Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Matsunaga

Toshihiro Matsunaga 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: 20210194314
    Abstract: To obtain a rotating electric machine capable of suppressing vibrations generated at the time of driving and achieving downsizing. The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; a stator including a stator core provided on an outer side with respect to the rotor in a radial direction of the rotor; a motor frame, which includes a tubular portion provided on an outer side with respect to the stator core in the radial direction, and has the stator fixed thereto; and an intermediate member, which is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the stator core in the radial direction, and is held in a state of being press-fitted to an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion in the radial direction, wherein a stiffness of the intermediate member per unit length is higher than a stiffness of the tubular portion per unit length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Takashi YAMAMOTO, Akira KIMISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200363233
    Abstract: A redundant resolver is configured of a stator and a rotor that form a pair, wherein the rotor is a rotor with a shaft angle multiplier of Nx having Nx (Nx is a natural number) salient poles, the stator is such that n teeth T1 to Tn, where n is a natural number, are disposed sequentially in a circumferential direction, configuring M systems by being divided into M in the circumferential direction, and having an angle of 360/M degrees when angles of the teeth configuring one system are totaled, a one-phase excitation winding and a two-phase output winding are wound around each of the teeth T1 to Tn, excitation signals of the same frequency are applied by differing excitation circuits to the respective excitation windings, an output order per system is Nout (Nout is a natural number), and an abnormality is detected based on output signals of the M systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroko IKEDA, Yuji TAKIZAWA, Kazumasa ITO, Shinichi YAMAGUCHI, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Yosuke SUGINO
  • Publication number: 20200287428
    Abstract: A control device-integrated rotary electric machine that has a light weight and a small radial-direction dimension. A cylindrical member is provided between a stator formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets and a frame retaining the stator, such that the cylindrical member is in a press-fitted state against the stator and the frame. The cylindrical member has a flange portion at one end thereof, and the flange portion is fixed by being held between the frame and a heat sink which is a member composing a control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsunori ISHIZAKI, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Takashi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10347447
    Abstract: A vacuum circuit breaker includes a tank containing an electrical device. An opening corresponds to a terminal of the electrical device. A porcelain tube protruding from the tank is fixed to an opening base, and has a terminal conductor. A first connection conductor in the porcelain tube is connected to the terminal conductor. A second connection conductor is arranged in the porcelain tube. A third connection conductor is arranged between the first and the second connection conductor, has a closed end concave section fitted onto the first connection conductor and is connected to the second connection conductor by a fastener. A contact is disposed between said first connection conductor and the third connection conductor. The third and second connection conductors are made of a solid conductor. A center of the third connection conductor and a center of the second connection conductor are formed with a threaded section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Miyatake, Masahiro Arioka, Tadahiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Naoki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10090126
    Abstract: A switchgear includes a stationary contact, a movable contact able to be shifted between a closed position and an opened position, an electromagnetic actuator able to generate power for shifting the movable contact, the electromagnetic actuator including a stator and a movable element, and a power transmission unit able to shift the movable contact, and to press the movable contact against the stationary contact. The power transmission unit includes a drive unit-side spring bearing portion able to be shifted together with the movable element, a contact-side spring bearing portion to be opposed to the drive unit-side spring bearing portion, and able to be shifted together with the movable contact, and a spring member provided between the drive unit-side spring bearing portion and the contact-side spring bearing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kakio, Munetaka Kashiwa, Shintaro Yamada, Toshihiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10075036
    Abstract: The hole diameter of a shaft through hole formed in the rotor core is changed in the axial direction, thereby forming a concave portion whose hole diameter is large and a convex portion whose hole diameter is small in the inner circumferential surface of the shaft through hole; the convex portion is arranged at opening portions on both ends of the shaft through hole; a shaft having ridge-shaped convex portions on a press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the shaft through hole to assemble; the number of points of the concave portion is equal to or more than two; and respective diameter dimensions of the concave portion, the convex portion, and the shaft are set to be the diameter of a main body of the shaft<the diameter of the convex portion<the diameter of ridge-shaped convex portions of the shaft<the diameter of the concave portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Morikawa, Kazuhisa Takashima, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Masayuki Miyaoka, Akihiro Yamamura, Hiroki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20180025870
