Patents by Inventor Yoshihisa Okuhata

Yoshihisa Okuhata 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: 20190296615
    Abstract: There is provided an inverter device having features regarding the disposition of components. The inverter device includes an inverter unit and a housing in which the inverter unit is housed. The inverter unit includes a heating element, the housing has a partition wall having a cooling flow path through which a refrigerant flows and fixing parts for fixing the heating element to the partition wall, and a cooling surface which is an end surface of the heating element forms a flow path wall of the cooling flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190297751
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a motor shaft along a central axis extending in an axial direction; a stator facing the rotor with a gap interposed therebetween in a radial direction; a motor driving inverter unit supplying electric power from a battery to the stator; a charger having a charger inverter unit for charging the battery; and a housing accommodating the stator, the motor driving inverter unit and the charger. The housing has a cooling flow path through which a coolant flows, an inlet port into which the coolant flowing in the cooling flow path flows, and an outlet port from which the coolant flowing in the cooling flow path flows. The motor driving and the charger inverter units are in the housing along the cooling flow path. The motor driving inverter unit is closer to the inlet port side a position where the charger inverter unit is disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190297753
    Abstract: There is provided an inverter device having a feature related to disposition of components. The inverter device includes a first inverter unit, a second inverter unit, and a housing in which the first inverter unit and the second inverter unit are housed. The first inverter unit includes a first heating element, the second inverter unit includes a second heating element, the housing has a partition wall having a cooling flow path through which a refrigerant flows, the first heating element is fixed to a first surface of the partition wall, and the second heating element is fixed to a second surface which is a reverse surface with respect to the first surface of the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190296605
    Abstract: A motor is provided. A plurality of heat generation elements are fixed to a housing in parallel to a specific direction, the housing has a cooling flow path through which a coolant flows and a plurality of fixing units fixing the plurality of heat generation elements to the housing, the plurality of heat generation elements has a first and a second heat generation elements, the plurality of fixing units have a first and a second fixing units that are respectively disposed at an end and the other end of the first heat generation element, a third and a fourth securing units that are respectively disposed at an end and the other end of the second heat generation element. The second fixing unit is adjacent to the third fixing unit. The cooling flow path is disposed at a location other than a location between the second and the third fixing units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190297752
    Abstract: There is provided an inverter device having features regarding the disposition of components. The inverter device includes an inverter unit and a housing in which the inverter unit is housed. The inverter unit includes a heating element, the housing has a partition wall having a cooling flow path through which a refrigerant flows and a plurality of fixing parts for fixing the heating element to the partition wall, the plurality of fixing parts include a first fixing part disposed at one side of the heating element and a second fixing part disposed at the other side of the heating element, and the cooling flow path is positioned between the first fixing part and the second fixing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190296612
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor that has a motor shaft disposed along a central axis extending in an axial direction; a stator facing the rotor with a gap interposed therebetween in a radial direction; a motor driving inverter unit supplying electric power from a battery to the stator; a charger having a charger inverter unit that charges the battery; and a housing accommodating the stator, the motor driving inverter unit and the charger The housing has a cooling flow path through which a coolant flows, a stator accommodation unit accommodating the stator, an inverter accommodation unit positioned outside the stator accommodation unit in the radial direction, a charger accommodation unit positioned outside the stator accommodation unit in the radial direction, and an intermediate partitioning wall partitioning the inverter accommodation unit and the charger accommodation unit The cooling flow path is disposed in the intermediate partitioning wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190199160
    Abstract: A motor includes: a housing that accommodates a stator that has a field coil and a rotor; an inverter that is provided in the housing; a voltage boosting circuit that has a reactor provided in the housing; and a coolant flow path that is provided at a position at which the coolant flow path overlaps with the inverter and the voltage boosting circuit in the housing in a diameter direction, and the inverter has a control board that controls a drive current or a drive voltage and a drive element that is provided on the side of the housing with respect to the control board and supplies power to the field coil in accordance with control from the control board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa OKUHATA, Tadayuki HATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20190199250
    Abstract: A motor control device includes: a voltage boosting circuit that boosts a power source voltage supplied from an outside; a condenser that smooths a voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit; an inverter circuit that generates a drive voltage of a motor by switching a voltage output by the voltage boosting circuit and smoothed by the condenser; and a control part that causes the voltage boosting circuit to bypass and causes the power source voltage to be supplied to the inverter circuit, and a distance between the voltage boosting circuit and the inverter circuit is a distance with which a parasitic inductance is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki HATSUDA, Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190199268
    Abstract: A motor control device includes a temperature input unit that inputs a temperature of a motor and a control unit that performs control such that the control unit drives the motor by constant current/variable voltage control by lowering a power source voltage in a case in which the input temperature of the motor is equal to or less than a first threshold value and drives the motor by constant voltage/variable current control at a predetermined power source voltage in a case in which the temperature of the motor exceeds the first threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tadayuki HATSUDA, Yoshihisa OKUHATA
  • Publication number: 20190199269
    Abstract: A control unit calculates necessary power necessary to drive a motor in accordance with a torque designation value and a rotational speed of a motor, sets a voltage value to a predetermined voltage value, changes a current value in accordance with the necessary power, and drive the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is less than a predetermined threshold value, and sets the current value to a predetermined current value, changes the voltage value in accordance with the necessary power, and drives the motor in a case in which the calculated necessary power is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Okuhata, Tadayuki Hatsuda
  • Patent number: 6262374
    Abstract: A connecting structure for a shielded cable having a braid is disclosed. The connecting structure includes a cable insertion hole, a hollow pressure member, a shield connection member, and a hollow bolt. The cable insertion hole includes a female threaded part and a shield connection part having an inclined surface. The hollow pressure member is inserted into the shield connection part of the cable insertion hole and the shielded cable passes through the hollow pressure member. The shield connection member is connected to the braid of the shielded cable and has an inclined part. The shield connection member is inserted into the cable insertion hole such that the inclined part is disposed between the inclined surface of the shield connection part and the hollow pressure member. The shielded cable passes through the hollow bolt and the hollow bolt is threaded into the female threaded part of the cable insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Masahiro Deno, Kazuhisa Ishizaki, Toshihiro Hirai, Yoshihisa Okuhata, Hiroki Nishi, Haruki Hamada, Masayoshi Tashiro