Patents by Inventor Yuki Ishikawa

Yuki Ishikawa 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: 20220286025
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary electric machine including a rotor, a stator, a housing, an inverter device, a bus bar, and a pipe member in a hollow shape accommodated inside the housing. The housing is provided inside with a first region located between an outer surface of a stator core and an inner surface of the housing as viewed in an axial direction, and a second region located between the outer surface of the stator core and the inner surface of the housing as viewed in the axial direction while being disposed apart from the first region in a circumferential direction. The second region is wider than the first region. The pipe member overlaps the first region as viewed in the axial direction. The bus bar overlaps the second region as viewed in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi KUROYANAGI, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220286016
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The refrigerant flow path includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, and a fourth flow path. The refrigerant to be sent from a pump flows through the first flow path. The refrigerant to be supplied to the motor portion flows in the second flow path. The third flow path supplies a part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to the outer surface of a stator. The fourth flow path supplies the other part of the refrigerant flowing through the second flow path to a hollow portion of a shaft. A minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the fourth flow path is smaller than a minimum flow-path cross-sectional area in the third flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Kouhei OBA
  • Publication number: 20220282784
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device of an aspect of the present invention includes a motor, a transmission mechanism including a plurality of gears, a first shaft and a bearing supporting the first shaft and transmitting power of the motor, a housing that accommodates the transmission mechanism and holds the bearing on an inner face, oil that collects in a lower region inside the housing, a catch tank that is disposed inside the housing and opens upward, an oil passage through which the oil passes, and an oil pump provided in the oil passage. The oil passage has a first path connecting the oil pump and the catch tank and a scooping path for scooping the oil by rotation of the gear to guide the scooped oil to the catch tank. The catch tank includes a feed portion for supplying the oil to the gear or the bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA, Sota DOI
  • Publication number: 20220286012
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a rotor having a hollow shaft, a housing, a current shunter fixed to the housing and in electrical contact with the shaft and the housing, and a nozzle member for feeding a fluid inside the shaft. The shaft has an open end portion on a first axial side. The housing includes a bottom wall on the first axial side from the open end portion, and a peripheral wall protruding from the bottom wall toward a second axial side and surrounding the open end portion. The nozzle member has a feeding tubular part at least partly inserted inside the shaft from the open end portion, and a flange portion protruding radially outward from the feeding tubular part. The current shunter is located radially inside the peripheral wall, and the flange portion is located between the current shunter and the bottom wall in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220286008
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a bus bar unit disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes conductor connection bodies and a segment coil. Each connection body includes first and second ends in the axial direction. The bus bar unit includes a neutral point bus bar connected to the first end and phase bus bars connected to the second end. The neutral point bus bar extends along a circumferential direction. The phase bus bar includes a main body extending along the circumferential direction and at least partially overlapping the neutral point bus bar and a connection portion extending from the main body to one side in the axial direction. The first end passes through one side in the axial direction of the neutral point bus bar and is connected to the connection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Hironobu KUMAGAI
  • Publication number: 20220286011
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism device includes a transmission mechanism including a hollow shaft, and a bearing supporting an outer face of the shaft. A holder holding the bearing is on the inner face of a housing of the transmission mechanism. The holder has a facing face facing an end of the shaft, a tubular portion holding the bearing and protruding in the axial direction radially from the facing face, and a rib inside the tubular portion and protruding in the axial direction from the facing face. The rib extends in a concave shape opening upward. A lower end of an inner face of the rib is below an upper end of an inner face of the shaft when viewed from the axial direction. At least one end of the rib in an extending direction faces an inner face of the tubular portion via a gap when viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke NAKATA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220268351
    Abstract: A drive apparatus includes a motor; a reduction gear connected to the motor; a differential connected to the reduction gear, for rotating an axle about a differential axis; a housing including a gear housing portion housing the reduction gear and the differential; and an oil housed in the gear housing portion. The differential includes a gear for rotating about the differential axis. An end portion of the gear is lower than the reduction gear, and is configured to soak in the oil. The housing includes an oil drain hole and an oil feed hole for joining an interior of the housing and a space outside of the housing, a first stopper member removably in the oil drain hole, and a second stopper member removably in the oil feed hole. Each of the oil drain hole and the oil feed hole is in a portion of the gear housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Shuhei NAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220238318
