Patents by Inventor Tomotaka Iki

Tomotaka Iki 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: 10910915
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine unit, a temperature adjustment unit, and a control unit. The rotary electric machine unit includes a rotary electric machine and a temperature detection unit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator core around which a coil is wound, and a rotor having a magnet. The temperature adjustment unit increases the temperature of the stator core. When a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine is in a predetermined high-speed rotation state, in a case in which the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is less than a predetermined value, the control unit controls the temperature control unit to increase the temperature of the rotary electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Itoyama, Tomotaka Iki
  • Patent number: 10862367
    Abstract: A stator of an electric rotary machine includes a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion. The first abutting portion and the second abutting portion are welded by laser welding in a state where the abutting portions abut against each other, and the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion include bonding surfaces which are bonded to each other. In the axial direction, a height from an insulating cover film to the bonding surface in one abutting portion is greater than a height from an insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the other abutting portion, and in a radial direction, a protruding distance from the insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the one abutting portion is greater than a retraction distance from the insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the other abutting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Koji Kawanami, Fumiya Nishii, Tomotaka Iki
  • Patent number: 10840760
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine related to the invention includes: a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed and an opening part of each of the plurality of slots is provided in an inner circumferential surface thereof; and a coil including a plurality of coil segments that are inserted from the opening part of each of the plurality of slots. At least a first coil segment and a second coil segment are arranged so as to be overlapped in a radial direction in each slot, and an engagement part which prevents a relative movement in an axial direction is provided on overlapping surfaces of the first coil segment and the second coil segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Nishida, Tomotaka Iki
  • Patent number: 10811944
    Abstract: A stator of an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core; and a coil including a plurality of first coil segments and a plurality of second coil segments. An end part of the projection part of the first coil segment is joined with an end part of the projection part of the second coil segment through laser welding in a state of abutting to the end part of the projection part of the second coil segment. And abutting portions abutting to each other between the projection part of the first coil segment and the projection part of the second coil segment include joining surfaces joined with each other and engaging surfaces engaged with each other and orthogonal to the joining surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Iki, Fumiya Nishii, Koji Kawanami
  • Patent number: 10574121
    Abstract: A base plate assembly of a stator for an electric rotary machine has: plural first coil units disposed in a circumferential direction such that an inner side connection coil and an outer side connection coil are integrally formed with a first divided plate and the adjacent first divided plates are overlapped with each other in an axial direction; at least one second coil unit provided between the adjacent first coil units, in which the inner side connection coil is integrally formed with a second divided plate provided to extend on a plane on which the inner side connection coil is disposed; and at least one third coil unit provided between the adjacent first coil units, in which the outer side connection coil is integrally formed with a third divided plate provided to extend on a plane on which the outer side connection coil is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Takahashi, Tomotaka Iki
  • Publication number: 20190288581
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine system includes a rotary electric machine unit, a temperature adjustment unit, and a control unit. The rotary electric machine unit includes a rotary electric machine and a temperature detection unit. The rotary electric machine includes a stator core around which a coil is wound, and a rotor having a magnet. The temperature adjustment unit increases the temperature of the stator core. When a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine is in a predetermined high-speed rotation state, in a case in which the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is less than a predetermined value, the control unit controls the temperature control unit to increase the temperature of the rotary electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Ryosuke Itoyama, Tomotaka Iki
  • Publication number: 20190280542
