Patents by Inventor Takaya SHIMOKAWA

Takaya SHIMOKAWA 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: 11949290
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator provided to surround the rotor. The rotor has a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole and a permanent magnet disposed in the magnet insertion hole and is rotatable about a rotation axis. The stator has a stator core with a tooth facing the rotor, and a coil wound around the tooth. The permanent magnet has a thickness thicker than or equal to 2.1 mm in a direction in which the permanent magnet faces the stator and is magnetized in a direction of the thickness. A minimum gap AG (mm) between the rotor and the stator, a winding number Nt of the coil around the tooth, an overcurrent threshold Ip (A) for a current flowing through the coil, and a lower limit Hct (kA/m) of a coercive force of the permanent magnet satisfy Hct?0.4×(Ip×Nt/AG)+410.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20240097533
    Abstract: A rotor includes a resin magnet and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The resin magnet includes a first magnetic flux generating part having a first magnetic pole center and a first inter-pole part and a second magnetic flux generating part having a second magnetic pole center and a second inter-pole part. The first inter-pole part and the second inter-pole part are shifted to each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11909259
    Abstract: A stator includes a first core that includes a first tooth extending in a first radial direction and a first core back extending in a circumferential direction and a second core that includes a second tooth extending in a second radial direction and a second core back extending in the circumferential direction. The first core back includes a depression formed with at least a first face and a second face in an outer peripheral surface of the first core back and a connection part facing the second core back. The stator satisfies ?1<?2, where ?1 represents an angle between the first face and the first radial direction and ?2 represents an angle between the second face and the first radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240030756
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having 10×N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 1) magnetic poles and a stator including 9×N teeth. A center tooth includes a first main body and a first tooth end portion. A downstream-side tooth includes a second main body and a second tooth end portion. The electric motor satisfies TCR>TBR, where TCR is a maximum length of the first upstream-side portion in the first upstream-side radial direction of the first tooth end portion and TBR is a maximum length of the second upstream-side portion in the second upstream-side radial direction of the second tooth end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11852167
    Abstract: A motor has a sufficient heat dissipation function even when a non-magnetic material having low thermal conductivity is used for a shaft of a motor using a consequent pole rotor. A motor includes: a stator; a consequent pole rotor including a rotor core and a magnet; a casing housing the stator and the rotor; a shaft including a non-magnetic material and fixed to the rotor; and heat dissipation blades that are a first heat dissipation promoting means that rotates with the shaft. This promotes heat dissipation through a heat dissipation path from an inside of the motor through the shaft, preventing problems due to overheat in the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Naoki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11817740
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator assembly, and a plurality of heat dissipation members fixed to the stator assembly and to release heat of the stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Ryogo Takahashi, Takanori Watanabe, Kazuma Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20230358243
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator surrounding the rotor, a circuit board attached to the stator, a mold resin part covering the stator and the circuit board, a lead wire connected to the circuit board and drawn out of the mold resin part, and a cover member provided on the mold resin part and made of a resin. The cover portion and an outer circumferential surface of the mold resin part form a housing space in which the lead wire is housed. The cover portion has a hole portion through which the lead wire is drawn out of the housing space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11811265
    Abstract: A motor includes an annular stator core having a plurality of core segments connected via connecting portions in a circumferential direction about an axis, a cover portion covering the stator core and having a core-surrounding portion surrounding the stator core from an outer side in a radial direction about the axis, and a rotor having a rotor core provided on an inner side of the stator core in the radial direction and a magnet attached to the rotor core. The magnet forms a first magnetic pole, and a part of the rotor core forms a second magnetic pole. A minimum distance R1 in the radial direction from the axis to an outer circumference of the core-surrounding portion and a minimum distance R2 in the radial direction from the axis to an outer circumference of the stator core satisfy R1?1.15×R2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20230318372
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotary shaft, a first permanent magnet supported by the rotary shaft, and a second permanent magnet supported by an outer periphery of the first permanent magnet and having a magnetic pole stronger than a magnetic pole of the first permanent magnet . The second permanent magnet includes a plurality of magnet parts arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the first permanent magnet. A first width as a width in the circumferential direction of each of the plurality of magnet parts at a central part of the first permanent magnet in an axial direction of the rotary shaft is wider than a second width as a width in the circumferential direction of each of the magnet parts at an end part of the first permanent magnet in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230243360
    Abstract: A blower includes a rotor that includes a shaft, a rotor core in an annular shape about at a central axis of the shaft, and permanent magnets attached to the rotor core. The permanent magnets form magnet magnetic poles, portions of the rotor core form virtual magnetic poles, and a number of magnetic poles including the magnet magnetic poles and the virtual magnetic poles is P. The blower includes a stator that surrounds the rotor from outside in a radial direction about the central axis and includes S slots arranged in a circumferential direction about the central axis, and N blades that are attached to the shaft and arranged in the circumferential direction. A combination of the number P of magnetic poles and the number S of slots is one of P=8 and S=9, P=10 and S=9, P=10 and S=12 and P=14 and S=12. The number N of blades is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 10 excluding integral multiples of P/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Naoki TAMURA, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11658526
