Patents by Inventor Shogo Okamoto
Shogo Okamoto 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).
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Patent number: 10110083Abstract: A side surface at the outside of a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core is faced to a side surface of teeth portions of an adjacent separated core, so as to form a second slot which is straddled between the adjacent separated cores, and a first slot is formed by a plurality of teeth portions of one separated core, and a width size of the first slot is identical to a width size of the second slot, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the first slot via a first insulating component, and coil conductor storage space is formed in the second slot via a second insulating component, and a thickness size of the first insulating component is different from a thickness size of the second insulating component.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2013Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Manabu Yoshinori, Atsushi Sakaue, Tatsuro Hino, Hironori Tsuiki, Shinichi Okada, Hiroki Shiota, Masaya Inoue, Shogo Okamoto, Shinji Nishimura, Akira Hashimoto, Shinkichi Sawa, Yutaka Ikura, Ryuichi Kitora
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Patent number: 10056799Abstract: A coil group 23G is composed of windings 23U to 23W for U phase, V phase, and W phase. One ends 23U1 to 23W1 of the windings for the respective phases composing the coil group 23G are connected to respective power supply bus bars 25U to 25W, and the other ends 23U2 and 23W2 of the windings for the phases positioned at both ends in the circumferential direction in the coil group 23G extend toward the other end 23V2 of the winding for the rest of the phases, whereby the other ends 23U2 to 23W2 of the windings for the respective phases are mutually connected.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shogo Okamoto, Ken Nishikawa, Masashi Nakamura, Akihiro Yamamura, Kota Hirohashi, Yoshiki Kuwahara
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Publication number: 20180226852Abstract: A stator coil has a first layer wound around a tooth portion of a stator core-sequentially from the radially outer side to the radially inner side of a stator, and is wound while a winding direction is reversed for each layer. If the outermost layer is denoted by n (n is an odd number equal to or greater than 3) and the final turn in each layer is denoted by m (m is equal to or greater than 2), the m-th turn in the n-th layer is wound on the radially outer side of the stator, the stator coil on the radially inner side is lane-changed on a shorter-side tooth portion, and a part of the stator coil on the radially outer side in the outermost layer is lane-changed on a longer-side tooth portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2015Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ryuji KITAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Masaya INOUE
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Publication number: 20180194359Abstract: An intention inference part infers a future intention of a user. A time calculator to calculate an available time during which operation is properly executable, the operation corresponding to the feature intention of the user inferred by the intention inference part. A determination part determines, on a basis of the available time, whether the operation is executable or not. A recommendation-mode determination part controls an output device to output content of the operation in different modes depending on a determination of the determination part regarding whether the operation is executable or not.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takuji MORIMOTO, Kimika IKEGAMI, Shogo OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10008900Abstract: A fixing member (14) formed of an annular metal material is molded integrally with a connecting plate (13) to constitute a connecting plate structure (9), said connecting plate (13) consisting of a plurality of bus bars (11) and a holder (12) for fixing and holding the bus bars. The fixing member (14) has an annular portion (14a) touching a frame (8) for holding a stator (4), and the connecting plate structure (9) is fixed to the frame (8) by the whole or a part of the surface of the annular portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Bessho, Masashi Nakamura, Keisuke Murase, Toshiki Kuwahara, Shogo Okamoto, Masaya Inoue
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Publication number: 20180148066Abstract: When the number of pieces of traveling data belonging to the same category as a category of the current traveling data is equal to or greater than a first number being predetermined, a driving characteristic measurement apparatus selects the traveling data, and, when the number of pieces of the traveling data is less than the first number, selects traveling data whose number of pieces is not less than the first number, from among traveling data belonging to a category similar to the category of the current traveling data. The driving characteristic measurement apparatus measures driving characteristics on a currently traveling road using the selected traveling data.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo OKAMOTO, Takuji MORIMOTO, Kimika IKEGAMI
