Patents by Inventor Hirofumi Suzuki
Hirofumi Suzuki 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).
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Publication number: 20200286527Abstract: A magnetic disk device includes a casing having a box-like base that has a bottom wall and a cover that has a first surface facing the bottom wall, a magnetic disk provided in the casing, a head configured to write data to the magnetic disk and to read data from the magnetic disk, an actuator assembly that supports the head in the casing, a conductive container on the first surface of the cover, and a conductive body in contact with the conductive container and the cover.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Hirofumi SUZUKI, Kouichi TOUKAIRIN, Hisashi HASEGAWA, Masaya KUDO, Kenji HAYASAKA, Yusuke NOJIMA
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Publication number: 20200098510Abstract: A coil unit connection structure is provided which can integrate locations connected to a power cable into one side in an arrangement direction of a plurality of coil units. In a coil unit connection structure that electrically connects a plurality of coil units, each of the coil units includes a coil and a return wire. A plurality of the coils of the plurality of coil units is electrically connected to each other. A plurality of the return wires of the plurality of coil units is electrically connected to each other. A terminal unit is provided which includes a connecting wire that electrically connects the coil and the return wire of the coil unit at the terminal end.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Akihiro UNNO, Hirofumi SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10446177Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a casing, a rotatable disk recording medium that is disposed within the casing, a head configured to process information with respect to the recording medium, an actuator assembly that is disposed within the casing and that movably supports the head, and a filter unit that is disposed within the casing. The filter unit includes a base section fixed to an inner surface of the casing, a holding frame coupled to the base, and a collection filter detachably held in place by the holding frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATIONInventors: Hirofumi Suzuki, Yasuhiko Kato
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Publication number: 20190295575Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a casing, a rotatable disk recording medium that is disposed within the casing, a head configured to process information with respect to the recording medium, an actuator assembly that is disposed within the casing and that movably supports the head, and a filter unit that is disposed within the casing. The filter unit includes a base section fixed to an inner surface of the casing, a holding frame coupled to the base, and a collection filter detachably held in place by the holding frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Hirofumi SUZUKI, Yasuhiko KATO
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Publication number: 20190242848Abstract: The present disclosure provides a gas sensor element comprising a porous protective layer with improved water repellency upon continuously water pouring, which is a gas sensor element comprising: a detection portion; and a porous protective layer formed around the detection portion, wherein the porous protective layer is formed from an aggregate containing alumina and a coating material containing silica, and in the porous protective layer, the weight concentration x % by weight of the coating material with respect to the total weight of the aggregate and the coating material, and the porosity y %, satisfy the following formula (1): y?0.0058x2-1.2666x+68??(1), and in the porous protective layer, the pore volume of pores having a pore diameter of 100 nm or less is 0.02 mL/g or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroki NISHIJIMA, Yoshiharu MIYAKE, Haruki KONDO, Yasushi HIRATA, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Kei SUGIURA, Toru TAKEUCHI
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Patent number: 9954344Abstract: A spark plug 1 includes a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical insulator, a center electrode, a terminal bracket, a ground electrode, and a resistor. The insulator is held on the inside of the housing. The center electrode 4 is held on the inside of the insulator, with a tip end being projected therefrom. The terminal bracket is held on the inside of the insulator, with a base end part and being projected therefrom. The ground electrode forms a spark discharge gap G between itself and the center electrode. The resistor contains carbon and is disposed on the inside of the insulator so as to be located between the center electrode 4 and the terminal bracket. In an axial direction X of the spark plug, the resistor has a higher carbon content in a first region positioned on a tip side, compared to a second region positioned on a base end side.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kenji Hattori, Masamichi Shibata, Toshiya Nakamura, Yasuomi Imanaka, Hirofumi Suzuki, Hiroshi Araki, Tomoyuki Watanabe, Shin Hase
