Patents by Inventor Seiya Yokoyama

Seiya Yokoyama 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: 11649742
    Abstract: An attachment structure for a vehicle motor is applied for the purpose of attaching a vehicle motor to in-vehicle equipment. The attachment structure for a vehicle motor is provided with an axial gap motor that includes a rotor and a stator facing each other in the axial direction. The motor is attached to the in-vehicle equipment in a mode in which the axial direction is perpendicular to the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya Yokoyama, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori
  • Patent number: 11552514
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by receiving a rotational magnetic field generated by drive current supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding, the first and second windings both being excited at the same timing by the drive current. The first winding and the second winding are connected in series. The rotor includes a first pole section and a second pole section. The second pole section faces the second winding at the rotation position of the rotor at which the first pole section faces the first winding. The magnetic force exerted on the stator by the second pole section is weaker than that exerted by the first pole section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20210367463
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by receiving a rotational magnetic field generated by drive current supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding, the first and second windings both being excited at the same timing by the drive current. The first winding and the second winding are connected in series. The rotor includes a first pole section and a second pole section. The second pole section faces the second winding at the rotation position of the rotor at which the first pole section faces the first winding. The magnetic force exerted on the stator by the second pole section is weaker than that exerted by the first pole section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Yoji YAMADA, Koji MIKAMI, Akihisa HATTORI, Seiya YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11165292
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a case, and back-surface magnet portions. The rotor has a first rotor core, a second rotor core and a field magnet. Each of the first and second rotor cores has a core base and claw-shaped magnetic poles. The field magnet is sandwiched between the first rotor core and the second rotor core and causes the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the first rotor core and the second rotor core to function as different magnetic poles. The back-surface magnet portions include a second and a first back-surface magnet portions respectively provided on the back surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the second rotor core and the first rotor core. Size of the second back-surface magnet portion differs from size of the first back-surface magnet portion are different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11121596
    Abstract: A stator of a brushless motor includes a stator core and a plurality of coils. The stator core includes a base portion having an annular plate shape and a plurality of teeth protruding from one surface of the base portion in an axial direction and disposed in a circumferential direction. The plurality of coils is respectively wound by concentrated winding along peripheral surfaces of the plurality of teeth. The base portion includes an inner circumferential edge that is recessed radially outward from an inner end of each of the plurality of teeth or the base portion includes an outer circumferential edge that is recessed radially inward from an outer end of each of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihisa Hattori, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11114909
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by receiving a rotational magnetic field generated by drive current supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding, the first and second windings both being excited at the same timing by the drive current. The first winding and the second winding are connected in series. The rotor includes a first pole section and a second pole section. The second pole section faces the second winding at the rotation position of the rotor at which the first pole section faces the first winding. The magnetic force exerted on the stator by the second pole section is weaker than that exerted by the first pole section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10862380
    Abstract: A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yusuke Morimoto, Masashi Matsuda, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10862353
    Abstract: An axial gap motor rotor opposes a stator in an axial direction. The axial gap motor rotor includes a rotor core and a magnet. The magnet is arranged on the rotor core. The magnet is configured so that one axial end includes magnetic poles that alternately change in a circumferential direction. The rotor core includes a base, which is located at a center in a radial direction, and radial extensions, which are extended from the base outward in the radial direction and arranged in the circumferential direction. The magnet is configured to at least partially overlap the radial extensions in the axial direction. The radial extensions are located to include a boundary of adjacent ones of the magnetic poles in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada
  • Patent number: 10826339
    Abstract: This motor includes a two-layer rotor, a two-layer stator and a control unit. An A-phase rotor includes a pair of rotor cores and a field magnet. A B-phase rotor includes a pair of rotor cores and a field magnet. An A-phase stator includes a pair of stator cores and an A-phase winding. A B-phase stator includes a pair of stator cores and a B-phase winding. The control unit controls an A-phase input voltage applied to the A-phase winding, and a B-phase input voltage applied to the B-phase winding. The relative arrangement angle of the A-phase stator and the A-phase rotor relative to the B-phase stator and the B-phase rotor is set to an electrical angle of 90 degrees. The control unit applies a leading phase angle to the basic voltage waveforms of the A-phase input voltage and the B-phase input voltage, to set the energization width to at most 180 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoko Tateishi, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Masashi Matsuda, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Kazunori Shimada, Takahiro Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 10734852
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor and a case. The rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, and a field magnet. Each of the first rotor core and the second rotor core includes a core base and a plurality of claw poles. The field magnet is located between the core bases. The case includes a cylindrical yoke housing and a lid. To balance magnetic flux from the first rotor core with magnetic flux from the second rotor core, the distance between the rotor and the stator is varied from the distance between the rotor and the yoke housing or the teeth of the stator are shaped to enable magnetic saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Mikami, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10714992
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator including windings and a rotor. The windings include a first winding and a second winding connected in series. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor parts arranged in an axial direction. Each of the rotor parts includes a first magnet pole unit including a permanent magnet and a second magnet pole unit opposing the second winding at a rotational position of the rotor where the first magnet unit opposes the first winding. The second magnet pole unit applies a weaker magnetic force to the stator than the first magnet pole unit. The rotor parts each include an equal number of magnet poles. The first magnet pole units of the rotor parts are located at positions deviated from one another in a circumferential direction. The second magnet pole units of the rotor parts are located at positions deviated from one another in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Mikami, Yoji Yamada, Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20200195066
