Patents by Inventor Yoshihisa Matsuoka

Yoshihisa Matsuoka 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: 11912858
    Abstract: A molded bale of a rubber-like block copolymer, the rubber-like block copolymer containing 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (a) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 22% by mass or less; and 5% by mass or more and 95% by mass or less of a polymer block (b) having a content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit of 23% by mass or more and less than 50% by mass, in which the rubber-like block copolymer has an iodine value of 10 to 250, an ethylene structure content of 3% by mass or more, and a vinyl aromatic monomer block content of less than 10% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Araki, Atsushi Yasumoto, Daigo Matsuoka, Yoshihisa Inoue, Tomohiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 10523097
    Abstract: An electrical conductor aligning device that can, without mutual interference, easily, and in a short period of time, align a plurality of electrical conductors in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction. The coil element aligning device includes: holding sections, a slide mechanism and a cylinder mechanism. One leg of each coil element is held by the plurality of holding sections, the plurality of coil elements being aligned in an annular shape at a spacing such that there is no overlapping in the peripheral direction, and then the plurality of holding sections being moved inwards in the radial direction by the slide mechanism and the cylinder mechanism, thereby aligning the plurality of coil elements in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Toru Yoshida, Kenichi Ohno, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20180183307
    Abstract: An electrical conductor aligning device that can, without mutual interference, easily, and in a short period of time, align a plurality of electrical conductors in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction. The coil element aligning device includes: holding sections, a slide mechanism and a cylinder mechanism. One leg of each coil element is held by the plurality of holding sections, the plurality of coil elements being aligned in an annular shape at a spacing such that there is no overlapping in the peripheral direction, and then the plurality of holding sections being moved inwards in the radial direction by the slide mechanism and the cylinder mechanism, thereby aligning the plurality of coil elements in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Toru Yoshida, Kenichi Ohno, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9917494
    Abstract: An electrical conductor aligning device that can, without mutual interference, easily, and in a short period of time, align a plurality of electrical conductors in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction. The coil element aligning device includes: holding sections, a slide mechanism and a cylinder mechanism. One leg of each coil element is held by the plurality of holding sections, the plurality of coil elements being aligned in an annular shape at a spacing such that there is no overlapping in the peripheral direction, and then the plurality of holding sections being moved inwards in the radial direction by the slide mechanism and the cylinder mechanism, thereby aligning the plurality of coil elements in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Toru Yoshida, Kenichi Ohno, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9899888
    Abstract: A coil structure for a rotary electric machine includes phase coils for magnetic flux generation. Each of the phase coils includes a plurality of first element conductors, a plurality of second element conductors, a plurality of first crossover portions, and a plurality of second crossover portions. The plurality of second element conductors are provided in a plurality of second slots among slots. The second slots are provided in a circumferential direction of a stator at a pitch of a first predetermined interval. The second slots are shifted in phase by a second predetermined interval with respect to first slots in the circumferential direction of the stator. The first predetermined interval is set to be an interval equivalent to N times a unit pitch. The second predetermined interval is set to be an interval smaller than the first predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Shibata, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9843232
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a three-phase coil including a first phase coil, a second phase coil, and a third phase coil for magnetic flux generation. A bridge conductor connecting an ath end and a bth end of the first phase coil, and a bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the third phase coil are provided in a protruding shape on one side of a stator in a radial direction when viewed in a axial direction of the stator. A bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the second phase coil is provided in a protruding shape on the other side of the stator in the radial direction when viewed in the axial direction of the stator. The bridge conductor of each coil in the three-phase coil is arranged at the same height position in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Shibata, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9800124
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electric rotary machine unit including: a first electric rotary machine having a first stator; and a second electric rotary machine having a second stator. A coil configured by plural coil segments is disposed in each of the first and second stators. The first and second stators are disposed so that connecting portions of the coil segments or joint portions of leg portions of the coil segments are positioned between the stator cores thereof. First and second feeding portions are interposed between the first and second stators in the axial direction and spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Matsuoka, Keisuke Azusawa
  • Patent number: 9780613
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotor core, a plurality of permanent magnets, and a rotating shaft. The rotor core includes a through-hole, an inner circumference-side rotor core, an outer circumference-side rotor core, an annular portion, a plurality of inner circumference-side ribs, and a plurality of outer circumference-side ribs. The through-hole is provided on a first inner circumference side of magnet insertion holes. The inner circumference-side rotor core is located on a second inner circumference side of the through-hole. The outer circumference-side rotor core is located on an outer circumference side of the through-hole. The annular portion has a substantially annular shape, and is being provided inside the through-hole. The plurality of inner circumference-side ribs connect the inner circumference-side rotor core and the annular portion and are provided at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Inoue, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9531227
    Abstract: In a stator constituting a rotary electric machine, a U-shaped first and second divided conductors are disposed at slots. The pitch of a pair of straight parts of the first divided conductor is set larger than that of a pair of straight parts of the second divided conductor. The second divided conductor is disposed on the inner side of the first divided conductor, more specifically, on the stator core side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Azusawa, Takumi Shibata, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9257875
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a stator of a segmented conductor type electric rotary machine including an annular stator core and coil. On at least one axial end portion of the stator core, the coils are disposed to form a coil end so that plural spanning portions of the coils are arranged continuously in a circumferential direction and so that circumferentially adjacent ones of the spanning portions partially overlap each other as seen in an axial direction. An apex portion of the spanning portion is twisted so that an intersecting state is formed as seen in a radial direction within a range where the spanning portion is exposed as seen in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9214848
