Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Iwai

Hiroshi Iwai 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: 20160072191
    Abstract: An array antenna device includes a plurality of slot array antennas which are arranged and each of which includes a plurality of slot antennas and a radiation surface, which is formed to be conformal, and a plurality of waveguides each of which supplies respective power to each of the slot array antennas. After bodies of the waveguides are formed by a resin molding method, surface treatment is performed with respect to inner surfaces of the waveguides with plating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: HIROSHI IWAI, JUNJI SATO, RYOSUKE SHIOZAKI, JIRO HIROKAWA, MIAO ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20160043187
    Abstract: A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer provided on the first semiconductor layer and having a wider band gap than the first semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode provided on the second semiconductor layer, wherein at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode includes a plurality of protrusions on a side in contact with the second semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode provided between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Wataru Saito, Kazuo Tsutsui, Hiroshi Iwai, Kuniyuki Kakushima, Hitoshi Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9214626
    Abstract: A resistance change memory device with a high ON/OFF radio can be provided according to an embodiment includes a first electrode containing a first element, a resistance change layer provided on the first electrode and containing an oxide of the first element, an oxygen conductive layer provided on the resistance change layer, containing a second element and oxygen, having oxygen ion conductivity, and having a relative permittivity higher than a relative permittivity of the resistance change layer, and a second electrode provided on the oxygen conductive layer. The resistance change layer undergoes dielectric breakdown earlier than the oxygen conductive layer when a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode is continuously increased from zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignees: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Kakushima, Chunmeng Dou, Parhat Ahmet, Hiroshi Iwai, Yoshinori Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20150348583
    Abstract: A disk drive device of the present disclosure includes a hub including a cylindrical portion with which a recording disk is to be engaged, and fixed with an annular magnet, a base including a support which supports a stator core including coils, and, a bottom which is integral with the support and which faces the coils in an axial direction, a fluid bearing mechanism supporting the hub in a manner freely rotatable relative to the base, and an annular member fixed to an inner circumference of the cylindrical portion of the hub and including a first part that is present in an area where the base and the magnet face with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECH. CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Mikie KUMAKI, Hiroshi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20150213833
    Abstract: In a rotating device, a recording disk is mounted on a hub. A base rotatably supports the hub via a bearing unit. A core is fixed to the base with a ring portion and a plurality of teeth, with coils wound there around. The bearing unit includes a cylindrical portion that surrounds a radial dynamic pressure groove. The base includes an integrated surrounding portion protruding toward the hub, with the ring portion glued there around. The base further includes an integrated increasing-thickness portion arranged outside of the surrounding portion such that the increasing-thickness portion becomes thicker the closer it is to the surrounding portion. The cylindrical portion is surrounded by the surrounding portion, the surrounding portion is surrounded by the increasing-thickness portion, and a surface of the increasing-thickness portion at least partly overlaps the radial dynamic pressure groove in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Takuji YAMADA, Susumu ANDO, Hiroshi IWAI
  • Patent number: 9030775
    Abstract: In a disk drive device, a magnetic recording disk is mounted on a hub. A base rotatably supports the hub via a bearing unit. The base has a ring-shaped wall that surrounds the bearing unit and that protrudes towards the hub. A laminated core is fixed to the base. The laminated core has a ring portion and twelve teeth that radially outwardly extend from the ring portion. Coils are wound around the twelve teeth. The base includes an increasing-thickness portion formed so that the less the distance between a part of the increasing-thickness portion and the ring-shaped wall is, the thicker the part of the increasing-thickness portion becomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Takuji Yamada, Susumu Ando, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8995084
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member with a first upper surface and a second lower surface, a hub, a bearing unit arranged on the base member that rotatably supports the hub, a spindle drive unit that drives the hub to rotate, and a wiring member arranged on the second surface of the base member. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole with coil wound around, and a magnet opposed thereto. The base member includes a wire hole through which a wire is placed, with a first opening on the first surface and a second opening on the second surface. A concaved area on the second surface includes a lower slope, axially between the concaved area and the second opening on which a wiring member is arranged. The wire is connected to the wiring member, radially outside of an outer diameter of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Publication number: 20150083987
    Abstract: A resistance change memory device with a high ON/OFF ratio can be provided. A resistance change memory device according to an embodiment includes a first electrode containing a first element, a resistance change layer provided on the first electrode and containing an oxide of the first element, an oxygen conductive layer provided on the resistance change layer, containing a second element and oxygen, having oxygen ion conductivity, and having a relative permittivity higher than a relative permittivity of the resistance change layer, and a second electrode provided on the oxygen conductive layer. The resistance change layer undergoes dielectric breakdown earlier than the oxygen conductive layer when a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode is continuously increased from zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicants: TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TOSHIBA MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniyuki Kakushima, Chunmeng Dou, Parhat Ahmet, Hiroshi Iwai, Yoshinori Kataoka
  • Publication number: 20150086142
    Abstract: A rotating device includes a shaft body including a portion extending in an axial direction, and a bearing body which retains a part of the shaft body, is relatively rotatable to the shaft body, and is provided with a groove formed part having an inner circumference formed with a fluid dynamic pressure generating groove. The bearing body includes, at the groove formed part, a slanted plating layer having a plating thickness gradually becoming thick toward an external side in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECH. CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi IKEDA, Hiroshi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20140362471
