Patents by Inventor Toshiya Sugiyama

Toshiya Sugiyama 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: 20240146140
    Abstract: In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating portion such that the lead wire extended portions are separated from the power wire extended portion by distances that are greater than a maximum value of the width of clearance between an end-side portion of the lead wire extended portion and a facing portion located next to the end-side portion, the resin portion being provided so as to cover lead wire portions and a power wire portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Munehiro TAKAHASHI, Keisuke KIMURA, Ken TAKEDA, Takahito NOZAWA, Takashi MATSUMOTO, Yoshitada YAMAGISHI, Katsuhide KITAGAWA, Hajime KATO
  • Patent number: 11858327
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a rotary electric machine disposed on a first axis, an output member disposed on a second axis parallel to the first axis, an inverter device, a terminal block for electrically connecting a rotary electric machine-side bus bar and an inverter-side bus bar, and a case. The case includes a first housing chamber for housing the rotary electric machine MG, a second housing chamber for housing the inverter device, and a partition wall for separating the first housing chamber and the second housing chamber. A terminal block is disposed such that an arrangement area of the terminal block in an axial direction overlaps the rotary electric machine, and disposed so as to penetrate the partition wall in a radial direction of the output member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Nagaya, Nozomu Takahashi, Ryohei Inoue, Takeshi Torii, Daisuke Yamaoka, Taketoki Maruyama, Toshiya Sugiyama, Munehiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11486600
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The outdoor unit includes: a DC motor; an inrush-current prevention relay having a coil and a contact provided on a supply line of an AC power supply as a power supply of the outdoor unit, in which the contact is in an electrically-disconnected state when any current does not flow through the coil and is in an electrically-connected state when a current flows through the coil; a PTC connected in parallel to the contact; and a temperature protector provided on a supply line of a relay-driving power supply as a power supply of the inrush-current prevention relay, which is in an electrically-connected state when a temperature of the DC motor is lower than a predetermined temperature, but is in an electrically-disconnected state when the temperature of the DC motor reaches a predetermined temperature or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takagi, Toshiya Sugiyama, Keishi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220281301
    Abstract: A vehicle drive device includes a rotary electric machine disposed on a first axis, an output member disposed on a second axis parallel to the first axis, an inverter device, a terminal block for electrically connecting a rotary electric machine-side bus bar and an inverter-side bus bar, and a case. The case includes a first housing chamber for housing the rotary electric machine MG, a second housing chamber for housing the inverter device, and a partition wall for separating the first housing chamber and the second housing chamber. A terminal block is disposed such that an arrangement area of the terminal block in an axial direction overlaps the rotary electric machine, and disposed so as to penetrate the partition wall in a radial direction of the output member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro NAGAYA, Nozomu TAKAHASHI, Ryohei INOUE, Takeshi TORII, Daisuke YAMAOKA, Taketoki MARUYAMA, Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Munehiro TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11271443
    Abstract: A rotor core for a rotary electric machine, includes: a shaft hole into which a shaft rotating about a rotation axis is inserted and fixed; an inner ring portion provided with the shaft hole therein and having an outer edge in a circular shape coaxial with the rotation axis; an outer ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed radially outward of the inner ring portion; a connection ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed between the inner and outer ring portions; inner ribs interconnecting the inner and connection ring portions and extending in a crossing direction to the rotation axis; and outer ribs interconnecting the connection and outer ring portions and extending in the crossing direction. The inner and outer ribs are disposed respectively in different phases in a peripheral direction of the connection ring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Toshiya Sugiyama, Akifumi Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20210108823
    Abstract: An air conditioner includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The outdoor unit includes: a DC motor; an inrush-current prevention relay having a coil and a contact provided on a supply line of an AC power supply as a power supply of the outdoor unit, in which the contact is in an electrically-disconnected state when any current does not flow through the coil and is in an electrically-connected state when a current flows through the coil; a PTC connected in parallel to the contact; and a temperature protector provided on a supply line of a relay-driving power supply as a power supply of the inrush-current prevention relay, which is in an electrically-connected state when a temperature of the DC motor is lower than a predetermined temperature, but is in an electrically-disconnected state when the temperature of the DC motor reaches a predetermined temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TAKAGI, Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Keishi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10686350
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator provided with a stator iron core, which is cylindrical and in which slots are formed in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface, and coils of phases that are each inserted into the slots, and a movable element provided with a movable element iron core supported in a rotatable manner relative to the stator and at least a pair of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element iron core. The method includes: a split flux coil formation step; a coil setting step; a stator iron core setting step; and a split flux coil collective insertion step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Yusaku Kawanishi, Akinori Hoshino, Hiroaki Yabui, Koji Sato