    Abstract: A stator of an electric rotary machine includes a first abutting portion and a second abutting portion. The first abutting portion and the second abutting portion are welded by laser welding in a state where the abutting portions abut against each other, and the first abutting portion and the second abutting portion include bonding surfaces which are bonded to each other. In the axial direction, a height from an insulating cover film to the bonding surface in one abutting portion is greater than a height from an insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the other abutting portion, and in a radial direction, a protruding distance from the insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the one abutting portion is greater than a retraction distance from the insulating cover film to the bonding surface in the other abutting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji KAWANAMI, Fumiya NISHII, Tomotaka IKI
  • Publication number: 20190260275
    Abstract: A stator of an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core; and a coil including a plurality of first coil segments and a plurality of second coil segments. An end part of the projection part of the first coil segment is joined with an end part of the projection part of the second coil segment through laser welding in a state of abutting to the end part of the projection part of the second coil segment. And abutting portions abutting to each other between the projection part of the first coil segment and the projection part of the second coil segment include joining surfaces joined with each other and engaging surfaces engaged with each other and orthogonal to the joining surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotaka IKI, Fumiya NISHII, Koji KAWANAMI
  • Publication number: 20190260250
    Abstract: A stator of an electric rotary machine includes: a stator core; and a coil including a plurality of coil segments inserted into each of plural slots formed in the stator core. Among the plurality of coil segments inserted into each slot, coil segments positioned on an inner diameter side are Litz wires, and the other coil segments are solid wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotaka IKI, Fumiya NISHII, Yunia NASUNO
  • Patent number: 10389198
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine including a stator core and a coil, wherein the coil has plural slot coils, each slot coil being inserted into the slot, and plural connection coils, each connection coil connecting the slot coils in a position lying further axially outwards than an axial end face of the stator core, and is constituted in such a way that the slot coil and the connection coil are joined at an abutment portion; the slot coil and the connection coil are formed by plate conductors, the plate conductor having a plate surface that is planar and that intersects a thickness direction thereof; and the plate surface of the slot coil is brought into surface contact with the plate surface of the connection coil in the abutment portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomotaka Iki
  • Publication number: 20190238010
    Abstract: A stator for a rotary electric machine includes: a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed; and a coil including a plurality of coil segments inserted into each of the plurality of slots. At least a first coil segment and a second coil segment are arranged in each of the plurality of slots so as to be overlapped in a radial direction. A heat transportation sheet is arranged on overlapping surfaces of the first coil segment and the second coil segment. The heat transportation sheet includes at least refrigerant receiving parts which project from one axial end surfaces of the stator core and a heat exchange part which is positioned in the slot and exchanges heat with the first coil segment and the second coil segment at the overlapping surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomotaka IKI
  • Patent number: 10340762
    Abstract: A stator for an electric rotary machine including a stator core and a coil, wherein: the coil has plural slot coils and plural connection coils, each slot coil being inserted into the slot, each connection coil connecting the slot coils in a position lying further axially outwards than an axial end face of the stator core, and the coil being constituted in such a way that the slot coil and the connection coil are joined at an abutment portion; and in a hole portion, where the abutment portion is accommodated, of a insulation plate, the connection coil and the slot coil are spaced apart from the insulation plate in the circumferential direction to thereby form a first gap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Nagahiro, Tomotaka Iki
  • Publication number: 20190199154
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine related to the invention includes: a stator core in which a plurality of slots are formed and an opening part of each of the plurality of slots is provided in an inner circumferential surface thereof; and a coil including a plurality of coil segments that are inserted from the opening part of each of the plurality of slots. At least a first coil segment and a second coil segment are arranged so as to be overlapped in a radial direction in each slot, and an engagement part which prevents a relative movement in an axial direction is provided on overlapping surfaces of the first coil segment and the second coil segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto NISHIDA, Tomotaka IKI
  • Patent number: 10230285
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a ring-shaped cover. The ring-shaped cover includes an outer peripheral portion, an inner peripheral portion, wall portions, an outer peripheral channel, an inner peripheral channel, and radial channels. A coolant supplied into the ring-shaped cover is to flow through the outer peripheral channel by gravity. The coolant is to flow through the inner peripheral channel by gravity. The radical channels include a first radial channel and a second radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the outer peripheral channel to the inner peripheral channel by gravity through the first radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the inner peripheral channel to the outer peripheral channel by gravity through the second radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the second radical channel by gravity through the outer peripheral channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ichinoe, Tomotaka Iki
