Patents by Inventor Yasuaki Aoyama

Yasuaki Aoyama 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: 20160134181
    Abstract: There is provided a linear motor that can detect the displacement of a moving member or the inclination of the moving member in a direction in which two windings are opposed to each other and equipment equipped with the linear motor. A linear motor includes: a first armature having an upper winding and a lower winding opposed to the upper winding through a gap in a vertical direction; a moving member having a permanent magnet and enabled to reciprocate in a longitudinal direction with respect to the first armature; and a current detecting unit that detects an electric current carried through the first armature. The upper winding and the lower winding are in parallel connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Eri MARUYAMA, Yasuaki AOYAMA, Takahiro SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150222167
    Abstract: A linear motor is capable of miniaturization of a device, sharing of effective magnetic fluxes between the magnetic poles adjacent to each other, and decreasing a magnetic attractive force acting between a mover and an armature, and a linear motor drive system. The linear motor includes a mover, formed by lining up a plurality of pieces of permanent magnets or magnetic materials while inversing a magnetization direction thereof, and an armature. First and second magnetic pole teeth are disposed in such a way as to vertically tuck the permanent magnet or the magnetic material. A magnetic material links the first magnetic pole tooth to the second magnetic pole tooth, thereby forming a path for a magnetic flux, and windings are disposed on the first magnetic pole tooth and the second magnetic pole tooth, respectively. At least two units of the armatures are lined to be linked to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Akiyoshi Komura, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Publication number: 20150131207
    Abstract: An object is to provide a switchgear having a simple structure. To solve the problem, a switchgear according to the invention is characterized by having a fixed side electrode 3, a movable side electrode 4 configured to come into contact with or separate from the fixed side electrode 3, and an operating mechanism configured to allow drive force for movement of the movable side electrode 4 to be generated, wherein the operating mechanism for operating the movable side electrode 4 includes one operating mechanism, and the one operating mechanism allows the movable side electrode 4 to stop at three or more positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Oshita
  • Patent number: 9000626
    Abstract: A thrust generation mechanism includes magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold permanent magnets disposed on movers, cores which serially connect the magnetic pole teeth which sandwich and hold the magnets, armature winding wires which are collectively wound around the cores, and the movers having the magnets arranged such that the different magnetic poles thereof alternately face the front side and the rear side. The magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold the permanent magnets and the armature iron cores which have cores serially connecting the magnetic pole teeth which hold the magnets are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the movers, and armature iron cores have a common winding wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Publication number: 20150091677
    Abstract: An object is to provide a gas circuit breaker having improved reliability. To solve the above-described problem, a gas circuit breaker is characterized by having a fixed contact, a movable contact configured to come into contact with or separate from the fixed contact, an insulating enclosure internally having the fixed contact and the movable contact, the inside of the insulating enclosure being filled with an insulating gas, and an operating mechanism configured to allow drive force for movement of the movable contact to be generated, wherein the operating mechanism includes a mover including permanent magnets or magnetic bodies disposed in a direction along which the operating mechanism allows the drive force to be generated, and a magnetic pole disposed to be opposed to the mover, and having a winding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Shiraishi, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Oshita
  • Publication number: 20150043121
    Abstract: The invention is intended to provide a circuit breaker or a circuit breaker operating method enabling a current interruption action to be performed efficiently. A circuit breaker is characterized in that includes a fixed contact and a movable contact that comes in and goes out of contact with the fixed contact; a main circuit conductor that is electrically connected to the fixed contact and the movable contact; an operating mechanism including a mover configured by concatenating permanent magnets or magnetic materials alternately having opposite N and S magnetic polarities along the direction of motion axis of the movable contact and magnetic poles disposed to face the N and S magnetic polarities of the mover and wound with windings; a current detector that detects a current flowing through the main circuit conductor; and a control device that varies the amount of a current to be supplied to the windings of the magnetic poles, depending on a current value detected by the current detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hajime Urai, Yasuaki Aoyama, Hiroaki Hashimoto, Katsuhiko Shiraishi, Tatsuro Kato, Ayumu Morita, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Yoichi Ohita
  • Publication number: 20150001969
