Patents by Inventor Akio Igarashi

Akio Igarashi 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: 20240047121
    Abstract: A coil component includes a drum core that includes a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions formed at the ends of the winding core portion, electrodes that are included in the pair of flange portions, and first and second wires that are wound around the winding core portion and that include extended portions electrically connected to the electrodes. The flange portions are continuous with the winding core portion and have slopes that guide the extended portions to the electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko TAKENAKA, Shigeto YAMAMOTO, Ryota HASHIMOTO, Akio IGARASHI, Yuki KANBE
  • Patent number: 11837396
    Abstract: A coil component includes a drum core that includes a winding core portion and a pair of flange portions formed at the ends of the winding core portion, electrodes that are included in the pair of flange portions, and first and second wires that are wound around the winding core portion and that include extended portions electrically connected to the electrodes. The flange portions are continuous with the winding core portion and have slopes that guide the extended portions to the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Takenaka, Shigeto Yamamoto, Ryota Hashimoto, Akio Igarashi, Yuki Kanbe
  • Patent number: 11798732
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coil component includes preparing a wire; preparing a terminal electrode formed from a metal plate having a flat surface to which an end portion of the wire is to be connected, a low surface that is lower in a thickness direction of the terminal electrode than the flat surface, and a shift surface that connects the flat surface to the low surface and that increases a height in the thickness direction from the low surface to the flat surface; placing the end portion of the wire on the flat surface such that the wire is provided sequentially along the flat surface, the shift surface, and the low surface in this order from the end portion thereof; and thermally pressure-bonding the end portion of the wire to the flat surface such that the heated chip is pressed so that an edge thereof overlaps the low surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Kentaro Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11798729
    Abstract: A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion, a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a fourth wire that are wound around the winding core portion. A winding portion is formed by winding the respective first to fourth wires around the winding core portion. The winding portion includes a twisted wire portion in which the first wire, the second wire, the third wire, and the fourth wire are collectively twisted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11776742
    Abstract: A connection section of a terminal electrode includes a reference surface, and an end portion of a wire and the connection section of the terminal electrode are connected to each other via a weld lump rising from the reference surface. A cover section to regulate an upper limit of the rise of the wire from the reference surface is provided in the terminal electrode. The cover section is so positioned as to cover at least part of the wire when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the reference surface extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Koji Onishi
  • Publication number: 20230276567
    Abstract: A multilayer circuit board having a signal and power isolation circuit, which can suppress the capacitive coupling between a chip inductor and a ground layer below the chip inductor and also suppress the characteristic impedance change occurring in a mounting pad on a microstrip line. Portions of the inner-layer ground below both the mounting pad on the microstrip line and the chip inductors connected to the mounting pad are separately removed respectively as the signal transmission characteristic compensation removal portion, which is formed by removing a portion having a predetermined area and situated immediately below the mounting pad, and the inductor characteristic compensation removal portion, which is formed by removing a mounting-surface-below portion having a predetermined area and situated immediately below the chip inductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tarou HIGUCHI, Yoshihiro IMANISHI, Yasushi SAITO, Akio IGARASHI, Minehito YOSHIDA, Hiroyuki HONDA, Masaki INUI, Yuya NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230198574
    Abstract: A transmission system capable of improving transmission characteristics in a low frequency range and having reduced size. A transmission system for superimposing power on a signal transmission path between a first circuit module and a second circuit module includes a first capacitor between the transmission path and a first interface IC in the first circuit module, a second capacitor between the transmission path and a second interface IC in the second circuit module, a first inductor between a first power supply circuit in the first circuit module and the transmission path, and a second inductor between a second power supply circuit in the second circuit module and the transmission path. A capacitance value of the first capacitor and a capacitance value of the second capacitor differ from each other. Inductance values of each of the first and second inductors are in a range from 20 [?H] to 50 [?H].
