Patents by Inventor Naotake Kanda

Naotake Kanda 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: 11363716
    Abstract: Provided is a control device and a motor device that can effectively suppress influence of vibration of a specific electronic component. A coil that is the specific electronic component is mounted on a circuit board. A connector portion has a base portion extending in a thickness direction of the circuit board and an extended portion extending from the base portion in a direction in which the circuit board extends. The extended portion of the connector portion has an annular portion, a support portion, and a pedestal portion. The pedestal portion serves as a portion to which the coil is bonded and fixed. With an adhesive applied to the pedestal portion, the pedestal portion bonds and fixes the coil thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Higashide, Takaya Tanikawa, Naotake Kanda
  • Patent number: 10804776
    Abstract: An injection molding device includes: a lower die that supports a rotor core; an intermediate die including a magnetizing mechanism; and an upper die including an injection die having a gate formed therein through which a molten bonded-magnet material supplied from a supply source is injected into a magnet insertion hole in the rotor core. The injection die has a cylindrical protruding portion at an end surface of which the gate is open. In the protruding portion, a magnetic-flux applying member containing ferromagnetic material is embedded with its side surface exposed at an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion. The magnetizing mechanism is formed in an annular shape that can accommodate, inside its inner periphery, the rotor core and a distal end portion of the protruding portion by disposing yokes and permanent magnets alternately in the circumferential direction. Magnetic-path surfaces of the yokes radially face the side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Tachi, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Naotake Kanda, Taiki Takeuchi, Shohei Ogi
  • Publication number: 20200146148
    Abstract: Provided is a control device and a motor device that can effectively suppress influence of vibration of a specific electronic component. A coil that is the specific electronic component is mounted on a circuit board. A connector portion has a base portion extending in a thickness direction of the circuit board and an extended portion extending from the base portion in a direction in which the circuit board extends. The extended portion of the connector portion has an annular portion, a support portion, and a pedestal portion. The pedestal portion serves as a portion to which the coil is bonded and fixed. With an adhesive applied to the pedestal portion, the pedestal portion bonds and fixes the coil thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro HIGASHIDE, Takaya TANIKAWA, Naotake KANDA
  • Patent number: 10199911
    Abstract: An orientation magnetization device includes plural orientation magnetization yokes and plural orientation magnetization magnets, and molds field magnets while a rotor core is disposed in a magnetic circuit that is formed by assembling the orientation magnetization yokes and the orientation magnetization magnets into an annular shape. When the rotor core is disposed in the magnetic circuit, protruding portions are disposed at portions of the respective orientation magnetization yokes facing the rotor core. Auxiliary magnets are disposed in gaps between the respective orientation magnetization magnets and the rotor core, on opposite sides of each protruding portion in a circumferential direction of the orientation magnetization device. Each protruding portion and each auxiliary magnet extend in an axial direction of the orientation magnetization device, and are skewed with respect to the axial direction of the orientation magnetization device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki Takeuchi, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Naotake Kanda, Yoshiyuki Shibata, Koji Tachi
  • Patent number: 10141800
    Abstract: A magnet-embedded rotor includes a cylindrical rotor core that rotates together with a rotating shaft; and permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core. The rotor core includes core members, and each core member includes a tubular portion into which the rotating shaft is inserted and projecting portions formed to project in a radial direction of the tubular portion from an outer periphery of the tubular portion and arranged apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the tubular portion. The rotor core is formed by assembling the core members such that the tubular portions are arranged on one straight line and the projecting portion of the core member and the projecting portion of the other core member are adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is embedded in each projecting portion of each core member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Nimura, Naotake Kanda, Ryosuke Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20180309351
    Abstract: An injection molding device includes: a lower die that supports a rotor core; an intermediate die including a magnetizing mechanism; and an upper die including an injection die having a gate formed therein through which a molten bonded-magnet material supplied from a supply source is injected into a magnet insertion hole in the rotor core. The injection die has a cylindrical protruding portion at an end surface of which the gate is open. In the protruding portion, a magnetic-flux applying member containing ferromagnetic material is embedded with its side surface exposed at an outer peripheral surface of the protruding portion. The magnetizing mechanism is formed in an annular shape that can accommodate, inside its inner periphery, the rotor core and a distal end portion of the protruding portion by disposing yokes and permanent magnets alternately in the circumferential direction. Magnetic-path surfaces of the yokes radially face the side surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji TACHI, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Naotake KANDA, Taiki TAKEUCHI, Shohei OGI