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TASHIRO, Takanori Watanabe, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8902542
    Abstract: In a disk drive device, a magnetic recording disk is to be mounted on a hub. A base plate rotatably supports the hub through a bearing unit. A laminated core is formed by laminating magnetic steel sheets, the laminated core having a ring portion and a plurality of teeth that extend radially from the ring portion, with coils wound around the plurality of teeth. A projecting portion is formed along the bearing unit, which axially extends toward the inner surface of the hub and by which the core is supported. The laminated core is fixed by sandwiching the ring portion between a seat formed on the base and an extending portion extending radially outward from the projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagai, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8848312
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The base member includes a wire hole through which a drawing line of a wire for forming the coil passes, and a concavity formed at a bottom surface of the base member at least partly arranged radially outside the outer diameter portion of the magnet. The drawing line passes through the wire hole and is arranged along the bottom surface of the base member and connected to a wiring member at the concavity beyond the outer diameter portion of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Hiroshi Iwai, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 8773813
    Abstract: A disk drive device is provided with a recording disk, a base member, a bearing unit, and a hub member. In a marking step, unbalance information indicating the displacement of the center of gravity of the hub member with respect to the rotation center of the hub member is acquired, and an information mark containing the unbalance information is applied to at least the hub member or the base member. In an installing and adjustment step, the unbalance information is read form the information mark, and the position for installing the recording disk in an outer cylinder part is determined in accordance with the unbalance information so as to install the recording disk on the hub member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagai, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8754820
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus includes a first feeding point and a second feeding point provided at respective positions on an antenna element. The antenna element is excited through the first and second feeding points simultaneously so as to operate as a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion simultaneously, the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion correspond to the first and second feeding points, respectively. The antenna element further includes, between the first and second feeding points, an electromagnetic coupling adjuster for making an amount of isolation between the first and second antenna portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwai, Atsushi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sakata, Satoru Amari
  • Patent number: 8665558
    Abstract: A disk drive device includes: a base member; a hub on which a recording disk is placed; a bearing unit arranged on the base member for rotatably supporting the hub; and a spindle drive unit for rotationally driving the hub, wherein the spindle drive unit includes a stator core having salient poles, a coil wound around each of the salient poles, and a magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles arranged in a circumferential direction opposed to the salient poles, the hub includes an outer cylindrical portion formed of a magnetic material and engaged with an inner periphery of the recording disk, and an inner cylindrical portion fixing an outer periphery of the magnet, the number of magnetic poles is an even number in a range of 10 to 16, and the number of salient poles is a multiple of 3 in a range of 12 to 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Mitsuo Kodama, Hiroshi Iwai, Akira Nishio
  • Patent number: 8631677
    Abstract: A thrust dynamic pressure pattern is marked on a rotating member or fixed member set on a rest table. A pressure for marking is applied to a member to be marked in a cycle of applying and releasing the pressure, and a supplemental force for keeping the member to be marked, still is separately applied. According to the present embodiment, a rotating device can be provided that narrows down a bearing gap and improves the efficiency of raking up a lubricant so as to increase the dynamic pressure by reducing the deformation of the shape of the protrusions of a thrust dynamic pressure pattern and the variation in the height of the protrusions when forming the thrust dynamic pressure pattern in a method of producing a rotating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Fukuzako, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8625232
    Abstract: A disk drive device is provided with a base, a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted, a bearing unit arranged on the base and configured to rotatably support the hub, and a spindle drive unit configured to rotatably drive the hub. A circumferential ring wall portion is arranged on the outer circumference of the base and formed of a plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Yoshio Hirata, Hiroshi Iwai
  • Patent number: 8619387
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a clamper including an end that defines a central hole, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The hub is formed of magnetic material and includes an exterior cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an interior cylinder portion to which the outer diameter portion of the magnet is fixed. The hub is provided with a fitting portion located radially outside of a space in the bearing unit for storing lubricant and configured to be fitted to the end of the clamper that defines the central hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Hiroshi Iwai, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20130342935
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomoyuki TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20130222946
    Abstract: In a disk drive device, a magnetic recording disk is to be mounted on a hub. A base plate rotatably supports the hub through a bearing unit. A projecting portion is formed on the upper surface of the base plate having a cylindrical side surface centered along the rotational axis of the motor. A laminated core is formed by laminating magnetic steel sheets and has a ring portion and a plurality of teeth radially extending from the ring portion. The disk drive device has a tubular vibration-deadening ring. The outer surface of the vibration-deadening ring is press-fitted into the ring portion at least at a position, along the motor's rotational axis, closer to the upper surface than to the lower surface of the laminated core; and the inner surface of the vibration-deadening ring is fixed to the side surface of the projecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Nagai, Hiroshi Iwai