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator, a rotor, a case, and back-surface magnet portions. The rotor has a first rotor core, a second rotor core and a field magnet. Each of the first and second rotor cores has a core base and claw-shaped magnetic poles. The field magnet is sandwiched between the first rotor core and the second rotor core and causes the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the first rotor core and the second rotor core to function as different magnetic poles. The back-surface magnet portions include a second and a first back-surface magnet portions respectively provided on the back surfaces of the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the second rotor core and the first rotor core. Size of the second back-surface magnet portion differs from size of the first back-surface magnet portion are different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20190234251
    Abstract: An attachment structure for a vehicle motor is applied for the purpose of attaching a vehicle motor to in-vehicle equipment. The attachment structure for a vehicle motor is provided with an axial gap motor that includes a rotor and a stator facing each other in the axial direction. The motor is attached to the in-vehicle equipment in a mode in which the axial direction is perpendicular to the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya YOKOYAMA, Takahiro TSUCHIYA, Shigemasa KATO, Yoji YAMADA, Koji MIKAMI, Akihisa HATTORI
  • Patent number: 10367385
    Abstract: This motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by being subjected to a rotating magnetic field generated when a drive current is supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding. The first winding and the second winding are energized with the same timing by the drive current, and are connected in series. The rotor includes magnetic poles comprising permanent magnets, and magnetic flux permitting portions. In a rotor rotational position in which the magnetic poles oppose the first winding, the magnetic flux permitting portions oppose the second winding and permit the generation of an interlinkage magnetic flux arising as a result of a field weakening current in the second winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Mikami, Yoji Yamada, Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10298078
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having windings and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a first magnet magnetic pole, a second magnet magnetic pole, and a protrusion provided next to each other in the circumferential direction. The second magnet magnetic pole has an opposite polarity to the first magnet magnetic pole. The protrusion projects in the radial direction in the rotor core. The windings include a first winding and a second winding. The first winding and the second winding are excited at the same timing, and are serially connected. The protrusion faces the second winding at the rotor rotation position at which the first magnet magnetic pole or the second magnet magnetic pole faces the first winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori
  • Publication number: 20190036399
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by receiving a rotational magnetic field generated by drive current supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding, the first and second windings both being excited at the same timing by the drive current. The first winding and the second winding are connected in series. The rotor includes a first pole section and a second pole section. The second pole section faces the second winding at the rotation position of the rotor at which the first pole section faces the first winding. The magnetic force exerted on the stator by the second pole section is weaker than that exerted by the first pole section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Koji MIKAMI, Akihisa HATTORI, Seiya YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190013708
    Abstract: A stator of a brushless motor includes a stator core and a plurality of coils. The stator core includes a base portion having an annular plate shape and a plurality of teeth protruding from one surface of the base portion in an axial direction and disposed in a circumferential direction. The plurality of coils is respectively wound by concentrated winding along peripheral surfaces of the plurality of teeth. The base portion includes an inner circumferential edge that is recessed radially outward from an inner end of each of the plurality of teeth or the base portion includes an outer circumferential edge that is recessed radially inward from an outer end of each of the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Akihisa HATTORI, Yoji YAMADA, Koji MIKAMI, Seiya YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20190006898
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having windings and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a first magnet magnetic pole, a second magnet magnetic pole, and a protrusion provided next to each other in the circumferential direction. The second magnet magnetic pole has an opposite polarity to the first magnet magnetic pole. The protrusion projects in the radial direction in the rotor core. The windings include a first winding and a second winding. The first winding and the second winding are excited at the same timing, and are serially connected. The protrusion faces the second winding at the rotor rotation position at which the first magnet magnetic pole or the second magnet magnetic pole faces the first winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori
  • Publication number: 20180367000
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator including windings and a rotor. The windings include a first winding and a second winding connected in series. The rotor includes a plurality of rotor parts arranged in an axial direction. Each of the rotor parts includes a first magnet pole unit including a permanent magnet and a second magnet pole unit opposing the second winding at a rotational position of the rotor where the first magnet unit opposes the first winding. The second magnet pole unit applies a weaker magnetic force to the stator than the first magnet pole unit. The rotor parts each include an equal number of magnet poles. The first magnet pole units of the rotor parts are located at positions deviated from one another in a circumferential direction. The second magnet pole units of the rotor parts are located at positions deviated from one another in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Koji MIKAMI, Yoji YAMADA, Akihisa HATTORI, Seiya YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180269733
    Abstract: This motor includes a stator having a winding, and a rotor. The rotor rotates by being subjected to a rotating magnetic field generated when a drive current is supplied to the winding. The winding includes a first winding and a second winding. The first winding and the second winding are energized with the same timing by the drive current, and are connected in series. The rotor includes magnetic poles comprising permanent magnets, and magnetic flux permitting portions. In a rotor rotational position in which the magnetic poles oppose the first winding, the magnetic flux permitting portions oppose the second winding and permit the generation of an interlinkage magnetic flux arising as a result of a field weakening current in the second winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Koji Mikami, Yoji Yamada, Akihisa Hattori, Seiya Yokoyama