Patents by Inventor Moriyuki Hazeyama

Moriyuki Hazeyama 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: 11967863
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11929649
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Publication number: 20240072594
    Abstract: A synchronous reluctance motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator, and multiple magnetic wedges. The stator radially opposes the rotor with a space therebetween. The stator includes a stator core having multiple slots arranged in the circumferential direction and open toward the rotor, and multiple stator coils disposed in the multiple slots. Multiple magnetic wedges close at least some of the multiple slots with the multiple stator coils disposed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu HAMADA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Hiroshi MITSUDA
  • Patent number: 11894725
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine (100) including a stator (1) and a rotor (2). The rotor (2) includes a plurality of stages of rotor units (201 and 202) stacked in an axial direction. Each of the rotor units (201 and 202) includes a pair of permanent magnets (21) and slits (22a and 22b) arranged in one or more rows. The slits (22a and 22b) has an arc-like shape. Both ends of the arc-like shape are located on an outer periphery side of the rotor (2). When an angle formed between two straight lines that connect positions of both ends of the arc-like shape and a rotation axis center of the rotor (2) is defined as an arc angle, at least one of the arc angle of the slit (22a) and the number of rows of the slits is different between at least two rotor units (201 and 202).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240030853
    Abstract: The drive system includes a motor, a power converter, and a controller. The motor is a reluctance motor that rotates in response to feeding of electric power. The power converter includes multiple switching elements and is connected directly to the motor. The power converter converts electric power fed from a power source into electric power to be fed to the motor and feeds the converted electric power to the motor. The controller controls the switching elements included in the power converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kota TERAMOTO, Kenta KANEKO, Yu HAMADA, Toshiki SUZUKI, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Tetsuya KOJIMA, Hisanori YAMASAKI
  • Patent number: 11881749
    Abstract: The synchronous reluctance motor includes: an annular stator core having slots; and a cylindrical rotor core-having, for each magnetic pole, slits formed by arc-shaped openings which are convex toward a cylinder center and whose apexes are positioned on a q axis. The nth arc that is an inner edge of the opening close to the cylinder center has an arc center point on the q axis at a distance D(n) from-the rotor core. Where the radius of the nth arc with respect to the arc center point is denoted by R(n) and a ratio k(n) is defined as D(n)/R(n), the values of the ratios k(1) to k(n) are determined such that 0.20?k(nmax)?0.37 and k(nmax)< . . . <k(n)< . . . <k(1)<1 are satisfied and a slope a is in a range of (?0.92/nmax)?a?(?0.71/nmax).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Shinsuke Kayano
  • Publication number: 20220385124
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MITSUDA, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11469638
    Abstract: Two types of insulating members, i.e., end surface insulators and slot insulators are provided. On tooth portion sides of both side surfaces in the circumferential direction of tooth end surface covering portions of the end surface insulator, first cutouts recessed in the circumferential direction are provided so as to extend in the radial direction. A part axially upward of the first cutouts protrudes in the circumferential direction to form a first overhang portion, and the slot insulator is accommodated between the first overhang portions of two end surface insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuichi Kitano, Masahiro Nigo, Kazuya Kumagai, Ryo Ishida, Hironori Tsuiki, Moriyuki Hazeyama
  • Publication number: 20220216776
    Abstract: The synchronous reluctance motor includes: an annular stator core having slots; and a cylindrical rotor core-having, for each magnetic pole, slits formed by arc-shaped openings which are convex toward a cylinder center and whose apexes are positioned on a q axis. The nth arc that is an inner edge of the opening close to the cylinder center has an arc center point on the q axis at a distance D(n) from-the rotor core. Where the radius of the nth arc with respect to the arc center point is denoted by R(n) and a ratio k(n) is defined as D(n)/R(n), the values of the ratios k(1) to k(n) are determined such that 0.20?k(nmax)?0.37 and k(nmax)< . . . <k(n)< . . . <k(1)<1 are satisfied and a slope a is in a range of (?0.92/nmax)?a?(?0.71/nmax).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Shinsuke KAYANO
  • Patent number: 11289979
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. Angles formed by tooth center axes of adjacent teeth are defined as tooth pitch angles. Maximum tooth pitch angles are defined as first tooth pitch angles ?1. At least one of tooth pitch angles become smaller as proceeding from the first tooth pitch angles ?1 in a clockwise direction and a counterclockwise direction, respectively, and such tooth pitch angles are defined as second tooth pitch angles ?3. Cross-sectional areas of second coils, which are arranged in slots each formed between adjacent teeth corresponding to the second tooth pitch angles ?3 in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotation axis, is smaller than cross-sectional areas of first coils, which are arranged in slots each formed between adjacent teeth corresponding to the first tooth pitch angles ?1 in the cross-section perpendicular to the rotation axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaru Shinozaki
  • Publication number: 20220077733
    Abstract: To provide a rotor for a rotating electric machine, which can improve the efficiency of the rotating electric machine, provided is the rotor for a rotating electric machine, including: a rotor core having a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a plurality of permanent magnets wherein the plurality of permanent magnets are classified into a first permanent magnet having a dimension in a thickness direction which is within a range of a set tolerance and smaller than a set value, and a second permanent magnet having a dimension in the thickness direction which is within the range of the set tolerance and larger than the set value, and wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are classified into a first magnet insertion hole into which the first permanent magnet is inserted, and a second magnet insertion hole, the second permanent magnet being inserted into the second magnet insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Patent number: 11171523
