Patents by Inventor Shingo Hashimoto

Shingo Hashimoto 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: 20180367014
    Abstract: A stator assembly method in which coils that have slot housed portions and coil ends formed from a conductive wire are mounted to an annular stator core that has a plurality of teeth that extend from a back yoke toward an inner side in a radial direction and slots formed between two of the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shigeru MAEDA, Masumi TOMURA, Shingo SATO
  • Patent number: 10158824
    Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture a subject to generate image data, a communication unit configured to receive image data from a plurality of electronic devices, and a controller configured to combine an image indicated by the image data received from an electronic device registered in advance as a target device for a predetermined function with an image indicated by the image data generated by the image capturing unit. The controller registers the electronic devices as the target device, the number of registered electronic devices being equal to or less than a first predetermined number. The controller limits the number of the electronic devices from which the image data is received to a second predetermined number or less, with the second predetermined number being less than the first predetermined number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10148157
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator for a rotary electric machine by disposing coils in a plurality of phases on a plurality of teeth of a stator core, one coil on one tooth, wherein in sequentially disposing the coils in the plurality of phases on the teeth, one coil on one tooth, toward one side in the circumferential direction of the stator core, the one end portion of each of the coils in each phase is inserted from the one side in the axial direction of the stator core, or from a direction that is orthogonal to the axial direction of the stator core, to be disposed between the one end portion and the other end portion of the immediately preceding coil in a separate phase disposed on the tooth so as to be aligned with the other end portion of the coil in the same phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takanori Ota, Osamu Nakagawa, Shingo Sato, Hirotaka Kawaura, Norihiko Akao, Tetsuya Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 10090723
    Abstract: A three phase stator configured with phases that are U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase. The stator is configured such that a bus bar portion includes a joint that is formed at an end and is joined to a terminal portion of a different one of the coils. A connecting portion is formed between the joint portion and the winding portion. In the coils, a first coil and a second coil serve as the two coils joined to each other by the joint portion of the bus bar portion of the first coil and the terminal portion of the second coil, and ends of the terminal portions of middle coils are the coils disposed between the first coil and the second coil are located at a height closer to the stator core than the connecting portion of the first coil in a direction of a central axis of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KASHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takanori Ota, Shingo Sato, Daichi Kurashige, Hirotaka Kawaura, Norihiko Akao
  • Patent number: 10084363
    Abstract: A stator assembly method in which coils that have slot housed portions and coil ends formed from a conductive wire are mounted to an annular stator core that has a plurality of teeth that extend from a back yoke toward an inner side in a radial direction and slots formed between two of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Shigeru Maeda, Masumi Tomura, Shingo Sato
  • Publication number: 20180268636
    Abstract: In a banknote handling apparatus capable of dealing with a depositing/dispensing process by a banknote cassette and a manual depositing/dispensing process, the banknote handling apparatus enables a depositing process without dispensing a reject banknote, which has been deposited from the banknote cassette, to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Hitoshi KOBAYASHI, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Kazuhiko TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180254681
    Abstract: A stator assembly method by which coils are mounted on an annular stator core, each of the coils including a plurality of in-slot portions formed of a conductor and a coil end portion formed of the conductor, the stator core including slots that are formed between adjacent teeth extending radially inward from a back yoke and that accommodate the in-slot portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO
  • Patent number: 10050500
    Abstract: A coil end shaping apparatus shapes three flatwise bent portions f1 to f3 in a lead wire portion extending from one end of a coil by bringing first and second shaping dies close to each other such that one of the flatwise bent portions is bent in the direction that is opposite to the direction in which the rest are bent. The second shaping die, which is a movable die, has an clearance portion that prevents a portion of the lead wire portion to be bent along the flatwise direction on the side closest to the free end from being restrained by not contacting the lead wire portion while the flatwise bent portions on the base end side with respect to the flatwise bent portion on the side closest to the free end, of the three flatwise bent portions, are shaped in the lead wire portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Katsuya Ito, Takanori Ota, Norihiko Akao, Hirotaka Kawaura, Hisayuki Kobayashi, Hiroharu Sugiura
  • Patent number: 10027208
    Abstract: A coil installation method for installing a coil on a tooth of a stator core to manufacture a stator for a rotary electric machine, the coil installation method including forming the coil such that a rectangular wire is wound into a generally quadrangular shape so as to form three or more winding portions overlapping in a radial direction of the stator core and such that the winding portion positioned on an outer peripheral side in the radial direction has a larger width directed in a circumferential direction of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Hiroki Imada, Daichi Kurashige, Hisao Miyata, Kirika Yoshikawa, Tsutomu Ogawa, Takato Harada, Norihiko Akao, Tetsuya Sugimoto, Yutaka Seno, Hirotaka Kawaura
  • Patent number: 10027209
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator for a rotating electrical machine by placing coils in a stator core, wherein each of a plurality of teeth formed in a radial pattern in an inner periphery of an annular yoke portion in the stator core has tip-end parallel side surfaces formed in its tip end portion having a constant width in a circumferential direction, has intermediate tilted side surfaces continuous with the tip-end parallel side surfaces and formed in its portion whose width in the circumferential direction increases closer to an outer periphery, and has base-end parallel side surfaces continuous with the intermediate tilted side surfaces and formed in its base end portion having a constant width in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuya Iwatsuki, Takahiro Hashimoto, Hisao Miyata, Kirika Yoshikawa, Takanori Ota, Hirotaka Kawaura, Norihiko Akao, Tetsuya Sugimoto, Yukihiko Nakagami
