Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Shinkawa

Yasuhiro Shinkawa 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: 8232696
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic electricity generator having a coil structure capable of selectively changing output characteristics by using the same armature coil structure. In the magnetic electricity generator having armature coils and a magnet, the armature coils are configured with plural circuits of three-phase armature coils, wherein coil groups of each phase coil of the three-phase armature coils are divided into two or more coil groups, connection ports (T1 to T7, T9, T11, T13 to 22, T24, T26, and T28 to T30) are disposed to each coil group, and intermediate connection ports (T8, T10, T12, T23, T25, and T27) are disposed to one coil group in each phase coil, and wherein the connection ports and the intermediate connection ports are selectively connected with wires between the phase coils according to desired output voltage and current, so that output voltage characteristics can be adjusted according to connection scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 8067868
    Abstract: In a stator structure 1 of an outer rotor generator, a pressing portion 33 provided on a first portion 31 of a connecting terminal 30 is configured to protrude inward in the radial direction of an annular coupler 20 when the connecting terminal 30 is attached to the coupler 20. The coupler 20 is formed with a circular cylindrical guide protrusion 23, and an outlet of a stator winding 5 having wound on a salient pole 10b is configured to be guided by the guide protrusion 23, bent inward in the radial direction and reach the pressing portion 33. After fusing processing, the first portion 31 on which the pressing portion 33 is provided is bent at a right angle toward a side opposed to a side with which the stator winding 5 is connected, and then a distal end thereof is locked at a lock portion 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 7825563
    Abstract: In an insulator to be inserted into each slot to be attached to adjacent teeth formed at a rotor or a stator of an electric rotating machine, the insulator is composed of insulator segments that are made divisible in a longitudinal direction parallel to a rotational axis of the rotor at a position corresponding to 2 slots and are made divisible in a lateral direction perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor, the insulator segments have surfaces to be coupled to each other of a same shape in the lateral direction, and the insulator segments have a creepage distance that is made longer than a distance in the lateral direction, thereby enabling to elongate the creepage distance and to improve work efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kotani, Kazuhiro Togawa, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20100181851
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic electricity generator having a coil structure capable of selectively changing output characteristics by using the same armature coil structure. In the magnetic electricity generator having armature coils and a magnet, the armature coils are configured with plural circuits of three-phase armature coils, wherein coil groups of each phase coil of the three-phase armature coils are divided into two or more coil groups, connection ports (T1 to T7, T9, T11, T13 to 22, T24, T26, and T28 to T30) are disposed to each coil group, and intermediate connection ports (T8, T10, T12, T23, T25, and T27) are disposed to one coil group in each phase coil, and wherein the connection ports and the intermediate connection ports are selectively connected with wires between the phase coils according to desired output voltage and current, so that output voltage characteristics can be adjusted according to connection scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2009
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20100096939
    Abstract: In a stator structure 1 of an outer rotor generator, a pressing portion 33 provided on a first portion 31 of a connecting terminal 30 is configured to protrude inward in the radial direction of an annular coupler 20 when the connecting terminal 30 is attached to the coupler 20. The coupler 20 is formed with a circular cylindrical guide protrusion 23, and an outlet of a stator winding 5 having wound on a salient pole 10b is configured to be guided by the guide protrusion 23, bent inward in the radial direction and reach the pressing portion 33. After fusing processing, the first portion 31 on which the pressing portion 33 is provided is bent at a right angle toward a side opposed to a side with which the stator winding 5 is connected, and then a distal end thereof is locked at a lock portion 26.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20090102311
    Abstract: In an insulator to be inserted into each slot to be attached to adjacent teeth formed at a rotor or a stator of an electric rotating machine, the insulator is composed of insulator segments that are made divisible in a longitudinal direction parallel to a rotational axis of the rotor at a position corresponding to 2 slots and are made divisible in a lateral direction perpendicular to the rotational axis of the rotor, the insulator segments have surfaces to be coupled to each other of a same shape in the lateral direction, and the insulator segments have a creepage distance that is made longer than a distance in the lateral direction, thereby enabling to elongate the creepage distance and to improve work efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kotani, Kazuhiro Togawa, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 6844650
    Abstract: A multipolar magnetogenerator, which is operable under sufficient performance of its capability, permitting simultaneous extraction of various voltage outputs and is excellent in spatial efficiency, includes a magnet rotor (3) as an outer rotor and a multipolar stator (10) opposed to the radially inner surface of the magnet rotor (3) to permit extraction of an output of generated power from output windings (30) wound around the stator core 10. A transformer core (21) has a primary winding (31) and secondary windings (32, 33) wound therearound and is located adjacent the radially inner circumferential surface of the stator (10), which is remote from the magnet rotor (3), and the output windings (30) are connected to the primary wiring (32) such that transformed outputs are extracted from the secondary windings (32, 33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hirano, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Publication number: 20040000831
    Abstract: A multipolar magnetogenerator, which is operable under sufficient performance of its capability, permitting simultaneous extraction of various voltage outputs and is excellent in spatial efficiency, includes a magnet rotor (3) as an outer rotor and a multipolar stator (10) opposed to the radially inner surface of the magnet rotor (3) to permit extraction of an output of generated power from output windings (30) wound around the stator core 10. A transformer core (21) has a primary winding (31) and secondary windings (32, 33) wound therearound and is located adjacent the radially inner circumferential surface of the stator (10), which is remote from the magnet rotor (3), and the output windings (30) are connected to the primary wiring (32) such that transformed outputs are extracted from the secondary windings (32, 33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tsutomu Hirano, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 6525430
    Abstract: An engine generator comprises a fan cover made of die-cast aluminum alloy, and a power control unit including an aluminum base sheet. The base sheet has a power control circuit formed thereon. The fan cover includes a mounting portion to be attached to the power control unit. When the power control unit is attached to the fan cover, a surface of the aluminum base sheet comes into intimate contact with an outer surface of the mounting portion. Heat generated at the unit is transmitted to the fan cover, and then released from the fan cover serving as a heat releasing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Asai, Ryuji Tsuru, Hiroyuki Eguchi, Yasuhiro Shinkawa
  • Patent number: 6030260
    Abstract: A connecting terminal for a stator which is fitted and fixed in a fitting bore provided in a bobbin included in the stator, includes an external-conductor connecting terminal section fitted and fixed in the fitting bore with one end connected to an external conductor protruding from the fitting bore, a flat plate-shaped connecting plate section connected at one end at right angles to the other end of the external-conductor connecting terminal section and extending outwards in a radial direction of the stator, and a coil connecting terminal section which extends away from the bobbin and which is connected at right angles to the other end of the connecting plate section, so that the coil connecting terminal section can be folded to a position superposed onto the connecting plate section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignees: Sawafuji Electric Co., Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Kikuchi, Masaharu Moriuchi, Tatsuya Mori, Shigeyoshi Kubota, Tsutomu Hirano, Motohiro Shimizu, Yasuhiro Shinkawa