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).

  • Publication number: 20030230948
    Abstract: A motor and a method for manufacturing thereof use a rotor having permanent magnets and stators. The highest revolving speed of a motor is adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. The end plates are made of a magnetic material and disposed at the end faces of the rotor. The end plates made of a magnetic material provide part of the magnetic flux generated from the permanent magnets with short circuits within the inside of the rotor. The magnetic flux that links with the coil can be adjusted by using end plates of different thickness. Therefore, the highest revolving speed of a motor can be finely adjusted with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Hisakazu Kataoka, Osaaki Morino, Yoshinari Asano, Toshiyuki Tamamura, Haruhiko Kado, Akihiko Yamazaki, Yukio Honda
  • Patent number: 6583531
    Abstract: A motor has a stator having a plurality of teeth for receiving windings, a yoke connected to each tooth, and a rotor having permanent magnets facing the stator. An inner wall surface of each tooth faces the rotor with an air-gap therebetween. Each tooth is separated from an adjacent tooth by a slot-open-section extending between a tailing end of the tooth and a leading end of the adjacent tooth. The inner wall surface of each tooth has an arc extending from a center of the slot-open-section toward the tailing end. The air-gap at the tailing end of each tooth is greater than the air-gap at the leading end of each tooth. The inner wall surface of each tooth includes a straight-line tailing section extending from the center of the slot-open-section toward the leading end. The straight-line tailing section extends tangentially from the arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Takao Sawahata, Yukio Honda, Takahisa Kurahayashi, Toshiyuki Tamamura, Hiroyuki Kiriyama
  • Patent number: 6544009
    Abstract: A compressor and an electric motor in which their weights are successfully reduced by employing a light-metal conductor wire for a winding, by reducing constituent components of a stator and a rotor of the electric motor, by providing a notch or a hole, and by eliminating the need for components necessary to mount the stator in a housing or a casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshifumi Abe, Hisakazu Kataoka, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 6517328
    Abstract: An electric motor accommodated fixedly in position within its own casing or a housing of a compressor is provided with a non-conductive member between its stator and the casing or the housing, for preventing the stator and the casing or housing from making contact with each other. The non-conductive member is made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the stator, such as resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Nobuaki Ogawa, Hisakazu Kataoka, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 6396374
    Abstract: In a method of magnetizing a material of a permanent magnet portion provided in a rotor for a permanent-magnet motor, the material of the permanent magnet portion is embedded inside the rotor body, while the permanent magnet material has anisotropy in a direction penetrating the permanent magnet portion in section, and then the rotor is incorporated in a magnetizing unit and held in a rotatable manner, and the permanent magnet material is magnetized by flowing a magnetizing current through windings under the condition that the rotor is rotatably held in the magnetizing unit. Thus, the permanent magnet material is completely magnetized in a normalized direction, and even if the rotor is shifted from the normalized position, the rotor is retained back to the normalized position by a magnetic torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20020050902
    Abstract: In a method of magnetizing a material of a permanent magnet portion provided in a rotor for a permanent-magnet motor, the material of the permanent magnet portion is embedded inside the rotor body, while the permanent magnet material has anisotropy in a direction penetrating the permanent magnet portion in section, and then the rotor is incorporated in a magnetizing unit and held in a rotatable manner, and the permanent magnet material is magnetized by flowing a magnetizing current through windings under the condition that the rotor is rotatably held in the magnetizing unit. Thus, the permanent magnet material is completely magnetized in a normalized direction, and even if the rotor is shifted from the normalized position, the rotor is retained back to the normalized position by a magnet torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2001
    Publication date: May 2, 2002
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Publication number: 20010038797
    Abstract: An electric motor accommodated fixedly in position within its own casing or a housing of a compressor is provided with a non-conductive member between its stator and the casing or the housing, for preventing the stator and the casing or housing from making contact with each other. The non-conductive member is made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient greater than that of the stator, such as resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Applicant: MATSUSHIA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., Ltd..
