Patents by Inventor Kenji Yasui
Kenji Yasui 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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Publication number: 20090025655Abstract: First, an emission amount of nitrogen oxide can be decreased to zero as much as possible and, an emission amount of carbon monoxide is decreased to a permissible range. Second, energy saving by combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0 is realized. Third, air ratio control is performed stably in a combustion region at a low air ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2007Publication date: January 29, 2009Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.Inventors: Osamu Tanaka, Yukihiro Tokunaga, Yusuke Okamoto, Kenji Yasui
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Publication number: 20070289874Abstract: In this method for producing an anti-reflective film, pores are formed on a surface of a polymer molding material to continuously change a refractive index and then reduce reflectance, in which anodic oxidized porous alumina, in which pores having a tapered shape and whose pore diameter continuously changes, are formed by repeating anodic oxidation at about the same formation voltage and pore diameter enlargement treatment, is used as a mold, or a stamper, which is produced by using the anodic oxidized porous aluminum as a mold, is used as a mold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2006Publication date: December 20, 2007Applicant: Kanagawa Academy of Science and TechnologyInventors: Hideki Masuda, Kenji Yasui, Yasushi Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20070231634Abstract: Provided is a hydrogen generator which is capable of reducing a size of an entire apparatus and reducing a running cost by utilizing heat of a heat exchanger (1) for hydrogen reforming in a reformer (2), and which can particularly preferably be used in a facility such as a hospital, a restaurant, or a hotel utilizing both steam and electricity, and a fuel cell system using the hydrogen generator. The hydrogen generator includes the reformer (2) for generating hydrogen H2 from a fuel gas G and steam H2O incorporated in a fuel gas passage (12) of the heat exchanger (1) provided with a water pipe (13). The hydrogen generator utilizes a part of heat of the heat exchanger (1) for hydrogen reforming performed in the reformer (2). The hydrogen generator includes the reformer (2), a converter (3) for generating hydrogen from carbon monoxide generated in the reformer and steam, and a CO remover (4) for removing a carbon monoxide gas generated in the converter (3).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Hideo Furukawa, Osamu Tanaka, Kenji Yasui
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Publication number: 20070103952Abstract: A booster transformer 100 for driving a magnetron includes a bobbin 11 on which at least a first winding 13 and a secondary winding 15 are wound and a core 19 inserted through the center of the bobbin 11, wherein a winding area of the secondary winding 15 is divided into two areas while interposing a partition wall 23, and an outer diameter d of a wire material of the secondary winding 15 and a width t1 of each of the divided winding areas are so set as to satisfy the relation t1<11d.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2004Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Sakai, Keiichi Satou, Kenji Yasui, Haruo Suenaga, Hisashi Morikawa
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Patent number: 6982623Abstract: In a step-up transformer for magnetron driving in which two ferrite cores are opposed to each other with a gap G interposed therebetween, thereby forming a magnetic circuit including a middle core section, an outer core section and a coupling core section for coupling the middle core section and the outer core section, and a primary winding and a secondary winding are arranged to surround the middle core respectively, a sectional area of the middle core is increased, a number of winds in a radial direction of each of the primary winding and the secondary winding is increased and a number of winds in an axial direction is decreased, and the primary winding and the secondary winding are provided close to each other and a ratio of the sectional area of the middle core to that of the outer core is decreased to be 2:1 or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Nifco Inc.Inventors: Keiichi Satou, Shinichi Sakai, Kenji Yasui, Haruo Suenaga
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Patent number: 6970065Abstract: It is an object to decrease an occupied space in a printed board to carry out space saving and to reduce the size of a unit without sacrificing the performance of a transformer and increasing a cost. A transformer 11 is constituted by a bobbin 13 having at least a primary winding 15 and a secondary winding 17 wound therearound and a core 21, and the side surface of the bobbin 13 is provided with a component holding section for holding high-voltage components such as a capacitor 31 and a diode 33 which constitute a voltage doubler rectifying circuit for rectifying a high voltage having a high frequency from the secondary winding 15.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Sakai, Keiichi Satou, Kenji Yasui, Haruo Suenaga, Hisashi Morikawa, Yoshitaka Oda, Nobuo Shirokawa
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Patent number: 6956456Abstract: The present invention provides a boosting transformer for microwave oven, which is low in high-frequency loss, hardly saturated, small in size and easy to produce. The boosting transformer includes a rod-like ferrite core; and primary, secondary and heater windings wound around the rod-like ferrite core and piled up side by side in a direction of an axis of the rod-like ferrite core. It also includes a metal core formed from a long metal thin plate rolled by a plurality of times into a square-ring having one inner diameter larger than each of outer sizes of the primary, secondary and heater windings and the other inner diameter larger than a total size of the three windings piled up side by side, the metal core being arranged opposite to the rod-like ferrite core through a gap so as to be fitted toward the rod-like ferrite core from the outside of the primary, secondary and heater windings.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi
