Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi

Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi 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: 11081845
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has a hermetic connector disposed on a base of a body of the vacuum pump. The hermetic connector has a plurality of pins connected to a plurality of electrical cables leading to the inside of the pump body. The connector is longer in a lateral direction than in an axial direction so that the connector is horizontally long in a circumferential direction of the pump body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yanbin Sun, Kengo Saegusa, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Hideki Omori
  • Publication number: 20210207619
    Abstract: A cooling component includes a plurality of port pairs a flow path through which refrigerant flows, the refrigerant communicating with each of the ports of the plurality of port pairs, and a setting means for setting a usage pattern of the plurality of port pairs. The plurality of port pairs are provided along a circumferential direction of the casing. The setting means sets a selected port pair such that the refrigerant is supplied from outside into the flow path using the first port of the selected port pair and refrigerant is discharged from the flow path to outside using the second port of the selected port pair, and sets another port pair such that the refrigerant cannot be supplied from outside into the flow path or discharged from the flow path using the other port pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tooru Miwata, Yoshiyuki Takai, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 11009044
    Abstract: An outlet port part has a heat insulating portion for preventing heat obtained from a heater disposed in the outlet port part from being transmitted toward a base side, and for transmitting the heat efficiently to the back (the vacuum pump side) of the outlet port. The heat insulating portion of the outlet port part is provided with a flange portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the outlet port part, and a heat insulating spacer disposed in close contact with the flange portion. Alternatively, an outlet port part flange portion that is configured by integrating the flange portion formed on the outer peripheral surface of the outlet port part and the foregoing heat insulating spacer functions as the heat insulating portion. This configuration can efficiently increase the temperature of the entire outlet port of the vacuum pump, thereby reducing the amount of product and deposit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Norihiro Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 10954962
    Abstract: An object is to provide a vacuum pump that enables, without being affected by a flow rate of gas to be discharged, concentrated and efficient heating of only a stator component of an exhaust side gas channel that needs to be heated in order to prevent deposition of products and that also enables prevention of deposition of products in the exhaust side gas channel as a result of the heating, and improvement of pump emission performance. The vacuum pump has a rotor rotatably arranged on a pump base and a gas channel through which gas sucked by rotation of the gas is guided to an outlet port, and further includes heat insulating means for thermally insulating a stator component, which forms an exhaust side gas channel in the gas channel, from other components and heating means for heating the thermally insulated stator component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10907653
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum pump that prevents the solidification of gas while being operated properly. The vacuum pump includes a rotor that is supported rotatably on a base, a stator that has a thread groove portion, and a heating structure that heats the stator. The heating structure has a spacer that insulates the stator from stator components other than the stator, and a cartridge heater that heats the stator. The distance between a rotor cylindrical portion and the stator at the inlet port side is set to be equal to or greater than the distance between the rotor cylindrical portion and the stator at the outlet port side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210010479
    Abstract: A vacuum pump capable of suppressing the solidification of gas in a normal operation of a pump is provided. Provided is a vacuum pump including a casing that has an inlet port for sucking gas from outside and an outlet port for exhausting the gas to the outside; a turbo-molecular-pump mechanism that is disposed in the casing and includes rotor blades and stator blades alternately arranged in multiple stages in an axial direction; a thread-groove-pump mechanism that is disposed in the casing and is connectedly disposed on an exhaust side of the turbo-molecular-pump mechanism; first temperature regulating means that is configured to regulate cooling of the turbo-molecular-pump mechanism; and second temperature regulating means that is configured to regulate heating of the thread-groove-pump mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Tooru Miwata, Yoshiyuki Takai, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10823200
