Patents by Inventor Hideo Nagasawa

Hideo Nagasawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20220140510
    Abstract: To enable compatibility with smaller, thinner, and multi-polarized cards, to enable miniaturization, flattening, and multi-polarization and increase reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Kyoko MOTOHASHI, Hideo NAGASAWA
  • Patent number: 11233305
    Abstract: A waveguide includes a tubular resin portion formed of resin, a conductor layer formed on an inner surface of the resin portion, and a fitting held by the resin portion. The fitting includes an inner exposed portion having an exposed surface that is not covered with a resin that is a material for the resin portion. The conductor layer covers the exposed surface of the inner exposed portion and is in contact with the inner exposed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Tetsunori Tsumuraya, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 11157197
    Abstract: A memory card socket interconnector is disclosed including a pair of cavities configured to receive a pair of memory cards. The cavities include patterns of memory card interconnect pads. A second surface of the socket interconnector includes socket interconnect pads, distributed across the second surface of the socket interconnector, which are electrically coupled to the memory card interconnect pads. The memory card socket interconnector may further include an anisotropic elastomeric sheet provided between the memory card pads and the memory card interconnect pads in each cavity to enable good electrical contact between the memory card pads and the memory card interconnect pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Molex LLC
    Inventors: John Burke, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20200287263
    Abstract: A waveguide includes a tubular resin portion formed of resin, a conductor layer formed on an inner surface of the resin portion, and a fitting held by the resin portion. The fitting includes an inner exposed portion having an exposed surface that is not covered with a resin that is a material for the resin portion. The conductor layer covers the exposed surface of the inner exposed portion and is in contact with the inner exposed portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Tetsunori TSUMURAYA, Hideo NAGASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200264802
    Abstract: A memory card socket interconnector is disclosed including a pair of cavities configured to receive a pair of memory cards. The cavities include patterns of memory card interconnect pads. A second surface of the socket interconnector includes socket interconnect pads, distributed across the second surface of the socket interconnector, which are electrically coupled to the memory card interconnect pads. The memory card socket interconnector may further include an anisotropic elastomeric sheet provided between the memory card pads and the memory card interconnect pads in each cavity to enable good electrical contact between the memory card pads and the memory card interconnect pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: John Burke, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 9270042
    Abstract: A card connector includes a housing that houses a card provided with a terminal member, a connecting terminal and a cover member. The connecting member is attached to the housing that connects with the terminal member of the card. The cover member is connected to the housing and forms a card housing space between the housing, and is attached to a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 9167722
    Abstract: The electronic device according to the Present Disclosure is an electronic device provided with a heat-dissipating portion and an electronic component socket that can accommodate, therein, an installable electronic component, wherein the electronic component socket has a thermal connecting portion for connecting thermally to the electronic component, and, when the electronic component is operating, the electronic component and the heat-dissipating portion are connected thermally through the thermal connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 9106006
    Abstract: A connector, the connector comprises a tabulate main body and a plurality of tabulate conductors provided on the main body, nested with a pairing connector. Each conductor includes a tabulate terminal located in the main body and engaged with a pairing terminal of the pairing connector, and a rear end outwardly extended to the main body and connected to a terminal connecting part provided on the surface of a mounting part. A face of the rear end on the side of the mounting part is more distant to the surface of the mounting part than a face of the main body on the side of the mounting part. The rear end is connected to the terminal connecting part through an anisotropic conductive film provided between its face on the side of the mounting part and the terminal connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Keiko Fukui, Hideo Nagasawa, Toshihiro Niitsu, Hirokazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9057565
    Abstract: The cooling device comprises a base with a recessed part in a first surface, a plurality of heat radiating fins standing erect on a second surface on the reverse side of the first surface, and a flat, plate-like thermal diffusion part housed inside the recessed part. The upper surface of the thermal diffusion part makes thermal contact with the upper surface of the recessed part, the side surface of the thermal diffusion part makes thermal contact with the side surface of the recessed part, and the thermal diffusion part diffuses in the planar and orthogonal directions heat from the heat generating element arranged on the bottom surface of the thermal diffusion part by vaporizing and condensing coolant sealed inside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 8917507
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided. The cooling device is equipped with an electronic substrate on which a heating element has been mounted, and comprises a thermal diffusion unit of a plate-like shape. A front surface of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a first circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. A rear face of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a second circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. And, the thermal diffusion unit diffuses heat from the heating element according to vaporization and condensation principles of a refrigerant sealed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 8804338
