Patents by Inventor Shinobu Sekito

Shinobu Sekito 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: 7973243
    Abstract: A coil insulator of an electrical rotating machine used as a main insulator for insulating a bundle of conductors formed of a plurality of insulated wires to form an armature coil provided in a slot of a rotor core or a stator core of an electrical rotating machine, wherein the coil insulator includes a mica layer including at least one of a peeled-off mica and a composite mica, a woven- or unwoven cloth including at least one of inorganic and organic materials, hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles having a graphitization index of 1.8 or more, and thermosetting polymer organic resin which integrally connects the mica layer and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles to each other, and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatano, Katsuhiko Yoshida, Toshimitsu Yamada, Shinobu Sekito, Susumu Nagano, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20100073012
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method of detecting water leakage in a coil, which determines whether or not cooling water leaks into an insulation layer, the water being supplied to a conductor of a coil covered with the insulation layer, including: applying an AC voltage to the conductor; bringing a surface electrode device into pressure contact with the insulation layer; grounding the surface electrode device through an impedance; measuring a potential of the surface electrode device; and determining that the cooling water leaks from the conductor into the insulation layer when a measured potential is higher than a potential of a normal coil
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: TOSHIBA PLANT SYSTEMS & SERVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hideyuki Shimada, Shinobu Sekito, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kaneiwa, Shinji Uemoto, Junichi Hirai
  • Patent number: 7507911
    Abstract: A coil for an electric rotating machine is configured with a conductor which is formed by bundling a plurality of square strands and stacking the square strands like a coil with Roebel transposition, mica tape which is wound a plurality of layers around an outer surface of the conductor and made up of mica paper and glass cloth backing, and an insulation wall formed by impregnating and curing resin between wound layers of the mica tape. Inorganic particles are supported with the glass cloth backing on the mica tape using an adhesive containing glue insoluble in the impregnated resin as an indispensable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yoshida, Noriyuki Iwata, Hiroshi Hatano, Susumu Nagano, Shinobu Sekito, Toshimitsu Yamada, Makoto Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20090072654
    Abstract: A coil insulator of an electrical rotating machine used as a main insulator for insulating a bundle of conductors formed of a plurality of insulated wires to form an armature coil provided in a slot of a rotor core or a stator core of an electrical rotating machine, wherein the coil insulator includes a mica layer including at least one of a peeled-off mica and a composite mica, a woven- or unwoven cloth including at least one of inorganic and organic materials, hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles having a graphitization index of 1.8 or more, and thermosetting polymer organic resin which integrally connects the mica layer and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles to each other, and the hexagonal crystal boron nitride particles is oriented in a longitudinal direction of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hatano, Katsuhiko Yoshida, Toshimitsu Yamada, Shinobu Sekito, Susumu Nagano, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 7294788
    Abstract: A coil for an electric rotating machine is configured with a conductor which is formed by bundling a plurality of square strands and stacking the square strands like a coil with Roebel transposition, mica cape which is wound a plurality of layers around an outer surface of the conductor and made up of mica paper and glass cloth backing, and an insulation wall formed by impregnating and curing resin between wound layers of the mica tape. Inorganic particles are supported with the glass cloth backing on the mica tape using an adhesive containing glue insoluble in the impregnated resin as an indispensable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yoshida, Noriyuki Iwata, Hiroshi Hatano, Susumu Nagano, Shinobu Sekito, Toshimitsu Yamada, Makoto Kawahara
  • Publication number: 20070222308
    Abstract: A coil for an electric rotating machine is configured with a conductor which is formed by bundling a plurality of square strands and stacking the square strands like a coil with Roebel transposition, mica tape which is wound a plurality of layers around an outer surface of the conductor and made up of mica paper and glass cloth backing, and an insulation wall formed by impregnating and curing resin between wound layers of the mica tape. Inorganic particles are supported with the glass cloth backing on the mica tape using an adhesive containing glue insoluble in the impregnated resin as an indispensable component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuhiko YOSHIDA, Noriyuki Iwata, Hiroshi HATANO, Susumu NAGANO, Shinobu SEKITO, Toshimitsu YAMADA, Makoto KAWAHARA
  • Publication number: 20070139056
    Abstract: A partial discharge detection apparatus of an electrical rotating machine includes a metal frame connected to a stator frame of the electrical rotating machine, a power line connected to one of a stator winding corresponding to one phase of three phases in the metal frame and a neutral point lead line connected to a neutral point of three-phase stator windings and arranged in the metal frame to propagate a partial discharge signal generated by degradation of the stator winding, a sensor including a rod antenna which is installed around the power line or neutral point lead line in the metal frame to electrostatically and magnetically induce the partial discharge signal propagated to the power line or neutral point lead line, and a detector which receives, via a signal lead line, a signal generated in the sensor and detects partial discharge by signal processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi KANEIWA, Masahiro Sakai, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Shinobu Sekito
  • Publication number: 20040094325
    Abstract: A coil for an electric rotating machine is configured with a conductor which is formed by bundling a plurality of square strands and stacking the square strands like a coil with Roebel transposition, mica cape which is wound a plurality of layers around an outer surface of the conductor and made up of mica paper and glass cloth backing, and an insulation wall formed by impregnating and curing resin between wound layers of the mica tape. Inorganic particles are supported with the glass cloth backing on the mica tape using an adhesive containing glue insoluble in the impregnated resin as an indispensable component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Yoshida, Noriyuki Iwata, Hiroshi Hatano, Susumu Nagano, Shinobu Sekito, Toshimitsu Yamada, Makoto Kawahara
  • Patent number: 5736655
    Abstract: A remaining life of a stator coil resulting from galvanic corrosion between different kinds of metals in a rotating machine adopting a water cooling system and remaining life of a stator coil's insulating layer resulting from a wet heat degeneration can be positively and integrally evaluated according to the present invention by sampling a brazing section between the stator coil clip and copper wires, cutting off the sampled brazing section in a copper wire array direction, measuring a joined section brazed with a brazing material as a copper wire direction length and finding an effective sealing length of that brazing section or sampling an insulating layer of the stator coil, finding infrared spectra of the insulating layer, comparing the infrared spectra of the insulating layer of the stator coil with infrared spectra of a healthy stator coil's insulating layer not penetrated by water, finding difference spectra of an ester group of an epoxy resin used as a bonding agent of the insulating layer and predict
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shinobu Sekito, Yukio Kanazawa, Norikazu Arima, Hiromichi Ito, Susumu Nagano, Makoto Tari, Takeshi Tanii