  • Publication number: 20200106315
    Abstract: A rotor core for a rotary electric machine, includes: a shaft hole into which a shaft rotating about a rotation axis is inserted and fixed; an inner ring portion provided with the shaft hole therein and having an outer edge in a circular shape coaxial with the rotation axis; an outer ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed radially outward of the inner ring portion; a connection ring portion coaxial with the rotation axis and disposed between the inner and outer ring portions; inner ribs interconnecting the inner and connection ring portions and extending in a crossing direction to the rotation axis; and outer ribs interconnecting the connection and outer ring portions and extending in the crossing direction. The inner and outer ribs are disposed respectively in different phases in a peripheral direction of the connection ring portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takahiro Yoneda, Toshiya Sugiyama, Akifumi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10468949
    Abstract: A cooling structure for a rotating electrical machine includes a rotating electrical machine including a stator and the stator, a temperature sensor, and a first discharge mechanism. A plurality of discharge holes of the first discharge mechanism is disposed in a region excluding an avoidance region. The avoidance region is the same region as an arrangement region that is one of a right side region and a left side region with respect to a vertical line passing an axis of the stator as seen in the axial direction of the stator core, the one of the right side region and the left side region being a region in which the temperature sensor is arranged and the avoidance region is located above a lower end of the temperature sensor in the gravitation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitada Yamagishi, Takashi Imakawa, Toshiya Sugiyama, Tetsuro Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20180145569
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rotary electric machine is disclosed. The rotary electric machine includes a stator provided with a stator iron core, which is cylindrical and in which slots are formed in a circumferential direction on an inner circumferential surface, and coils of phases that are each inserted into the slots, and a movable element provided with a movable element iron core supported in a rotatable manner relative to the stator and at least a pair of movable element magnetic poles provided in the movable element iron core. The method includes: a split flux coil formation step; a coil setting step; a stator iron core setting step; and a split flux coil collective insertion step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiya SUGIYAMA, Yusaku KAWANISHI, Akinori HOSHINO, Hiroaki YABUI, Koji SATO
  • Patent number: 9225210
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a core body member formed, first and second end plates provided at respective side faces of the core body member, and a fixing member inserted into through holes provided at the core body member and the end plates. The end plates include positioning portions at an outer or inner circumferential surface, wherein when the fixing member is engaged with the end plates, the positioning portion is engageable with positioning receive portions corresponding to the positioning portions and positioning at radially outer or inner portion of the end plate. When one of the end plates is placed facing the side face of the core body member in a reversed state, the end plate and the core body member are not assembled each other by positional relationship between the positioning portions, the positioning receive portions and the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Asaga, Toshiya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9166453
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electrical machine, includes a core unit configured by a plurality of core assemblies each including a laminated steel plate, an insulator, and a coil; a bus ring facing the core unit; and an accommodating box arranged at the insulator, accommodating an end portion of the coil, and including radially inward and outward engaged portions, the insulator including radially inward and outward extending portions, the radially inward extending portion including a radially inward engagement portion about which the accommodating box rotates in a radial direction of the core unit from an initial attachment position to an attached position and which engages with the radially inward engaged portion, the radially outward extending portion including a radially outward engagement portion which engages with the radially outward engaged portion in accordance with the rotation of the accommodating box to move the accommodating box in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Asaga, Toshiya Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 9024502
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical device includes a stator retaining ring for the stator in a cylinder form that retains a plurality of cores. The stator retaining ring includes the cylinder portion where the cores are attached, and a plurality of fixing flanges where the stator retaining ring retains the housing with screws. A pair of through-holes representing a group of through-holes arranged near to one another extends through each of the fixing flanges. A separation distance ? in the circumferential direction defined between the pair of the through-holes belonging to the same group of the through-holes is smaller relative to a separation distance ? in the circumferential direction defined between adjacent through-holes belonging to different groups of the through-holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Takashi Asaga
  • Patent number: 8558428
