Patents by Inventor Manabu Kawakami

Manabu Kawakami 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: 20240087777
    Abstract: A thermistor layer of the present invention is configured to be disposed in an electrical current path. The thermistor layer comprises a thermosensitive particle, a plurality of electro-conductive particles covering a surface of the thermosensitive particle, and a binder adhering the electro-conductive particles, the electro-conductive particles form an electro-conductive network, at least the surface of the thermosensitive particle is made of a thermoplastic resin, the thermoplastic resin softens at a temperature lower than a temperature at which the binder softens, and the thermistor layer is provided to become highly resistive due to softening and deformation of the thermoplastic resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nobuhiro TSUJI, Manabu MURATA, Hisashi KAWAKAMI, Yasuto IMAI, Yoshiro KOJIMA, Takao FUKUNAGA
  • Patent number: 9938194
    Abstract: An alumina-based filling sand for sliding nozzle comprising at least 50 wt % of mixed sand including 20 to 90 vol % of alumina sand and 80 to 10 vol % of silica sand, wherein the alumina sand has surface irregularities of 1.3 or less and comprises 50 wt % or more of an Al2O3 component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAKAWA SANGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Kawakami, Yoshikatsu Nishida
  • Publication number: 20170066689
    Abstract: An alumina-based filling sand for sliding nozzle comprising at least 50 wt % of mixed sand including 20 to 90 vol % of alumina sand and 80 to 10 vol % of silica sand, wherein the alumina sand has surface irregularities of 1.3 or less and comprises 50 wt % or more of an Al2O3 component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Manabu KAWAKAMI, Yoshikatsu NISHIDA
  • Patent number: 9219354
    Abstract: There is provided a main circuit switchgear that includes a breaker; a leg part that supports the breaker; a disconnector that is connected to the breaker; a leg part that supports the disconnector; a metal container that accommodates therein the breaker and the disconnector and includes a bottom plate in which an opening is provided at a position corresponding to a position of the leg part, where the leg part is fixed onto the bottom plate, and a support frame that includes a top panel on which the bottom plate is placed and a leg part that supports the top panel, where the leg part is fixed onto the top panel via the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Kawakami, Toru Yamashita, Hirokazu Otani, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9053883
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker includes: a sealed tank filled with insulation gas; a pair of arc contacts that are arranged to face each other in the sealed tank and connectable and disconnectable with each other; a thermal puffer chamber that is provided on an outer circumferential portion of the pair of arc contacts; a mechanical puffer chamber that is provided on an outer circumference of the thermal puffer chamber and constituted by a cylinder formed in a toric shape centering around an axial line of the arc contacts; and a piston that is formed in a toric shape centering around the axial line and accommodated in the cylinder, and configured to move according to connection and disconnection of the arc contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamashita, Daisuke Yoshida, Katsuhiko Horinouchi, Manabu Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20140198429
    Abstract: There is provided a main circuit switchgear that includes a breaker; a leg part that supports the breaker; a disconnector that is connected to the breaker; a leg part that supports the disconnector; a metal container that accommodates therein the breaker and the disconnector and includes a bottom plate in which an opening is provided at a position corresponding to a position of the leg part, where the leg part is fixed onto the bottom plate, and a support frame that includes a top panel on which the bottom plate is placed and a leg part that supports the top panel, where the leg part is fixed onto the top panel via the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Kawakami, Toru Yamashita, Hirokazu Otani, Daisuke Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130161288
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker includes: a sealed tank filled with insulation gas; a pair of arc contacts that are arranged to face each other in the sealed tank and connectable and disconnectable with each other; a thermal puffer chamber that is provided on an outer circumferential portion of the pair of arc contacts; a mechanical puffer chamber that is provided on an outer circumference of the thermal puffer chamber and constituted by a cylinder formed in a toric shape centering around an axial line of the arc contacts; and a piston that is formed in a toric shape centering around the axial line and accommodated in the cylinder, and configured to move according to connection and disconnection of the arc contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yamashita, Daisuke Yoshida, Katsuhiko Horinouchi, Manabu Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8265111
    Abstract: When a laser light source module includes a heat sink in which a solid laser element, an excitation light source, and a wavelength conversion element are arranged and a stem that supports the heat sink, wherein the heat sink is separated into three blocks, namely a first block including a laser oscillating unit for the solid laser element is arranged, a second block including a semiconductor laser element that emits excitation light for the laser oscillating unit and a first temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which the first heater is arranged, and a third block including the wavelength conversion element that converts the wavelength of the fundamental laser beam and a second temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which a second heater is arranged, enabling thus downsizing of the module and improvement of the positioning accuracy of the elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Motoaki Tamaya, Chise Nanba, Akira Nakamura, Keiichi Fukuda, Koji Funaoka, Manabu Kawakami, Masamitsu Okamura
  • Patent number: 8220257
    Abstract: An axle driving apparatus includes a first housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the first housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the first housing. The axle driving apparatus also includes a second housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the second housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the second housing. A connecting means, such as a bar and/or plate connects the first and second housings. The plurality of cooling fins on the first housing has a different configuration that the plurality of cooling fins on the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Iida, Fumitoshi Ishino, Manabu Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7980351
    Abstract: A transaxle (1), having a hydraulic drive unit (20) and a pair of left and right wheel support units (2L and 2R), is suspended from a vehicle frame so as to be turnable around a turning-center axis oriented in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle. The hydraulic drive unit (20) comprises: a pair of left and right hydraulic motors (23L and 23R) having respective left and right horizontal motor shafts (23b); a center section (22) formed therein with an oil passage for hydraulically connecting at least one of the hydraulic motors to a hydraulic pump, the center section having motor attachment surfaces onto which the hydraulic motors are attached; and a pair of left and right axle casings (2L and 2R) containing the respective hydraulic motors and supporting the respective motor shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Iwaki, Norihiro Ishii, Shigenori Sakikawa, Katsumoto Mizukawa, Manabu Kawakami, Kentaro Nagata
  • Patent number: 7934578
    Abstract: There is provided a working vehicle having first and second hydraulic pump units operatively driven by a driving source and arranged away to each other in a width direction of the vehicle. In the working vehicle, each of the first and second hydraulic pump units includes a pump body; a port block formed with an oil passage for supplying/discharging an operating fluid to/from said pump body; a pump case connected to the port block so as to define a pump body accommodating space for surrounding the pump body; and a pump shaft for rotatably driving the pump body, the pump shaft having an input end operatively connected to said driving source. A drain port for opening the pump body accommodating space outward and a charge suction port for drawing in an oil from an oil tank in order to supply a charge oil to a hydraulic circuit fluidly connecting with the corresponding hydraulic motor unit are provided respectively in first and second assemblies formed by the corresponding pump case and port block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Ohashi, Manabu Kawakami, Shigenori Sakikawa, Takeaki Nozaki
  • Publication number: 20110026548
    Abstract: When a laser light source module includes a heat sink in which a solid laser element, an excitation light source, and a wavelength conversion element are arranged and a stem that supports the heat sink, wherein the heat sink is separated into three blocks, namely a first block including a laser oscillating unit for the solid laser element is arranged, a second block including a semiconductor laser element that emits excitation light for the laser oscillating unit and a first temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which the first heater is arranged, and a third block including the wavelength conversion element that converts the wavelength of the fundamental laser beam and a second temperature sensor are arranged and on a specific surface of which a second heater is arranged, enabling thus downsizing of the module and improvement of the positioning accuracy of the elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoaki Tamaya, Chise Nanba, Akira Nakamura, Keiichi Fukuda, Koji Funaoka, Manabu Kawakami, Masamitsu Okamura
  • Patent number: 7798259
    Abstract: A working vehicle comprises: a vehicle frame; a prime mover mounted on an upper surface of a first portion of the vehicle frame; a pair of left and right transaxles juxtaposed below the vehicle frame, the left and right transaxles having respective single axles so as to individually and reversibly rotatably driving left and right drive wheels; a working device disposed below the vehicle frame; an output shaft of the prime mover extended downward from the first portion of the vehicle frame; a traveling belt transmission disposed below the vehicle frame and extended from the output shaft to the pair of left and right transaxles; a working belt transmission disposed below the vehicle frame and extended from the output shaft to the working device; a counter shaft for the traveling belt transmission extended downward from a second portion of the vehicle frame; and a pair of upper and lower pulleys provided on the counter shaft, wherein a belt looped over the lower pulley is extended from the output shaft of the pr
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Iida, Fumitoshi Ishino, Michio Tsukamoto, Manabu Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20100215517
    Abstract: There is provided a working vehicle having first and second hydraulic pump units operatively driven by a driving source and arranged away to each other in a width direction of the vehicle. In the working vehicle, each of the first and second hydraulic pump units includes a pump body; a port block formed with an oil passage for supplying/discharging an operating fluid to/from said pump body; a pump case connected to the port block so as to define a pump body accommodating space for surrounding the pump body; and a pump shaft for rotatably driving the pump body, the pump shaft having an input end operatively connected to said driving source. A drain port for opening the pump body accommodating space outward and a charge suction port for drawing in an oil from an oil tank in order to supply a charge oil to a hydraulic circuit fluidly connecting with the corresponding hydraulic motor unit are provided respectively in first and second assemblies formed by the corresponding pump case and port block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Inventors: Ryota OHASHI, Manabu KAWAKAMI, Shigenori SAKIKAWA, Takeaki NOZAKI
