Patents by Inventor Shoji Kikuchi

Shoji Kikuchi 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: 5201663
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) includes a first housing part (20) fixed to a circuit board and a second housing part (30) fitted within the first housing part and spaced therefrom to alow limited X, Y, and Z movement between such parts, contacts (40) are provided including solder post portions (42) mounted in the first housing part and contact portions (41) in the second housing part adapted to engage the contacts of a mating housing. The contact portions (41) and (42) are interconnected by an integral S-shaped spring (43) to facilitate limited and resilient movement of the contact portions and housing parts to relieve stresses and strains caused by mating and unmating of components, including further connectors to a circuit board through the connector. An alternative embodiment (10') includes legs (42') and a J-shaped contact portions (40') in the second housing part (30') with the connector (10') being adapted to be surface mounted and soldered on a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1993
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Akihito Ono, Tatsuya Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5197891
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) includes a plastic housing (12) of a configuration to fit through an aperture (32) of a printed circuit board (30) having circuits (34) on the undersurface (33) thereof with the connector housing having wing portions (14) carrying contact portions (26) adapted to engage the circuits of the underside of the printed circuit board and be soldered thereto to minimize the overall height of the assembly formed of the connector and board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5186658
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a dielectric housing (30) having at least one cavity (31) with a wall of the cavity having a resilient lance (34), an electrical contact (10) positioned in the cavity (31) and includes conductor and insulation-crimping sections (11, 12) at both ends of the contact for respectively crimping to a conductor (20a) and insulation (20b) of an electrical wire (20), a securing member (14) and a contact section (13) are located between the crimping sections (11, 12) at opposite sides, and an outwardly-formed projection (15) is formed in the securing member (14) for engagement with a raised portion (35) of the resilient lance (34) to retain the contact (10) in the cavity (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Nobuaki Onoue
  • Patent number: 5141450
    Abstract: A pair of support pins (16) extending outwardly from a connector housing (10) has been disclosed. The pins (16) are attached in the housing (10) and do not carry an electrical current but instead are used to retain the electrical connector on carrier tape and to support the connector on a circuit board (30) during soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1992
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Junichi Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 5084716
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a master having a conductive portion and an insulating portion which form a pattern; an applicator for applying the ink material on the master wherein deposition of the ink material onto the master is different depending on a direction of electric current flowing through the ink material; an excessive ink material remover, contactable to the ink material applied on the master by the applicator, for removing excessive ink material with a voltage applied between the master and the excessive ink material remover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noboru Koumura, Shoji Kikuchi, Noboru Tohyama
  • Patent number: 5078611
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10,20,30,40) having an insulating housing (11,21,31,41) and electric contacts (14,24,34,44) therein has been disclosed. The electric contacts (14,24,34,44) are individually formed by removing selected parts (53,55,56,58,59,61,62) from stamped electric contact elements (50). The housing (11,21,31,41) includes cavities (12,32) opening on a front surface and cavities (22,42) opening on a back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1992
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 5073791
    Abstract: This invention relates to an image forming device by use of dry process silver salt materials comprising a sheet-shaped photosensitive member having a monomer and a photopolymerization initiator on a substrate, a reducing agent, a photosensitive silver halide and an organic silver salt; a supply means of said photosensitive member; an irradiation means provided along the moving route of the photosensitive member in the order mentioned from its upstream side for irradiating a light information on said photosensitive member; a heat means for heating said photosensitive member, and a uniform exposure means for exposing uniformly said photosensitive member for forming a polymer image on said photosensitive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Mouri, Masato Katayama, Tetsuro Fukui, Kazuo Isaka, Shoji Kikuchi, Noboru Koumura
  • Patent number: 5073126
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises electrical contacts (1) having termination slots (2) for cutting into insulation (4a) of an electrical conductor (4) when electrical conductor (4) is forced into slots (2) with edges of slots (2) electrically engaging conductor core (4b) of electrical conductor (4). An insulated housing (10) has openings (11) for receiving and retaining electrical contacts (1) therein and including conductor-retention grooves (12) opening outwardly for receiving a portion of the electrical conductors (4) therein. Conductor-retention arms (13) are located at an open end of the conductor-retention grooves (12) for retaining electrical conductors (4) therein. Projections (14) are located on the conductor-retention arms (13) for clampingly engaging insulation (4a) of electrical conductors (4) providing an axial strain relief thereon and to prevent shrinkage of the insulation away from the termination between conductors (4) and slots (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Tetsuyuki Furuya
  • Patent number: 4981432
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) for receiving a ribbon cable (20) has been disclosed. The connector (10) includes a plurality of contacts (14) in a housing (11) and a cover (12) which is movable towards the contacts (14) to cam open wire retaining sections (15) thereon. The housing further includes projections (11a) which prevent the ribbon cable (20) from being bent over and pushing the cover (12) down to inadvertently release the wires (21) of the cable from the wire retaining sections (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1991
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4917614
