Patents by Inventor Tooru Kuroyanagi

Tooru Kuroyanagi 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: 8215260
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine-manufacturing apparatus utilized to implement a process of infiltrating varnish into wire-wound coils of a rotary electric machine, and of curing the varnish, an apparatus includes a rotator 2 supporting a work S attached with the wire-wound coils Sc and rotating the work; and a high-frequency power supply device supplying electric power to the wire-wound coils. It is thus possible to support and heat up the work without having devices that surround the work S, thereby positioning a varnish dropping-infiltrating device 6 appropriately. Further, there is no need to change a stage as conventional heat-up processes with an oven or a hot blast-circulating furnace did, and an entire process from pre-drying to curing can be implemented at a single stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Nobuyuki Asaoka
  • Patent number: 7467648
    Abstract: A coil forming and insertion apparatus includes plural coil winding frames, a winding jig for forming a multipole coil, plural coil receiving portions, and an inserter jig for inserting and arranging the multipole coil in slots of a stator core. The coil forming and insertion apparatus has each coil receiving portion opposed to a coil winding frame, the multipole coil is formed by connecting the monopole coils wound on the coil winding frames and the multipole coil is transferred from the winding jig to the inserter jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 7380335
    Abstract: A stator manufacturing device including a winding unit for forming a winding coil made up of a plurality of unipolar coils formed by winding wire, an insertion unit for receiving the winding coil from the winding unit and inserting the winding coil into a stator core, a shaping unit for shaping an outline of the winding coil that has been inserted into the stator core, and a transfer unit that is movable towards the insertion unit and the shaping unit, such that, in a state of holding the stator core, the transfer unit, by relatively moving to the insertion unit, moves the winding coil into a position for insertion into the stator core, and, by moving relative to the shaping unit, forms an outline of the winding coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7311284
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus for forming a continuous-pole coil having a plurality of single-pole coils includes a winding jig rotatable around a center swing axis. The winding jig includes: a holder rotatable around a center axis of rotation different from center swing axis; and a plurality of coil bobbins arranged around said holder and mounted for reciprocal movement between advanced and retracted positions relative to the holder. Each individual coil bobbin has a winding axes which can be aligned with the center swing axis by turning the winding jig around the center axis of rotation. The single-pole coils having little twist can be stably formed for any coil bobbin to thereby form the continuous-pole coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7275299
    Abstract: A plurality of single-pole coils are retained by a coil retaining device, the single-pole coils are arranged such that the coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil confront the inner circumference openings of the slots and may be generally parallel to the axial direction of the motor core, each single-pole coil is moved linearly toward the motor core such that the coil retaining device and the moving locus before the adjoining coil insertion portions in the adjoining single-pole coils are inserted into the slots are parallel or approach the more from the inner circumference side to the outer circumference side and the two coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil are moved such that they may start their movements simultaneously and at equal velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Hashimoto, Takahiro Kido
  • Publication number: 20070101569
    Abstract: A stator manufacturing device including a winding unit for forming a winding coil consisting of a plurality of unipolar coils formed by winding wire, an insertion unit for receiving the winding coil from the winding unit and inserting the winding coil into a stator core, a shaping unit for shaping an outline of the winding coil that has been inserted into the stator core, and a transfer unit that is movable towards the insertion unit and the shaping unit, characterized in that, in a state of holding the stator core, the transfer unit, by relatively moving to the insertion unit, moves the winding coil into a position for insertion into the stator core, and, by relatively moving to the shaping unit, forms an outline of the winding coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7185413
    Abstract: A motor manufacturing method includes: a coil formation step of forming a unipolar coil, having coil inserting portions at two positions and coil end portions at two positions, in to a shape that changes such that a size in a height direction parallel to the coil inserting portion is larger in an inner peripheral side corresponding to a diametrical direction of a motor core along a direction of a winding axis center, than in an outer peripheral side; and a coil insertion step of disposing the unipolar coil in such a manner that the coil inserting portions in the unipolar coil respectively face toward inner peripheral opening portions of slots and are substantially parallel to an axial direction of the motor core, and inserting the coil inserting portions of the unipolar coil into the slots by moving the unipolar coil toward the motor core substantially linearly, while holding the motor core such that protrusion dimensions at both ends protruding from both end surface positions in an axial direction of the mot
