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).

  • Publication number: 20230103747
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Yuki UCHINO, Minoru AWAZU, Takahiro TOI
  • Publication number: 20230105198
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro Toi, Hiroaki Makino, Minoru Awazu, Makoto Matsushita, Kazuya Yasui, Masaru Kano
  • Patent number: 10411530
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Toi, Minoru Awazu, Nobutaka Akiura
  • Patent number: 10305339
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Kyouichi Okada, Isamu Nitta, Hisaaki Shimozu
  • Patent number: 10128712
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Isamu Nitta
  • Patent number: 9887650
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Sari Maekawa, Shin Kumagai, Shigeru Fukinuki, Minoru Awazu
  • Publication number: 20170093238
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, TOSHIBA INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro TOI, Minoru AWAZU, Nobutaka AKIURA
  • Publication number: 20160094101
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Minoru AWAZU, Isamu NITTA
  • Publication number: 20150042196
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicants: Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corp., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru AWAZU, Kyouichi Okada, Isamu Nitta, Hisaaki Shimozu
  • Publication number: 20150035464
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Sari Maekawa, Shin Kumagai, Shigeru Fukinuki, Minoru Awazu
  • Patent number: 7923878
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Katsuya Seko
  • Patent number: 7564951
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
  • Patent number: 7548039
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Shinichi Kominato, Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
  • Publication number: 20090080619
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yukihisa Hasegawa, Minoru Awazu
  • Publication number: 20080100157
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Katsuya Seko
  • Publication number: 20080042614
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Naoki Oomura, Kazunobu Nagai, Minoru Awazu, Shinichi Kominato, Yukihisa Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 7250703
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Isamu Nitta, Minoru Awazu
  • Publication number: 20060119204
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Minoru Awazu, Isamu Nitta
  • Publication number: 20060108887
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Isamu Nitta, Minoru Awazu