Patents Assigned to The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11746215
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a molded article provided with a resin part formed with a thermoplastic resin composition containing 5 to 70 parts by mass of cellulose based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin and containing an organic peroxide, wherein a tensile strength of a resin molded body formed with the thermoplastic resin composition measured in accordance with JIS K 7161 is 40 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaekyung Kim, Kenichi Suyama, Yasuo Nakajima, Eiji Kozawa
  • Publication number: 20230272198
    Abstract: A resin composition, including the following components (A) and (B); and at least one kind of the following components (C) and (D): (A) a low density polyethylene resin; (B) an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin; (C) a thioether compound; and (D) fluororubber, in which: a content of the component (A) is 5 to 40 parts by mass and a content of the component (B) is 60 to 95 parts by mass in 100 parts by mass of a total content of the components (A) and (B), a total content of the components (C) and (D) is 0.05 to 1 part by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total content of the components (A) and (B), and a proportion of a vinyl acetate component in the component (B) is 40 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAHASHI, Hideyuki OSUGA
  • Publication number: 20230272199
    Abstract: A resin composition, including: an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer resin as a resin component; an imidazole compound, a phenol compound, and a thioether compound as an antioxidant; and a bromine compound and an antimony compound as a flame retardant, wherein the resin composition has a content of the imidazole compound of 14 to 24 parts by mass, a content of the phenol compound of 1.0 to 2.0 parts by mass, a content of the thioether compound of 0.3 to 0.9 parts by mass, a content of the bromine compound of 15 to 30 parts by mass, and a content of the antimony compound of 5 to 15 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of a total content of the resin component in the resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Kenji TAKAHASHI, Michimasa WATANABE, Akihiro NAGAO, Hideyuki OSUGA
  • Publication number: 20230275427
    Abstract: A power system includes: power converters, each including a power conversion unit configured to convert an input power, and output the converted power, a controller configured to execute a primary control for controlling the output by controlling the power conversion unit based on: a reference function having a drooping characteristic defined according to an input value and a voltage of the bus or a power of the power converter to which the power conversion unit is connected, and an update unit configured to update a control method on the output; a central control device configured to execute a secondary control of controlling the power converter; the bus connected to the power conversion unit; and a power element connected to the power converter and configured to supply, consume and charge power. The central control device performs the secondary control on the power converter according to an update instruction to update the control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro RIKISO, Asuka ABE
  • Patent number: 11738700
    Abstract: A wire exterior body and an exterior-covered wire harness, capable of reducing vibration noise generated by vibration of the exterior body attached to a vehicle or the like and the wire harness in the exterior body, caused by vibration of the vehicle or the like, are provided. A wire exterior body to be attached to an outer periphery of a wire, formed by bending a resin sheet, includes a plurality of wall parts extending along the extending direction of the wire and forming an accommodating part for accommodating the wire. At least one of the plurality of wall parts has a protruding part protruding from the at least one wall part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Oshino, Yoshikazu Kamei, Hiroshi Suyama, Shuji Yokozeki, Naoyuki Kojima
  • Publication number: 20230263953
    Abstract: A medical device that can confirm a predetermined portion in a medical instrument implanted for use in a body. A medical instrument includes a main body part, and a medicinal solution container installed in the main body part. A notification part includes a plurality of light emitting portions that emit light by use of power received by a power receiving part to notify that a predetermined state is reached, when a relative positional relation between a power transmission part and the power receiving part reaches the predetermined state by moving the power transmission part, and a soft part into which an injection needle is inserted, the plurality of light emitting portions are arranged along an outer edge of the soft part. A first coil is a coreless coil disposed to have an inner diameter larger than an outer diameter of the medicinal solution container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuki SUEMATSU, Atsushi HIMURA, Takeshi YAGI, Kazutaka NARA, Tsunenori ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230269910
    Abstract: A vapor chamber including a container having a cavity portion formed inside, and including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, a working fluid sealed in the cavity portion, and a vapor flow path through which the working fluid in a gas phase flows, the vapor flow path being provided in the cavity portion, wherein a container inner surface area increasing unit including a protruding part is formed on an inner surface of the first surface, and a first wick structure is provided on a surface of the protruding part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenya KAWABATA, Yoshikatsu INAGAKI, Hirofumi AOKI, Hiroshi OKADA, Yosuke WATANABE, Hideaki KAWABATA
