Patents by Inventor Shigemasa Kato
Shigemasa Kato 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: 11649742Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Seiya Yokoyama, Takahiro Tsuchiya, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Akihisa Hattori
-
Patent number: 10826339Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoko Tateishi, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Masashi Matsuda, Hironari Suzuki, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Kazunori Shimada, Takahiro Tsuchiya
-
Patent number: 10734852Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Mikami, Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Seiya Yokoyama
-
Publication number: 20190234251Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Seiya YOKOYAMA, Takahiro TSUCHIYA, Shigemasa KATO, Yoji YAMADA, Koji MIKAMI, Akihisa HATTORI
-
Publication number: 20180269729Abstract: A motor comprises an A-phase stator unit, a B-phase stator unit, and a rotor. The phase stator unit and the B-phase stator unit respectively contain a coil unit and a pair of stator cores, each pair of stator cores having a plurality of claw-shaped magnetic poles. The rotor comprises at least two permanent magnets facing the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the A-phase stator unit and the claw-shaped magnetic poles of the B-phase stator unit, respectively. The A-phase stator unit and the B-phase stator unit are provided side by side in the axial direction, displaced from one another by a prescribed electrical angle. The two permanent magnets are arranged side by side in the axial direction, displaced from one another by a prescribed electrical angle. The direction of displacement between the A-phase stator unit and the B-phase stator unit is the opposite of the direction of displacement between the two permanent magnets.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Shigemasa KATO, Masashi MATSUDA, Hironari SUZUKI, Kazunori SHIMADA, Sho NAKANO, Takahiro TSUCHIYA
-
Publication number: 20180152064Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoko TATEISHI, Yoshiaki TAKEMOTO, Masashi MATSUDA, Hironari SUZUKI, Seiya YOKOYAMA, Shigemasa KATO, Kazunori SHIMADA, Takahiro TSUCHIYA
-
Patent number: 9923420Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an inner circumference stator section and an outer circumference stator section. The inner circumference stator section and the outer circumference stator section each include two stator cores and a coil. The two stator cores each include claw poles and are coupled to each other. The coil is arranged between the two stator cores. The rotor includes an inner circumference magnet and an outer circumference magnet. The inner circumference magnet, which is arranged at an inner circumferential side of the inner circumference stator section, opposes the claw poles in the radial direction. The outer circumference magnet, which is arranged at an outer circumferential side of the outer circumference stator section, opposes the claw poles in the radial direction. The inner circumference stator section and the inner circumference magnet form an inner circumference motor unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Masashi Matsuda
-
Patent number: 9882439Abstract: A rotor includes magnetic pole portions and first and second ferric core portions. The first and second ferric core portions are each located between magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction of a rotor. A first gap is formed between the first or second ferric core portion and a magnetic pole portion at a first circumferential side. A second gap is formed between the first or second ferric core portion and the magnetic pole portion at a second circumferential side. The first gap has a smaller width than the second gap at the first ferric core portion. The first ferric core portion is inclined toward the first circumferential side. The first gap is larger than the second gap at the second ferric core portion. The second ferric core portion is inclined toward the second circumferential side.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenta Goto, Hideaki Nishiura, Shigemasa Kato, Yoshiyuki Takabe, Masashi Matsuda, Toshihiro Uchida
-
Publication number: 20180006513Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Koji MIKAMI, Shigemasa KATO, Yoji YAMADA, Seiya YOKOYAMA
-
Patent number: 9762097Abstract: A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, and an annular magnet. The first magnet is arranged between first extensions of the first rotor core. The annular magnet, which is arranged between second extensions of the second rotor core, is held between the first core base and the second core base. The first magnet and the second magnet are formed integrally.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigemasa Kato, Koji Mikami
-
Patent number: 9667107Abstract: A motor including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes teeth and windings. Each tooth has a distal portion defined by a radially inward side of the stator. The rotor, which is arranged inward in the radial direction from the stator, includes a rotor core, magnets, and salient poles. Each salient pole is separated by a void from the magnet that is adjacent in the circumferential direction. The distal portion of each tooth is longer than a radially outward side of each magnet.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Seiya Yokoyama, Keisuke Koide, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato
-
Patent number: 9653952Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of magnets, which function as first magnetic poles, and salient poles, which function as second magnetic poles. A ratio X1:X2 of a quantity X1 of magnetic pole portions of the rotor, which is the sum of the quantity of the magnets and the quantity of the salient poles, and the quantity X2 of slots is 2n:3n (n being a natural number). The sum of a magnetic pole occupying angle ?1 of the magnet and a magnetic pole occupying angle ?2 of the salient pole is 360°. The magnetic pole occupying angle ?1 is set in a range of 180°<?1?230°.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Amso Co., LTD.Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Seiya Yokoyama, Shigemasa Kato, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Yoko Tateishi
-
Patent number: 9577496Abstract: A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a field magnet, and a detected portion. The first rotor core includes a first core base and a plurality of first claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The second rotor core includes a second core base and a plurality of second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. The first and second core bases face to each other, and the first and second claw-shaped magnetic pole portions are alternately arranged in the circumferential direction. The field magnet is located between the first and second core bases in the axial direction. The field magnet has the first claw-shaped magnetic pole portion function as a first magnetic pole and has the second claw-shaped magnetic pole portion function as a second magnetic pole. A detected portion, which generates a magnetic flux, is arranged at an outer axial end surface of the first rotor core.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigemasa Kato, Yoji Yamada, Koji Mikami, Seiya Yokoyama
