Patents by Inventor Hajime Kato

Hajime Kato 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: 20190136346
    Abstract: A hardfacing alloy satisfies the following condition when the hardfacing alloy as a whole is 100 mass % (also simply referred to as “%,” hereinafter), Ni: 10-25%, Si: 1-3%, Fe: 3-18%, the total of one or more elements of Mo, W, and Nb: 6.5-20%, and the balance: Cu and impurities. In particular, it preferably satisfies Fe+2Mo?22.6(%), Mo equivalent/Fe?1.17, and Mo equivalent=Mo+0.522W+1.033Nb. In a hardfacing part composed of the hardfacing alloy, coarse hard particles are formed to ensure the wear resistance, and a soft phase present in the hard particles ensures the machinability. This may be understood as a raw material powder for hardfacing treatment and may also be understood as a hardfacing member in which a hardfacing part is formed on a base material using the raw material powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi OSHIMA, Hajime KATO, Kouji TANAKA, Takashi SAITO, Natsuki SUGIYAMA, Minoru KAWASAKI, Jun NOMASAKI, Hisao FUKUHARA, Naoyuki MIYARA, Hironori AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 10256575
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing body, a shield shell that externally covers the housing body, a first connection terminal that is housed in the housing body, electrically connected to a first wire in the housing body, and electrically connected to a counterpart terminal when the connector is connected to a counterpart connector, and a circuit protection component that is interposed, in the housing body, between the first connection terminal and the first wire, and connects the first connection terminal and the first wire in series to protect a circuit. The housing body includes at least one thermal conductor that performs thermal conduction with the circuit protection component by being in contact with the circuit protection component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Haruhiko Yokoyama, Takaaki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 10211570
    Abstract: A lever-fitting type connector includes a lever configured to linearly perform a relative movement with respect to a terminal accommodation member when lever operational force in a straight direction is input, a first guide mechanism configured to convert lever input acting along a lever operation direction that is exerted from the lever on the terminal accommodation member, into force in a connector insertion-removal direction orthogonal to the lever operation direction, and to guide a relative movement between the terminal accommodation member and the lever while performing conversion of a direction of the force, and a second guide mechanism that is a screw mechanism that can exert axial force acting along the lever operation direction, on the lever, and is configured to relatively move the lever with respect to the electrically-connected target object while guiding in the lever operation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Imai, Hajime Kato, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10211122
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor module with high heat dissipation at a low cost. A semiconductor module according to the present invention includes: a case having a hollow portion; a base board made of an aluminum alloy having a first portion corresponding to the hollow portion of the case, and a second portion corresponding to a main body portion of the case, the base board being attached to a bottom face of the case via the second portion; a ceramic insulating substrate disposed on the first portion of the base board; a wiring pattern disposed on the ceramic insulating substrate; semiconductor elements disposed on the wiring pattern; metal wiring boards connected to the semiconductor elements; and a sealing resin that seals the hollow portion of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Mikio Ishihara, Yuji Imoto
  • Publication number: 20190043655
    Abstract: A laminated coil component includes an element body, a coil, and a pair of conductors. The pair of conductors is disposed on the element body. Each of the pair of conductors has an L shape when viewed from the third direction. Each of the pair of conductors includes a first conductor portion and a second conductor portion. The first conductor portion is disposed on one of first side faces. The second conductor portion is disposed on a pair of end faces. The coil includes a first coil portion and a second coil portion. The first coil portion includes a first straight portion and a pair of second straight portions. The pair of second straight portions is connected to both ends of the first straight portion. The second coil portion is curved as a whole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Yuto SHIGA, Kazuya TOBITA, Youichi KAZUTA, Yuya ISHIMA, Satoru OKAMOTO, Shunji AOKI
  • Publication number: 20190006084
    Abstract: A laminated electronic component includes an element body and a conductor. The element body is formed by laminating a plurality of element-body layers. The element body has a first face, a second face, and a pair of third faces. The conductor is disposed on the element body and has an L shape. The conductor has an exposed face exposed on the first face and the second face. The exposed face includes a plurality of divided regions divided by the element body. The length of each divided region in a dividing direction is longer than a distance with which the plurality of divided regions is separated from each other and longer than a distance with which the exposed face and the pair of third faces are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto SHIGA, Hajime KATO, Kazuya TOBITA, Youichi KAZUTA, Yuya ISHIMA, Satoru OKAMOTO, Shunji AOKI
  • Patent number: 10167533
    Abstract: A wear-resistant copper-based alloy includes: at least one selected from the group made of molybdenum, tungsten, and vanadium and niobium carbide; chromium in an amount of less than 1.0% in terms of wt %; and a matrix and hard particles dispersed in the matrix, in which the hard particles include niobium carbide and at least one selected from the group made of Nb—C—Mo, Nb—C—W, and Nb—C—V around the niobium carbide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Minoru Kawasaki, Nobuyuki Shinohara, Takehisa Fujita, Hironori Aoyama, Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Tadashi Oshima, Hajime Kato, Kouji Tanaka, Takashi Saito