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Publication number: 20180034246Abstract: A spark plug 1 includes a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical insulator, a center electrode, a terminal bracket, a ground electrode, and a resistor. The insulator is held on the inside of the housing. The center electrode 4 is held on the inside of the insulator, with a tip end being projected therefrom. The terminal bracket is held on the inside of the insulator, with a base end part and being projected therefrom. The ground electrode forms a spark discharge gap G between itself and the center electrode. The resistor contains carbon and is disposed on the inside of the insulator so as to be located between the center electrode 4 and the terminal bracket. In an axial direction X of the spark plug, the resistor has a higher carbon content in a first region positioned on a tip side, compared to a second region positioned on a base end side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Kenji HATTORI, Masamichi SHIBATA, Toshiya NAKAMURA, Yasuomi IMANAKA, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi ARAKI, Tomoyuki WATANABE, Shin HASE
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Patent number: 9593016Abstract: A difluorophosphate effective as an additive for a nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary battery is produced by a simple method from inexpensive common materials. The difluorophosphate is produced by reacting lithium hexafluorophosphate with a carbonate in a nonaqueous solvent. The liquid reaction mixture resulting from this reaction is supplied for providing the difluorophosphate in a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent which contains at least a hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte lithium salt and further contains a difluorophosphate. Also provided is a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery employing this nonaqueous electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryoichi Kato, Hirofumi Suzuki, Jun Sasahara, Hitoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9583916Abstract: An alumina sintered body has a main phase made of alumina crystals, a first dispersed phase made of MgAl2O4 dispersed in the main phase, and a second dispersed phase made of SiO2 and/or CaO dispersed in the main phase. A content ratio of the main phase is within a range from not less than 98% to less than 98%. The alumina sintered body satisfies a relationship of 100×I2/I1?5.5%, where I1 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from alumina, and I2 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from MgAl2O4 in a X-ray diffraction of the alumina sintered body. An area ratio of the second dispersed phase on a surface of the alumina sintered body is not more than 15.2%. A spark plug has a central electrode, a ground electrode and an insulator made of the alumina sintered body having the specific features previously described.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shota Imada, Hirofumi Suzuki, Hiroshi Araki
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Publication number: 20160254651Abstract: An alumina sintered body has a main phase made of alumina crystals, a first dispersed phase made of MgAl2O4 dispersed in the main phase, and a second dispersed phase made of SiO2 and/or CaO dispersed in the main phase. A content ratio of the main phase is within a range from not less than 98% to less than 98%. The alumina sintered body satisfies a relationship of 100×I2/I1?5.5%, where I1 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from alumina, and I2 indicates a maximum peak height intensity derived from MgAl2O4 in a X-ray diffraction of the alumina sintered body. An area ratio of the second dispersed phase on a surface of the alumina sintered body is not more than 15.2%. A spark plug has a central electrode, a ground electrode and an insulator made of the alumina sintered body having the specific features previously described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Shota IMADA, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Hiroshi ARAKI
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Patent number: 9319544Abstract: An image reading apparatus, including a main unit including a placement plane and an image reader, a document cover swingably supported by the main unit via a hinge to move between a closed position and an open position, and a conveyer unit to convey a document sheet, is provided. The hinge includes an in-main-unit joint section attached to an end of the main unit, an on-cover joint section attached to an end of the document cover, and an urging member arranged in between the in-main-unit joint section and the on-cover joint section. A coupling device to couple the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit together and to restrict the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit from being separated from each other is disposed in an intermediate position between the document cover and the conveyer unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirofumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 9203106Abstract: To provide a technique for simply and easily producing a high-purity difluorophosphate and provide a production process of an electrolytic solution using the obtained difluorophosphate, an electrolytic solution and a secondary battery. A process for producing a difluorophosphate, comprising the following step (1) or (2): (1) reacting (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxoacids, oxoacid anhydrides and oxyhalides of phosphorus with (B) a hexafluorophosphate in the presence of hydrogen fluoride, or (2) reacting at least one halide selected from the group consisting of alkali metal halides, alkaline earth metal halides, aluminum halides and onium halides with difluorophosphoric acid in the presence of a hexafluorophosphate. Also, a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing the obtained difluorophosphate, and a nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery containing the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Nishida, Megumi Tomisaki, Kazuhiko Shogami, Hideki Nakashima, Hirofumi Suzuki, Takashi Fujii
