Patents by Inventor Minoru Awazu
Minoru Awazu 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).
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Publication number: 20230103747Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine of an embodiment includes: a dividing core including a yoke portion and a teeth portion protruding in an inner peripheral direction from the yoke portion; bobbins that are made of an insulating material and are arranged on both ends in an axial direction of the dividing core; a coil that is wound around the bobbin; and insulating papers that are arranged along an inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion and a side surface of the teeth portion and insulate the coil and the dividing core from each other between both the bobbins, and each of the bobbins is formed with a groove into which an axial end of the insulating paper is inserted, and the groove is configured such that a width dimension of a part along the inner peripheral surface of the yoke portion is larger than a width dimension of a part along the side surface of the teeth portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Yuki UCHINO, Minoru AWAZU, Takahiro TOI
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Publication number: 20230105198Abstract: According to one embodiment, a stator includes a stator core with slots, and multi-phase segment coils each including coil segments each including a first linear part and a second linear part arranged in different slots and a bridge part, the coil segment formed of a rectangular conductor. An innermost coil segment in the slot is structured with divided segments adhered together. Each divided segment includes a first linear part and a second linear part, and a bridge part, and is formed of a rectangular conductor cross-sectional area of which is smaller than the rectangular conductor of other coil segments. The bridge parts of the divided segments are arranged to cross each other in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Takahiro Toi, Hiroaki Makino, Minoru Awazu, Makoto Matsushita, Kazuya Yasui, Masaru Kano
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Patent number: 10411530Abstract: A rotating electric machine of one embodiment includes a stator provided with a stator core having windings of each pole of each phase lap wound thereto; and a rotor provided rotatably with respect to the stator. The stator core is provided with slots each having two or more parallelly connected windings of equal turns count inserted therein.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Toi, Minoru Awazu, Nobutaka Akiura
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Patent number: 10305339Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator having a stator core, coil groups, and a rotor. The coil groups include a first coil group located at an outer circumference side of the stator core and a second coil group located at an inner circumference side of the stator core. The first and second coil groups are formed into an annular shape by inserting unit coils into stator core slots so that the coils adjacent in a circumferential direction overlap alternately in a radial direction and so that an inside and an outside of the overlap alternate with each other. The first coil group is disposed to surround an outside of the second coil group. The first and second coil groups are disposed in a concentric manner. The unit coils constituting the second coil group have shorter circumferential lengths than the unit coils constituting the first coil group.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Awazu, Kyouichi Okada, Isamu Nitta, Hisaaki Shimozu
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Patent number: 10128712Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted on the stator. The stator includes a plurality of slots into which coils are insertable, a plurality of types of unit coils inserted into the slots at slot pitches differing for every type of unit coil, and a plurality of coil groups formed by arranging the unit coils in a lap winding so that the unit coils are overlapped in a radial direction of the stator. The coil groups have the same arrangement configuration before insertion into the slots and are inserted into the slots so as to be shifted from each other by a predetermined slot pitch.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Minoru Awazu, Isamu Nitta
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Patent number: 9887650Abstract: An inverter device includes a switch circuit configured by series-connecting two N-channel semiconductor switching elements in opposite directions so that the switch circuit makes or breaks electrical connection between a DC power supply and an inverter circuit, and a control circuit carrying out a protecting operation in which when the control circuit outputs a control signal to control switching of the inverter circuit and an operating condition is met, the control circuit stops output of the control signal to turn off all switching elements configuring the inverter circuit and the switch circuit. In the protecting operation, the switch circuit is turned off after output of the control signal has been stopped so that changes in drain-source voltages and drain currents of the N-channel semiconductor switching elements are rendered slower.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, NSK Ltd.Inventors: Sari Maekawa, Shin Kumagai, Shigeru Fukinuki, Minoru Awazu
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Publication number: 20170093238Abstract: A rotating electric machine of one embodiment includes a stator provided with a stator core having windings of each pole of each phase lap wound thereto; and a rotor provided rotatably with respect to the stator. The stator core is provided with slots each having two or more parallelly connected windings of equal turns count inserted therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro TOI, Minoru AWAZU, Nobutaka AKIURA
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Publication number: 20160094101Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor rotatably mounted on the stator. The stator includes a plurality of slots into which coils are insertable, a plurality of types of unit coils inserted into the slots at slot pitches differing for every type of unit coil, and a plurality of coil groups formed by arranging the unit coils in a lap winding so that the unit coils are overlapped in a radial direction of the stator. The coil groups have the same arrangement configuration before insertion into the slots and are inserted into the slots so as to be shifted from each other by a predetermined slot pitch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: March 31, 2016Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Minoru AWAZU, Isamu NITTA
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Publication number: 20150042196Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a stator having a stator core and a plurality of groups of coils formed by inserting a plurality of unit coils into slots of the stator core in a lap winding manner and a rotor rotatably mounted on the stator. The plurality of coil groups includes a first coil group located at an outer circumference side of the stator core and a second coil group located at an inner circumference side of the stator core. The unit coils constituting the second coil group has shorter circumferences than the unit coils constituting the first coil group.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: February 12, 2015Applicants: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corp., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Minoru AWAZU, Kyouichi Okada, Isamu Nitta, Hisaaki Shimozu
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Publication number: 20150035464Abstract: An inverter device includes a switch circuit configured by series-connecting two N-channel semiconductor switching elements in opposite directions so that the switch circuit makes or breaks electrical connection between a DC power supply and an inverter circuit and a control circuit carrying out a protecting operation in which when the control circuit output a control signal to control switching of the inverter circuit and an operating condition is met, the control circuit stops output of the control signal to turn off all switching elements configuring the inverter circuit and the switch circuit. In the protecting operation, the switch circuit is turned off after output of the control signal has been stopped.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: February 5, 2015Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, NSK Ltd.Inventors: Sari Maekawa, Shin Kumagai, Shigeru Fukinuki, Minoru Awazu
