Patents by Inventor Sachiko Kawasaki

Sachiko Kawasaki 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: 11894721
    Abstract: A stator includes four split cores arranged in the circumferential direction. Each split core includes a yoke including a pair of joint parts, and a tooth. The shape of an end of the tooth is asymmetrical. An angle ?1 (degrees) formed by a side surface of the tooth and a side surface of the yoke on the inner side in the radial direction of the stator satisfies 90 degrees<?1<180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Sachiko Kawasaki, Mitsumasa Hamazaki, Takayuki Onihashi, Yutaka Nomiyama
  • Publication number: 20230223881
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a first duty ratio computation unit to compute a first duty ratio to be used for control of a motor body portion on the basis of a target rotational position of a rotor and a rotational position of the rotor; a second duty ratio computation unit to compute a second duty ratio corresponding to an upper limit of the absolute value of the first duty ratio on the basis of a linear function including a variable corresponding to the number of rotations of the rotor; and a control signal output unit to output a control signal corresponding to the first duty ratio when the absolute value of the first duty ratio is smaller than the absolute value of the second duty ratio, and to output a control signal corresponding to the second duty ratio when it is not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo AWAYA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Tomokuni KATO, Taihei KAWASAKA, Naoki IMAMURA, Satoshi KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11316395
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature coil includes steps of arranging a plurality of coil conductors of the armature coil between an end metal die and a back portion metal die on a lower metal die; pressing, with the upper metal die in a pressing direction, the plurality of the coil conductors arranged between the end metal die and the back portion metal die on the lower metal die; and removing coil conductors that become formed in a convex shape and a concave shape from the lower metal die. The upper metal die may be provided with an inclined portion on a lower metal die side of the upper metal die, and the upper metal die may be configured to be pressed such that a space is formed by the dies, the space having a width that gets gradually narrower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Tamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Issei Doi, Hiroyuki Matsuo, Yasukazu Nishimura, Sachiko Kawasaki, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 11095173
    Abstract: A stator core of a rotary electric machine includes: an outer core that is an annular back yoke portion; and an inner core in which a plurality of teeth are radially arranged and inner side end portions of the teeth adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are connected to each other in the circumferential direction by connection portions and which is fitted to an inner side of the outer core, each connection portion has a hole penetrating in an axial direction, each connection portion is split into a plurality of sections by the hole, a width in a radial direction of the one connection portion at a portion of the connection portion that has a smallest width in the radial direction is equal to or greater than ¼ and less than ½ of a sheet thickness of each of sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawamura, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Sachiko Kawasaki, Naohiro Motoishi, Takatoshi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20210050753
    Abstract: A stator includes four split cores arranged in the circumferential direction. Each split core includes a yoke including a pair of joint parts, and a tooth. The shape of an end of the tooth is asymmetrical. An angle ?1 (degrees) formed by a side surface of the tooth and a side surface of the yoke on the inner side in the radial direction of the stator satisfies 90 degrees<?1<180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Mitsumasa HAMAZAKI, Takayuki ONIHASHI, Yutaka NOMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10644556
    Abstract: Provided is in an armature coil formed by arranging a plurality of coil conductors on a lower metal die having a tapered groove that is narrower toward an inner side. The coils are pressed using an upper metal die having an end portion narrower than the width of the groove. The coils are formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Tamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Issei Doi, Hiroyuki Matsuo, Yasukazu Nishimura, Sachiko Kawasaki, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10432070
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes: a stator having an armature core having slots formed between magnetic pole teeth, and a plurality of coils each of which is wound so as to straddle a plurality of the magnetic pole teeth; and a rotor including a plurality of permanent magnets disposed at certain intervals on an outer peripheral surface of the magnetic yoke, and the coils include an armature coil for driving the rotating electric machine and a non-armature coil for magnetizing or demagnetizing the permanent magnets of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Hironori Tsuiki, Akira Hashimoto, Takashi Umeda
  • Patent number: 10418866
