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Dr. Takashi Kenjo was born in Shizuoka
prefecture, Japan, in 1940. He studied plasma physics and received a
Masters Degree in 1964 from Tohoku University. He was with TEAC Corporation
during 1964-65. In 1971, he received the Doctor of Engineering Degree
from Tohoku University for a study on electromagnetic theory of electric
machines and its application to hysteresis and eddy-current motors. He
joined the faculty at the Polytechnic University of Japan in 1965, where
he was Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Power
Electronics until April 2005, when he became the founding Director of
NMERL. He has written over 30 books in Japanese and 6 in English mainly
on small precision motors and its controls. |
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Mr.S.Nagamori CEO of NIDEC was his first student. |
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Dr. Nobufuji Kaji was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1952. In 1980, he received the Doctor of Engineering Degree from Keio University for a study on augmentation of direct-contact heat transfer to drops with an intermittent electric field. He joined the faculty at the Polytechnic University of Japan in 1982, where he was Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Control System Engineering until April 2006, when he became the Deputy Director of NMERL. |
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His research interests lie in thermal engineering, mechatronics, etc. He has published three books in Japanese and many journal papers. |
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Shigeru Sadotomo was born in Japan in 1949.
He received his B.S. Mechanical Engineering in 1973 from Kanazawa University.
From 1973 to 1985, he worked for Shizuoka Machine Tool Co., where he
was engaged in designing numerically controlled milling machines and
machining centres. From 1985 to 1996, he was with the IAI Corp., where
he designed industrial robots. In 1996, he founded Saad Techno Ltd. to
provide consultative services on factory automation. There he developed
an ultrasonic sensor for handicapped people, and an electric motor analysis
software. He has also been serving as an ISO QMS auditor and consultant
since 1999 and 2002, respectively. Since NMERL was founded in 2005, Mr. Sadotomo was Manager of Advanced Programming until September 2008, when he retired from his fulltime position at NMERL to become Advisor. |
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Shigehisa Komine was born in Japan in 1958. He joined NMERL in July, 2006. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983 from Musashi Institute of Technology. From 1983 to 2005, he worked for Oriental Motor Co., Ltd., where he was engaged in the design and development of brushless DC motors and induction motors, and conducted electromagnetic analysis of several types of electric machines. He is a member of IEEJ.
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Dr. Ming Feng was born in Beijing, China, in 1963. He received his BEng in 1985, MEng in 1990 from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) and Ph.D in 2003 from Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT). From 1985 to 1998 he worked at BUAA as an assistant (1985), lecturer (1990) and associate professor (1994), and from 1998 to 2003 at TIT as a visiting scholar, after which he joined Nidec. In November 2007, Dr. Feng retired from his position as Senior Scientist at NMERL to return to his hometown, Beijing, where he has joined the faculty at the University of Science and Technology Beijing as Professor. His research interests lie in Computer Mechanics, Tribology, Rotor Dynamics, Computational Electromagnetism, etc. He has published a book on the design of hydrodynamic and hydrostatic hybrid bearings (in Chinese) and written many journal papers. He is a member of ASME and JSME. |
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Ryu Takeguchi received a BSCE from Washington University in St. Louis (U.S.A.) in 1979. In 1990, he returned to Japan, where he has since then worked as a free-lance technical translator. His first book translation work was on An Introduction to Ultrasonic Motors by Sashida and Kenjo. Since then, he has translated several books by Japanese authors on engineering and science subjects. He began working for NMERL as a translator and researcher when it was founded in June 2005. |
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Edward Robison received a BSME degree from Clarkson University of Potsdam, New York in 1981. He first joined the Bendix Corporation to develop specialized products for aerospace applications. After joining Nidec America in 1988, he has worked with the spindle motor division to support the explosive growth of DC brushless motors for the hard disk drive market. He is currently spindle motor sales manager for the western United States. |
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