    Abstract: A thread groove pump portion, which is an exhaust element, is structured such that a Siegbahn structure is attached onto a cylindrical thread, and such that respective parts are connected to each other at this attachment section. A flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and a flow channel of the cylindrical thread (the thread groove pump portion) are connected to each other so as to substantially form a right angle when viewed from an axis direction of the vacuum pump, thus, the flow channel of the Siegbahn portion and the flow channel of the thread groove pump portion are connected to each other. the length of a compression flow channel of the thread groove pump portion can be increased in a radial direction due to the connected Siegbahn portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Kengo Saegusa, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20200332811
    Abstract: To provide a vacuum pump suited for removal of a product deposited in a flow path of the vacuum pump, and a stator component, discharge port, and control means that are used in the vacuum pump. A vacuum pump includes a flow path through which a gas is transferred from an inlet port toward an outlet port and removing means that removes a product deposited on an inner wall surface of the flow path. The removing means has injection holes with one ends opened at the inner wall surface of the flow path and injects the removing gas into the flow path through the injection holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Kazushi Yamamoto, Manabu Nonaka, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Takashi Kabasawa
  • Patent number: 10704555
    Abstract: The invention provides a stator-side member which is arranged in a vacuum pump and which, without the provision of a heat insulation material, prevents the deposition of products at the lower side of a threaded groove pump unit, with this lower side being an area of high pressure where the deposition of products (deposits) occurs easily, and also provides a vacuum pump equipped with this stator-side member. A threaded groove spacer configured to have a coefficient of thermal conductivity lower than a predetermined value is arranged in a vacuum pump equipped with a threaded groove pump unit. (1) The threaded groove spacer is manufactured from a material having a coefficient of thermal conductivity lower than that of a member which opposes or comes into contact with the threaded groove spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Akihiro Ito, Yoshinobu Ohtachi, Yasushi Maejima, Tsutomu Takaada
  • Publication number: 20200166041
    Abstract: Bobbins of an annular electromagnet each have a bobbin body that has a coil wire wound around an outer periphery thereof and is attached to a respective tooth of an annular stator core by having the corresponding tooth inserted therethrough. A first flange portion in a rectangular hallow shape is provided on an end surface of the bobbin body near the center of the annular stator core and a second flange portion in a rectangular hallow shape is provided on the other end surface of the bobbin body. A coil winding amount increasing means is formed at least on the first flange portion or the second flange portion and increases the amount of winding of the coil wire wound around the bobbin body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yongwei Shi, Tooru Miwata, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200158117
    Abstract: In a vacuum pump, the lower Ra sensor target, the fourth spacer, and the Ra electromagnetic target are configured in this order, from the inlet port side toward the outlet port side, at the lower side of the shaft of the 5-axis control magnetic bearing Likewise, at the lower side of the stator, the lower Ra sensor and the lower Ra electromagnet are configured in this order, from the inlet port toward the outlet port. In other words, the lower Ra sensor is disposed above the lower Ra electromagnet. According to this configuration, the third spacer fixed above the lower Ra sensor target is shortened. As a result, the height of the 5-axis control magnetic bearing and the length of the stator column enclosing electrical components constituting the 5-axis control magnetic bearing is reduced, thereby reducing the overall height of the vacuum pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Yongwei Shi, Tooru Miwata, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20200124043
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum pump apparatus which allows reductions in thickness, weight, size, and cost of a vacuum pump control device. In the vacuum pump apparatus, a pump main body unit and a control unit which controls driving of the pump main body unit are integrated with each other. The vacuum pump apparatus has a configuration in which a spacer configured to support a load applied to a housing of the control unit is provided between a base of the pump main body unit and the housing of the control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Yanbin Sun, Kengo Saegusa, Hideki Omori
  • Publication number: 20200099179
    Abstract: A vacuum pump has a hermetic connector disposed on a base of a body of the vacuum pump. The hermetic connector has a plurality of pins connected to a plurality of electrical cables leading to the inside of the pump body. The connector is longer in a lateral direction than in an axial direction so that the connector is horizontally long in a circumferential direction of the pump body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Yanbin Sun, Kengo Saegusa, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Hideki Omori
  • Patent number: 10508657
