Patents by Inventor Takahiro Tsutsumi
Takahiro Tsutsumi 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: 11264848Abstract: A rotor core has first and second magnet insertion holes along an outer circumference, and first and second slits along an inner circumference. The first and second slits have first and second facing portions facing each other. The first facing portion has a first inner end and a first outer end. The second facing portion has a second inner end and a second outer end. An inter-slit portion is provided between the first and second facing portions and is defined by a first straight line connecting the first and second inner ends and a second straight line connecting the first and second outer ends. In a radial direction of the rotor core, a minimum distance D1 from the inner circumference to the slits, a minimum width W1 of the slits, and a length W2 of the inter-slit portion satisfy at least one of D1<W1 and D1<W2.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Yoshikazu Fujisue, Kazuya Kumagai, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 11155730Abstract: The present invention provides a solvent-free varnish composition, including: a thermosetting resin (A) having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups in a molecule thereof; a thermosetting resin (B) having one or more epoxy groups in a molecule thereof; a monofunctional vinyl-based monomer having an ether bond or an ester bond; an organic peroxide having a 10-hour half-life temperature of 40° C. or more; and a curing catalyst for an epoxy resin, in which a mixed resin of the thermosetting resin (A) and the thermosetting resin (B) has an epoxy equivalent of from 500 to 5,000. The solvent-free varnish composition can be used as an insulating varnish that shows a small energy loss and requires a short curing time in its curing treatment step, and that provides a cured product that barely causes the precipitation of an oligomer or the like even when exposed to a refrigerant-based environment containing a refrigerant and a refrigerating machine oil under high temperature and high pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Yasuda, Shigeyuki Yamamoto, Toshifumi Kanri, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Masashi Ono, Kosuke Sano, Yukio Hidaka
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Patent number: 10978923Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor including a permanent magnet and an electromagnetic steel sheet. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes a magnet insertion hole, a first outer peripheral surface including an inter-pole part of the rotor, a second outer peripheral surface including a magnetic pole center part of the rotor, a first slit elongated in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a first portion formed between the first slit and the magnet insertion hole. A distance from the first outer peripheral surface to the stator is larger than a distance from the second outer peripheral surface to the stator. The electric motor satisfies ?a<?b, where ?a is a first angle formed by a first line and a second line and ?b is a second angle formed by a third line and the second line.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Yoshikazu Fujisue, Kazuya Kumagai, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 10897168Abstract: A magnetizing method includes the steps of preparing a rotor comprising a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole, placing the rotor so as to face a tooth around which a winding is wound, rotating the rotor in a first rotating direction by a first angle ?1 from a rotational position where a center of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction of the rotor core faces a middle portion between both ends of the winding in the circumferential direction and supplying electric current to the winding, and rotating the rotor in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction by a second angle ?2 from the rotational position direction and supplying electric current to the winding. The second angle ?2 is smaller than the first angle ?1.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Yoshikazu Fujisue, Kazuya Kumagai, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 10700563Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole. The rotor core has a slit on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is magnetized by placing the rotor so as to face a tooth around which a winding is wound, rotating the rotor in a first rotating direction from a rotational position where a center of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction of the rotor core faces a middle portion between both ends of the winding in the circumferential direction and supplying electric current to the winding, and rotating the rotor in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction from the rotational position and supplying electric current to the winding.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Yoshikazu Fujisue, Kazuya Kumagai, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20200014259Abstract: A rotor core has first and second magnet insertion holes along an outer circumference, and first and second slits along an inner circumference. The first and second slits have first and second facing portions facing each other. The first facing portion has a first inner end and a first outer end. The second facing portion has a second inner end and a second outer end. An inter-slit portion is provided between the first and second facing portions and is defined by a first straight line connecting the first and second inner ends and a second straight line connecting the first and second outer ends. In a radial direction of the rotor core, a minimum distance D1 from the inner circumference to the slits, a minimum width W1 of the slits, and a length W2 of the inter-slit portion satisfy at least one of D1<W1 and D1<W2.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Koji YABE, Yoshikazu FUJISUE, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20190356185Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor including a permanent magnet and an electromagnetic steel sheet. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes a magnet insertion hole, a first outer peripheral surface including an inter-pole part of the rotor, a second outer peripheral surface including a magnetic pole center part of the rotor, a first slit elongated in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a first portion formed between the first slit and the magnet insertion hole. A distance from the first outer peripheral surface to the stator is larger than a distance from the second outer peripheral surface to the stator. The electric motor satisfies ?a<?b, where ?a is a first angle formed by a first line and a second line and ?b is a second angle formed by a third line and the second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji YABE, Yoshikazu FUJISUE, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Patent number: 10389215Abstract: A motor including a rotor, and a stator having a plurality of coils wound around slots, wherein at least any one of the coils includes a single aluminum wire, a single copper wire joined to the aluminum wire, a stranded wire (lead wire) joined to the copper wire, a cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion) joined between the aluminum wire and the copper wire by cold pressure welding, and a non-pressure welded joint portion (joint portion) provided between the copper wire and the stranded wire (lead wire). A burr covered by an insulation member (insulation tube) is provided in the cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion). A thickness of the insulation member (insulation tube) is larger than a height of the burr.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Tomoaki Oikawa
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Patent number: 10348145Abstract: A rotor is connected to a shaft member and rotates about a central axis. The rotor includes a shaft hole having at least part of the shaft member disposed therein; and flow paths disposed around the shaft member and penetrating the rotor in a direction parallel with the central axis. Each flow path has a first surface facing outward in the radial direction; a second surface disposed outward of the first surface in the radial direction and facing the first surface; a third surface connecting the first and second surfaces at one end in a rotational direction about the central axis; a fourth surface connecting the first and second surfaces at the other end in the rotational direction. The condition C<D is satisfied, where C is the distance between both ends of the first surface, and D is the distance between both ends of the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Yabe, Kazuhiko Baba, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20190052137Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole. The rotor core has a slit on an outer side of the magnet insertion hole in a radial direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is magnetized by placing the rotor so as to face a tooth around which a winding is wound, rotating the rotor in a first rotating direction from a rotational position where a center of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction of the rotor core faces a middle portion between both ends of the winding in the circumferential direction and supplying electric current to the winding, and rotating the rotor in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction from the rotational position and supplying electric current to the winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Koji YABE, Yoshikazu FUJISUE, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20180337570Abstract: A magnetizing method includes the steps of preparing a rotor comprising a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet provided in the magnet insertion hole, placing the rotor so as to face a tooth around which a winding is wound, rotating the rotor in a first rotating direction by a first angle ?1 from a rotational position where a center of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction of the rotor core faces a middle portion between both ends of the winding in the circumferential direction and supplying electric current to the winding, and rotating the rotor in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction by a second angle ?2 from the rotational position direction and supplying electric current to the winding. The second angle ?2 is smaller than the first angle ?1.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2016Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Koji YABE, Yoshikazu FUJISUE, Kazuya KUMAGAI, Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20180258313Abstract: The present invention provides a solvent-free varnish composition, including: a thermosetting resin (A) having two or more (meth)acryloyl groups in a molecule thereof; a thermosetting resin (B) having one or more epoxy groups in a molecule thereof; a monofunctional vinyl-based monomer having an ether bond or an ester bond; an organic peroxide having a 10-hour half-life temperature of 40° C. or more; and a curing catalyst for an epoxy resin, in which a mixed resin of the thermosetting resin (A) and the thermosetting resin (B) has an epoxy equivalent of from 500 to 5,000. The solvent-free varnish composition can be used as an insulating varnish that shows a small energy loss and requires a short curing time in its curing treatment step, and that provides a cured product that barely causes the precipitation of an oligomer or the like even when exposed to a refrigerant-based environment containing a refrigerant and a refrigerating machine oil under high temperature and high pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2015Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki YASUDA, Shigeyuki YAMAMOTO, Toshifumi KANRI, Takahiro TSUTSUMI, Masashi ONO, Kosuke SANO, Yukio HIDAKA
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Patent number: 9992898Abstract: An electronic device includes a base plate, and a plurality of modules detachably attached to the base plate. The modules comprise a terminal block module. The terminal block module has an openable and closable door at a pullout end portion-side. The door has an attribute information display part configured to display attribute information of a device to be connected to the terminal block module.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Takahiro Tsutsumi, Yasuhiro Owaki, Kouichirou Shimamura
