Patents by Inventor Shinji Nishimura

Shinji Nishimura 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: 20150128406
    Abstract: Provided is a stator for a rotary electric machine, capable of reducing a space on an end surface of a stator core on an inner diameter side to reduce a size in an axial direction to realize a compact size by maintaining an insulating distance corresponding to a potential difference. In the stator for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a coil portion includes a coil main-body portion (21) and a second connecting wire (23). The second connecting wire (23) includes a first bent portion (24) and a second connecting-wire end portion (23A). The second connecting wire (23) is configured so that a differential value of a length z in the axial direction of the stator to a length r in the radial direction of the stator is ?z/?r?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150091407
    Abstract: Permanent magnets that constitute the single magnetic poles are constituted by n permanent magnet segments, the n permanent magnet segments being configured such that shapes and directions of orientation thereof have mirror symmetry relative to a plane that passes through a magnetic pole center and that includes a central axis of the rotor core, and being oriented such that a permanent magnet segment that is further away from the magnetic pole center in a circumferential direction has a smaller angle of orientation, and the permanent magnet segment that is positioned further away from the magnetic pole center in the circumferential direction being produced so as to have an approximately fan-shaped cross-sectional shape in which a radial width is wider than a circumferential width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinsuke Kayano, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Takuma Sasai
  • Patent number: 8981735
    Abstract: A power supply system for a motor vehicle includes a generator that includes a rotor having a field coil and a stator having an armature coil; a rectifier that rectifies AC power generated in the armature coil; an excitation control circuit that takes control of a voltage applied to the field coil; a capacitor that is connected to the DC side of the rectifier, and receives and transfers the rectified power; a battery connected to an electric load of the motor vehicle; a DC-DC converter that is connected between the capacitor and the battery and capable of converting unidirectionally or bidirectionally an input DC voltage into any DC voltage; and a selection switch which connects the capacitor or the battery to the excitation control circuit as a power supply source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Shinji Nishimura, Noriyuki Wada
  • Patent number: 8907542
    Abstract: An alternator of high quality and high performance includes a rotor, a stator core arranged so as to surround the rotor and having a plurality of axially extending slots arranged at a predetermined circumferential pitch, and a stator having a stator winding fitted into the slots. The stator core includes element iron cores of a hexahedral shape which are deformed to curve, with their adjacent end faces being abutted and bonded to each other, each of the element iron cores being composed of thin steel plates laminated and integrated with one another, with concave and convex portions formed on the thin steel plates being fitting with each other. The concave and convex portions are formed on a borderline between a compressive region of the stator core at an inner diameter side thereof and a tensile region of the stator core at an outer diameter side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Wakaki Miyaji, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8798051
    Abstract: In a distributed information communication processing system in which a plurality of information communication devices provides a service through a network, response speed, electric power consumption, and further reliability are improved. The distributed information communication processing system which provides various services is configured by associating an entrance node (EN) which executes filtering near sensors, actuators, and terminals being information sources, an intelligent node (IN) which changes an information processing position and executes information processing and communication processing instead of a data center (DC), and a management node (MN) which manages these nodes. Thereby, real time type information processing can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michitaka Okuno, Shinji Nishimura, Hidetaka Aoki, Yuji Tsushima, Takeki Yazaki, Yuji Ogata
  • Patent number: 8736119
    Abstract: A center frame is fastened to a first bracket and a second bracket such that a first mated protrusion and a second mated protrusion are fitted together with a first mated recess portion and a second mated recess portion so as to be mated. O rings are disposed annularly so as to be held between an end surface of the first bracket and a first axial end surface of the center frame, and between an end surface of the second bracket and a second axial end surface of the center frame on an opposite side from outer circumferential inner wall surfaces of the first mated recess portion and the second mated recess portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Iwamoto, Masaya Inoue, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8710808
    Abstract: A power supply system for a motor vehicle includes a generator that includes a rotor having a field coil and a stator having an armature coil; a rectifier that rectifies AC power generated in the armature coil; an excitation control circuit that takes control of a voltage applied to the field coil; a capacitor that is connected to the DC side of the rectifier, and receives and transfers the rectified power; a battery connected to an electric load of the motor vehicle; a DC-DC converter that is connected between the capacitor and the battery and capable of converting unidirectionally or bidirectionally an input DC voltage into any DC voltage; and a selection switch which connects the capacitor or the battery to the excitation control circuit as a power supply source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Nozomu Kamioka, Shinji Nishimura, Noriyuki Wada
  • Patent number: 8704497
    Abstract: In order to receive a power generation command from the outside of a body, to transmit power generation control condition with respect to the power generation command to the outside, and to enable a vehicle to drive properly depending on the condition; a minimum value selector by which on-duty of a switching element by the power generation command inputted from the outside of the body of a control device is compared to on-duty of the switching element calculated inside the body of the control device and smaller on-duty of both on-duties is selected to perform ON/OFF control of the switching element is included, and the selected on-duty is transmitted to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Noriyuki Wada
  • Publication number: 20140105358
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray generation apparatus includes an X-ray tube unit, a collimator configured to shape an X-ray bundle generated by the X-ray tube unit, a positioning member configured to arrange the X-ray tube unit and the collimator at respective specific positions, a cart configured to support the positioning member, a first handle fixed to the X-ray tube unit, a second handle fixed to a side surface of the collimator, and a storage portion provided in the cart and configured to protect an exit surface and the side surfaces of the collimator when the X-ray tube unit and the collimator in a stored state in which the X-ray tube unit and the collimator are brought into the storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140098938
