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: 20180115211
    Abstract: The rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes: a ring-shaped electrically insulating holder in which a plurality of groove portions are formed concentrically; a plurality of strip-shaped electrically conductive members that are formed so as to have strip-shaped bodies that have a rectangular cross section, and that are housed in each of the groove portions; and connecting conductors that each include: a circumferentially extending portion that extends circumferentially at the first axial end of the electrically insulating holder so as to be parallel to the strip-shaped electrically conductive member; and a radially extending portion that extends in a radial direction from an end portion at an opposite end of the circumferentially extending portion from the strip-shaped electrically conductive member by means of a bent portion, the radially extending portion at an opposite end from the bent portion being connected to the coil terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Ryuichi KITORA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Koichi OJIMA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 9954419
    Abstract: A mist is generated by scooping up cooling oil using a lower end portion of a non-load side end plate. Air containing this mist is circulated by a centrifugal fan provided to a load side end plate to form a recirculating air current flowing through first through-holes in a rotor core and through a ventilation passage on the outside of a rotor in opposite directions. According to a cooling mechanism as above, a mist generated in at least one point in the housing can be supplied with the recirculating air current to every point across a whole area within the machine. Hence, both of the rotor and a stator can be cooled efficiently with a small amount of mist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Kitta, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9941760
    Abstract: Conductor terminals of a plurality of conductor wires that constitute a stator winding each extend outward at a first axial end of a stator core, and among the conductor terminals, conductor terminals through which same-phase electric power flows are respectively connected by crossover wires, and circumferential regions that are occupied by the crossover wires are separated from each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20180092515
    Abstract: An endoscope system includes: an endoscope including a side-viewing observation unit that includes a field of view in a lateral direction of an insertion part to be inserted into an object to be observed and a second protruding portion that protrudes from the insertion part and forms a blind spot in the field of view of the side-viewing observation unit; an image acquisition unit that acquires a side-viewing observation image by using the side-viewing observation unit; a monitor that displays the side-viewing observation image; and a display control section that allows at least a part of the blind spot of the side-viewing observation image in which the second protruding portion is shown up not to be displayed, and displays the side-viewing observation image on the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YASHIRO, Masahiro KUBO, Masaya INOUE, Takeichi TATSUTA, Issei SUZUKI, Makoto SUGIZAKI
  • Patent number: 9906088
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention, to provide a rotor-holding structure of a rotating electrical machine for hybrid-vehicle, the structure being capable of ensuring a space is present between a stator and a rotor. A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor, the stator being fixed to a housing, and the rotor being disposed opposite to stator across a predetermined space, wherein the rotor has a rotor boss section, a rotor core, and a permanent magnet. The rotor boss section is rotatably attached to the housing through a bearing. The rotor core and the permanent magnet are attached to the rotor boss section. Multiple through-holes are provided at the respective corresponding locations of the housing and the rotor boss section. A supporting member is passed through each of the through-holes, thereby holding the rotor boss section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Nishikawa, Masaya Inoue, Koichi Ojima
  • Patent number: 9893598
    Abstract: A magnet temperature estimation device includes: a voltage detector (1) for detecting a voltage at a time when a winding is energized; a high-order component detector (2) for detecting a high-order component of the voltage; a reference database (3) for storing in advance, as a table, a correspondence relationship between the high-order component and two or more parameters, which include a magnet temperature and another one or more parameters, as parameters affecting the voltage from which the high-order component is detected; a parameter value detector (4) for detecting a value of the another one or more parameters; and a magnet temperature estimator (5) for estimating a magnet temperature corresponding to the high-order component detected by the high-order component detector based on the another one or more parameters detected by the parameter value detector and the table stored in the reference database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9893594
    Abstract: Provided is an armature for a rotating electrical machine, which is capable of improving heat dissipation performance of an edgewise coil to enhance efficiency of the rotating electrical machine. The armature for a rotating electrical machine includes: a core including a yoke section and a tooth section that protrudes from the yoke section; an edgewise coil to be inserted onto the tooth section through intermediation of an insulating member, the edgewise coil being formed by winding a rectangular wire having a rectangular conductor cross-section through edgewise bending; and a heat transfer member filled into a gap between the tooth section and the edgewise coil. The armature has different gaps formed at two regions between the tooth section and a long side of the edgewise coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yoshida, Shuichi Tamura, Masaya Inoue, Akihiro Yamamura, Koichi Ojima, Shogo Okamoto, Yutaro Shirai
  • Publication number: 20180041080
    Abstract: This rotor includes: a rotor core in which a plurality of insertion holes each penetrating the rotor core in an axial direction are formed with intervals interposed thereamong in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes, wherein a hole-inside-peripheral-surface of each insertion hole does not contact with a magnet-inside-peripheral-surface of a corresponding one of the magnets, a hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and a magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet contact with each other at two locations of a first location and a second location, an adhesive layer portion is formed between the first location and the second location and between the hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and the magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet, and a first protruding portion which protrudes toward outside in a radial direction and which contacts with the magnet is formed at the hole-inside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Masaya INOUE, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 9887599
