Patents by Inventor Yoshihito Asao

Yoshihito Asao 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: 20200247462
    Abstract: An electric power steering device of a steer-by-wire type includes: a steering input mechanism, which includes a steering wheel to be operated by a driver; a reaction force motor, which is configured to apply a steering reaction force to the steering wheel; a steering motor, which is configured to output a steering force; a steering mechanism, which is prevented from being mechanically connected to the steering input mechanism, and is configured to steer a steered wheel through the steering force generated by the steering motor; and a drive control device, which is configured to carry out drive control for the steering motor and the reaction force motor. At least one of the steering motor or the reaction force motor is constructed of a double-winding motor of a double-inverter type in which each of windings is duplexed, and the respective duplexed windings are individually driven by two inverters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru AKUTSU, Yoshihito ASAO
  • Patent number: 10734868
    Abstract: In this vehicle electronic control device, a control board having an electronic component mounted thereon is housed inside a case and a connector portion for connecting the control board to the outside is formed integrally with the case. The connector portion is formed by a housing portion covering the control board, and a terminal portion integrally embedded in the housing portion. The terminal portion has: a terminal for external connection, protruding from the housing portion; and an intermediate path portion extending from the terminal and connected to the control board. An exposure portion which allows the intermediate path portion to be exposed over the entire periphery thereof is formed in a part of the housing portion. An interface sealing member for sealing the interface between the housing portion and the intermediate path portion is provided in the exposure portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kohei Ushio, Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10710628
    Abstract: The motor unit includes a motor case containing a stator and a rotor fixed to an output shaft; the control unit includes a unit case containing constituent members of the control unit that controls the motor unit; the motor unit and the control unit are fixed to each other in such a way that an axle-direction end, at the unit case side, of the motor case is made to abut on an axle-direction end, at the motor unit side, of the unit case and then the both ends are bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20200220423
    Abstract: Provided is an electric drive device capable of achieving redundant supply of power from outside and achieving downsizing. An electric drive device, including: a motor; a controller configured to control driving of the motor; and a power supply connector electrically connected to the controller, the power supply connector including: a power supply connector housing; and a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal, which are provided in the power supply connector housing and electrically connected to separate external power sources, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya NISHIKAWA, Yoshihito ASAO
  • Patent number: 10696320
    Abstract: In the electric power steering apparatus according to the present invention, a circuit board and an intermediate member are disposed so as to be juxtaposed in an axial direction of a rotating shaft, a connector is formed integrally on the intermediate member, and is disposed so as to pass through and protrude from a notch in a housing, and at least one of a cylindrical portion of a motor case, a frame, and the housing is configured so as to bear stress in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, that acts on the connector during insertion and removal of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10673309
    Abstract: An inverter-integrated motor according to the present invention is configured such that an inverter module and a motor are integrated so as to line up in an axial direction of the motor, the inverter module is configured into a single member in which are integrated: a power portion that includes an inverter; and a control portion that includes a microcomputer, and the motor includes: a rotor; a stator; and a pair of housings that include bearings that support a shaft of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 10644642
    Abstract: To provide a three phase duplexing motor for electric power steering apparatus that can manage increase in a supply current and can manage influence on motor, when increasing a supply current to the three phase windings of the normal set. An three phase duplexing motor for electric power steering apparatus sets 0 to a supply current to three phase winding of abnormality occurrence set, and increases a supply current to three phase windings of the normal set, with a preliminarily set increase upper limit current value as an upper limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 10618545
    Abstract: In an electric power steering apparatus, a control unit includes: a power module that is in surface contact with a heatsink, and in which a plurality of switching elements are mounted internally; a holder that places the power module in close contact with the heat sink, and that also positions the power module; and a controlling circuit board that is disposed so as to be separated axially from the holder, and on which a central processing unit (CPU) is mounted; and the power module is disposed on a first surface of a first side of the holder, and a circumferential surface of a capacitor that suppresses electric power supply pulsation is disposed so as to be in close contact with a capacitor recess portion that is formed on a second surface of a second side of the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10548213
    Abstract: An electronic controlling apparatus includes a circuit board in which conductor layers and insulating layers are disposed alternately. In some embodiments, thicknesses of an upper portion outer conductor layer that is disposed on a first surface of the circuit board and a lower portion outer conductor layer that is disposed on a second surface of the circuit board are identical and have greatest thickness among the conductor layers, or thicknesses of a first outermost position inner conductor layer and a second outermost position inner conductor layer that are positioned at two end portions inside the circuit board are identical and have greatest thickness among the conductor layers, and the conductor layers are disposed symmetrically so as to have a central plane in a thickness direction of the circuit board as a plane of symmetry. In some embodiments, thicknesses and arrangements of conductor layers are not symmetrical in the thickness direction of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiko Nagashima, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 10479398
    Abstract: A control unit for controlling an electric motor has on a wiring board at least an inverter circuit including two or more switching devices for supplying an electric current to the electric motor and a CPU for outputting command signals to the inverter circuit; the control unit, as an inverter module in which the wiring board is mounted in a housing with which a connector is integrated, is integrally fixed to the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kentaro Urimoto, Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20190291780
