Patents by Inventor Atsushi Kodama

Atsushi Kodama 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: 20150255906
    Abstract: There are provided an electronic component metal material having low insertability/extractability, low whisker formability and high durability, and a method for manufacturing the electronic component metal material. The electronic component metal material 10 includes a base material 11, an A layer 14 constituting an outermost surface layer on the base material 11 and formed of Sn, In or an alloy thereof, and a B layer 13 constituting a middle layer provided between the base material 11 and the A layer 14 and formed of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Os, Ir or an alloy thereof, wherein the outermost surface layer (A layer) 14 has a thickness larger than 0.2 ?m, and the middle layer (B layer) 13 has a thickness of 0.001 ?m or larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150251543
    Abstract: A vehicle controlling system includes a high-voltage circuit including a motor for driving a vehicle and a generator driven by an engine; an intermediate-voltage circuit including a battery and having a potential lower than the potential of the high-voltage circuit; a low-voltage circuit having a potential lower than the potential of the intermediate-voltage circuit, accessories being disposed to the low-voltage circuit; a transformer disposed between the high-voltage circuit and the intermediate-voltage circuit; and a down converter disposed between the intermediate-voltage circuit and the low-voltage circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki KAIHARA, Shohei KAWANO, Hiroyuki SAKAI, Atsushi KODAMA, Yuya SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20150239405
    Abstract: A vehicle electric battery controlling apparatus is applied to a vehicle including an on-board charger to charge a battery in the vehicle with power supplied from an external power source, a heater to warm the battery, and a DC-DC converter to reduce the voltage of power from the battery and then supply the battery power to the heater. The vehicle electric battery controlling apparatus includes a DC-DC converter controller to drive the DC-DC converter to supply the battery power to the heater before the charge of the battery by the on-board charger, and an on-board charger controller to drive the on-board charger such that the power source for the heater is gradually shifted from the battery to the external power source, after the DC-DC converter is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki KAIHARA, Shohei KAWANO, Hiroyuki SAKAI, Atsushi KODAMA, Yuya SUZUKI, Yoshiaki NISHIO, Hirofumi YAGURA, Makoto KAMACHI
  • Publication number: 20150213918
    Abstract: The present invention provides metallic materials for electronic components, having low degree of whisker formation, low adhesive wear property and high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using such metallic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150194746
    Abstract: The present invention provides metallic materials for electronic components, having low degree of whisker formation, low adhesive wear property and high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using such metallic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150179367
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a switch includes steps of: arranging a plurality of fixed electrodes so as to be supported by a plurality of pins provided within a metal mold; molding a switch case integrally with the fixed electrodes by injecting a first resin into the metal mold; pulling out the pins to take out the switch case from the metal mold; filling a liquid-state second resin into through holes formed in the switch case as traces of removal of the pins; and curing the liquid-state second resin to form a protection portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi KODAMA, Toshihiko TERASHITA, Yoichi YASUNAGA, Hiroshi HIRAHATA
  • Publication number: 20150171537
    Abstract: The present invention provides metallic materials for electronic components, having low degree of whisker formation, low adhesive wear property and high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using such metallic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150147924
    Abstract: The present invention provides metallic materials for electronic components, having low degree of whisker formation, low adhesive wear property and high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using such metallic materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150047879
    Abstract: The present invention provides a metallic material for electronic components having a low degree of whisker formation and a high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using the metallic material. The metallic material for electronic components includes: a base material; on the base material, an lower layer constituted with one or two or more selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Cu; on the lower layer, an upper layer constituted with an alloy composed of one or both of Sn and In (constituent elements A) and one or two or more of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Os and Ir (constituent elements B), wherein the thickness of the lower layer is 0.05 ?m or more; the thickness of the upper layer is 0.005 ?m or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20150011132
    Abstract: There are provided a press-fit terminal which has an excellent whisker resistance and a low inserting force, is unlikely to cause shaving of plating when the press-fit terminal is inserted into a substrate, and has a high heat resistance, and an electronic component using the same. A press-fit terminal comprises: a female terminal connection part provided at one side of an attached part to be attached to a housing; and a substrate connection part provided at the other side and attached to a substrate by press-fitting the substrate connection part into a through-hole formed in the substrate. At least the substrate connection part has the surface structure described below, and the press-fit terminal has an excellent whisker resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20140358345
    Abstract: A control unit for a vehicle, which comprises an engine, a driving motor, an engaging/disengaging device, and a voltage raising device, includes a switching control unit and a voltage raising control unit controlling the voltage raising device. The switching control unit switches between a first driving mode in which the vehicle is driven by a driving force of the driving motor with the engaging/disengaging device released and a second driving mode in which the vehicle is driven by the driving force of the engine with the engaging/disengaging device engaged. In a case where a driving mode is switched from the first driving mode to the second driving mode, the switching control unit starts an engagement of the engaging/disengaging device and switches the driving mode to the second driving mode, after the voltage raising control unit starts the voltage raising control in the first driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kuniaki KAIHARA, Hiroyuki SAKAI, Atsushi KODAMA, Ryosuke YABUTA, Yuya SUZUKI, Shohei KAWANO
  • Publication number: 20140329107
