Patents by Inventor Masaya Inoue

Masaya Inoue 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: 20200212752
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor; a stator having a core annularly arranged facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotor, a coil wound around the core and having a coil end formed protruding from an end surface in the axial direction of the core, and an insulator formed on the end surface in the axial direction of the core and insulating the core and the coil; a bus bar arranged on the outer peripheral side of the coil end of the stator; and a terminal block installed on the outer peripheral side of the bus bar for introducing an electric current from an external power source to the stator, and the insulator has a groove portion in which the bus bar is held, and a terminal block housing portion in which the terminal block is held.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KITTA, Ken NISHIKAWA, Yoshiki KUWAHARA, Fumitaka TOTSUKA, Yutaka IKURA, Koichi OJIMA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 10680481
    Abstract: Insulators are respectively disposed such that longitudinal directions of trunk portions are oriented in a radial direction of teeth, and so as to place bottom surfaces of the trunk portions alongside two axial end surfaces of the teeth, concentrated winding coils are configured by winding conductor wires so as to be wound in multiple layers around the teeth so as to pass through a concave space that is formed by the trunk portions and first and second flange portions at two axial ends of the teeth, the second flange portion is disposed on an end surface of a core back of a stator core, and a temperature detecting element is installed by being inserted into an element insertion aperture that is formed on the second flange portion so as to be able to detect a temperature of a coil end of the concentrated winding coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Tomohiro Bessho, Kazuyuki Iwamoto, Hironori Tsuiki, Shogo Okamoto, Ken Nishikawa, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10656636
    Abstract: An evaluation system includes an acquisition module that acquires a safety program, an instruction extraction module that extracts an instruction directed to processing for causing a target device to operate with safety maintained, a signal extraction module that extracts an input signal and an output signal related to the instruction, a setting module that displays the extracted input signal and the extracted output signal in association with each other, and receives a setting of an expected output value for the displayed output signal, the expected output value being a value for causing the target device to operate with safety maintained, and an evaluation module that changes a value of the extracted input signal and determines whether a value of the output signal calculated by an operation in accordance with the safety program, in response to change of the value of the input signal, is identical to the expected output value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujimura, Nobuyuki Takuma, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10574111
    Abstract: A stator coil has a first layer wound around a tooth portion of a stator core-sequentially from the radially outer side to the radially inner side of a stator, and is wound while a winding direction is reversed for each layer. If the outermost layer is denoted by n (n is an odd number equal to or greater than 3) and the final turn in each layer is denoted by m (m is equal to or greater than 2), the m-th turn in the n-th layer is wound on the radially outer side of the stator, the stator coil on the radially inner side is lane-changed on a shorter-side tooth portion, and a part of the stator coil on the radially outer side in the outermost layer is lane-changed on a longer-side tooth portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Kitamura, Shogo Okamoto, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10545471
    Abstract: An evaluation system includes: processing execution means for executing computation in accordance with a safety program; setting means for receiving an input signal of an evaluation target and an expected output value; first determination means for determining whether or not a first output value of an output signal decided by the processing execution means coincides with the expected output value based on reception of a change in the value of the input signal from a first input value to a second input value from an input device; second determination means for determining whether or not a second output value of an output signal decided by the processing execution means coincides with the first output value based on reception of returning of the value of the input signal from the second input value to the first input value from the input device; and output means for outputting determination results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujimura, Nobuyuki Takuma, Hiromu Suganuma, Asahi Matsui, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10491059
    Abstract: While lamination of steel sheets to be included in a stator core having a plurality of tooth portions is performed through swaging at yoke portions and through swaging at tooth portions, the stator core is formed in such a way as to include the tooth portion having a portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging and the tooth portion having no portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Murakami, Naomi Kikuchi, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino, Akihiro Yamamura, Shogo Okamoto, Shinji Nishimura, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190356189