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Nobuaki Ogawa, Hisakazu Kataoka, Yoshinari Asano
  • Publication number: 20010036414
    Abstract: A compressor and an electric motor in which their weights are successfully reduced by employing a light-metal conductor wire for a winding, by reducing constituent components of a stator and a rotor of the electric motor, by providing a notch or a hole, and by eliminating the need for components necessary to mount the stator in a housing or a casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Makino, Tatsuhisa Taguchi, Yoshifumi Abe, Hisakazu Kataoka, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 6232862
    Abstract: In a method of magnetizing a material of a permanent magnet portion provided in a rotor for a permanent-magnet motor, the material of the permanent magnet portion is embedded inside the rotor body, while the permanent magnet material has anisotropy in a direction penetrating the permanent magnet portion in section, and then the rotor is incorporated in a magnetizing unit and held in a rotatable manner, and the permanent magnet material is magnetized by flowing a magnetizing current through windings under the condition that the rotor is rotatably held in the magnetizing unit. Thus, the permanent magnet material is completely magnetized in a normalized direction, and even if the rotor is shifted from the normalized position, the rotor is retained back to the normalized position by a magnetic torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Itoh
  • Patent number: 6218753
    Abstract: The motor includes the following elements: a stator-core having plural teeth, and a yoke that links the teeth, coils wound on the teeth in a concentrated winding form, and a rotor with interior permanent magnets. The rotor with interior permanent magnets includes the following elements: a rotor core having plural slits of which ends extend closely to the rotor circumference, permanent magnets positioned in the slits, non-magnetic-sections provided between the circumference of the rotor-core and respective ends of permanent magnets. This construction allows the motor to withstand persistently demagnetization, to be a smaller size with high efficiency, and to be manufactured in a highly efficient manner. The motor can be integrated as a driver into an apparatus driving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial C., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Toshio Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6101081
    Abstract: A rotor magnet of a three-phase reluctance magnet motor is magnetized by coupling two of the three outer terminals (RS), and feeding a positioning current between the outer terminals RS and a third terminal (T) for positioning the rotor at a magnetizing position with reluctance torque. Then, rotor is kept from moving by holding the shaft of the rotor with the rotor positioned at the magnetized position. Next, the outer terminals RS are separated and magnetizing current is fed between the outer terminals R and S to magnetize the rotor magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Ito, Yukio Honda, Hiroshi Murakami, Naoyuki Kadoya, Shizuka Yokote
  • Patent number: 6008559
    Abstract: In a motor having a permanent magnet built in a rotor, a hole for preventing a short-circuit of magnetic flux is disposed so that the hole is adjacent to the outer rim of rotor core, and adjoins to a slit for receiving a permanent magnet as well as the permanent magnet per se. This structure prevents a short-circuit of magnetic flux generated by both ends of the permanent magnet, and the magnetic flux at both ends of the magnet can flow to a stator, thereby contributing to generate torque effectively. As a result, the highly efficient motor with less cogging torque, less vibration and lower noise can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Ito, Takeshi Morishige, Yukio Honda, Hiroshi Murakami, Naoyuki Kadoya, Shizuka Yokote
  • Patent number: 5982133
    Abstract: A brushless motor having at least one current influence detector (10a, 10b, 10c) for detecting influence of an induced voltage caused by variations of current flowing in an armature winding (3). Furthermore, a positional signal detecting circuit means (11) detects a positional signal corresponding to rotational position of the rotor (2) in accordance with the voltage signal appearing at the armature winding (3) and the output signal issued from the at least one current influence detector (10a, 10b, 10c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Murakami, Kazushige Narazaki, Yukio Honda, Naoyuki Kadoya, Masayuki Shinto, Hiroshi Ito, Yoshinari Asano
  • Patent number: 5945760
    Abstract: A rotor of a motor includes a plurality of sets of permanent magnets 8a, 8b embedded in the rotor. Each includes a permanent magnet at an inner side and another permanent magnet at an outer side with a distance between them. Each permanent magnet 8a, 8b is formed like an arch projecting towards the center of the rotor. Magnetic flux flows easily through an interval between the permanent magnets at inner and outer sides, and the inductance in a q-axis is enlarged. Then, the reluctance torque is generated in addition to the magnet torque, and the motor has a high torque and a high output power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Honda, Hiroshi Murakami, Kazushige Narazaki, Hiroshi Itoh, Masayuki Shinto, Yoshinari Asano, Naoyuki Kadoya
  • Patent number: 5610464
    Abstract: In the direct current motor having Ns pieces of stator teeth and Nr pieces of magnetic poles, each of the plural magnetic poles is disposed shifted with the predetermined shift angles .DELTA..theta.i around a rotor from the angular reference position defined by even angles around the axis of the rotor, respectively, and the shift angles .DELTA..theta.i are defined by the below-mentioned expression concerning the least common multiple Nc between the Ns and the Nr;-180/Nc.ltoreq.shift angle.DELTA..theta.i.ltoreq.+180/Nc,wherein, signs "-" and "+" in the expression show a shift direction from the angular reference position in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Asano, Masami Wada