Patents by Inventor Hajime Takeuchi
Hajime Takeuchi 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).
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Patent number: 8409754Abstract: A positive electrode active material for use in a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell comprises a powdery metal oxide (LiCoO2, LiNiO2, LiMn2O4 or the like). When the positive electrode active material is classified with a classification precision index ? of 0.7 or greater so as to obtain a coarse powder having a classification ratio in a range of 0.1% to 5%, a ratio (B/A) of the content (B) of an impurity metal element in the coarse powder obtained by the classification to the content (A) of the impurity metal element in the powder before the classification is 1.5 or less. The contents of the impurity metal elements are compared with respect to Ca, Mn, Fe, Cr, Cu, Zn and the like (exclusive of the metal element constituting the powdery metal oxide). The positive electrode active material for a secondary cell serves to improve cell performance capabilities and production yields.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Ryo Sakai, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasumasa Ooya, Koshin Tanaka, Kazuki Amemiya, Shouta Endou
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Patent number: 8395725Abstract: A light emitting module 1 includes a substrate 2 having a metal pattern 4 and a plurality of white light emitting devices 3 linearly arranged on the substrate 2. The metal pattern 4 is formed on a portion of 60% or more of an area of the substrate 2. The white light emitting device 3 includes a light emitting diode as a semiconductor light emitting element 5. Light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element 5 is converted into white light by a light emitting section containing phosphors, and is taken out. The light emitting module 1 emits white light.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hajime Takeuchi, Ryo Sakai, Yasumasa Ooya, Tsutomu Ishii, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20130010456Abstract: A white LED lamp including: a conductive portion; a light emitting diode chip mounted on the conductive portion, for emitting a primary light having a peak wavelength of 360 nm to 420 nm; a transparent resin layer including a first hardened transparent resin, for sealing the light emitting diode chip; and a phosphor layer covering the transparent resin layer, the phosphor layer being formed by dispersing a phosphor powder into a second hardened transparent resin, and the phosphor powder receiving the primary light and radiating a secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light. An energy of the primary light contained in the radiated secondary light is 0.4 mW/Im or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicants: TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tsutomu ISHII, Hajime TAKEUCHI, Yasumasa OOYA, Katsutoshi NAKAGAWA, Yumi ITO, Masaki TOYOSHIMA, Yasuhiro SHIRAKAWA, Ryo SAKAI
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Patent number: 8344407Abstract: A white light source includes: an insulating substrate; a light-emitting diode chip provided on the insulating substrate and that emits ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 330 nm to 410 nm; and a phosphor layer formed to cover the light-emitting diode chip, including a red emitting phosphor, a green emitting phosphor, and a blue emitting phosphor as a phosphor, and the phosphors are dispersed in a cured transparent resin, wherein when it is assumed that the shortest distance between a surface of the phosphor layer and a peripheral portion of the light-emitting diode chip is t(mm) and the mean free path defined by the following expression (1) is L(mm), the t and L satisfy 3.2?t/L. [Expression 1] L=1/(nĂ—?)??(1) (n: number of phosphors per unit volume of the phosphor layer (pcs/mm3), and ?: average cross section area of a phosphor in the phosphor layer (mm2)).Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasumasa Ooya, Toshio Shimaoogi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20120298391Abstract: A male terminal is formed on a dust collecting device so as to protrude therefrom, while a plug-in port into which the male terminal can be inserted, and a female terminal that is located inside the plug-in port and can be electrically connected to the male terminal, are provided in a hammer drill. When the dust collecting device is joined to the hammer drill and the male terminal is electrically connected to the female terminal, a driving source is supplied from a battery pack to the dust collecting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Kakiuchi, Hajime Takeuchi, Yoshitaka Machida
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Publication number: 20120279740Abstract: A technique for making a handle vibration-proof while avoiding size increase is provided in an impact tool. The impact tool has a striking mechanism part for driving a tool bit in its axial direction, a motor for driving the striking mechanism part, a tool body housing the motor and striking mechanism part, an outer shell housing covering part of the tool body, a handle that is integrally formed with the outer shell housing and extends transversely to the axial direction, a first handle end portion formed on one extending end of the handle, a second handle end portion formed on the other extending end of the handle, a first elastic element that connects the first handle end portion and tool body for relative movement in the axial direction, and a second elastic element that connects the second handle end portion and tool body for relative movement in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Hajime Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8288937Abstract: A white LED includes a light emitting element with a light emission peak wavelength equal to or longer than 380 nm and equal to or shorter than 420 nm, and a phosphor layer containing three or more types of phosphors including at least a blue phosphor, a green phosphor, and a red phosphor and disposed in a manner to cover at least part of the light emitting element. The phosphor layer has a first phosphor layer and a second phosphor layer disposed in an opposite side of a side of the light emitting element of the first phosphor layer. In the first phosphor layer, a content of the blue phosphor in an entire phosphor contained in the first phosphor layer is equal to or less than 5 mass %, or the blue phosphor is not contained. In the second phosphor layer, a content of phosphor other than the blue phosphor in an entire phosphor contained in the second phosphor layer is equal to or less than 5 mass %, or no phosphor other than the blue phosphor is contained.