Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Miyama
Yoshihiro Miyama 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).
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Patent number: 12191723Abstract: This rotary electric machine includes two movable parts which are placed with a stator core interposed therebetween and rotate about an identical rotary shaft. At least part of the stator core is formed by stacking thin sheets in a rotation direction of the two movable parts. The stator core has, at both ends, stator core retention portions extended in a direction parallel to surfaces thereof opposed to the two movable parts and perpendicular to the rotation direction of the movable parts. Retention surfaces of the stator core retention portions at both ends are respectively fixed by retention members. The retention surfaces of the stator core retention portions at both ends are formed to face toward each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Hiroshi Mitsuda, Kazumasa Ito
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Patent number: 12131747Abstract: Noise suppression performance is enhanced by performing appropriate noise suppression suitable for an environment of noise. Noise dictionary data read out from a noise database unit on the basis of installation environment information including information regarding a type of noise, and an orientation between a sound reception point and a noise source is acquired. Then, noise suppression processing is performed on a voice signal obtained by a microphone arranged at the sound reception point, using the acquired noise dictionary data.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ryuichi Namba, Seiji Miyama, Yoshihiro Manabe, Yoshiaki Oikawa
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Patent number: 11967863Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11929649Abstract: The rotating electric machine includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein the rotor includes: a rotor core having a magnet insertion hole group including a plurality of magnet insertion holes; and a permanent magnet group including a plurality of permanent magnets inserted in the plurality of magnet insertion holes of the magnet insertion hole group, respectively, wherein the plurality of magnet insertion holes are arranged side by side in a shape convex toward a center of the rotor from a radially-outer side surface of the rotor core, wherein the permanent magnet group forms one magnetic pole, wherein, in a part of the rotor core between the radially-outer side surface and the magnet insertion hole group, a magnetic slit is formed to extend in a shape convex toward the center of the rotor from the radially-outer side surface, and wherein the magnet insertion hole group includes three magnet insertion holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura, Moriyuki Hazeyama
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Patent number: 11894725Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine (100) including a stator (1) and a rotor (2). The rotor (2) includes a plurality of stages of rotor units (201 and 202) stacked in an axial direction. Each of the rotor units (201 and 202) includes a pair of permanent magnets (21) and slits (22a and 22b) arranged in one or more rows. The slits (22a and 22b) has an arc-like shape. Both ends of the arc-like shape are located on an outer periphery side of the rotor (2). When an angle formed between two straight lines that connect positions of both ends of the arc-like shape and a rotation axis center of the rotor (2) is defined as an arc angle, at least one of the arc angle of the slit (22a) and the number of rows of the slits is different between at least two rotor units (201 and 202).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroshi Mitsuda, Yoshihiro Miyama, Moriyuki Hazeyama, Masaya Inoue, Masashi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11894726Abstract: In a rotating electric machine, a rotor core includes; a gap surface; a plurality of magnet insertion holes; a slit which is formed in a core region between the gap surface and, among the plurality of magnet insertion holes, a magnet insertion hole into which a permanent magnet forming one magnetic pole is inserted, and divides the core region into a plurality of divided core regions in the circumferential direction; and a cutout formed by denting the gap surface of a divided core region, wherein a shortest distance between a stator core imaginary gap surface which is in contact with distal end surfaces of the plurality of teeth, and a bottom point of the cutout is longer than a shortest distance between the stator core imaginary gap surface and each of two intersections between the cutout and the gap surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Junji Kitao, Kosho Yamane, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama
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Publication number: 20230412011Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine that can reduce torque ripple. A stator core of the rotary electric machine is formed by combining, in the axial direction, a plurality of kinds of stator core portions having different tooth end shapes. Thus, phases of torque ripples occurring in the respective stator core portions become different from each other, so that torque ripple of the entire motor can be suppressed more efficiently.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Takayuki IIDA, Yoshihiro Miyama
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Patent number: 11811340Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating electric machine, the control device being configured to control an inverter configured to apply a voltage to each phase winding of a rotating electric machine, to thereby control, for the each phase winding, a current to be supplied to the each phase winding, the control device including a control unit configured to: calculate a voltage command value to be applied to the each phase winding so that a phase difference between harmonic components of the same order in a radial magnetic flux density and a circumferential magnetic flux density of an air gap portion between a stator core and a rotor core of the rotating electric machine becomes a phase difference target value determined in advance, and to control the inverter in accordance with the calculated voltage command value.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Yoshihiro Miyama, Kan Akatsu, Yuki Sakai, Hiroki Hijikata