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20070007832
    Abstract: A wound coil assembling jig is used to determine the length of a lead wire disposed at an end of a wound coil disposed on a stator core, and comprises a base plate and a holding device. The base plate has a mounting face mounted to an end of the stator core in an axial direction, a positioning device that positions the base plate with respect to the stator core in a circumferential direction, and an insertion opening which can receive a coil end portion, which is a portion of the wound coil protruding from the end of the stator core in the axial direction. The holding device is disposed at an outer face of the base plate, and holds the lead wire at the wound coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ichikawa, Hiroshi Osada, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Hideaki Sugiura, Tadayoshi Funahara
  • Patent number: 7160495
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of forming a resin film on a surface of a stator core including a ring-shaped yoke portion, a plurality of teeth each protruding from the yoke portion in a radial direction, and a plurality of slots formed between the teeth, including forming the resin film on a section of the stator core by molding a synthetic resin material onto a surface of the section and repeating the molding on another section of the stator core so as to form the resin film on a whole periphery of the stator core, wherein the stator core is divided into a plurality of sections with respect to an axial center thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2007
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Publication number: 20060238071
    Abstract: A motor production line for producing a stator includes a press station for forming a stator core by feed therethrough of a long steel plate to punch therefrom a plurality of plates assembled into a stator core, and a stator assembling station for assembling a stator including the stator core. A stator core conveyer is arranged between the stator station and the press station to successively and directly convey the stator cores formed at the press station to the stator assembling station. Preferably, the production line further includes a rotor assembling station, and a rotor core conveyer for successively and directly conveying rotor cores formed at the press station to the rotor assembling station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Takeshi Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20060230604
    Abstract: A coil forming and insertion apparatus includes plural coil winding frames, a winding jig for forming a multipole coil, plural coil receiving portions, and an inserter jig for inserting and arranging the multipole coil in slots of a stator core. The coil forming and insertion apparatus has each coil receiving portion opposed to a coil winding frame, the multipole coil is formed by connecting the monopole coils wound on the coil winding frames and the multipole coil is transferred from the winding jig to the inserter jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Publication number: 20060165879
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine-manufacturing apparatus utilized to implement a process of infiltrating vanish into wire-wound coils of a rotary electric machine, and of curing the varnish, an apparatus includes a rotator 2 supporting a work S attached with the wire-wound coils Sc and rotating the work; and a high-frequency power supply device supplying electric power to the wire-wound coils. It is thus possible to support and heat up the work without having devices that surround the work S, thereby positioning a varnish dropping-infiltrating device 6 appropriately. Further, there is no need to change a stage as conventional heat-up processes with an oven or a hot blast-circulating furnace did, and an entire process from pre-drying to curing can be implemented at a single stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: AISIN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Nobuyuki Asaoka
  • Patent number: 7064470
    Abstract: A three-phase motor having a stator in which the dimensions of protrusion of coil end parts in winding coils of individual phases can be equalized as much as possible and in which the overall dimension of protrusion of the coil end parts in the winding coils of the three phases can be reduced to an optimal dimension is provided. Each of unipolar coils forming the winding coils of the three phases has a pair of coil end parts protruding from end parts in the axial direction of a stator core. The winding coils of the three phases have the relationships of Cv/Cu=0.88 to 0.98 and Cw/Cv=0.88 to 0.98, where Cu, Cv, Cw represent average lengths of electric wires forming the coil end parts in the three phases of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Patent number: 7011266
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus for forming a continuous-pole coil having a plurality of single-pole coils includes a winding jig rotatable around a center swing axis. The winding jig includes: a holder rotatable around a center axis of rotation different from center swing axis; and a plurality of coil bobbins arranged around said holder and mounted for reciprocal movement between advanced and retracted positions relative to the holder. Each individual coil bobbin has a winding axes which can be aligned with the center swing axis by turning the winding jig around the center axis of rotation. The single-pole coils having little twist can be stably formed for any coil bobbin to thereby form the continuous-pole coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 6995491
