Patents by Inventor Shinji Yamazaki

Shinji Yamazaki 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: 20180309334
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine which reduces torque ripples which are generated when powered up and cause noises and vibrations of a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine includes a stator having a stator winding and a rotor which is rotatably disposed to the stator and provided with a plurality of magnets. In a magnetic auxiliary salient pole formed between poles of the magnets provided in the rotor, a cogging torque is reduced and torque ripples generated when powered up are reduced by combining a magnetic cavity provided on a q axis passing through the center of the salient pole and a skewing in which a plurality of block cores are stacked and connected as a unit while deviating by a predetermined angle in a peripheral direction of the axis of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Hiromitsu OKAMOTO, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Tomohiro FUKUDA, Mohdbasir ZULAIKA
  • Publication number: 20180248453
    Abstract: A rotor with high productivity, a rotating electric machine including the rotor, and a method of manufacturing the rotor are provided. A rotor of a rotating electric machine includes a permanent magnet and a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole, the permanent magnet being inserted into the magnet insertion hole. The void between the permanent magnet and the magnet insertion hole is filled with a thermosetting powdered resin. A method of manufacturing the rotor of the rotating electric machine includes: a first step of inserting the permanent magnet and the thermosetting powdered resin into the magnet insertion hole; a second step of thermally hardening the powdered resin while rotating the rotor core; and a third step of magnetizing the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Tomohiro FUKUDA, Motoo KITAHARA
  • Publication number: 20170346358
    Abstract: Provided are a rotary-electric-machine stator coil, a rotary-electric-machine stator having the same, and a rotary electric machine having the same, capable of improving a bonding strength and insulation reliability of a conductor bonding portion. A rotary-electric-machine stator coil includes: a conductor 110 having a bonding portion 104 bonded to other conductors; and a bonding member 401 having a melting point lower than a melting point of the conductor, wherein a tip of the bonding portion has an alloy layer 402 formed of an alloy of the conductor and the bonding member, and a root of the bonding portion is electrically connected by the bonding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUKUDA, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Kazuo OJIMA, Shin ONOSE, Hisaya SHIMIZU, Shinji YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170314108
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a high strength steel sheet includes subjecting a steel having a chemical composition including C: 0.08% to 0.20%, Si: 0.3% or less, Mn: 0.1% to 3.0%, P: 0.10% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Al: 0.10% or less, N: 0.010% or less, V: 0.20% to 0.80%, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis to a hot rolling process composed of heating, rough rolling, finish rolling, cooling, and coiling into the shape of a coil at a predetermined coiling temperature, wherein the heating is performed at a temperature of 1,100° C. or higher for 10 min or more, the rough rolling is performed at a finish rough rolling temperature of 1,000° C. or higher, the finish rolling is performed at a finishing temperature of 850° C. or higher, in which a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 1,000° C. or lower is 96% or less, a reduction ratio in a temperature range of 950° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
  • Patent number: 9738960
    Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
  • Publication number: 20170217301
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine housing and a rotary electric machine equipped with the same. The housing allows the reduction of press fitting force required in each of two press fitting steps and has a high cooling effect. This rotary electric machine housing includes an internal cylinder 10 allowing press fitting of a stator 20 along an inner diameter end of the internal cylinder. The internal cylinder 10 has an internal cylinder-side tapered face on its outer diameter end surface. The housing further includes an external cylinder 11 having an external cylinder-side tapered face on an inner diameter end of the external cylinder. The external cylinder-side tapered face fits onto the internal cylinder-side tapered face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Riichi NAGAO, Shinji YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170133899
    Abstract: Provided are: a rotating-electrical-machine stator in which the height of coil ends of a stator coil is suppressed, while interference between adjacent conductors at the coil ends is avoided; and a rotating electrical machine provided with same. The rotating-electrical-machine stator is provided with: a stator core provided with a plurality of slots; and a stator coil inserted into the slots. The rotating-electrical-machine stator is characterized in that: the stator coil is provided with at least two conductors which are disposed in the same layer as a first conductor, and which are inserted into the slots adjacent to the first conductor; and the shapes of coil protrusions protruding radially outwards are configured so as to form arcs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUKUDA, Hisaya SHIMIZU, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Kenichi NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170097594
