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).

  • Patent number: 9564779
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet motor that realizes reduction of both cogging torque and torque ripple, and also downsizing and weight reduction together with torque ripple reduction. When two sets of three-phase armature windings are defined such that a first armature winding 30-1 corresponds to U1 phase, V1 phase, and W1 phase and a second armature winding 30-2 corresponds to U2 phase, V2 phase, and W2 phase, U1 phase is provided in both of any adjacent slots of a plurality of slots 27, or at least one of U1 phase and U2 phase is provided in one of any adjacent slots 27, U1 phase, V1 phase, and W1 phase are shifted by an electric angle of 20° to 40° from U2 phase, V2 phase, and W2 phase upon driving, and a slot opening width Ws of a stator iron core 22 is set to satisfy Ws/(2?Rs/Ns)?0.15, where Rs is an inner radius of the stator iron core and Ns is a slot number of the stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao, Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 9531232
    Abstract: There is provided a drive-device-integrated rotating electrical machine, in which a radially protruding portion is provided radially on at least one of a housing and a heat sink which constitute a storing section of the drive device; an opening portion is formed on at least one of the radially protruding portion; a connector section is attachably/detachably attached onto the opening portion; and a connector-connecting portion for electrically connecting the connector section with the drive device is provided in the vicinity of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Isao Sonoda, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20160322873
    Abstract: A rotor core of a rotor includes: a plurality of protrusions formed on at least a step-skew boundary side; and a tubular non-magnetic ring mounted on outer peripheries of a plurality of permanent magnets so as to cover the boundary. The non-magnetic ring includes a plurality of inner diameter bulging portions. Each of the permanent magnets and each of the protrusions are brought into abutment against the corresponding inner diameter bulging portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoaki UDO, Satoru AKUTSU, Shusuke HORI, Takanori ICHIKAWA, Yuji TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160315528
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet motor, projections each include a second projecting portion and a first projecting portion separated away from a side surface of a permanent magnet. When the first projecting portion has a total length L1 in an axial line direction and a height t1, and when the second projecting portion has a total length L2 in the axial line direction and a height t2, (L1×t1)>(L2×t2) is satisfied. As a result, the permanent magnet motor capable of reducing vibration noise of the motor by reducing irregular rotation, reducing decrease in motor torque, and further reducing increase in motor physical size can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji TAKIZAWA, Shusuke HORI, Takanori ICHIKAWA, Toyoaki UDO, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Patent number: 9472988
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a stator having a connection member forming a three phase delta connection by coil windings, including an insulating annular groove portion formed with double annular grooves and a first, a second, and a third annular conductive members, the annular conductive members being attached by insertion into the insulating annular groove portion; the insulating annular groove portion is formed with double grooves of one and the other, and both the grooves are connected via one window portion; the respective annular conductive members are each formed in a circular arc shape and provided with a plurality of arm portions extended outward in the radial direction of the stator, the plurality of arm portions being connected to coil end portions of the coil windings respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Sonoda, Atsushi Sakaue, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20160294235
    Abstract: To obtain a permanent magnet motor capable of reducing a decrease in torque due to demagnetization and increasing torque per unit of magnet weight. When the number of poles of permanent magnets is set to P and the number of slots is set to N, the relationship of P:N=2n:12n is established, where n is an integer equal to or more than 2; an air gap length between the inner circumference of a stator core and the outer circumference of the permanent magnet is less than or equal to 1.0 mm; the permanent magnet does not contain a heavy rare earth element and is embedded in a rotor core except for a curve portion of an outer circumference portion; and a circumferential center thickness of the permanent magnet is 2.4 to 4.2 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji TAKIZAWA, Shusuke HORI, Takanori ICHIKAWA, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Publication number: 20160285331
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a cylindrical holder mounted to an end of a rotation shaft, a sensor magnet mounted to the holder, and a rotation sensor mounted at a position at which the rotation sensor opposes the sensor magnet in a direction of an axis of rotation and detecting a rotating field of the sensor magnet. The end of the rotation shaft has a cylindrical shape with a non-circular cross section formed of at least one plane and a curved surface in an outer peripheral portion. At least one of an inner peripheral portion and an outer peripheral portion of the holder forms a non-circular cross section formed of a plane parallel to the axis of rotation and a curved surface connected to the plane. The plane of the rotation shaft and the plane of the holder are parallel to each other and the curved surface of the rotation shaft and the curved surface of the holder are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori ICHIKAWA, Satoru AKUTSU, Yoshihiko ONISHI, Yuji TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160204666
    Abstract: A rotor (1) for a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core (2) including a first core portion (20) having a plurality of core pieces (5, 6) joined together through caulking portions (2a) and a hollow first lightening portion (20a), and a second core portion (21) having a plurality of core pieces (7, 8) joined together through caulking portions (2a) and a press-fit portion (21b). A radial magnetic path width of a ring-shaped outer circumferential portion formed by laminating the first core portion (20) and the second core portion (21) changes along a circumferential direction of the rotor core (2). Therefore, a weight and an inertia can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya IWATA, Isao SONODA, Satoru AKUTSU, Masatsugu NAKANO
  • Patent number: 9391486
    Abstract: An electric power steering electric motor apparatus includes: an electric motor including: a motor housing; a stator; a rotor; and a power supplying portion that supplies electric power to the stator; and a controlling unit including: a driving circuit that supplies electric power to the electric motor; a connecting portion; a controlling circuit; and a case that covers the driving circuit and the controlling circuit, the electric motor and the controlling unit being mounted coaxially onto a gear housing that reduces rotational speed of the electric motor so as to position the controlling unit on a side near the gear housing, and the connecting portion being connected to the power supplying portion inside the case through an opening portion formed on the case, and being positioned and held by an insulating member so as to be insulated from the case and the motor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Sakaue, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Isao Sonoda, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Publication number: 20160181876