    Abstract: An insulating paper piece for electric motors, capable of improving both electrical insulation between a coil and a stator core and electrical insulation between ends of coils of different phases without adversely affecting ease of coil insertion or the space taken up for the coil. A single insulating paper piece for electric motors contains at least two slot cell portions arranged in two slots of the stator core in which portions of one single pole coil are to be inserted, with two phase insulation portions arranged to connect respective ends of the two slot cell portions to form loops and disposed to face directly against coil ends of the single pole coil. The phase insulation portions comprise overlapping widthwise portions extended from both ends so that when a plurality of the insulating paper pieces for electric motors are mounted on the stator core, the respective overlapping portions of the adjacent insulating paper pieces overlap one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kimura, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Publication number: 20050133655
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus for forming a continuous-pole coil having a plurality of single-pole coils includes a winding jig rotatable around a center swing axis. The winding jig includes: a holder rotatable around a center axis of rotation different from center swing axis; and a plurality of coil bobbins arranged around said holder and mounted for reciprocal movement between advanced and retracted positions relative to the holder. Each individual coil bobbin has a winding axes which can be aligned with the center swing axis by turning the winding jig around the center axis of rotation. The single-pole coils having little twist can be stably formed for any coil bobbin to thereby form the continuous-pole coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20050061907
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus for forming a continuous-pole coil having a plurality of single-pole coils includes a winding jig rotatable around a center swing axis. The winding jig includes: a holder rotatable around a center axis of rotation different from center swing axis; and a plurality of coil bobbins arranged around said holder and mounted for reciprocal movement between advanced and retracted positions relative to the holder. Each individual coil bobbin has a winding axes which can be aligned with the center swing axis by turning the winding jig around the center axis of rotation. The single-pole coils having little twist can be stably formed for any coil bobbin to thereby form the continuous-pole coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20050050714
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and stacking jig for manufacturing a layered core. A stacking jig set at a waiting position is moved upward to a stacking position. Following the stacking jig reaching the stacking position, a second stator-core punch is moved downward so as to punch out a stator-core layer sheet from a metal material. The ring-shaped stator-core layer sheet thus punched out is fit to a cylinder of the stacking jig with a center opening. Furthermore, the stator-core layer sheet is held by the stacking jig with bolt-insertion openings fit to positioning rods. The stator-core layered sheets thus punched out are moved along the punching direction without change so as to be consecutively fit to and stacked on the stacking jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Norio Koura, Tooru Kuroyanagi
  • Publication number: 20050005422
    Abstract: A plurality of single-pole coils are retained by a coil retaining device, the single-pole coils are arranged such that the coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil confront the inner circumference openings of the slots and may be generally parallel to the axial direction of the motor core, each single-pole coil is moved linearly toward the motor core such that the coil retaining device and the moving locus before the adjoining coil insertion portions in the adjoining single-pole coils are inserted into the slots are parallel or approach the more from the inner circumference side to the outer circumference side and the two coil insertion portions of each single-pole coil are moved such that they may start their movements simultaneously and at equal velocities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Tooru Kuroyanagi, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shingo Hashimoto, Takahiro Kido
  • Publication number: 20040256942
    Abstract: A three-phase motor having a stator in which the dimensions of protrusion of coil end parts in winding coils of individual phases can be equalized as much as possible and in which the overall dimension of protrusion of the coil end parts in the winding coils of the three phases can be reduced to an optimal dimension is provided. Each of unipolar coils forming the winding coils of the three phases has a pair of coil end parts protruding from end parts in the axial direction of a stator core. The winding coils of the three phases have the relationships of Cv/Cu=0.88 to 0.98 and Cw/Cv=0.88 to 0.98, where Cu, Cv, Cw represent average lengths of electric wires forming the coil end parts in the three phases of U-phase, V-phase and W-phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Yokoyama, Yoshiyuki Kawasaki, Shingo Hashimoto, Tooru Kuroyanagi