  • Patent number: 9812239
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for a rotor core includes: a magnetization device that magnetizes magnet raw materials before being magnetized disposed in magnet insertion holes of the rotor core to turn the magnet raw materials before being magnetized into permanent magnets; and a detachment device that detaches the rotor core from the magnetization device. The detachment device also functions as a mounting device that mounts a jig around the rotor core when the rotor core is detached from the magnetization device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita Nimura, Naotake Kanda, Ryosuke Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170279340
    Abstract: An orientation magnetization device includes plural orientation magnetization yokes and plural orientation magnetization magnets, and molds field magnets while a rotor core is disposed in a magnetic circuit that is formed by assembling the orientation magnetization yokes and the orientation magnetization magnets into an annular shape. When the rotor core is disposed in the magnetic circuit, protruding portions are disposed at portions of the respective orientation magnetization yokes facing the rotor core. Auxiliary magnets are disposed in gaps between the respective orientation magnetization magnets and the rotor core, on opposite sides of each protruding portion in a circumferential direction of the orientation magnetization device. Each protruding portion and each auxiliary magnet extend in an axial direction of the orientation magnetization device, and are skewed with respect to the axial direction of the orientation magnetization device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taiki TAKEUCHI, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Naotake KANDA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Koji TACHI
  • Publication number: 20170244293
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core and permanent magnets. Each permanent magnet is embedded in the core. Each permanent magnet forming one of the magnetic poles of the rotor includes a first portion and a second portion. The first and second portions and extend inward in a radial direction Dr and also extend away from a stator-facing surface of the rotor 10 in an axial direction Da. Regions of the first and second portions and away from the stator-facing surface are connected to a bottom. An inner peripheral surface of the first portion, an inner peripheral surface of the second portion, and an inner peripheral surface of the bottom form one of the magnetic poles of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotake KANDA, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Taiki TAKEUCHI, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170187255
    Abstract: An object is to provide an interior permanent magnet rotor unit that allows possible demagnetization to be suppressed regardless of a material for a portion of a permanent magnet, which is positioned on an outward side in a radial direction of a core. A core is a laminate of first thin-plate-like members and second thin-plate-like members. The first thin-plate-like members and the second thin-plate-like members have first insertion slots and second insertion slots each of which is filled with a permanent magnet. In the first thin-plate-like members, a separating portion is formed at an end of each of the first insertion slots or the second insertion slots, which end is located on an outward side of the insertion slot in a radial direction, to form a slit in the corresponding permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotake KANDA, Hiroshi YOSHIKAWA, Taiki TAKEUCHI, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170070111
    Abstract: An interior permanent magnet rotor restrains demagnetization of permanent magnets embedded in a core. Each permanent magnet is formed by joining a first portion and a second portion at a connection. The first and second portions extend from the outer side toward the inner side in the radial direction of the core. The outer end faces of the first and second portions in the radial direction of the core extend in an orientation direction as viewed in section perpendicular to the axial direction. The outside diameter of the core gradually increases from the boundaries between a single magnetic pole and magnetic poles adjoining the single magnetic pole toward the middle of the single magnetic pole in the circumferential direction of the core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotake KANDA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA, Yoshihiro OONO
  • Patent number: 9422939
    Abstract: A pump housing, a fixing member and a holding member are assembled in the axis direction of an oil pump to fix a stator and a rotor of a brushless motor. The holding member is made of metal material and has a cylindrical shape that extends from its bottom portion toward one side in the axial direction. The fixing member is a cylindrical metal member. Stepped portions, extending in the circumferential direction, are formed in the outer periphery of the holding member and the inner periphery of the fixing member, and contact each other. The outer periphery of the holding member engages with the inner periphery of the fixing member. The outer periphery of the other end portion of the fixing member is fitted to the inner periphery of a flange portion projecting from the end face of the pump housing, which is adjacent to the brushless motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naotake Kanda, Yoshihiro Oono
  • Publication number: 20160111945
    Abstract: A radial magnetizing part including permanent magnets is disposed so as to face a rotor unit in a radial direction of the rotor unit. Axial magnetizing parts are disposed on both end faces in an axial direction of the rotor unit. The axial magnetizing parts include low magnetic permeability portions and high magnetic permeability portions. The low magnetic permeability portions are disposed so as to face magnet materials. Magnetic flux from the N pole of the permanent magnet of the radial magnetizing part enters a core in the radial direction, crosses the magnet material, and returns to the S pole of the permanent magnet. The magnetic flux from the N pole of the permanent magnet of the radial magnetizing part also enters the core through the high magnetic permeability portions of the axial magnetizing parts, crosses the magnet material, and returns to the S pole of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke YAMAGUCHI, Yoshihiro OONO, Naotake KANDA, Yoshiyuki SHIBATA