    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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sachiko KAWASAKI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Hisashi NAMURA, Shinichi ITO, Satoru AKUTSU, Masatsugu NAKANO, Tooaki UDO
  • Publication number: 20160172918
    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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yu HIROTANI, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Masatsugu NAKANO, Toyoaki UDO, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Patent number: 9350204
    Abstract: A compact, light permanent magnet motor with low torque pulsations is obtained by reducing a cogging torque resulting from variations at the end of a rotor, such as an error in attachment position and a variation in magnet characteristic of the permanent magnets. A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, a stator core provided with slots in which to store an armature winding wire wound around the teeth, and supplemental grooves provided to the teeth in portions opposing the rotor in an axial direction of the stator core. The supplemental grooves are provided to the stator in a part in the axial direction of the stator core, and that let P be the number of the magnetic poles (the number of poles) and S be the number of the slots (the number of slots), then a relation, 0.75<S/P<1.5, is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu, Yusuke Morita
  • Patent number: 9331623
    Abstract: The present invention provides a brushless motor in which the voltage utilization ratio can be increased and the torque and output of the motor can thereby be increased, and also provides a drive method for a brushless motor. The brushless motor includes an armature constituted by an armature core having armature windings of a plurality of phases, and a field pole constituted by a field pole core having a plurality of permanent magnets. A voltage, in which at least a 5th order harmonic component is superimposed on a 1st order fundamental wave of a voltage under predetermined phase difference condition and amplitude condition in order to increase a 1st order fundamental wave peak of the applied voltage over an applied voltage peak, is applied to the armature windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi, Yuji Takizawa, Tetsuya Kojima, Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20160036281
    Abstract: A permanent magnet motor is provided in which, in flanges each provided in a plurality of teeth, lateral side portions of the flanges oppose to lateral side portions the flanges being provided in adjacent teeth and protruding in a circumferential direction of a stator core; when a height in the lateral side portion of the flanges in a radial direction of the stator core is defined as “h,” and the length of a magnetic air gap is defined as “g,” the relationship “1?h/g?2” is held; and also, when a circumferential distance between opposing faces of the flanges being adjacent to each other is defined as “a,” the relationship “a/g?0.2” is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu NAKANO, Yu HIROTANI, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Satoru AKUTSU, Toyoaki UDO
  • Patent number: 9252638
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine according to the present invention is a rotary electric machine including: a heat sink mounted with a power circuit; a housing for containing incorporated components; and a frame for containing a rotor and a stator core; the heat sink, the housing, and the frame being coaxially and integrally configured. In the rotary electric machine, there are included a lead frame connected to a power circuit, and a connector portion connected to the lead frame and being for connecting to the outside; the heat sink is made of metal; and the housing is made of resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Isao Sonoda, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 9240707
    Abstract: A coil is configured so that: N conductor wires of wave windings each divided at at least two positions in a circumferential direction are provided in one of a plurality of slots; within a unit of the divided wave windings in which conduction is made, the N conductor wires are connected in one of series and parallel to each other at division positions located at substantially the same circumferential position of conductor-wire end portions; division units of the divided wave windings are connected in series to each other, and a total number of series turns of the series-connected division units of the each phase is a predetermined number of series turns, which does not exceed an upper limit value of a terminal voltage of the rotary electric machine; and the series-connected division units of the each phase have the same total number of series turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuichi Takiguchi, Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Satoru Akutsu, Masatsugu Nakano, Tetsuya Iwata
  • Publication number: 20160006324
    Abstract: In a rotary electric machine having an integrated drive control device, a motor housing joined to a mounting housing, which is a cast member, is made of a steel material. Therefore, an outer diameter is reduced and strength for retaining a stator core is satisfactorily ensured even under high-temperature environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Satoru AKUTSU, Isao SONODA, Yoshihito ASAO
  • Publication number: 20150375775
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in that a motor frame (20), a housing (25) and a plate (21) are integrally formed in such a way as to be concentric with an output axle (28) of a motor (11) and in that at least one of the motor frame (20), the housing (25), and the plate (21) is formed of magnesium or magnesium alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kohei USHIO, Yoshihito ASAO, Satoru AKUTSU, Akihiko MORI
  • Publication number: 20150357892
    Abstract: To provide a permanent magnet type motor having reduced torque ripple, in which torque ripples for electric angle sixth order and twelfth order are both reduced with a small skew angle. Driving is performed such that phases of currents flowing in two sets of three-phase armature windings 26-1 and 26-2 are different from each other by 20 degrees to 40 degrees in electric angle. A rotor 11 is composed of m stages of rotor component units arranged in the axial direction. The m stages of rotor component units are skewed to have a stage-skew structure such that a skew angle ? (unit: degree) between the adjacent units satisfies 26/m???43.2/m (m is an integer equal to or greater than 2) in electric angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu NAKANO, Yu HIROTANI, Satoru AKUTSU, Toyoaki UDO, Yuji TAKIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150333600
    Abstract: Provided is an electric drive apparatus in which a detected portion (10) of a rotation angle sensor is disposed at an end of a shaft (7) of a motor, and a sensor portion (300) as a detection portion of the rotation angle sensor is disposed coaxially with the rotating axis of the shaft. In a control unit (200), an inverter circuit portion with a drive element (SW) for driving the motor, and a control substrate (17) which is separate from the sensor portion and controls the output of the inverter circuit portion are disposed. The sensor portion and the control substrate are electrically connected, with the control substrate disposed along a plane perpendicular to the rotating axis of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu NAKANO, Satoru AKUTSU, Isao SONODA, Kohei USHIO, Yoshihito ASAO