    Abstract: A vacuum circuit breaker includes a tank containing an electrical device. An opening corresponds to a terminal of the electrical device. A porcelain tube protruding from the tank is fixed to an opening base, and has a terminal conductor. A first connection conductor in the porcelain tube is connected to the terminal conductor. A second connection conductor is arranged in the porcelain tube. A third connection conductor is arranged between the first and the second connection conductor, has a closed end concave section fitted onto the first connection conductor and is connected to the second connection conductor by a fastener. A contact is disposed between said first connection conductor and the third connection conductor. The third and second connection conductors are made of a solid conductor. A center of the third connection conductor and a center of the second connection conductor are formed with a threaded section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki MIYATAKE, Masahiro Arioka, Tadahiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Naoki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9496100
    Abstract: Included are: a movable plate which is coupled to a main shaft of the switchgear and performs motion in accordance with the movement of the main shaft; an ON/OFF display plate in which a display showing the state of the switchgear, such as “ON”/“OFF,” is provided on each of different two faces, and mechanically rotates or performs linear motion and thus displaying the opening/closing state of the contact; and an ON/OFF display plate link which is mechanically connected to the movable plate and the ON/OFF display plate and converts the motion of the movable plate to transfer to the ON/OFF display plate. The display of the ON/OFF display plate is arranged at a tilt toward the upper side or the lower side so as to point at an optional angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Hideki Miyatake
  • Patent number: 9472356
    Abstract: A tank-type vacuum circuit breaker includes: a pressure tank; an insulating frame that is detachably supported by a support member provided in the pressure tank using a coupling; a vacuum interrupter that is supported by the insulating frame and includes a stationary electrode and a moving electrode; a stationary-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; a moving-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; and an insulating rod, the inside end of which is detachably coupled to the moving electrode and the outside end of which is coupled to an opening/closing actuation mechanism that opens/closes the contacts of the stationary contact and moving contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Masahiro Arioka, Hideki Miyatake, Tadahiro Yoshida, Toru Kimura, Naoki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20160300678
    Abstract: A switchgear includes a stationary contact, a movable contact able to be shifted between a closed position and an opened position, an electromagnetic actuator able to generate power for shifting the movable contact, the electromagnetic actuator including a stator and a movable element, and a power transmission unit able to shift the movable contact, and to press the movable contact against the stationary contact. The power transmission unit includes a drive unit-side spring bearing portion able to be shifted together with the movable element, a contact-side spring bearing portion to be opposed to the drive unit-side spring bearing portion, and able to be shifted together with the movable contact, and a spring member provided between the drive unit-side spring bearing portion and the contact-side spring bearing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Kakio, Munetaka Kashiwa, Shintaro Yamada, Toshihiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9350204
    Abstract: A compact, light permanent magnet motor with low torque pulsations is obtained by reducing a cogging torque resulting from variations at the end of a rotor, such as an error in attachment position and a variation in magnet characteristic of the permanent magnets. A permanent magnet rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator, a stator core provided with slots in which to store an armature winding wire wound around the teeth, and supplemental grooves provided to the teeth in portions opposing the rotor in an axial direction of the stator core. The supplemental grooves are provided to the stator in a part in the axial direction of the stator core, and that let P be the number of the magnetic poles (the number of poles) and S be the number of the slots (the number of slots), then a relation, 0.75<S/P<1.5, is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu, Yusuke Morita
  • Patent number: 9305725
    Abstract: Provided are: a vacuum interrupter having a fixed contact and a movable contact; a fixed side mounting plate which supports a fixed side conductor; and an operating mechanism which is coupled to a movable side conductor and performs opening and closing operation of both the contacts. The fixed side mounting plate is configured such that a plurality of plate-like members are overlapped; an exposed portion of the fixed side conductor is attached with a divided terminal which has a fitting hole to be fitted to the exposed portion and is formed with a slit in a radial direction from the fitting hole; and the divided terminal is fixed to the fixed side mounting plate and the fixed side conductor is supported by the fixed side mounting plate via the divided terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadahiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Koichi Kagawa, Hideki Miyatake, Munetaka Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 9172278
    Abstract: Not less than two regions different in magnetic circuit design are provided in a rotational axis direction of the rotor (30), the regions being different by changing a cross-sectional shape in the rotational axis direction in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotational shaft (10) of the rotor (30) having the permanent magnets (1) and the rotor core (2); the supplemental grooves (5) are provided in axial partial regions of each of the teeth (7) of the stator core (3); and the region in which the supplemental groove (5) is provided is each partial region for each region facing a region same in magnetic circuit design of the rotor (30). This enables to reduce cogging torque generated by variations on the rotor side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Yusuke Morita, Misa Nakayama, Kazuhisa Takashima, Satoru Akutsu