  • Publication number: 20180342833
    Abstract: The connector device includes a first connector in which a first conductive member is housed in a first housing chamber, a second connector including a second housing chamber, and a cover, wherein the second housing chamber has a first housed position of the holding member of when an energization circuit is in an energized state, and a second housed position of the holding member of when the energization circuit is in a broken state, the holding member includes a non-contact portion that does not come into contact with a protruded body of the cover in a case of the first attachment state, and a pushed portion pushed by the protruded body to the second housed position in a case of the first housed position and in a case where the cover is attached in the second attachment state to the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: Haruhiko Yokoyama, Hajime Kato, Takaaki Miyajima, Satoshi Nakai
  • Publication number: 20180342341
    Abstract: A laminated electronic component includes an element body and a pair of conductors. The element body is formed by laminating a plurality of element-body layers in a first direction. The pair of conductors is formed by laminating a plurality of conductor layers in the first direction. The pair of conductors is provided to the element body in such a way as to be separated from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. At a cross section orthogonal to the first direction, the pair of conductors has an uneven portion and the element body has an uneven portion engaged with the uneven portion of the pair of conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji AOKI, Yuya ISHIMA, Hajime KATO, Yuto SHIGA, Kazuya TOBITA, Youichi KAZUTA, Satoru OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180316134
    Abstract: A lever-fitting type connector includes a lever configured to linearly perform a relative movement with respect to a terminal accommodation member when lever operational force in a straight direction is input, a first guide mechanism configured to convert lever input acting along a lever operation direction that is exerted from the lever on the terminal accommodation member, into force in a connector insertion-removal direction orthogonal to the lever operation direction, and to guide a relative movement between the terminal accommodation member and the lever while performing conversion of a direction of the force, and a second guide mechanism that is a screw mechanism that can exert axial force acting along the lever operation direction, on the lever, and is configured to relatively move the lever with respect to the electrically-connected target object while guiding in the lever operation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Imai, Hajime Kato, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10096400
    Abstract: An electric wire holding member (20) includes: a main body portion (21) formed in a cylindrical shape having a central axis line (X1); a plurality of electric wire accommodating portions (22a, 22b, and 22c) provided to penetrate through the main body portion (21) along the central axis line (X1), respectively, and are formed to be capable of individually accommodating electric wires (3a, 3b, and 3c), respectively, the electric wire accommodating portions (22a, 22b, and 22c) being disposed along a circumferential direction around the central axis line (X1) at equal intervals in a cross section as viewed from an axial direction; and a space portion (23) formed between two electric wire accommodating portions adjacent to each other along the circumferential direction to penetrate through the main body portion (21) along the central axis line (X1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Takaaki Miyajima, Hajime Kato, Hiroshi Aihara
  • Publication number: 20180286566
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an element body, a conductor, and a plated electrode layer. The element body includes a first outer surface provided with a first recess. The conductor includes a first conductor portion. The first conductor portion is disposed in the first recess and includes a first face opposed to a bottom face of the first recess and a second face opposed to the first face. The plated electrode layer includes a first plating portion covering the second face. The second face includes a first slope inclined with respect to the first outer surface in such a way as to be recessed toward the bottom face side of the first recess from the first outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunji AOKI, Yuya ISHIMA, Makoto TAKAHASHI, Shougo OKAMOTO, Takafumi TAKAHASHI, Hajime KATO, Yuto SHIGA
  • Patent number: 9989513
    Abstract: An oil content measurement device includes a fluid device which mixes water to be treated containing oil content with a solvent and extracts the oil content into the solvent, a sensor unit which has a casing storing a quartz crystal oscillator therein with a ring-like spacer in between, a dispensing nozzle which is disposed above the oscillator at a predetermined gap there between and feeds a predetermined amount of the solvent after the oil content has been extracted on the oscillator, a sensor circuit which measures a resonance frequency of the oscillator, and controller which controls at least the fluid device and the sensor circuit. Provided is a arithmetic logical unit, based on a change amount of the received resonance frequency of the oscillator in the sensor unit to which the solvent after the oil content has been extracted has been fed, measures the oil content remaining on the oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Shigeki Terui, Minoru Morita, Yoshio Nakayama, Makoto Onishi
  • Patent number: 9966704
