Patents Assigned to Enplas Corporation
  • Patent number: 12247645
    Abstract: This planetary gear mechanism comprises a plurality of planetary gears having planetary teeth sections on the outer peripheral surfaces, and an internally toothed gear which is provided so as to surround the plurality of planetary gears and the inner peripheral side of which has an internal teeth section that meshes with the planetary teeth sections, the internally toothed gear having a sliding section that slides against the end surfaces of the planetary gears on one side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Takuya Kaneko
  • Patent number: 12220654
    Abstract: Provided is a filter-attached cartridge which is inexpensive and has high productivity. This filter-attached cartridge has: a first resin mesh which is an integrally molded body having a plurality of ribs arranged therein in a lattice shape; and a cylinder formed in a cylindrical shape so as to surround the first mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Uemura, Koji Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20250035864
    Abstract: An optical connector (120) according to the present invention comprises: a holding unit (121); a first optical unit (122), a second optical unit (123), a convex unit (124), concave unit (125), a first inner regulating surface (126) and a first outer regulating surface (127). When the optical connector (120) is engaged with the other optical connector, the convex unit (124) and the concave unit (125) are configured to be respectively engaged with the concave unit (125) and the convex unit (124) of the other optical connector, the first inner regulating surface (126) is configured to contact the first outer regulating surface (127) of the other optical connector, and the first outer regulating surface (127) is configured to contact the first inner regulating surface (126) of the other optical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Ayano HINATA, Honoka NARA
  • Patent number: 12204151
    Abstract: A ferrule includes a holding part, a first surface, and a second surface. The holding part includes a holding recess, a first groove disposed at the holding recess along an extending direction of the optical transmission member, the first groove being a groove where the optical transmission member is disposed, a pressing member configured to press the optical transmission member toward the first groove, and a sliding part disposed at the holding recess and the pressing member, and configured to slide the pressing member with respect to the holding recess along the extending direction of the optical transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Ayano Hinata, Yuto Kujirai
  • Patent number: 12164122
    Abstract: An electromagnetic flux controlling member includes an incidence surface for allowing incidence of an electromagnetic wave, and an emission surface for emitting the electromagnetic wave incident on the incidence surface to an outside. At least one of the incidence surface and the emission surface includes a base curved surface and a plurality of protrusions arranged on the base curved surface. Each of the plurality of protrusions includes a conical tip portion disposed such that at least a part of an edge of a bottom surface of the conical tip portion makes contact with the base curved surface, and a partially columnar leg portion disposed between the conical tip portion and the base curved surface. A central axis of the conical tip portion and a central axis of the partially columnar leg portion are parallel to a main axis of the electromagnetic flux controlling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Takayoshi Suganuma, Takayuki Arai
  • Patent number: 12162004
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a fluid handling device which can be manufactured more conveniently, can easily open and close a channel, and can be miniaturized. The fluid handling device of the present invention includes: a first channel; a second channel; and a valve disposed between the first channel and the second channel, in which the valve includes: a groove-shaped valve seat disposed in a board, and a flat plate-shaped flexible layer covering the groove-shaped valve seat, and the valve communicates between the first channel and the second channel when the flat plate-shaped flexible layer and a bottom of the groove-shaped valve seat are spaced apart from each other, and blocks communication between the first channel and the second channel when the flat plate-shaped flexible layer and an inner wall of the groove-shaped valve seat are in contact with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuya Sunaga, Seiichiro Suzuki, Koichi Ono
  • Publication number: 20240402440
    Abstract: An optical receptacle includes an incidence surface and an emission surface. R1/|R2|>1.5 (Equation 1) and T/(R1+R2)>1.5 (Equation 2) are satisfied, where R1 is a curvature radius of a center of the incidence surface, R2 is a curvature radius of a center of the emission surface, and T is a light path length between the center of the incidence surface and the center of the emission surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Tomohiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20240402431
    Abstract: The optical receptacle includes an incidence surface and an emission surface. Light emitted from the light-emitting element includes a first light beam and a second light beam. A first light flux of the first light beam that is emitted at ±10 degrees with respect to the optical axis is focused on the central light beam of the first light flux after it is emitted from the emission surface. A second light flux of the second light beam that is emitted from an emission point at ±10 degrees with respect to the optical axis is controlled to be located on the opposite side of the emission point side with respect to the central light beam of the first light flux after it is emitted from the emission surface, the emission point being an end portion of one light-emitting surface on the plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Takahiro IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20240402398
    Abstract: A light flux controlling member of the present invention includes: a vortex surface including a plurality of phase control surfaces having a vortex shape around a central axis and radially divided with the central axis at a center, and a plurality of step surfaces each configured to connect end portions of adjacent two phase control surfaces of the plurality of phase control surfaces. Upper sides of the plurality of step surfaces intersect each other at a center portion of the vortex surface. In side view, a curve extending from the center portion toward an outer periphery part of the vortex surface has an inflection point at the center portion of the vortex surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Takahiro IZAWA, Yuki SAITO, Satoshi OSHIMA
  • Patent number: 12153265
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the provision of a ferrule that can be connected even when the space for the connection is small. A ferrule of the present invention is configured to hold a plurality of optical transmission members and to be connected to another ferrule. The ferrule includes a first surface facing the end of the optical transmission members when the optical transmission members are held; and a plurality of second surfaces disposed opposite to the first surface in the ferrule. In the ferrule, the optical transmission members extend in the Z direction, and the ferrule is configured to be moved in a direction orthogonal to the Z direction to be connected to the other ferrule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Ayano Kon, Masato Nakamura, Takayuki Sukegawa, Yuto Kujirai
  • Publication number: 20240382951
