recess portions 73c of the inner guide 73, and covered and hidden by side walls 81f of the recess portions 81b and side walls 73d of the recess portions 73c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Norichika KATSURA, Tadasu TANIGUCHI, Masahiko FUJITA, Masaya ASAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20100001672
    Abstract: A vehicle generator motor has a generator motor that is connected to an internal combustion engine and plural sets of three-phase windings, plural sets of inverter portions connected to the respective sets of the three-phase windings, and a control circuit portion for controlling the inverter portions in accordance with the operation state of the generator motor. When the generator motor operates as a motor and a variation value of an output torque or power generation amount thereof exceeds a predetermined value, the control circuit portion controls the inverter portions so as to stop armature current flowing in at least one set in plural sets of three-phase windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohide MAEDA, Masahiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20100000556
    Abstract: The currently available artificial nails swell as a whole and undergo deformation, which damages the commercial value thereof. Moreover, they suffer from another problem of not evenly glowing as a whole due to the occurrence of some non-glowing spaces. In an airtight hollow container having a roughly crescent-shaped cross section and having light-permeability and flexibility, therefore, a space free from capillary action is ensured at the inside of an area joining the lower wall and the upper wall. Then, one of two kinds of compositions, which show chemical luminescence when mixed together, is packed in a breakable glass ampule in the airtight hollow container while the other composition is packed outside the glass ampule in the airtight hollow container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: LUMICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiko Fujita, Chika Yoshida, Atsushi Ikenaga
  • Publication number: 20090322270
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle motor control apparatus that alternately switches a first ON state in which one of the stator winding terminals is energized through an upper switch element group and another stator winding terminal is energized through a lower switch element group and a second ON state in which one of the stator winding terminals is energized through one of the upper switch element group and the lower switch element group and two other stator winding terminals are energized through the other switch element group, in one cycle period of an electric angle that changes as the rotor rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Masahiko FUJITA