  • Patent number: 7708531
    Abstract: There is provided an axial piston device that includes a housing, a rotary shaft, a cylinder block, and a piston. The housing includes a housing body opened at a first end thereof and a plate disposed at the first end of the housing body. The rotary shaft is rotatably supported about an axis by the housing body and the plate. The cylinder block is rotated together with the rotary shaft and is accommodated inside the housing. The piston is accommodated in the cylinder block in slidable a manner in an axial direction. Furthermore, the plate is provided with a pair of first oil passages having first ends communicating with a discharge port and a suction port of the cylinder block and second ends opened to the surface of the plate, and a drain oil passage for allowing at least one of the first oil passages to communicate with an oil sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Sakikawa, Manabu Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7708104
    Abstract: There is provided a working vehicle having first and second hydraulic pump units operatively driven by a driving source and arranged away to each other in a width direction of the vehicle. In the working vehicle, each of the first and second hydraulic pump units includes a pump body; a port block formed with an oil passage for supplying/discharging an operating fluid to/from said pump body; a pump case connected to the port block so as to define a pump body accommodating space for surrounding the pump body; and a pump shaft for rotatably driving the pump body, the pump shaft having an input end operatively connected to said driving source. A drain port for opening the pump body accommodating space outward and a charge suction port for drawing in an oil from an oil tank in order to supply a charge oil to a hydraulic circuit fluidly connecting with the corresponding hydraulic motor unit are provided respectively in first and second assemblies formed by the corresponding pump case and port block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Ohashi, Manabu Kawakami, Shigenori Sakikawa
  • Publication number: 20100050625
    Abstract: An axle driving apparatus includes a first housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the first housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the first housing. The axle driving apparatus also includes a second housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the second housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the second housing. A connecting means, such as a bar and/or plate connects the first and second housings. The plurality of cooling fins on the first housing has a different configuration that the plurality of cooling fins on the second housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Masaru IIDA, Fumitoshi Ishino, Manabu Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7654083
    Abstract: An axle driving apparatus includes a first housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the first housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the first housing. The axle driving apparatus also includes a second housing having a plurality of cooling fins, an axle rotatably mounted in the second housing, a hydraulic stepless speed change assembly disposed within the second housing. A connecting means, such as a bar and/or plate connects the first and second housings. The plurality of cooling fins on the first housing has a different configuration that the plurality of cooling fins on the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Iida, Fumitoshi Ishino, Manabu Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7431122
    Abstract: A transaxle (1), having a hydraulic drive unit (20) and a pair of left and right wheel support units (2L and 2R), is suspended from a vehicle frame so as to be turnable around a turning-center axis oriented in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle. The hydraulic drive unit (20) comprises: a pair of left and right hydraulic motors (23L and 23R) having respective left and right horizontal motor shafts (23b); a center section (22) formed therein with an oil passage for hydraulically connecting at least one of the hydraulic motors to a hydraulic pump, the center section having motor attachment surfaces onto which the hydraulic motors are attached; and a pair of left and right axle casings (2L and 2R) containing the respective hydraulic motors and supporting the respective motor shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Kanzaki Kokyukoki Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Iwaki, Norihiro Ishii, Shigenori Sakikawa, Katsumoto Mizukawa, Manabu Kawakami, Kentaro Nagata
  • Publication number: 20080217991
    Abstract: A transaxle (1), having a hydraulic drive unit (20) and a pair of left and right wheel support units (2L and 2R), is suspended from a vehicle frame so as to be turnable around a turning-center axis oriented in a fore-and-aft direction of a vehicle. The hydraulic drive unit (20) comprises: a pair of left and right hydraulic motors (23L and 23R) having respective left and right horizontal motor shafts (23b); a center section (22) formed therein with an oil passage for hydraulically connecting at least one of the hydraulic motors to a hydraulic pump, the center section having motor attachment surfaces onto which the hydraulic motors are attached; and a pair of left and right axle casings (2L and 2R) containing the respective hydraulic motors and supporting the respective motor shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Koji IWAKI, Norihiro Ishii, Shigenori Sakikawa, Katsumoto Mizukawa, Manabu Kawakami, Kentaro Nagata