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: 20110074400
    Abstract: Provided is a rotation angle detecting device with high detection accuracy, which can be structured with a small number of teeth even if a shaft angle multiplier increases, thus enhancing winding workability and becoming suitable for mass production.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Shinsuke Henmi, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20100288577
    Abstract: A motor for an electric power steering device with an integrated controller (1) includes a motor (2) and a controller (15) which controls driving of the motor (2) and has a metal case, the motor and the controller being formed integrally with each other. The motor (1) is attached to a speed reduction mechanism (23). The motor (2), the controller (15), and the speed reduction mechanism (23) are arranged in this order, in an axial direction, and in substantially coaxial relation with each other. The heat emitted from a driving substrate and the motor can be efficiently transmitted to the speed reduction mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Sonoda, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20100244611
    Abstract: A permanent-magnetic type rotary electric machine includes a stator having teeth that are arranged in the peripheral direction thereof and around which armature windings of plural phases are wound, and a rotor having plural permanent magnets arranged so that the poles of the permanent magnets are alternately different in the peripheral direction thereof, higher harmonic waves being contained in a no-load induced voltage waveform. A (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave and a (6p?1)-th higher harmonic wave (p represents a positive integer) when an electrical angle of 360° is set as a fundamental wave in the no-load induced voltage waveform are made substantially coincident with each other in amplitude and phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Hideya Nishikawa, Yoshihito Asao, Masatsugu Nakano
  • Publication number: 20100244605
    Abstract: A permanent magnet type rotating electric machine includes: a rotor including a rotor core having a polygonal shape and a plurality of permanent magnets; and a stator including a stator core and armature windings, in which, when the number of poles is M, the number of slots is N, M permanent magnets are sequentially numbered from first to M-th in a circumferential direction, and a positional shift amount in the circumferential direction from a corresponding one of equiangularly arranged reference positions, each being at the same radial distance from a center of a rotating shaft, for an i-th (i=1, 2, . . . , M) permanent magnet is hi, M unit vectors in total, each being in an angular direction of 2?N(i?1)/M (rad), are defined, and a sum of M vectors obtained by multiplying the unit vectors respectively by the positional shift amount hi is smaller than a maximum value of an absolute value of the positional shift amount hi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20100244607
    Abstract: In a rotor of a permanent magnet rotary electric machine, a bonding portion between each of segment shaped magnets and an outer circumference face of a rotor core is provided in axial symmetry with respect to the rotor axial center and has a bonding area equal to or larger than a half of a contact area between each of the segment shaped magnets and the outer circumference face of the rotor core; and a biasing force is applied to an outer circumference face of the segment shaped magnets by a ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo FUJIMOTO, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Patent number: 7741747
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine is provided in which neither deterioration nor fluctuation in the cogging torque is caused and that causes neither physical enlargement nor cost increase. The rotor of a rotating electrical machine, provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3 that are fixed on a rotor iron core 2 and arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the rotor iron core 2, is characterized by including a tube-shaped non-magnetic ring 4 mounted on the outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles 3, and characterized in that the non-magnetic ring has a plurality of inner-diameter bulging portions 41 that abut on the corresponding outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Patent number: 7675206
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine which includes: a stator having a stator core fixed inside a bottomed frame and a stator winding wound around the stator core; a bracket fixed to an opening side of the frame; a rotor having a shaft penetrating the bracket and rotatably supported by a bracket side bearing and by a frame side bearing, the rotor being arranged inside the stator core interposing a gap therebetween; a respective phase lead wire electrically connected to the stator winding and led out from the bracket; a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of the rotor; and a sensor signal wire connected to the rotation sensor and led out from the bracket. A front end portion of the respective phase lead wire is introduced to inside the bracket from outside an opening portion provided at the bracket, thereby electrically connecting to the stator winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Kyouhei Yamamoto, Shinsuke Hemmi
  • Publication number: 20100018032
