Patents by Inventor Hideki Nishihara

Hideki Nishihara 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: 8351230
    Abstract: A plurality of power supply circuits Z1? are provided according to a load capacity. The power supply circuits Z1? have sides connected in parallel on the side of a direct current input Vi and have sides connected in series on the sides of alternating current outputs Ao. A rectifying circuit DC1 is connected via a resonance circuit Z2 across a combined output of the serially connected sides of the power supply circuits Z1? on the sides of the alternating current outputs Ao. Switching frequencies are simultaneously controlled by a single control signal outputted from a control circuit S1 based on a direct current output voltage detected from the rectifying circuit DC1 through a detection resistor R5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 8059431
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply which can stably determine whether an overcurrent occurs or not on the secondary side. A sample voltage corresponding to a load current value detected by detection resistors R7 and R8 is compared with a reference voltage by an input-side transistor Q4 and an output-side transistor Q3 which compose a first current mirror circuit 14, so that it is possible to determine whether an overcurrent occurs or not. Moreover, a current passing through the output circuit of the transistor Q3 is temperature-compensated by a second current mirror circuit 17 made up of transistors Q6 and Q5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100182805
    Abstract: A plurality of power supply circuits Z1? are provided according to a load capacity. The power supply circuits Z1? have sides connected in parallel on the side of a direct current input Vi and have sides connected in series on the sides of alternating current outputs Ao. A rectifying circuit DC1 is connected via a resonance circuit Z2 across a combined output of the serially connected sides of the power supply circuits Z1? on the sides of the alternating current outputs Ao. Switching frequencies are simultaneously controlled by a single control signal outputted from a control circuit S1 based on a direct current output voltage detected from the rectifying circuit DC1 through a detection resistor R5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20100149837
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply which can stably determine whether an overcurrent occurs or not on the secondary side. A sample voltage corresponding to a load current value detected by detection resistors R7 and R8 is compared with a reference voltage by an input-side transistor Q4 and an output-side transistor Q3 which compose a first current mirror circuit 14, so that it is possible to determine whether an overcurrent occurs or not. Moreover, a current passing through the output circuit of the transistor Q3 is temperature-compensated by a second current mirror circuit 17 made up of transistors Q6 and Q5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7446512
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a resonant switching power supply device having a wide output voltage variable range by changing its switching frequency, the resonance circuit thereof comprises a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with the switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with the switching transformer, wherein the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is large is formed using the series-connected devices of the first resonance section, and the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is small is formed using the first resonance section, the second resonance capacitor of the second resonance section and the switching transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20080024094
    Abstract: For the purpose of providing a resonant switching power supply device having a wide output voltage variable range by changing its switching frequency, the resonance circuit thereof comprises a switching transformer, a first resonance section connected in series with the switching transformer, and a second resonance section connected in parallel with the switching transformer, wherein the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is large is formed using the series-connected devices of the first resonance section, and the resonance frequency characteristic in the case that the DC load current is small is formed using the first resonance section, the second resonance capacitor of the second resonance section and the switching transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Nishihara, Akeyuki Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20070036995
    Abstract: The laminated metallic sheet for can is composed of a polyester resin film containing about 50% by mole or more of polyethylene terephthalate on at least one side of a metallic sheet, and shows about 22 to about 25 cm?1 of half value width of shift peak caused by the C?O stretching vibration at 1730±20 cm?1 in the Raman spectra, using a linear polarization laser light, on the film of the laminated metallic sheet for can after heat treatment. The metallic sheet does not generate cracks in the film on the metallic sheet and has excellent workability after heat treatment even to the working after heat treatment such as baking finish and baking print.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Takeshi Suzuki, Hiroki Iwasa, Hideki Nishihara, Atsushi Chino
  • Patent number: 5555864
    Abstract: The electric source control device of an internal combustion engine drive vehicle according to the present invention is characterized in that it consists of a primary battery (1) and a secondary battery (2) which are mounted on the internal combustion engine drive vehicle, which are provided with a common terminal (3) of (+) polarity and two independent terminals (4, 5) of (-) polarity and which supply an engine starter and loads with electricity, and a control circuit in which when an engine switch (9) is not connected with the starting point the terminal (4) of (-) polarity of the primary battery (1) is disconnected from that (5) of the secondary battery (2) to make only one of both the batteries and in which when the engine switch (9) is connected with the starting point both the batteries (1, 2) supply the engine starter (6) and the loads in parallel with electricity, either of the terminals (4, 5) of (-) polarity of both the batteries (1, 2) being connected with the terminals of (+) polarity of the engin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Hukuto Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Miyakawa, Hideki Nishihara, Takaaki Kuga, Kazunori Shinohara, Makoto Ishikawa