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stator component of a vacuum pump, which is suitable for reducing the fracture energy (energy of fracture that occurs when a rotor of the pump is damaged during its rotation) and the size of the pump, and also provides a vacuum pump having this stator component. In the vacuum pump, a spacer or of a thread groove pump stator, which is a stator component forms a gap satisfying the following <<condition>> between an outer circumferential surface of each of housed in a pump case of the vacuum pump, and an inner circumferential surface of the pump case, with the stator component being housed in the pump case. <<Condition>> 2d/D??max, where D is the outer diameter of the stator component (spacer or thread groove pump stator), d is the width of the gap, and ?max is the breaking elongation of the stator component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10495109
    Abstract: Provided is a vacuum pump for preventing solidification of gas in a thread groove portion, and a heat insulating spacer used in the vacuum pump. The vacuum pump includes a heat insulating spacer that is interposed between a casing and an outer circumferential stator having a thread groove portion, supports the outer circumferential stator coaxially with a rotor in a rotor radial direction, with keeping a gap between the casing and the outer circumferential stator, and has lower thermal conductivity than the casing and the outer circumferential stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Norihiro Kurokawa
  • Publication number: 20190309760
    Abstract: To realize a vacuum pump capable of improving the heat dissipation capability of a regenerative resistor with a simple configuration, and a control apparatus associated with the vacuum pump. The regenerative resistor is removed from the control apparatus and disposed in the vacuum pump. More specifically, the regenerative resistor is detached from a control board (control apparatus) on which a control circuit is mounted, and then disposed in a base of the vacuum pump via a wire. Further, a gap is provided between the base of the vacuum pump and the control apparatus. Moreover, a cover (outer covering body) is provided in the regenerative resistor disposed in the base part of the vacuum pump and the wire part. Since the regenerative resistor is provided in the base of the vacuum pump having a large heat capacity, a temperature increase of the control apparatus is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki Omori, Yanbin Sun, Kengo Saegusa, Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190195238
    Abstract: A vacuum pump reduces a stress without reducing the rotation speed of a rotating cylindrical body. In an outlet port-side lower portion of a rotor cylindrical portion included in the vacuum pump, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of an inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion is provided. A lowermost end portion (outlet port-side end portion) of the rotor cylindrical portion is designed longer than a thread groove exhaust element to provide an extending portion. In the extending portion, a smaller diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than that of the inlet port-side portion of the rotor cylindrical portion which is opposed to the thread groove exhaust element is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Nahoko Yoshihara
  • Publication number: 20190154046
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stator component of a vacuum pump, which is suitable for reducing the fracture energy (energy of fracture that occurs when a rotor of the pump is damaged during its rotation) and the size of the pump, and also provides a vacuum pump having this stator component. In the vacuum pump, a spacer or of a thread groove pump stator, which is a stator component forms a gap satisfying the following <<condition>> between an outer circumferential surface of each of housed in a pump case of the vacuum pump, and an inner circumferential surface of the pump case, with the stator component being housed in the pump case. <<Condition>> 2d/D??max, where D is the outer diameter of the stator component (spacer or thread groove pump stator), d is the width of the gap, and ?max is the breaking elongation of the stator component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10260509
    Abstract: A vacuum pump is provided, which suppresses occurrence of a gas product in an exhaust side outlet of a thread groove and maintains pump performance over a long period. The vacuum pump includes inflow suppressing walls formed by widening greater an exhaust side end portion of ridge portions, extended along a gas exhaust direction on an outer circumferential surface of an inner circumference side stator, forward in a rotor rotating direction than an intake side end portion, the inflow suppressing walls suppressing retention of gas in exhaust side outlets of thread grooves engraved among the ridge portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi, Tooru Miwata, Keita Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 10260515
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stator component of a vacuum pump, which is suitable for reducing the fracture energy (energy of fracture that occurs when a rotor of the pump is damaged during its rotation) and the size of the pump, and also provides a vacuum pump having this stator component. In the vacuum pump, a spacer or of a thread groove pump stator, which is a stator component forms a gap satisfying the following <<condition>> between an outer circumferential surface of each of housed in a pump case of the vacuum pump, and an inner circumferential surface of the pump case, with the stator component being housed in the pump case. <<Condition>> 2d/D??max, where D is the outer diameter of the stator component (spacer or thread groove pump stator), d is the width of the gap, and ?max is the breaking elongation of the stator component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Edwards Japan Limited
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Sakaguchi