Heating device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12356531-B2
Application number	US-202017616453-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2020
Priority date	Jun 4, 2019
Publication date	Jul 8, 2025
Grant date	Jul 8, 2025

Abstract

A heating device includes a magnetic field heating coil that inductively heats a composite material by a magnetic field. The composite material has a length in a depth direction and a length in a width direction orthogonal to the depth direction. The magnetic field heating coil has a first coil part provided along the width direction, and a pair of second coil parts provided on both sides of the first coil part in the width direction so as to be continuous with the first coil part, the second coil parts being tilted a predetermined angle θ to one side in the depth direction with respect to the width direction. The first coil part and the second coil parts are symmetric with respect to a line segment drawn in the depth direction at a center of the first coil part in the width direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A heating device comprising:
a magnetic field heating coil that inductively heats a composite material by a magnetic field, wherein
the composite material has a length in a depth direction and a length in a width direction orthogonal to the depth direction,
the magnetic field heating coil has:
a first coil part provided along the width direction,
a pair of second coil parts provided on opposite sides of the first coil part in the width direction, respectively, so as to be continuous with the first coil part, the second coil parts being tilted at a predetermined angle so as to extend toward a first side in the depth direction with respect to the width direction, and
a pair of third coil parts arranged such that the third coil parts and the second coil parts are respectively symmetric relative to a line segment drawn in the width direction on the first coil part,

the first coil part and the second coil parts are symmetric with respect to a line segment drawn in the depth direction and at a center of the first coil part in the width direction,
the first coil part includes two conductors provided in parallel along the width direction,
each second coil part includes two conductors that extend in a direction that is tilted at the predetermined angle toward the first side in the depth direction with respect to the width direction,
each third coil part includes two conductors that extend in a direction that is tilted at a predetermined angle toward a second side in the depth direction with respect to the width direction, the first and second sides being opposite sides in the depth direction with respect to the width direction, and
wherein the first coil part, the pair of second coil parts and the pair of third coil parts are arranged such that, for the two conductors of each of (i) the first coil part, (ii) each second coil part of the pair of second coil parts, and (iii) each third coil part of the pair of third coil parts, a current flowing through the magnetic field heating coil flows through one of the two conductors in a direction which is opposite to a direction in which the current flows through the other of the two conductors.

2. The heating device according to claim 1 , wherein
a heating target of the magnetic field heating coil is a preset heated area of the composite material,
the heated area has a length L in the depth direction, and a length D in the width direction orthogonal to the depth direction,
in the magnetic field heating coil,
the second coil parts are tilted at the predetermined angle toward a heated area side that is on the first side in the depth direction with respect to the width direction,

the predetermined angle satisfies 0°<θ≤90°, where θ is the predetermined angle,
the first coil part has a length l 1 in the width direction, and
the length l 1 of the first coil part is greater than the length D of the heated area: l 1 >D.

3. The heating device according to claim 2 , wherein the magnetic field heating coil is each of a plurality of magnetic field heating coils provided by being lined up in the depth direction.

4. The heating device according to claim 3 , further comprising a connecting part that connects, to each other, the plurality of magnetic field heating coils provided by being lined up in the depth direction.

5. The heating device according to claim 4 , wherein the connecting part establishes a connection so that an electric current flowing through one of the magnetic field heating coils adjacent to the depth direction and an electric current flowing through the other magnetic field heating coil adjacent to the depth direction are of opposite phase.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd
• Univ Akita

Inventors

• Kamihara Nobuyuki
• Ishikawa Naomoto
• Takagi Kiyoka
• Kamo Sota
• Muraoka Mikio
• Yoshida Yukihiro

Classifications

• H05B6/44

  having more than one coil or coil segment · CPC title

• H05B6/40 Primary

  Establishing desired heat distribution, e.g. to heat particular parts of workpieces · CPC title

• H05B6/36 Primary

  Coil arrangements · CPC title