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Patent number: 6903319Abstract: A high-frequency dielectric heating power control method comprises: detecting the input current of an inverter circuit for rectifying the voltage of an AC power source to convert the rectified voltage into an AC voltage of a predetermined frequency; rectifying the detected current to determine an input current waveform; shaping the waveform to determine a reference waveform; determining the difference between the input current waveform and the reference waveform; and mixing the differential information and the current control output by a mix circuit to convert the mixed one into the drive output of a switching transistor of the inverter circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiaki Ishio
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Patent number: 6891738Abstract: A Hall element (H) is arranged at an air gap of a choke coil (30). Power semiconductor elements (P1) and (P2) are attached to a heat radiation fin (61) directly by soldering. A rectangular-hollow-shaped metal core (27) is formed by winding a long metal thin plate multiple turns into a rectangular-hollow-shape and is fitted to a bar shaped ferrite core (26) from outside of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22). The inner diameter of one side of the rectangular-hollow-shape core is larger than both outer diameters of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22) and the inner diameter of the other side of the rectangular-hollow-shape core is larger than the height of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22). The rectangular-hollow-shape (27) core is arranged such that an air gap (G) exists between the rectangular-hollow-shape core (27) and the bar shaped ferrite core (26).Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2002Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi
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Publication number: 20040239464Abstract: The present invention provides a boosting transformer for microwave oven, which is low in high-frequency loss, hardly saturated, small in size and easy to produce. The boosting transformer includes a rod-like ferrite core; and primary, secondary and heater windings wound around the rod-like ferrite core and piled up side by side in a direction of an axis of the rod-like ferrite core. It also includes a metal core formed from a long metal thin plate rolled by a plurality of times into a square-ring having one inner diameter larger than each of outer sizes of the primary, secondary and heater windings and the other inner diameter larger than a total size of the three windings piled up side by side, the metal core being arranged opposite to the rod-like ferrite core through a gap so as to be fitted toward the rod-like ferrite core from the outside of the primary, secondary and heater windings.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi
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Publication number: 20040145929Abstract: A Hall element (H) is arranged a choke coil (30) having an air gap at the core portion thereof. Power semiconductor elements (P1) and (P2) are attached at a heat radiation fin (61) directly by soldering. A rectangular-hollow-shaped core (27) formed by a metal core winding a long metal thin plate plural turns in rectangular-hollow-shape is fitted to the bar shaped ferrite core (26) from outside of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22). The inner diameter of one side of the rectangular-hollow-shape is larger than both outer diameters of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22) and the inner diameter of the other side of the rectangular-hollow-shape is larger than piled length of the primary winding (21) and the secondary winding (22). At the above state, the rectangular-hollow-shape (27) core is arranged having an air gap (G).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2003Publication date: July 29, 2004Inventors: Makoto Mihara, Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi
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Publication number: 20040113740Abstract: It is an object to decrease an occupied space in a printed board to carry out space saving and to reduce the size of a unit without sacrificing the performance of a transformer and increasing a cost.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Sakai, Keiichi Satou, Kenji Yasui, Haruo Suenaga, Hisashi Morikawa, Yoshitaka Oda, Nobuo Shirokawa
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Publication number: 20040108932Abstract: In a step-up transformer for magnetron driving in which two ferrite cores are opposed to each other with a gap G interposed therebetween, thereby forming a magnetic circuit including a middle core section, an outer core section and a coupling core section for coupling the middle core section and the outer core section, and a primary winding and a secondary winding are arranged to surround the middle core respectively, a sectional area of the middle core is increased, a number of winds in a radial direction of each of the primary winding and the secondary winding is increased and a number of winds in an axial direction is decreased, and the primary winding and the secondary winding are provided close to each other and a ratio of the sectional area of the middle core to that of the outer core is decreased to be 2:1 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2003Publication date: June 10, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Satou, Shinichi Sakai, Kenji Yasui, Haruo Suenaga
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Publication number: 20040074900Abstract: A high-frequency induction heating power control method comprises: detecting the input current of an inverter circuit for rectifying the voltage of an AC power source to convert the rectified voltage into an AC voltage of a predetermined frequency; rectifying the detected current to determine an input current waveform; shaping the waveform to determine a reference waveform; determining the difference between the input current waveform and the reference waveform; and mixing the differential information and the current control output by a mix circuit to convert the mixed one into the drive output of a switching transistor of the inverter circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiaki Ishio
