Patents by Inventor Norifumi Yasuda

Norifumi Yasuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20230009899
    Abstract: A stator, of a rotating electrical machine, includes a core including a plurality of teeth and a slot formed between the teeth, and a plurality of coils inserted into the slot and fixed with varnish, in which the plurality of coils is disposed side by side in a radial direction in the slot, and the varnish is most applied to at least an innermost diameter side coil among the plurality of coils in the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicants: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki NOTO, Hiroshi AOKI, Shunsuke ISOGAI, Keiichiro KASHIWABARA, Norifumi YASUDA, Tsutomu YOSHINARI
  • Publication number: 20220263389
    Abstract: A driving unit includes a rotary electric machine which has a rotation axis extending in a horizontal direction, a rotary electric machine case, and an electric power conversion device. The electric power conversion device is disposed on one side of the rotary electric machine in an orthogonal direction. A first coolant is stored in a rotary electric machine accommodating portion of the rotary electric machine case. The driving unit has a first connecting portion electrically connecting the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device and a second connecting portion electrically connecting a sensor provided to the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are disposed between the rotary electric machine and the electric power conversion device in the orthogonal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicants: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Heisuke KOBAYASHI, Takeshi HOSHINOYA, Keiichiro KASHIWABARA, Norifumi YASUDA, Manabu YAZAKI, Tomoyuki SUZUKI, Akira FUJIWARA, Hideaki NOTO, Shunsuke ISOGAI, Yu ASAKURA
  • Patent number: 11374460
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine, a power transmission device and an accommodation case. The rotating electric machine accommodation portion and the power transmission device accommodation portion are partitioned by a partition wall. The partition wall includes a first rotating electric machine accommodation wall, a second rotating electric machine accommodation wall, and a step wall which extends in the axial direction from the second rotating electric machine accommodation wall to the first rotating electric machine accommodation wall. The step wall is at least partially overlapped with the second rotating electric machine in the axial direction, and a distance between an outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and the step wall is shorter than a distance between the outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and an outermost diameter portion of the first rotating electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11223257
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor shaft having a refrigerant flow path therein, a rotor core, a plurality of magnet pole portions, a first end plate and a second end plate. The stator includes a first coil end located radially outside the first end plate, and a second coil end located radially outside of the second end plate. The first end plate includes a first refrigerant discharge hole, a first groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and communicating with the first refrigerant discharge hole, and a second groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and the core through hole. The second end plate includes a second refrigerant discharge hole communicating with the refrigerant flow path via the core through hole and the second groove portion, without directly communicating with the refrigerant flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki Fujita, Norifumi Yasuda
  • Patent number: 10951093
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft and a stator disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction. In the stator, a coil is wound on a stator core, and a coil end of the coil exposed to an outside from an end portion of the stator core is cooled by a liquid coolant. The rotary electric machine further includes a coil end cover formed of an insulating material and configured to cover at least an outer circumference of an upper region of the coil end. A liquid coolant passage through which a liquid coolant flows toward a coil end is provided in the coil end cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20200287443
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a first rotating electric machine, a second rotating electric machine, a power transmission device and an accommodation case. The rotating electric machine accommodation portion and the power transmission device accommodation portion are partitioned by a partition wall. The partition wall includes a first rotating electric machine accommodation wall, a second rotating electric machine accommodation wall, and a step wall which extends in the axial direction from the second rotating electric machine accommodation wall to the first rotating electric machine accommodation wall. The step wall is at least partially overlapped with the second rotating electric machine in the axial direction, and a distance between an outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and the step wall is shorter than a distance between the outermost diameter portion of the second rotating electric machine and an outermost diameter portion of the first rotating electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20200127534
