Patents by Inventor Norihisa Handa

Norihisa Handa 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: 10673306
    Abstract: A rotary machine capable of carrying out efficient cooling without increasing costs or deteriorating performance is provided. A motor 1 serving as the rotary machine has a rotor 20 configured to be rotatable around a rotary shaft 10, a stator 30 having a stator core 31 arranged around the rotor 20 and a coil 32 attached to the stator core 31 so that a coil end part 32a protrudes from each end of the stator core 31, mold members 33a and 33b formed at both ends of the stator core 31, to cover base parts of the coil end parts 32a, and partition parts 42b and 43b attached in contact with the mold members 33a and 33b, to separate a space S1 in which the rotor 20 is arranged from a space S2 in which the coil end parts 32a are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Handa, Satoru Ohashi, Masahiro Tanida, Shusaku Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 10451026
    Abstract: This underwater device is twin-motor underwater floating-type power generation device that is provided with: a device main body that is equipped with a pair of pods that have a turbine, and with a connecting beam that connects these pods together in parallel with each other; a sinker; and tether cables that tether the device main body to the seabed via this sinker. The respective turbines of the pods are each provided with variable pitch turbine blades. This device is also provided with a depth meter that detects deviation in posture in the roll direction that is generated in the pair of pods, and a posture controller that controls the pitch of the variable pitch turbine blades of the respective turbines so as to nullify any deviation in posture in the roll direction that has been generated in the pair of pods and has been detected by the depth meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihisa Handa, Shigeki Nagaya, Yoshiyuki Yamane, Akio Ito
  • Patent number: 10367398
    Abstract: A double-stator switched reluctance motor includes an annular rotor, an outer stator disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator disposed inside the rotor. Phases of the salient poles in a rotational direction of the rotor are different from each other in at least one of a set of first stator salient poles and second stator salient poles and a set of first rotor salient poles and second rotor salient poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Narifumi Tojima, Takehiro Jikumaru, Norihisa Handa, Koshi Ishimoto, Gen Kuwata, Satoru Ohashi, Toshiyuki Hirao
  • Patent number: 9816479
    Abstract: A pod of an ocean current power generation device which is serving as an underwater floating-type underwater device is provided with a ballast tank and an air storage tank. When discharging water from the ballast tank, by opening a water discharge valve and driving a water discharge pump, water inside the ballast tank is discharged to the outside through a water conduit. When supplying water, by opening a water supply valve while the water pressure outside the pod is greater than the water pressure inside the ballast tank, water is made to flow from the outside of the pod through an aperture portion, and into the ballast tank via the water conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihisa Handa, Shigeki Nagaya, Yoshiyuki Yamane
  • Patent number: 9692267
    Abstract: A double stator switched reluctance rotating machine includes an annular rotor, an outer stator that is disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator that is disposed inside the rotor; and employs a structure in which the rotor is provided with a bolt fastening hole passing through the rotor in an axial direction and the bolt fastening hole is provided at a position depending on magnetic characteristics of the outer and inner stators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Narifumi Tojima, Takehiro Jikumaru, Norihisa Handa, Koshi Ishimoto, Gen Kuwata, Satoru Ohashi, Toshiyuki Hirao
  • Patent number: 9647520
    Abstract: A double stator switched reluctance rotating machine includes an annular rotor, an outer stator that is disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator that is disposed inside the rotor, and has a structure in which the outer and inner stators are connected to each other in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Narifumi Tojima, Takehiro Jikumaru, Norihisa Handa, Toshiyuki Hirao
  • Publication number: 20170019005
    Abstract: A double-stator switched reluctance motor includes an annular rotor, an outer stator disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator disposed inside the rotor. Phases of the salient poles in a rotational direction of the rotor are different from each other in at least one of a set of first stator salient poles and second stator salient poles and a set of first rotor salient poles and second rotor salient poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Narifumi TOJIMA, Takehiro JIKUMARU, Norihisa HANDA, Koshi ISHIMOTO, Gen KUWATA, Satoru OHASHI, Toshiyuki HIRAO
  • Publication number: 20160201641
    Abstract: This underwater device is twin-motor underwater floating-type power generation device that is provided with: a device main body that is equipped with a pair of pods that have a turbine, and with a connecting beam that connects these pods together in parallel with each other; a sinker; and tether cables that tether the device main body to the seabed via this sinker. The respective turbines of the pods are each provided with variable pitch turbine blades. This device is also provided with a depth meter that detects deviation in posture in the roll direction that is generated in the pair of pods, and a posture controller that controls the pitch of the variable pitch turbine blades of the respective turbines so as to nullify any deviation in posture in the roll direction that has been generated in the pair of pods and has been detected by the depth meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihisa HANDA, Shigeki NAGAYA, Yoshiyuki YAMANE, Akio ITO