    Abstract: A plurality of bus rings, which are arranged at bus ring maintaining portions, include coil connecting portions, which are protruded in an outer direction in a shaft direction of a stator core with respect to the bus ring maintaining portions, and terminals of coils of a stator are bent in an outer direction in a diameter direction of the stator core in a state where end surfaces of wall portions of bobbins are used as base points, and are connected to the coil connecting portions of the bus rings, and the end surfaces of the wall portions are protruded in an outer direction in a shaft direction of the stator core with respect to end surfaces of the bus rings, and are positioned in an inner direction in a shaft direction of the stator core with respect to end surfaces of the coil connecting portions of the bus rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fumitaka TOTSUKA, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Masaya INOUE, Yoshiki KUWAHARA, Kota KATSURAGI, Ryuji KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 10483821
    Abstract: Provided is a stator for rotating electric machine that enables reduction in imbalance of compression stress on a stator core between a thin portion due to formation of a cooling passage of a frame and a thick portion where there is no cooling passage. This stator for rotating electric machine includes: a stator core 2 formed in a cylindrical shape; and a frame 4 having an inner circumferential side to which the stator core 2 is fitted and fixed with a predetermined interference, and an outer circumferential side on which a passage 6 for cooling fluid for cooling the stator core 2 is formed, wherein the interference at a thin portion A due to formation of the cooling passage 6, of the frame 4 is greater than the interference at a thick portion B where there is no cooling passage 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Ohashi, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10461591
    Abstract: A stator winding is formed by mounting winding bodies individually into pairs of slots of a stator core separated by a predetermined number of slots, the winding bodies each being formed by winding a jointless, continuous conductor wire coated with insulation for m turns into a helical shape such that end portions of rectilinear portions are linked by coil ends, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, and the coil ends include a top portion that displaces by a predetermined amount in a radial direction at an approximately central portion between the linked rectilinear portions, the radial displacement at the top portions is approximately a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (m?1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10441143
    Abstract: Operability in inserting an insertion part of an endoscope into a body cavity using an insertion assisting tool is improved. In an insertion assisting tool 60, a sidewall portion of a tube main body 64 through which an insertion part 12 of an endoscope 10 is passed is provided with a sidewall opening part 68 having a size in which the insertion part 12 can pass through. A distal end side of the sidewall opening part 68 is provided with a guiding valve 82, and the insertion part 12 is guided by the guiding valve 82 to be easily fed from the sidewall opening part 68. The guiding valve 82 is swingably supported, and when the insertion part 12 is fed from a distal end opening part 67 of the tube main body 64, allowing the parallel state of being substantially parallel to an axial direction of the insertion part 12 and passing the insertion part 12 to a distal end opening part 67 side are enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Inoue, Masayuki Iwasaka
  • Patent number: 10411542
    Abstract: Provided is a fixing structure for fixing a wire connection plate including a busbar (9) having an annular shape, and a wire connection plate holder (10) for holding the busbar (9). The fixing structure includes a frame (5) having a cylindrical shape, for accommodating the wire connection plate therein, and a sheet metal member (12) for fixing the wire connection plate. One end of the sheet metal member (12) is fixed on a flange (4) of the frame (5), and another end of the sheet metal member (12) presses an end surface of the wire connection plate in an axial direction of the frame (5), to thereby fix the wire connection plate. The wire connection plate is fixed by elasticity of the sheet metal member (12), and hence the wire connection plate can be held even under application of impact load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Murakami, Kouichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 10404115
    Abstract: A contour line on the outer circumferential side of each magnet hole in the first layer is formed to be an arc passing through a total of three intersections, i.e., an intersection of a d axis and a reference magnetic flux line which is a magnetic flux line as a reference positioned inward by a predetermined number of magnetic flux lines from the outer circumferential edge of a rotor core, and intersections of: the reference magnetic flux line; and sides at the circumferential ends of the magnet hole which are positioned inward by a bridge dimension from the outer circumferential edge of the rotor core. Thus, a rotary electric machine that enables maximum utilization of reluctance torque and magnet torque and suppression of torque ripple can be obtained with simple processing and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Kimiyasu Furusawa, Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10396614
    Abstract: A stator of a rotating electrical machine includes: a plurality of annularly arranged stator cores; a stator winding attached to slots of the stator cores; and a shell (22) that retains the stator cores. In the stator of the rotating electrical machine, the ends of coil terminal wires (19), (20) on the innermost circumferential side and the outermost circumferential side of each slot are oriented in the axial direction of the stator; and side surfaces of the ends of the terminal wires (19), (20) are brought into contact with each other and are welded above the coil end (21) of the stator winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kitora, Masashi Nakamura, Masaya Inoue, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino
  • Publication number: 20190260255
