Patents by Inventor Takuro Kawano

Takuro Kawano 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: 9458852
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller, a motor portion, and a housing. The housing includes an upper plate portion, a lower plate portion arranged to have the motor portion fixed thereto; and a side wall portion. A flow control member is arranged to extend in a line along a boundary between an inside surface of the side wall portion and one of a lower surface of the upper plate portion and an upper surface of the lower plate portion. The flow control member includes a flow control surface arranged to extend radially outward from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion to the inside surface of the side wall portion while becoming more distant from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung-sin Yoo, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Shunji Matsumoto, Kazuo Tanaka, Takuro Kawano, Yuji Katsurayama, Atsushi Mukai, Noriaki Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140072423
    Abstract: A centrifugal fan includes an impeller, a motor portion, and a housing. The housing includes an upper plate portion, a lower plate portion arranged to have the motor portion fixed thereto; and a side wall portion. A flow control member is arranged to extend in a line along a boundary between an inside surface of the side wall portion and one of a lower surface of the upper plate portion and an upper surface of the lower plate portion. The flow control member includes a flow control surface arranged to extend radially outward from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion to the inside surface of the side wall portion while becoming more distant from the one of the lower surface of the upper plate portion and the upper surface of the lower plate portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seung-sin Yoo, Tomohiro Hasegawa, Shunji Matsumoto, Kazuo Tanaka, Takuro Kawano, Yuji Katsurayama, Atsushi Mukai, Noriaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4672253
    Abstract: A permanent magnet electric machine such as, for example, a motor or generator, including a permanent magnet field member, an armature having salient magnetic poles and armature windings. A greatest common division of the number of magnetic poles of the field member and the salient magnetic poles having the armature windings differs from the number of magnetic poles. A group of grooves is formed between the salient magnetic poles having an interval of 2/3M.pi., with M being an integer which is not a multiple of three. To reduce the occurrence of cogging torque, auxiliary grooves are provided on the surface of the salient poles at positions which are spaced apart from positions of the grooves by (.pi./3)K+(.pi./6), in terms of electrical angle, with K being an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Tajima, Hiroshi Katayama, Kunio Miyashita, Teizo Tamura, Kenichi Hironaka, Takuro Kawano, Yosimi Sekita, Kouichi Saito, Akira Tamura