    Abstract: A fluid handling device of the present invention includes a first molded article that includes a first through hole. The fluid handling device includes a burr prevention portion, extending in the circumferential direction of the first through hole, on the inner peripheral surface of the first through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoki NAKAO, Makoto OGANE, Yasuhiro MOCHIDUKI, Shota TAKAMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240385420
    Abstract: A light flux controlling member includes: an incidence surface, two total reflection surfaces, two first emission surfaces, and a second emission surface. The two total reflection surfaces are each a part of a surface that is obtained through rotation with a virtual half straight line as a rotation axis. The two virtual half straight lines each intersect the first emission surface. In plan view of the light flux controlling member, one ends of the two virtual half straight lines are located at the same point on the second axis, and an angle between the two virtual half straight lines is smaller than 180°. The angle between the two virtual half straight lines is formed on a side on which an area of the second emission surface is larger with respect to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Masayo TAKIZAWA
  • Patent number: 12122669
    Abstract: A manufacturing method capable of manufacturing a laminate including a substrate having a recess and a film with a high yield is provided. The method of manufacturing a laminate of the present invention includes: preparing a substrate having a recess; disposing a film on the substrate so as to cover the recess; and obtaining a laminate by thermocompression bonding between the film and the substrate by pressing the film and the substrate with a first elastic body and a second elastic body in a state in which the substrate on which the film is disposed is disposed between the first elastic body and the second elastic body such that the film is on the first elastic body side, in which the first elastic body is harder than the second elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Kitamoto, Ryoya Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20240335577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterilization device comprises: a storage part that is for storing a fluid and has a substantially spherical shape; a supply port for supplying the fluid into the storage part; an outlet for extracting the fluid from the storage part; and a light source for radiating ultraviolet light. When the supply port and the outlet are projected on an imaginary plane orthogonal to the extending direction of the inner surface of a supply channel that is connected to the storage part in the supply port, the centroid of the supply port is spaced apart from the centroid of the outlet. The light source is disposed such that the optical axis thereof is positioned at 75° to 105° with respect to a straight line that connects the centroid the storage part and the centroid of the outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Naohiro ISHIKAWA, Toshinori OKADA, Kakeru NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240319452
    Abstract: An optical receptacle according to the invention has: a first optical surface through which light; and a second optical surface through which light is emitted. When an intersection point of the optical axis of the first optical surface and the first optical surface is defined as an origin, the optical axis of the first optical surface is defined as a Z axis, the axis passing through the origin and perpendicular to the Z axis is defined as an X axis, and the axis perpendicular to the Z axis and the X axis is defined as a Y axis, the first optical surface is configured such that, when collimate light enters through the first optical surface from the inside of the optical receptacle, a second focal point is observed closer to the first optical point as compared with a first focal point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Enplas Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi KANI, Honoka NARA
  • Patent number: 12099077
    Abstract: A socket for electrically connecting a first electrical component, the upper surface of which is pressed upon by a pressing member, and a second electrical component which is positioned below the first electrical component, said socket being equipped with: a socket main body which has a placement surface on which the first electrical component is placed; and a holding part which is provided to the socket main body, holds the first electrical component to the socket main body by engaging the first electrical component in a pressed state in which the first electrical component is pressed upon by the pressing member, and releases the engagement with the first electrical component when the pressing member moves a prescribed distance away from the position which corresponds to the pressed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 12077809
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a new freeze-dried article that is easy to handle and a producing method thereof. A freeze-dried structure of the present invention includes a freeze-dried article and a support member, wherein the support member has an embedded region and a protruding region, the embedded region of the support member is embedded in the internal portion of the freeze-dried article, and the protruding region of the support member protrudes outward from the freeze-dried article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Morikoshi
  • Patent number: 12066480
    Abstract: An air blow guide member 100 for cooling an electrical component accommodated in an electrical component socket 10 is configured to guide flowing air K supplied from a ventilation unit 3 toward the electrical component socket 10. Further, a test device unit 2 including the air blow guide member 100 and the electrical component socket 10 is configured so that the flowing air K supplied from the air ventilation unit 3 is guided toward the electrical component socket 10 by the air blow guide member 100. Further, a test device includes a plurality of the test units 2 arranged from an upstream side toward a downstream side of the flowing air K supplied from the ventilation unit 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mineto Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12066482
    Abstract: A socket for an electrical component including a socket main body 11 including a contact pin, an operating member 12 provided in the socket main body 11 in a vertically movable manner and urged upward, an opening/closing body 14 provided in the socket main body 11 as being capable of being opened and closed and configured to press an electrical component arranged in the socket main body 11 by being closed, an opening/closing link mechanism 15 connected to the opening/closing body 14 with a base end part 15a thereof connected to the socket main body 11 and the operating member 12 to close the opening/closing body 14 when being lifted by the operating member 14, and a depression mechanism 16 which depresses a leading end part 15b of the opening/closing link mechanism 15 when the opening/closing body 14 is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 12050234
    Abstract: A socket is configured to electrically connect a first electric component including a first terminal and a second electric component including a second terminal that is different from the first terminal in arrangement, the socket including: a contact pin configured to electrically connect the first terminal and the second terminal; a base part where the contact pin is disposed; and a sheet member disposed to face a surface of the base part on a second electric component side, the sheet member including an upper electrode configured to make contact with the contact pin when in use, a lower electrode configured to make contact with the second terminal when in use, and a wiring configured to connect the upper electrode and the lower electrode disposed at different positions in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Enplas Corporation
    Inventor: Kazutaka Koshiishi