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsutomu Ishii, Yasumasa Ooya, Ryo Sakai, Katsutoshi Nakagawa, Hajime Takeuchi, Yumi Ito, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Patent number: 8286724Abstract: An impact tool includes a vibration-proofing cushioning material connecting a tool body and a handle. The tool further includes a motor-driving manual operating member disposed on the handle, an operation mode switching member disposed on the tool body, and a movable member. When the switching member is switched to first mode in which the tool bit is continuously driven, the movable member moves the manual operating member from an off position and locks it in an on position. When the switching member is switched to second mode in which the tool bit is arbitrarily driven, the movable member releases the lock of the manual operating member. A vibration-proofing elastic member is disposed in the vibration transmitting path and prevents vibration caused in the tool body from being transmitted to the handle in the state in which the manual operating member is locked in the on position by the movable member.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Hajime Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20120223352Abstract: An LED light emitting device is provided that has high color rendering properties and is excellent color uniformity and, at the same time, can realize even luminescence unattainable by conventional techniques. A phosphor having a composition represented by formula: (Sr2-X-Y-Z-?BaXMgYMnZEu?)SiO4 wherein x, y, z, and u are respectively coefficients satisfying 0.1<x<1, 0<y<0.5, 0<z<0.1, y>z, and 0.01<?<0.2. is provided. The phosphor is used in combination with ultraviolet and blue light emitting diodes having a luminescence peak wavelength of 360 to 470 nm to form an LED light emitting device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicants: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Tsutomu ISHII, Yoshitaka FUNAYAMA, Yumi ITO, Yasumasa OOYA, Ryo SAKAI, Katsutoshi NAKAGAWA, Hajime TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro SHIRAKAWA
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Publication number: 20120206671Abstract: Certain embodiments provide a white LED for a backlight of a liquid crystal display device, which comprises an ultraviolet (or violet) light emitting element and a phosphor layer that contains a green phosphor selected from trivalent cerium- and terbium-activated rare earth borate phosphors, a blue phosphor selected from divalent europium-activated halophosphate phosphors and divalent europium-activated aluminate phosphors, and a red phosphor selected from europium-activated lanthanum oxysulfide phosphors and europium-activated yttrium oxysulfide phosphors as the contained amounts of the respective phosphors relative to the total amount of the phosphors as follows: 35-50% by weight of the green phosphor content; 50-70% by weight of the blue phosphor content; and 1-10% by weight of the red phosphor content.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicants: Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hajime TAKEUCHI, Ryo Sakai, Tsutomu Ishii, Yasumasa Ooya, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20120187824Abstract: An object is to provide a white light emitting lamp in which a BGR phosphor containing blue, green and red phosphor is combined with a semiconductor light emitting element such as an LED, a deep red phosphor having a main emission peak in a longer wavelength region than a main emission peak of the red phosphor is further added so as to enhance characteristics, whereby both high luminance and high color rendering properties can be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2010Publication date: July 26, 2012Applicants: TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Masahiko Yamakawa, Yasuhiro Shirakawa, Hajime Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8186453Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for reducing adverse effect of a dust suction device on the operability of a power tool, in the power tool which can suck dust generated during operation. The power tool has a motor 111 and a tool body 103 that houses the motor 111. A tool bit 119 is coupled to a tip end region of the tool body and driven by the motor 111 to perform a predetermined operation. The power tool further includes a dust suction part 151 through which dust generated during operation by the tool bit 119 is sucked and which covers at least a tip end of the tool bit 119, a dust transfer passage 153 through which the dust sucked into the dust suction part 151 is transferred and which is partly disposed within the tool body 103, and a dust discharge port 174 through which the dust transferred through the dust transfer passage 153 is discharged to the outside. Further, the dust discharge port 174 is disposed on the opposite side of the motor 111 from the tool bit 119.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Hajime Takeuchi
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Patent number: 8174180Abstract: A light emitting device 1 includes a light emitting diode, a phosphor layer containing phosphors that emit a visible light by being excited by a light emitted from the light emitting diode, and a reflector disposed to surround the light emitting diode. A portion of 50% or more in an area ratio of a reflecting surface of the reflector is formed as a scattering surface with a mean square inclination (?q) (0.1 mm) in a range of not less than 0.003 nor more than 0.03.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Materials Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuo Inoue, Hajime Takeuchi, Yasumasa Ooya, Toshio Shimaoogi, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Patent number: 8167054Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide an effective technique for a motor support structure of a power tool to reduce vibration. A representative reciprocating power tool may include a tool body, a tool bit, a grip, a motor, a tool bit side bearing, a grip side bearing, a tool bit side bearing housing, a grip and an elastic element. The tool bit side bearing housing houses the tool bit side bearing, while the grip side bearing housing houses the grip side bearing. The elastic element is disposed between the grip side bearing housing and the grip wherein the grip side bearing housing is elastically supported by the grip via the elastic element. According to the invention, because the grip is adapted to support the grip side bearing housing via the elastic element and the rigidity of the grip side bearing housing can be increased and vibration of the grip side bearing housing can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Keiji Nakashima, Takayuki Tahara, Hajime Takeuchi, Ryo Sunazuka
