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).

  • Publication number: 20210408851
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, an annular rotor core surrounding the shaft from an outer side in a radial direction about a center axis of the shaft, a magnet attached to the rotor core, and a separating portion provided between the shaft and the rotor core and formed of a nonmagnetic body. The magnet constitutes a first magnetic pole, and a part of the rotor core constitutes a second magnetic pole. The rotor core has an inner circumference facing the shaft and an outer circumference opposite to the inner circumference. The separating portion has an outer circumference in contact with the inner circumference of the rotor core. A radius R1 of the shaft, a minimum distance R2 from the center axis to the outer circumference of the separating portion, and a maximum distance R3 from the center axis to the outer circumference of the rotor core satisfy (R2?R1)/(R3?R2)?0.41.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuma NOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210376674
    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: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210273529
    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: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210273528
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a resin magnet including a first magnetic flux generating part and a second magnetic flux generating part; and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The first magnetic flux generating part has a first orientation. The second magnetic flux generating part has a second orientation different from the first orientation in a radial direction. A peak of magnetic flux density from the first magnetic flux generating part is larger than a peak of magnetic flux density from the second magnetic flux generating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11101708
    Abstract: A rotor has a shaft, a rotor core, and a position detection magnet. The rotor core is formed of electromagnetic steel sheets and has an annular shape about the shaft. The position detection magnet has an annular shape about the shaft and is attached to one side of the rotor core in an axial direction of the shaft. The position detection magnet has a first end surface facing the rotor core and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface. The position detection magnet has a tapered part at an inner periphery thereof, and the tapered part is inclined so that a distance from the shaft is maximum at the second end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Ryogo Takahashi, Hiroki Aso, Takanori Watanabe, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20210234420
    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: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Kazuma NOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11070112
    Abstract: A sensor magnet includes: a first magnetic-pole part including a magnetic pole of first polarity; a second magnetic-pole part including a magnetic pole of second polarity; and an inter-pole part formed between the first magnetic-pole part and the second magnetic-pole part. A width of the inter-pole part is larger than both of a width of the first magnetic-pole part and a width of the second magnetic-pole part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe
  • Publication number: 20210211003
    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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Kazuma NOMOTO
  • Patent number: 11047603
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft extending in the direction of an axis, and a rotor core including a central hole in which the shaft is inserted. The central hole includes a first central hole, a second central hole, and a third central hole in the direction of the axis. A distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the third central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the second central hole. The distance from the axis to the inner circumferential surface of the second central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the first central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Takanori Watanabe, Ryogo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11005350
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet synchronous motor includes: an annular stator core; a cylindrical rotor disposed inside the stator core, and having a first end face in an axial direction of the stator core and a second end face in the axial direction; a disk-shaped sensor magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles disposed circumferentially, and having a third end face and a fourth end face; and a magnetic sensor disposed so as to be opposed to the fourth end face in the axial direction, and detecting a rotating position of the sensor magnet. When a first thickness means the axial thickness at the center of each of the magnetic poles and a second thickness means the axial thickness of an inter-magnetic-pole portion between adjacent magnetic poles of the magnetic poles, the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Kazuhiko Baba, Koji Yabe, Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Junichiro Oya, Hiroki Aso, Yuto Urabe
  • Publication number: 20210135520
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core including a magnet insertion hole and an opening and a permanent magnet inserted in the magnet insertion hole and forming a first magnetic pole. The rotor satisfies L1<L2, where L1 is a first maximum width of the opening in a direction perpendicular to a radial direction and L2 is a second maximum width of the opening in the radial direction. A distance from the opening to the magnet insertion hole is smallest at a magnetic pole center of the first magnetic pole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210126495
    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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210018227
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft extending in the direction of an axis, and a rotor core including a central hole in which the shaft is inserted. The central hole includes a first central hole, a second central hole, and a third central hole in the direction of the axis. A distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the third central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the second central hole. The distance from the axis to the inner circumferential surface of the second central hole is larger than a distance from the axis to an inner circumferential surface of the first central hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10855126
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator and a consequent-pole-type rotor including an annular rotor core disposed on an inner side of the stator and a plurality of permanent magnets disposed inside the rotor core and arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The rotor core includes at least one slit provided inside the rotor core and disposed on an outer side of each of the permanent magnets in a radial direction of the rotor core, and at least one slit provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core and disposed between the permanent magnets adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Aso, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe, Takaya Shimokawa, Koji Yabe
  • Patent number: 10840771
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator assembly, a heat radiation member to radiate heat of the stator assembly, and a resin integrating the heat radiation member with the stator assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Ryogo Takahashi, Junichiro Oya
  • Publication number: 20200336046
    Abstract: A sensor magnet includes a first magnetic pole part including a magnetic pole of a first polarity and a second magnetic pole part including a magnetic pole of a second polarity. A thickness of the first magnetic pole part in a direction toward a magnetic sensor is larger than a thickness of the second magnetic pole part in a direction toward the magnetic sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 10784733
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator having a yoke having an annular shape about an axis line, and a first tooth and a second tooth extending from the yoke toward an inner or outer peripheral side, and a rotor rotatable about the axis line. The rotor has a permanent magnet on a surface facing the stator. Each of the first tooth and the second tooth includes an end portion facing the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet has a first magnetic pole and a second magnetic pole adjacent in a circumferential direction about the axis line, and a groove formed in an inter-pole portion between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole. An interval L1 in the circumferential direction between the end portion of the first tooth and the end portion of the second tooth, and a width L2 of the groove satisfy 1.00<L2/L1?3.75.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Koji Yabe
  • Publication number: 20200208859
    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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Junichiro OYA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Yuto URABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Patent number: 10673291
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet electric motor includes an annular stator core, a rotor core, and a rotating-position detection sensor. In each of a plurality of magnet insertion holes formed in the rotor core, a rare-earth magnet and a ferrite magnet are disposed adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the rotor core. The rotor core has an axial length longer than an axial length of the stator core. The rare-earth magnet is disposed in each of the magnet insertion holes to be opposed to the stator core in a radial direction of the stator core. The ferrite magnet disposed in each of the magnet insertion holes is disposed between the rare-earth magnet disposed in the corresponding magnet insertion hole and the rotating-position detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Aso, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20200153298
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a shaft; a rotor core having an annular shape and surrounding the shaft from outside in a radial direction about a center axis line of the shaft so as to leave a space therebetween; a magnet embedded in the rotor core; and a connecting portion disposed between the shaft and the rotor core and formed of a nonmagnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuma NOMOTO