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Patent number: 6624579Abstract: It is provided a magnetron drive power supply wherein a series connection body of first and second semiconductor switch elements that can be brought into reverse conduction and a series connection body of first and second diodes are connected in parallel, first and second capacitors are connected in parallel to the first and second diodes, a series circuit of a commercial power supply and a primary winding of a high-voltage transformer is connected between a connection point of the first and second semiconductor switch elements that can be brought into reverse conduction and a connection point of the first and second diodes, and output of a secondary winding of the high-voltage transformer energizes a magnetron through a high-voltage rectification circuit.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2002Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi, Yoshiaki Ishio, Hideki Omori, Kazuho Sakamoto, Makoto Mihara, Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Emiko Ishizaki, Hisashi Morikawa
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Publication number: 20020171374Abstract: It is provided a magnetron drive power supply wherein a series connection body of first and second semiconductor switch elements that can be brought into reverse conduction and a series connection body of first and second diodes are connected in parallel, first and second capacitors are connected in parallel to the first and second diodes, a series circuit of a commercial power supply and a primary winding of a high-voltage transformer is connected between a connection point of the first and second semiconductor switch elements that can be brought into reverse conduction and a connection point of the first and second diodes, and output of a secondary winding of the high-voltage transformer energizes a magnetron through a high-voltage rectification circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2002Publication date: November 21, 2002Inventors: Kenji Yasui, Takeshi Kitaizumi, Yoshiaki Ishio, Hideki Omori, Kazuho Sakamoto, Makoto Mihara, Haruo Suenaga, Hideaki Moriya, Emiko Ishizaki, Hisashi Morikawa
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Patent number: 6388899Abstract: The inverter circuit can be structured by a simple structure as follows: an inductive element (the primary winding) 23 whose one end is connected to a DC power source 21; the first capacitor 24 connected in parallel with it; a serial circuit of the second switching element 27 and the second capacitor 25; a common connection point to which the primary winding 23, the first capacitor 24, and the other end of the serial circuit are connected; and the first switching element 26 to open and close control between the DC power source 21 and the other portion, are provided, and a drive signal generating means (resistance) is connected between the control terminal of the second switching element 27 and the common connection point.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2001Date of Patent: May 14, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Haruo Suenaga, Yoshiaki Ishio, Kenji Yasui
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Patent number: 6362463Abstract: A high frequency heating apparatus including a circuit for driving a magnetron. A circuit comprises a leakage transformer, a second capacitor connected in series to primary coil of said leakage transformer, a second switching device connected in parallel with a series circuit of said primary coil and second capacitor, a first capacitor connected in parallel with said second switching device, and a first switching device connected in series to said second switching device. Under a structure of the present invention, the switching device and the leakage transformer, both being the key components of the circuit, may respectively be used in common either on a circuit of 200V-240V commercial power supply or on a circuit of 100V-120V commercial power supply. This enables volume production of the key components, which leads to a benefit of reduced cost of the components as well as the cost of heating apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 26, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Bessyo, Kenji Yasui, Kazuho Sakamoto, Makoto Mihara, Shinichi Sakai, Haruo Suenaga, Yoshiaki Ishio, Hiokaki Moriya, Hidetomo Nagata, Hideki Omori
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Patent number: 5977530Abstract: A switching device is employed in a power supply for driving a magnetron with lower withstand voltage and better controllability. A high frequency heating apparatus comprises a power supply, a leakage transformer connected to the power supply, a first switching device connected in series to a primary coil side of the leakage transformer, a first capacitor, a series circuit of a second capacitor and a second switching device, a driving circuit having an oscillator for driving the first switching device and the second switching device, a rectifier connected to a secondary coil side of the leakage transformer, and a magnetron connected to the rectifier. With this configuration, voltage applied to the first switching device can be clamped, and at the same time, the OFF time can be freely adjustable by the effect of the second capacitor and the second semiconductor switching device.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LtdInventors: Daisuke Bessho, Kenji Yasui, Yoshiaki Ishio, Haruo Suenaga, Hideki Omori, Makoto Mihara, Kazuho Sakamoto
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Patent number: 5789345Abstract: Glyphosate liquid formulations containing surfactants, especially of the amine type, often undergo a yellowish-brown discoloration on storage. This may be inhibited or prevented by incorporating a small amount of urea.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1997Date of Patent: August 4, 1998Assignee: Sankyo Company, LimitedInventors: Kenji Yasui, Kyuichi Tanaka