-
Patent number: 9502929Abstract: A rotor with a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a field magnet, and an interpole magnet is provided. The first rotor core has a first core base and a plurality of first nail-shaped magnetic pole parts that extend in the axis direction from the outer circumference section of the first core base. The second rotor core has a second core base and a plurality of second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts that extend in the axis direction from the outer circumference section of the second core base. The field magnet is magnetized along the axis direction and makes the first nail-shaped magnetic parts function as first magnetic poles and the second nail-shaped magnetic parts function as second magnetic poles. The interpole magnet is arranged between the first nail-shaped magnetic parts and the second nail-shaped magnetic parts. The interpole magnet has the same polarity as the first and second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts, in the sections where same face the first and second nail-shaped magnetic pole parts.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoji Yamada, Chie Morita, Yuuki Fujii, Shigemasa Kato
-
Publication number: 20160248283Abstract: A motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an inner circumference stator section and an outer circumference stator section. The inner circumference stator section and the outer circumference stator section each include two stator cores and a coil. The two stator cores each include claw poles and are coupled to each other. The coil is arranged between the two stator cores. The rotor includes an inner circumference magnet and an outer circumference magnet. The inner circumference magnet, which is arranged at an inner circumferential side of the inner circumference stator section, opposes the claw poles in the radial direction. The outer circumference magnet, which is arranged at an outer circumferential side of the outer circumference stator section, opposes the claw poles in the radial direction. The inner circumference stator section and the inner circumference magnet form an inner circumference motor unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shigemasa Kato, Masashi Matsuda
-
Patent number: 9379582Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a rotor, and a stator. The rotor includes first and second rotor cores, and a field magnet. Second claw magnetic pole portions of second rotor core are arranged between first claw magnetic pole portions of the first rotor core. The field magnet causes the first claw magnetic pole portions to function as first magnetic poles, and the second claw magnetic pole portions to function as second magnetic poles. Radially inner surfaces of the teeth of a stator core face radially outer surfaces of the first and second claw magnetic poles. Either radially outer surfaces of the first and second claw magnetic pole portions or radially inner surfaces of the teeth each have a cross-sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction that is not concentric to a circle of which center is an axis of the rotation shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Koji Mikami, Yoji Yamada, Shigemasa Kato
-
Publication number: 20160028277Abstract: A multi-Lundell motor includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes first and second rotor cores and a permanent magnet. The first and second rotor cores each include claw poles in the circumferential direction. The permanent magnet is magnetized in the axial direction between the first and second rotor cores. The stator includes first and second stator cores and a winding. The first and second stator cores each include claw poles in the circumferential direction. The winding is arranged between the first and second stator cores and extended in the circumferential direction. At least one of the first and second rotor cores and the first and second stator cores include core segments arranged in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: ASMO CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiaki Takemoto, Seiya Yokoyama, Masashi Matsuda, Shigemasa Kato
-
Publication number: 20150171681Abstract: A rotor includes magnetic pole portions and first and second ferric core portions. The first and second ferric core portions are each located between magnetic pole portions in the circumferential direction of a rotor. A first gap is formed between the first or second ferric core portion and a magnetic pole portion at a first circumferential side. A second gap is formed between the first or second ferric core portion and the magnetic pole portion at a second circumferential side. The first gap has a smaller width than the second gap at the first ferric core portion. The first ferric core portion is inclined toward the first circumferential side. The first gap is larger than the second gap at the second ferric core portion. The second ferric core portion is inclined toward the second circumferential side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2015Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: Kenta Goto, Hideaki Nishiura, Shigemasa Kato, Yoshiyuki Takabe, Masashi Matsuda, Toshihiro Uchida
-
Patent number: 9041269Abstract: There is provided a motor including a rotor and a stator arranged outside the rotor in the radial direction. The rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction of the rotor core and functioning as one magnetic pole, and salient poles integrated with the rotor core, each arranged between adjacent magnets and at a distance from the magnets. The salient poles function as the other magnetic pole. A stator has a stator core having a plurality of teeth extending in the radial direction of the stator and arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction, and multi-phase coils attached to the teeth.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: Asmo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigemasa Kato, Seiya Yokoyama, Yoji Yamada, Keisuke Koide, Yoshiaki Takemoto, Shinji Santo
-
Publication number: 20150115760Abstract: A rotor includes a first rotor core, a second rotor core, a first magnet, a second magnet, and an annular magnet. The first magnet is arranged between first extensions of the first rotor core. The annular magnet, which is arranged between second extensions of the second rotor core, is held between the first core base and the second core base. The first magnet and the second magnet are formed integrally.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2014Publication date: April 30, 2015Inventors: Takahiro Tsuchiya, Chie Morita, Yoji Yamada, Shigemasa Kato, Koji Mikami