    Abstract: A windingly laminated core of a rotary electric machine, having a first number of magnetic poles in total and configured by unit cores, each of which is formed in an arc and thin plate shape and has a second number of magnetic poles, wherein a winding lamination is applied to the unit cores in a circumferential direction and in a spiral manner so as to form a cylindrical shape and a lamination thickness in an axial direction of the winding lamination is set to a predetermined thickness, includes an adjustment unit core having magnetic poles whose number is less than the second number, wherein the adjustment unit core is arranged at a start or an end of the winding lamination, in a circumferential direction, in order to align a rotational phase of the start of the winding lamination to a rotational phase of the end of the winding lamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Yasutoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 8508088
    Abstract: A wiring component for a motor coil includes: a wire coil configured by a plurality of wire segments arranged in a circumferential direction so as to form a ring shape, each of the wire segments including an arc-shaped main-body portion made of a conductive wire rod bent in an arc shape, protruding portions formed at both end portions of the main-body portion and upright portions respectively formed at end portions of the protruding portions; an inner clip formed with a plurality of first holding portions at an outer circumferential surface of the inner clip; and an outer clip formed with a plurality of second holding portions at an inner circumferential surface of the outer clip. The inner clip and the outer clip are connected to each other so as to hold the wire coil between the first holding portions and the second holding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Jun Abiko, Yasutoshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20130140939
    Abstract: A rotor of an electric motor comprises a rotor core composed of laminated steel plates and having pin holes; a pair of end plates having insertion holes of a diameter being greater than or equal to the diameter of the pin holes of the rotor core and arranged on opposite sides of the rotor core; and fastening members inserted into the pin holes of the rotor core, fitted in the insertion holes of the pair of end plates, and pressed by staking at opposite end portions thereof, wherein each fastening member has a body portion, main radially-expanded portions continued from the body portion and being larger in diameter than the insertion holes of the end plates, and protrusions continued from the main radially-expanded portions and protruding from the main radially-expanded portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Asaga, Toshiya Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20130076197
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a core body member formed, first and second end plates provided at respective side faces of the core body member, and a fixing member inserted into through holes provided at the core body member and the end plates. The end plates include positioning portions at an outer or inner circumferential surface, wherein when the fixing member is engaged with the end plates, the positioning portion is engageable with positioning receive portions corresponding to the positioning portions and positioning at radially outer or inner portion of the end plate. When one of the end plates is placed facing the side face of the core body member in a reversed state, the end plate and the core body member are not assembled each other by positional relationship between the positioning portions, the positioning receive portions and the through holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi ASAGA, Toshiya SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20130076198
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric rotating machine includes a core body member formed with laminated core plates and a pair of end plates sandwiching opposing ends of the core body member. An output member is connected to an inner peripheral portion of one of the end plates with a connecting member. A first through-hole for allowing an insertion of the connecting member is press formed from the direction opposite to the direction outer and inner peripheral portions of the one of the end plates are press formed. Shear-droops formed at the outer and the inner peripheral portions of the one of the end plates during the press forming are arranged on the surface opposite to the surface thrusting the core body member. A shear-droop formed at the first through-hole during the press forming is arranged on the surface of the one of the end plates thrusting the core body member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi ASAGA, Toshiya SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 8350427
    Abstract: A stator of a rotary electrical machine includes a core unit configured by a plurality of core assemblies, around which wires are respectively wound to form the coils, including low voltage side terminals, which connect first ends of the coils, and a bus ring attached to the core unit so as to connect second ends of the coils to electricity supply wires by high voltage side terminals. Each terminal accommodating portion is individually formed relative to each of the core assemblies at an external side of the coils. Each of the terminal accommodating portions is filled with an insulating resin material in a state where at least one of a connecting portion of the first end and each of the low voltage side terminals and a connecting portion of the second end and each of the high voltage side terminals is accommodated within each of the terminal accommodating portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Jun Abiko, Yasutoshi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20120299436
    Abstract: A stator for a rotating electrical device includes a stator retaining ring for the stator in a cylinder form that retains a plurality of cores. The stator retaining ring includes the cylinder portion where the cores are attached, and a plurality of fixing flanges where the stator retaining ring retains the housing with screws. A pair of through-holes representing a group of through-holes arranged near to one another extends through each of the fixing flanges. A separation distance ? in the circumferential direction defined between the pair of the through-holes belonging to the same group of the through-holes is smaller relative to a separation distance ? in the circumferential direction defined between adjacent through-holes belonging to different groups of the through-holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiya Sugiyama, Takashi Asaga