Patents by Inventor Motonobu Iizuka

Motonobu Iizuka 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: 11598694
    Abstract: The present invention provides an abnormality diagnosis system capable of identifying an abnormality occurrence site in a rotary electric machine by use of output of sensors mounted to a bearing of the rotary electric machine. The abnormality diagnosis system includes: a rotary electric machine that has a main shaft secured to a center of a rotor and supported by a bearing; a vibration sensor that measures a vibration value of the bearing; a speed sensor that measures a rotational speed value of the main shaft; and an abnormality diagnosis apparatus that diagnoses abnormality in the rotary electric machine based on the vibration value and the rotational speed value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Ayukawa, Yasushi Hayasaka, Motonobu Iizuka, Takeki Hara, Masaaki Endo, Atsushi Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20220074814
    Abstract: The present invention provides an abnormality diagnosis system capable of identifying an abnormality occurrence site in a rotary electric machine by use of output of sensors mounted to a bearing of the rotary electric machine. The abnormality diagnosis system includes: a rotary electric machine that has a main shaft secured to a center of a rotor and supported by a bearing; a vibration sensor that measures a vibration value of the bearing; a speed sensor that measures a rotational speed value of the main shaft; and an abnormality diagnosis apparatus that diagnoses abnormality in the rotary electric machine based on the vibration value and the rotational speed value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shuhei AYUKAWA, Yasushi HAYASAKA, Motonobu IIZUKA, Takeki HARA, Masaaki ENDO, Atsushi FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10658898
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a neutral ring includes connecting a cut-off neutral ring to an arc-shaped connection element. The method also includes filling an insulator between the cut-off neutral ring and a connection element. The neutral ring shunts the rotor coil in three phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 10243430
    Abstract: The invention provides a rotating electrical machine system in which an air volume of a refrigerant is increased near the center of a rotating electrical machine in the axial direction is improved. The rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, in which the stator core, laminated electromagnetic steel sheets formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in the axial direction are divided into a plurality of sets of packet cores, and between one of the packet cores of the plurality of sets and another packet core adjacent to it, there is formed a duct providing a flow channel of the stator, and in a duct situated at the center side from both ends in the axial direction among the duct, there is a portion of two packet cores facing each other across the duct, a diameter direction length of the two packet cores becoming long.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Ryuichiro Iwano, Masanori Sawahata, Kazuo Nishihama, Motonobu Iizuka, Takayuki Koyama, Kenichi Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10199900
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating machine which can maintain good contact state between the brush and the metal rotating body. A rotating machine of the present invention includes a stator including a stator winding, a rotor including a rotor winding and rotatably disposed apart from the stator with a gap, a metal rotating body electrically coupled with the rotor winding, a brush in contact with the metal rotating body, and a pressing mechanism for increasing pressure to press the brush against the metal rotating body when contact failure occurs between the metal rotating body and the brush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Iwata, Hiroaki Kojima, Motonobu Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10177621
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Kunihiro, Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Atsushi Fukunaga, Yasunori Otsuki, Masakatsu Sato, Masanori Matsumoto, Takeshi Nakayama, Masaaki Endo, Yoshihiro Yasui, Yasushi Hayasaka
  • Publication number: 20180301952
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a neutral ring includes connecting a cut-off neutral ring to an arc-shaped connection element. The method also includes filling an insulator between the cut-off neutral ring and a connection element. The neutral ring shunts the rotor coil in three phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Yasushi HAYASAKA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yasunori OTSUKI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Yoshihiro YASUI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Masaaki ENDOU, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Takeshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10097059
    Abstract: A coil support structure including a coil spacer, a yoke spacer, and a support formed between the coil spacer and the yoke spacer. And the support has laterally protruding parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Imura, Takayuki Koyama, Shigeki Nakae, Motonobu Iizuka, Masanori Matsumoto, Hideyuki Ootaka
  • Patent number: 10075112
    Abstract: A field winding type synchronous machine connects to a DC line and includes a rotor; a stator; an exciter that passes a current through a field winding of the rotor; and a rectification circuit that rectifies an output from the exciter and provides the output to the DC line. The synchronous machine includes the field winding being connected in parallel to a first circuit in which a parallel circuit including a rectifier element and a first switchgear is connected in series to a discharge resistor, a second switchgear being connected in series to the DC line that connects the first circuit to the rectification circuit, and a capacitor being provided between the discharge resistor and the input side of an electric power source element for gating the first switchgear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Takayuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 10033237
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a rotor shaft, a coil, a bind, a lead-out wire of which one end is connected to the coil and the other end is connected to a neutral ring. A filling is filled between the coil and the neutral ring. The neutral ring is formed with a plurality of members that are connected with one another to have flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hayasaka, Masanori Matsumoto, Yasunori Otsuki, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Yoshihiro Yasui, Motonobu Iizuka, Masaaki Endou, Atsushi Fukunaga, Takeshi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20170250636
    Abstract: A field winding type synchronous machine connects to a DC line and includes a rotor; a stator; an exciter that passes a current through a field winding of the rotor; and a rectification circuit that rectifies an output from the exciter and provides the output to the DC line. The synchronous machine includes the field winding being connected in parallel to a first circuit in which a parallel circuit including a rectifier element and a first switchgear is connected in series to a discharge resistor, a second switchgear being connected in series to the DC line that connects the first circuit to the rectification circuit, and a capacitor being provided between the discharge resistor and the input side of an electric power source element for gating the first switchgear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Takayuki KOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170187264