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a shield connector includes a housing, a shield shell, a protector and a protector engaged part on an electric wire leading-out part side of the protector. In the housing, an electric wire is configured to be led out from one end side in a direction intersecting a fitting direction in a state that the other end side is fitted to a device side connector. The shield shell is configured to be electrically connected and fixed to a shield case of the device so as to cover the housing. The protector is attached to the electric wire leading-out part side in the shield shell so as to cover the electric wire. The protector engaged part is configured to be engaged with and disengaged from a protector engaging part on the shield case in the same direction as the fitting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Haruhiko Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20180069349
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing body, a shield shell that externally covers the housing body, a first connection terminal that is housed in the housing body, electrically connected to a first wire in the housing body, and electrically connected to a counterpart terminal when the connector is connected to a counterpart connector, and a circuit protection component that is interposed, in the housing body, between the first connection terminal and the first wire, and connects the first connection terminal and the first wire in series to protect a circuit. The housing body includes at least one thermal conductor that performs thermal conduction with the circuit protection component by being in contact with the circuit protection component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Haruhiko Yokoyama, Takaaki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9840210
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a wire portion formed by arranging three wires in the same direction, the respective wires having conductors and insulators coating outer circumferences of the conductors, and a braided wire. The three wires of the wire portion and the braided wire are disposed such that the braided wire is interposed between two wires of the wire portion adjacent to each other along a circumferential direction around a central axial line of the wire portion on a cross section of the wire harness when viewed from an axial direction along the central axial line, on a side of the central axial line from outer circumferential-side tangents connecting the conductors of the two wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Hajime Kato, Hiroshi Aihara
  • Patent number: 9783136
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a wire portion having three wires arranged in the same direction, connectors connected to both end portions of the wire portion, a middle portion installed in an intermediate position of the wire portion between the connectors, a wire-side surge reducing section provided in the wire portion, a connector-side surge reducing section provided in each of the connectors, and a middle portion-side surge reducing section provided in the middle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignees: YAZAKI CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Hajime Kato, Yasuhiro Otsuta, Takeshi Innan, Hiroshi Aihara
  • Publication number: 20170278770
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor module with high heat dissipation at a low cost. A semiconductor module according to the present invention includes: a case having a hollow portion; a base board made of an aluminum alloy having a first portion corresponding to the hollow portion of the case, and a second portion corresponding to a main body portion of the case, the base board being attached to a bottom face of the case via the second portion; a ceramic insulating substrate disposed on the first portion of the base board; a wiring pattern disposed on the ceramic insulating substrate; semiconductor elements disposed on the wiring pattern; metal wiring boards connected to the semiconductor elements; and a sealing resin that seals the hollow portion of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Mikio ISHIHARA, Yuji IMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170271857
    Abstract: A branch box (100) includes: a branch portion (21) branching a power path (205A) into at least two branch paths (206A, 207A); a fuse (60) located on at least one of the branch paths; a conductive member (33) connecting the branch portion and the branch path having the fuse; a first housing portion (11) receiving the fuse and closing its opening with a lid portion (81) to define a housing space; and a second housing portion (12) receiving the branch portion. The first housing portion is sealed with a first sealing material (85) filling a gap between the lid portion and the opening and is out of contact with the fuse. The second housing portion is sealed with a second sealing material (86) independent from the first sealing material. The conductive member passes through a partition wall (25) separating the first housing portion and the second housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime KATO, Haruhiko YOKOYAMA, Yuuichirou MOTOHASHI
  • Patent number: 9768600
    Abstract: A branch box (100) includes: a branch portion (21) branching a power path (205A) into at least two branch paths (206A, 207A); a fuse (60) located on at least one of the branch paths; a conductive member (33) connecting the branch portion and the branch path having the fuse; a first housing portion (11) receiving the fuse and closing its opening with a lid portion (81) to define a housing space; and a second housing portion (12) receiving the branch portion. The first housing portion is sealed with a first sealing material (85) filling a gap between the lid portion and the opening and is out of contact with the fuse. The second housing portion is sealed with a second sealing material (86) independent from the first sealing material. The conductive member passes through a partition wall (25) separating the first housing portion and the second housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Haruhiko Yokoyama, Yuuichirou Motohashi