Patents by Inventor Minoru Higurashi

Minoru Higurashi 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: 4603314
    Abstract: The improved structure of an inductor with an amorphous sheet core and a winding has been found. A core assembly has a pair of housing halves made of non-magnetic material with U-shaped track, in which a laminated amorphous sheet is mounted. The ends of the halves are inserted in a winding so that the ends of the cores abut with each other directly or through a gap spacer. The core halves are pressed by spring action to assemble the inductor. The core halves are produced by the steps of winding an amorphous sheet to a coil, inserting the coil in the track of the housing, and impregnating the coil with plastics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Fukunaga, Minoru Higurashi, Motoyoshi Fujita, Eiichi Suga, Masao Shigeta, Norio Sato
  • Patent number: 4053826
    Abstract: The specification discloses a first and a second rotary disk fixed together, each disk having a magnetic pole on its circumference, which disks rotate in the vicinity of a fixed magnetic head; the fixed magnetic head provides an electrical output signal each time a magnetic pole passes near it and, thus, said electrical output signal indicates a rotational angle and/or the number of rotations of said disk. Said magnetic head operates on a new principle developed from parametric excitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1977
    Assignees: TDK Electronics Co., Ltd., Nissan Motor Company
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Wasawa, Toru Kita, Takao Sugisaki, Minoru Higurashi
  • Patent number: 4008432
    Abstract: Apparatus for detecting an external magnetic field comprises a magnetic sensor which produces para-magnetic oscillations and includes an elongated member of an electrically conductive material and a thin magnetic film disposed thereabout. Alternative embodiments of the invention are presented in each of which the detection of an external magnetic field by the sensor results in a change in the oscillating state. In a first embodiment, the sensor is maintained normally in an oscillating state of a given domain and thus a given phase; when the sensor is subjected to an external magnetic field of appropriate intensity and polarity, the magnetization of the sensor shifts from the first domain to the second domain and accordingly there is produced a change or reversal in phase of the oscillatory output derived from the sensor. In that change of phase, the sensor output passes through a zero voltage value which is detected for providing an indication of the sensing of the external magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1973
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1977
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takao Sugisaki, Tatsushiro Ochiai, Kyoichi Nishikawa, Minoru Higurashi
  • Patent number: 4006408
    Abstract: A magnetic substance detecting device is disclosed as being capable of parametric oscillation, and including a magnetic sensor formed of an elongated wire with a magnetic thin film plated on the wire, the film being of uniaxial magnetic anisotropy and having a magnetic hard axis in its axial direction and a magnetic easy axis in its circumferential direction. The magnetic substance to be detected is coupled with a magnetic or electrical circuit associated with the magnetic oscillation domain of the magnetic wire of the magnetic sensor to convert the state of the oscillation output of its detecting coil, thus detecting the magnetic substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1973
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1977
    Assignee: TDK Electronics Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takao Sugisaki, Tatsushiro Ochiai, Kyoichi Nishikawa, Minoru Higurashi