  • Publication number: 20180175689
    Abstract: A stator that includes a core formed by stacking annular steel sheets on each other and having teeth and slots provided between the teeth; and a plurality of continuous coils each continuously formed from a single conductor wire and each having a plurality of slot housed portions to be housed in the slots which are different from each other, a coil end portion on one side in an axial direction that connects the slot housed portions to each other, and a coil end portion on the other side in the axial direction that connects the slot housed portions to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO
  • Publication number: 20180159398
    Abstract: In this stator core, the interval in the circumferential direction of the stator core between an outer peripheral surface of an axial end of a slot accommodated portion of a concentric coil and a tooth facing the outer peripheral surface is larger than the interval in the circumferential direction of the stator core between an inner peripheral surface of the axial end and a tooth facing the inner peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO
  • Patent number: 9978197
    Abstract: In a banknote handling apparatus capable of dealing with a depositing/dispensing process by a banknote cassette and a manual depositing/dispensing process, the banknote handling apparatus enables a depositing process without dispensing a reject banknote, which has been deposited from the banknote cassette, to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: GLORY LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kobayashi, Shingo Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9948168
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stator for manufacturing a stator by mounting a concentrated winding coil wound with a square wire conductor on each of a plurality of teeth in a stator core and welding end of the concentrated winding coil to corresponding end of another concentrated winding coil, characterized in that a first set of concentrated winding coils and a second set of concentrated winding coils are mounted on the teeth, and the welding of each end in the first set of concentrated winding coils and corresponding end in the second set of concentrated winding coils is started while a third set of concentrated winding coils is mounted on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mutsumi Kawamoto, Susumu Kato, Shingo Hashimoto, Takeshi Yokoyama, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kazuya Iwatsuki, Shingo Sato
  • Publication number: 20180091029
    Abstract: A stator assembly method includes a step of inserting coils into slots by pressing coil end portions of the coils from the inner peripheral side toward the radially outer side of a stator core using a pressing member while suppressing fall of the coil end portions by supporting the coil end portions from the radially outer side of the stator core using a fall suppression member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO
  • Publication number: 20180091013
    Abstract: A stator, wherein the coil unit includes a coil end portion projecting from an axial end face of the stator core; the coil end portion includes a plurality of peak portions projecting axially outward and arranged in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of lead wire portions for supplying electric power to the coils; and each of the lead wire portions includes an extension portion extending at least in an axial direction, and a bent portion that is bent at least from the axial direction to a radial direction, at least a part of the bent portion being disposed on a stator core side with respect to the peak portions in the axial direction, in a space between the peak portions that are closest to the extension portion in the radial direction and that are adjacent in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO, Kiyotaka KOGA
  • Publication number: 20180069445
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine that includes a rotor core; a stator core disposed so as to face the rotor core in a radial direction and including a plurality of teeth and a plurality of slots each located between adjacent ones of the teeth; and a concentric coil formed by concentrically winding a wire, and including a slot accommodated portion placed in the slot of the stator core and a coil end portion projecting in an axial direction from the stator core, wherein of the slot accommodated portion of the concentric coil, an axial end of the slot accommodated portion located on a side facing the rotor core is located closer to an outside in the radial direction than an axial middle part of the slot accommodated portion located on the side facing the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka KOGA, Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO
  • Publication number: 20180034339
    Abstract: A stator that includes a stator core including a plurality of teeth with a slot in between; a plurality of coils each formed of a conductor, each of the coils including: an accommodated portion accommodated in the corresponding slot, a coil end disposed on an outer side of an end face of the stator core, and a lead wire protruding from the accommodated portion and extending radially outward of the stator core; and a connector connected to ends of the lead wires of the coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo HASHIMOTO, Shingo SATO, Kiyotaka KOGA
  • Patent number: 9859775
    Abstract: A method for forming a concentric winding coil in which a coil end portion protruding from an axial end face of a stator core has a plurality of different nonlinear shapes, from a rectangular conductor wound in a predetermined number of turns, the method including forming the coil end portion into the plurality of different nonlinear shapes in one step by causing a die to make a stroke movement in a predetermined direction with respect to the rectangular conductor being set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Masaki Saito, Tokuhisa Mishina, Shinya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9837869
    Abstract: A stator configured with an annular stator core, and a plurality of coils mounted on the stator core. The bus bar portion being connected to the terminal portion of a different one of the coils of the same phase. The coil is a multi-layer coil that is formed by winding the conductor in a plurality of layers in an inside-outside direction of loops in the winding portion, and that includes on inner and outer peripheral sides of a coil end portion of the coil a plurality of lane change portions formed by the conductor. The bus bar portion is embedded in a clearance between the lane change portions of the coil of a different phase placed between the coils of the same phase which are connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignees: AISIN AW CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takanori Ota, Shingo Sato, Daichi Kurashige, Hirotaka Kawaura, Norihiko Akao