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tarou HIGUCHI, Yoshihiro IMANISHI, Yasushi SAITO, Akio IGARASHI, Hiroyuki HONDA, Masaki INUI, Minehito YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 11664155
    Abstract: A coil component includes a blocking material that contains a resin and that blocks a route that leads to a gap between turns of a wire from an outside at portions of the wire that are in close contact with each other between adjoining turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Yuuji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11651888
    Abstract: A flange portion includes a projecting surface that is positioned in a leading end of a projection projecting toward a mounting substrate and that faces the mounting substrate, and a principal surface that extends in a direction crossing the projecting surface and that faces a direction in which the pair of flange portions are aligned. A metal terminal includes a mounting portion opposed to the projecting surface and an end surface portion opposed to the principal surface. An angle ? between the mounting portion and the end surface portion satisfies the relationship 85 degrees??<90 degrees. The angle ? between the mounting portion and the end surface portion is smaller than an angle ?1 between the projecting surface and the principal surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Kazuhiko Takenaka, Shigeto Yamamoto, Ryota Hashimoto, Yuki Kanbe
  • Patent number: 11594365
    Abstract: A coil component includes a wire; a core having a winding core around which the wire is wound and a flange portion provided at an end portion of the winding core in an axial direction; and a terminal electrode to which the wire is connected and that is provided on the flange portion. The terminal electrode has a projecting portion that sticks out in the axial direction relative to the flange portion. The projecting portion has a flat surface along which the wire is thermocompression-bonded. Thermocompression bonding of the wire is performed in a state where an interval between a head surface of a heater chip and the flat surface becomes narrower from a flange portion side toward a front end side of the projecting portion. A degree of crushing of the wire decreases from the front end side toward the flange portion side of the projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Igarashi, Akio Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11587724
    Abstract: A direct-current superimposing circuit includes differential signal lines, capacitors, a common mode choke coil, a winding-type coil component, and a DC power supply which are disposed at a circuit board. The winding-type coil component includes a core, two pairs of terminal electrodes, and two windings (a first winding and a second winding). On the end surface of a flange portion, the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs and the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs are placed to face each other across the winding center of a winding core. The winding start and winding end of the first winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in one of the two pairs. The winding start and winding end of the second winding are connected to the terminal electrodes in the other one of the two pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Yoshie Nakamura, Yasushi Saito
  • Patent number: 11545295
    Abstract: A coil component includes first and second wires wound around a winding core portion of a core, and third and fourth wires wound around outside a portion of the first and the second wires wound around the winding core portion in an opposite direction to a winding direction of the first and second wires. The portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion has a first twisted wire portion twisted together. A length of the first wire or a length of the second wire of the portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion is configured to be equal to a length of the third wire or a length of the fourth wire of the portion of the third and fourth wires wound around outside the portion of the first and second wires wound around the winding core portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akio Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11515070
    Abstract: A coil component includes a first alignment winding region in which a second wire is continuously wound so as to have turns such that the turns of the second wire are aligned with turns of a first wire having the same ordinal number outside the first wire in a direction perpendicular to a central axis. The ordinal number is counted from the turn nearest to the first flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Hashimoto, Masashi Miyamoto, Akio Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220359116
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a shield line including first and second signal lines and a shield. The first and second signal lines are connected to a signal source, and the shield coating is around the first and second signal lines. The electronic circuit further includes a signal ground near the signal source; a frame ground that is isolated from the signal ground and connected to the shield; a common mode choke coil that includes first, second and third coils magnetically coupled to one another; and a capacitor that is connected in parallel with the third coil. The first coil is connected in series between the signal source and the first signal line. The second coil is connected in series between the signal source and the second signal line. The third coil and the capacitor that are connected in parallel are connected between the signal ground and the frame ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tarou HIGUCHI, Yoshihiro IMANISHI, Yasushi SAITO, Hiroyuki HONDA, Minehito YOSHIDA, Akio IGARASHI, Sayaka SEKIGUCHI, Miyuki NOJIRI
  • Patent number: 11437177
    Abstract: In a coil component, a plate-shaped core is fixed to first and second flanges of a drum-shaped core with an adhesive interposed therebetween in a state that a lower principal surface of the plate-shaped core faces top surfaces of the first and second flanges. The adhesive is made of a hardened epoxy-based resin containing dicyandiamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Yuuji Igarashi
  • Patent number: 11430602
    Abstract: An adhesive layer is in contact with a rising portion of a metal terminal and an outer end surface of a flange portion of a drum-shaped core. A surface of the rising portion that faces the outer end surface is an inclined surface that inclines with respect to the outer end surface. The thickest portion of the adhesive layer is located near a position at which a distance between the inclined surface and the outer end surface is largest. The thickness of the thickest portion of the adhesive layer is 13 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Yuuji Igarashi, Takao Miyamoto, Takuya Ishida, Koji Onishi
  • Patent number: 11315703
    Abstract: A weld nugget portion that is obtained by welding a central conductor of a wire and a receiving portion of a metal terminal is formed on the receiving portion that receives an end portion of the wire with the weld nugget portion expanding from a surface of the receiving portion along which the wire is disposed. An area ratio of a blowhole to a section of the weld nugget portion that is along an imaginary cut plane that is perpendicular to the surface of the receiving portion along which the wire is disposed is no less than 0% and no more than 8.4% (i.e., from 0% to 8.4%), preferably no less than 0% and no more than 1.3% (i.e., from 0% to 1.3%). A central axis of the central conductor of the wire in the weld nugget portion extends along the imaginary cut plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Onishi, Takashi Murakami, Akio Igarashi
  • Publication number: 20220084748
    Abstract: A connection section of a terminal electrode includes a reference surface, and an end portion of a wire and the connection section of the terminal electrode are connected to each other via a weld lump rising from the reference surface. A cover section to regulate an upper limit of the rise of the wire from the reference surface is provided in the terminal electrode. The cover section is so positioned as to cover at least part of the wire when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the reference surface extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio IGARASHI, Koji ONISHI
  • Patent number: 11222747
    Abstract: A connection section of a terminal electrode includes a reference surface, and an end portion of a wire and the connection section of the terminal electrode are connected to each other via a weld lump rising from the reference surface. A cover section to regulate an upper limit of the rise of the wire from the reference surface is provided in the terminal electrode. The cover section is so positioned as to cover at least part of the wire when viewed in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the reference surface extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Koji Onishi
  • Patent number: 11217389
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a coil component includes a heating step of locally heating metal terminals while the metal terminals are supported by a pressing member having a contact surface capable of coming into contact with the metal terminals in a state where an adhesive is disposed between the metal terminals and a drum core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Murakami, Akio Igarashi, Takao Miyamoto, Kazuo Miyake