  • Patent number: 9175680
    Abstract: A stator is fixedly fastened at its outer periphery by a cylindrical and thin metal collar. One end of the collar is engaged with a pump housing. Multiple metal nuts are embedded in insulators fitted to stator cores through insert molding. The stator of a brushless motor is fixed by screwing bolts passed through the pump housing from a pump plate, to nuts embedded in the insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Miyaki, Katsutoshi Nisizaki, Yoshihiro Oono, Naotake Kanda
  • Patent number: 9108667
    Abstract: A motor vehicle steering system includes a knob for rotationally manipulating a steering member and a knob reaction force actuator for giving a reaction force in response to the rotation of the knob. The knob has a knob center and is supported by the steering member in a manner rotatable about the knob center. Holding the knob and manipulating the steering member causes the knob to rotate (spin) about the knob center as the steering member rotates. The knob reaction force actuator then gives an appropriate reaction force in response to the rotation (spinning) of the knob.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryouhei Hayama, Naotake Kanda
  • Publication number: 20150206642
    Abstract: A manufacturing device for a rotor core includes: a magnetization device that magnetizes magnet raw materials before being magnetized disposed in magnet insertion holes of the rotor core to turn the magnet raw materials before being magnetized into permanent magnets; and a detachment device that detaches the rotor core from the magnetization device. The detachment device also functions as a mounting device that mounts a jig around the rotor core when the rotor core is detached from the magnetization device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Keita NIMURA, Naotake KANDA, Ryosuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20140285049
    Abstract: A magnet-embedded rotor includes a cylindrical rotor core that rotates together with a rotating shaft; and permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core. The rotor core includes core members, and each core member includes a tubular portion into which the rotating shaft is inserted and projecting portions formed to project in a radial direction of the tubular portion from an outer periphery of the tubular portion and arranged apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the tubular portion. The rotor core is formed by assembling the core members such that the tubular portions are arranged on one straight line and the projecting portion of the core member and the projecting portion of the other core member are adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is embedded in each projecting portion of each core member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Keita NIMURA, Naotake KANDA, Ryosuke YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 8739919
    Abstract: The invention provides a motor including: a cylindrical motor case having a bottom that supports an outer circumferential surface of a stator core by an inner circumferential surface thereof; and a bracket that supports an output shaft side bearing and closes an opening of the motor case; wherein the stator core is press-fitted into the motor case from the opening such that a part of the stator core is exposed from the motor case, and a part of the stator core that is not press-fitted to the motor case forms a sliding fitting wall capable of providing a sliding fitting connection with the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Matsubara, Noboru Niguchi, Naotake Kanda, Toshimasa Soku
  • Patent number: 8689926
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus (1) comprises a control device (12), which controls driving of an electric motor (18) based on the detection signals from a rotational position-detecting sensor (72; 72A), which detects the rotational position of the rotor (64) of the electric motor (18), and a steering status detecting sensor (11; 11A). The control device (12) is housed in a housing (100) that is partitioned by a first housing (23), which is at least a portion of the motor housing (25) for the electric motor (18), and a second housing (24; 24A; 24B) that touches the first housing (23). At least one of the rotational position-detecting sensor (72; 72A) and steering state detecting sensor (11; 11A) is connected to the control device (12) by means of only a signal wire (81; 134) inside the first housing (23) or the second housing (24; 24A; 24B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Nagase, Shiro Nakano, Ken Matsubara, Motoo Nakai, Kunihiro Oka, Naotake Kanda, Nobuhiro Uchida, Kouya Yoshida, Minoru Sentoku
  • Patent number: 8408353
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle steering apparatus (1; 301) equipped with a control device (12; 322) which controls the actuation of an electric motor (18; 317). First and second housings (23, 24 325, 312), which are in contact with each other, partition off an accommodation chamber (100; 324) which contains the control device (12; 322). The first housing (23; 325) is at least one part of the motor housing (25; 323). The first housing (23; 325) includes a first interior wall surface (101; 401) which partially partitions the accommodation chamber (100; 324). The second housing (24; 312) includes a second interior wall surface (102; 402) which partially partitions the accommodation chamber (100; 324). The first and the second interior wall surfaces (101, 102; 401, 402) are opposite each other with respect to the axial direction (X1) of a rotatable shaft (37; 352) of an electric motor (18; 317).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Nagase, Ken Matsubara, Minoru Sentoku, Kunihiro Oka, Motoo Nakai, Kouya Yoshida, Nobuhiro Uchida, Naotake Kanda