Patents by Inventor Yoshinari Asano

Yoshinari Asano 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: 8736135
    Abstract: Teeth are arranged annularly around a rotation axis. The yoke has through holes. The through holes open in a radial direction around the rotation axis and in an axial direction along the rotation axis. The teeth are inserted through the through holes. A metal plate is arranged to face the yoke in the axial direction. A reinforcing plate is fixed to the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Nobuyuki Kifuji, Tomonori Kikuno, Shin Nakamasu, Ryuuji Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 8616016
    Abstract: At a time of a heating high-load operation, a harmonic current is flown in an armature winding to induction-heat rare-earth magnets, thus reducing a residual magnetic flux density. Thereby, the number of rotations of a radial gap type motor is improved. The rare-earth magnets are provided near a cooling medium passage extending substantially in parallel with a flow line of a cooling medium, so that the cooling medium recovers heat of the heated rare-earth magnets. At a time of a cooling high-load operation, a greater number of rotations are obtained with respect to the same torque command value, by a field weakening control by means of a current-phase advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Tomomi Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Kifuji, Hirofumi Higashi, Shintarou Araki
  • Patent number: 8242661
    Abstract: An axial gap rotary electric machine includes a rotor, an armature and a stator. The rotor is a magnetic body, which is capable of rotating in a circumferential direction about a rotation axis. The armature includes an armature coil opposed to the rotor from one side in a rotation axis direction parallel to the rotation axis. The stator causes the armature coil to interlink with a magnetic field flux from the other side in the rotation axis direction via the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8179008
    Abstract: An axial gap rotary electric machine includes a rotor, an armature and a stator. The rotor is capable of rotating in a circumferential direction about a rotation axis. The rotor includes permanent magnets and magnetic plates which cover those from the armature side. The armature includes an armature coil opposed to the rotor from one side in a rotation axis direction parallel to the rotation axis. The stator is opposed to the rotor from the other side in the rotation axis direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8179016
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft and first and second stators facing each other on opposite axial sides of the rotor with a gap in between. Each of the first and second stators includes a back yoke, teeth circumferentially arranged on a gap side of a respective one of the back yokes and coils wound around the teeth. The back yoke of the first stator has a portion facing an end face of the rotating shaft, and the back yoke of the second stator has a shaft hole through which the rotating shaft passes. The thickness Ty1 of the back yoke of the first stator is set smaller than the thickness Ty12 of the back yoke of the second stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20110316381
    Abstract: Teeth are arranged annularly around a rotation axis. The yoke has through holes. The through holes open in a radial direction around the rotation axis and in an axial direction along the rotation axis. The teeth are inserted through the through holes. A metal plate is arranged to face the yoke in the axial direction. A reinforcing plate is fixed to the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Nobuyuki Kifuji, Tomonori Kikuno, Shin Nakamasu, Ryuuji Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 8058762
    Abstract: A technique of employing a rotor having anti-saliency and being rotatable about a predetermined axis in an axial gap type motor is provided. A plurality of magnets are disposed annularly on a substrate with polarities being symmetric around a shaft hole. For instance, the magnets exhibit N pole and S pole, respectively, on the side of a stator (on this side of sheet of drawing). A plurality of magnetic members are disposed to extend perpendicularly to the direction of a rotation axis, and more specifically, between the magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8040009
    Abstract: The field magnet is formed of, for example, two permanent magnets, and a width of the field magnet increases from a center toward both ends thereof in a monotonically non-decreasing manner. The field magnet includes, at the both ends thereof, projecting portions projecting to a side opposite to a rotation axis. The field core includes a penetration hole through which the field magnet is caused to penetrate. The penetration hole includes penetration surfaces which cover magnetic pole surfaces of the field magnet, respectively. Specifically, the penetration surface includes concave portions with which the projecting portions are fitted. When the field magnet is inserted, the penetration surfaces serve as a guide which guides the field magnet, and accordingly the field magnet can be caused to penetrate through the penetration hole with ease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 8013700
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a field element which reduces a harmonic component of a magnetic flux density. Permanent magnets (20) are in contact with first magnetic plates (1, 3) in a direction parallel to a rotation axis (P). The first magnetic plate (1) includes first and second magnetic members (10, 12) and first and second non-magnetic members (11, 13). The first magnetic member (10) includes a pole center and is in contact with one of the permanent magnets. The first magnetic member (10), the first non-magnetic member (11), the second magnetic member (12) and the second non-magnetic member (13) are disposed in the stated order in a circumferential direction with the pole center and the rotation axis being as a starting point and a center, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Aota, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7973443
    Abstract: A magnetic field element includes magnetic field portions and a coupling portion and is rotatable on a rotation axis along a given direction. Each magnetic field portion includes a magnet and magnetic plates. The magnet includes first and second pole faces having different polarities from each other in the given direction. The magnetic-material plates are provided on the first and second pole faces. The magnetic field portions are annularly arranged along a circumferential direction around the rotation axis and spaced in the circumferential direction from one another. The coupling portion is made of a non-magnetic material and couples the magnetic field portions to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nakamasu, Toshinari Kondou, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20110133596
