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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7845180 | Automatic icemaker An automatic icemaker of the present invention includes a control box, an ice-making tray supporting frame rotatably supported and rotated by the control box, at least one ice-making tray rotatably supported by the ice-making tray supporting frame, a rotation limite... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7728543 | Stepping motor controlling device A stepping motor controlling device according to the present invention includes lead angle computing means which computes a lead angle according to the load torque current deviation of the stepping motor, adding means which adds an angle command to the lead angle to... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7714475 | Multiple phase claw pole type motor In a multiple phase claw pole type motor which includes: a plurality of claw poles including a claw portion extending in an axial direction and having a magnetic pole surface facing a rotor in a state of being separated from the rotor by a small gap, a radial yoke p... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7714466 | Claw-teeth-type rotating electrical machine To realize reduction in vibration and noise while utilizing reluctance torque, a rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor having permanent magnets disposed in a cylindrical surface coaxial with a rotary shaft; and a stator having an annular stator core disposed... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7713036 | Roller-type liquid pumping apparatus with improved installation capability A liquid pumping apparatus comprising a rotor housing, a rotor having at least one roller, to be rotated by a prime mover, an inner periphery wall of the rotor housing, a flexible tube to be inserted into a gap formed between the rotor and the inner periphery wall a... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7665316 | Automatic icemaker Disclosed is an automatic icemaker has a rotatably supported ice making portion having first and second ice making trays arranged in a back-to-back manner, a motor for rotating the ice making portion, a first and a second temperature detecting sensors for detecting ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7649298 | Claw teeth type electric rotary machine and manufacturing method for stators A claw teeth type electric rotary machine comprises a stator including an annular core with claws formed from a powder core and an annular coil installed inside the annular core, and a rotor rotatably positioned inside the stator. An inner edge of the annular core i... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7626301 | Electric rotating machine having permanent magnets and method of manufacturing teeth portions of the stator iron core An electric rotating machine having permanent magnets having a rotor having a plurality of permanent magnets, a stator iron core disposed in opposite relation with the rotor, and a stator winding wound around the stator core, wherein the stator core is constituted b... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7622838 | Axial fan motor An axial fan motor comprising: a fan having a rotating shaft and composed of a hub and a plurality of vanes provided around the hub, the fan rotating to generate an air flow; a stator substrate set comprising a stator core, which drives the fan, an insulator, and a ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7605517 | Claw pole rotating electric machine A claw pole type rotating electric machine includes first and second claw cores which are disposed on a ring shaped ring yoke portion and a plurality of claw magnetic poles which extend in the axial direction are provided, and stator cores are formed by meshing of t... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7592734 | Three-phase permanent magnet brushless motor A three-phase permanent magnet brushless motor comprises a stator having three-phase windings, and a rotor having a permanent magnet with a plurality of poles for serving as a field magnet. The stator comprises a stator core which includes a powder core that is comp... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7567044 | Braking device for an electrically driven rotor A braking device for an electrically driven rotor comprises a drive signal generating circuit for an electrically driven rotor, an output stage, a motor for the electrically driven rotor, driven by the output stage, and a monitor circuit for detecting interruption o... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7487645 | Automatic icemaker An automatic icemaker according to the invention can be disposed in one part of a freezer and automatically make ice pieces, and is provided with temperature distribution forming means which forms a temperature distribution in which freezing progresses from the open... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7470108 | Axial flow fan In an axial flow fan, for reducing fluid noise and further reducing the noise by suppressing solid-conveyed noise (structure-borne noise) generated by the vibration of an electric motor or the like, the axial flow fan is equipped with a propeller, a motor for drivin... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7446441 | Outer rotor type hybrid stepping motor An outer rotor type hybrid stepping motor including a stator, a rotor, a magnet disposed axially in either the stator or rotor, a stator core disposed inward from a gap formed between the stator and rotor, the rotor disposed outside the gap, and a stator winding wou... | 11/04/2008 |
| D570471 | Part of a propeller for an axial flow fan | 06/03/2008 |
| D564653 | Propeller for an axial flow fan | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342330 | Hybrid type double three-phase electric rotating machine A stator core having twelve stator poles, coils wound around the stator poles, and a hybrid type rotor are included. The stator poles inwardly and radially extended from an annular yoke portion. Each of the respective stator poles has the same number of inductors. T... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7329100 | Centrifugal fan impeller An impeller of a centrifugal fan, the impeller used in the centrifugal fan having a casing and the impeller rotatably mounted in the casing. The impeller includes a hub connecting a number of blades equiangularly disposed in a circumferential direction. The hub incl... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7329089 | Centrifugal fan A centrifugal fan includes a scroll casing consisting of first and second flat base walls, a circumferential side wall. An air inlet is formed on the first base wall, an exhaust port is formed on the side wall. A backflow prevention mechanism is arranged in the airf... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7282876 | System for driving brushless DC motor and method of driving same A brushless DC motor drive system includes a pole-position detector for detecting respective pole positions of permanent magnets of a rotor of a brushless DC motor. A present speed computing unit computes a present speed of the brushless DC motor on the basis of an ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274805 | Method of driving surveillance camera by using rotary electric machine There is no surveillance camera system optimum for monitoring an important monitor place by a surveillance camera mainly for crime prevention day and night without humans in attendance, which can automatically monitor the place without humans in attendance and, when... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268536 | Magnetic linear position sensor A magnetic linear position sensor comprises a first yoke which is made of soft magnetic material; a first magnet which is placed at the first yoke, and whose surface is the N-pole and is inclined; a second magnet which is placed at the first yoke, and whose surface ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7249757 | Brush type small motor having non-linear spring device A spring device consists of a coil spring case formed of right, left, back and front side plates and a spring receiving plate, a coil spring having a liner spring property, and a spring urging member for urging the coil spring into the coil spring case. A distance b... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7250698 | Multi-phase claw-pole type rotary machine A two-phase or three-phase claw-pole type rotary machine comprises two or three coaxially arranged single phase rotary machine elements. Each of the rotary machine elements has a magnet rotor, a claw-pole type stator, and an annular stator winding. Claw poles of the... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7242118 | Toroidal-coil linear stepping motor, toroidal-coil linear reciprocating motor, cylinder compressor and cylinder pump using these motors A toroidal-coil multi-phase linear stepping motor includes a cylindrical housing, an axis coaxially arranged inside the housing, a cylindrical element supported by the axis and an armature fixed to the housing around the cylindrical element through an air gap in the... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7207774 | Centrifugal fan and casing thereof A centrifugal fan includes a scroll casing having an almost cylindrical shape. The casing consists of first and second casings. The first casing constitutes one base wall and a part of a side circumferential wall of a cylinder, and the second casing constitutes the ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7145278 | Permanent magnet type three-phase stepping motor A permanent magnet type three-phase stepping motor that is simple in construction, with reduced vibration, a reduced unbalanced force in the radial direction, and high torque that can be manufactured at a low cost. The permanent magnet type three-phase stepping moto... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7088072 | Motor control system A stepping motor control system according to the present invention includes a counting mechanism for counting the number of steps of the pulse train command, a latch mechanism for holding a counting value of the counting mechanism with a latch signal and finding a p... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068001 | Motor control system A motor control system according to the present invention comprises a magnetic encoder including a magnetic drum fixed to an output shaft of a motor and a magnetic sensor provided against a periphery of the magnetic drum through a space, an angle calculating unit fo... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068007 | Stepping motor driving system and stepping motor driving process A stepping motor driving system and process according to the present invention controls a switching element in such a manner that motor supply current is passed through a motor coil until a coil current detection value reaches an upper limit set point, motor reflux ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066231 | Wasteless type lamination system A wasteless type lamination system comprises a first transfer device for transferring along a first transfer path a continuous laminate film; a cutter for cutting the continuous laminate film in a predetermined length, provided beside the first transfer path at the ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7037092 | Roller pump with housing having integrated reduction gear housing A roller pump comprises a pump housing having a cylindrical inner surface, a rotor fixed to a drive shaft placed at the central portion of the pump housing, rollers provided around the rotor and a driver for driving the drive shaft through a reduction gear. The roll... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7029229 | Axial flow fan An axial flow fan of high efficiency and low noise level is provided. The fan includes a motor, an impeller having a plurality of blades around a hub fitted to the motor, and a fan casing having an air inlet on one side and an air outlet on the other, wherein a radi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023165 | Stepping motor control apparatus A stepping motor control apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises: a current detection unit that detects phase currents flowing into a stepping motor; an equivalent model-of-motor arithmetic unit that includes a coefficient multiplication block w... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7023202 | Magnetic rotary position sensor The invention relates to a magnetic rotary position sensor that detects the absolute position of a rotation angle as an electric output in a non-contact state with magneto-electric transducers for converting a magnetic flux variation into a voltage. The magnetic rot... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019484 | Stepping motor driver A stepping motor driver according to the present invention includes a torque component current calculating means for calculating a torque component current from phase currents and a rotor rotation angle, an absolute value converting means for obtaining an absolute v... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6954014 | Motor with frequency generator and office automation equipment using same The invention relates to a motor with a frequency generator attached thereto, equipped with the frequency generator (FG) for detecting a rotational speed of the motor. The motor with the frequency generator attached thereto comprises a magnet having 10 poles of main... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6946814 | Stepping motor driver A stepping motor driver comprises: an excitation angle generating means which generates an excitation angle from an external command pulse; a current control means which controls exciting currents for a stepping motor according to the excitation angle and a current ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943475 | Permanent magnet motor for driving a fan A permanent magnet motor for driving a fan is rotated while a movement of the rotor in a direction of thrust of a rotary shaft with a rotation of the fan is prevented by magnetic attraction force of a permanent magnet and a stator core. A surface magnetic flux densi... | 09/13/2005 |