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Patent number: 9954408Abstract: A connection member for supplying a stator winding with a current is constituted by covering a bus bar with a insulating resin. The bus bar is formed in an arc-like shape in the thickness direction of a belt-shaped conductor. Additionally, a weld zone formed on the bus bar has a projection portion projecting in the width direction, a first bent portion bent outside the arc from the projection portion in the thickness direction, and a second bent portion with the tip end thereof folded back in the width direction to allow the tip end of the second bent portion to be welded to a terminal on the stator winding.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Tomohiro Bessho, Katsuhiko Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9935515Abstract: An armature winding is configured by mounting into an armature core a plurality of distributed-winding coils that are each produced by bending and shaping a conductor wire that is coated with insulation, coil ends are configured by arranging coil end portion rows that are formed by arranging coil end portions of the coils in a single row circumferentially in n layers in a radial direction, where n is an integer that is greater than or equal to 1, and an interphase insulating material includes: a strip-shaped insulating sheet material that is inserted inside the coil end portions, and that is disposed so as to extend circumferentially between the coil end portion rows; and an insulating buffering material that is formed on one surface of the insulating sheet material, and that is fixed to the coil end portion rows by forming air bubble groups internally.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Tatsuro Hino
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Patent number: 9906085Abstract: Small coil groups are each configured by connecting a plurality of winding bodies in series by passing crossover portions that are formed by bending first conductor terminals radially outward axially outside a coil end and joining the crossover portions to second conductor terminals that are subject to joining, the first conductor terminals that constitute first ends of the small coil group are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially inner side of a circular arc-shaped region that extends circumferentially around the coil end, the second conductor terminals that constitute second ends of the small coil group are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially outer side of the circular arc-shaped region of the coil end, and a stator winding is produced by connecting the small coil groups within the circular arc-shaped region.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto, Atsushi Sakaue
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Patent number: 9893594Abstract: Provided is an armature for a rotating electrical machine, which is capable of improving heat dissipation performance of an edgewise coil to enhance efficiency of the rotating electrical machine. The armature for a rotating electrical machine includes: a core including a yoke section and a tooth section that protrudes from the yoke section; an edgewise coil to be inserted onto the tooth section through intermediation of an insulating member, the edgewise coil being formed by winding a rectangular wire having a rectangular conductor cross-section through edgewise bending; and a heat transfer member filled into a gap between the tooth section and the edgewise coil. The armature has different gaps formed at two regions between the tooth section and a long side of the edgewise coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Yoshida, Shuichi Tamura, Masaya Inoue, Akihiro Yamamura, Koichi Ojima, Shogo Okamoto, Yutaro Shirai
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Publication number: 20170358974Abstract: Obtain a rotary electric machine in which attachment of a sensor stator to a case having a cylindrical shape is not required, and a stator is inserted to the case having a cylindrical shape, whereby the sensor stator can be easily arranged at the inside of the case having a cylindrical shape. The rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a sensor rotor, which are maintained to a rotary shaft and are arranged in a shaft direction of the rotary shaft; a stator which is faced to the rotor and is arranged at the inside of a case having a cylindrical shape; and a sensor stator which is supported to sensor supporting components which are provided at end portions in a shaft direction of the stator, and is faced to the sensor rotor and is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Ryuji KITAMURA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Masaya INOUE
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Publication number: 20170288480Abstract: While lamination of steel sheets to be included in a stator core having a plurality of tooth portions is performed through swaging at yoke portions and through swaging at tooth portions, the stator core is formed in such a way as to include the tooth portion having a portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging and the tooth portion having no portion that is pressed into another steel sheet through swaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Tadashi MURAKAMI, Naomi KIKUCHI, Atsushi SAKAUE, Tatsuro HINO, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Shinji NISHIMURA, Masaya INOUE
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Patent number: 9755471Abstract: In a concentrated winding stator, which has a separated iron core structure, of a rotary electric machine, a length of ear portions 3c of insulating sheets 3, which are protruded between neighboring winding 4, is set as a length by which a creepage distance, which is required for an insulation between the neighboring windings 4, can be secured.