Patents by Inventor Hideo Ohmura

Hideo Ohmura 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: 8043741
    Abstract: A battery case excellent in glossiness of appearance and working efficiency and a surface-plated steel plate which can be used preferably to manufacture the battery case. The battery case is produced by deep-drawing, DI-forming, DTR-forming a surface-treated steel plate having glossy nickel or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating on the outermost layer corresponding to the external face of a battery case of a plated original plate consisting of a steel plate. The glossy nickel plating or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating layer on the outermost layer has a high glossiness, and therefore the appearance is excellent. The runnability of a formed battery case is high as well as the working efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 7150939
    Abstract: A battery container having an inner surface provided with a nickel-phosphorous alloy layer, optionally provided with a nickel-cobalt alloy layer as the lower layer thereof. The outer surface of the battery container is preferably provided with a nickel-cobalt alloy layer. Batteries made using the battery containers of the present invention have excellent performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura, Keiji Yamane
  • Patent number: 6979515
    Abstract: A battery case excellent in glossiness of appearance and working efficiency and a surface-plated steel plate which can be used preferably to manufacture the battery case. The battery case is produced by deep-drawing, DI-forming, DTR-forming a surface-treated steel plate having glossy nickel or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating on the outermost layer corresponding to the external face of a battery case of a plated original plate consisting of a steel plate. The glossy nickel plating or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating layer on the outermost layer has a high glossiness, and therefore the appearance is excellent. The runnability of a formed battery case is high as well as the working efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20050112459
    Abstract: A battery case excellent in glossiness of appearance and working efficiency and a surface-plated steel plate which can be used preferably to manufacture the battery case. The battery case is produced by deep-drawing, DI-forming, DTR-forming a surface-treated steel plate having glossy nickel or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating on the outermost layer corresponding to the external face of a battery case of a plated original plate consisting of a steel plate. The glossy nickel plating or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating layer on the outermost layer has a high glossiness, and therefore the appearance is excellent. The runnability of a formed battery case is high as well as the working efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6692869
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to produce a surface treated steel sheet for a battery container of which electric contact to the positive electrode active material is improved, a method of surface treatment for a battery container, a battery container and a battery, wherein the surface treated steel sheet has a graphite dispersed nickel plating layer or a graphite dispersed nickel-alloy plating layer formed on the one side to be the inner surface of a battery container, in which nickel-cobalt alloy, nickel-cobalt-iron alloy, nickel-manganese alloy, nickel-phosphorus alloy, nickel-bismuth alloy or the like is preferable as an alloy plating layer, the battery container is manufactured from these surface treated steel sheets by DI forming or DTR forming, and the battery uses this battery container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2004
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura, Keiji Yamane
  • Publication number: 20040005499
    Abstract: A battery case excellent in glossiness of appearance and working efficiency and a surface-plated steel plate which can be used preferably to manufacture the battery case. The battery case is produced by deep-drawing, DI-forming, DTR-forming a surface-treated steel plate having glossy nickel or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating on the outermost layer corresponding to the external face of a battery case of a plated original plate consisting of a steel plate. The glossy nickel plating or glossy nickel-cobalt alloy plating layer on the outermost layer has a high glossiness, and therefore the appearance is excellent. The runnability of a formed battery case is high as well as the working efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20030077510
    Abstract: The object of present invention is to provide a battery container, of which the inner surface is provided with a surface-treated layer having low internal resistance and the outer surface is provided with a surface-treated layer having high quality and excellent continuous formability. Another object is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet suitably used for manufacturing the battery container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: April 24, 2003
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura, Keiji Yamane
  • Patent number: 6551721
    Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a surface treated steel sheet for a battery container having an excellent anti-alkaline characteristic and a performance for maintaining a discharging level for a long time, a battery container and a product method thereof. In the present invention, after forming a nickel-bismuth alloy layer on a steel sheet, the steel sheet is thermally treated at 300° C. to 650° C. in an inactive gas or a deoxidizing gas for 240 to 600 min so that an iron-nickel diffused layer and nickel-bismuth diffused layer are formed at each boundary surface. A battery is produced by utilizing a battery container made of a steel sheet on which one or more than layers selected from a group of an iron-nickel diffused layer, a nickel layer, a nickel-bismuth diffused layer, an iron-nickel-bismuth alloy layer is formed on the steel sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura, Tatsuya Ohshima
  • Patent number: 6528181
    Abstract: A plated steel sheet and a connection terminal material using the plated steel sheet have low contact resistance and excellent corrosion resistance. The coated film, which has excellent adhesion, is formed by coating a stainless steel base sheet which is coated with a nickel-tin alloy with a solution/suspension of carbon black or graphite, carboxymethyl cellulose, and a water-borne organic resin which is acrylic resin, polyester resin, urethane resin, or phenol resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Yamane, Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura, Yuji Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6485863
    Abstract: A battery container is manufactured by forming, by the DI or DTR forming method, a surface-treated steel sheet obtained by plating the external and internal surfaces of an original steel sheet with a nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy coating the punching load in a cupping process, because the powdering property is remarkably reduced. Therefore, the scratching of a die and a punch caused by metallic contact is suppressed and the service lives of the die and the punch are prolonged, thus providing improved continuous productivity of the battery case which has a good stripping property in the DI or DTR forming operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., LTD
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6270922
    Abstract: The present invention aims to produce the material for a battery container having the improved battery performance, wherein the internal resistance caused by contacting with the positive electrode mix is remarkably reduced and the corrosion resistance is excellent. It also aims to produce the material, wherein powdering is reduced at the inner surface of the battery container during forming. Furthermore, it aims to produce a battery container manufactured using the material and a battery manufactured using the battery container. The surface treated steel sheet of the present invention for a battery container is comprising a steel substrate on which one side to be the inner surface of the battery container nickel- tin-iron diffusion layer is formed on the uppermost surface. On the side to be the outer surface of the battery container nickel-cobalt-iron diffusion layer is formed on the uppermost surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6261718
    Abstract: A battery case which has a high quality and is suitable for continuous forming and a surface-treated steel sheet which can be used suitably for manufacturing the battery case. The battery case is manufactured by forming, by the DI or DTR forming method, a surface-treated steel sheet obtained by plating the external and internal surfaces of an original steel sheet with a nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy plated to both surfaces of the battery case can reduce the punching load in a cupping process, because the powdering property can be reduced remarkably. Therefore, the scratching of a die and a punch caused by metallic contact can be suppressed and the service lives of the die and the punch are prolonged, and then, the continuous productivity of the battery case can be improved. In addition, the case has a good lubricant retaining property, the removing property (stripping property) of the battery case which is an important factor for the DI or DTR formability can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Publication number: 20010006748
    Abstract: A battery case which has a high quality and is suitable for continuous forming and a surface-treated steel sheet which can be used suitably for manufacturing the battery case. The battery case is manufactured by forming, by the DI or DTR forming method, a surface-treated steel sheet obtained by plating the external and internal surfaces of an original steel sheet with a nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy plated to both surfaces of the battery case can reduce the punching load in a cupping process, because the powdering property can be reduced remarkably. Therefore, the scratching of a die and a punch caused by metallic contact can be suppressed and the service lives of the die and the punch are prolonged, and then, the continuous productivity of the battery case can be improved. In addition, the case has a good lubricant retaining property the removing property (stripping property) of the battery case which is an important factor for the DI or DTR formability can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Applicant: TOYO KOHAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6248456
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a surface-treated steel sheet, the surface of which is provided with a coating film formed by using after-treatment solution containing carbon black or graphite, carboxy methylcelluolse, and an aqueous organic resin composed of acrylic resin, polyester resin, urethane resin or phenolic resin, thus having a low contact resistance, excellent corrosion-resistance and excellent adhesion of the coating film and to provide a connection terminal member using the above mentioned surface-treated steel sheet. In order to achieve the object, the surface-treated steel sheet of the present invention has a surface provided with a coating film containing carbon black or graphite, carboxy methylcellulose, an aqueous organic resin such as acrylic resin, polyester resin, urethane resin or phenolic resin, and a cross linking agent of the aqueous organic resin, the coating film being formed on a steel sheet which is plated with Zn, Ni, Sn, Co or any alloy of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Yamane, Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6087040