    Abstract: There are provided a metal material for electronic component which has low insertability/extractability, low whisker formability, and high durability, and a method for manufacturing the metal material. The metal material 10 for electronic components has a base material 11, an A layer 14 constituting a surface layer on the base material 11 and formed of Sn, In or an alloy thereof, and a B layer 13 constituting a middle layer provided between the base material 11 and the A layer 14 and formed of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Os, Ir or an alloy thereof, wherein the surface layer (A layer) 14 has a thickness of 0.002 to 0.2 ?m, and the middle layer (B layer) 13 has a thickness of 0.001 to 0.3 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: JX NIPPON MINING & METALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Shibuya, Kazuhiko Fukamachi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Patent number: 8835788
    Abstract: A slide switch includes a housing, a plurality of fixed electrodes, and a slider. The housing includes a first face provided with an accommodating recessed part and a second face configured to be attached to an attaching board. The fixed electrodes are provided in the accommodating recessed part. Each of the fixed electrodes has an external terminal exposed on the second face. The slider has a movable electrode configured to be electrically conducted to the fixed electrodes, and is movably provided in the accommodating recessed part so as to switch an electrical conducted state of the movable electrode and the fixed electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kodama, Toshihiko Terashita, Tadahiko Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20120043189
    Abstract: A slide switch includes a housing, a plurality of fixed electrodes, and a slider. The housing includes a first face provided with an accommodating recessed part and a second face configured to be attached to an attaching board. The fixed electrodes are provided in the accommodating recessed part. Each of the fixed electrodes has an external terminal exposed on the second face. The slider has a movable electrode configured to be electrically conducted to the fixed electrodes, and is movably provided in the accommodating recessed part so as to switch an electrical conducted state of the movable electrode and the fixed electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Atsushi Kodama, Toshihiko Terashita, Tadahiko Tsutsui
  • Patent number: 7779821
    Abstract: The invention provides an intake-air cooling device for an internal combustion engine that can be installed compactly. The invention provides an intake-air cooling device for a gasoline engine equipped with an intercooler that cool intake air with outside air and an evaporator that cools intake air with refrigerant circulating in a bypass refrigeration circuit, disposed in this sequence in an intake-air channel from a supercharger to the gasoline engine. The intercooler is disposed in an outside-air duct through which outside air passes, the evaporator is disposed inside a case through which the intake air passes, and a bottom plate of the case forms part of the outside-air duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideto Noyama, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20090228192
    Abstract: The invention provides an intake-air cooling device for an internal combustion engine that can be installed compactly. The invention provides an intake-air cooling device for a gasoline engine equipped with an intercooler that cool intake air with outside air and an evaporator that cools intake air with refrigerant circulating in a bypass refrigeration circuit, disposed in this sequence in an intake-air channel from a supercharger to the gasoline engine. The intercooler is disposed in an outside-air duct through which outside air passes, the evaporator is disposed inside a case through which the intake air passes, and a bottom plate of the case forms part of the outside-air duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD,, MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideto Noyama, Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Kodama
  • Publication number: 20070043623
    Abstract: Prescribed disclosure documents such as financial account documents and brief announcement of financial results or in-house management documents can be created on the basis of a combined account disclosure item defined by extending a combined account title to not only the combined account title represented by increase/decrease in money, but also number of stock holdings and increase/decrease in employee with a basic combined account disclosure item indicating a substance of the increase/decrease, which combined account disclosure item is made from three items of the aforesaid basic combined account disclosure item, a decrease disclosure item indicating a substance of the decrease, and an increase disclosure item indicating a substance of the increase in the process of managing business information expressible in numeric terms while adding a subsidiary disclosure item indicating subsidiary information to the combined account disclosure item, so as to create prescribed disclosure documents or other managing doc
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventor: Atsushi Kodama
  • Patent number: 6403234
    Abstract: A plated material for connectors, having superior insertion and withdrawal properties, comprises an intermediate layer consisting of Ni alloy plating having a Vickers hardness of 450 to 750 Hv and a thickness of 0.3 to 2 &mgr;m provided on a base metal consisting of Cu or Cu alloy, a reflowed Sn or Sn alloy plated surface layer provided thereon, and an alloy layer consisting primarily of Sn—Ni and having a thickness of 0.05 to 2 &mgr;m formed by diffusion between the intermediate layer and the surface layer, in which average grain size of said Sn—Ni compound is 0.05 to 1 &mgr;m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kodama, Kazuhiko Fukamachi
  • Patent number: 6071382
    Abstract: A sheet measurement and control system that enables easy installation and/or change of types of sensors to be disposed in or about a sensor head that reciprocally scans a sheet along a cross direction transverse to the sheet flow; wherein a plurality of sensors are disposed in or about the sensor head to measure characteristics of the sheet; a plurality of computation devices corresponding to the plurality of sensors are disposed in or about the sensor head to implement computation of the measuring signals from the sensors; a plurality of communication control devices corresponding to the plurality of computation devices are disposed in or about the sensor head for transmitting the processed measuring signals through a general network communication link attached thereto; and man-machine interface connected to the general network communication link monitors data from said communication control devices related to the measured signal and issues instructions to control the sheet manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Mineo, Takao Maruyamam, Atsushi Kodama, Yukihiro Seki, Takahashi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5650088
    Abstract: A treating solution for a gold- or gold-alloy-plated material having nickel or a nickel-containing alloy as an underplating on a metallic material, the solution including a particular inhibitor, such as benzotriazole, a lubricant containing a particular fatty acid, and an emulsifier containing a particular alkyl phosphate. Treating is performed by coating the gold or gold-alloy-plated material with the treating solution or by electrolyzing in the treating solution using the gold-plated material as an anode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Nippon Mining & Metals Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kodama