  • Publication number: 20230268250
    Abstract: A vapor chamber includes a working fluid in an internal space formed between a first metal plate and a second metal plate. The first metal plate includes a plate part, and a first circumferential edge wall part which extends from a circumferential edge of the plate part toward the second metal plate. The second metal plate includes a plate part, and a second circumferential edge wall part which extends from a circumferential edge of the plate part toward the first metal plate. The vapor chamber includes a joining part and at least one extending part. The first circumferential edge wall part of the first metal plate and the second circumferential edge wall part of the second metal plate are joined by the joining part, and the extending part is joined with the joining part, and extends from the joining part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Saki TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20230264007
    Abstract: A power supply device includes a power transmission coil which supplies electric power from outside the body in a non-contact manner via a power reception coil of an intracorporeal implanting-type medical appliance to which a drug solution is injected from outside the body. A support supports the power transmission coil, and an adhesive part is formed on the side of the support facing the body surface of a living subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuki SUEMATSU, Atsushi HIMURA, Takeshi YAGI, Kazutaka NARA, Shusuke KAYA, Tsunenori ARAI
  • Publication number: 20230266069
    Abstract: A heat transport device in a container having an internal space filled with a working fluid, includes an evaporator which causes the working fluid to evaporate, a condenser separated from the evaporator and which causes the working fluid to condense, and an intermediate part arranged between the evaporator and the condenser and having at least one main groove which extends continuously from the condenser to the evaporator through the intermediate part. A part or entirety of main grooves among the at least one main groove is a sloped groove having a sloped groove bottom that, when viewing a cross section along an extending direction of the main groove, slopes from a groove bottom position of a groove portion positioned at the condenser towards a groove bottom position of the groove portion positioned at the evaporator, so as to approach a bottom surface of the heat transport device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro UEKUBO
  • Publication number: 20230257301
    Abstract: Provided is a colored optical fiber of which a primary layer is easily formed. The colored optical fiber includes a bare optical fiber, a primary layer formed of an ultraviolet curing resin covering the bare optical fiber, and a secondary layer formed of an ultraviolet curing resin covering the primary layer. Young's modulus of the primary layer is smaller than 70% with respect to a saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer. The saturated Young's modulus of the primary layer is larger than or equal to 0.84 MPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuniaki ISHIZUKI, Minoru KASAHARA, Mitsuhiro IWAYA
  • Publication number: 20230256539
    Abstract: A laser welding method includes: preparing a first member and a second member, the first member and the second member having a first end portion and a second end portion in a first direction, respectively; arranging the second member adjacent to the first member in a second direction intersecting with the first direction such that a distance between the first end portion and the second end portion is 0 or more along the first direction; forming a first molten pool protruding from the first end portion toward at least the second end portion, by emitting laser light to the first end portion; forming a bridging molten pool by emitting laser light to at least the first end portion after the forming of the first molten pool, the bridging molten pool bridging over the first end portion and the second portion; and solidifying the bridging molten pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomomichi YASUOKA, Shinji SATOH, Nobuyasu MATSUMOTO, Sayo SUGA, Fumika NISHINO, Jun TERADA, Kazuyuki UMENO, Masamitsu KANEKO, Takashi SHIGEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20230258416
    Abstract: A vapor chamber has a working fluid in an internal space formed between a first metal sheet and a second metal sheet, in which the first metal sheet includes a recessed channel and at least one projecting part. The recessed channel is provided at an inner surface of the first metal sheet; the projecting part projects from the inner surface of the first metal sheet toward the second metal sheet, and a top face of the projecting part abuts the second metal sheet. The vapor chamber includes at least one top face joining part and gap flow channel part, the top face joining part joins part of the top face of the projecting part and the second metal sheet, and the top face and the second metal sheet are separated at the gap flow channel part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kengo TANAKA
  • Patent number: 11725883
