Patents by Inventor Miho Chiba

Miho Chiba 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: 11996224
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a powder core is provided with: a step for heat-treating amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder to obtain nanocrystal powder; a step for obtaining granulated powder from nanocrystal powder, malleable powder, and a binder; a step for pressure-molding the granulated powder to obtain a green compact; a step for curing the binder by heat-treating the green compact at a temperature which is equal to or higher than the curing initiation temperature of the binder and lower than the crystallization initiation temperature of the amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho Chiba, Akiri Urata
  • Patent number: 11814707
    Abstract: This soft magnetic powder is represented by composition formula FeaSibBcPdCue with the exception of unavoidable impurities. In the composition formula, a, b, c, d and e satisfy 79?a?84.5 at %, 0?b<6 at %, 4?c?10 at %, 4<d?11 at %, 0.2?e<0.4 at %, and a+b+c+d+e=100 at %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: TOKIN CORPORATION, JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiri Urata, Miho Chiba, Mineo Muraki, Makoto Nakaseko, Takuya Takashita
  • Publication number: 20230326656
    Abstract: To provide a dust core with good direct current superimposition characteristics and an inductor using such a dust core. A dust core according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes magnetic powder particles that are bound together through a binder layer, in which when a magnetic permeability in a state where a magnetic flux density generated by a direct current is 0 T is represented by ?B=0 T and a magnetic permeability in a state where the magnetic flux density generated by a direct current is 0.5 T is represented by ?B=0.5 T, a value expressed by ?B=0.5 T/?B=0 T is 0.65 or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shun MIKOSHIBA, Hiroshi SHIMA, Kenichiro KOBAYASHI, Miho CHIBA, Akiri URATA, Makoto YAMAKI, Naoto ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20230212719
    Abstract: Provided is an Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy powder. The Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy powder has a chemical composition, excluding inevitable impurities, represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcPdCueMf, where the M in the composition formula is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Zr, Ta, W, Hf, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, C, Al, S, O, and N, 79 at %?a?84.5 at %, 0 at %?b<6 at %, 0 at %<c?10 at %, 4 at %<d?11 at %, 0.2 at %?e?0.53 at %, 0 at %?f?4 at %, a+b+c+d+e+f=100 at %, a degree of crystallinity is more than 10% by volume, and an Fe crystallite diameter of the Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy powder is 50 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMOTO, Takuya TAKASHITA, Makoto NAKASEKO, Akio KOBAYASHI, Akiri URATA, Miho CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11600414
    Abstract: Provided is a soft magnetic powder that can produce a dust core having excellent magnetic properties. The soft magnetic powder has a chemical composition, excluding inevitable impurities, represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcPdCueMf, where the M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Zr, Ta, W, Hf, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, C, Al, S, O, and N, 79 at %?a?84.5 at %, 0 at %?b<6 at %, 0 at %<c?10 at %, 4 at %<d?11 at %, 0.2 at %?e?0.53 at %, 0 at %?f?4 at %, a+b+c+d+e+f=100 at %, a particle size is 1 mm or less, and a median of circularity of particles constituting the soft magnetic powder is 0.4 or more and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Yamamoto, Takuya Takashita, Makoto Nakaseko, Akio Kobayashi, Akiri Urata, Miho Chiba
  • Publication number: 20210313101
    Abstract: Provided is a soft magnetic powder that can produce a dust core having excellent magnetic properties. The soft magnetic powder has a chemical composition, excluding inevitable impurities, represented by a composition formula of FeaSibBcPdCueMf, where the M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Mo, Zr, Ta, W, Hf, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, C, Al, S, O, and N, 79 at %?a?84.5 at %, 0 at %?b<6 at %, 0 at %<c?10 at %, 4 at %<d?11 at %, 0.2 at %?e?0.53 at %, 0 at %?f?4 at %, a+b+c+d+e+f=100 at %, a particle size is 1 mm or less, and a median of circularity of particles constituting the soft magnetic powder is 0.4 or more and 1.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki YAMAMOTO, Takuya TAKASHITA, Makoto NAKASEKO, Akio KOBAYASHI, Akiri URATA, Miho CHIBA
  • Patent number: 10847291
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder is represented by FeaSibBcPdCreMf except for inevitable impurities, wherein: M is one or more element selected from V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn; 0 atomic %?b?6 atomic %; 4 atomic %?c?10 atomic %; 5 atomic %?d?12 atomic %; 0 atomic %<e; 0.4 atomic %?f<6 atomic %; and a+b+c+d+e+f=100 atomic %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiri Urata, Miho Chiba
  • Publication number: 20200238374
    Abstract: This method for manufacturing a powder core is provided with: a step for heat-treating amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder to obtain nanocrystal powder; a step for obtaining granulated powder from nanocrystal powder, malleable powder, and a binder; a step for pressure-molding the granulated powder to obtain a green compact; a step for curing the binder by heat-treating the green compact at a temperature which is equal to or higher than the curing initiation temperature of the binder and lower than the crystallization initiation temperature of the amorphous soft magnetic alloy powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Miho CHIBA, Akiri URATA
  • Publication number: 20190362871
    Abstract: This soft magnetic powder is represented by composition formula FeaSibBcPdCue with the exception of unavoidable impurities. In the composition formula, a, b, c, d and e satisfy 79?a?84.5 at %, 0?b<6 at %, 4?c?10 at %, 4<d?11 at %, 0.2?e<0.4 at %, and a+b+c+d+e=100 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicants: TOKIN CORPORATION, JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiri URATA, Miho CHIBA, Mineo MURAKI, Makoto NAKASEKO, Takuya TAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20190156975
    Abstract: A soft magnetic powder is represented by FeaSibBcPdCreMf except for inevitable impurities, wherein: M is one or more element selected from V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn; 0 atomic %?b?6 atomic %; 4 atomic %?c?10 atomic %; 5 atomic %?d?12 atomic %; 0 atomic %<e; 0.4 atomic %?f<6 atomic %; and a+b+c+d+e+f=100 atomic %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiri URATA, Miho CHIBA
  • Publication number: 20100039718
    Abstract: In order to provide a lens module having a simply structured lens drive mechanism that is capable of stabilizing the moving speed of an optical lens system, the lens module has a structure wherein a lens holder (to which no illustrated optical lens system is mounted) (6) that mounts a moving body (5) attractable to a magnet (4) is mounted on a housing (7) using guide pins (8), and wherein one side of a piezoelectric ceramic element (3) is adhered to the magnet (4) in the displacement generating direction (longitudinal direction) of the piezoelectric ceramic element 3, and the other side thereof is adhered to the housing (7), with the moving body (5) and the magnet (4) being attracted by a magnetic force. The lens holder (6) supporting the moving body (5) is movably supported by the guide pins (8). The magnetization direction of the magnet (4) is substantially orthogonal to an optical axis direction of the optical lens system and is a radial direction of the optical lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Yukio Nishimiya, Syuji Aisawa, Daisuke Yamazaki, Miho Chiba, Tomohiro Yonezawa, Kazunori Honda, Wei Gao