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Patent number: 9888147Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a text area extractor that extracts multiple text areas from image data including texts; a font size calculator that calculates the font sizes of characters in each text area; a complexity calculator that calculates the complexities of characters in each text; a necessary resolution calculator that calculates a necessary resolution for the each text area with reference to the font sizes and the complexities; a resolution determination portion that merges text areas into a layer if a difference in the necessary resolution between the text areas is equal to or less than a specified value and that determines a necessary resolution for the layer with reference to the necessary resolutions for the text areas constituting the layer; and a resolution adjustment portion that adjusts the necessary resolutions for the text areas constituting the layer to a value identical to the necessary resolution for the layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventor: Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 9881001Abstract: An image processing device, comprises: an input part for inputting image data; a word extracting part for extracting a word from texts contained in the image data; a synonym obtaining part for obtaining a synonym corresponds to the word, and for associating the obtained synonym with the word; a position identifying part for identifying a display position on the image data of the word with which the synonym is associated; a layer creating part for creating an accompanying layer to add to an original layer, which is the image data containing the word, and for embedding the synonym associated with the word within a position on the accompanying layer the same as the display position identified by the position identifying part; and an output image generating part for generating output image data including the original layer containing the word and the accompanying layer within which the synonym is embedded.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.Inventors: Katsuaki Wakui, Hideyuki Hashimoto, Takahiro Tsutsumi
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Publication number: 20170064141Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a text area extractor that extracts multiple text areas from image data including texts; a font size calculator that calculates the font sizes of characters in each text area; a complexity calculator that calculates the complexities of characters in each text; a necessary resolution calculator that calculates a necessary resolution for the each text area with reference to the font sizes and the complexities; a resolution determination portion that merges text areas into a layer if a difference in the necessary resolution between the text areas is equal to or less than a specified value and that determines a necessary resolution for the layer with reference to the necessary resolutions for the text areas constituting the layer; and a resolution adjustment portion that adjusts the necessary resolutions for the text areas constituting the layer to a value identical to the necessary resolution for the layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.Inventor: Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20170047802Abstract: A rotor is connected to a shaft member and rotates about a central axis. The rotor includes a shaft hole having at least part of the shaft member disposed therein; and flow paths disposed around the shaft member and penetrating the rotor in a direction parallel with the central axis. Each flow path has a first surface facing outward in the radial direction; a second surface disposed outward of the first surface in the radial direction and facing the first surface; a third surface connecting the first and second surfaces at one end in a rotational direction about the central axis; a fourth surface connecting the first and second surfaces at the other end in the rotational direction. The condition C<D is satisfied, where C is the distance between both ends of the first surface, and D is the distance between both ends of the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2014Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Koji YABE, Kazuhiko BABA, Takahiro TSUTSUMI
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Publication number: 20170018982Abstract: An aluminum wire, which is an electric wire of an electric motor of a compressor, is wound around a copper wire, which is another electric wire, at interval in the length direction. The portion around which the aluminum wire is wound is brazed with a brazing material containing a flux. Thus, the aluminum wire and the copper wire are joined together, and an electric wire joint section is formed. Insulating paper is mounted to the electric wire joint section. The inner surface of the insulating paper is brought into contact with the surface of the electric wire joint section to which a residue of the flux adheres.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Siam Compressor Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masashi ONO, Takahiro TSUTSUMI, Toshio ARAI, Sadami OKUGAWA, Taro KATO, Suriwipha CHANLAKON, Nuttagun JENWEERAWAT
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Patent number: 9521773Abstract: An electronic device includes a base plate, a plurality of modules detachably fitted and connected to the base plate, a plurality of mounting members configured to detachably mount the base plate to a DIN rail, and an operation lever provided on the base plate and configured to be engaged with the mounting members and to be operable from a front surface of the base plate. When the operation lever is operated, an engaged state between the mounting members and the DIN rail is released.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Izumi, Hiroki Kuraishi, Yasuhiro Owaki, Takahiro Tsutsumi, Koichiro Shimamura
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Publication number: 20160344269Abstract: A motor including a rotor, and a stator having a plurality of coils wound around slots, wherein at least any one of the coils includes a single aluminum wire, a single copper wire joined to the aluminum wire, a stranded wire (lead wire) joined to the copper wire, a cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion) joined between the aluminum wire and the copper wire by cold pressure welding, and a non-pressure welded joint portion (joint portion) provided between the copper wire and the stranded wire (lead wire). A burr covered by an insulation member (insulation tube) is provided in the cold-pressure-welded joint portion (joint portion). A thickness of the insulation member (insulation tube) is larger than a height of the burr.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: November 24, 2016Inventors: Koji YABE, Kazuhiko BABA, Takahiro TSUTSUMI, Tomoaki OIKAWA