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a heat-fixing rubber roller includes: forming a rubber layer of a silicone rubber composition on an outer periphery of a metal core shaft, the composition containing water-soluble sugar powder and methylene glycol; vulcanizing the rubber layer; and eluting the sugar powder and the triethylene glycol from the vulcanized rubber layer to form a foam rubber layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuhisa ISHIKAWA, Shiro KATSUKI, Narutoshi KUSAKA, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Yoshimi MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20170047809
    Abstract: A dynamo-electric machine reduces the increase in temperature of a stator close to a cooling liquid outlet and a stator end portion, and that has excellent cooling performance. The dynamo-electric machine is provided with: a stator, a rotor that is held on the inner-diameter-side of the stator across a predetermined gap so as to be capable of rotating; and a housing that is located on the outer-diameter-side of the stator and holds the stator and the rotor. The housing is provided with a cooling liquid channel through which a cooling liquid flows, the radial height of the cooling liquid channel within the housing differing depending on the axial position of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Itsurou SAWADA, Riichi NAGAO, Shinji YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160276890
    Abstract: A stator in which the height of a coil end of a stator winding can be lowered is provided, and an electric rotating machine including such a stator is provided. In a stator of an electric rotating machine including a stator winding including neutral lines and output lines, the neutral lines are configured to include crawling portion extending circumferentially in the upper portion of a coil at the coil end, and the crawling portion includes an axial stepped portion. The output lines are configured to pass under the axial stepped portion in at least one location of three phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohiro FUKUDA, Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Hisaya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20160036282
    Abstract: Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped. portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected cit coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi NAKAYAMA, Tomohiro FUKUDA, Akira TOBA, Shinji YAMAZAKI, Takashi GENMOTO, Naoki NISHIKAWA, Hisaya SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20150056468
    Abstract: The high strength steel sheet has a chemical composition including 0.08% to 0.20% of C, 0.3% or less of Si, 0.1% to 3.0% of Mn, 0.10% or less of P, 0.030% or less of S, 0.10% or less of Al, 0.010% or less of N, 0.20% to 0.80% of V, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure which includes 95% or more of ferrite phase on an area percentage basis, in which fine precipitates are dispersed having a distribution in such a way that the number density of precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.0×105/?m3 or more and the standard deviation of natural logarithm values of precipitate particle sizes with respect to precipitates having a particle size of less than 10 nm is 1.5 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Taro Kizu, Yoshimasa Funakawa, Hidekazu Ookubo, Tokunori Kanemura, Masato Shigemi, Shoji Kasai, Shinji Yamazaki, Yusuke Yasufuku
  • Publication number: 20110240324
    Abstract: A vibration insulating device connects two members of a handheld work machine via a coil spring. One end of the coil spring is supported by a first supporting member fixed to one member, and the other end is supported by a second supporting member fixed to another member. At least one of the first and second supporting members includes a threaded groove that engages with the coil spring and a tool engaging portion that configured capable of being engaged with a general-purpose tightening tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki KONDO, Shinji YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7676902
    Abstract: In order to realize a method of forming a rotor core that improves the productivity and enhances the product accuracy, a forming method of a rotor that is equipped with both permanent-magnet fastener on the inner perimetric end of the magnetic pole claw of the rotor core and tapered surface on the outer perimetric end on one end of the magnetic pole claw in the circumferential direction. By constraining the inner perimetric surface of the magnetic pole claw by a die and applying a forming pressure in the radial direction, the tapered surface on the outer perimetric end of the magnetic pole claw and permanent-magnet fastener on the inner perimetric end can be formed at the same time and a rotor core with high product accuracy and mass-productivity is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kawai, Kouji Harada, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shinji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7336008
