Patents by Inventor Yoshihiro Machida

Yoshihiro Machida 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: 11974007
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Machida, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Kouji Kamogawa
  • Patent number: 11974008
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Machida, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Kouji Kamogawa
  • Patent number: 11953269
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator; a condenser; a liquid pipe; a vapor pipe; and a loop-like flow channel through which the working fluid flows. At least one of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe includes a first outer metal layer, a second outer metal layer, and an inner metal layer. The inner metal layer includes a porous body. The porous body includes: a first bottomed hole formed in one face of the inner metal layer; a second bottomed hole formed in the other face of the inner metal layer; a pore, wherein the first bottomed hole and the second bottomed hole partially communicates with each other through the pore; and a first column portion provided inside the first bottomed hole. The first column portion is bonded to the first outer metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20240110752
    Abstract: An evaporator includes a first metal layer having a first inner surface and a first outer surface, a second metal layer having a second inner surface and a second outer surface, and a porous body provided between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. The porous body includes a first bottomed hole provided in the first inner surface, a second bottomed hole provided in the second inner surface, a first fine pore, wherein the first bottomed hole and the second bottomed hole partially communicate with each other through the first fine pore, a first groove portion provided in the first inner surface and configured to communicate with the first bottomed hole, and a second groove portion provided in the second inner surface and configured to communicate with the second bottomed hole. The first outer surface and the second outer surface serve as an outer surface of the evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11924502
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Machida, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Kouji Kamogawa
  • Patent number: 11892239
    Abstract: A loop-type heat pipe includes an evaporator configured to vaporize an operating fluid, a first condenser and a second condenser configured to condense the operating fluid, a liquid pipe configured to connect the evaporator and the first condenser and second condenser, a first vapor pipe configured to connect the evaporator and the first condenser; and a second vapor pipe configured to connect the evaporator and the second condenser. The liquid pipe includes a first liquid pipe having a first flow path and connected to the first condenser, a second liquid pipe having a second flow path and connected to the second condenser, and a third liquid pipe having a third flow path connecting to the first flow path and the second flow path and connected to the evaporator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11892241
    Abstract: At least one of an evaporator, a condenser, a liquid pipe, and a vapor pipe includes a first outer metal layer, a second outer metal layer, and an inner metal layer including a porous body. The porous body includes a first bottomed hole formed in one face of the inner metal layer; a second bottomed hole formed in the other face of the inner metal layer; a pore, and a first convex portion provided inside the first bottomed hole. The first convex portion has a proximal end connected to a bottom face of the first bottomed hole and a distal end provided on an opposite side to the proximal end in a thickness direction of the first convex portion. The distal end is provided at a position further recessed toward the bottom face of the first bottomed hole than the one face of the inner metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20240040184
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MACHIDA, Nobuhiro TSUTSUMI, Kouji KAMOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11828538
    Abstract: A loop type heat pipe includes: an evaporator that vaporizes working fluids; a first condenser and a second condenser that liquefy the working fluids respectively; a first liquid pipe that includes a first flow channel and connects the evaporator and the first condenser to each other; a second liquid pipe that includes a second flow channel and connects the evaporator and the second condenser to each other; and a first vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the first condenser to each other; and a second vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the second condenser to each other. The evaporator includes: a third flow channel connected to the first liquid pipe and the first vapor pipe; a fourth flow channel connected to the second condenser and the second vapor pipe; and a partition wall that partitions the third flow channel and the fourth flow channel from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20230366633
    Abstract: The heat pipe includes an injection port into which a working fluid is injected. The injection port has a first outer metal layer, a second outer metal layer, at least one inner metal layer provided between the first outer metal layer and the second outer metal layer, and an injection passage in which the injected working fluid moves, the injection passage demarcated by the first outer metal layer, the second outer metal layer, and the inner metal layer. The first outer metal layer has a first inner surface facing the second outer metal layer and constituting a first inner surface of the injection passage. The first inner surface of the first outer metal layer has at least one first groove portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11808521