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer according to one aspect of the present invention includes an ion source (31), a mass separator (32), and a detector (33), the mass spectrometer further including: a parameter optimization unit (531, 532, 533) configured to optimize a parameter value using a Bayesian optimization method based on a result obtained by making measurements while changing values of device parameters including a plurality of parameters that affects ionization efficiency in the ion source (31), a display processor (536) configured to display a sensitivity model which is a posterior distribution indicating a relationship between a plurality of parameters in all or some of the device parameters and signal strength estimated during the optimization of the device parameters, expressing as a graph like a heat map or an array of a plurality of the graphs on a display unit (7), and to sequentially update the sensitivity model, and a file creation unit (535) configured to a user to designate a position on the displayed gr
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Yusuke TAGAWA
  • Patent number: 11396162
    Abstract: Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of effectively enhancing the sound insulating property at 6300 Hz while effectively preventing deterioration in sound insulating property at 3150 Hz in laminated glass. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention has a one-layer structure or a two or more-layer structure and includes a resin layer containing a resin and a plasticizer. The interlayer film has a resonance frequency X of 550 Hz or more and 740 Hz or less, a loss factor Y in a secondary mode of 0.35 or more, and satisfies a formula: Y>0.0008X?0.142 in a measurement of resonance frequency in a secondary mode in a damping test for laminated glass according to a central exciting method of laminated glass, when the laminated glass is obtained by arranging the interlayer film between two glass plates of 25 mm wide, 300 mm long and 2 mm thick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Iwamoto, Yuki Ishikawa, Shinji Kawada, Yuu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20220216042
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer includes an ionization unit, a mass separation unit, a detection unit, a first measurement control unit configured to control the ionization unit to repeatedly execute a first measurement on a target sample while changing values of a plurality of parameters defined as device parameters, a second measurement control unit configured to control the ionization unit to set a value of each of the plurality of parameters to a predetermined reference value and execute a second measurement on the target sample at two or more time points before, after, or in a middle of repetition of the first measurement, a correction processing unit configured to correct results of the first measurements using results of the second measurements, and a device parameter-related information acquisition unit configured to determine the plurality of parameters using the corrected measurement results or acquire reference information for determining the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TAGAWA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220209626
    Abstract: One aspect of a motor of the present disclosure may include a rotor having a motor shaft disposed along a central axis extending in one direction, a stator facing the rotor via a gap in a radial direction, and a housing having an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the rotor and the stator, and to enable oil to be stored therein, wherein the housing comprises a lower wall portion facing a vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion, the lower wall portion comprises a cooling flow passage formed therein, and refrigerant flows in the cooling flow passage, and at least a portion of the cooling flow passage overlaps the vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion when viewed along a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Takayuki MIGITA, Shuhei NAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20220205530
    Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, a housing, an oil passage in the housing, an oil pump in which a portion of the oil passage is provided, and a strainer inside the housing and in which a portion of the oil passage is provided. The oil passage includes an oil sump in which oil is accumulated and a suction path connecting the oil sump and the oil pump. A central axis of the oil pump extends in a direction intersecting the vertical direction. The strainer is in the suction path. The strainer includes a suction port to suction oil from the oil sump, a discharge port to discharge oil toward the oil pump, and a filter. The suction port opens downward in the vertical direction. The discharge port opens in a direction intersecting the vertical direction toward the oil pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Takanobu OYAMA, Keisuke FUKUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20220198177
    Abstract: A waveform processing assistance device includes an acquirer that acquires a plurality of waveform data obtained by an analysis of a sample, a selector that selects reference data among the waveform data, an extractor that extracts correct answer peaks and correct answer data from the reference data a determiner that determines each processing section including a correct answer peak and each parameter initial value, a waveform processor that performs waveform processing in each determined processing section based on each parameter initial value, an adjuster that generates a parameter adjustment value at which a waveform processing result obtained in each processing section matches or approximates corresponding correct answer data, and a program creator that creates a waveform processing execution program that includes an instruction to execute waveform processing using the parameter adjustment value in each processing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Hiroaki KOZAWA, Takeshi YOSHIDA, Yuji KATSUYAMA, Toshinobu YANAGISAWA