    Abstract: The invention concerns with connection of a lead from an electrical component of an alternator for a vehicle, and provides a terminal shape suitable for TIG welding (arc welding using a gas shielded non-consumable electrode) without being affected by dimensional accuracy of terminals to be connected to each other. Cross-shaped projections having a larger volume than a welded region of the terminal is provided near the welded region, and weld penetration (welding depth) is controlled based on a difference in heat capacity resulting from the volume difference, or melting is suppressed with promotion of heat radiation. Thus, the welding depth is stabilized without being affected by dimensional accuracy of the terminals including relative positions between them, and an alternator for a vehicle can be provided in which a lead from an electrical component has high connection reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wasei Horioka, Shin Onose, Shinji Yamazaki, Mitsuaki Izumi, Masami Takano
  • Patent number: 7023113
    Abstract: An alternator for a vehicle includes a stator having a stator winding, a rotor opposing to the stator through a gap, a rectifier for converting AC power generated by the stator winding into DC power, a frame which holds the stator and has a cooling medium path at least one end thereof being opened, and an end plate for hermetically closing the opened end of the cooling medium path, wherein a cathode side rectifying element constituting the rectifier is fixed to a portion of the end plate not opposing to the cooling medium path, and a cooling member, at which an anode side rectifying element constituting the rectifier is fixed, is fixed to the end plate in an insulated state so that the anode side rectifying element is disposed at a position lower in temperature than a fixed position where the cathode side rectifying element is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Tajima, Yuichiro Baba, Shinji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6924580
    Abstract: The rotor of a vehicle alternator can firmly fasten the permanent magnets between claw-shaped magnetic poles. The rotor includes a Lundell type iron core having claw-shaped magnetic poles which are alternately arranged and opposed each other and include a centered cylindrical field winding, and a permanent magnet disposed between the claw-shaped magnetic poles for increasing the magnetic field. The permanent magnet is held by radial elastic force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Tajima, Shinji Yamazaki, Wasei Horioka, Masahiko Honma
  • Patent number: 6917134
    Abstract: To reduce noise, there is provided an alternator for motor vehicles having a rotor and a stator which is mounted between a pair of brackets. In the alternator a stator core forming the stator is made up of laminations of thin sheets. And at least a part of the thin sheets making up the stator core are split into four divisions or more in the circumferential direction; the thin sheets of each layer being laid with splits thereof arranged alternately in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hirama, Eiji Naito, Sakae Ishida, Susumu Sasaki, Kenichiro Matsubara, Shinji Yamazaki, Susumu Tajima, Yoshiaki Honda
  • Patent number: 6864603
    Abstract: An automotive alternator comprises: a stator provided with a stator coil; a rotor supported for rotation in the stator to apply an alternative magnetic field to the stator; a regulator for regulating output; a rectifier for rectifying generated current; a plurality of housings holding the stator and the rotor; and a coolant path through which a coolant flows through at least one of the plurality of housings to transfer heat generated in the stator coil outside the automotive alternator. Fastening devices formed of a material having good heat conductance fasten the regulator and a heatsink for the regulator together to the housing at a position apart from the housing to transfer heat generated by the regulator to the housing. Thus, the automotive alternator can maintain a stable cooling ability in a hot atmosphere for a long time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Yamazaki, Wasei Horioka, Masami Takano, Susumu Tajima, Susumu Terumoto
  • Publication number: 20040205955
    Abstract: In order to realize a method of forming a rotor core that improves the productivity and enhances the product accuracy, a forming method of a rotor that is equipped with both permanent-magnet fastener on the inner perimetric end of the magnetic pole claw of the rotor core and tapered surface on the outer perimetric end on one end of the magnetic pole claw in the circumferential direction. By constraining the inner perimetric surface of the magnetic pole claw by a die and applying a forming pressure in the radial direction, the tapered surface on the outer perimetric end of the magnetic pole claw and permanent-magnet fastener on the inner perimetric end can be formed at the same time and a rotor core with high product accuracy and mass-productivity is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Kawai, Kouji Harada, Masayuki Kobayashi, Shinji Yamazaki