Patents by Inventor Akihiko Inaba

Akihiko Inaba 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).

  • Electrical contact for relay and method of manufacturing therefor
    Patent number: 9105412
    Abstract: A rivet-shaped electrical contact for relay is used as a movable contact for the relay. The rivet-shaped electrical contact includes a heavy-load contact portion formed of a first silver-oxide type contact material; and a light-load contact portion formed of a second silver-oxide type contact material. The hardness of the first silver-oxide type contact material is set to be higher than that of the second silver-oxide type contact material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS C.M.I. CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Inaba, Noriaki Murahashi, Masayuki Shibuta, Yasuhiro Sekino, Takahiro Yamada
  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPOSITE CONTACT
    Publication number: 20140201999
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a composite contact in which a flange section with a large diameter at an end of a base part with a small diameter, the composite contact having: a contact section which is made from silver alloy into an upper-surface part of the flange section; and a leg section which is made from copper alloy by forming a large-diameter part so as to form a lower-surface part of the flange section is made integrally with the base part, having the steps of: a primary-forming process forging a copper-alloy wire and a silver-alloy wire having a smaller diameter than that of the copper-alloy wire in a hole of a forming die in a state of being butted to each other so as to form a primary-formed body including a silver-alloy part and a copper-alloy part so that the wires are bonded with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS C.M.I. CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Kita, Hideki Umeoka, Noriaki Murahashi, Shinji Yamanashi, Akihiko Inaba, Hideo Takizawa
  • Electrical Contact for Relay and Method of Manufacturing Therefor (as amended)
    Publication number: 20120175148
    Abstract: A rivet-shaped electrical contact for relay is used as a movable contact for the relay. The rivet-shaped electrical contact includes a heavy-load contact portion formed of a first silver-oxide type contact material; and a light-load contact portion formed of a second silver-oxide type contact material. The hardness of the first silver-oxide type contact material is set to be higher than that of the second silver-oxide type contact material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Materials C.M.I. Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Inaba, Noriaki Murahashi, Masayuki Shibuta, Yasuhiro Sekino, Takahiro Yamada