  • Publication number: 20160017859
    Abstract: A pod of an ocean current power generation device which is serving as an underwater floating-type underwater device is provided with a ballast tank and an air storage tank. When discharging water from the ballast tank, by opening a water discharge valve and driving a water discharge pump, water inside the ballast tank is discharged to the outside through a water conduit. When supplying water, by opening a water supply valve while the water pressure outside the pod is greater than the water pressure inside the ballast tank, water is made to flow from the outside of the pod through an aperture portion, and into the ballast tank via the water conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihisa HANDA, Shigeki NAGAYA, Yoshiyuki YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20150288235
    Abstract: A double stator switched reluctance rotating machine includes an annular rotor, an outer stator that is disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator that is disposed inside the rotor; and employs a structure in which the rotor is provided with a bolt fastening hole passing through the rotor in an axial direction and the bolt fastening hole is provided at a position depending on magnetic characteristics of the outer and inner stators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Narifumi TOJIMA, Takehiro JIKUMARU, Norihisa HANDA, Koshi ISHIMOTO, Gen KUWATA, Satoru OHASHI, Toshiyuki HIRAO
  • Publication number: 20150288264
    Abstract: A double stator switched reluctance rotating machine includes an annular rotor, an outer stator that is disposed outside the rotor, and an inner stator that is disposed inside the rotor, and has a structure in which the outer and inner stators are connected to each other in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Narifumi TOJIMA, Takehiro JIKUMARU, Norihisa HANDA, Toshiyuki HIRAO
  • Patent number: 8928195
    Abstract: On an inner circumference side of a stator fixed in an inner housing, a rotor is arranged. The rotor rotates through a bearing with respect to a center shaft that is a stationary shaft fixed to outer housings. Oil introduced into a rotor oil inlet path in the center shaft flows through a communication path and a clearance on an outer circumference of the center shaft into an oil path in the rotor. The oil flowing through the oil path cools a permanent magnet, lubricates the bearing, and is discharged from a rotor oil discharge port to the outside of the inner housing. The oil in the clearance is sealed with a thread seal, i.e., an inner thread formed in an inner face of an end ring and is prevented from flowing toward the bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ohashi, Norihisa Handa, Shusaku Yamasaki, Masahiro Tanida, Koushi Ishimoto, Motoaki Shito
  • Publication number: 20130278091
    Abstract: A rotary machine capable of preventing leakage of a coolant and simply and efficiently cooling a rotor is provided. A motor 1 has a rotor 20 made by laminating magnetic steel sheets, a stator 30 arranged around the rotor 20, a rotary shaft 10 passed through a central part of the rotor 20, and an annular sleeve 27 arranged between the rotary shaft 10 and the rotor 20. On an outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft 10, a groove 12 serving as a coolant flow path for guiding a coolant is formed. The groove 12 may be formed only on the outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft 10, or only on an inner circumferential face of the sleeve 27, or on both the outer circumferential face of the rotary shaft 10 and the inner circumferential face of the sleeve 27.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Ohashi, Shusaku Yamasaki, Norihisa Handa, Masahiro Tanida
  • Publication number: 20130270931
    Abstract: A rotary machine capable of carrying out efficient cooling without increasing costs or deteriorating performance is provided. A motor 1 serving as the rotary machine has a rotor 20 configured to be rotatable around a rotary shaft 10, a stator 30 having a stator core 31 arranged around the rotor 20 and a coil 32 attached to the stator core 31 so that a coil end part 32a protrudes from each end of the stator core 31, mold members 33a and 33b formed at both ends of the stator core 31, to cover base parts of the coil end parts 32a, and partition parts 42b and 43b attached in contact with the mold members 33a and 33b, to separate a space S1 in which the rotor 20 is arranged from a space S2 in which the coil end parts 32a are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Norihisa Handa, Satoru Ohashi, Masahiro Tanida, Shusaku Yamasaki
  • Publication number: 20130038151
    Abstract: On an inner circumference side of a stator fixed in an inner housing, a rotor is arranged. The rotor rotates through a bearing with respect to a center shaft that is a stationary shaft fixed to outer housings. Oil introduced into a rotor oil inlet path in the center shaft flows through a communication path and a clearance on an outer circumference of the center shaft into an oil path in the rotor. The oil flowing through the oil path cools a permanent magnet, lubricates the bearing, and is discharged from a rotor oil discharge port to the outside of the inner housing. The oil in the clearance is sealed with a thread seal, i.e., an inner thread formed in an inner face of an end ring and is prevented from flowing toward the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Ohashi, Norihisa Handa, Shusaku Yamasaki, Masahiro Tanida, Koushi Ishimoto, Motoaki Shito