    Abstract: The invention provides a rotating electrical machine system in which an air volume of a refrigerant is increased near the center of a rotating electrical machine in the axial direction is improved. The rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, in which the stator core, laminated electromagnetic steel sheets formed by laminating a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets in the axial direction are divided into a plurality of sets of packet cores, and between one of the packet cores of the plurality of sets and another packet core adjacent to it, there is formed a duct providing a flow channel of the stator, and in a duct situated at the center side from both ends in the axial direction among the duct, there is a portion of two packet cores facing each other across the duct, a diameter direction length of the two packet cores becoming long.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Daisuke KORI, Ryuichiro IWANO, Masanori SAWAHATA, Kazuo NISHIHAMA, Motonobu IIZUKA, Takayuki KOYAMA, Kenichi SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170163116
    Abstract: A coil support structure including a coil spacer, a yoke spacer, and a support formed between the coil spacer and the yoke spacer. And the support has laterally protruding parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Makoto IMURA, Takayuki KOYAMA, Shigeki NAKAE, Motonobu IIZUKA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Hideyuki OOTAKA
  • Publication number: 20170126098
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating electric machine comprising: a stator; a rotor disposed in such a manner that the outer peripheral surface of the rotor faces the inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a plurality of coil supports that support between poles of a coil forming the rotor, wherein the coil supports are detachably configured with respect to the rotor, at least one of the coil supports is provided with a fin formed of a member different from that of the coil support, and the fin is provided in such a manner that a windway through which a swirl flow occurring with the rotation of the rotor passes is formed between the coil and the fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Youko FURUKAWA, Ryuuichirou IWANO, Daisuke KORI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Takayuki KOYAMA, Kazuhiro OGAWA, Shigeki NAKAE
  • Publication number: 20170117769
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine comprises a field winding provided on a rotor iron core and a neutral ring supported independently of the field winding, wherein: the field winding and the neutral ring are electrically connected to each other through a connecting wire; the neutral ring is disposed spaced with respect to the rotor iron core; and the connecting wire absorbs the stress difference between the field winding and the neutral ring when a centrifugal stress is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Naoki KUNIHIRO, Daisuke KORI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Yasunori OTSUKI, Masakatsu SATO, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Takeshi NAKAYAMA, Masaaki ENDO, Yoshihiro YASUI, Yasushi HAYASAKA
  • Patent number: 9484793
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine system that can be easily maintained and can provide improved power generation efficiency. The electrical rotating machine system includes: a first electrical rotating machine having a first stator that has first stator windings, and a first rotor that has first rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the first stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the first stator and the first rotor itself; a second electrical rotating machine having a second stator that has second stator windings, and a second rotor that has second rotor windings and is disposed on the internal diameter side of the second stator so as to have a gap between the internal diameter side of the second stator and the second rotor itself; and at least one power converter that is electrically connected to the first rotor windings and the second rotor windings, and configured to rotate when the first rotor rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Nobuhiro Kusuno, Tomomichi Ito, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Publication number: 20160118867
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating machine which can maintain good contact state between the brush and the metal rotating body. A rotating machine of the present invention includes a stator including a stator winding, a rotor including a rotor winding and rotatably disposed apart from the stator with a gap, a metal rotating body electrically coupled with the rotor winding, a brush in contact with the metal rotating body, and a pressing mechanism for increasing pressure to press the brush against the metal rotating body when contact failure occurs between the metal rotating body and the brush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Takeshi IWATA, Hiroaki KOJIMA, Motonobu IIZUKA
  • Patent number: 9276506
    Abstract: A field winding type synchronous motor comprises a stator, a rotor with field windings, a brushless exciter, and a rectification circuit rectifying an output of the brushless exciter. A first circuit in parallel with the field windings includes a discharge resistor and a first switching device with a backward diode. The discharge resistor and the first switching device are connected in series. A second switching device is provided in one of the DC lines connecting the first circuit and the rectification circuit. The first switching device is controlled by a potential obtained by resistor dividing of an induced voltage in the field windings and a connection from the potential via a diode to anode adjacent to the rectification circuit on the one of the DC lines with the second switching device thereon. The second switching device is closed in a synchronous speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kori, Motonobu Iizuka, Takayuki Koyama
  • Publication number: 20160043603
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor core, a rotor shaft, a coil, a bind, a lead-out wire of which one end is connected to the coil and the other end is connected to a neutral ring. A filling is filled between the coil and the neutral ring. The neutral ring is formed with a plurality of members that are connected with one another to have flexibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi HAYASAKA, Masanori MATSUMOTO, Yasunori OTSUKI, Tetsuo FUJIGAKI, Yoshihiro YASUI, Motonobu IIZUKA, Masaaki ENDOU, Atsushi FUKUNAGA, Takeshi NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9225213
    Abstract: An electrical rotating machine includes: a rotating shaft; a rotor, equipped with permanent magnets, and formed to rotate with the rotating shaft, a stator disposed in opposition on an outside-diametral side and via a clearance with respect to the rotor; and anti-demagnetization conductors extending in the axial direction of the shaft, the conductors each being disposed inside the rotor, wherein: the anti-demagnetization conductors are provided in pairs of two for each of magnetic poles of the rotor; the two anti-demagnetization conductors forming a pair are electrically interconnected; and, inside the rotor, the two paired anti-demagnetization conductors are disposed at different-polarity sides of two corresponding permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor, the different-polarity sides each being more adjacent to the circumferential direction of the rotor than to an end portion of one of the two corresponding permanent magnets existing close to each other in one magnetic pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Kimura, Akiyoshi Komura, Daisuke Kori, Tetsuo Fujigaki, Motonobu Iizuka