    Abstract: A multiple-polyphase AC dynamo-electric machine, wherein each of the plurality of the teeth provides the flange part to the NS magnetic pole part of the rotor side end part, the stator core has a magnetic connection part which connects the flange parts adjoined each other in the NS magnetic pole of each of the plurality of teeth, the connection part is provided corresponding to each of the slot and an inner peripheral side of the corresponding slot, the radial width of the connection part are smaller than both of the circumferential width of the teeth, thereby the radial widths of the connecting sections are smaller than both the circumferential widths of the teeth and the radial widths of the flanges, voltages generated when the magnetic flux generated by current flowing through one group of windings links with the windings in another group are suppressed effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Yuji Takizawa, Sachiko Kawasaki, Masatsugu Nakano, Toyoaki Udo, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20190280543
    Abstract: In an armature coil according to the present invention and, more particularly, in an armature coil including a plurality of coil conductors wound around a plurality of slots which are formed in a stator core and opened on the radially inner side, the circumferential width of the plurality of the coil conductors is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji TAMURA, Shuichi TAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Issei DOI, Hiroyuki MATSUO, Yasukazu NISHIMURA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Akihiko MORI
  • Patent number: 10404115
    Abstract: A contour line on the outer circumferential side of each magnet hole in the first layer is formed to be an arc passing through a total of three intersections, i.e., an intersection of a d axis and a reference magnetic flux line which is a magnetic flux line as a reference positioned inward by a predetermined number of magnetic flux lines from the outer circumferential edge of a rotor core, and intersections of: the reference magnetic flux line; and sides at the circumferential ends of the magnet hole which are positioned inward by a bridge dimension from the outer circumferential edge of the rotor core. Thus, a rotary electric machine that enables maximum utilization of reluctance torque and magnet torque and suppression of torque ripple can be obtained with simple processing and low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Kimiyasu Furusawa, Atsushi Sakaue, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 10199895
    Abstract: To obtain a permanent magnet type motor capable of securing controllability of a motor and utilizing reluctance torque. An armature winding is a plurality of sets of polyphase windings; the plurality of sets of the armature winding is supplied with current from each individual inverter; the rotor core is provided with permanent magnets on a surface portion thereof, the permanent magnets being circumferentially arranged and the adjacent permanent magnets having polarities opposite to each other; a protrusion portion is provided between the adjacent permanent magnets, the protrusion portion being provided in a protruding condition from the rotor core and being made of a magnetic substance; and a non-magnetic gap portion is interposed between the protrusion portion and the permanent magnet in a rotating shaft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Mistubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Minako Iefuji, Yuji Takizawa, Sachiko Kawasaki, Masatsugu Nakano, Toyoaki Udo, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20190036390
    Abstract: A stator core of a rotary electric machine includes: an outer core that is an annular back yoke portion; and an inner core in which a plurality of teeth are radially arranged and inner side end portions of the teeth adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction are connected to each other in the circumferential direction by connection portions and which is fitted to an inner side of the outer core, each connection portion has a hole penetrating in an axial direction, each connection portion is split into a plurality of sections by the hole, a width in a radial direction of the one connection portion at a portion of the connection portion that has a smallest width in the radial direction is equal to or greater than ¼ and less than ½ of a sheet thickness of each of sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Kawamura, Akira Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Akita, Sachiko Kawasaki, Naohiro Motoishi, Takatoshi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10177611
    Abstract: A stator core for a rotating electrical machine includes an annular yoke portion; a tooth group fitted to an inner side of the yoke portion and formed such that both ends in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential side of adjacent teeth are integrally connected with each other by a thin connection portion; and a slot for accommodating a stator winding. The yoke portion has grooves at regular intervals in an inner circumferential surface thereof and extending in an axial direction of the stator, the grooves each having a V shape such that a cross section thereof perpendicular to the axial direction opens toward an inner side of the stator core. Each tooth has, at an outer-circumferential-side end thereof, a fitting portion whose cross section perpendicular to the axial direction is formed in a wedge shape so as to allow the tooth to be fitted along the corresponding groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawasaki, Atsushi Sakaue, Hisashi Namura, Shinichi Ito, Satoru Akutsu, Masatsugu Nakano, Toyoaki Udo
  • Publication number: 20180358858