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kota Katsuragi, Shogo Okamoto, Shinichiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20170217083Abstract: The present invention is provided with: an insulation holder formed of a thermoplastic resin material and having a first opening; a wire connection ring formed of a thermoplastic resin material and having a second opening; and a joining component inserted astride in the first opening and the second opening, the joining component being formed of a metal material having a higher melting point than those of the thermoplastic resin materials, the joining component having a higher stiffness than those of the insulation holder and the wire connection ring, wherein a welded part is formed by welding in at least a part of an area where each of the Insulation holder and the wire connection ring has contact with the joining component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiki KUWAHARA, Ryuichi KITORA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Masashi NAKAMURA, Shinichiro YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 9722466Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a stator in which a plurality of armatures each have a coil formed by a winding wire wound in plural layers around bobbins mounted to a magnetic pole tooth, which are disposed annularly on an inner circumference of a cylindrical frame. The coil is formed by the winding wire being wound with a constant feed pitch in parallel with slots of the bobbins in plural layers. The winding wire forming a first layer of the coil is shifted by half the feed pitch between a left side and a right side of a center axis of the coil as viewed from a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction of a stacked iron core.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hironori Tsuiki, Shinichiro Yoshida, Yutaro Shirai, Hiroyuki Akita, Masaya Inoue, Daisuke Shijo, Shogo Okamoto
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Patent number: 9712012Abstract: An armature winding includes a plurality of distributed winding bodies that are each produced by winding a single conductor wire that is insulated, jointless, and continuous, and that has a constant cross-sectional area perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the conductor wires include first through third coil end portions that link first through fourth rectilinear portions and first through fourth rectilinear portions, and are formed such that radial widths w? of the first through fourth rectilinear portions are wider than radial widths w of the first through third coil end portions, and first gaps are formed between radially adjacent coil end portions to allow a cooling medium to pass through the first gaps.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hirohisa Yokota, Atsushi Sakaue, Hironori Tsuiki, Tatsuro Hino, Shinkichi Sawa, Masashi Nakamura, Shogo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20160344270Abstract: This stator includes: a plurality of divided core units 11a and 11b which respectively have: a plurality of annular divided cores 12a and 12b in each of which a plurality of tooth portions 13 are provided at a predetermined interval on the inner periphery of the corresponding one of annular back yoke portions 14 which are formed as a plurality of divided parts in the axial direction of the rotary electric machine; and a plurality of coils 15 respectively mounted to the tooth portions, wherein the plurality of divided core units are assembled in the axial direction such that the tooth portions thereof are coupled to each other via the annular back yoke portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2014Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kota KATSURAGI, Shogo OKAMOTO, Tatsuro HINO
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Patent number: 9467018Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes: a stator (1) of concentrated winding in which a stator winding (14) is wound around a stator core (11), the stator core including a coil bobbin (13) and an insulating paper (12); and as a mechanism for supporting a terminal portion of the stator winding extending from the stator disposed in an annular shape, an end portion supporting member (18) for supporting a winding finishing end portion of the stator winding in a substantially linear section (16) of the stator winding, the substantially linear section being provided from a last winding portion of the coil bobbin to the winding finishing end portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshiaki Kitta, Shogo Okamoto
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Publication number: 20160190884Abstract: Small coil groups are each configured by connecting a plurality of winding bodies in series by passing crossover portions that are formed by bending first conductor terminals radially outward axially outside a coil end and joining the crossover portions to second conductor terminals that are subject to joining, the first conductor terminals that constitute first ends of the small coil group are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially inner side of a circular arc-shaped region that extends circumferentially around the coil end, the second conductor terminals that constitute second ends of the small coil group are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other circumferentially around a radially outer side of the circular arc-shaped region of the coil end, and a stator winding is produced by connecting the small coil groups within the circular arc-shaped region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2013Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Masashi NAKAMURA, Shogo OKAMOTO, Atsushi SAKAUE
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Publication number: 20160190886Abstract: A coil group 23G is composed of windings 23U to 23W for U phase, V phase, and W phase. One ends 23U1 to 23W1 of the windings for the respective phases composing the coil group 23G are connected to respective power supply bus bars 25U to 25W, and the other ends 23U2 and 23W2 of the windings for the phases positioned at both ends in the circumferential direction in the coil group 23G extend toward the other end 23V2 of the winding for the rest of the phases, whereby the other ends 23U2 to 23W2 of the windings for the respective phases are mutually connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo OKAMOTO, Ken NISHIKAWA, Masashi NAKAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Kota HIROHASHI, Yoshiki KUWAHARA