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Publication number: 20230344316Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rotating electric machine in which a centrifugal force can be relaxed and reluctance torque can be improved. A pair of magnet slots are provided so as to be opposed to each other such that the distance therebetween is narrowed toward the radially inner side while being centered on a d axis of a rotor core, a pair of magnets are inserted in the pair of magnet slots, and center flux barriers are provided on the d axis between the pair of magnet slots. The distance in the radial direction between the first-layer center flux barrier and the second-layer center flux barrier is the smallest among distances between a flux barrier layer for first layer and a flux barrier layer for second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Shinsuke KAYANO, Kengo Kumagai
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Patent number: 11799337Abstract: A rotating electric machine including a rotor including a rotor core arranged coaxially with a stator core via an air gap formed between the stator core and the rotor core, and a plurality of permanent magnet groups each forming one magnetic pole, A flux barrier is formed between one set of permanent magnets adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction in each permanent magnet group forming one magnetic pole. A pair of ribs is formed of regions of the rotor core between the flux barrier and the one set of permanent magnets. A first slit is formed in a region of the rotor core on the air gap side in a radial direction of the each permanent magnet group, and an end portion of the first slit on the flux barrier side is positioned between extension lines of the pair of ribs.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Junji Kitao, Kosho Yamane, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama
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Publication number: 20230246536Abstract: In the magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear which uses pole pieces, improvement in demagnetization resistance and suppression of the reduction in torque were issues. Therefore, to the pole pieces provided in a torus shape, a magnetic flux modulation type magnetic gear arranges concentrically a first rotator on the inside of the pole piece and a second rotator on the outside, so that the rotors can be rotated relatively, with the center of the pole pieces as the rotation axis, wherein a first hole part stores, on the inside of the rotator, a first permanent magnet prepared in the rotator, having inclination of a predetermined angle, with respect to the line segment which shows a magnetic pole center, when viewed from the rotation axis. The magnetic gear is configured so as to use the amount of permanent magnets as much as possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230123457Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes: a rotor core configured having electromagnetic steel sheets; a stator core having electromagnetic steel sheets; a magnet inserted in each of a plurality of through holes; and a magnetic end plate in contact with one or each of an end surface on one side in the axial direction of the rotor core and an end surface on another side in the axial direction of the rotor core, and having a single magnetic sheet or a plurality of magnetic sheets stacked in the axial direction, wherein heat generated from the magnetic end plate owing to eddy current that is generated in the magnetic end plate by magnetic flux from the stator core is equal to or lower than heat generated from the rotor core owing to eddy current that is generated in the rotor core by magnetic flux from the stator core.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Tomohira TAKAHASHI, Junji KITAO, Shinji NISHIMURA
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Publication number: 20230120571Abstract: A rotary electric machine comprises: a rotor which has a rotor core and permanent magnets arranged in the rotor core on its outer circumference side, and which is supported rotatably; and a stator which has a stator core having teeth projecting toward a radial center and arranged circumferentially, and which is located coaxially with the rotor to be spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor; wherein, on a condition that a ratio of the circumferential width of each of sub poles to the circumferential width of each of main poles is 0.625 or less, a top width of each of the teeth is set on the basis of two calculation formulas to be used differently according to the rotor skew angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Kodai OKAZAKI, Junji KITAO, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kengo KUMAGAI
