Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Matsui

Tsutomu Matsui 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: 20110311851
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a battery. The battery includes a metallic outer can, a wound electrode group, a positive electrode-lead, a negative electrode-lead, a positive electrode insulating cover, and a negative electrode insulating cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHINODA, Hideyuki Ishii, Kengo Kurata, Yoshiaki Asami, Tsutomu Matsui, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kenichi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20110086220
    Abstract: [Problems] A gas-barrier laminated film is provided that has considerably excellent gas-barrier property and has excellent capability for an organic device. [Means for Solution] A gas-barrier laminated film for an organic device, containing a plurality of gas-barrier laminates each containing a substrate film having on at least one surface thereof at least two layers of inorganic thin film layers, the plurality of gas-barrier laminates being laminated through an adhesive layer, wherein the at least two layers of inorganic thin film layers contain two or more inorganic thin film layers that are formed in contact with each other, the gas-barrier laminates are laminated with a surface on a side of the substrate film of the gas-barrier laminate facing a surface on a side of the inorganic thin film layer thereof, and the adhesive layer contains an epoxy adhesive having at least one of a m-xylenediamine skeleton, a p-xylenediamine skeleton and a bisphenol skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shigenobu Yoshida, Chiharu Okawara, Tsutomu Matsui
  • Publication number: 20110052977
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a battery includes an exterior can, an electrode group, a lid attached to an opening of the exterior can, and anode and cathode terminal portions arranged in the lid. At least one of the terminal portions includes an insulating gasket having a cylindrical portion, an external insulator having a pedestal portion, an external terminal including a head portion and the axial portion extended from the head portion, an electrode lead located in the exterior can and connected to the external terminal, and an internal insulator to isolate the lid and the electrode lead. The cylindrical portion of the external terminal is fixed to a through hole of the lid and an attachment hole of the electrode lead by a caulking. The insulating gasket is formed of a resin in which the melting point is higher than those of the internal insulator and the external insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Kengo Kurata, Tsutomu Matsui, Soichi Hanafusa, Hideyuki Ishii, Tatsuya Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20110052976
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes an electrode group, a tab, a conductive nipping member, a case, a lid and a lead. The conductive nipping member includes first and second nipping sections. The first and second nipping sections divide the tab into two bundles in which portions of the tab are laminated onto each other in a thickness direction of the electrode group. The lead includes a connecting section connected electrically to a terminal, and current collecting sections which are two sections branched from the connecting section and sandwiching the nipping member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Hideyuki ISHII, Eiki Kashiwazaki, Kengo Kurata, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Matsui, Yoshiaki Asami
  • Publication number: 20110052970
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a battery includes a case, an electrode group, a lid, an external terminal and an insulating member. The external terminal includes a head section and an axial section extended from the head section. The axial section is caulked and fixed into a through hole in the lid. The insulating member is arranged between the lid and the external terminal. The insulating member includes a bus bar-fixing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Kengo KURATA, Tsutomu Matsui, Soichi Hanafusa, Hideyuki Ishii, Tatsuya Shinoda, Tsutomu Kanetsuna
  • Patent number: 7821901
    Abstract: The optical pickup device includes a semiconductor laser for emitting laser light of 650 nm and 780 nm in wavelengths, a semiconductor laser for emitting laser light of 400 nm in wavelength, and an optical sensor which is provided in sequence with a first light receiving surface divided into four areas in a matrix manner, a second light receiving surface divided into four areas in a matrix manner, and a third light receiving surface divided at least into two areas aligned inline. Reflected light of three beams of 400 nm in wavelength and reflected light of three beams in 780 nm in wavelength are received on the first to third light receiving surfaces respectively, and a main beam of reflected light of 650 nm in wavelength is received on the first light receiving surface on one side out of the three light receiving surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Publication number: 20100015431
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a gas-barrier film laminate capable of greatly reducing the formation of bubbles and impurities between the gas-barrier film layers and having excellent gas-barrier property interlayer adhesiveness. The gas-barrier film laminate has at least two gas-barrier film layers laminated via an adhesive layer, wherein the gas-barrier film layer has a substrate film, and at least one constitutive unit layer comprising an anchor coat layer and an inorganic thin film layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film in that order, and wherein the number of the bubbles having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm and the impurities having a diameter of at least 0.5 mm existing between the gas-barrier film layers is at most 3 in total per 100 cm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MISTUBISHI PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Shigenobu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7593308
    Abstract: The optical head device includes a semiconductor laser for emitting a laser beam having an elliptical beam shape; a collimator lens for collimating the laser beam emitted from the semiconductor laser; a reflector including pair of belt-like pieces one of the surfaces of which is used as a reflecting face formed in a curved face having a curvature along their longitudinal direction, the pair of belt-like pieces being formed to be arranged in a major axis direction of an elliptical beam flux to sandwich the optical axis of the laser beam, and an optical sensor equipped with a condenser lens for detecting the strength of the beam reflected from the pair of belt-like pieces of the reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7564753
    Abstract: An optical pickup includes a lens holder body having a first surface and a second surface opposing to each other, tracking coils, a focusing coil, and tilt coils which are formed on a pair of flat panels respectively disposed on the first and second surfaces, and first and second magnetic bodies respectively disposed to face the first and second surfaces of the lens holder body and each constituting a planar closed magnetic circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Publication number: 20090169469
    Abstract: Provided is a provides a method for producing hydrogen peroxide, comprising a step of reducing and then oxidizing a working solution containing an organic solvent, anthraquinone having an alkyl substituent, and tetrahydroanthraquinone having an alkyl substituent to produce hydrogen peroxide; and a working solution regeneration step of removing an inert substance, generated as a sub product by the production of hydrogen peroxide, from the working solution and re-circulating the working solution deprived of the inert substance back into the step of producing hydrogen peroxide; wherein the working solution regeneration step includes i) a first distillation step of recovering the organic solvent by distillation performed at an atmospheric or a lower pressure; and ii) a second distillation step of, following the first distillation step, recovering the anthraquinone and the tetrahydroanthraquinone by distillation performed at a still lower pressure at 200° C. or higher for a residence time of 1 hour or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Inventors: Hisashi Sakaitani, Katsuhiro Iura, Isao Hagiwara, Tsutomu Matsui, Daisuke Kitada
  • Patent number: 7366062
    Abstract: The optical head device for carrying recording/reproducing of data by irradiating a recording face of an optical disk with a laser beam, includes a base frame provided with an optical system for guiding the laser beam to the optical disk; and a sub-frame provided with a semiconductor laser for and fixed to the base frame. In this optical head device, a diamond-like carbon (DLC) film is formed on the mating faces of the base frame and the sub-frame, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7330405
    Abstract: An objective lens driving device for an optical head has a lens holder including one or more tracking coils, one or more focusing coils, a plurality of wires which supply control currents to the tracking coils and the focusing coils and which support the lens holder in a cantilever manner, and a pair of movable magnets which are provided on a lower face of the lens holder in a track direction with an interval therebetween. A base part includes a pair of fixed magnets which are arranged so as to be opposed to the tracking coils and the focusing coils of the lens holder thereby to act thereon, a pair of right and left coils for correcting tilt angles which are arranged so as to be respectively opposed to the movable magnets thereby to act thereon, and power supply lines for supplying control currents to the tilt angle correcting coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7324425
    Abstract: An optical disk device in which the laser beam emitted from a laser light source and deflected by a movable mirror is focused on an optical recording medium by an optical head section. Tracking control is carried out by a drive control section based on the laser beam reflected from the optical recording medium. A micro electrical mechanical system incorporating the movable mirror is housed in a package accommodating the laser light source. The movable mirror is driven by electrostatic force at a frequency of 0.5 KHz or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7315490
