Patents by Inventor Tatsuro Miura

Tatsuro Miura 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: 11923325
    Abstract: A memory chip unit includes a pad electrode including first and second portions, and a memory cell array. A prober includes a probe card and a movement mechanism. The probe card includes a probe electrode to be in contact with the pad electrode, and a memory controller electrically coupled to the probe electrode and executes reading and writing on the memory cell array. The movement mechanism executes a first operation that brings the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the second portion, and a second operation that does not bring the probe electrode into contact with the first portion and brings the probe electrode into contact with the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhito Yoshimizu, Takashi Fukushima, Tatsuro Hitomi, Arata Inoue, Masayuki Miura, Shinichi Kanno, Toshio Fujisawa, Keisuke Nakatsuka, Tomoya Sanuki
  • Patent number: 11246239
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can improve heat radiation efficiency of a heat radiating fin and equalize a heat input in a heat receiving portion while securing sufficient volumes of the heat receiving portion, a heat insulating portion, and a heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a width direction of the heatsink is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11112186
    Abstract: A heatsink including: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heating element; and a heat radiating fin group which is connected to a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member and in which a plurality of heat radiating fins is arranged, wherein the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to the heat radiating portion and that is filled with a working fluid, a heat receiving portion inner surface area increasing portion and a supporting member are provided in an internal space of the heat receiving portion, and the supporting member is in surface contact with the heat receiving portion inner surface area increasing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11085703
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heatsink that can improve heat radiation performance of a heat radiating fin while preventing dry-out of a heat receiving portion and that can equalize a heat input in the heat receiving portion in an environment in which an installation space of the heatsink is limited even when a forbidden region exists in the installation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10996001
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can increase a fin area of a heat radiating fin while securing sufficient volumes of a heat receiving portion, heat insulating portion, and heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a height direction of the heatsink is limited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Tatsuro Miura, Kazuaki Aotani, Toshiaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210018272
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to providing a heat sink that can exhibit an excellent cooling property for even a heating element generating a high amount of heat and being mounted to a narrowed space. The heat sink includes a plurality of heat pipes to be thermally connected to a heating element, and a heat dissipation section thermally connected to the plurality of heat pipes, in which in the plurality of heat pipes, at least evaporation sections to be thermally connected to the heating element have flattened portions whose cross sectional shape in a direction orthogonal to a heat transfer direction of the plurality of heat pipes is flattened, and surfaces in the flattened portions in a thickness direction are arranged facing the heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Yasuhiro UCHIMURA, Shuta HIKICHI, Tatsuro MIURA, Hiroshi SAKAI
  • Publication number: 20210007246
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can improve heat radiation efficiency of a heat radiating fin and equalize a heat input in a heat receiving portion while securing sufficient volumes of the heat receiving portion, a heat insulating portion, and a heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a width direction of the heatsink is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke WATANABE, Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Tatsuro MIURA, Kazuaki AOTANI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200400379
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heatsink that can improve heat radiation performance of a heat radiating fin while preventing dry-out of a heat receiving portion and that can equalize a heat input in the heat receiving portion in an environment in which an installation space of the heatsink is limited even when a forbidden region exists in the installation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke WATANABE, Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Tatsuro MIURA, Kazuaki AOTANI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200400381
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that includes a lightweight heat transport member having good pressure resistance against atmospheric pressure without impairing flowability of a gas-phase working fluid, and that can equalize a heat input in a heat receiving portion of the heat transport member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke WATANABE, Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Tatsuro MIURA, Kazuaki AOTANI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20200393201
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can increase a fin area of a heat radiating fin while securing sufficient volumes of a heat receiving portion, heat insulating portion, and heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a height direction of the heatsink is limited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke WATANABE, Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Tatsuro MIURA, Kazuaki AOTANI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10760855