    Abstract: To provide electronic equipment having a heat discharging function capable of achieving the maximum in the signal processing capability of a portable terminal by preventing the functional restriction of the portable terminal by effectively discharging exothermic heat from the portable terminal at the time of coupling the portable terminal whose function is restricted by heat generation to an external device, as well as a heat discharging system and a heat discharging method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 8801439
    Abstract: The Present Disclosure is a module socket for mounting a module on a mounting member, in which the module socket has a first connector including a flat housing, a first conductive pattern arranged on the mating side surface of the housing, and a male terminal protruding from a surface of the first conductive pattern, and a flat second connector formed from plate-shaped metal and including a female terminal elastically interposing the male terminal, and in which either the first conductor or the second conductor is attached to the module and the other is attached to the mounting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Eriko Sato, Toshihiro Niitsu, Hirokazu Suzuki, Akihiro Tezuka, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20140148046
    Abstract: A card connector includes a housing that houses a card provided with a terminal member, a connecting terminal and a cover member. The connecting member is attached to the housing that connects with the terminal member of the card. The cover member is connected to the housing and forms a card housing space between the housing, and is attached to a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20130344719
    Abstract: A connector, the connector comprises a tabulate main body and a plurality of tabulate conductors provided on the main body, nested with a pairing connector. Each conductor includes a tabulate terminal located in the main body and engaged with a pairing terminal of the pairing connector, and a rear end outwardly extended to the main body and connected to a terminal connecting part provided on the surface of a mounting part. A face of the rear end on the side of the mounting part is more distant to the surface of the mounting part than a face of the main body on the side of the mounting part. The rear end is connected to the terminal connecting part through an anisotropic conductive film provided between its face on the side of the mounting part and the terminal connecting part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Keiko FUKUI, Hideo NAGASAWA, Toshihiro NIITSU, Hirokazu SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20130194747
    Abstract: The electronic device according to the Present Disclosure is an electronic device provided with a heat-dissipating portion and an electronic component socket that can accommodate, therein, an installable electronic component, wherein the electronic component socket has a thermal connecting portion for connecting thermally to the electronic component, and, when the electronic component is operating, the electronic component and the heat-dissipating portion are connected thermally through the thermal connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Patent number: 8475181
    Abstract: A FPC connector has an insulative housing with a general U-shape that defines an opening that receives a free end of a length of FPC. The housing has a base and two leg portions and the leg portions have engagement arms that hold engage the FPC free end when inserted into the connector housing opening. A cover of the connector housing has press members that press the FPC and dielectric barriers thereon into contact with contacts on a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Toshihiro Niitsu, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20130128461
    Abstract: The cooling device comprises a base with a recessed part in a first surface, a plurality of heat radiating fins standing erect on a second surface on the reverse side of the first surface, and a flat, plate-like thermal diffusion part housed inside the recessed part. The upper surface of the thermal diffusion part makes thermal contact with the upper surface of the recessed part, the side surface of the thermal diffusion part makes thermal contact with the side surface of the recessed part, and the thermal diffusion part diffuses in the planar and orthogonal directions heat from the heat generating element arranged on the bottom surface of the thermal diffusion part by vaporizing and condensing coolant sealed inside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20120295484
    Abstract: The Present Disclosure is a module socket for mounting a module on a mounting member, in which the module socket has a first connector including a flat housing, a first conductive pattern arranged on the mating side surface of the housing, and a male terminal protruding from a surface of the first conductive pattern, and a flat second connector formed from plate-shaped metal and including a female terminal elastically interposing the male terminal, and in which either the first conductor or the second conductor is attached to the module and the other is attached to the mounting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Eriko Sato, Toshihiro Niitsu, Hirokazu Suzuki, Akihiro Tezuka, Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20120236501
    Abstract: To provide electronic equipment having a heat discharging function capable of achieving the maximum in the signal processing capability of a portable terminal by preventing the functional restriction of the portable terminal by effectively discharging exothermic heat from the portable terminal at the time of coupling the portable terminal whose function is restricted by heat generation to an external device, as well as a heat discharging system and a heat discharging method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa
  • Publication number: 20120033385
    Abstract: A cooling device is provided. The cooling device is equipped with an electronic substrate on which a heating element has been mounted, and comprises a thermal diffusion unit of a plate-like shape. A front surface of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a first circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. A rear face of the thermal diffusion unit thermally contacts a second circuit mounting surface of the electronic substrate. And, the thermal diffusion unit diffuses heat from the heating element according to vaporization and condensation principles of a refrigerant sealed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Hideo Nagasawa