    Abstract: A stator winding includes forty-eight winding bodies 22 that are each produced by winding a jointless continuous conductor wire that is coated with insulation, and that are arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction so as to be mounted into a first slot 131, a second slot 132, and a third slot 133 that are circumferentially consecutive at an angular spacing of six slots. The winding bodies 22 are configured into a ?-shaped coil pattern that is formed by inserting the conductor wire 19 sequentially into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, the third slot 133, and the second slot 132, so as to alternate an axial direction of insertion into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, and the third slot 133.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9882444
    Abstract: A terminal block is fixed to a frame holding a stator and in phase with the stator whereas a part of an outside wire is fixed to a case. Hence, a bus bar extracted from a connection plate is welded to the terminal block hardly under the influence of a tolerance caused by integration of components and a tolerance of assembly. Even when a load applied from the outside gives rise to a phase difference between the case and the frame, a tolerance can be absorbed by the outside wire. Accordingly, a load applied to a weld portion of the terminal block and the bus bar can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi Murakami, Kouichi Ojima, Masaya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9859764
    Abstract: A U-phase coil that constitutes the armature winding includes four (first through fourth) small coil groups U101, U102, U201, and U202 that make approximately one round circumferentially that are formed by connecting in series in order of circumferential arrangement winding bodies that are housed in slot pairs that are separated by 360 electrical degrees. The U-phase coil is configured by consecutively or alternately connecting the four first through fourth small coil groups U101, U102, U201, and U202 in series such that two of the small coil groups that are housed in identical slots are positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Masaya Inoue, Akira Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170358974
    Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine in which attachment of a sensor stator to a case having a cylindrical shape is not required, and a stator is inserted to the case having a cylindrical shape, whereby the sensor stator can be easily arranged at the inside of the case having a cylindrical shape. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a sensor rotor, which are maintained to a rotary shaft and are arranged in a shaft direction of the rotary shaft; a stator which is faced to the rotor and is arranged at the inside of a case having a cylindrical shape; and a sensor stator which is supported to sensor supporting components which are provided at end portions in a shaft direction of the stator, and is faced to the sensor rotor and is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji KITAMURA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 9831734
    Abstract: In the electric machine according to the present invention, conductor wires are housed inside slots so as to be arranged into multiple layers in one column so as to contact each other in a slot depth direction in each column such that a longitudinal direction of a long side of an oblong cross section of a conductor portion faces in the slot depth direction, and a thickness of a portion of an insulating coating that is formed on a surface of the conductor portion that faces in the slot depth direction is thinner than a thickness of a portion of the insulating coating that is formed on a surface of the conductor portion that faces in a direction of slot arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20170288480
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadashi MURAKAMI, Naomi KIKUCHI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinji NISHIMURA, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20170288493
    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: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki OHASHI, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20170271958
    Abstract: In order to efficiently cool a stator and rotor of a rotating electrical machine, cooling oil is supplied by a pump in a pressurized state to a first reservoir portion provided in an upper portion inside a housing, and after the cooling oil is ejected from the first reservoir portion, the cooling oil is guided to a stator coil end cooling structure, and to a rotor bearing and rotor core cooling structure, using the weight of the cooling oil itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki KITTA, Koichi OJIMA, Katsunari TAKAGI, Masaya INOUE, Hiroyuki HIGASHINO
  • Publication number: 20170261970
    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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Nobuyuki TAKUMA, Hiromu SUGANUMA, Asahi MATSUI, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20170262357
    Abstract: An evaluation system includes a process execution module that executes an operation in accordance with a safety program, a setting module that receives an evaluation condition, a first determination module that changes the value of the input signal to be evaluated, from a first input value which is an initial value to a second input value, and determines whether a first output value of the output signal to be evaluated which is determined by the process execution module is identical to the expected output value, a second determination module that restores the value of the input signal to be evaluated, from the second input value to the first input value, and determines whether a second output value of the output signal to be evaluated which is determined by the process execution module is identical to the first output value, and an output module that outputs a determination result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke FUJIMURA, Nobuyuki TAKUMA, Hiromu SUGANUMA, Asahi MATSUI, Masaya INOUE
  • Publication number: 20170237310
    Abstract: A plurality of coil groups are each configured by connecting a tip portion of a first conductor terminal and a tip portion of a second conductor terminal that is subject to connection therewith using a connecting conductor, and the connecting conductors include: a pair of connecting portions that are respectively disposed so as to contact the tip portion of the first conductor terminal and the tip portion of the second conductor terminal that is subject to connection therewith in a circumferential direction of the tip portions so as to be parallel to the tip portions, and that are joined together with the tip portions; and a linking portion that links the pair of connecting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shinkichi SAWA, Masaya INOUE
  • Patent number: 9735641
    Abstract: Four layers of first coil rows formed by arranging first coil ends at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction are arranged in a radial direction to configure a first coil end group, three layers of second coil rows formed by arranging second coil ends at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction are arranged in a radial direction to configure a first coil end group, a cylindrical first insulating paper is housed inside the first coil end rows and inside the second coil end rows, and a cylindrical second insulating paper is housed between the first coil end rows and between the second coil end rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Hiroyuki Akita, Hironori Tsuiki, Masaya Inoue, Shinkichi Sawa, Masashi Nakamura