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine is provided in which neither deterioration nor fluctuation in the cogging torque is caused and that causes neither physical enlargement nor cost increase. The rotor of a rotating electrical machine, provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3 that are fixed on a rotor iron core 2 and arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the rotor iron core 2, is characterized by including a tube-shaped non-magnetic ring 4 mounted on the outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles 3, and characterized in that the non-magnetic ring has a plurality of inner-diameter bulging portions 41 that abut on the corresponding outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Akihiro YAMAMURA, Yoshihito ASAO, Satoru AKUTSU, Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20090250287
    Abstract: An electric motor and a control unit are integrally formed and are placed coaxially with a shaft of a gear box for reducing a speed of rotation of the electric motor and also the control unit is placed between the gear box and the electric motor, and a power feeding part of the electric motor is bonded to a bonding part of the control unit inside a housing or a case through an opening part disposed in the housing and/or the case 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA, Yoshihito ASAO, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Publication number: 20090251023
    Abstract: A permanent magnet rotating electric machine includes: a stator including: a stator core having teeth, and an armature winding wound around each of the teeth to configure the multiple phases; and a rotor including a rotor core, and permanent magnets provided in order around the rotor core. The rotor is arranged to be spaced apart from the stator with an air gap therebetween. Each of the permanent magnets has a curved surface opposed to the stator and is configured to satisfy the following relationship: 0.65 ? Rm × h ? ? 1 W ? ( h ? ? 1 + g ) ? 1.37 where Rm denotes a radius of curvature of the curved surface, h1 denotes a thickness of a central portion of the permanent magnet in the peripheral direction, W denotes a width of the permanent magnet in the peripheral direction, and g denotes an air gap length of the air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu NAKANO, Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA, Satoru AKUTSU, Yoshihito ASAO
  • Publication number: 20090251030
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for obtaining a compact and inexpensive motor for controller integrated electric power steering apparatus capable of reducing a component for connection and the number of man-hours of assembly, and an electric power steering apparatus. A driving substrate having a power element is arranged in the side of a speed reduction mechanism of the inside of a case of a controller and a control substrate for controlling driving of the driving substrate is arranged in the side of a motor of the inside of the case and a resolver and a lead frame comprising connection wiring are arranged between a motor shaft direction of the control substrate and the driving substrate and an input-output terminal of the resolver is electrically connected to the control substrate. It is placed substantially coaxially in order of a motor, the controller and a speed reduction mechanism in the motor shaft direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo FUJIMOTO, Yoshihito ASAO, Satoru AKUTSU, Isao SONODA, Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 7579729
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine comprising a stator body (ST in FIG. 1) which includes a winding configured of a plurality of coils (2), and a power supply section (PS) which includes conductive members (4, 5 and 6) for connecting the coils (2) to one another, and a holding member (11) for holding the conductive members (4, 5 and 6), wherein the power supply section (PS) is configured by employing the holding member (11) which is common to different connection structures such as a Y-connection and a delta connection. The rotary electric machine is advantageous in the points of the fabrication and supply of components owing to the common use of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20090195104
    Abstract: To obtain a permanent magnet synchronous motor suitable for an electric power steering system, in which the magnet thickness (magnet used amount) can be reduced while securing demagnetization resistance and torque characteristics. In a permanent magnet synchronous motor including a rotor in which plural permanent magnets are arranged at an outer periphery of a rotor core, which is supported so as to rotate freely, and a stator provided at the outside of the stator and having stator windings 5 and a stator core, when a gap length between the outer periphery of the permanent magnet and an internal periphery of the stator core is “L” [mm] and the thickness of the central portion of the permanent magnet in the motor rotation direction is “t” [mm], the gap length “L” and the thickness “t” is set in a range of L?1 [mm] as well as t/(t+L)?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru AKUTSU, Kazuhisa Takashima, Yoshihito Asao
  • Publication number: 20090145057
    Abstract: A floor support has: a first elastic member that is disposed on a floor slab, and is elastically deformable, and damps vibrations; a supporting member supported on the first elastic member, and extending in a direction opposite the floor slab; a flooring material supported on the supporting member, and disposed with a gap between the flooring material and the floor slab; a second elastic member that is supported by the first elastic member, the supporting member or the flooring material at a supporting surface inclined with respect to a horizontal direction, and is elastically deformable, and damps vibrations; and a mass body supported at the second elastic member, and displaced by elastic deformation of the second elastic member, and damping vibrations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru TSUKADA, Satoru Akutsu, Kenji Inaba