    Abstract: An electrical connector (21) comprises a dielectric housing (20) having apertures in which contact sections (6) of electrical contacts (2) are secured while termination sections (10) of the contacts (2) extend at a 45 degree angle with respect to the contact sections (2) and along a bottom surface (23) of the housing (20) so that the termination sections (10) are parallel and extend outwardly from at least one of the side walls of the housing (20) for connection to conductive members on a circuit board. Connector (40), 40a-c) is provided with contacts (2a) having tines (34) for disposition in holes (32) in a circuit board (31) for connection to conductive areas on a bottom surface (31") of the board while termination sections of contacts (2) are connected to conductive areas on an upper surface (31') of the board (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Nobuaki Onoue, Junichi Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 4877409
    Abstract: A hinged electrical connector comprises connector members (1, 2) mounted onto circuit boards (11a, 11a) and hingedly connected together by shafts (4) and recesses (6). Receptacle contact sections (8a) of receptacle contacts (8) in connector member (2) have low-pressure contact members (22) in electrical engagement with outer ends (13) of tab contact sections (7b) of tab contacts (7) in connector member (1) when the circuit board (11a, 11b) are parallel to one another (FIG. 7A). High-pressure contact members (23) of the receptacle contact sections (8a) are in electrical engagement with inner sections (13') of the tab contact sections (7b) when the circuit boards (11a, 11b) are at a right angle with respect to one another (FIG. 7C).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4865553
    Abstract: A hinged electrical connector comprises a receptacle connector (RC) and a tab connector (TC) that are hingedly connected together by hinge members (3, 4, 5a, 6), the connectors having coplanar receptacle contact sections (12) of receptacle contacts (7) electrically engaged with tab contact sections (14) of tab contacts (8) and conductor-engaging sections (9,10) electrically engaged with conductive areas of circuit boards (11a, 11b) enabling the boards to be moved between angular positions and maintained thereat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4773537
    Abstract: A hard disk container has a container body in the form of a box having an opening at its upper portion and an upper cover in the form of a box having an opening at its lower portion and closing the container body. A protrusion on the upper edge of the container body engages a recess in the lower edge of the upper cover and includes a latching member to engage a latching hole in a flange of the container body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Tensho Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4747488
    Abstract: A hard disk container has a container body including a box having openings at its upper and lower portions, an upper cover engaging the container body so as to close the upper opening of the container body and a lower cover engaging the container body so as to close the lower opening of the container body, the container body including a pair of approximately U-shaped notches provided on both ends of the container body and having a notch groove provided therein, pairs of lower protrusions provided on both ends of the outer walls of the container body and pairs of upper recesses provided in the inner walls of the container body at both ends so that the lower protrusions can engage the upper recesses, and a plurality of sliding grooves provided in the inner walls of the container body to slidably contain hard disks, the upper cover including pairs of disk supporting pieces provided on the inner face of the upper cover and resiliently engaging shoulders of the hard disks, and the upper and lower cover including m
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Inventor: Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4721207
    Abstract: An improved hard disk container of the type having a container body with U-shaped disk receiving grooves therein and covers over upper and end openings in opposite ends and over a lower opening. Continuous upper and end protrusions are integrally mounted adjacent the upper opening and on the ends adjacent the end openings, and a continuous lower protrusion is integrally mounted around the lower opening. The lower face of the upper cover has continuous upper and end grooves therein in which the continuous upper and end protrusions are engaged. A continuous sealing upper projection is integrally provided on the wall of the continuous upper and end grooves and the upper and end protrusions have a continuous sealing recess therein in which the continuous upper projection is resiliently sealingly engaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: Tensho Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 4314011
    Abstract: A color photographic material comprising a support and at least one layer thereon containing at least one compound of formula [I]: Formula [I] ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each are defined in the specification and claims of this application.The compound of formula [I] is incorporated in a color photographic material to prevent the discoloration and fading-in-color of the color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1982
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Takashi Sasaki, Shoji Kikuchi, Katsuo Mogaki, Masahiko Taguchi, Syun Takada
  • Patent number: 4277558
    Abstract: Silver halide photographic material containing hydroquinones and benzoquinones as anti-stain agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1980
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1981
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoji Kikuchi, Toshio Yajima, Kenichi Kishi, Takashi Sasaki, Keiichi Mori, Haruhiko Sato
  • Patent number: 4254216
    Abstract: A color photographic material comprising a support and at least one layer thereon containing at least one compound of formula [I]: Formula [I] ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 each are defined in the specification and claims of this application.The compound of formula [I] is incorporated in a color photographic material to prevent the discoloration and fading-in-color of the color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Takashi Sasaki, Shoji Kikuchi, Katsuo Mogaki, Masahiko Taguchi, Syun Takada
  • Patent number: 4247628
    Abstract: The stability of a cyan dye image formed by phenol and naphthol couplers is improved with respect to "dark fading" by incorporating in the silver halide color photographic material in which the dye image is formed at least one 2-phenyl benzotriazole compound having in the 2'-position an --OR group wherein R is an organic residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Uchida, Shoji Kikuchi, Takashi Sasaki, Mikio Sato
  • Patent number: 4234678
    Abstract: A photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support and containing a compound, useful as a development inhibitor of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X, Y and Z are as herein defined, is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshimoto, Mitsuto Fujiwhara, Shoji Kikuchi, Ryosuke Satoh, Takaya Endo, Satoshi Nakagawa