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Publication number: 20120067605Abstract: A technique for improving the vibration-proof effect and usability of a handle is provided in an impact tool. An impact tool is provided which linearly drives a tool bit in an axial direction thereof to cause the tool bit to perform a predetermined hammering operation. The impact tool includes a motor, a striking mechanism part, that is driven by the motor and causes the tool bit to linearly move, a tool body that houses the motor and the striking mechanism part, an outer shell housing that covers at least part of the tool body and is connected to the tool body via a vibration-proofing first elastic element so as to be movable in a direction transverse to the axial direction of the tool bit with respect to the tool body, and a handle which is designed to be held by a user and connected to an opposite side of the outer shell housing from the tool bit via a vibration-proofing second elastic element so as to be movable in the axial direction of the tool bit with respect to the outer shell housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Hajime Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20120062821Abstract: In a embodiment, a white LED for a backlight of a liquid crystal display device conforming to the EBU standard includes an ultraviolet (purple) light-emitting element, and a phosphor layer which contains 1 to 10 wt % of a green phosphor including a divalent europium-activated silicate phosphor, 40 to 80 wt % of a blue phosphor including at least one selected from a divalent europium-activated halo-phosphate phosphor and a divalent europium-activated aluminate phosphor, and 10 to 50 wt % of a red phosphor including at least one selected from a europium-activated lanthanum oxysulfide phosphor and a europium-activated yttrium oxysulfide phosphor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicants: TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD., Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hajime TAKEUCHI, Ryo Sakai, Tsutomu Ishii, Yasumasa Ooya, Yasuhiro Shirakawa
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Patent number: 8087474Abstract: A hammer drill having a clutch pin and a clutch mechanism is provided. By switching the clutch mechanism, a selection can be made between a hammer drill mode and a hammer mode. The clutch pin is configured to be slidable to a sliding position where the clutch pin runs through the reduction shaft so as to be capable of protruding beyond the reduction shaft, and at the sliding position, the clutch pin engages with an engagement hole provided on the tool holder side so that a rotation of the tool holder can be locked, whereby in the hammer mode, a selection can be further made between a neutral state where the clutch pin does not engage with the engagement hole and a rotation locked state where the clutch pin engages with the engagement hole.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: January 3, 2012Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yasutoshi Shinma, Keiji Nakashima, Hajime Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20110308830Abstract: A power tool that performs a predetermined operation by using a tool bit and has a grip part and a dust suction device. The dust suction device has a dust suction part that extends in an axial direction of the tool bit and sucks and collects dust generated during operation at a tip of the tool bit, and the dust suction part can be moved between a first position in which the dust suction part covers a bit tip of the tool bit and a second position in which the bit tip is exposed. The dust suction device further has an operation mode switching mechanism that is capable of switching between a first operation mode in which the dust suction part is allowed to move between the first and second positions and a second operation mode in which the dust suction part is locked in the second position, and the operation mode switching mechanism is provided in a region of the grip part or its vicinity such that it can be operated with a user's hand holding the grip part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2009Publication date: December 22, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Masanori Furusawa, Yoshihiro Kasuya, Hajime Takeuchi
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Publication number: 20110290517Abstract: A representative impact tool includes a bit holding device 104 that includes an elongate tool holder 151 having a bit holding hole 151a into which a tool bit 119 is removably inserted, an outer shell component 159 which forms an outer shell of the bit holding device 104 and is mounted onto a front end portion of the tool holder 151 by moving it from the front end of the tool holder 151 toward the tool body, a stopper 171 which is fitted onto the tool holder 151 such that it is prevented from moving in a longitudinal direction of the tool holder, and serves to prevent the outer shell component 159 from becoming detached from the front end of the tool holder 151, and an opening prevention member 175 which is disposed outward of a center position of the stopper 171 in the longitudinal direction of the tool holder 151 and opposed to an outer surface of the stopper 171 in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the tool holder, and prevents the stopper 171 from opening in the direction transverse tType: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: MAKITA CORPORATIONInventors: Hajime TAKEUCHI, Masanori FURUSAWA, Naoki SOEDA
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Patent number: 8032990Abstract: A handle for a tool includes a handle body, an operation device and a pair of clamp halves. The operation device has an operation member operable by an operator. At least one of the clamp halves can move relative to the handle body along an axis. As the operation member is operated, the one of the handle halves moves along the axis, so that the distance between the handle halves can be changed for clamping or releasing a portion of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: October 11, 2011Assignee: Makita CorporationInventors: Yasutoshi Shinma, Keiji Nakashima, Hajime Takeuchi