Patents Assigned to Origin Electric Company, Limited
  • Patent number: 7602627
    Abstract: The present invention is an electric power source in which a plurality of inverters operate on the same frequency and the plurality of inverters are connected in parallel so that a resistance value expressed by (1??·G)/(?·G) where ? is the output voltage feedback gain, ? is the output current feed forward gain, and G is the inverter current gain, is made to be the equivalent output impedance; and is an electrical power source in which the cross-current between the inverters are made to be an acceptable value or below by adjusting the output of each of the inverters by controlling the equivalent output impedance by modifying both or either one of the output voltage feedback gain ? or the output current feed forward gain ?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited.
    Inventors: Masaaki Ohshima, Shuuichi Ushiki, Jirou Fukui
  • Patent number: 7557539
    Abstract: A charging device including an assembled battery having plural secondary batteries serially connected, a charge power source unit which supplies charging current to both ends of said assembled battery having plural secondary batteries serially connected, and plural charge controllers which connect to both ends of each secondary battery among said plural secondary batteries; wherein said charge power source unit includes a charging current output unit which outputs charging current to said assembled battery, and a control unit which controls the current of said charging current output unit based on notification of the bypass current from said charge controllers; and wherein each of said plural charge controllers includes a current control unit which bypasses the current that flows to said secondary battery when the terminal voltage of said secondary battery has reached a preset voltage value, and a notification unit which notifies the control unit of said charge power source unit of said bypass current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignees: NTT Facilities, Inc., Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinya Takagi, Toshio Matsushima, Kazuo Tsukamoto, Takuya Sudo
  • Publication number: 20080199705
    Abstract: A coating composition includes, with respect to (1) 100 parts by weight of epoxy-group contained polyester modified vinyl polymer (D) obtained by copolymerization of a vinyl monomer (A) containing an alicyclic epoxy group and a vinyl monomer (B) containing polyester in a side chain, (2) 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an organic metal compound, and (3) 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a silicon compound having a silanol group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: ORIGIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kaoru Mochizuki
  • Publication number: 20080093755
    Abstract: This manufacturing device for an optical disc includes: a disc-supporting base on which a disc substrate is mounted; a pin-shaped member arranged at a center of the disc-supporting base, and is movable in the vertical in a center hole of the disc substrate; and a capping member which is slidably placed on a top of the pin-shaped member, and closes the center hole of the disc substrate, wherein when the capping member placed on the top of the pin-shaped member is lowered such that a back face of the capping member contacts an around of the center hole of the disc substrate mounted on the disc-supporting base, the capping member slides on the top of the pin-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: ORIGIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hironobu Nishimura, Masahiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080057181
    Abstract: With respect to a liquid material such as an adhesive supplied at an inside portion between substrates, or the liquid material supplied to the inside portion on a substrate, a step of extending by rotation at a high speed and a step of rotating at a low speed are repeatedly and alternately conducted, and radiation of light is continuously or intermittently moved in order to gradually semi-cure or cure the liquid material in a radial direction from inside to outside. Therefore, the thickness of a resin layer made from the liquid material is gradually fixed in a radial direction from inside to outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2004
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: ORIGIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Takayuki Suzuki, Naoto Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20070275296
    Abstract: An acid liquid leakage sensor quickly detecting liquid leakage from a device, such as a battery or the like, containing an acid liquid includes a first conductive member, a second conductive member, and an electrically insulating material which establishes an electrically insulating state between these first and second conductive members. The electrically insulating material includes a macromolecular compound having a basic functional group, and an electrical insulation characteristic or high resistance characteristic that decreases upon reaction with an acid liquid. It is possible to detect leakage of acid liquid, such as battery fluid, by detecting the change of conductive state between the first conductive member and the second conductive member which accompanies a decrease of the electrical insulation characteristic or high resistance characteristic of the electrically insulating material, when acid liquid leaks out and drips down the electrically insulating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicants: Origin Electric Company, Limited, NTT facilities, Inc.
    Inventors: Takeharu Ueda, Kunihisa Satoh, Keiichi Sato, Ichiro Kiyokawa, Tomonobu Tsujikawa, Toshio Matsushima
  • Patent number: 7279069
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to considerably reduce the amount of heat generated in comparison with a conventional lamp to decrease the thermal effects on an optical disc in an adhesive curing method suitable for curing adhesive supplied between the substrates of a DVD or other optical disc in particular. In the adhesive curing method as claimed in the present invention, an adhesive is cured by irradiating with ultraviolet rays using semiconductor elements that emit ultraviolet rays instead of a lamp. In this case, light-emitting semiconductor elements are used that emit ultraviolet rays having a wavelength within a range in which the transmittance relative to the adhesive before curing is lower than the transmittance relative to the adhesive after curing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Kobayashi, Shinichi Shinohara, Hironobu Nishimura
  • Patent number: 7244343
    Abstract: A sputtering apparatus is provided with a DC power supply 1, an inverter 2 that converts DC voltage to AC voltage, a matching circuit 10 that transforms the AC voltage, a rectifier 4 that converts the transformed AC voltage to direct current, and a sputtering load 6. The matching circuit 10 has a transformer 3 that transforms AC voltage from the inverter 2, inductance L provided in series with at least one of the primary winding 31 and secondary winding 32, and a condenser C provided in parallel with at least one of the primary winding 31 and secondary winding 32 through inductance L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company Limited
    Inventors: Kiyomi Watanabe, Kiyoshi Komatsu, Kazuo Sakai, Hiroyuki Ikoshi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Toshio Kobayashi, Tadashi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20070092741
    Abstract: According to the present invention, there are provided a coating material composition for chromium plating, which can maintain high adhesion to the chromium plated surface of a chromium plated material having reduced adhesion for a long period and also can form a coating film having excellent chemical resistance, and an article comprising a coating film made of the same. The coating material composition for chromium plating, comprises a vinyl-based polymer (A) obtained by polymerizing a vinyl-based monomer mixture containing a vinyl-based monomer having an amino group, and a compound (B) having an epoxy group and a hydrolyzable silyl group in a molecule, wherein the vinyl-based polymer (A) has a glass transition temperature of lower than 30° C., and the content of the vinyl-based monomer having an amino group is 5% by weight or more and less than 20% by weight in the vinyl-based monomer mixture (100% by weight).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: ORIGIN ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Genjima
  • Patent number: 7198478
    Abstract: A method of treating a disc plate. has the following operations of: molding a mold disc plate through an injection molding; and spinning the mold disc plate at a high spin speed. The spinning operation has at least one of the following two sub-operations of: reducing a warp of the mold disc plate with a centrifugal force caused during the spinning operation, and reducing a temperature of the mold disc plate during the spinning operation. Moreover, an apparatus of treating a disc plate has: a conveyer for conveying a mold disc plate obtained through an injection molding; a disc bench for receiving the mold disc plate conveyed with the conveyer; and a spin driver for spinning the disc bench when a temperature of the mold disc plate is higher than 90° C., to thereby spin the mold disc plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2007
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Masahiro Nakamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Shinichi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 7184282
    Abstract: To suppress a DC component in AC power in a power converter for converting DC power to AC power. DC power is converted to AC power by a converter 2, and the AC power is supplied to output terminals u1 and u2 via an inductor 3. The converter 2 is controlled based on an error ?(t) between an output current ip(t) outputted from the converter 2 and a target current j(t) outputted from a target current generation means 110 as a target value for the output current ip(t), and a DC component VD in an output terminal voltage v(t) is detected by a voltage detection means 18. A DC component ID is suppressed by correcting a target current j(t) by a DC component suppression means 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignees: Origin Electric Company, Limited, The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated
    Inventors: Masaaki Ohshima, Hirokazu Shimizu, Shuichi Ushiki
  • Patent number: 7168940
    Abstract: A molded disc substrate obtained by injection molding is rotated at high speed before the molded disc substrate has solidified, and a gas is also made to flow in an outward radial direction along a bottom surface of the molded disc substrate while the molded disc substrate is rotating, and the rotation is stopped after the molded disc substrate has solidified. Thus, a disc substrate with little warping is obtained in a short time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Masahiro Nakamura, Hideo Kobayashi, Shinichi Shinohara
  • Patent number: 7044183
    Abstract: A processing apparatus for substrates that include a plurality of individual substrates having a photo-curable adhesive layer interposed therebetween, including a mounting table, an irradiating device that irradiates the substrates, and a control device that controls the deflection of the substrates (X) while the individual substrates are bonded together by photo-curing the adhesive. The control device calculates a temperature difference ?T between the temperature Th of the mounting table and the temperature Td of the substrates before curing, finds a deflection difference ?X between the deflection X of the substrates after curing and the target deflection setting value Xt, finds a temperature Tc by calculating Tc=?T?M×?X using the constant of proportionality M; and controls the temperatures of at least one of the substrates before curing and the mounting table according to the temperature Tc such that Tc=Th?Td.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Masahiro Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Wakahira, Hideo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6998791