    Abstract: A battery case which has a high quality and is suitable for continuous forming and a surface-treated steel sheet which can be used suitably for manufacturing the battery case. The battery case is manufactured by forming, by the DI or DTR forming method, a surface-treated steel sheet obtained by plating the external and internal surfaces of an original steel sheet with a nickel-cobalt alloy. The nickel-cobalt alloy plated to both surfaces of the battery case can reduce the punching load in a cupping process, because the powdering property can be reduced remarkably. Therefore, the scratching of a die and a punch caused by metallic contact can be suppressed and the service lives of the die and the punch are prolonged, and then, the continuous productivity of the battery case can be improved. In addition, the case has a good lubricant retaining property, the removing property (stripping property) of the battery case which is an important factor for the DI or DTR formability can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 6022631
    Abstract: Adhesion of nickel plated steel sheets with each other, which is apt to occur during producing a steel sheet in which nickel is diffused by heat treatment of a nickel plated steel sheet in an annealing furnace, is prevented. A nickel plated steel sheet having a nickel-iron diffusion layer of 0.5-10 .mu.m thickness, a nickel plated layer thereon of 0.5-10 .mu.m thickness, and a silicon oxide layer thereon as an amount of silicon of 0.1-2.5 mg/m.sup.2 are formed on at least one face of a cold rolled steel plate. After the nickel is plated on the cold rolled steel plate, silicon hydrate is precipitated by dipping or electrolysis treatment in a bath of sodium orthosilicate as a main component, followed by heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Toyo Kohan Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Ohmura, Hideo Ohmura, Tatsuo Tomomori
  • Patent number: 5579343
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a soft decision circuit by which the reception accuracy can be improved. Each of first and second receivers of the soft decision circuit includes a phase amount detector for detecting a phase amount of a receive signal, an I table and a Q table for converting the phase amount into orthogonal I/Q signals, an A/D converter for converting a receive level signal of the receive signal into a digital value, a log linear table for converting an output of the A/D converter into a squared value of a true value, and first and second multipliers for multiplying outputs of the I table and the Q table with the output of the log linear table to weight the outputs of the I table and the Q table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 5412694
    Abstract: A data demodulator wholly consisting of digital circuits for time division multi-access (TDMA) signals subjected to differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) is provided. The data demodulator generates a phase difference signal by subjecting .pi./4-shift quadrature phase-shift-keying (.pi./4 QPSK) signals to delayed detection of phase in synchronism with N-phase clock signals (where N is a positive integer), and reproduces a resulting phase difference signal into decision data. A first such data demodulator detects decision errors from the phase difference signal and decision data, and achieves symbol synchronism by sampling the decision data in a clock signal phase involving little decision error. A second such data demodulator supplies the phase difference signal after correcting its D.C. offset due to a frequency drift. In these two data demodulators, the formulas for computing said decision errors and correction values are flexibly varied according to preceding burst information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Sato, Takayuki Shibata, Hideo Ohmura
  • Patent number: 4586232
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing paper sheets comprises a batch feeder for carrying the batches of paper sheets, each of the batches being sealed with the wrapping band, batch takeout device for taking out the batches carried by the batch feeder one by one, and wrapping band removing device adapted to hold the other side portion of the wrapping band while bending each batch taken out by the batch takeout device in one direction, and, then, to cut one side portion of the wrapping band, while bending the batch in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideo Ohmura, Takeshi Oowa, Kunihiko Nakamura, Masashi Nakada
  • Patent number: 4539789
    Abstract: In a bundling apparatus, a main clamping mechanism presses a stack of paper sheets in the direction of thickness of the stack and holds the stack. A band is wound by a winder around the stack of paper sheets held by the main clamping mechanism. The end portions of the band wound around the stack of paper sheets are bonded by a heat-bonding mechanism. Specified data is stamped on the band wound around the stack by a data-stamping mechanism which includes a stamp bearing the specified data and a drive mechanism for bringing the stamp into contact with the band while the end portions of the band are being bonded to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyano, Hideo Ohmura