    Abstract: An electric rotary machine includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a rotor shaft having a refrigerant flow path therein, a rotor core, a plurality of magnet pole portions, a first end plate and a second end plate. The stator includes a first coil end located radially outside the first end plate, and a second coil end located radially outside of the second end plate. The first end plate includes a first refrigerant discharge hole, a first groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and communicating with the first refrigerant discharge hole, and a second groove portion communicating with the refrigerant flow path and the core through hole. The second end plate includes a second refrigerant discharge hole communicating with the refrigerant flow path via the core through hole and the second groove portion, without directly communicating with the refrigerant flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noriaki FUJITA, Norifumi YASUDA
  • Publication number: 20190273420
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor that rotates integrally with a rotary shaft and a stator disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction. In the stator, a coil is wound on a stator core, and a coil end of the coil exposed to an outside from an end portion of the stator core is cooled by a liquid coolant. The rotary electric machine further includes a coil end cover formed of an insulating material and configured to cover at least an outer circumference of an upper region of the coil end. A liquid coolant passage through which a liquid coolant flows toward a coil end is provided in the coil end cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventor: Norifumi Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20190229571
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a cylindrical stator having a stator core on which stator coils are provided, and a rotor that is provided to be freely rotated in a hollow part of the stator and includes a rotor core supported on a rotating shaft and having a plurality of permanent magnets provided therein in a circumferential direction thereof, and a pair of end face plates provided at end parts in an axial direction of the rotor core, respectively. The rotor core has a refrigerant flow passage provided therein, the refrigerant flow passage passing through the rotor core in the axial direction. One end face plate of the pair of end face plates is provided with a refrigerant introducing section configured to introduce a refrigerant supplied via a refrigerant supply pipe into the refrigerant flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Norifumi YASUDA
  • Patent number: 9331551
    Abstract: A case of an electric rotating machine, includes: a cooling passage which is provided inside the case along a circumferential direction of the case and through which a cooling fluid is able to flow; a cooling fluid inlet and a cooling fluid outlet which communicate with the cooling passage; and a rib which is provided inside the cooling passage, connect a wall portion on an inside in a radial direction of the case and a wall portion on an outside in the radial direction of the cooling passage along the circumferential direction, are arranged to be separated from each other in an axial direction of the case, and partition the cooling passage into a plurality of cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chikako Ikeda, Norifumi Yasuda, Manabu Sakurada
  • Patent number: 8789721
    Abstract: A square can capable of securing high sealing performance even if a curvature radius of a seamed portion at a seamed corner portion is reduced, enabling a reduction in a countersink depth, reduced in size, having excellent sealing ability and storage efficiency and a method and an apparatus for double seaming the square can. A second seaming roll (55) is guided by a model cam for second seaming having a model cam surface for second seaming formed in such a shape that it is swelled from a model cam surface for first seaming outwards at a corner seamed portion (5). Accordingly, the seaming shape of the corner seamed portion (5) is formed in such a shape that the seaming width thereof at the center of the corner seamed portion is larger than the seaming width of a linear sealed portion (4) and is swelled outwards to absorb an increase in sheet thickness at the corner seamed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Oohori, Kiyotaka Yoshida, Sunao Morishita, Kanji Kuroda, Norifumi Yasuda, Kazuo Ando, Hisashi Katoh
  • Publication number: 20130328423
    Abstract: A case of an electric rotating machine, includes: a cooling passage which is provided inside the case along a circumferential direction of the case and through which a cooling fluid is able to flow; a cooling fluid inlet and a cooling fluid outlet which communicate with the cooling passage; and a rib which is provided inside the cooling passage, connect a wall portion on an inside in a radial direction of the case and a wall portion on an outside in the radial direction of the cooling passage along the circumferential direction, are arranged to be separated from each other in an axial direction of the case, and partition the cooling passage into a plurality of cooling passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chikako Ikeda, Norifumi Yasuda, Manabu Sakurada
  • Patent number: 7662512
    Abstract: A square-shaped storage battery including a rectangular accumulator element (16), a sealed case (30) that accommodates the accumulator element, and a resin plate (20) which is formed of a hard resin having insulating properties and interposed between the sealed case and the accumulator element for limiting movement of the accumulator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Norifumi Yasuda, Hisashi Katoh, Tatsuya Kouda, Sunao Morishita, Hitoshi Toda, Shinichi Kaneda, Masayuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20090206096