  • Publication number: 20090102304
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotating electrical machine is provided in which neither deterioration nor fluctuation in the cogging torque is caused and that causes neither physical enlargement nor cost increase. The rotor of a rotating electrical machine, provided with a plurality of magnetic poles 3 that are fixed on a rotor iron core 2 and arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction of the rotor iron core 2, is characterized by including a tube-shaped non-magnetic ring 4 mounted on the outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles 3, and characterized in that the non-magnetic ring has a plurality of inner-diameter bulging portions 41 that abut on the corresponding outer circumferential surfaces of the plurality of magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamamura, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Patent number: 7427858
    Abstract: A resolver reference position adjustment method is capable of minimizing a detection error in the rotation angle of a rotor of a motor. In the resolver reference position adjustment method in which a reference position of a resolver of an axial double angle n mounted on an end of a shaft, to which the rotor of the motor is fixedly attached, for detecting rotation angles of the rotor is adjusted with respect to the rotor, the reference position of the resolver is adjusted by using the rotation angles of the rotor at a first point and at a second point, respectively, which are positions of the rotor apart an angle of (mechanical angle 180/axial double angle n) degrees from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Shinsuke Hemmi, Shuji Isono, Seiki Kodama
  • Patent number: 7356910
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotation angle detector is provided. An insulator is mounted on a sensor core. A plurality of winding slackening pins are disposed at predetermined positions between a plurality of teeth and a plurality of terminal pins so as to project out of the a first surface side of the insulator. A first and second conductor wire are wound so as to dispose a first and second lead wire portion of each conductor wire wound on the teeth under tension between the teeth and the terminal pin by hooking each wire lead portion onto a winding hooking pin and a winding slackening pin. The winding slackening pins are removed so that the first and second lead wire portions have a predetermined amount of slack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Tetsunao Takaki, Hideki Megata, Toshinori Tanaka, Takeshi Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20070205678
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine comprising a stator body (ST in FIG. 1) which includes a winding configured of a plurality of coils (2), and a power supply section (PS) which includes conductive members (4, 5 and 6) for connecting the coils (2) to one another, and a holding member (11) for holding the conductive members (4, 5 and 6), wherein the power supply section (PS) is configured by employing the holding member (11) which is common to different connection structures such as a Y-connection and a delta connection. The rotary electric machine is advantageous in the points of the fabrication and supply of components owing to the common use of the components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Publication number: 20070074586
    Abstract: A resolver reference position adjustment method is capable of minimizing a detection error in the rotation angle of a rotor of a motor. In the resolver reference position adjustment method in which a reference position of a resolver of an axial double angle n mounted on an end of a shaft, to which the rotor of the motor is fixedly attached, for detecting rotation angles of the rotor is adjusted with respect to the rotor, the reference position of the resolver is adjusted by using the rotation angles of the rotor at a first point and at a second point, respectively, which are positions of the rotor apart an angle of (mechanical angle 180/axial double angle n) degrees from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Shinsuke Hemmi, Shuji Isono, Seiki Kodama
  • Publication number: 20070063596
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine which includes: a stator having a stator core fixed inside a bottomed frame and a stator winding wound around the stator core; a bracket fixed to an opening side of the frame; a rotor having a shaft penetrating the bracket and rotatably supported by a bracket side bearing and by a frame side bearing, the rotor being arranged inside the stator core interposing a gap therebetween; a respective phase lead wire electrically connected to the stator winding and led out from the bracket; a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of the rotor; and a sensor signal wire connected to the rotation sensor and led out from the bracket. A front end portion of the respective phase lead wire is introduced to inside the bracket from outside an opening portion provided at the bracket, thereby electrically connecting to the stator winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Kyouhei Yamamoto, Shinsuke Hemmi