Patents by Inventor Satoru Akutsu

Satoru Akutsu 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: 20020011756
    Abstract: In a stator for a starter motor including an approximately cylindrical yoke, poles disposed inside the yoke, and field windings wound around the poles, the yoke is formed of a plurality of cylindrical cores having a different diameter and stacked in a radial direction to reduce the manufacturing cost of the yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2001
    Publication date: January 31, 2002
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Shigeru Shiroyama
  • Publication number: 20020008434
    Abstract: In a stator, which is composed of a stacked core, for a starter motor according to the present invention, the stacked core being arranged such that a plurality of sheet members each having a yoke portion and a pole portion are disposed like a band, adjacent sheet members are stacked and coupled with each other so that the ends of the yoke portions thereof are overlapped, the plurality of sheet members are made to an annular shape by being bent at the coupled portions thereof to cause the pole portions to face the center of the annular shape, and the plurality of sheet members are formed in at least an approximately linear shape when developed, resin winding cores are interposed between the pole potions and wires wound around the pole portions. With this arrangement, there can be obtained a stator for a starter motor the cost of which can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Yuji Nakahara
  • Patent number: 6323571
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low cost, high performance, thin structure rotary motor for driving medium used in magnetic disk drive unit, optical disk drive unit or the like, in order to improve the productivity of terminating processing and the reliability of the coils. Magnetic materials which are divided to a plurality of blocks or divided corresponding to respective magnetic pole teeth are connected by means of thin portions. The respective magnetic pole teeth are wound continuously with wire without cutting the wire at the positions in which the thin portions are connected. When a stator is assembled, a plurality of blocks or magnetic pole teeth are disposed on a substrate by separating or bending the thin portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Nakahara, Ken-ichi Azuma, Masaru Matsumoto, Youichi Fujita, Satoru Akutsu, Akira Hashimoto, Yasunori Takai, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Junji Kawada
  • Patent number: 6167610
    Abstract: Magnetic materials which are divided into a plurality of blocks or divided corresponding to respective magnetic pole teeth are connected by means of thin portions. The respective magnetic pole teeth are wound continuously with wire without cutting the wire at the positions in which the thin portions are connected. When a stator is assembled, a plurality of blocks or magnetic pole teeth are disposed on a substrate by separating or bending the thin portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Nakahara, Ken-ichi Azuma, Masaru Matsumoto, Youichi Fujita, Satoru Akutsu, Akira Hashimoto, Yasunori Takai, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Junji Kawada
  • Patent number: 6169644
    Abstract: There is described a read/write device which enables realization of miniaturization, a reduction in weight, improvement in the accuracy of step feed, and reliability. The read/write device includes heads, a carriage, a stepper motor for moving the carriage stepwise, and a medium drive motor for spinning a recording medium. The stepper motor further includes a rotor, a first stator which is formed from multilayer magnetic material and is fixedly positioned so as to surround the rotor, a second stator formed in substantially the same way as the first stator, and a holder for housing the first and second stators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsushita Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ito, Satoru Akutsu, Yusuke Yamaoka, Nobuaki Miyake, Masakatsu Sato
  • Patent number: 6121711
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low cost, high performance, thin structure rotary motor for driving medium used in magnetic disk drive unit, optical disk drive unit or the like, in order to improve the productivity of terminating processing and the reliability of the coils. Magnetic materials which are divided to a plurality of blocks or divided corresponding to respective magnetic pole teeth are connected by means of thin portions. The respective magnetic pole teeth are wound continuously with wire without cutting the wire at the positions in which the thin portions are connected. When a stator is assembled, a plurality of blocks or magnetic pole teeth are disposed on a substrate by separating or bending the thin portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Nakahara, Ken-ichi Azuma, Masaru Matsumoto, Youichi Fujita, Satoru Akutsu, Akira Hashimoto, Yasunori Takai, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Junji Kawada
  • Patent number: 6078467
    Abstract: A radial gap type medium driving motor for rotating a recording medium has first coil units having first windings of a first number of layers and second coil units having second windings of a second number of layers that is larger than the first number of layers. The first and second coil units are formed by winding wire on tooth-like poles of tooth-like pole blocks of a stator. A frame provided with a bearing portion for rotatably supporting the medium driving motor has a first accommodating portion for accommodating the first coil units and second accommodating portions for accommodating the second coil units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Hitoshi Tamayama, Hirofumi Ouchi, Yuji Nakahara, Nobuaki Miyake
  • Patent number: 5870248
    Abstract: A flexible disk drive unit including a spindle motor for driving to rotate a magnetic disk; magnetic heads opposing the magnetic disk; a carriage attached to a frame and movable in a radius direction of the magnetic disk; wherein the frame and a motor base constitute a common member and the spindle motor is of a sensorless drive system and is directly attached to the frame; and wherein the frame is provided with an attaching hole for erecting a bearing of the spindle motor of the sensorless drive system on the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Kazuya Oda, Katsumi Kurita, Hideto Nishimura, Koichi Okubo, Hiroshi Ito, Yukio Izumi, Hidetada Nagaoka, Keiichi Nishikawa, Atsuo Onoda, Yuji Ohmura
  • Patent number: 5859486
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a low cost, high performance, thin structure rotary motor for driving medium used in magnetic disk drive unit, optical disk drive unit or the like, in order to improve the productivity of terminating processing and the reliability of the coils. Magnetic materials which are divided to a plurality of blocks or divided corresponding to respective magnetic pole teeth are connected by means of thin portions. The respective magnetic pole teeth are wound continuously with wire without cutting the wire at the positions in which the thin portions are connected. When a stator is assembled, a plurality of blocks or magnetic pole teeth are disposed on a substrate by separating or bending the thin portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuji Nakahara, Ken-ichi Azuma, Masaru Matsumoto, Youichi Fujita, Satoru Akutsu, Akira Hashimoto, Yasunori Takai, Tadashi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Miyazaki, Junji Kawada