    Abstract: Provided herein is an example heat sink including a heat dissipation unit including a plurality of heat dissipation fin groups including a plurality of heat dissipation fins, the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming a laminated structure and a plurality of heat pipes, one end portions of which are thermally connected to a heating element and other end portions of which are inserted into a space provided between the plurality of heat dissipation fin groups forming the laminated structure and thermally connected to the heat dissipation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Tochigi, Masahiro Meguro, Hiroshi Sakai, Kenya Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20230252892
    Abstract: The communication system in an embodiment includes a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a controller that issues an instruction for executing priority control when a priority vehicle passes through a place where a roadside unit is installed. The priority control prioritizes a first communication performed by the priority vehicle via the roadside unit over a second communication performed by anything other than the priority vehicle via the roadside unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro MOCHIZUKI, Kazutaka SHIMOOSAKO, Takumi MATSUMOTO, Hiroaki RIKIHISA
  • Publication number: 20230253762
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser device includes: a main body including a first layer having n-type conductivity, a second layer having p-type conductivity, and an active layer interposed between the first layer and the second layer, the first layer, the second layer, and the active layer being laminated in a lamination direction; a front-side mirror formed on a front facet of the main body, the front facet being parallel to the lamination direction; and a rear-side mirror formed on a rear facet of the main body, the rear facet facing the front facet in an optical waveguide direction that crosses the lamination direction and the front facet. The first layer includes an electric field control layer having a shorter composition wavelength than an emission wavelength of the active layer. The second layer includes an optical guide layer having a shorter composition wavelength than the emission wavelength of the active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaki WAKABA
  • Patent number: 11721361
    Abstract: There are provided: an aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk, the aluminum alloy substrate including an aluminum alloy including 0.4 to 3.0 mass % of Fe and the balance of Al and unavoidable impurities, in which second phase particles having a longest diameter of 0.5 ?m or more and less than 2.0 ?m are dispersed at a distribution density of 5000 particles/mm2 or more; a method for producing the same; and a magnetic disk using the aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: UACJ CORPORATION, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Kitawaki, Takuya Murata, Makoto Yonemitsu, Yu Matsui, Yasuo Fujii, Ryo Sakamoto, Takashi Nakayama, Wataru Kumagai
  • Patent number: 11719879
    Abstract: An optical fiber includes: a core portion made of glass; a cladding portion that is located on an outer periphery of the core portion and that is made of glass having a lower refractive index than a refractive index of the core portion; and a coating portion that covers an outer periphery of the cladding portion. Further, an average value of a relative refractive-index difference of a center core of the core portion is 0.1 to 0.5%, a fiber diameter including the coating portion is equal to or smaller than 220 ?m, an effective cutoff wavelength is longer than 1260 nm and smaller than 1530 nm, and a mode field diameter of light at 1550 nm is equal to or larger than 9 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazunori Mukasa
  • Patent number: 11718741
    Abstract: A method of producing a heat-resistant crosslinked fluororubber formed body, including: step (1) melt-mixing, with respect to 100 mass parts of base rubber containing 60 to 99 mass % of fluororubber and 1 to 40 mass % of ethylene-based copolymer resin modified with unsaturated carboxylic acid, 0.003 to 0.5 mass parts of organic peroxide, 0.5 to 400 mass parts of inorganic filler, 2 to 15 mass parts of silane coupling agent, and silanol condensation catalyst, in which the step (1) includes, step (a) melt-mixing all or part of the base rubber, the organic peroxide, the inorganic filler and the silane coupling agent at a temperature equal to or higher than a decomposition temperature of the organic peroxide, and step (b) melt-mixing a remainder of the base rubber, and the silanol condensation catalyst, to melt-mix the thus-modified ethylene-based copolymer resin in at least one of the steps (a) and (b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Chiba, Masaki Nishiguchi, Arifumi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11722221
    Abstract: An optical module includes: photoelectric elements including first terminal groups; an integrated circuit including second terminal groups and ground terminals; a carrier substrate; a housing; and a common ground pad. Further, the carrier substrate is fixed to one surface of the housing, the carrier substrate includes signal wiring parts and a ground wiring part, the ground wiring part includes terminal pattern parts, a common pattern part, and a coupling part, each of the terminal pattern parts being disposed between the corresponding signal wiring parts and electrically connected with one of the ground terminals, the common pattern part being disposed on a side where the common ground pad is provided on the carrier substrate, the coupling part electrically connecting each terminal pattern part and the common pattern part, and the ground terminals of the integrated circuit are electrically connected with the common ground pad through the ground wiring part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nagashima, Yozo Ishikawa, Atsushi Izawa