    Abstract: The apparatus has a lens supporting unit which supports one side of a lens holder holding one lens forming a part of an expander lens with a plurality of plate springs, a lens driving unit which apply a driving force to the lens holder utilizing an electromagnetic force, and a solenoid which allows a plunger to be abutted and spaced on and from a surface on one side of the lens holder, with an elastic member interposed therebetween, in a position in the middle of a plurality of connecting regions where the plate springs are respectively connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Matsui, Tsuyoshi Kawabata
  • Patent number: 7292520
    Abstract: The data recording and reproducing device includes a cantilever 11 having a probe h and extending so as to locate the tip of the probe h in the vicinity of a recording film 20, a piezo driving unit 12 for vibrating the cantilever 11, an optical lever 13 for detecting a displacement due to the vibration of the cantilever 11, a Z feedback circuit 33 for performing feedback control for the driving in a direction vertical to the table 21, a write circuit 18 for supplying a recording voltage to the cantilever 11 in response to a recording signal IN, a voltage circuit 16 and a variable bias circuit 17 for applying an AC voltage to the cantilever 11, and a V feedback circuit 34 for performing the feedback control for the bias voltage applied to the cantilever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7251088
    Abstract: A portable hard disc device which is read by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, including: a disc for recording and/or reproducing; a head slider for recording and/or reproducing the disc; an arm mechanism for moving the head slider to a predetermined position; a voice coil motor type coil for driving the arm mechanism by being driven by an external magnetic field generated by magnets provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a current supplied from a power circuit; a spindle for rotating the disc after the disc is fixed; and a power circuit for supplying a current to the voice coil motor type coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7184240
    Abstract: A hard disk device is to be mounted onto a playing apparatus to play data in the hard disk device, and includes a casing, a spindle, a power supply circuit and a VCM coil accommodated within the casing, a recording medium disk rotatably supported on the spindle, an arm mechanism pivotably supported within the casing, and a head slider that is attached to a distal end of an arm of the arm mechanism and configured to detect the data in the recording medium disk. The spindle is configured to be driven by a spindle motor of the playing apparatus without being contacted by the spindle motor. The VCM coil is to be positioned between VCM magnets of the playing apparatus and is configured to drive the pivoting of the arm mechanism based on a drive current supplied from the power supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Patent number: 7075872
    Abstract: An objective lens supporting apparatus of an optical pickup includes a lens frame in which an objective lens is mounted; receiving member for receiving driving forces for displacing the objective lens in the direction of the optical axis and in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis is disposed; a support base in which generating member for generating the driving forces is disposed; an elastic member W extended from the support base and fixed to the lens frame for swingably supporting the lens in a cantilevered manner; and a tilting member for inclining the optical axis of the objective lens with respect to the support base by tilting the lens frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Publication number: 20060023330
    Abstract: A hard disk device is to be mounted onto a playing apparatus to play data in the hard disk device, and includes a casing, a spindle, a power supply circuit and a VCM coil accommodated within the casing, a recording medium disk rotatably supported on the spindle, an arm mechanism pivotably supported within the casing, and a head slider that is attached to a distal end of an arm of the arm mechanism and configured to detect the data in the recording medium disk. The spindle is configured to be driven by a spindle motor of the playing apparatus without being contacted by the spindle motor. The VCM coil is to be positioned between VCM magnets of the playing apparatus and is configured to drive the pivoting of the arm mechanism based on a drive current supplied from the power supply circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui
  • Publication number: 20060007794
    Abstract: A portable hard disc device which is read by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, including: a disc for recording and/or reproducing; a head slider for recording and/or reproducing the disc; an arm mechanism for moving the head slider to a predetermined position; a voice coil motor type coil for driving the arm mechanism by being driven by an external magnetic field generated by magnets provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a current supplied from a power circuit; a spindle for rotating the disc after the disc is fixed; and a power circuit for supplying a current to the voice coil motor type coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventor: Tsutomu Matsui