Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Hamaguchi

Hiroaki Hamaguchi 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: 5886601
    Abstract: An electromagnetic relay assembly includes an actuator unit and at least one switch unit detachably connected with the actuator unit. The actuator unit includes an actuator casing accommodating therein an electromagnetic assembly and a movable actuator frame magnetically attracted by the electromagnetic assembly to move between first and second positions. The switch unit Includes a switch casing accommodating therein a switch assembly capable of selectively assuming one of an ON state in response to movement of the movable actuator frame from the first position to the second position and an OFF position in response to movement of the movable actuator frame from the second position to the first position. The actuator casing and the switch casing have mating engagement members by which the actuator unit and the switch unit can be separably connected together while the movable actuator frame in the actuator unit can be drivingly coupled with the switch assembly In the switch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kitamura, Hiroaki Hamaguchi, Naoki Kanemoto, Masahiro Kutsuna, Tetsuyasu Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 5049845
    Abstract: A contact device is provided with an additional mass member secured to a movable contactor carrying a movable contact capable of opening and closing contacts with a stationary contact, for providing to the movable contactor a mass acting in a direction perpendicular to longitudinal axis of the contactor. A rolling motion is thereby caused to occur in the movable contactor upon contact closing motion so that the movable contact can be prevented from being fusion-bonded to the stationary contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yokoyama, Hiroaki Hamaguchi, Hideya Kondo, Nobuhiro Kitamura, Takatoshi Hongyou
  • Patent number: 4855701
    Abstract: A polarized electromagnet with improved response sensitivity includes an axially movable core 63 extending through an excitation coil 61 to be movable between two positions upon energization and deenergization of the coil 61. The core 63 is formed at its opposite ends respectively with pole plates 69 extending transversely of the core axis. Inner and outer yokes 64 and 65 are arranged in parallel to the core 63 and are magnetized to the opposite polarities by a permanent magnet 65. Inner and outer yokes 64 and 65 have at respective ends inner and outer pole ends 67 and 68 which are spaced axially to each other so as to form therebetween magnetic gaps in each of which the adjacent one of the pole plates 69 is located.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yokoyama, Hiroaki Hamaguchi, Kideya Kondo, Youichi Kunimoto, Manabu Yano
  • Patent number: 4703294
    Abstract: A remotely controllable relay comprises a rocker pivoted at an intermediate point for rocking at one end in normal or reverse direction in response to forward or backward motion of a movable member of an electromagnet means, and a movable contactor linked to the rocker for contacting with or separating from a fixed contactor in response to the rocking of the rocker. A larger momentum at the other end remote from the pivoted point of the rocker achieved with a smaller momentum of the movable member is utilized to sufficiently separate the movable contactor from the fixed contactor upon contact opening, the smaller momentum movable member allowing the electromagnet means to be minimized in size for a miniaturization of the relay and consumed power saving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1987
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Yokoyama, Hiroaki Hamaguchi, Masatoshi Yamamoto