Patents by Inventor Kentaro Tomioka

Kentaro Tomioka 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: 20050217828
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump housing, a rotary unit, and a motor to rotate the rotary unit. The pump housing has a heat receiving surface thermally coupled to a CPU, a pump chamber, and three mounting portions provided around the pump chamber. The rotary unit is provided in the pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Yukihiko Hata
  • Patent number: 6917521
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided with a housing containing a heat generating component, and a blower unit contained in the housing and used to cool the heat generating component. The blower unit includes an impeller, and a casing containing the impeller. The casing has suction ports, a chamber located around the impeller and a discharge port located at the downstream end of the chamber. The chamber has a depth gradually increased radially away from the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Kenichi Ishikawa, Katsumi Hisano, Kei Matsuoka, Hideyuki Toma
  • Patent number: 6900990
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing which accommodates a heat generating component. A heat receiving portion thermally connected to the heat generating component is connected to a heat radiating portion via a circulating path through which a liquid coolant is circulated. The housing accommodates a heat sink which is separate from the heat radiating portion, and a fan. Part of heat from the heat generating component conducted to the heat receiving portion is conducted to the heat sink via a heat transferring member. The fan blows a cooling air against the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kentaro Tomioka
  • Publication number: 20050079394
    Abstract: In a housing of a fuel cell are arranged an electromotive unit, a fuel tank, a first piping through which the fuel is circulated between the electromotive unit and the fuel tank, an air supply section which supplies air to the electromotive unit, and a second piping through which products from the electromotive unit are discharged. The first and second pipings are provided with first and second radiator sections, respectively. A cooling fan is located between the first and second radiator sections and circulates air through the radiator sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Kei Matsuoka, Hiroaki Hirazawa, Yuusuke Sato, Eiichi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20050079398
    Abstract: In a housing of a fuel cell are arranged an electromotive unit, a fuel tank, an anode passage through which the fuel is circulated between the electromotive unit and the fuel tank, an air supply section which supplies air to the electromotive unit, and a cathode passage through which products from the electromotive unit are discharged. The cathode passage has a first passage extending from the electromotive unit, branch passages which diverge from the first passage, a reservoir portion which communicates with the first passage and lower ends of the branch passages and is stored with water discharged from the first passage and water condensed in the branch passages, and a recovery passage which guides the water stored in the reservoir portion into the fuel tank. A radiator section is provided on the branch passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Kei Matsuoka, Hiroaki Hirazawa, Yuusuke Sato, Eiichi Sakaue
  • Publication number: 20050069742
    Abstract: A generator section and a control section are arranged in a housing of a fuel cell. The generator section has an electromotive unit which generates power based on a chemical reaction, a fuel tank which contains a fuel, a fuel circulation passage through which the fuel is circulated between the electromotive unit and the fuel tank, and a radiator section which cools the fuel circulation passage. The control section has a heat generating electronic component and controls the operation of the generator section. A part of the fuel circulation passage is connected thermally to the heat generating electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Yuusuke Sato, Nobuyasu Tajima
  • Publication number: 20050069744
    Abstract: A fuel cell has an electromotive unit which generates power based on a chemical reaction, a fuel tank which contains a fuel and supplies the fuel to the electromotive unit, and an air supply section which supplies air to the electromotive unit. The electromotive unit has cells laminated to one another and each having an anode and a cathode opposed to each other with an electrically conductive membrane therebetween, a pair of end faces situated individually at two opposite ends of the cells in the direction of lamination thereof and extending across the lamination direction, and a plurality of side faces extending in the cell lamination direction. Radiator fins for cooling the electromotive unit are arranged on the side faces not including the end faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Kei Matsuoka, Norihiro Tomimatsu
  • Publication number: 20050069432
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a housing having a heat generating component, a heat radiating portion which radiates heat generated by the heat generating component, a pump unit having an impeller and a heat receiving portion thermally connected to the heat generating component, wherein the pump unit supplies liquid to the heat radiating portion by rotating the impeller, and a circulation path which circulates the liquid between the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion and transfers the heat generated by the heat generating component to the heat radiating portion through the liquid. The pump unit is arranged such that the center of the impeller is deviated from the center of the heat generating component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Kentaro Tomioka
  • Patent number: 6847524
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a housing containing a heat-generating component, and a cooling unit. The cooling unit includes a heat sink thermally connected to the heat-generating component, a first air passage for guiding air outside the housing to the heat sink and guiding air heated by heat exchange with the heat sink to the outside of the housing, and a second air passage for guiding air within the housing to the outside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 6845011
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing incorporates a pump. The second housing incorporates a heat-radiating portion. The pump has a heat-receiving portion. A circulation path for circulating liquid coolant connects the pump and the heat-radiating portion. The circulation path has two pipes. The first pipe connects the pump to the coolant inlet port of the heat-radiating portion. The second pipe connects the pump to the coolant outlet port of the heat-radiating portion. The first and second pipes extend from two adjacent points on the pump, toward a midpoint between the coolant inlet port and coolant outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Katsumi Hisano, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Teruo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20050007739