    Abstract: Provided is an electric power steering device including: a front-wheel steering mechanism, which is provided to front wheels of a vehicle, and includes a front-wheel steering motor as a drive source; and a rear-wheel steering mechanism, which is provided to rear wheels of the vehicle, and includes a rear-wheel steering motor as a drive source, wherein the rear-wheel steering motor is configured to be a double-inverter three-phase duplex motor, the double-inverter three-phase duplex motor including two three-phase windings and two inverters each configured to individually drive one of the two three-phase windings. Therefore, the electric power steering device is capable of, even when a failure has occurred in the steering motor of the rear-wheel steering mechanism, maintaining a function of the rear-wheel steering mechanism to secure behavior stability of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Satoru AKUTSU, Yoshihito ASAO
  • Patent number: 10396612
    Abstract: In a permanent magnet type concentrated winding motor, the number of magnetic poles is M, a stator Sr has an N number of teeth T around which coils are concentratedly wound and which are circumferentially arranged at equal intervals, M is equal to (18±4)n and N is equal to 18n, an armature winding AW has an m number of parallel circuits, and a 1-phase circuit of the parallel circuits is configured to have a 6n/m number of coils connected in series with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masatsugu Nakano, Satoru Akutsu, Yoshihito Asao, Yuji Takizawa, Yu Hirotani, Ryuichi Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 10373896
    Abstract: Provided is a semiconductor module having an integrated insulating sheet structure, wherein detachment of the insulating sheet can be suppressed and improved reliability of the semiconductor module is achieved, by adopting a structure in which at least one location of the insulating sheet is sunken inside a mold, and a sealing resin body and the insulating sheet of the semiconductor module form a protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Fushie, Yu Kawano, Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10367397
    Abstract: A controller-integrated rotary electric machine in which a controller is coupled to a rotary electric machine main unit using a simple coupling structure while ensuring endurance of the coupling is provided. The controller-integrated rotary electric machine includes: a first housing that houses a controller or a rotary electric machine main unit driven according to a command from the controller and that includes a thin-walled portion at an edge on an outer periphery side; and a second housing that is coaxially aligned with the first housing and has a groove in which an abutting face having a linearly inclined cross-sectional shape is formed from the outer periphery side toward a radial direction, wherein the first housing is joined to the second housing by folding the thin-walled portion of the first housing along the abutting face of the second housing and performing swaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Onishi, Yoshihito Asao
  • Patent number: 10343713
    Abstract: Each of two control units configured in a double system has a CPU, each CPU obtains input information of the control unit of the other CPU, each CPU independently drives an electric motor at a normal time, and continues the motor drive by utilizing the input information of the control unit of the other CPU when an abnormality relating to input information is detected, and when an abnormality relating to information other than input information is detected, the control unit in which the abnormality has occurred controls the electric motor so as to continue the drive or stop the drive in accordance with details of the abnormality, and the control unit on the normal side controls the electric motor so as to at least continue the drive as normal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10321554
    Abstract: The shape of an abutting portion where a heat sink and an electronic component or the heat sink and a connection wire abut against each other, through the intermediary of an intermediate member, is contrived so that there is provided an electronic control unit that can raise the easiness of production including the intermediate member, while securing the heat radiation performance. There is provided an electric power converter in which an intermediate member having an insulating property and a heat-conductive property is provided in a gap between a heat sink and a connection wire abutting portion or an electronic component, in which the top surface of a maximum heat generating component is a plane, and in which the portion, of the heat sink, that faces the top surface of the maximum heat generating component is part of a basic plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10285286
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic control device, including: a connector case; two or more connectors including a power supply connector and another connector, the connectors being mounted to an external side of the case; a control unit mounted to an inner side of the case; and a power supply circuit unit including circuit components mounted to the external side of the case, the connectors being mounted apart from each other. The another connector is connected to the control unit by passing through the case not via the power supply circuit unit. The power supply circuit unit includes power supply conducting bars adjacent to each other on an inner side of the case. The power supply conducting bars are connected to the circuit components and the power supply connector by passing through the case and are also connected to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20190058365
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet motor includes a through-hole expansion portion provided in a through-hole for inserting a permanent magnet into the rotor core of a permanent-magnet motor, and a bridge portion that surrounds adjacent through-hole expansion portions and forms part of the outer circumferential surface of the rotor core; the bridge portion has a small-thickness portion that is formed to be smaller than that of a portion, other than the bridge portion, of the rotor core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi AIDA, Masafumi OKAZAKI, Satoru AKUTSU, Yoshihito ASAO, Yuji TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10211709
    Abstract: In an electric power steering device, a power module includes a plurality of terminals including a motor control terminal and a power supply terminal connected to a power supply, each having a distal end portion being oriented toward a control board. A holder has holes through which the terminals pass. The terminals each have the distal end portion to be connected to the control board. A winding terminal has a distal end portion to be connected to the distal end portion of the motor control terminal. The control unit further includes a junction terminal. The junction terminal and the power supply terminal each having a distal end portion extending from the control board toward the connector assembly are respectively connected to connector terminals of the connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshihito Asao, Akihiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10193412
    Abstract: A board includes a separating zone in an area closer to the edge than to the center of the board, the separating zone including one elongated through hole. A first group of electronic components that is a source of heat or electric noise is placed in a first area on the center side with respect to the separating zone of the board. On the other hand, a second group of electronic components from which influence of heat or electric noise from other components needs to be eliminated to a maximum extent is placed in a second area on the edge side with respect to the separating zone of the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Rei Araki, Yu Kawano, Yoshihito Asao