    Abstract: This armature of a rotary electric machine includes: a back yoke portion formed in an annular shape; a plurality of tooth portions formed at an interval in a circumferential direction of the back yoke portion, the plurality of tooth portions protruding in a radial direction; and a coil disposed in a plurality of slots each formed between the tooth portions that are adjacent to each other, and has an insulating portion disposed so as to surround the coil between each slot and the coil and formed from a sheet member, wherein the insulating portion includes lamination portions) in which edges of the sheet member overlap each other, and joint portions in which the lamination portions protrude in both sides in an axial direction to be joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI
  • Patent number: 10153673
    Abstract: Bridge portions forming coil end portions, at both ends in an axial direction, of a stator of the rotating electrical machine according to the present invention are configured coaxially about an axis of the stator; at least one bridge portion of the bridge portions of each coil at both ends in the axial direction is located outward of an inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a gap is present between an end surface of a stator core in the axial direction and each bridge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Hiroyuki Akita, Akira Hashimoto, Koji Kawamura, Sachiko Kawasaki, Atsushi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20180226846
    Abstract: A stacked iron core for an armature includes: an annular iron core piece having first iron core piece tooth portions, and connecting portions each for connecting circumferential ends of an end portion on an inner circumference side of each of the first iron core piece tooth portions; and an iron core piece stacked between the first iron core piece tooth portions of two of the annular iron core pieces, the iron core piece including: a second iron core piece tooth portion having an identical shape to that of the first iron core piece tooth portion; and flange portions protruding to both sides in a circumferential direction from an inner-circumference-side end of the second iron core piece tooth portion, and the iron core piece is separated from the iron core piece adjacent thereto in the circumferential direction, the connecting portion has a width y that is constant in a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Akira HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9960650
    Abstract: In an armature coil according to the present invention and, more particularly, in an armature coil including a plurality of coil conductors wound around a plurality of slots which are formed in a stator core and opened on the radially inner side, the circumferential width of the plurality of the coil conductors is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Tamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Issei Doi, Hiroyuki Matsuo, Yasukazu Nishimura, Sachiko Kawasaki, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 9923438
    Abstract: A stator core includes an inner ring core composed of a plurality of teeth arranged in the circumferential direction and a connection portion connecting inner circumferential portions of the plurality of teeth; and an outer ring core to be joined to an outer circumferential surface of the inner ring core. Slots of the stator core each have a circumferential direction width (a) on an inner circumference side smaller than a circumferential direction width (b) on an outer circumference side. A stator coil composed of conductive coils including a plurality of slot accommodated portions and a plurality of coil end portions connecting the slot accommodated portions is inserted and placed in the slots from an outer side in the radial direction of the inner ring core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Ito, Sachiko Kawasaki, Yu Hirotani, Masatsugu Nakano, Toyoaki Udo, Hiroyuki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9893571
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet type electric rotating machine, a rotor is arranged in a Halbach array, a main magnet magnetized in the radial direction is formed of a rare-earth magnet and an auxiliary magnet magnetized in the circumferential direction is formed of a ferrite magnet, and a gap is provided between the main magnet and the auxiliary magnet; as a result, the quantity of utilized rare-earth magnets is reduced without the output torque of the electric rotating machine being decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taizo Iwami, Sachiko Kawasaki, Hiroe Fukuzumi, Yoshinori Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20180041080
    Abstract: This rotor includes: a rotor core in which a plurality of insertion holes each penetrating the rotor core in an axial direction are formed with intervals interposed thereamong in a circumferential direction; and magnets respectively provided in the insertion holes, wherein a hole-inside-peripheral-surface of each insertion hole does not contact with a magnet-inside-peripheral-surface of a corresponding one of the magnets, a hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and a magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet contact with each other at two locations of a first location and a second location, an adhesive layer portion is formed between the first location and the second location and between the hole-outside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole and the magnet-outside-peripheral-surface of the magnet, and a first protruding portion which protrudes toward outside in a radial direction and which contacts with the magnet is formed at the hole-inside-peripheral-surface of the insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Aiko NAKANO, Atsushi SAKAUE, Masaya INOUE, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Hironori TSUIKI, Sachiko KAWASAKI