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes two outermost metal layers, an intermediate metal layer provided between the outermost metal layers, an evaporator, a condenser, and liquid and vapor pipes connecting the evaporator and the condenser and forming a loop shaped passage. The intermediate metal layer includes a pair of walls forming a part of a pipe wall of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe, a porous body provided between the pair of walls, and a strut penetrating the porous body and bonding the outermost metal layers, and one or more metal layers. Each of the one or more metal layers includes a first part forming a part of the pair of walls, a second part connected to the first part and forming a part of the porous body, and a third part connected to the second part and forming a part of the strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11812091
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Machida, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Kouji Kamogawa
  • Patent number: 11802740
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator configured to vaporize a working fluid; a condenser configured to condense the working fluid; a liquid pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser to each other; and a vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser to each other. Each of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe and the vapor pipe includes: a pair of outer metal layers; an intermediate metal layer provided between the pair of outer metal layers; and a flow channel defined by the pair of outer metal layers and the intermediate metal layer. At least one of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe and the vapor pipe further includes a reinforcing member that is built in at least one of the pair of outer metal layers and that is higher in rigidity than the pair of outer metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11774182
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes a pair of outermost metal layers, an intermediate metal layer provided between the pair of outermost metal layers, an evaporator, a condenser, a liquid pipe and a vapor pipe connecting the evaporator and the condenser and forming a loop shaped passage. The intermediate metal layer includes a pair of walls forming a part of a pipe wall of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe, and a porous body provided between the pair of walls. The intermediate metal layer includes a first surface opposing one of the pair of outermost metal layers, and a plurality of first cavities, and a first projection between mutually adjacent first cavities, respectively famed at the first surface between the pair of walls. A first gap is famed between the first projection and the one of the pair of outermost metal layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11774181
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes: an evaporator; a condenser; a liquid pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser; a vapor pipe that connects the evaporator and the condenser to form a loop flow path; and a porous body provided inside of a part of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe. The evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe have a first main surface. At least one recessed portion is formed in at least part of a first area, located directly above or below the flow path, of the first main surface, and is not formed in a second area, located directly above or directly below a pipe wall of the flow path, of the first main surface and is not formed in a third area, located directly above or below the porous body, of the first main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20230269912
    Abstract: A loop-type heat pipe includes a loop-type heat pipe main body including a loop-shaped flow path in which a working fluid is enclosed, a heat dissipation plate thermally connected to the loop-type heat pipe main body, a magnetic member provided on a surface of at least one of the loop-type heat pipe main body and the heat dissipation plate, and a magnet provided for the other of the loop-type heat pipe main body and the heat dissipation plate and provided facing the magnetic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20230262282
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MACHIDA, Nobuhiro TSUTSUMI, Kouji KAMOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11730057
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a light-receiving device configured to receive solar light, a loop-type heat pipe to which heat is input from the light-receiving device and in which an operating fluid is enclosed in a loop-shaped flow path, and a thermoelectric conversion element configured to convert a temperature difference of the loop-type heat pipe into electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Patent number: 11719490
    Abstract: A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator to vaporizes a working fluid, a condenser to liquefy the working fluid, a liquid pipe to connect the evaporator and the condenser, and a vapor pipe to connect the evaporator and the condenser, and form a loop-shaped passage together with the liquid pipe. A recess is formed in at least a portion of an outer wall surface of a pipe wall of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Machida
  • Publication number: 20230239530
    Abstract: A digital content operating apparatus, including: a communication unit which communicates with an external device which has a display for displaying the digital content; a user operation interface which receives a user operation to control the digital content which is displayed on the external device; a display which displays either a linear content operation panel or an interactive content operation panel; and a controller which controls the user operation interface corresponding to information on the digital content which is displayed on the external device; wherein either the linear content operation panel or the interactive content operation panel is displayed alternatively as the user operation interface on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshihiro MACHIDA, Nobuhiro TSUTSUMI, Kouji KAMOGAWA