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Patent number: 7923878Abstract: An axial gap coreless motor includes a stator including a stator yoke having a surface and being composed of a plurality of laminated layers of silicon steel sheets secured together, a wiring substrate having a surface and being disposed on the stator yoke surface, and a plurality of coreless coils annularly disposed on the wiring substrate surface; and a rotor including a rotor magnet having a plurality of circumferentially arranged magnetic poles, wherein the rotor is rotated relative to the stator such that the rotor magnet axially confronts the coreless coil over an air gap.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Minoru Awazu, Katsuya Seko
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Patent number: 7564951Abstract: A multileaf collimator includes a first leaf block group including plural leaf blocks, a second leaf block group including plural leaf blocks arranged in the same direction as the first leaf block group and disposed opposite the leaf blocks of the first leaf block group, plural magnetic layers located on the respective leaf blocks of the first and second leaf block groups so as to be positioned on faces of the leaf blocks along a moving direction of the leaf blocks, plural magnetic sensors mounted on the respective leaf blocks and varying output signals when the respective leaf blocks are moved in an oncoming direction or a departing direction, and a control device controlling drive mechanisms according to the output signals delivered by the respective magnetic sensors so that spacing between the leaf blocks of the first and second leaf blocks is adjusted into a target configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2008Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
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Patent number: 7548039Abstract: A motor control unit including a rotational position detector detecting a rotational position of a brushless DC motor; a current detector detecting a current of the brushless DC motor; a coordinate transformer executing rotational coordinate transformation of the current by a control phase angle and obtaining a d-axis current and a q-axis current; a current controller generating a command d-axis voltage based on a d-axis current error, and generating a command q-axis voltage based on a q-axis current error; a coordinate transformer generating a three-phase command voltage by the control phase angle; a conductive signal generator; and a position controller that, when executing a positioning operation, maintains the command d-axis current at a constant value and the command q-axis current at zero, and that controls the control phase angle based on a difference between a target stop rotational position and a rotational position detected by the rotational position detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2007Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Shinichi Kominato, Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
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Publication number: 20090080619Abstract: A multileaf collimator includes a first leaf block group including plural leaf blocks, a second leaf block group including plural leaf blocks arranged in the same direction as the first leaf block group and disposed opposite the leaf blocks of the first leaf block group, plural magnetic layers located on the respective leaf blocks of the first and second leaf block groups so as to be positioned on faces of the leaf blocks along a moving direction of the leaf blocks, plural magnetic sensors mounted on the respective leaf blocks and varying output signals when the respective leaf blocks are moved in an oncoming direction or a departing direction, and a control device controlling drive mechanisms according to the output signals delivered by the respective magnetic sensors so that spacing between the leaf blocks of the first and second leaf blocks is adjusted into a target configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
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Publication number: 20080100157Abstract: An axial gap coreless motor includes a stator including a stator yoke having a surface and being composed of a plurality of laminated layers of silicon steel sheets secured together, a wiring substrate having a surface and being disposed on the stator yoke surface, and a plurality of coreless coils annularly disposed on the wiring substrate surface; and a rotor including a rotor magnet having a plurality of circumferentially arranged magnetic poles, wherein the rotor is rotated relative to the stator such that the rotor magnet axially confronts the coreless coil over an air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2007Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Minoru Awazu, Katsuya Seko
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Publication number: 20080042614Abstract: A motor control unit including a rotational position detector detecting a rotational position of a brushless DC motor; a current detector detecting a current of the brushless DC motor; a coordinate transformer executing rotational coordinate transformation of the current by a control phase angle and obtaining a d-axis current and a q-axis current; a current controller generating a command d-axis voltage based on a d-axis current error, and generating a command q-axis voltage based on a q-axis current error; a coordinate transformer generating a three-phase command voltage by the control phase angle; a conductive signal generator; and a position controller that, when executing a positioning operation, maintains the command d-axis current at a constant value and the command q-axis current at zero, and that controls the control phase angle based on a difference between a target stop rotational position and a rotational position detected by the rotational position detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Minoru Awazu, Shinichi Kominato, Yukihisa Hasegawa
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Patent number: 7250703Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a rotor core having magnetic pole faces including first to third faces. The first face is formed on a peripherally central part and has a peripherally uniform width of the gap. Each of the second and third faces is formed on both peripheral ends respectively and has a width of a gap rendered larger as each of the second and third faces comes close to a boundary between magnetic poles. The first face ranges from ±15 degrees to ±35 degrees in electrical angle about a center of the magnetic pole and has such a circular arc shape that the gap width is increased by about 10% relative to a minimum gap width.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: July 31, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Isamu Nitta, Minoru Awazu
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Publication number: 20060119204Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a stator, a rotor including a rotor core made of a magnetic material and incorporated with a number of permanent magnets of a plurality of magnetic poles and a frame made of a magnetic material and having an inner periphery on which the permanent magnets are disposed and a bottom, the rotor being disposed so as to be located radially outside the stator, and a non-magnetic material filling a space between the rotor core and the bottom of the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2005Publication date: June 8, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Minoru Awazu, Isamu Nitta
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Publication number: 20060108887Abstract: A permanent magnet motor includes a stator, and a rotor including a rotor core made by stacking a plurality of steel plates and having a plurality of magnetic insertion holes aligned peripherally and a plurality of permanent magnets of a plurality of magnetic poles serving as field magnets and inserted in the magnetic insertion holes respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2005Publication date: May 25, 2006Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Isamu Nitta, Minoru Awazu