    Abstract: This discharge power supply apparatus is for supplying a D.C. voltage to a discharge load 6 and discharging the same. The discharge power supply apparatus includes an inverter circuit 2 that converts D.C. voltage to A.C. voltage; a transformer 3 having a primary winding 3a to which the A.C. voltage output by the inverter circuit 2 is supplied and a secondary winding 3b; a full-wave rectifier circuit 4 that has a plurality of diodes 4A to 4D and rectifies the A.C. voltage generated by the secondary winding 3b; and a trigger capacitor 7 connected in parallel to a part of the diodes of the full-wave rectifier circuit 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshio Kobayashi, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Tadashi Masuda, Hiroyuki Ikoshi, Kazuo Sakai, Kiyoshi Komatsu, Kiyomi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6982017
    Abstract: A substrate consisting of a plurality of individual substrates and a photo-curable adhesive layer interposed therebetween is irradiated by a curing light, and the deflection of the substrate is controlled by controlling the temperature. The step for controlling the deflection includes the steps of finding the temperature difference ?T between the temperature Th of a mounting table and the temperature Td of the substrates before curing; finding deflection difference ?X between the deflection X of the substrates after curing and the target deflection setting value Xt; finding the temperature Tc by Tc=?T?M×?X by using the constant of proportionality M; and controlling the temperatures of at least one of the substrates before curing and the mounting table according to the temperature Tc such that Tc=Th?Td.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Masahiro Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Wakahira, Hideo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6960270
    Abstract: A molding machine 1 which molds two sheets of disc substrates on which the information is recorded simultaneously, a cooling mechanism 3 for cooling each of the disc substrates, first movably mounting means 2 for movably mounting the disc substrate from the molding machine onto the cooling mechanism, and a second movably mounting means 4 for mounting each of the disc substrates onto a receiving portion of the turn table 5 are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yutaka Matsumoto, Hironobu Nishimura, Masahiko Kotoyori, Koji Yamaguchi, Yoshihiko Naito
  • Patent number: 6914794
    Abstract: A low cost power conversion device operating at a high frequency with high efficiency is realized by using semiconductor switching devices such as FETs being inexpensive and having low withstand voltages and low forward voltage drops. A second error signal obtained by comparing the voltages across two input capacitors connected between both ends of a DC input power supply is subtracted/added from/to a first error signal obtained from a voltage corresponding to a combined DC output of rectifying circuits and the voltage corresponding to a predetermined reference power. Based on the resultant signals, the voltage of a control signal supplied to an inverter circuit in which the voltage across an input capacitor is higher is increased, while the voltage of a control signal supplied to another inverter circuit in which the voltage across another input capacitor is lower is decreased, thereby balancing the voltages across the input capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kiyomi Watanabe, Teruo Tomaki
  • Patent number: 6800168
    Abstract: In a plate bonding system for bonding first and second substrate discs (or other plates) with adhesive, there are provided a first section for bringing the first and second substrate discs closer to each other with the interposition of adhesive, and a second section for producing an electric field in the interspace between the first and second substrate discs. The second section produces the field and thereby deforms the adhesive into a tapered shape to minimize the initial contact area and thereby prevent voids from being involved in the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Koji Yamaguchi, Masahiro Nakamura, Masahiko Kotoyori, Shinichi Shinohara, Hideo Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 6773525
    Abstract: Adhering apparatus for plate shaped matter includes absorbing-and-holding means 10, 20 serving also as electrodes for absorbing and holding respectively first optical disc substrate 1 and second optical disc substrate 2, optical disc substrate moving means 40 for moving second optical disc substrate 2 to be approached to first optical disc substrate, distance detecting means 50 for detecting the distance between optical disc substrates, velocity controlling means 60 for controlling a relative velocity of the second plate shaped matter to the first plate shaped matter and controlling the plate shaped matter moving means in such a manner that the relative velocity immediately after and at a time point at which the adhesive applied onto the first plate shaped matter is brought in contact with the second plate shaped matter is slower than that immediately before the adhesive applied onto the first plate shaped matter is brought in contact with the second plate shaped matter; and voltage application means 71 for a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Shinichi Shinohara, Hideo Kobayashi, Masahiro Nakamura, Kanya Kaji
  • Patent number: 6746564
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing an optical disc, a transparent disc substrate having two relatively wide-area surfaces thereof on at least one of which an information is recorded and a first reflective film is formed onto a dummy disc having similar relatively wide-area surfaces thereof on at least one which another information is recorded and a second reflective film having a light semi-transmissive characteristic is formed are bonded via an adhesive layer and, thereafter, an external force is applied between the dummy disc and the disc substrate through an integrated center hole penetrated through the dummy disc and the disc substrate at center positions thereof to peel off the dummy disc at a first interface between the dummy disc and the second reflective film thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Origin Electric Company, Limited
    Inventors: Osamu Fujisaku, Hironobu Nishimura, Yutaka Matsumoto, Hideo Kobayashi