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Tatsuro Miura, Toshiaki Nakamura, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10718572
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Tatsuro Miura, Toshiaki Nakamura, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki
  • Patent number: 10677534
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Watanabe, Tatsuro Miura, Toshiaki Nakamura, Kenya Kawabata, Yoshikatsu Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20200173730
    Abstract: The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke WATANABE, Tatsuro MIURA, Toshiaki NAKAMURA, Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 10458720
    Abstract: A heat transfer device includes a heat pipe in which working fluid is enclosed, a heat receiving plate provided on one end side of the heat pipe and a heat radiating fin provided on the other end side of the heat pipe, a first wick and a second wick that transfer working fluid provided on an inner wall surface of the heat pipe, a bent section bent between the one end side and the other end side, and a boundary section between the first wick and the second wick disposed in a lower part in the gravity direction of the bent section of the heat pipe or the heat transfer device. The heat transfer device can improve heat transfer characteristics with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Miura, Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Hiroshi Okada
  • Patent number: 10408547
    Abstract: The invention provides a flattened heat pipe whose vapor flowing passage is not clogged and which has an excellent capillary force. The flattened heat pipe has a closed container formed by flattening a tubular container, a plurality of wick structures arrayed within the container in a longitudinal direction so as to form an acute-angled portion where a capillary force is large at least partially within the container, a hollow portion formed of an outer peripheral surface of the wick structure and an inner wall surface of the container and a working fluid sealed into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kameoka, Masanobu Sugimura, Tatsuro Miura, Yasumi Sasaki, Hiroshi Okada, Shinichi Furumoto, Masaaki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10184729
    Abstract: A heat pipe includes a container in which a corrugated portion is formed, the container having a hollow portion formed therein that is sealed, a wick structure provided on an inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion and a working fluid enclosed in the hollow portion. The wick structure has a vapor channel penetrating therethrough in a longitudinal direction of the hollow portion, the wick structure producing a capillary force. The wick structure is a sintered body of a powder metal material and projected into a crest portion of the corrugated portion. The wick structure is provided at a region in the crest portion of the corrugated portion and at a position of a trough portion of the corrugated portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Inagaki, Kenya Kawabata, Tatsuro Miura, Tomoki Yanagida
  • Patent number: 10119770
    Abstract: A planar heat pipe includes a container having a hollow portion provided at a central portion thereof with two opposing plate-shaped bodies, and a working fluid enclosed in the hollow portion. The hollow portion is provided with a wick structure. At least one of the plate-shaped bodies is a composite member of two or more types of metal members that are laminated and integrated. A metal member of the composite member forming a layer that contacts the hollow portion has a thermal conductivity of greater than or equal to 200 W/m·K and a metal member of the composite member forming a layer that contacts an exterior has a thermal conductivity of less than or equal to 100 W/m·K, a peripheral portion of the hollow portion being sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Aoki, Hiroshi Sakai, Tatsuro Miura, Yoshikatsu Inagaki
  • Publication number: 20180172360
    Abstract: A heat transfer device includes a heat pipe in which working fluid is enclosed, a heat receiving plate provided on one end side of the heat pipe and a heat radiating fin provided on the other end side of the heat pipe, a first wick and a second wick that transfer working fluid provided on an inner wall surface of the heat pipe, a bent section bent between the one end side and the other end side, and a boundary section between the first wick and the second wick disposed in a lower part in the gravity direction of the bent section of the heat pipe or the heat transfer device. The heat transfer device can improve heat transfer characteristics with a simple configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuro MIURA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Hiroshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20170248378
    Abstract: A planar heat pipe includes a container having a hollow portion provided at a central portion thereof with two opposing plate-shaped bodies, and a working fluid enclosed in the hollow portion. The hollow portion is provided with a wick structure. At least one of the plate-shaped bodies is a composite member of two or more types of metal members that are laminated and integrated. A metal member of the composite member forming a layer that contacts the hollow portion has a thermal conductivity of greater than or equal to 200 W/m·K and a metal member of the composite member forming a layer that contacts an exterior has a thermal conductivity of less than or equal to 100 W/m·K, a peripheral portion of the hollow portion being sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Hirofumi Aoki, Hiroshi Sakai, Tatsuro Miura, Yoshikatsu Inagaki