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray generation unit, a boom member configured to hold and arrange the X-ray generation unit at an arbitrary position, a supporting column unit connected to the boom member and configured to elevate and pivot the X-ray generation unit, a display unit, including a display screen, coupled to the X-ray generation unit through a movable mechanism configured to enable the orientation of the display screen, with respect to the X-ray generating unit, to be altered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140093051
    Abstract: A mobile X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube portion, an arm capable of holding the X-ray tube portion, and a moving handle portion provided on the X-ray tube portion and operable to move the mobile X-ray imaging apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shinji Nishimura
  • Publication number: 20140093045
    Abstract: There is provided a portable X-ray diagnostic apparatus. The X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprises an X-ray generation unit configured to generate X-rays, a display unit configured to display information about X-ray imaging by the X-ray generation unit, a column including a shaft extending in a first direction and configured to be rotatable about the shaft, a cart on which the display unit and the column are set, and an extendable boom configured to support the X-ray generation unit and extend in a second direction crossing the first direction, the boom obtaining, when storing the X-ray generation unit, a length to store the X-ray generation unit between the display unit and the column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Tetsuo Shimada, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8686610
    Abstract: The present invention provides an automotive dynamoelectric stator that enables vibration resistance of a lead portion to be ensured and reductions in area of the lead portion and a coil end group that is exposed to a cooling airflow to be suppressed without increasing work or cost. In a dynamoelectric machine according to the present invention, first lead portions that connect a plurality of windings to configure phase windings are each led axially outward from a rear-end coil end group, and then disposed so as to extend parallel to an axially outer peripheral surface of the rear-end coil end group so as to cross at least one other first lead portion, and so as to be separated from the axially outer peripheral surface of the rear-end coil end group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shogo Okamoto, Shinji Nishimura, Shiro Iizuka, Yoshiro Imazawa, Ken Nishikawa, Michiya Yasui, Kensaku Kuroki, Yoshihiro Harada, Naoya Nishikawa
  • Publication number: 20140070646
    Abstract: Provided is a stator for a rotary electric machine, capable of reducing a space on an end surface of a stator core on an inner diameter side to reduce a size in an axial direction to realize a compact size by maintaining an insulating distance corresponding to a potential difference. In the stator for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a coil portion includes a coil main-body portion (21) and a second connecting wire (23). The second connecting wire (23) includes a first bent portion (24) and a second connecting-wire end portion (23A). The second connecting wire (23) is configured so that a differential value of a length z in the axial direction of the stator to a length r in the radial direction of the stator is ?z/?r?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventors: Hitoshi ISODA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinji NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 8638073
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle AC generator which restricts an upper limit of a field current to the maximum field current at a set voltage even when a power generation voltage becomes large, is obtained. In the control device for the vehicle AC generator, in which a DC voltage obtained by rectifying an AC output voltage of an armature coil in the AC generator with a rectifier is applied to a field coil to obtain a field current and the field current is controlled by ON/OFF of a switching element connected in series to the field coil, an upper limit restriction unit in which an upper limit of on-duty of the switching element is set to a set voltage/the DC voltage, is included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Noriyuki Wada
  • Publication number: 20140020872
    Abstract: An aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling system and an aircraft/spacecraft fluid cooling method in which a fluid in a pipe installed in aircraft or spacecraft can be cooled efficiently so that the amount of fluid required for cooling the fluid can be reduced. A fluid cooling system includes a feed line that feeds a fluid from a storage tank to a pump, and a cooling section that expands a propellant having traveled through the pump, feeds the propellant to the outer periphery of the feed line so as to cool the propellant in the feed line, and discharges the expanded propellant outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Osamu Kitayama, Keitaro Ishikawa, Yorichika Mihara, Taichi Aoyama, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8546994
    Abstract: An automotive dynamoelectric machine that achieves disposing of permanent magnets and thickening of field coil wire by ensuring outlet space for field coil lead wires. In the dynamoelectric machine, trough portions are formed on portions of yoke portions between respective circumferentially adjacent claw-shaped magnetic pole portions. Magnet holders are disposed so as to span over all of the trough portions on a pole core body at a rear end excluding a predetermined trough portion, and permanent magnets are held in each of the magnet holders. A field coil lead wire is led out from the rotor so as to pass through the trough portion over which a magnet holder is not disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Mori, Masaya Inoue, Masao Morita, Hirokazu Akai, Toshiyuki Yoshizawa, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Shinji Nishimura, Kazunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20130241369
    Abstract: A winding assembly includes: slot-housed portions housed inside each of the slots of the stator core so as to form pairs that line up in an inner layer and an outer layer relative to a slot depth direction; first return portions at a first axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside the slots that are (N?M) slots away; and second return portions at a second axial end of the stator core that link end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the outer layer inside each of the slots and end portions of the slot-housed portions housed in the inner layer inside the slots that are (N+M) slots away.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiro Imazawa, Kazunori Tanaka, Kazuya Hasegawa, Norihiro Murata, Hiroshi Hosokawa, Shinji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8525359
    Abstract: An engine generator is provided having an improved cooling effect realized by cooling air while ensuring a compact arrangement of components in a housing. The engine generator includes an engine 2, a generator 3, an inverter 4, a control device, a fuel tank 7, an air cleaner 16, a muffler 18, a radiator 6, and a housing 5 accommodating the foregoing components. The engine generator includes cooling air inlets 12 and 11 and a cooling air outlet 14 on sides of the housing 5 with a cooling air passage disposed between the inlets and outlet. The generator 3, the inverter 4, and the air cleaner 16 are disposed further upstream than the engine 2 along a cooling air passage. The fuel tank 7, the radiator 6, and the muffler 18 are disposed further downstream than the engine 2 along the cooling air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignees: Yanmar Co., Ltd., Sawafuji Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Masaru Sakamoto, Norikazu Sakata
  • Patent number: D708644
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Koutarou Mori