Patents by Inventor Kohei Yoshikawa

Kohei Yoshikawa 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: 20220005642
    Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil and the magnetic core, a leaf spring fitting for pressing the assembly toward an inner bottom surface of the case, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. Each of the winding portions is so arranged that an arrangement direction of the winding portions is along a depth direction of the case. The case includes an opening having a rectangular planar shape. The leaf spring fitting is arranged in a state curved toward the inner bottom surface by having both end parts of the leaf spring fitting directly pressed against parts of inner wall surfaces of the case facing each other in a long side direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA, Kazuhiro INABA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220005641
    Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel via a coupling portion; a magnetic core including inner core portions arranged inside the winding portions and a pair of outer core portions arranged outside the winding portions; a pair of holding members arranged so as to face end faces of the winding portions; and a molded resin portion covering at least a portion of outer peripheral surfaces of the outer core portions and fills spaces between inner peripheral surfaces of the winding portions and the inner core portions. The coil is a single continuous winding wire, the coupling portion is formed by bending back a portion of the winding wire, and one of the holding members on a side on which the coupling portion is arranged includes a recessed portion housing the coupling portion and an inward projection is arranged inside the coupling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Seiji Shitama, Akinori Ooishi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Naotoshi Furukawa, Kazuhiro Inaba
  • Publication number: 20210407723
    Abstract: A reactor includes an assembly formed by assembling a coil and a magnetic core, a case for accommodating the assembly inside, a grip member for sandwiching the assembly from the bottom plate portion side and the opening side inside the case, and a screw member for fixing the grip member to the bottom plate portion by penetrating into the case from outside of the bottom plate portion. The grip member includes a first piece to be held in contact with a surface of the assembly on the opening side, a second piece to be held in contact with a surface of the assembly on the bottom plate portion side, and a third piece connecting the first piece and the second piece in a depth direction of the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Takashi MISAKI, Seiji SHITAMA, Kazuhiro INABA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210398735
    Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a winding portion, and a magnetic core including an inner core portion to be arranged inside the winding portion and an outer core portion to be arranged outside the winding portion. The magnetic core includes a communication hole penetrating through the outer core portion and leading to the inner core portion, and a coupling shaft made of a composite material filled into the communication hole and coupling the inner core portion and the outer core portion. The composite material is obtained by dispersing a soft magnetic powder in a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Kohei YOSHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210398729
    Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil and the magnetic core, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The case includes a bottom plate portion on which the assembly is placed, a side wall portion for surrounding the assembly, and an opening facing the bottom plate portion and having a rectangular planar shape. The pair of winding portions are so arranged that a parallel direction is orthogonal to the bottom plate portion. The reactor includes a supporting member to be arranged along a short side direction of the opening. The supporting member includes end portions to be stopped in contact with facing inner surfaces of the side wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210398728
    Abstract: A reactor includes an assembly of a coil and a magnetic core, a case for accommodating the assembly inside, a sealing resin portion for at least partially sealing the assembly by being filled into the case, and a supporting portion to be fixed to the case in a cantilever manner. The case includes a bottom plate portion, and a side wall portion. The side wall portion includes a pair of short side portions and a pair of long side portions having different lengths along a circumferential direction of the case. The supporting portion includes a fixed end to be fixed to an end surface of the short side portion of the side wall portion, an overlapping region configured to overlap the outer core portion from above, and a free end not to be fixed to the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210304948
    Abstract: Provided is a reactor that includes a coil having a winding portion, a magnetic core having an inner core portion and an outer core portion, and a resin molded portion covering a surface of the magnetic core. The inner core portion is a single body having a non-separated structure, and includes a groove portion provided along a direction intersecting with the axial direction in a surface in the vicinity of an end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction. The resin molded portion includes an outer resin portion and an inner resin portion that covers the surface of the end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction and with which an inner portion of the groove portion is filled. The inner resin portion is continuous with the outer resin portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Akinori Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20210233694
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion; a magnetic core; and a case. The magnetic core includes a plurality of core pieces forming a closed magnetic circuit. The core pieces include two outer core pieces having a portion disposed outside the winding portion. The case includes a first and a second opposing faces are respectively opposed to outer edge faces of the outer core pieces, and a case inclined surface provided on at least one of the first and the second opposing faces. The case inclined surface is inclined such that a distance between the first opposing face and the second opposing face decreases from an opening side of the case toward an inner bottom face of the case, and a core inclined surface on the outer edge face side of the outer core piece is in surface contact with the case inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Seiji Shitama, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210233696
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a wound part, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and the outer core part. The holding member being a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part in the axial direction is inserted, the outer core part having an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes an outer retraining member pressing the outer core part against the holding member. The outer retraining member has a pressing piece pressing the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece extending from the pressing piece and having a distal end engaging the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210225577
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and an outer core part of the magnetic core. The holding member is a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part is inserted. The outer core part has an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes a core coupling member, coupling the outer core part and the inner core part, having a supporting piece supporting the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece having a distal end engaging a peripheral surface engaging part formed on a peripheral surface of the inner core part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Misaki, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11031176
    Abstract: Provided is a reactor that can prevent a temperature sensor from being attached to a wound portion of a coil in a wrong direction. The reactor includes a temperature sensor having a sensor main portion attached to an outer peripheral surface of a wound portion and a wire extending from the sensor main portion. A sensor housing portion houses the sensor main portion. The sensor main portion has a detection surface facing the wound portion and a projecting portion protruding from a back surface of the sensor main portion opposite of the detection surface. The sensor housing portion has a pair of side wall portions opposing respective side surfaces of the sensor main portion. A height of a portion of the sensor main portion that has the projecting portion is larger than a width of that portion and larger than the distance between the side wall portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Shitama, Akinori Ooishi, Hajime Kawaguchi, Junji Ido, Takashi Misaki, Kohei Yoshikawa, Shinichiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210159008
