Patents by Inventor Fumio Kitamura

Fumio Kitamura 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: 6531946
    Abstract: A wound and laminated iron core is formed by winding a soft magnetic thin strip into a circular ring shape or elliptical ring shape. A coil is then wound around almost an entire outer periphery of the ring of wound and laminated iron core. A cross sectional shape of the wound and laminated iron core vertical to a peripheral direction of the ring is any one of: (i) a circular shape, (ii) an elliptical shape, (iii) a substantially regular polygon of at least 6 sides, (iv) a shape encircled by a pair of point-symmetrically positioned circular arcs or elliptical arcs with a nearly straight line connecting respective edges of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs on both sides of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs, and (v) a shape of a substantially regular polygon of at least 4 sides whose apexes comprise a circular arc or an elliptical arc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Abe, Michio Tatsuno, Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 6407655
    Abstract: A wound core for a toroidal transformer has an improved shape, for example, circular or elliptic longitudinal ends in section, to properly attach a coil (toroidal winding) to the wound core. Therefore, the wound core allows a toroidal transformer that employs the wound core to achieve full performance, and improves the productivity of the toroidal transformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20020063618
    Abstract: A wound core for a toroidal transformer has an improved shape, for example, circular or elliptic longitudinal ends in section, to properly attach a coil (toroidal winding) to the wound core. Therefore, the wound core allows a toroidal transformer that employs the wound core to achieve full performance, and improves the productivity of the toroidal transformers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: KITAMURA KIDEN CO., LTD
    Inventor: FUMIO KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20010030594
    Abstract: A wound and laminated iron core is formed by winding a soft magnetic thin strip into a circular ring shape or elliptical ring shape. A coil is then wound around almost an entire outer periphery of the ring of wound and laminated iron core. A cross sectional shape of the wound and laminated iron core vertical to a peripheral direction of the ring is any one of: (i) a circular shape, (ii) an elliptical shape, (iii) a substantially regular polygon of at least 6 sides, (iv) a shape encircled by a pair of point-symmetrically positioned circular arcs or elliptical arcs with a nearly straight line connecting respective edges of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs on both sides of the pair of circular arcs or elliptical arcs, and (v) a shape of a substantially regular polygon of at least 4 sides whose apexes comprise a circular arc or an elliptical arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: October 18, 2001
    Applicant: NKK Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Abe, Michio Tatsuno, Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5488887
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for a strip of a ribbon core comprises a plurality of slitter units for cutting traveling strip material into a predetermined configuration of ribbon core materials. The slitter units are arranged in off-set positions in the traveling direction of the strip material, and one of the strip material cut by each of the slitter units is fed upwardly or downwardly rounding about a traveling line, through which the other of the cut strip material is fed. Therefore, guide rollers can be provided upstream and downstream of each of the slitter units, and a width detecting means can be provided for each of the ribbon core materials, so that a plurality of ribbon core materials can be formed in one time with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5367931
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus for a strip of a ribbon core comprises a plurality-of slitter units for cutting traveling strip material into a predetermined configuration of ribbon core materials. The slitter units are arranged in off-set positions in the traveling direction of the strip material, and one of the strip material cut by each of the slitter units is fed upwardly or downwardly rounding about a traveling line, through which the other of the cut strip material is fed. Therefore, guide rollers can be provided upstream and downstream of each of the slitter units, and a width detecting means can be provided for each of the ribbon core materials, so that a plurality of ribbon core materials can be formed in one time with high precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5310125
    Abstract: A transformer coil winding apparatus for winding a winding wire on a coil bobbin comprises a rotating drive mechanism for rotatably driving the coil bobbin by a friction force between the coil bobbin and the rotating drive mechanism. Further, the transformer coil winding apparatus comprises a detection unit provided on said coil bobbin, a rotation number counting unit for counting number of rotations of the coil bobbin on the basis of the output of the detection unit, and a drive unit for rotatably driving the rotating drive mechanism in response to the number of rotations on the rotation number counting unit. Therefore, the production cost for the transformer can be lowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5188305
    Abstract: When a material having two straight lines is cut into a plurality of series of strips along a plurality of predetermined curves, one series of strips is in direct contact with another adjacent series of strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1993
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 5122725
    Abstract: In a power supply apparatus for a load such a toroidal core testing apparatus, an input current is supplied to the load, and an output voltage of the load is obtained. A current corresponding to one part of the output voltage is negatively fed back to the input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Kitamura, Toshitsugu Tajima
  • Patent number: 5115703
    Abstract: When a material having two straight lines is cut into a plurality of series of strips along a plurality of predetermined curves, one series of strips is in direct contact with another adjacent series of strips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 4866366
    Abstract: In a power supply apparatus for a load such a toroidal core testing apparatus, an input current is supplied to the load, and an output voltage of the load is obtained. A current corresponding to one part of the output voltage is negatively fed back to the input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden., Ltd
    Inventors: Fumio Kitamura, Toshitsugu Tajima
  • Patent number: 4848684
    Abstract: In a wound core to which a cylindrical coil bobbin for windings may be applied, the beginning and/or end portions have a first outer surface with a non-circular elliptic, cross section and a second surface portion on having a circular cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Sasaki, Fumio Kitamura, Akiharu Koike
  • Patent number: 4844312
    Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling a traverse direction of a running strip, a deviation of the running strip in the traverse direction with respect to a reference position is calculated, and the running strip is moved in the transverse direction in accordance with the deviation, thereby correcting the traverse position of the running strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Gomi, Fumio Kitamura
  • Patent number: 4842208
    Abstract: When a wound core is manufactured by winding a continuous strip having a desired shape on a winding spool, a thickness of the strip is measured and summed at predetermined periods. The winding operation of the strip on the winding spool is stopped when the summed thickness has reached a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Kitamura Kiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fumio Kitamura