Patents by Inventor Hideharu Kawai

Hideharu Kawai 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: 11211195
    Abstract: A noise current absorber includes a pair of split magnetic bodies formed by equally splitting an annular magnetic body into an open annular shape, and a pair of housing parts capable of housing the split magnetic bodies. The pair of housing parts are coupled, and thus the pair of split magnetic bodies are abutted into an annular shape. The pair of housing parts include a first spring and a pair of second springs. The first spring is disposed in a central region of a bottom surface of the housing part facing the split magnetic body. The pair of second springs are disposed on both sides of the first spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoyama, Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20190287717
    Abstract: A noise current absorber includes a pair of split magnetic bodies formed by equally splitting an annular magnetic body into an open annular shape, and a pair of housing parts capable of housing the split magnetic bodies. The pair of housing parts are coupled, and thus the pair of split magnetic bodies are abutted into an annular shape. The pair of housing parts include a first spring and a pair of second springs. The first spring is disposed in a central region of a bottom surface of the housing part facing the split magnetic body. The pair of second springs are disposed on both sides of the first spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi AOYAMA, Hideharu KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10165714
    Abstract: A noise current absorber including a pair of housing parts capable of housing each of the pair of magnetic bodies, wherein the pair of magnetic bodies forms an overall cylindrical shape or a ring shape when abutted against each other; an engaging portion and an engaged portion capable of maintaining a closed state of the pair of housing parts; and a wall molded integrally with at least a first housing part of the pair of housing parts, adjacent to an abutting surface of at least the first housing part against a second housing part of the pair of housing parts, the wall protruding to a side where the second housing part abuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20170325367
    Abstract: A noise current absorber including a pair of housing parts capable of housing each of the pair of magnetic bodies, wherein the pair of magnetic bodies forms an overall cylindrical shape or a ring shape when abutted against each other; an engaging portion and an engaged portion capable of maintaining a closed state of the pair of housing parts; and a wall molded integrally with at least a first housing part of the pair of housing parts, adjacent to an abutting surface of at least the first housing part against a second housing part of the pair of housing parts, the wall protruding to a side where the second housing part abuts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventor: Hideharu KAWAI
  • Patent number: 9554493
    Abstract: A holder for a noise current absorber in one aspect of the invention comprises a pair of accommodating portions, and one or more pairs of an engaging portion and an engaged portion. The accommodating portion accommodates a magnetic body. The engaging portion and the engaged portion are engaged with each other and maintain a state that a pair of the magnetic bodies exhibits a cylindrical shape or an annular shape. The engaging portion and the engaged portion form a through hole that penetrates in an insertion direction of the engaging portion. When at least one of the engaging portion and the engaged portion is elastically deformed by using a jig inserted in the through hole, engagement between the engaging portion and the engaged portion is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20160135310
    Abstract: A holder for a noise current absorber of one aspect of the disclosure includes: a pair of accommodating units, the accommodating units including respective recesses, each recess being capable of accommodating each of a pair of magnetic bodies, the magnetic bodies exhibiting a cylindrical shape or an annular shape when abutting surfaces of the respective magnetic bodies abut against each other, and the pair of magnetic bodies exhibiting a cylindrical shape or an annular shape in a closed condition; at least a pair of engaging portion and an engaged portion provided on each of the pair of accommodating units, the engaging portion and the engaged portion engaging with each other while elastically deforming in the closed condition; and a pair of metal springs provided in the respective recesses, the pair of metal springs urging each magnetic body in a direction toward each abutting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HIDEHARU KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20160073557
    Abstract: A holder for a noise current absorber in one aspect of the invention comprises a pair of accommodating portions, and one or more pairs of an engaging portion and an engaged portion. The accommodating portion accommodates a magnetic body. The engaging portion and the engaged portion are engaged with each other and maintain a state that a pair of the magnetic bodies exhibits a cylindrical shape or an annular shape. The engaging portion and the engaged portion form a through hole that penetrates in an insertion direction of the engaging portion. When at least one of the engaging portion and the engaged portion is elastically deformed by using a jig inserted in the through hole, engagement between the engaging portion and the engaged portion is released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Patent number: 9276390
    Abstract: In a bus bar assembly includes a magnetic body having at least a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole and a bus bar. The bus bar is configured so that directions of electrical current flowing through it are opposed to each other at least once. The magnetic body includes a middle leg in the middle region located between portions of the bus bar. At least the middle leg defines a gap rendering a magnetic field discontinuous. The bus bar is configured to extend through the first insertion hole of the magnetic body from a first side of the magnetic body to a second side opposed to the first side with respect to an extending direction of the bus bar and further through the second insertion hole from the second side to the first side. The middle leg is located between the first and second insertion holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Tanimizu, Hideharu Kawai, Kazushige Ueno, Toshio Sakamoto, Keisuke Asoh
  • Patent number: 9105387
    Abstract: A retainer includes a pair of housings having opening surfaces; a connecting portion connecting outer peripheral surfaces of the pair of housings. The retainer is configured to be at a closed state with the opening surfaces of the pair of housing put together and to be at an open state with the opening surfaces of the pair housings separated. Parts of wall surfaces, constituting the housings, are structured as flexible walls capable of deforming, and the connecting portion is connected to the flexible walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Yoshiaki Yanase
  • Publication number: 20150208519
    Abstract: A ferrite clamp includes: a storage case capable of storing a magnetic body and including a pair of separable storage portions; and a pair of electric-wire insertion holes formed in one side surface and the other side surface of the storage case respectively, wherein each of the pair of storage portions includes a protrusion piece and a concave portion, the protrusion piece and concave portion are positioned such that, when the pair of storage portions are assembled together, the protrusion piece disposed in one of the storage portions is fitted into the concave portion formed in the other storage portion, and the protrusion piece disposed in the other storage portion is fitted into the concave portion formed in the one storage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Satoyo Kokaji, Takayuki Naito
  • Publication number: 20150008008
    Abstract: In a bus bar assembly including a magnetic body having insertion holes and a bus bar disposed through the insertion holes, the bus bar is configured so that directions of electrical current flowing therethrough are opposed to each other at least once. The magnetic body includes a middle leg in a middle region located between portions of the bus bar, where the directions of current are opposed to each other and end legs in end regions located opposite the middle region with respect to the portions. At least the middle leg defines a gap which renders a magnetic field produced by the current discontinuous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Tomokazu Tanimizu, Hideharu Kawai, Kazushige Ueno, Toshio Sakamoto, Keisuke Asoh
  • Patent number: 8902036
    Abstract: A ferrite clamp includes a pair of divided cores, each being formed in an open circular shape; and a pair of case parts, each being adapted to hold each of the divided cores. When the case parts are assembled with each other, the pair of divided cores held by the case parts constitute a circular magnetic core having an insertion hole to insert an electric cable therethrough. The case part includes, in a portion thereof to hold an outer peripheral surface of the divided core, a protruding portion which is outwardly convex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20130222103
    Abstract: A ferrite clamp includes a pair of divided cores, each being formed in an open circular shape; and a pair of case parts, each being adapted to hold each of the divided cores. When the case parts are assembled with each other, the pair of divided cores held by the case parts constitute a circular magnetic core having an insertion hole to insert an electric cable therethrough. The case part includes, in a portion thereof to hold an outer peripheral surface of the divided core, a protruding portion which is outwardly convex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20120205367
    Abstract: A retainer includes a pair of housings having opening surfaces; a connecting portion connecting outer peripheral surfaces of the pair of housings. The retainer is configured to be at a closed state with the opening surfaces of the pair of housing put together and to be at an open state with the opening surfaces of the pair housings separated. Parts of wall surfaces, constituting the housings, are structured as flexible walls capable of deforming, and the connecting portion is connected to the flexible walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: KITIGAWA INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Yoshiaki Yanase
  • Publication number: 20090117328
    Abstract: A ceramic sheet has at least one ceramic layer. The at least one ceramic layer includes a plurality of ceramic pieces, at least a part of the plurality of ceramic pieces is formed by cracking a sintered ceramic plate, which at least partially has a flat part, at the flat part of the sintered ceramic plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Toru Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 6892980
    Abstract: A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft is superior in maneuverability, safety, and mobility. The aircraft has turbofan engines with separate core engines having fan engines used commonly for cruising and lifting up. The thrust from the fan engines can be directed to all directions by supporting the fan engines of the turbofan engines with separate core engines with biaxial support so that the fan engines are rotatable in the direction of pitching and rolling. The fan engines are mounted on both sides of each of front and rear sings. With this construction, the VTOL aircraft can cruise and hover by tilting the fan engines about the two axes while using the fan engines commonly for cruising and hovering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideharu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20040201134
    Abstract: A method of forming a magnetic body, alternative to a ferrite core, on a printed circuit board is provided. A printed circuit board is set in a mold and injection molding is conducted. The mold comprises a fixed plate, an intermediate plate and a movable plate. A cavity in the intermediate plate is filled with a melted material (i.e., mixture of resin and magnetic filler) supplied via a sprue and a runner. A cavity in the movable plate is also filled with the material supplied to the cavity in the intermediate plate through a hole in the printed circuit board. When a magnetic body for noise control is directly injection molded onto the printed circuit board in such a way, no gap appears between the magnetic body and the printed circuit board. As a result, the magnetic body functions well as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Toru Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 6758999
    Abstract: A method of forming a magnetic body, alternative to a ferrite core, on a printed circuit board is provided. A printed circuit board is set in a mold and injection molding is conducted. The mold comprises a fixed plate, an intermediate plate and a movable plate. A cavity in the intermediate plate is filled with a melted material (i.e., mixture of resin and magnetic filler) supplied via a sprue and a runner. A cavity in the movable plate is also filled with the material supplied to the cavity in the intermediate plate through a hole in the printed circuit board. When a magnetic body for noise control is directly injection molded onto the printed circuit board in such a way, no gap appears between the magnetic body and the printed circuit board. As a result, the magnetic body functions well as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideharu Kawai, Toru Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 6733614
    Abstract: A thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil is obtained by press bonding a magnetic foil to a thermal conductive layer via a primer layer. Since the primer layer contains a thermal conductive filler, it has high thermal conductivity and does not interrupt thermal conduction from the thermal conductive layer to the magnetic foil. It also spontaneously destroys a skin layer on the surface of the thermal conductive layer upon the press bonding. Accordingly, the thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil of the present invention improves thermal conduction from the thermal conductive layer to the conductive foil, eliminating the unfavorable effects of the skin layer and the primer layer, and thus improves heat radiation of the thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Yamaguchi, Hideharu Kawai, Yasuhiro Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20030143412
    Abstract: A thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil is obtained by press bonding a magnetic foil to a thermal conductive layer via a primer layer. Since the primer layer contains a thermal conductive filler, it has high thermal conductivity and does not interrupt thermal conduction from the thermal conductive layer to the magnetic foil. It also spontaneously destroys a skin layer on the surface of the thermal conductive layer upon the press bonding. Accordingly, the thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil of the present invention improves thermal conduction from the thermal conductive layer to the conductive foil, eliminating the unfavorable effects of the skin layer and the primer layer, and thus improves heat radiation of the thermal conductive sheet with conductive foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Akio Yamaguchi, Hideharu Kawai, Yasuhiro Kawaguchi