  • Publication number: 20220199382
    Abstract: A mass spectrometer according to an aspect of the present invention includes, to optimize N (where N is an integer of 2 or more) parameters that affect ionization efficiency in an ion source (31), a measurement controller (41) that causes respective units to repeatedly execute measurement on a sample containing a target component while changing values of the N parameters or a value set of M (where M is an integer smaller than N) parameters, in a plurality of stages, and a parameter determiner (53) that sequentially finds an optimum value for each parameter based on a result of the measurement executed under control of the measurement controller (41). At least one parameter whose physical quantity is temperature is optimized prior to all of the parameters whose physical quantities are other than temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TAGAWA, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 11365797
    Abstract: A motor assembly includes a motor including a rotor that rotates about a motor axis, a transmission that transmits motive power of the motor to an axle, a housing that accommodates the motor and the transmission, and an oil pump fixed to the housing. The housing includes a tubular motor housing extending along the motor axis, and the motor housing includes a rib on a side surface facing the oil pump. The rib protrudes to a radially outer side from the side surface, and has a plate shape extending along the motor axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Ogasawara, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Jun Murakami, Yuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20220158519
    Abstract: A drive device includes a motor, an inverter to control current supplied to the motor, plate-shaped busbars that electrically connect the motor with the inverter, and a housing that accommodates the motor, the inverter, and the busbars. The housing includes a partition wall that partitions the inside of the housing into a motor housing and an inverter housing. The partition wall is provided with a through hole. Each busbar includes a motor connection terminal, an inverter connection terminal, a first portion extending from the motor connection terminal toward the through hole, and a second portion extending from the first portion to the inverter connection terminal through the through hole. At least two busbars overlap each other in a plate thickness direction inside the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hitoshi KUROYANAGI, Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220158528
    Abstract: A housing of a drive device includes a tubular portion, a side plate portion, a plate portion, and a peripheral wall portion. The tubular portion extends in a first direction and accommodates a motor. The side plate portion has a plate shape intersecting the first direction, and is at one end portion of the tubular portion in the first direction. The plate portion expands from the tubular portion along one of the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The peripheral wall portion surrounds an inverter accommodation portion that accommodates inverter when viewed from a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, and is connected to the plate portion. Each of a pump and an oil cooler is at any of one end portion of the peripheral wall portion in the second direction, another end portion of the plate portion in the third direction, and another end portion of the side plate portion in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Hitoshi KUROYANAGI, Naohiro WADA
  • Publication number: 20220158523
    Abstract: A gear portion of a drive device is connected to a motor shaft. An oil passage through which oil to cool a motor flows includes a first oil passage, a second oil passage, a third oil passage, and a fourth oil passage. The first oil passage connects a gear accommodation portion and a pump accommodation portion. The second oil passage connects the pump accommodation portion and an oil cooler. The third oil passage connects the oil cooler and the fourth oil passage. The fourth oil passage connects the third oil passage and a motor accommodation portion. Each of the first oil passage, the second oil passage, and the third oil passage is in a first housing portion. The fourth oil passage is in a third housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Hitoshi KUROYANAGI, Naohiro WADA
  • Publication number: 20220158522
    Abstract: An inner rotor motor includes a rotor rotatable about a central axis, a stator that includes a stator core that surrounds the rotor from radially outside, and a motor housing that holds the stator. The motor housing includes a tubular portion and a bottom wall. The bottom wall includes a through hole. An inner circumferential surface of the tubular portion includes a first portion that is located at a circumferential position that coincides with the through hole and includes a surface that can come into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the stator core, and a second portion that is located between the first portion and the bottom wall and includes a surface located radially outside relative to the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Yuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220154814
    Abstract: A drive device includes a first catch tank above a first gear and including a first bent portion bent between the first gear and a second gear, and a second catch tank below the first catch tank and including a second bent portion that is bent downward. A space above the second bent portion communicates with a space above the first bent portion. A third catch tank is above the second gear, and includes a third bent portion that is bent toward between the first gear and the second gear. A space above the third bent portion communicates with the space above the first bent portion. A fourth catch tank is in front of the second gear and above the third gear, and includes a fourth bent portion that is bent downward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki ISHIKAWA, Keisuke NAKATA