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion; a magnetic core including an inner core portion and an outer core portion disposed outside the winding portion; a resin cover housing at least a portion of the magnetic core; and an adhesive portion filling a gap between an outer circumferential surface of a housing portion of the magnetic core and an inner circumferential surface of the resin cover bonding the housing portion with the resin cover. The resin cover includes: a flange portion having a surface that comes into contact with an end face of the winding portion and a through hole; an outer cover portion having housing portion housing the outer core portion and an abutting portion that contacts a portion of the flange portion; and a protruding portion that forms the gap between an outer circumferential surface of the outer core portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Inaba, Masatoshi Koike, Yoshiki Numazawa
  • Publication number: 20210159011
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end surface of the winding portion and the outer core portion of the magnetic core, the holding member having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core portion of the magnetic core is inserted. One of the inner core portion and the outer core portion is a hybrid core composed of a powder compact and a resin core molded on an outer periphery of the powder compact, and the other of the inner core portion and the outer core portion is a hybrid core or a resin core. The resin core of the inner core portion and the resin core of the outer core portion are continuous with each other via the through hole of the holding member so as to form a seamless single body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Misaki, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210159009
    Abstract: A reactor including a magnetic core and a coil having a wound part, the magnetic core having an inner core part disposed inside the wound part and an outer core part disposed outside the wound part, is provided with a bolt coupling the inner core part and the outer core part, the bolt being constituted by a composite material formed by dispersing a soft magnetic powder in a resin and including a shaft part passing through the outer core part, the shaft part including a tip reaching the inner core part, and the inner core part and the outer core part respectively being an integrated member having an undivided structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20210098171
    Abstract: A reactor includes an assembly, stored in a case, including a coil and a magnetic core; an insertion member, having a type A durometer hardness of 50 or higher, that is stored side-by-side with the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that fills the case. The case includes a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The insertion member includes a leading end portion separated from the bottom portion via a gap. A space formed between the assembly and the case and between the insertion member and the case includes a first region provided between the bottom portion and the leading end portion and a second region that is a region other than the first region. The sealing resin portion includes a first resin portion that fills the first region and a second resin portion that fills at least a portion of the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Naotoshi Furukawa, Masaya Murashita
  • Publication number: 20210043368
    Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil; a magnetic core arranged inside of the wound portion and an outer core portion arranged outside of the wound portion; and a resin molded portion. An interval between the wound portion and the inner core portion differs in a peripheral direction of the wound portion. The reactor includes an electrically insulating material that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the narrowest, and a thick portion that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the widest and forms a portion of the inner resin portion. The proportion of the interval of the narrowest location with respect to the thermal conductivity is less than the proportion of the interval with respect to the thermal conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yamamoto, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10650953
    Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil having winding portions; a magnetic core including inner core portions and a pair of outer core portions sandwiching the inner core portions; end surface interposed members including main body portions between end surfaces of the winding portions and outer core portions, and resin filling holes communicating with interiors of the winding portions; inner resin portions where spaces between inner circumferential surfaces of the winding portions and inner core portions are filled; and outer resin portions covering part of the outer core portions and are connected to the inner resin portions through the resin filling holes. At least one of the pair of outer core portions and an end surface interposed member are formed integrally. The end surface interposed member includes a core holding portion extending to the outer core portion side and interposed between the core holding member and the main body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Takashi Misaki, Seiji Shitama, Tatsuo Hirabayashi, Shinichiro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20200126716
    Abstract: Provided is a reactor including a coil and a magnetic core that includes inner core portions arranged inside of a wound portions and outer core portions arranged outside of the wound portions. A sensor measures a physical amount that is related to a combined body of the coil and the magnetic core. A wiring locking portion locks a wiring of the sensor. The wiring locking portion includes a first claw member and a second claw member. A wiring path is formed inside a bent portion of the claw members. The second claw member is spaced apart from the first claw member a distance L between the leading end of the first claw member and the leading end of the second claw member in the Y direction is greater than 1 times the diameter of the wiring and less than or equal to 1.5 times the diameter of the wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicants: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Takashi Misaki, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Hajime Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10456743
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust-gas treatment equipment including: a reaction container filled with a gas capture material that captures a particular gas component, the reactor container emitting gas obtained by removing the particular gas component from supplied gas by reaction of the supplied gas with the gas capture material; a temperature measuring element disposed in the reaction container, the temperature measuring element measuring a temperature of the gas capture material in the reaction container; a moving unit that freely moves the temperature measuring element in a direction that is parallel to a flow of the supplied gas flowing in the reaction container; and a control unit that estimates a deterioration state of the gas capture material using temperatures of the gas capture material at a plurality of different positions in the reaction container, the temperatures being measured by the temperature measuring element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Masato Kaneeda, Hidehiro Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10456731
    Abstract: Disclosed is a CO2 concentration reducing device for separating and removing CO2 from a gas containing CO2 with a CO2 adsorbent, the CO2 concentration reducing device including: an adsorbent container which contains the CO2 adsorbent; and a heating unit which heats the CO2 adsorbent by an induction heating or a dielectric heating. Thus, a ventilation quantity can be reduced when CO2 accumulated in a room is removed, and an electric power required for the ventilation and the electric power required for air conditioning can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI CHEMICAL COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Masato Kaneeda, Hidehiro Nakamura, Toshiaki Shirasaka