    Abstract: A driving apparatus includes a first electrical rotating machine, a second electrical rotating machine, a first resolver, and a second resolver. The first resolver is configured to detect a rotation angle of the first electrical rotating machine. The second resolver is configured to detect a rotation angle of the second electrical rotating machine. The first and second electrical rotating machines and the first and second resolvers are coaxially disposed inside a casing. The first resolver and the second resolver are provided between the first electrical rotating machine and the second electrical rotating machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Yamaguchi, Masashi Inoue, Yoshihisa Matsuoka, Keisuke Azusawa
  • Patent number: 9161880
    Abstract: In a walking assist device having leg links each connected to a support member through a first joint and having a first link and second link connected to the first link through a second joint, and actuators to be operated to displace the first and second links relative to each other to produce assist forces that assist part of user's body weight to assist the user to walk, it is configured such that a forward protruding amount of the second joint to be protruded with change of an angle between the first and second links about the second joint is changed. With this, it becomes possible to decrease the forward protruding amount to be protruded from the trunk of the user with change of the angle about the second joint, thereby decreasing the inertia force about the vertical axis, while mitigating the unnatural impression of the appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Ashihara, Yoshihisa Matsuoka, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yutaka Hiki, Makoto Shishido
  • Publication number: 20150207391
    Abstract: An electrical conductor aligning device that can, without mutual interference, easily, and in a short period of time, align a plurality of electrical conductors in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction. The coil element aligning device includes: holding sections, a slide mechanism and a cylinder mechanism. One leg of each coil element is held by the plurality of holding sections, the plurality of coil elements being aligned in an annular shape at a spacing such that there is no overlapping in the peripheral direction, and then the plurality of holding sections being moved inwards in the radial direction by the slide mechanism and the cylinder mechanism, thereby aligning the plurality of coil elements in an annular shape while overlapping in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yamada, Yutaka Matsumoto, Toru Yoshida, Kenichi Ohno, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20150091408
    Abstract: In a stator constituting a rotary electric machine, a U-shaped first and second divided conductors are disposed at slots. The pitch of a pair of straight parts of the first divided conductor is set larger than that of a pair of straight parts of the second divided conductor. The second divided conductor is disposed on the inner side of the first divided conductor, more specifically, on the stator core side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Azusawa, Takumi Shibata, Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20150028714
    Abstract: Conductors comprising a U-phase coil, a V-phase coil and a W-phase coil are arranged in multiple slots in a stator forming a rotating electric machine. These U-phase coils, V-phase coils and W-phase coils are equipped with wave-wound parts, which have bridging parts on one end-face side of the stator core, and lap-wound parts, which are adjacent to the wave-wound parts and are formed so as to encircle the one end face and the other end face of the stator core. The wave-wound parts and the lap-wound parts are arranged so as to alternate in the winding direction of the conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Matsuoka, Takumi Shibata, Keisuke Azusawa
  • Publication number: 20150022046
    Abstract: A coil structure for a rotary electric machine includes phase coils for magnetic flux generation. Each of the phase coils includes a plurality of first element conductors, a plurality of second element conductors, a plurality of first crossover portions, and a plurality of second crossover portions. The plurality of second element conductors are provided in a plurality of second slots among slots. The second slots are provided in a circumferential direction of a stator at a pitch of a first predetermined interval. The second slots are shifted in phase by a second predetermined interval with respect to first slots in the circumferential direction of the stator. The first predetermined interval is set to be an interval equivalent to N times a unit pitch. The second predetermined interval is set to be an interval smaller than the first predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi SHIBATA, Yoshihisa MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20150022047
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a three-phase coil including a first phase coil, a second phase coil, and a third phase coil for magnetic flux generation. A bridge conductor connecting an ath end and a bth end of the first phase coil, and a bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the third phase coil are provided in a protruding shape on one side of a stator in a radial direction when viewed in a axial direction of the stator. A bridge conductor connecting the ath end and the bth end of the second phase coil is provided in a protruding shape on the other side of the stator in the radial direction when viewed in the axial direction of the stator. The bridge conductor of each coil in the three-phase coil is arranged at the same height position in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi SHIBATA, Yoshihisa MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20150022064
    Abstract: A driving apparatus includes a first electrical rotating machine, a second electrical rotating machine, a first resolver, and a second resolver. The first resolver is configured to detect a rotation angle of the first electrical rotating machine. The second resolver is configured to detect a rotation angle of the second electrical rotating machine. The first and second electrical rotating machines and the first and second resolvers are coaxially disposed inside a casing. The first resolver and the second resolver are provided between the first electrical rotating machine and the second electrical rotating machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi YAMAGUCHI, Masashi INOUE, Yoshihisa MATSUOKA, Keisuke AZUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20140339948
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a stator of a segmented conductor type electric rotary machine including an annular stator core and coil. On at least one axial end portion of the stator core, the coils are disposed to form a coil end so that plural spanning portions of the coils are arranged continuously in a circumferential direction and so that circumferentially adjacent ones of the spanning portions partially overlap each other as seen in an axial direction. An apex portion of the spanning portion is twisted so that an intersecting state is formed as seen in a radial direction within a range where the spanning portion is exposed as seen in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8876741
    Abstract: A coil spring 14 is provided in a leg link 3. In the case where an extent of flexion of the leg link 3 is not more than a predetermined extent, the coil spring 14 applies, to a third joint 8, a first biasing force for preventing the extent of flexion of the leg link 3 from decreasing due to gravity acting on a body weight support device A. In the case where the extent of flexion of the leg link 3 exceeds the predetermined extent, the coil spring 14 applies, to the third joint 8, a second biasing force for decreasing the extent of flexion, where the second biasing force is larger than the first biasing force and increases with an increase of the extent of flexion. This enables a sufficient support force to be generated when standing up from a half-sitting posture or a crouching posture, without significantly interfering with walking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Matsuoka