    Abstract: Provided is a highly responsive linear motor that can be constructed by reducing the weight of a mover. In order to attain this object, the linear motor includes a secondary side (a mover 30) in which magnets 3 and ladder-shaped members 4 of a magnetic material are arranged in alternate manner in a rectilinearly moving direction of the mover 30, the ladder-shaped members 4 each holding one of the magnets 3; and a primary side (a stator 201) that includes magnetic pole pieces 1 arranged in close proximity to the secondary side from above and below in a direction perpendicular to the rectilinearly moving direction with a common coil 2 wound around each of the magnetic pole pieces 1, the primary side including a magnetic material core 11 interconnecting the magnetic pole pieces 1; wherein the ladder-shaped members 4 of a magnetic material are formed with grooves 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 8810082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a small size and lightweight linear motor having small thrust ripples, in which the magnetic attraction working between an armature and a mover is canceled out and therefore is small. A thrust generation mechanism includes a stator (3) and a mover (5). The mover (5) includes permanent magnets (4) installed in a row so that the magnetic poles at the front and backsides of the magnets are alternately reversed along the traveling direction. The stator (3) includes upper and lower pole teeth (6), (7) having a plurality of magnetic poles (2) and arranged so as to sandwich the permanent magnets (4) of the mover (5), cores for connecting the pole teeth, and a winding (1) wound around a set of a plurality of the cores. Thrust ripples are reduced by adjusting the magnetic pole pitch (Pc) of the magnetic poles (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Patent number: 8680739
    Abstract: When a conventional technology is employed, it is difficult to manufacture a magnet row because magnets are disposed so that N-poles face each other while S-poles face each other. Further, magnetic reluctance is increased because a generated magnetic flux obliquely crosses an air gap in which the magnets are disposed. Furthermore, the conventional technology is at a disadvantage in that magnetic flux interference occurs between neighboring magnetic poles. The present invention has been made to address the above problems and provide a rotary electrical machine capable of generating high torque at low speed. The rotary electrical machine includes a rotor disc and an armature. The rotor disc is configured so that plural rectangular magnets whose longitudinal direction crosses the direction of rotor disc rotation are disposed on the rotor disc, and that the polarities of neighboring magnets differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Takafumi Koseki
  • Patent number: 8466587
    Abstract: A linear motor including magnetic-pole teeth which pinch and hold permanent magnets deployed in a displacer, a plurality of iron cores used for continuously connecting the magnetic-pole teeth, windings wound around the plurality of iron cores in batch, and the displacer in which positive and negative magnetic poles of the permanent magnets are arranged alternately. A plurality of magnetic poles including the magnetic-pole teeth and the iron cores are deployed along a longitudinal direction of the displacer. The windings which are common to the plurality of magnetic poles are deployed on the iron cores. The leakage magnetic flux between the adjacent magnetic poles is reduced by making polarities of the plurality of deployed magnetic poles one and the same polarity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20130093264
    Abstract: The present invention provides a linear motor where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are lessened and the ripple can be adjusted. As a leakage flux between the magnetic poles can be reduced by being configured by plural magnetic poles arranged with a magnet arranged on a mover held between them, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles that holds the magnet of the mover between them, windings are integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover formed by a row of magnets the magnetic poles of which are alternately arranged or a row of magnets the polarity of which is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, by arranging the plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnet held between and the plural magnetic poles provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: HITACHI LTD
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Kohji Maki
  • Publication number: 20130088099
    Abstract: To provide a linear generator according to the present invention where a load onto a supporting mechanism and the ripple of force are reduced, the pitch of a magnetic pole is narrowed and a high frequency is acquired, the linear generator according to the present invention is provided with plural magnetic poles arranged with the magnets arranged on a mover held between the plural magnetic poles, a core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets of the mover between them, winding integrally wound onto the plural magnetic poles and the mover configured by a row of magnets in which the magnetic poles of the magnets are alternately arranged or a row of magnets in which the polarity of magnets is alternately arranged and magnetic materials, the magnetic pole arranged with the magnets held between the magnetic poles and the magnetic pole provided with the core that continuously connects the magnetic poles which hold the magnets are arranged in a longitudinal direction of the mover by plura
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Publication number: 20130082545