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Junichiro Oya, Naoki Tamura
  • Patent number: 11624521
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a magnetic sensor. The stator has an iron core and a magnetic flux coil. The rotor has a rotary shaft and a cylindrical rotor magnet. The magnetic sensor has a sensor unit that outputs an electric signal based on an applied magnetic flux. The rotor magnet is disposed so as to face the iron core of the stator. The rotor magnet has a main magnet unit and a sensor magnet unit that is formed integrally with the main magnet unit and has an external diameter smaller than an external diameter of the main magnet unit. The magnetic sensor is disposed beside the sensor magnet unit. An outer circumferential edge of the sensor magnet unit is located farther away from the rotary shaft than a center of the sensor unit. The magnetic sensor is configured such that a center of the sensor unit and a center of the magnetic sensor do not match each other, and the center of the sensor unit is closer to the sensor magnet unit than the center of the magnetic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Junichiro Oya, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Yuto Urabe, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20230075941
    Abstract: An outdoor unit includes a motor. The motor includes a rotor having a rotor core and a permanent magnet fixed to the rotor core, the permanent magnet forming a magnet magnetic pole, a part of the rotor core forming a virtual magnetic pole, and a stator surrounding the rotor. The outdoor unit further includes a frame holding the motor, a support body supporting the frame, a unit housing in which the frame and the support body are housed, and a nonmagnetic body disposed between the support body and the unit housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Daisuke MORISHITA
  • Publication number: 20230071188
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a core back in an annular shape about an axis, and a nonmagnetic mold resin part surrounding the stator core from outside in a radial direction about the axis. The stator core has a core-back gap passing in the radial direction through at least a part of the core back in a circumferential direction about the axis. The mold resin part reaches an inner side of the core back in the radial direction from an outer side of the core back in the radial direction through the core-back gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230063523
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotary shaft, a rotor core including a first core part and a second core part arranged to adjoin each other in a circumferential direction, and a permanent magnet provided in the first core part. A virtual magnetic pole is formed in the second core part. The first core part includes a cavity portion formed on an inner side in a radial direction of the rotor core relative to the permanent magnet. The cavity portion includes a first portion whose width in the circumferential direction increases toward the rotary shaft. A surface defining the cavity portion, being located on an innermost side of the cavity portion in the radial direction and facing outward in the radial direction is located on the inner side in the radial direction relative to an innermost portion of the second core part in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230039239
    Abstract: A rotor is a consequent pole rotor. The rotor includes a first magnetic pole region functioning as a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole region functioning as a second magnetic pole that is a pseudo-magnetic pole, a shaft disposed in a shaft insertion hole, and a nonmagnetic member coupling the shaft to the rotor core. The nonmagnetic member includes a beam extending from the shaft to the second magnetic pole region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroki ASO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20230034008
    Abstract: A motor has a rotor, a stator surrounding the rotor, a reinforcing member, and a mold resin part covering the stator and the reinforcing member. The tensile strength of the reinforcing member is higher than the tensile strength of the mold resin part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takanori WATANABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20230035739
    Abstract: An outdoor unit includes a motor and a heat exchanger. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a heat dissipation member. The rotor is rotatable about an axis, and has a rotor core and a permanent magnet attached to the rotor core. The permanent magnet forms a magnet magnetic pole. A part of the rotor core forms a virtual magnetic pole. The stator surrounds the rotor from outside in a radial direction about the axis. The heat dissipation member is disposed on a side of the stator in a direction of the axis. The heat exchanger is disposed to face the heat dissipation member in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11552515
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core. A permanent magnet constitutes a first magnetic pole, and a part of the rotor core constitutes a second magnetic pole. In the second magnetic pole, a plurality of slits is symmetrically formed with respect to a magnetic pole center line connecting a pole center of the second magnetic pole and the center axis. On one side of the magnetic pole center line in a circumferential direction about the center axis, the plurality of slits has a first slit closest to the magnetic pole center line and a second slit adjacent to the first slit in the circumferential direction. A minimum distance L1 from the first slit to the outer circumference of the rotor core and a minimum distance L2 from the second slit to the outer circumference of the rotor core satisfy L1<L2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Ryogo Takahashi, Kazuma Nomoto
  • Publication number: 20230006489
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. In a plane orthogonal to an axis direction of the rotor, the motor satisfies W2<W1<M1, and T1<W1<T1+2×T2, where M1 is a width of a surface of a permanent magnet, W1 is a maximum width of a portion of an inner wall of a first magnet insertion hole in contact with the surface, W2 is a minimum width from the first magnet insertion hole to a second magnet insertion hole, T1 is a width of a first front end surface of a first tooth, and T2 is a width from the first front end surface to a second front end surface of a second tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroki ASO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI