Patents by Inventor Akio Murata

Akio Murata 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: 5450256
    Abstract: A head base has at least one head chip fixed thereto. A position of the head chip is adjusted to a predetermined position by applying a laser beam to the head base to cause plastic deformation of the head base. Appropriate laser radiation conditions are set depending upon a necessary amount of positional adjustment of the head chip fixed to the head base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Murata, Hideaki Mukae, Takaaki Maegawa, Masaru Higashionji, Toshiharu Okada
  • Patent number: 5347415
    Abstract: In a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus, it is necessary to adjust the height of each of a plurality of magnetic heads carried by a rotary cylinder for movement together therewith. This adjustment is accomplished by rotating an optical axis of a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator in synchronism with the rotary cylinder so that the optical axis is always maintained stationary relative to the magnetic head. The laser beam is subsequently irradiated to a head base in the proximity of a head chip secured to the head base, thereby adjusting the head height during rotation of the rotary cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Murata, Takaaki Maegawa, Hideaki Mukae, Masaru Higashionji
  • Patent number: 5341256
    Abstract: A head base has at least one head chip fixed thereto. A position of the head chip is adjusted to a predetermined position by applying a laser beam to the head base to cause plastic deformation of the head base. Appropriate laser radiation conditions are set depending upon a necessary amount of positional adjustment of the head chip fixed to the head base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Murata, Hideaki Mukae, Takaaki Maegawa, Masaru Higashionji, Toshiharu Okada
  • Patent number: 5303108
    Abstract: A magnetic head device includes a rotary cylinder and a magnetic head having one end fixed to an inner portion of one surface of the rotary cylinder such that the magnetic head extends from the inner portion toward the outer circumference of the rotary cylinder in alignment with a radius thereof. The head tip is provided on another end of magnetic head. A laser beam is impinged on the base plate at a portion within a range from 2 mm to (5.times.T1/2)mm from the outer edge of head tip where T is a thickness of the bass plate. The portion on which the beam impinged is heated and melts causing the base plate to incline in a vertical direction which is parallel to an axis the rotary cylinder. Thus, the head tip is positioned at a required horizontal level which is perpendicular to the axis of the rotary cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Higashionji, Hideaki Mukae, Akio Murata, Takaaki Maegawa
  • Patent number: 5256850
    Abstract: An azimuth adjusting method for a magnetic head, which includes the steps of forming first and second depressions respectively on a main surface and a reverse surface of the main surface of a magnetic head base for a magnetic head including a magnetic head chip and the magnetic head base so as to reduce thickness of the magnetic head base, projecting heat rays to the first depression to obtain a displacement in a direction opposite to the projecting direction, also projecting the heat rays to a flat plane portion at a bottom of the second depression which is laterally neighboring the first depression so as to effect the azimuth adjustment of the magnetic head, with a reduced thickness of the magnetic head base in a direction of depth for the projection of heat rays due to formation of the depression at the reverse face side of the projection, and also effecting the azimuth angle adjustment in the reverse direction by laterally exchanging the first and second depressions for the projection of heat rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takaaki Maegawa, Akio Murata, Hideaki Mukae, Masaru Higashionji
  • Patent number: 5225953
    Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording/reproducing thin film head of the single pole type formed of a magnetic member provided on its main surface with a grooved portion, and a non-magnetic material filled in the grooves of the grooved portion, thin film conductor coils, an inter-layer insulation film and a main magnetic pole film, wherein at least the thin film conductor coils, the inter-layer insulation film and the main magnetic pole film are laminated on the magnetic member to form a return path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Sumitomo Special Metal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Wada, Akio Murata, Hideki Mine
  • Patent number: 5175869
    Abstract: In a data transmission system, portable terminal equipment is detachably received and mounted in an adapter. The portable terminal equipment includes an input part for inputting input data, a data storage for storing the input data and destination information related to at least one destination, a first interface, a controller for storing the input data in the data storage in response to a first signal and for reading the input data and the destination information from the data storage and supplying the same to the first interface in response to a second signal, and a detection mechanism for generating the first and second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Akio Murata
  • Patent number: 4953051
    Abstract: A composite magnetic head is disclosed which is characterized by the fact that a magnetic head slider part and magnetic head core pieces both made of non-magnetic ceramic and provided on each of the opposed surfaces thereof with at least one layer of soft magnetic film produced in the form of sheet and subsequently shaped as required are integrally joined through the medium of glass members interposed between the opposed surfaces so as to give rise to a magnetic gap and an electromagnetic transducer coil is wound on the magnetic head core pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Sumitomo Special Metal Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Wada, Masateru Nose, Junichi Nakaoka, Akio Murata
  • Patent number: 4943882
    Abstract: A thin-film, perpendicular magnetic recording and reproducing head includes a magnetic substrate having a mechanochemically polished principal surface provided with a plurality grooves filled with a nonmagnetic material and a thin-film conductor coil provided on the polished surface of the substrate. A first insulating layer covering the coil, formed from an inorganic oxide and having a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 .mu.m is provided therethrough with a via hole which extending to a portion of the surface of the magnetic substrate and a first main pole covers the first insulating layer and extends into the via hole to the surface of the magnetic substrate. A second insulating layer formed from an inorganic oxide covers the first main pole and the first insulating layer and has a finely polished surface in which the first main pole has a finely polished exposed surface. A flat second main pole having a small thickness is provided on the polished surfaces of the first main pole and the second insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1990
    Inventors: Toshiaki Wada, Akio Murata
  • Patent number: 4855854
    Abstract: A thin-film, perpendicular magnetic head includes a magnetic recording and reproducing substrate having a mechanochemically polished principal surface that includes a plurality of grooves filled with a nonmagnetic material; a thin-film conducting coil located on the polished surface of the substrate; an insulating layer of inorganic oxide covering the conductor coil and the polished principle surface of the magnetic substrate, this insulating layer including a via hole formed therein and having an exposed surface which is mechanochemically polished; a thin-film main pole on the polished surface of the insulating layer; and a protective overcoat covering the main pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Sumitomo Special Metal Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Wada, Akio Murata
  • Patent number: 4604547
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube including first and second cathodes mounted parallel to each other in the horizontal direction, and a deflecting device disposed along the passages of the first and second electron beams which are emitted from the first and second cathodes so as to apply to the first and second electron beams a rotational force with the axis of the tube as its center, and whereby the first and second electron beams impinge on the phosphor screen at positions which are spaced apart from each other by a distance of approximately half the distance between adjacent scanning lines in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tsunenari Saito, Akio Murata, Koichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 4517771
    Abstract: A workpiece handling machine having an annular barrel structure capable of vibration caused by a plurality of vibration suppliers equipped with unbalancing weights includes a sensor system which is sensitive to any difference between the reference rotational angular phase of one unbalancing weight and those of the other unbalancing weights, and a control system which is responsive to the detected signals of the sensor system for providing an analog or digital feedback control, which adjusts the phase difference to the target value. As such, not only is the synchronized phase of rotation permitted, but also the advance angle of the unbalancing weights with regard to each other can be chosen, depending upon the operational requirements such as the kind of the workpiece and abrasive media, the workpiece working conditions, the time period of the operation, and other parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1985
    Assignee: Shikishima Tipton Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisamine Kobayashi, Tomihiro Ishiguro, Akio Murata
  • Patent number: 4424061
    Abstract: An agent for improving the color fastness of dyed cotton fibers and textiles to chlorinated water which comprises a specific diamine compound. The combination of the diamine and hydrolyzable tannin further increases the color fastness to chlorinated water. The tannin can be more strongly fixed to the fibers by further treating with a metal salt, whereby an excellent color fastness to chlorinated water can be maintained for a prolonged period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1984
    Assignee: Dainippon Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Shimohiro, Akio Murata, Chiyoko Nisioka