    Abstract: To provide a linear motor including a mover having an excellent magnetic characteristic even if rigidity is improved, can reduce an amount of magnets, and has high rigidity and less easily bends. A linear motor according to the present invention is a linear motor (R1) including a propulsion generating mechanism that enables an armature (200) including an armature iron core (100, 101) and an armature winding (2a, 2b) wound around magnetic pole teeth (11, 12) of the armature iron core and a mover (8) including permanent magnets (3) to move relatively to each other. The armature iron core (100, 101) includes the magnetic pole teeth (11, 12) on both sides respectively arranged to be opposed to both surfaces on one side and the other side of the permanent magnets (3) via a gap (4) and a core (1) that connects the magnetic pole teeth (11, 12) on both the sides. A common armature winding (2a, 2b) is arranged on a plurality of the armature iron cores (100, 101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Kengo Goto, Yasuaki Aoyama, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Publication number: 20110298308
    Abstract: Provided is a small size and lightweight linear motor having small thrust ripples, in which the magnetic attraction working between an armature and a mover is canceled out and therefore is small. A thrust generation mechanism comprises a stator (3) and a mover (5). The mover (5) includes permanent magnets (4) installed in a row so that the magnetic poles at the front and backsides of the magnets are alternately reversed along the traveling direction. The stator (3) includes upper and lower pole teeth (6), (7) having a plurality of magnetic poles (2) and arranged so as to sandwich the permanent magnets (4) of the mover (5), cores for connecting the pole teeth, and a winding (1) wound around a set of a plurality of the cores. Thrust ripples are reduced by adjusting the magnetic pole pitch (Pc) of the magnetic poles (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Publication number: 20110248579
    Abstract: A linear motor including magnetic-pole teeth which pinch and hold permanent magnets deployed in a displacer, a plurality of iron cores used for continuously connecting the magnetic-pole teeth, windings wound around the plurality of iron cores in batch, and the displacer in which positive and negative magnetic poles of the permanent magnets are arranged alternately. A plurality of magnetic poles including the magnetic-pole teeth and the iron cores are deployed along a longitudinal direction of the displacer. The windings which are common to the plurality of magnetic poles are deployed on the iron cores. The leakage magnetic flux between the adjacent magnetic poles is reduced by making polarities of the plurality of deployed magnetic poles one and the same polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventor: Yasuaki AOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20110241449
    Abstract: A thrust generation mechanism comprising magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold permanent magnets disposed on movers, cores which serially connect the magnetic pole teeth which sandwich and hold the magnets, armature winding wires which are collectively wound around the cores, and the movers having the magnets arranged such that the different magnetic poles thereof alternately face the front side and the rear side. The magnetic pole teeth which are arranged so as to sandwich and hold the permanent magnets and the armature iron cores which have cores serially connecting the magnetic pole teeth which hold the magnets are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the movers, and armature iron cores have a common winding wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuaki Aoyama, Yoshitaka Iwaji
  • Publication number: 20110109190
    Abstract: When a conventional technology is employed, it is difficult to manufacture a magnet row because magnets are disposed so that N-poles face each other while S-poles face each other. Further, magnetic reluctance is increased because a generated magnetic flux obliquely crosses an air gap in which the magnets are disposed. Furthermore, the conventional technology is at a disadvantage in that magnetic flux interference occurs between neighboring magnetic poles. The present invention has been made to address the above problems and provide a rotary electrical machine capable of generating high torque at low speed. The rotary electrical machine includes a rotor disc and an armature. The rotor disc is configured so that plural rectangular magnets whose longitudinal direction crosses the direction of rotor disc rotation are disposed on the rotor disc, and that the polarities of neighboring magnets differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Yasuaki AOYAMA, Takafumi Koseki
  • Patent number: 7405503
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating electric machine in which damage to a magnet from heat is prevented, eddy current loss is reduced while decreasing an eddy current generated in a permanent magnet, and furthermore, time and cost for manufacturing can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuaki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20070108861
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rotating electric machine in which damage to a magnet from heat is prevented, eddy current loss is reduced while decreasing an eddy current generated in a permanent magnet, and furthermore, time and cost for manufacturing can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventor: Yasuaki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 4543811
    Abstract: A progressive forming method of a product having a varied cross-sectional length in the direction of supply of strip material. A material is first drawn so that a portion which corresponds to the portion of the product having a cross-sectional length larger than the smallest cross-sectional length is processed. The material is elongated by an amount corresponding to the difference of the length from the smallest length. Operations that require no differential elongation in the direction of supply are all performed subsequently, since such operations do not require excess stock that must ultimately be scrapped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yasuaki Aoyama