  • Publication number: 20150263571
    Abstract: Not less than two regions different in magnetic circuit design are provided in a rotational axis direction of the rotor (30), the regions being different by changing a cross-sectional shape in the rotational axis direction in a cross-section perpendicular to a rotational shaft (10) of the rotor (30) having the permanent magnets (1) and the rotor core (2); the supplemental grooves (5) are provided in axial partial regions of each of the teeth (7) of the stator core (3); and the region in which the supplemental groove (5) is provided is each partial region for each region facing a region same in magnetic circuit design of the rotor (30). This enables to reduce cogging torque generated by variations on the rotor side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatsugu NAKANO, Toshihiro MATSUNAGA, Yusuke MORITA, Misa NAKAYAMA, Kazuhisa TAKASHIMA, Satoru AKUTSU
  • Publication number: 20150248977
    Abstract: Provided are: a vacuum valve having a fixed contact and a movable contact; a fixed side mounting plate which supports a fixed side conductor; and an operating mechanism which is coupled to a movable side conductor and performs opening and closing operation of both the contacts. The fixed side mounting plate is configured such that a plurality of plate-like members are overlapped; an exposed portion of the fixed side conductor is attached with a divided terminal which has a fitting hole to be fitted to the exposed portion and is formed with a slit in a radial direction from the fitting hole; and the divided terminal is fixed to the fixed side mounting plate and the fixed side conductor is supported by the fixed side mounting plate via the divided terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tadahiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Koichi Kagawa, Hideki Miyatake, Munetaka Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 9054563
    Abstract: A motor for an electric power steering device, includes: a housing side bearing which is placed on the output side of a shaft of a rotor placed in a frame, and is supported by a housing connected to the frame; and a frame side bearing which is placed on the opposite output side of the shaft of the rotor, and is composed of an outer ring and an inner ring supported by the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Yoshihito Asao, Satoru Akutsu, Kazuhisa Takashima
  • Publication number: 20140265699
    Abstract: The hole diameter of a shaft through hole formed in the rotor core is changed in the axial direction, thereby forming a concave portion whose hole diameter is large and a convex portion whose hole diameter is small in the inner circumferential surface of the shaft through hole; the convex portion is arranged at opening portions on both ends of the shaft through hole; a shaft having ridge-shaped convex portions on a press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the shaft through hole to assemble; the number of points of the concave portion is equal to or more than two; and respective diameter dimensions of the concave portion, the convex portion, and the shaft are set to be the diameter of a main body of the shaft<the diameter of the convex portion<the diameter of ridge-shaped convex portions of the shaft<the diameter of the concave portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Morikawa, Kazuhisa Takashima, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Masayuki Miyaoka, Akihiro Yamamura, Hiroki Maeda
  • Publication number: 20140209569
    Abstract: A pressure tank which seals and contains an electrical device, is formed with an opening portion corresponding to a terminal portion provided on the electrical device. A porcelain tube which is disposed so as to protrude with respect to the pressure tank, is fixed to the opening portion at a base portion thereof, and is provided with a terminal conductor at a leading end portion thereof. A first connection conductor is led out into a center portion of the porcelain tube at one end thereof, and is connected to the terminal conductor at the other end thereof. A second connection conductor which has a concave section to be fitted onto the first connection conductor at one side thereof, is connected to the terminal portion at the other side thereof. A contact is disposed between the first connection conductor and the concave section of the second connection conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Miyatake, Masahiro Arioka, Tadahiro Yoshida, Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Naoki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20140174898
    Abstract: Included are: a movable plate which is coupled to a main shaft of the switchgear and performs motion in accordance with the movement of the main shaft; an ON/OFF display plate in which a display showing the state of the switchgear, such as “ON”/“OFF,” is provided on each of different two faces, and mechanically rotates or performs linear motion and thus displaying the opening/closing state of the contact; and an ON/OFF display plate link which is mechanically connected to the movable plate and the ON/OFF display plate and converts the motion of the movable plate to transfer to the ON/OFF display plate. The display of the ON/OFF display plate is arranged at a tilt toward the upper side or the lower side so as to point at an optional angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Toru Kimura, Hideki Miyatake
  • Publication number: 20140042125
    Abstract: A tank-type vacuum circuit breaker includes: a pressure tank; an insulating frame that is detachably supported by a support member provided in the pressure tank using a coupling; a vacuum interrupter that is supported by the insulating frame and includes a stationary electrode and a moving electrode; a stationary-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; a moving-electrode side terminal that is connectably/disconnectably connected to a bushing-terminal side internal conductor; and an insulating rod, the inside end of which is detachably coupled to the moving electrode and the outside end of which is coupled to an opening/closing actuation mechanism that opens/closes the contacts of the stationary contact and moving contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Matsunaga, Masahiro Arioka, Hideki Miyatake, Tadahiro Yoshida, Toru Kimura, Naoki Tanaka