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic apparatus comprises a main unit, a display unit and a support unit. The main unit contains a heat-generating component and a heat-receiving portion. The heat-receiving portion is thermally connected to the heat-generating component. The support unit supports the display unit on the main unit and contains a heat-radiating portion that radiates the heat of the heat-generating component. The heat of the heat-generating component is transmitted to a heat-transferring medium and transferred to the heat-radiating portion through the heat-transferring medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Yukihiko Hata, Kentaro Tomioka, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Kusaka
  • Publication number: 20050007735
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus is provided with a circulating path used to circulate liquid coolant between a heat-receiving portion thermally connected to a CPU that generates heat and a heat-radiating portion that radiates heat generated in the CPU, so that the heat generated in the CPU is transferred to the heat-radiating portion by the liquid coolant. A reserve-tank is disposed in the circulating path and stores a portion of the liquid coolant for a reserve function. The circulating path includes a first tube to return the liquid coolant to the reserve-tank, and a second tube to lead the liquid coolant out from the reserve-tank. The second tube includes an inflow portion through which the liquid coolant inside the reserve-tank flows in, and the inflow portion is positioned at or near the center inside the reserve-tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Yukihiko Hata, Kentaro Tomioka, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Kusaka
  • Publication number: 20050006062
    Abstract: A cooling unit including a fan, a plurality of heat-radiating fins and a tube. Liquid coolant that has absorbed heat from a heat-radiating component is made to circulate in the tube. The fan has an impeller. The draws cooling air at its center part and expels the cooling air at its periphery. The heat-radiating fins oppose the periphery of the impeller. The tube is thermally connected to the heat-radiating fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Yukihiko Hata, Kentaro Tomioka, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto
  • Patent number: 6833992
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a heat-generating component, a main unit having a heat-receiving portion thermally connected to the heat-generating component, and a display unit supported by the main unit. The display unit incorporates a heat-radiating portion which radiates the heat of the heat-generating component. A circulating path connects the heat-receiving portion and the heat-radiating portion and circulates liquid coolant. The heat-radiating portion includes a first radiator and a second radiator. The radiators are connected in series in a direction in which the liquid coolant flows. The second radiator is located at the downstream of the liquid coolant, and is exposed outside the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kusaka, Kentaro Tomioka, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20040196628
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprising a housing, a first heat conductor, a second heat conductor, and a circulation path. The housing contains a first heat-generating component and a second heat-generating component. The first heat conductor and the second heat conductor are provided in the housing. The first heat conductor is interposed between the first heat-generating component and the second heat-generating component and thermally connected to the first and second heat-generating components. The second heat conductor faces the first heat conductor in the housing. The circulation path circulates liquid coolant between the first heat conductor and the second heat conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Katsumi Hisano, Kentaro Tomioka, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Teruo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20040188069
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus that comprises a housing, and a circulating path. A heat-generating component is contained in the housing. Liquid coolant for cooling the heat-generating component flows through the circulating path. The circulating path has a first connecting end and a second connecting end connected to the first connecting end. The junction between the first connecting end and the second connecting end is covered with a coolant-absorbent member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Katsumi Hisano
  • Publication number: 20040114324
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a heat-generating component, a main unit having a heat-receiving portion thermally connected to the heat-generating component, and a display unit supported by the main unit. The display unit incorporates a heat-radiating portion which radiates the heat of the heat-generating component. A circulating path connects the heat-receiving portion and the heat-radiating portion and circulates liquid coolant. The heat-radiating portion includes a first radiator and a second radiator. The radiators are connected in series in a direction in which the liquid coolant flows. The second radiator is located at the downstream of the liquid coolant, and is exposed outside the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Kiroyuki Kusaka, Kentaro Tomioka, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto
  • Publication number: 20040070942
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a heat-generating component therein, a heat receiving portion thermally connected to the heat-generating component, a heat radiating portion to radiate heat generated by the heat-generating component, and a circulation pipe to circulate a liquid coolant between the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion. A part of the circulation pipe has pipes different from the other part in inside diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Katsumi Hisano
  • Publication number: 20040070935
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus comprises a first housing and a second housing. A junction between the first and second housings has three passages that connect an interior of the first housing and an interior of the second housing. A cable in which electric signals flow extends through one of the three passages. Two pipes are provided. The first pipe supplies liquid coolant heated in a heat-receiving portion. The second pipe supplies the liquid coolant cooled in a heat-radiating portion. The first and second pipes extend through the remaining two of the three passages, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Katsumi Hisano, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Teruo Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20040070940
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing incorporates a pump. The second housing incorporates a heat-radiating portion. The pump has a heat-receiving portion. A circulation path for circulating liquid coolant connects the pump and the heat-radiating portion. The circulation path has two pipes. The first pipe connects the pump to the coolant inlet port of the heat-radiating portion. The second pipe connects the pump to the coolant outlet port of the heat-radiating portion. The first and second pipes extend from two adjacent points on the pump, toward a midpoint between the coolant inlet port and coolant outlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kentaro Tomioka, Katsumi Hisano, Tomonao Takamatsu, Mitsuyoshi Tanimoto, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Teruo Kinoshita