  • Patent number: 10186921
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electric machine includes a stator core and a coil. The stator core includes slots extending in an axial direction of the stator core and a first axial end surface in the axial direction. The coil is attached to the stator core and includes slot coils disposed in the slots and connection coils. At least one of the slot coils includes a slit in a part positioned in a slot among the slots. The slit extends through the at least one of the slot coils from a first axial end side of the stator core toward a second axial end side of the stator core opposite to the first axial end side in the axial direction. The connection coils are connected to the slot coils at a contact portion at a position outward from the first axial end surface in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadanobu Takahashi, Tomotaka Iki, Kentaro Nagahiro
  • Publication number: 20180069459
    Abstract: A base plate assembly of a stator for an electric rotary machine has: plural first coil units disposed in a circumferential direction such that an inner side connection coil and an outer side connection coil are integrally formed with a first divided plate and the adjacent first divided plates are overlapped with each other in an axial direction; at least one second coil unit provided between the adjacent first coil units, in which the inner side connection coil is integrally formed with a second divided plate provided to extend on a plane on which the inner side connection coil is disposed; and at least one third coil unit provided between the adjacent first coil units, in which the outer side connection coil is integrally formed with a third divided plate provided to extend on a plane on which the outer side connection coil is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadanobu TAKAHASHI, Tomotaka IKI
  • Patent number: 9893580
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine includes a plurality of magnetic poles in a rotor core, a side barrier as a magnetic air gap, an air gap section as a magnetic air gap. Each of the plurality of magnetic poles includes a magnet insertion hole, a permanent magnet. The side barrier is provided at a portion adjacent to a circumferential end face of the permanent magnet and includes a projection barrier portion projecting radially outwardly from an extension line extending from an outer peripheral surface of the permanent magnet. The air gap section is provided at an area which is spaced apart from the projection barrier portion and the magnet insertion hole and faces a peripheral edge of a circumferentially central side of the magnetic pole with respect to the projection barrier portion and a circumferential end of the outer peripheral surface of the permanent magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Soma, Eiji Shirado, Tomotaka Iki, Yasunori Date
  • Patent number: 9793773
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a stator of an electric rotary machine, including: a stator core having plural slots; a segmented coil of plural phases; and plural base plates laminated at each end of the stator core in an axial direction. While the stator core and plural coil bars of the segmented coil form a stator core assembly, and the plural base plates and plural end coil connections of the segmented coil form plural base plate assemblies. The stator is configured by the stator core assembly and the plural base plate assemblies laminated at each end of the stator core assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomotaka Iki
  • Patent number: 9735632
    Abstract: A void group made up of plural voids is formed on an outer circumferential side of a longitudinal end portion of a permanent magnet provided in a rotating electric machine rotor. The void group includes a first void and a second void row where plural second voids are formed at predetermined intervals at a position further radially outwards than the first void. A rib is formed between a pair of adjacent second voids of the second void row. End portions of the first void respectively overlap the pair of adjacent second voids. An imaginary line that extends along the center of the rib passes through at least part of the first void. A magnetic pole center-side end portion of the void group extends from the outer circumferential surface of the permanent magnet towards an outer circumferential surface of a rotor core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotaka Iki, Shingo Soma, Eiji Shirado
  • Publication number: 20170149307
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine includes a ring-shaped cover. The ring-shaped cover includes an outer peripheral portion, an inner peripheral portion, wall portions, an outer peripheral channel, an inner peripheral channel, and radial channels. A coolant supplied into the ring-shaped cover is to flow through the outer peripheral channel by gravity. The coolant is to flow through the inner peripheral channel by gravity. The radical channels include a first radial channel and a second radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the outer peripheral channel to the inner peripheral channel by gravity through the first radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the inner peripheral channel to the outer peripheral channel by gravity through the second radial channel. The coolant is to flow from the second radical channel by gravity through the outer peripheral channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki ICHINOE, Tomotaka IKI