Patents by Inventor Akira Ishibashi

Akira Ishibashi 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: 8257574
    Abstract: A plating method for pre-plating or plating a cylinder inner peripheral surface to be treated of a cylinder block by introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface by using a plating apparatus provided with a sealing jig having a sealing member and an electrode to which the seal jig is mounted includes the steps, which are performed successively: sealing the cylinder inner peripheral surface by bringing the sealing jig into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface; introducing the treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface; and treating the cylinder inner peripheral surface by applying predetermined charge to the electrode of the plating apparatus and the cylinder block to thereby perform pre-plating or plating process in a state that a liquid to be treated fills a space including the cylinder inner peripheral surface. In the method, the treatment liquid introducing step is performed after confirmation of sealing by the sealing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20120121935
    Abstract: At least two thin pieces, each of which is composed of a structure having conductor layers and dielectric layers laminated therein, are stacked such that those layers intersect each other and that the edges of the conductor layers face with a gap, and the stacked structure is cut along a dividing plane passing the intersecting section of the layers or the vicinity of the intersecting section and dividing the intersection angle of the layers to produce a probe. A magnetic head is produced using magnetic layers as conductor layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Ishibashi, Hideo Kaiju
  • Patent number: 8162041
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including plate fins stacked at respective intervals relative to one another, and heat exchanger tubes penetrating the fins in. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between first and second fluids flowing, respectively, inside and outside the heat exchanger tubes. Each of the fins includes a substantially planar main body and cut-raised portions extending from the main body and disposed at an upstream side of flow of the second fluid. Each of the cut-raised portions corresponds to a respective heat exchanger tube and includes first and second opposed side ends connected to the main body of the fin. The first side end is nearer to the corresponding heat exchanger tube than is the second side end, the first side end is longer than the second side end, and the first side end is disposed at a downstream side of the flow of the second fluid, facing the corresponding heat exchanger tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kaga, Shinji Nakadeguchi, Akira Ishibashi, Shinichi Wakamoto, Toshinori Ohte, Hiroki Murakami, Tadashi Saito
  • Patent number: 8156999
    Abstract: This invention relates to an air conditioner having an air inlet at its upper portion. The heat exchanger (4) includes multiple plate fins (1) arranged in parallel so that air flows therebetween, and heat transfer tubes (2) perpendicularly inserted into the plate fins (1) and arranged perpendicularly to the air flow direction through which working fluid passes. The heat exchanger (4) includes a lower front heat exchanger (4a), an upper front heat exchanger (4b), and a rear heat exchanger (4c) separately produced and arranged to surround the circulating fan (5). The air pressure loss of the lower front heat exchanger (4a) is set to be smaller than the air pressure losses of the other heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubisih Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Ishibashi, Hiroki Okazawa, Masahiro Nakayama, Tadashi Saitou
  • Patent number: 8110077
    Abstract: A sealing jig comes into contact with a cylinder inner peripheral surface as a surface to be processed of a cylinder block and seals the cylinder inner peripheral surface in introducing treatment liquid to the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The sealing jig includes: a sealing member made of an expandable material and having a ring-buoy shape; a lower plate for supporting a lower side of the sealing member; and a seal base disposed so as to face the lower plate and to support an upper side of the sealing member. The sealing member is regulated by the lower plate and the seal base and expanded only in a radial direction to come into contact with the cylinder inner peripheral surface when air is introduced inward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Patent number: 8057647
    Abstract: An electrode mounting structure of a surface treatment apparatus in which a metal electrode is disposed so as to oppose to an inner-peripheral surface of a cylinder, the electrode and the cylinder are energized in a state where treatment liquid is interposed between the electrode and the cylinder inner-peripheral surface so as to perform pre-plating or plating to the cylinder inner-peripheral surface, and the metal electrode is detachably attached to a metal electrode holder member. The structure includes a resin coupler having a threaded portion engaged with a threaded portion formed on the electrode holder member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Asou, Seiya Kunioka, Hitoshi Muramatsu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Akira Ishibashi, Makoto Kawai
  • Patent number: 8037699
    Abstract: When forming fins and heat transfer tubes by aluminum material, a pressure loss in the tube does not increase and a heat exchanger can be provided having heat transfer performance equal to or higher than a copper tube. The heat exchanger includes fins made of an aluminum material having a low deformation resistance and heat transfer tubes made of an aluminum material having a higher deformation resistance than the aluminum material forming the fins, and on whose internal surface the groove is provided to penetrate the fin to be fixed. It is also arranged that the tube axial direction (a) of the inner surface of the heat transfer tube and the direction (b) of the groove provided on the internal surface of the heat transfer tube are substantially parallel. In this case, the groove direction (b) forms an angle of 0 degrees to 2 degrees with respect to the tube axial direction (a) of the inner surface of the heat transfer tube. The depth of the groove of the heat transfer tube after tube expansion is 0.2 mm to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sangmu Lee, Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20110162961
    Abstract: A cylinder block plate processing apparatus in which one end side of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder of a cylinder block is sealed to circulate a process liquid to perform pre-plating or plating processing of the cylinder inner peripheral surface. The apparatus includes: an apparatus body having a workpiece mount table on which the cylinder block is placed; a workpiece holding tool that is provided on the workpiece mount table so as to be vertically movable; an electrode support member including an electrode cylinder mounted to the apparatus body; a processing solution supply member that supplies a processing solution to the electrode support member; an electrode operated by the electrode cylinder; a sealing jig provided to one end of the electrode; a driving mechanism that drives the sealing jig; and a control circuit that controls operations of the processing solution supply member and the driving mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Muramatsu, Seiya Kunioka, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa, Minoru Imai
  • Publication number: 20110113820
    Abstract: To obtain a heat transfer tube for a heat exchanger or the like which can obtain predetermined heat transfer performance without increasing in-tube pressure loss. High ridges 22A having 10 to 20 rows with a predetermined height and low ridges 22B with a height lower than the high ridges 22A having 2 to 6 rows between the high ridges 22A and the high ridges 22A are provided on an inner face helically with respect to a tube axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Sangmu Lee, Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20110094258
    Abstract: A heat exchanger provided with a plurality of plate-like fins 2 arranged in parallel with a predetermined interval and a plurality of flat-shaped heat transfer pipes 3 inserted in a direction orthogonal to said plate-like fins 2 and through which a refrigerant flows, in which said heat transfer pipe 3 has an outside shape with a flat outer face arranged along an air flow direction and a section substantially in an oval shape and first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b made of two symmetric and substantially D-shaped through holes having a bulkhead 32 between the two passages inside, which is bonded to said plate-like fin 2 by expanding diameters of said first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b by a pipe-expanding burette ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sangmu Lee, Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20110000254
    Abstract: When forming fins and heat transfer tubes by aluminum material, a pressure loss in the tube does not increase and a heat exchanger can be provided having heat transfer performance equal to or higher than a copper tube. The heat exchanger includes fins made of an aluminum material having a low deformation resistance and heat transfer tubes made of an aluminum material having a higher deformation resistance than the aluminum material forming the fins, and on whose internal surface the groove is provided to penetrate the fin to be fixed. It is also arranged that the tube axial direction (a) of the inner surface of the heat transfer tube and the direction (b) of the groove provided on the internal surface of the heat transfer tube are substantially parallel. In this case, the groove direction (b) forms an angle of 0 degrees to 2 degrees with respect to the tube axial direction (a) of the inner surface of the heat transfer tube. The depth of the groove of the heat transfer tube after tube expansion is 0.2 mm to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Sangmu Lee, Akira Ishibashi, Takuya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20100266868
    Abstract: A nickel thin film is formed, for example, to a thickness of 2 nm or more on a polyethylene naphthalate substrate by a vacuum evaporation method. A magnetoresistance effect element using ferromagnetic nano-junction is comprised by using two laminates each comprising a nickel thin film formed on a polyethylene naphthalate substrate, and joining these two laminates so that the nickel thin films cross to each other in such a manner that edges of the nickel thin films face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: National University Corporation Hokkaido University
    Inventors: Hideo Kaiju, Manabu Ishimaru, Yoshihiko Hirotsu, Akito Ono, Akira Ishibashi
  • Publication number: 20100205993
    Abstract: A heat exchanger 100 has plate fins 1 laminated at an interval and a heat transfer pipe 2 inserted perpendicularly to the fins formed by a plurality of straight pipe portions 2s and a curved pipe portion 2r communicating end portions thereof with each other. In the plate fin 1, a first slit fin 3a protruding to the side of one face or the like and a second slit fin 3b protruding to the side of the other face or the like are formed by cutting and raising. A straight pipe portion 21a and the like are arranged in a zigzag state in parallel with each other, and a “step pitch Dp”, which is an interval between axial cores thereof in a step direction, and a “row pitch Lp”, which is an interval in a row direction, form relationships of “4 mm?D?6 mm, 14 mm?Dp?17 mm, 7 mm?Lp?10 mm” to an outer diameter D of the heat transfer pipe 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2009
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Matsuda, Akira Ishibashi, Masanori Aoki, Makoto Saito, Sangmu Lee
  • Publication number: 20100104738
    Abstract: A plating pretreatment apparatus for a multi-cylinder block includes a plurality of cylinders that performs a plating pretreatment of a cylinder inner wall surface of each of the cylinders using an electrode disposed so as to oppose to the cylinder inner wall surface by sealing one end of the cylinder inner wall surface and introducing a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface. In such plating pretreatment apparatus, at least one of a power supply device that supplies electricity to the cylinder block and the electrode and a liquid feed pump that feeds the treatment liquid into a gap between the cylinder inner wall surface and the electrode is provided for each of the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro Asou, Seiya Kunioka, Hitoshi Muramatsu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20100105309
    Abstract: In a clean unit which has a dust filter with a blowing power source on the upper surface of a working chamber and which can maintain a clean environment, an external gas flow passage is directly connected or connected through a partition wall, through which dust particles cannot pass but gas molecules can pass, to a feedback gas flow passage for connecting air-tightly a ventilation hole formed in the wall of the working chamber and the inlet of the dust filter to each other. On both sides of the partition wall, the flow velocity vector of a gas flowing in the feedback gas flow passage is made to be equal to the flow velocity vector of the gas flowing in an external gas flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: C'STEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 7703504
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes fins arranged in parallel with each other with a predetermined spacing along the rotational axis direction of a blower. Heat exchanger tubes are inserted into the fins to form rows along a longitudinal direction of the fins connected to each other along the airflow direction, to form refrigerant channels. A branch portion is provided to connection portions of the heat exchanger tubes to increase or decrease the number of paths in the refrigerant channels. Refrigerant flows through each of the refrigerant channels passing through paths mutually different at least at one portion between the refrigerant inlet and the refrigerant outlets, flows along one direction from the windward-side row to the leeward-side row, or from the leeward-side row to the windward-side row in the airflow direction, in sequence between rows. One-path portion is provided in the most windward-side row heat exchanger tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Ishibashi, Kunihiko Kaga, Riichi Kondou, Takuya Mukouyama
  • Publication number: 20100078326
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for plating pretreatment of a cylinder block that includes an electrode performing a plating pretreatment of the cylinder inner wall surface. A gap flow channel communicates with an in-electrode flow channel at a position closest to a seal jig, the gap flow channel being adapted to introduce a treatment liquid to the cylinder inner wall surface, the in-electrode flow channel being adapted to receive the treatment liquid having passed through a communicating hole. The present invention is provided a method for pretreating before plating a cylinder block including disposing an electrode to face the cylinder inner wall surface so as to form a gap flow channel, and introducing a treatment liquid to the gap flow channel thereby flowing through the treatment liquid toward a seal jig and then into an in-electrode flow channel through a communicating hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi MURAMATSU, Seiya Kunioka, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Naoyuki Suda, Akira Ishibashi, Tomohiro Asou, Minoru Imai, Manabu Suzuki, Masahiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20090321253
    Abstract: An electrode mounting structure of a surface treatment apparatus in which a metal electrode is disposed so as to oppose to an inner-peripheral surface of a cylinder, the electrode and the cylinder are energized in a state where treatment liquid is interposed between the electrode and the cylinder inner-peripheral surface so as to perform pre-plating or plating to the cylinder inner-peripheral surface, and the metal electrode is detachably attached to a metal electrode holder member. The structure includes a resin coupler having a threaded portion engaged with a threaded portion formed on the electrode holder member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASOU, Seiya KUNIOKA, Hitoshi MURAMATSU, Nobuyuki SYZUKI, Akira Ishibashi, Makoto Kawai
  • Publication number: 20090301698
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including plate fins stacked at respective intervals relative to one another, and heat exchanger tubes penetrating the fins in. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between first and second fluids flowing, respectively, inside and outside the heat exchanger tubes. Each of the fins includes a substantially planar main body and cut-raised portions extending from the main body and disposed at an upstream side of flow of the second fluid. Each of the cut-raised portions corresponds to a respective heat exchanger tube and includes first and second opposed side ends connected to the main body of the fin. The first side end is nearer to the corresponding heat exchanger tube than is the second side end, the first side end is longer than the second side end, and the first side end is disposed at a downstream side of the flow of the second fluid, facing the corresponding heat exchanger tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiko Kaga, Shinji Nakadeguchi, Akira Ishibashi, Shinichi Wakamoto, Toshinori Ohte, Hiroki Murakami, Tadashi Saito
  • Publication number: 20090277786
    Abstract: A plating processing line or system includes a plurality of surface processing apparatus including a surface processing apparatus for processing a surface of an object to be treated by introducing a treatment liquid to the surface, and a conveyer unit for conveying the object to be treated, which is disposed between the respective surface processing apparatus linearly or in a curved manner. Each of the surface processing apparatus includes a positioning unit for positioning the object to be treated, which has been conveyed by the conveyer unit to a predetermined position, at which the object is subjected to a pre-plating process or a plating process as a surface processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro ASOU, Seiya KUNIOKA, Hitoshi MURAMATSU, Nobuyuki SUZUKI, Akira ISHIBASHI, Minoru IMAI, Manabu SUZUKI, Masahiro OGAWA