Patents by Inventor Noboru Niguchi
Noboru Niguchi 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).
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Publication number: 20260142511Abstract: A rotor includes: a rotor core rotatably disposed about a rotating shaft and formed of a first magnetic material; a plurality of first salient poles formed of the first magnetic material and formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotor core; a plurality of second salient poles provided radially outside the plurality of first salient poles of the rotor core and formed of a second magnetic material having lower iron loss than the first magnetic material; and a stopper, formed of an insulating material, that is engaged with the first salient poles and the second salient poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2025Publication date: May 21, 2026Inventors: Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Taku HONDA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Yasuhisa KODAMA
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Patent number: 12620846Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine comprises: a stator including: a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth formed circumferentially; stator coils arranged in the respective bottoms of a plurality of stator slots formed between the stator teeth and wound on the stator teeth in a concentrated winding manner; and stator magnets arranged near the respective openings of the plurality of stator slots, a first rotor having a plurality of pole pieces and disposed coaxially with the stator to face the stator magnets; and a second rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and disposed coaxially with the first rotor to face the first rotor, wherein the circumferential width of stator teeth positioned between the adjacent two of the stator magnets is narrower than the circumferential width of the stator slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruyuki Kometani, Ryoji Miyatake, Atsushi Yamamoto, Noboru Niguchi, Katsuhiro Hirata, Hironori Suzuki, Takuya Ito
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Publication number: 20250379535Abstract: A motor drive device includes an inverter part in which a plurality of switch arms are connected in parallel, a diode part that includes a pair of diodes, for each of the switch arms, including a first diode and a second diode, and a switch controller that controls voltage to be applied to gates of the first switch valves and the second switch valves included in the inverter part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2025Publication date: December 11, 2025Inventors: Yusuke TAKAHASHI, Noboru NIGUCHI, Yasuhisa KODAMA
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Patent number: 12451789Abstract: Provided is a magnetic strain wave gear device that makes it possible to achieve both improvement of the efficiency of assembly work and suppression of decrease in energy conversion efficiency. A magnetic strain wave gear device includes: a stator having a stator core, a stator winding, and a stator magnet; a first rotor; and a second rotor. The second rotor includes a second rotor core provided with a plurality of rotor magnet insertion holes and a plurality of rotor magnets inserted into the plurality of respective rotor magnet insertion holes. The first rotor includes a cylindrical first rotor core and a first rotor end plate. The first rotor end plate has a rotor magnet passage hole through which the rotor magnets can be inserted into the rotor insertion holes from outside in a direction of a rotation shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 21, 2025Assignees: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UniversityInventors: Yosuke Uchida, Ryoji Miyatake, Atsushi Yamamoto, Haruyuki Kometani, Noboru Niguchi, Katsuhiro Hirata, Kazuaki Takahara, Hironori Suzuki, Takuya Ito
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Patent number: 12431776Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a plurality of stator teeth, a plurality of stator slots, a plurality of stator magnets, and a stator coil. The first rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to the plurality of stator magnets. The second rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to a plurality of first pole pieces. The second rotor includes a plurality of second pole pieces. A proportion of the number of the plurality of stator slots to the number of poles of the plurality of second pole pieces of the second rotor is greater than 1.25 and less than 1.5, or greater than 1.5 and less than 3.0.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: September 30, 2025Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruyuki Kometani, Ryoji Miyatake, Takuro Yamada, Kenji Tanaka, Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Kazuaki Takahara, Hironori Suzuki, Takuya Ito
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Publication number: 20240421643Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine comprises: a stator including: a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth formed circumferentially; stator coils arranged in the respective bottoms of a plurality of stator slots formed between the stator teeth and wound on the stator teeth in a concentrated winding manner; and stator magnets arranged near the respective openings of the plurality of stator slots, a first rotor having a plurality of pole pieces and disposed coaxially with the stator to face the stator magnets; and a second rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets and disposed coaxially with the first rotor to face the first rotor, wherein the circumferential width of stator teeth positioned between the adjacent two of the stator magnets is narrower than the circumferential width of the stator slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruyuki KOMETANI, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Noboru NIGUCHI, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya ITO
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Patent number: 12119770Abstract: A motor apparatus and a method for driving the motor apparatus capable of reducing the number of switches while individually controlling each phase of a switched reluctance motor having two systems of three-phase windings provided to one rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA A.H.MOTORLABInventors: Noboru Niguchi, Nozomu Takemura
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Publication number: 20240291418Abstract: A motor apparatus and a method for driving the motor apparatus capable of reducing the number of switches while individually controlling each phase of a switched reluctance motor having two systems of three-phase windings provided to one rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: August 29, 2024Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, KABUSHIKI KAISHA A.H.MOTORLABInventors: Noboru Niguchi, Nozomu Takemura
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Patent number: 11979072Abstract: A magnetic geared motor includes a stator including a plurality of teeth that produce a magnetomotive force, a first rotor that rotates by the magnetomotive force of the stator, and a second rotor that, in response to rotation of the first rotor, rotates at a lower speed than the first rotor. The first rotor, the second rotor, and the stator are disposed coaxial to each other, and a plurality of magnets of different polarities are disposed in respective slot openings present between each two adjacent teeth.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Noritaka Aso, Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Kazuaki Takahara, Hironori Suzuki, Tsubasa Kamigaki
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Publication number: 20240120817Abstract: A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a plurality of stator teeth, a plurality of stator slots, a plurality of stator magnets, and a stator coil. The first rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to the plurality of stator magnets. The second rotor is disposed inside the stator core relative to a plurality of first pole pieces. The second rotor includes a plurality of second pole pieces. A proportion of the number of the plurality of stator slots to the number of poles of the plurality of second pole pieces of the second rotor is greater than 1.25 and less than 1.5, or greater than 1.5 and less than 3.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Haruyuki KOMETANI, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Takuro YAMADA, Kenji TANAKA, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Kazuaki TAKAHARA, Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya ITO
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Publication number: 20240097547Abstract: Provided is a magnetic strain wave gear device that makes it possible to achieve both improvement of the efficiency of assembly work and suppression of decrease in energy conversion efficiency. A magnetic strain wave gear device includes: a stator having a stator core, a stator winding, and a stator magnet; a first rotor; and a second rotor. The second rotor includes a second rotor core provided with a plurality of rotor magnet insertion holes and a plurality of rotor magnets inserted into the plurality of respective rotor magnet insertion holes. The first rotor includes a cylindrical first rotor core and a first rotor end plate. The first rotor end plate has a rotor magnet passage hole through which the rotor magnets can be inserted into the rotor insertion holes from outside in a direction of a rotation shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Yosuke UCHIDA, Ryoji MIYATAKE, Atsushi YAMAMOTO, Haruyuki KOMETANI, Noboru NIGUCHI, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Kazuaki TAKAHARA, Hironori SUZUKI, Takuya ITO
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Publication number: 20220052596Abstract: A magnetic geared motor (1) includes a stator (30) including a plurality of teeth (31) that produce a magnetomotive force, a first rotor (10) that rotates by the magnetomotive force of the stator (30), and a second rotor (20) that, in response to rotation of the first rotor (10), rotates at a lower speed than the first rotor (10). The first rotor (10), the second rotor (20), and the stator (30) are disposed coaxial to each other, and a plurality of magnets (34) of different polarities are disposed in respective slot openings (31c) present between each two adjacent teeth (31).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Hajime Ukaji, Noritaka ASO, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Kazuaki TAKAHARA, Hironori SUZUKI, Tsubasa KAMIGAKI
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Publication number: 20220014079Abstract: A magnetic geared motor includes a stator, a first inner rotor that is disposed to an inner side of the stator and rotates by a magnetomotive force of the stator, a first center rotor disposed between the stator and the first inner rotor, a second center rotor disposed to an inner side of the first inner rotor, and a second inner rotor disposed to an inner side of the second center rotor. The stator, the first center rotor, the first inner rotor, the second center rotor, and the second inner rotor are disposed coaxial to each other, and the first inner rotor includes first outer magnetic pole pairs disposed in a circumferential direction and a plurality of first inner magnetic pole pairs disposed in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Hajime UKAJI, Noritaka ASO, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Kazuaki TAKAHARA, Hironori SUZUKI, Tsubasa KAMIGAKI