    Abstract: The present invention provides a three-piece rectangular can which can overcome drawbacks (joint defect) of a can body joint portion of a three-piece can, and is of a new type which overcomes shortage of a can body strength which a two-piece can possesses, and exhibits excellent liquid leakage resistance, excellent can body strength and excellent heat radiation property or the like even when the can is used as a casing of a battery or electric equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicants: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Munemitsu Hirotsu, Shinichi Kaneda, Zenrou Shirane, Kei Oohori, Hitoshi Toda, Masayuki Ishii, Norifumi Yasuda, Hisashi Katoh, Manabu Iwaida, Koichi Yamamoto, Shigeaki Mori, Takeshi Yamagami, Shigeki Oyama
  • Publication number: 20090200321
    Abstract: ABSTRACT A square can capable of securing high sealing performance even if a curvature radius of a seamed portion at a seamed corner portion is reduced, enabling a reduction in a countersink depth, reduced in size, having excellent sealing ability and storage efficiency and a method and an apparatus for double seaming the square can. A second seaming roll (55) is guided by a model cam for second seaming having a model cam surface for second seaming formed in such a shape that it is swelled from a model cam surface for first seaming outwards at a corner seamed portion (5). Accordingly, the seaming shape of the corner seamed portion (5) is formed in such a shape that the seaming width thereof at the center of the corner seamed portion is larger than the seaming width of a linear sealed portion (4) and is swelled outwards to absorb an increase in sheet thickness at the corner seamed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Oohori, Kiyotaka Yoshida, Sunao Morishita, Kanji Kuroda, Norifumi Yasuda, Kazuo Ando, Hisashi Katoh
  • Publication number: 20090104521
    Abstract: A storage battery which can further intensify the sealing properties of the electrode rod piercing portion thereof, a technique capable of increasing the area of the sealing surface at the sealed portion of the storage battery, a technique capable of certainly preventing the missing of mounting of a rubber-based sealing material corresponding to O-ring at the sealed portion of the storage battery, and an insulating material having an excellent corrosion resistance to highly corrosive battery content and a battery container including same are provided. An electrode rod 14 is allowed to extend upward through an annular member 15, a pressing member 18 is placed on the annular member 15, and a nut 22 is then threaded on a thread portion 21. This threading job is effected until the pressing member 18 is placed on and stopped by a collar portion 23. At the time when threading ends, a neck portion 25 is somewhat compressed to exhibit sealing properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Norifumi Yasuda, Hisashi Katoh, Shigeki Oyama, Eisuke Komazawa, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Shuji Sasaki, Kenichi Murakami, Masayuki Ishii, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Kanji Kuroda, Yoshiaki Yui, Toshinori Moriga, Munemitsu Hirotsu
  • Patent number: 7381093
    Abstract: An electric connector of the snap-in-fitting system comprises a couple of male and female connector members both made of an electrically-conductive material. The female connector member has a female engaging part or outer ring part for snap-in-fitting and the male connector member has a male engaging part or outer ring part to be fitted in and engaged with the female engaging part by snap-in-fitting. The interaction part in snap-in-fitting of the male engaging part and the female engaging part is an inclined engaging surface and adapted to apply load to the female engaging part so as to always urge the female engaging part outward. Preferably, the inclined engaging surface is a tapered surface convergent toward the male connector member side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignees: YKK Corporation, Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Shimamori, Tomoyuki Okada, Hisashi Katoh, Koichi Yamamoto, Shuji Sasaki, Kenji Hasegawa, Munemasa Oobayashi, Norifumi Yasuda, Makoto Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20080003498
    Abstract: A square-shaped storage battery including a rectangular accumulator element (16), a sealed case (30) that accommodates the accumulator element, and a resin plate (20) which is formed of a hard resin having insulating properties and interposed between the sealed case and the accumulator element for limiting movement of the accumulator element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Norifumi Yasuda, Hisashi Katoh, Tatsuya Kouda, Sunao Morishita, Hitoshi Toda, Shinichi Kaneda, Masayuki Ishii
  • Publication number: 20060264108
    Abstract: An electric connector of the snap-in-fitting system comprises a couple of male and female connector members both made of an electrically-conductive material. The female connector member has a female engaging part or outer ring part for snap-in-fitting and the male connector member has a male engaging part or outer ring part to be fitted in and engaged with the female engaging part by snap-in-fitting. The interaction part in snap-in-fitting of the male engaging part and the female engaging part is an inclined engaging surface and adapted to apply load to the female engaging part so as to always urge the female engaging part outward. Preferably, the inclined engaging surface is a tapered surface convergent toward the male connector member side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Masato Shimamori, Tomoyuki Okada, Hisashi Katoh, Koichi Yamamoto, Shuji Sasaki, Kenji Hasegawa, Munemasa Oobayashi, Norifumi Yasuda, Makoto Kawahara
  • Patent number: D547720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Toyo Seikan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Katoh, Norifumi Yasuda, Koichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Kaneda, Mitsuyoshi Saito