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine, slots are formed between teeth of a stator core. A ratio of a number of poles to a number of slots is 2:3. When an electrical angle of a tooth tip width, which is a width dimension of a tip of each of the teeth in a circumferential direction of the stator, is represented by ?, an electrical angle of a pole arc angle, which is an angle formed by two straight lines that connect a rotation center of a rotor to corners on a rotor surface side of one permanent magnet, is represented by ?, and a number of pole pairs is represented by P, the tooth tip width is within a range of (electrical angle)±0.2°×P for a value that satisfies the following expression: ?=?2.5?+319.7 (0<??180) [deg].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Moriyuki Hazeyama, Junji Kitao, Yoshihiro Miyama, Shogo Okamoto, Shinji Nishimura, Ryuichi Kitora, Ryuji Kitamura, Hitoshi Isoda
  • Publication number: 20210344241
    Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MITSUDA, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Masashi NAKAMURA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Patent number: 11152875
    Abstract: A multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine control device including: a control target calculator to calculate an initial current command value of each phase based on a torque command value; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate a per-group correction coefficient corresponding to each group from a spatial mode M (M is 0 or a positive integer) of an electromagnetic force caused by magnetic flux density variation with respect to a rotational periodicity at the time of rotation of the multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine; and a current command value corrector to calculate a current command value of the each phase, which is corrected based on the initial current command value and the per-group correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Kodai Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11146128
    Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor includes a slot having an outside circumference edge which is near the outer side of the rotor iron core and has a first corner at one end and a second corner at the other end and whose shape expands toward the outer side beyond a first virtual circle that connects the first corner and the second corner and is concentric with the rotor iron core. It also has an inside circumference edge which is near the inner side and has a third corner having a curvature radius smaller than that of the first corner at one end and a fourth corner having a curvature radius smaller than that of the second corner at the other end and whose shape expands toward the outer side beyond a second virtual circle that connects the third corner and the fourth corner and is concentric with the rotor iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Moriya, Shogo Iguchi, Yoshiharu Takashima, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takahiro Mizuta
  • Publication number: 20210305858
    Abstract: A squirrel-cage rotor includes a slot having an outside circumference edge which is near the outer side of the rotor iron core and has a first corner at one end and a second corner at the other end and whose shape expands toward the outer side beyond a first virtual circle that connects the first corner and the second corner and is concentric with the rotor iron core. It also has an inside circumference edge which is near the inner side and has a third corner having a curvature radius smaller than that of the first corner at one end and a fourth corner having a curvature radius smaller than that of the second corner at the other end and whose shape expands toward the outer side beyond a second virtual circle that connects the third corner and the fourth corner and is concentric with the rotor iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki MORIYA, Shogo IGUCHI, Yoshiharu TAKASHIMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Takahiro MIZUTA
  • Publication number: 20210265882
    Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine (100) including a stator (1) and a rotor (2). The rotor (2) includes a plurality of stages of rotor units (201 and 202) stacked in an axial direction. Each of the rotor units (201 and 202) includes a pair of permanent magnets (21) and slits (22a and 22b) arranged in one or more rows. The slits (22a and 22b) has an arc-like shape. Both ends of the arc-like shape are located on an outer periphery side of the rotor (2). When an angle formed between two straight lines that connect positions of both ends of the arc-like shape and a rotation axis center of the rotor (2) is defined as an arc angle, at least one of the arc angle of the slit (22a) and the number of rows of the slits is different between at least two rotor units (201 and 202).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi MITSUDA, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Masashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210218295
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor has n permanent magnets arranged in a circumferential direction. The stator includes m slots and teeth arranged in a circumferential direction and r-phase coils wound around the teeth. The coil has, in each phase, s phase coils connected in series from a first phase coil to an sth phase coil. The ratio of the number of poles n of the permanent magnets to the number of slots m is given as n:m=(3±1):r. The first phase coils of respective phases are connected to an inverter, and the sth phase coils of respective phases are connected to a neutral point. The phase coils are wound around the teeth such that the first phase coils are not adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210050757
    Abstract: Two types of insulating members, i.e., end surface insulators and slot insulators are provided. On tooth portion sides of both side surfaces in the circumferential direction of tooth end surface covering portions of the end surface insulator, first cutouts recessed in the circumferential direction are provided so as to extend in the radial direction. A part axially upward of the first cutouts protrudes in the circumferential direction to form a first overhang portion, and the slot insulator is accommodated between the first overhang portions of two end surface insulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi KITANO, Masahiro NIGO, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Ryo ISHIDA, Hironori TSUIKI, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200395875
    Abstract: A multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine control device including: a control target calculator to calculate an initial current command value of each phase based on a torque command value; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate a per-group correction coefficient corresponding to each group from a spatial mode M (M is 0 or a positive integer) of an electromagnetic force caused by magnetic flux density variation with respect to a rotational periodicity at the time of rotation of the multigroup, multiphase rotary electric machine; and a current command value corrector to calculate a current command value of the each phase, which is corrected based on the initial current command value and the per-group correction coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Kodai OKAZAKI