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: 20200119621
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly, a rotor provided inside the stator assembly, and a heat sink to radiate heat from the stator assembly. The heat sink includes a base portion, and a heat radiating portion formed integrally with the base portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200067358
    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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Hiroki ASO, Takanori WATANABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20200028415
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a rotation shaft, a rotor core attached to the rotation shaft, and a rotor magnet embedded in the rotor core, a stator disposed on an outer side of the rotor in a radial direction about a central axis of the rotation shaft and surrounding the rotor, a board disposed on one side of the stator in a direction of the central axis, and a microcomputer mounted on the board. The microcomputer is disposed on an outer side of the rotor magnet in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Kazuma NOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200021168
    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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Junichiro OYA
  • Publication number: 20200021151
    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: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Koji YABE
  • Patent number: 10491082
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet electric motor includes: a rotor; and a rotational-position detection sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the rotor. The rotor includes: a rotating shaft; an annular ferrite magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; and a rare-earth magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the ferrite magnet, and a length from a center of the ferrite magnet in an axial direction of the ferrite magnet to an end face of the ferrite magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the ferrite magnet is longer than a length from a center of the rare-earth magnet in an axial direction of the rare-earth magnet to an end face of the rare-earth magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the rare-earth magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Aso, Junichiro Oya, Yuto Urabe, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20190348892
    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: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuma NOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190173337
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a permanent magnet, a first part, a second part, and a third part. The third part is formed integrally with the first part and the second part. The rotor core is longer than the permanent magnet in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Koji YABE
  • Publication number: 20190027980
    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: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuhiko BABA, Koji YABE
  • Publication number: 20190028009
    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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Kazuhiko BABA, Koji YABE, Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Junichiro OYA, Hiroki ASO, Yuto URABE
  • Patent number: 10141811
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes: an annular lead wiring part attached to one axial end of the stator and routing a power lead to a winding of the stator; and a lead-out part provided on the radially outer side of the annular lead wiring part and leading out the power lead to the radial outside of the lead wiring part. The lead wiring part is formed such that the curvature of the inner diameter is different near the lead-out part compared with the remaining portion, and the radius of the inner diameter of the lead wiring part is largest at a portion other than near the lead-out part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yuto Urabe, Tomoaki Oikawa, Mineo Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, Hiroki Aso, Junichiro Oya, Takaya Shimokawa
  • Publication number: 20180219438
    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: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Hiroki ASO, Junichiro OYA, Yuto URABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Koji YABE
  • Publication number: 20180109167
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet electric motor includes: a rotor; and a rotational-position detection sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the rotor. The rotor includes: a rotating shaft; an annular ferrite magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft; and a rare-earth magnet disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the ferrite magnet, and a length from a center of the ferrite magnet in an axial direction of the ferrite magnet to an end face of the ferrite magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the ferrite magnet is longer than a length from a center of the rare-earth magnet in an axial direction of the rare-earth magnet to an end face of the rare-earth magnet on a side of the rotational-position detection sensor in the axial direction of the rare-earth magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Hiroki ASO, Junichiro OYA, Yuto URABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180091008
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Hiroki ASO, Junichiro OYA, Yuto URABE, Takaya SHIMOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170279332
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes: an annular lead wiring part attached to one axial end of the stator and routing a power lead to a winding of the stator; and a lead-out part provided on the radially outer side of the annular lead wiring part and leading out the power lead to the radial outside of the lead wiring part. The lead wiring part is formed such that the curvature of the inner diameter is different near the lead-out part compared with the remaining portion, and the radius of the inner diameter of the lead wiring part is largest at a portion other than near the lead-out part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yuto URABE, Tomoaki OIKAWA, Mineo YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki ISHII, Hiroki ASO, Junichiro OYA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA