Patents by Inventor Motohisa Murata

Motohisa Murata 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: 11232893
    Abstract: In a magnet stack, an eddy current channel is cut off by an insulating layer in an insulating region of facing surface regions of the pair of magnets. Meanwhile, in a conducting region of the facing surface region of the pair of magnets, electrons can move between the pair of magnets via a conductor, and heat can be exchanged between the pair of magnets by the movement of electrons. Therefore, in the magnet stack, by cutting off the eddy current channel in the insulating region of the facing surface region of the pair of magnets, the degradation in magnet performance is suppressed and the cooling efficiency of the magnet is enhanced in the conducting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Takagi, Motohisa Murata
  • Patent number: 11017928
    Abstract: In a magnet, an insulating layer is fixed to an upper surface of the magnet provided with the insulating layer, but is not fixed to a lower surface of the magnet above the insulating layer. Therefore, even when the magnet expands or contracts due to a temperature change, stress is less likely to occur at an interface between the insulating layer provided on the upper surface of the magnet and the magnet above the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Takagi, Motohisa Murata, Koji Mitake
  • Publication number: 20180261367
    Abstract: In a magnet stack, an eddy current channel is cut off by an insulating layer in an insulating region of facing surface regions of the pair of magnets. Meanwhile, in a conducting region of the facing surface region of the pair of magnets, electrons can move between the pair of magnets via a conductor, and heat can be exchanged between the pair of magnets by the movement of electrons. Therefore, in the magnet stack, by cutting off the eddy current channel in the insulating region of the facing surface region of the pair of magnets, the degradation in magnet performance is suppressed and the cooling efficiency of the magnet is enhanced in the conducting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo TAKAGI, Motohisa MURATA
  • Publication number: 20180068772
    Abstract: In a magnet, an insulating layer is fixed to an upper surface of the magnet provided with the insulating layer, but is not fixed to a lower surface of the magnet above the insulating layer. Therefore, even when the magnet expands or contracts due to a temperature change, stress is less likely to occur at an interface between the insulating layer provided on the upper surface of the magnet and the magnet above the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo TAKAGI, Motohisa MURATA, Koji MITAKE
  • Patent number: 9177705
    Abstract: A sintered rare earth magnet rotating machine and method improve temperature properties and strength having an excellent corrosion resistance. The sintered rare earth magnet includes at least a main phase composed of R2T14B (R represents at least one rare earth element of Nd, Pr or both and T represents at least one transition metal element including Fe or Fe and Co) compound and a grain boundary phase containing a higher proportion of R than the main phase, wherein the main phase includes a heavy rare earth element (one of Dy, Tb or both), at least part of main phase grains of the main phase included in the sintered rare earth magnet includes at least the following regions, low, high and intermediate concentration regions. These regions exist in order of low, high, and intermediate concentration regions, from low concentration region towards the grain boundary phase in the main phase grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hidaka, Kazuo Sato, Kazuya Sakamoto, Shinya Fujito, Motoaki Hosako, Motohisa Murata, Koji Mitake
  • Publication number: 20140184370
    Abstract: A sintered rare earth magnet rotating machine and method improve temperature properties and strength having an excellent corrosion resistance. The sintered rare earth magnet includes at least a main phase composed of R2T14B (R represents at least one rare earth element of Nd, Pr or both and T represents at least one transition metal element including Fe or Fe and Co) compound and a grain boundary phase containing a higher proportion of R than the main phase, wherein the main phase includes a heavy rare earth element (one of Dy, Tb or both), at least part of main phase grains of the main phase included in the sintered rare earth magnet includes at least the following regions, low, high and intermediate concentration regions. These regions exist in order of low, high, and intermediate concentration regions, from low concentration region towards the grain boundary phase in the main phase grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hidaka, Kazuo Sato, Kazuya Sakamoto, Shinya Fujito, Motoaki Hosako, Motohisa Murata, Koji Mitake