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a case, wherein each of the sub stator cores has a first insulated bobbin, a stator iron core, a second insulated bobbin, and a coil, and the coil is disposed in teeth parts of the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin, all of which are stacked in layers, and the first insulated bobbin has three ring holding parts which are formed in a core back part and extend to a circumferential direction, and the bus rings are separately inserted into the ring holding parts formed in the first insulated bobbin, and the first insulated bobbin, the stator iron core, and the second insulated bobbin each has a convex part formed at one side face of the core back part and a concave part formed at the other side face of the core back part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiki KUWAHARA, Ryuji KITAMURA, Yoshiaki KITTA, Fumitaka TOTSUKA, Koichi OJIMA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 10333360
    Abstract: An iron core member has: first divided yoke portions; second divided yoke portions alternately arranged with the first divided yoke portions; a first tooth portion extending from one circumferential end of each first divided yoke portion, a second tooth portion extending from the other circumferential end; a third tooth portion extending from one circumferential end of the second divided yoke portion on the second tooth portion side, and a fourth tooth portion extending from the other circumferential end. A tooth end portion of the first tooth portion and a tooth end portion of the adjacent fourth tooth portion are integrally joined at a first tooth end joint portion, and a tooth end portion of the second tooth portion and a tooth end portion of the adjacent third tooth portion are integrally joined at a second tooth end joint portion, thereby providing one continuous sheet of the core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akira Hashimoto, Masaya Inoue, Akihiro Yamamura, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki
  • Patent number: 10298083
    Abstract: A stator includes multiple bus bars formed in an annular shape and laminated in a radial direction and an insulation member covering both radial side surfaces and both axial end faces of each bus bar, and the insulation member contains a sheet-like insulation member covering both radial side surfaces and the axial end face of each bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Okamoto, Masashi Nakamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Yasuhiro Hayasaka, Sho Nakano, Yoshiaki Kitta, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190149022
    Abstract: This method includes: a coil assembly step of combining a plurality of coil units to form a coil basket; a core insertion step of inserting inner cores of in the radial direction to the coil basket; and a fixation member insertion step of inserting a fixation member to the outer circumference of the inner core. In the core insertion step, the radial-direction position of the coil basket is retained at a core insertion time position shifted outward in the radial direction relative to a normal position after armature completion, and the inner cores are inserted in the radial direction to the coil basket. After the core insertion step, the radial-direction positions of the coil basket and the inner cores are moved inward in the radial direction to the normal position after armature completion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuro HINO, Yuichiro IKEUCHI, Kohei EGASHIRA, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 10291104
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine that can raise the utilization efficiency of cooling oil is obtained. In an rotation axle, there are provided an oil flow path having a predetermined length from an end of the rotation axle and a flow path hole that communicates with the oil flow path and has an opening toward the inside of the electric rotating machine; a supporting member includes a cylinder section and a disk section that partitions the cylinder section in the axis direction, and a discharging hole is provided at an end of the cylinder section; between the flow path hole and the discharging hole, there is provided a partition plate that encloses a space formed by the supporting member and the rotation axle and guides cooling oil traveling from the flow path hole to the inside of the electric rotating machine to the discharging hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Murakami, Yukitaka Sakata, Yoshiaki Kitta, Katsunari Takagi, Koichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20190140509
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, each of coils includes coil terminals led out from a coil main body. The coil terminals are connected to bus bars. When a diameter of each of the bus bars is defined as D, a diameter of a cross section of a coil wire is defined as “d”, a Young's modulus of the coil wire is defined as E, a linear expansion coefficient of a material of the bus bars is defined as ?1, a linear expansion coefficient of a material of a stator core is defined as ?2, and an estimated temperature difference between a room temperature and a use environment temperature is defined as ?T, a length L of at least one of the coil terminals from an end on the coil main body side to a connecting portion to the bus bar satisfies the following expression: L?((3?dED(?1??2)?T/10)1/2/10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi KITORA, Masaya INOUE, Ryuji KITAMURA, Kota KATSURAGI
  • Publication number: 20190115800
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes: an oil reception part that has an opening opposed to an injection hole designed to inject ATF into the atmospheric pressure inside a housing; and an oil reservoir that communicates with the oil reception part via a communicating hole provided in a wall part and communicates with a rotor cooling oil channel of a shaft via a cooling oil lead-in hole provided in the wall part. Since ATF having flowed out of the oil reception part flows along an inner face of the wall part of a second housing by gravity and reaches a bearing, one ATF supply route can be used both for cooling a rotor and lubricating a bearing, whereby the ATF supply route can be simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu YOSHINORI, Masaya INOUE, Yoshiaki KITTA