    Abstract: A technique of employing a rotor having anti-saliency and being rotatable about a predetermined axis in an axial gap type motor is provided. A plurality of magnets are disposed annularly on a substrate with polarities being symmetric around a shaft hole. For instance, the magnets exhibit N pole and S pole, respectively, on the side of a stator (on this side of sheet of drawing). A plurality of magnetic members are disposed to extend perpendicularly to the direction of a rotation axis, and more specifically, between the magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2006
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7948137
    Abstract: A rotor includes a core extending in a predetermined direction, and a plurality of magnets. The core has parts formed by magnetic materials and extending in the predetermined direction. The parts are arranged in a loop around the part, and face the part through gaps. The magnets are buried in the gaps in the form of a loop in the core. The magnets have pole faces extending in the predetermined direction. In each of the magnets, at least one of ends of the magnet protrudes forward in parallel to the predetermined direction with respect to an end of the part that is on the same side with the at least one of the ends of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunobu Ohyama, Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano, Toshinari Kondo, Keiji Aota
  • Publication number: 20110083467
    Abstract: At a time of a heating high-load operation, a harmonic current is flown in an armature winding to induction-heat rare-earth magnets, thus reducing a residual magnetic flux density. Thereby, the number of rotations of a radial gap type motor is improved. The rare-earth magnets are provided near a cooling medium passage extending substantially in parallel with a flow line of a cooling medium, so that the cooling medium recovers heat of the heated rare-earth magnets. At a time of a cooling high-load operation, a greater number of rotations are obtained with respect to the same torque command value, by a field weakening control by means of a current-phase advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Tomomi Sakamoto, Nobuyuki Kifuji, Hirofumi Higashi, Shintarou Araki
  • Publication number: 20110084569
    Abstract: An armature core includes a back yoke and teeth. The teeth include a plurality of magnetic plates laminated along a lamination direction. The back yoke includes holes through which the teeth are inserted. The holes penetrate through a pair of surfaces of the back yoke. The back yoke and the plurality of magnetic plates are welded to each other at a point at which an edge of a boundary between the adjacent magnetic plates and a surface forming the hole are close to each other and any one of the pair of surfaces is exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Nobuyuki Kifuji, Tomonori Kikuno
  • Patent number: 7902712
    Abstract: A magnetic member with an annular outer periphery and an inner periphery includes first portions and second portions alternately disposed in its circumferential direction. The first portions and second portions are magnetically separated in the circumferential direction by gaps, which block magnetic fluxes from flowing in the circumferential direction between the first portion and second portion. The first portions respectively have holes extending almost in the circumferential direction. The gaps are provided at both ends of the holes in the circumferential direction between the outer periphery and inner periphery. An interior permanent magnet type rotor can be structured by inserting field magnets into the holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Nakamasu, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20100259125
    Abstract: An armature core is formed by laminating a plurality of first magnetic plates along a lamination direction. The armature core includes a prism portion and a first rectangular solid portion. The prism portion has a length measured in a first direction perpendicular to the lamination direction and a height measured in a second direction perpendicular to the lamination direction and the first direction. The length of the prism portion gradually increases along the lamination direction in at least part of the prism portion. The first rectangular solid portion is adjacent to the prism portion in the second direction. The first rectangular solid portion has a uniform length measured along the first direction. Preferably, a plurality of the armature cores are mounted on a yoke and have armature windings wound to form an armature of a rotary electric machine of a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Ryuuji Yasumoto, Nobuyuki Kifuji
  • Publication number: 20100225195
    Abstract: An object is to enable simple manufacture of a motor, especially, a stator core or a field without impairment of motor characteristics. The motor includes a shaft, a rotor fixed to the shaft, and a stator including a stator core that faces the rotor with a certain space therebetween and coils that are attached to the stator core. The stator includes a back yoke, and the stator core having a plurality of teeth that are circumferentially placed in an axial end face of the back yoke so as to stand upright axially of the back yoke, and that are formed of a dust core made of pressed magnetic powder. The above-mentioned teeth are buried axially to a certain depth in the back yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2007
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Shin Nakamasu, Toshinari Kondou
  • Publication number: 20100207477
    Abstract: An axial gap rotary electric machine includes a rotor, an armature and a stator. The rotor is capable of rotating in a circumferential direction about a rotation axis. The rotor includes permanent magnets and magnetic plates which cover those from the armature side. The armature includes an armature coil opposed to the rotor from one side in a rotation axis direction parallel to the rotation axis. The stator is opposed to the rotor from the other side in the rotation axis direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 7777391
    Abstract: An armature including magnetic cores arranged on a surface of a plate, coils provided around the magnetic cores, and a magnetic material plate having a plurality of first magnetic members is characterized in that the magnetic material plate is attached to a surface on the opposite side to a surface where the magnetic cores and the plate come in contact, a gap is provided between each of the first magnetic members adjacent to each other, and the area of a surface where the first magnetic members come in contact with the magnetic cores is larger than the area of a surface where the magnetic cores come in contact with the first magnetic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20100187934
    Abstract: An axial gap rotary electric machine includes a rotor, an armature and a stator. The rotor is a magnetic body, which is capable of rotating in a circumferential direction about a rotation axis. The armature includes an armature coil opposed to the rotor from one side in a rotation axis direction parallel to the rotation axis. The stator causes the armature coil to interlink with a magnetic field flux from the other side in the rotation axis direction via the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventor: Yoshinari Asano