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Patent number: 10734875Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates around a rotation axis serving as a center and has a plurality of salient poles protruding in directions perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a stator that includes an annular structural body disposed radially outside the rotor and surrounding the rotor, and 6×n windings provided along a circumferential direction of the structural body, a field signal for generating field magnetic flux and a drive signal for driving the rotor as a three-phase rotary electric machine being superimposed on each other to be input to each of the windings. n is a natural number equal to or larger than one.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Yuki Ohno, Akira Kohara, Masayuki Katoh, Hajime Ukaji, Teiichirou Chiba
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Publication number: 20200161948Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes: a first rotor, a stator, and a second rotor that are coaxially disposed in stated order from radially centermost to radially outermost and spaced apart from one another, the stator including a plurality of pole pieces and a plurality of windings in a circumferential direction. The first rotor and the second rotor each include permanent magnets or electromagnets, the plurality of windings generate electromagnetic torque in the first rotor and the second rotor, the electromagnetic torque is magnetically transferred to the second rotor by rotation of the first rotor, or magnetically transferred to the first rotor by rotation of the second rotor, and in one of the first rotor and the second rotor, torque that is magnetically transferred from an other of the first rotor and the second rotor is superimposed on the electromagnetic torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Hajime UKAJI, Yuichi YOSHIKAWA, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10014738Abstract: A magnetic wave gear device (1A, 1B, 1F) includes: a first member (10), a second member (20), and a third member (30) which are rotatable relative to one another around a rotation axis (R). The second member (20) is disposed between the first member (10) and the third member (30), and includes magnetic material pieces (21). The first member (10) includes first permanent magnets (12A, 12B). The third member (30) includes: a plurality of pole teeth (32), a pole tooth (32) being wound with a coil (33); and second permanent magnets (34B), each second permanent magnet (34B) being disposed between pole teeth (32) next to each other, and the magnetic poles of sides of the second permnanent magnets (34B) facing the second member (20) being the same pole.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, OSAKA UNIVERSITYInventors: Narifumi Tojima, Koshi Ishimoto, Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, Ariff Zaini, Tsubasa Oshiumi, Eiki Morimoto
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Publication number: 20170093257Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates around a rotation axis serving as a center and has a plurality of salient poles protruding in directions perpendicular to the rotation axis, and a stator that includes an annular structural body disposed radially outside the rotor and surrounding the rotor, and 6×n windings provided along a circumferential direction of the structural body, a field signal for generating field magnetic flux and a drive signal for driving the rotor as a three-phase rotary electric machine being superimposed on each other to be input to each of the windings. n is a natural number equal to or larger than one.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Yuki OHNO, Akira KOHARA, Masayuki KATOH, Hajime UKAJI, Teiichirou CHIBA
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Publication number: 20160006304Abstract: A magnetic wave gear device (1A, 1B, 1F) includes: a first member (10), a second member (20), and a third member (30) which are rotatable relative to one another around a rotation axis (R). The second member (20) is disposed between the first member (10) and the third member (30), and includes magnetic material pieces (21). The first member (10) includes first permanent magnets (12A, 12B). The third member (30) includes: a plurality of pole teeth (32), a pole tooth (32) being wound with a coil (33); and second permanent magnets (34B), each second permanent magnet (34B) being disposed between pole teeth (32) next to each other, and the magnetic poles of sides of the second permnanent magnets (34B) facing the second member (20) being the same pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicants: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, IHI CORPORATIONInventors: Narifumi TOJIMA, Koshi ISHIMOTO, Katsuhiro HIRATA, Noboru NIGUCHI, Ariff ZAINI, Tsubasa OSHIUMI, Eiki MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 8739919Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Ken Matsubara, Noboru Niguchi, Naotake Kanda, Toshimasa Soku
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Patent number: 8541965Abstract: A command current setting portion has a target value corrector that calculates d-axis and q-axis current command values idc, iqc that are to be supplied to an open-loop controller, based on d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq*. When d-axis and q-axis voltage target value vd*, vq* calculated from the d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq* by the motor circuit equations exceed a voltage limit, this target value corrector 26 corrects the d-axis and q-axis current target values id*, iq* by the field weakening control such that d-axis and q-axis voltages vd, vq and d-axis and q-axis currents id, iq satisfy ?(vd2+vq2)?Vlim and ?(id2+iq2)?Ilim respectively. The d-axis and q-axis current command values idc, iqc are obtained by this correction.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: JTEKT CorporationInventors: Takeshi Ueda, Yuji Kariatsumari, Shigeki Nagase, Noboru Niguchi, Hiroshi Sumasu