Patents by Inventor Koji Mehara

Koji Mehara 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).

  • Patent number: 6702000
    Abstract: A blower is provided for effectively cooling heat generating parts in a casing of a personal computer and so on, with a heat sink apparatus using the blower and an electronic equipment using the heat sink apparatus. The blower comprises a fan and an outer frame. The outer frame of the fan is made of a highly thermally conductive material such as aluminum. A radiation board is fixed to or formed integrally with a lower surface of the outer frame. Heat generated from a heat generating device is conveyed through the radiation board to the outer frame. The blower is provided with radiation fins so that the heat conveyed to the outer frame is transferred to the radiation fins as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignees: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Kenji Suga, Kazuya Shibasaki, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 6529375
    Abstract: A heat sink unit comprising a substrate, a fan, driving means, a fin composed as a separate body from the substrate, and a cover. The cover has a first opening in a section facing the fan, and also forms a second opening with the substrate at one side of the cover. The fin is composed of a separate material from the substrate, and fixed to an opening provided in the substrate. A height from a bottom surface of a heat sink substrate to an upper surface of a cover at a section the fin is disposed is larger than that at a section where the fan is disposed. A thickness of a base of the fin is larger than a thickness of the heat sink substrate. Furthermore, an electronic apparatus of this invention has a heat sink unit of this invention disposed within the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Shinji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 6439299
    Abstract: A heatsink apparatus has a construction which produces a high heat-radiating effect even if the apparatus is designed to be compact or to have a small thickness. The heatsink apparatus includes a base plate to which a heat-generating body may be connected, a heat-radiating portion, and a fan mounted on the base plate. The heat-radiating portion includes plate-like members having main surfaces facing the base plated, and a fan mounted on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Hidefumi Koya
  • Publication number: 20020048147
    Abstract: A heat sink unit comprising a substrate, a fan, driving means, a fin composed as a separate body from the substrate, and a cover. The cover has a first opening in a section facing the fan, and also forms a second opening with the substrate at one side of the cover. The fin is composed of a separate material from the substrate, and fixed to an opening provided in the substrate. A height from a bottom surface of a heat sink substrate to an upper surface of a cover at a section the fin is disposed is larger than that at a section where the fan is disposed. A thickness of a base of the fin is larger than a thickness of the heat sink substrate. Furthermore, an electronic apparatus of this invention has a heat sink unit of this invention disposed within the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Shinji Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20020000308
    Abstract: A blower is provided for effectively cooling heat generating parts in a casing of a personal computer and so on, with a heat sink apparatus using the blower and an electronic equipment using the heat sink apparatus. The blower comprises a fan and an outer frame. The outer frame of the fan is made of a highly thermally conductive material such as aluminum. A radiation board is fixed to or formed integrally with a lower surface of the outer frame. Heat generated from a heat generating device is conveyed through the radiation board to the outer frame. The blower is provided with radiation fins so that the heat conveyed to the outer frame is transferred to the radiation fins as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Kenji Suga, Kazuya Shibasaki, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 6315031
    Abstract: A blower is provided for effectively cooling heat generating parts in a casing of a personal computer and so on, with a heat sink apparatus using the blower and an electronic equipment using the heat sink apparatus. The blower comprises a fan and an outer frame. The outer frame of the fan is made of a highly thermally conductive material such as aluminum. A radiation board is fixed to or formed integrally with a lower surface of the outer frame. Heat generated from a heat generating device is conveyed through the radiation board to the outer frame. The blower is provided with radiation fins so that the heat conveyed to the outer frame is transferred to the radiation fins as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Miyahara, Koji Mehara, Kenji Suga, Kazuya Shibasaki, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hironori Ito
  • Patent number: 5957659
    Abstract: A heat sink apparatus for cooling a highly heat-generative semiconductor device in which a base of a heat sink is made larger in volume in its central portion than in its peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Amou, Koji Mehara