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Publication number: 20230111062Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core fixed to a shaft, a pair of magnet slots arranged in a V-shape in the rotor core so as to be separated away from each other toward a radially outer side, permanent magnets inserted into the magnet slots, and a hole provided on the radially outer side of the magnet slots. The distance between each permanent magnet and the hole increases toward the radially outer side. The distance between an outer circumference of the rotor core and the hole is not less than the distance between each magnet slot and the outer circumference of the rotor core.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kosho YAMANE, Junji KITAO, Kodai OKAZAKI, Tatsuo NISHIMURA, Tomohira TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20220385124Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine. This rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor, and the rotor includes: a rotor core having formed therein a magnet insertion hole group; and a permanent magnet group. In the rotor core, a first magnetic slit and a second magnetic slit are formed. In the second magnetic slit, a first magnet magnetic flux guide path connecting a first q-axis magnetic path and a second q-axis magnetic path is arranged. When an angle between a straight line passing through a first intersecting point and a radial center point and a straight line passing through a second intersecting point and the radial center point is set as ?1, the number of pole pairs is set as P, a natural number is set as m1, and n1 is set as a natural number smaller than m1, the following expression: ?1=2?×n1÷{P×(2m1?1)} [rad] is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Hiroshi MITSUDA, Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Moriyuki HAZEYAMA, Masaya INOUE, Masashi NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 11456633Abstract: A rotor of the permanent magnet rotating electric machine includes a rotor core, a plurality of magnets, and magnetic slits. Each of the magnetic slits is formed in a core region being a region between magnets of the plurality of magnets, and a gap. The magnetic slits are regions having a lower magnetic permeability than a magnetic permeability of the core region. One end of each of the magnetic slits, which is closer to an outer periphery of the rotor, is positioned in a portion of the core region on the same direction side as a direction of a force in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and another end closer to the rotation axis center of the rotor is positioned on the magnetic pole center or in a portion of the core region on a side opposite to the direction of the force.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohira Takahashi, Junji Kitao, Yoshihiro Miyama, Masatsugu Nakano, Kosho Yamane
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Patent number: 11451102Abstract: A rotary electric machine including a rotor including a rotor core; permanent magnets to be embedded in the rotor core; and a one end-side end plate configured to support one end side of the rotor core. The rotor core has rotor refrigerant passages through which refrigerant for cooling the permanent magnets flows in an axial direction of the shaft. The one end-side end plate has an end plate refrigerant passage communicating with the rotor refrigerant passages. The end plate refrigerant passage has refrigerant reservoirs, each projecting to an outer side in a radial direction of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke Kimoto, Junji Kitao, Tomohira Takahashi, Yoshihiro Miyama, Junichi Nakazono
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Publication number: 20220271584Abstract: Provided is a rotating electric machine, including a rotor, the rotor including: a rotor core; a first permanent magnet inserted into a first magnet slot; and a second permanent magnet inserted into a second magnet slot. The rotor core includes an inter-pole hole portion formed between the first magnet slot and the second magnet slot. When a circle having a rotation axis as a center and circumscribing an edge portion of each of the first magnet slot and the second magnet slot on the stator side is defined as a first circle, the inter-pole hole portion is arranged on a side opposite to the stator with respect to the first circle, and an edge portion of the inter-pole hole portion on the stator side is formed along the first circle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Takeshi KUBOTA, Kengo KUMAGAI
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Patent number: 11408721Abstract: A rotation angle detection device, including: a rotor; a stator including one bias magnetic field generation portion (BMFGP) and magnetic detection elements; and a rotation angle calculation processor calculating a rotation angle of the rotor from detection signals of the detection elements, wherein a surface of the rotor has convex and concave portions (CCPs), which change in “x” (“x”?1) cycles for a mechanical angle of 360, and a shape of the CCPs make the detection elements possible to obtain a sine wave, and wherein “a” (“a”?2) detection elements are arranged along a circumferential direction of the stator at equal intervals for one cycle of the CCPs—so as to be opposed to the surface of the rotor, and the BMFGP extends in the circumferential direction for one cycle of the CCPs so as to overlap with the “a” detection elements.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji Nishizawa, Yoshihiro Miyama, Tatsuo Nishimura, Hideaki Arita, Masaya Inoue
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Publication number: 20220209697Abstract: Provided is a control device for a rotating electric machine, the control device being configured to control an inverter configured to apply a voltage to each phase winding of a rotating electric machine, to thereby control, for the each phase winding, a current to be supplied to the each phase winding, the control device including a control unit configured to: calculate a voltage command value to be applied to the each phase winding so that a phase difference between harmonic components of the same order in a radial magnetic flux density and a circumferential magnetic flux density of an air gap portion between a stator core and a rotor core of the rotating electric machine becomes a phase difference target value determined in advance, and to control the inverter in accordance with the calculated voltage command value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2019Publication date: June 30, 2022Applicants: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Shibaura Institute of TechnologyInventors: Yoshihiro MIYAMA, Kan AKATSU, Yuki SAKAI, Hiroki HIJIKATA