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Patent number: 9028786Abstract: To provide a technique for simply and easily producing a high-purity difluorophosphate and provide a production process of an electrolytic solution using the obtained difluorophosphate, an electrolytic solution and a secondary battery. A process for producing a difluorophosphate, comprising the following step (1) or (2): (1) reacting (A) at least one member selected from the group consisting of oxoacids, oxoacid anhydrides and oxyhalides of phosphorus with (B) a hexafluorophosphate in the presence of hydrogen fluoride, or (2) reacting at least one halide selected from the group consisting of alkali metal halides, alkaline earth metal halides, aluminum halides and onium halides with difluorophosphoric acid in the presence of a hexafluorophosphate. Also, a nonaqueous electrolytic solution containing the obtained difluorophosphate, and a nonaqueous electrolytic secondary battery containing the nonaqueous electrolytic solution.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: Stella Chemifa Corporation, Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Tetsuo Nishida, Megumi Tomisaki, Kazuhiko Shogami, Hideki Nakashima, Hirofumi Suzuki, Takashi Fujii
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Patent number: 8980214Abstract: A difluorophosphate effective as an additive for a nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary battery is produced by a simple method from inexpensive common materials. The difluorophosphate is produced by reacting lithium hexafluorophosphate with a carbonate in a nonaqueous solvent. The liquid reaction mixture resulting from this reaction is supplied for providing the difluorophosphate in a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent which contains at least a hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte lithium salt and further contains a difluorophosphate. Also provided is a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery employing this nonaqueous electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical CorporationInventors: Ryoichi Kato, Hirofumi Suzuki, Jun Sasahara, Hitoshi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8964270Abstract: An image reading apparatus may include multiple detection portions including a first detection portion and a second detection portion. The first detection portion and the second detection portion may be configured to distinguishably detect the insertion of media from one of a first opening and a second opening. In one example, the first detection portion may be disposed along a first conveyance path corresponding to the first opening while the second detection portion may be disposed along a second conveyance path corresponding to the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirofumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8908242Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a roller that rotates about a rotating axis and conveys a particular medium in a conveying direction, a reader that reads the particular medium, and a body. The body includes a first port formed in the body, and a lid pivotably attached to the body and pivots about a pivoting axis, which is perpendicular to the conveying direction and the rotating axis. The lid pivots between a first position, in which the lid covers at least a portion of the first port, and a second position, in which the lid is separated from the first port.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Daisuke Nakayama, Hirofumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140300939Abstract: An image reading apparatus may include multiple detection portions including a first detection portion and a second detection portion. The first detection portion and the second detection portion may be configured to distinguishably detect the insertion of media from one of a first opening and a second opening. In one example, the first detection portion may be disposed along a first conveyance path corresponding to the first opening while the second detection portion may be disposed along a second conveyance path corresponding to the second opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2014Publication date: October 9, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirofumi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20140092454Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a roller that rotates about a rotating axis and conveys a particular medium in a conveying direction, a reader that reads the particular medium, and a body. The body includes a first port formed in the body, and a lid pivotably attached to the body and pivots about a pivoting axis, which is perpendicular to the conveying direction and the rotating axis. The lid pivots between a first position, in which the lid covers at least a portion of the first port, and a second position, in which the lid is separated from the first port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Daisuke NAKAYAMA, Hirofumi SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20140023416Abstract: An image reading apparatus, including a main unit including a placement plane and an image reader, a document cover swingably supported by the main unit via a hinge to move between a closed position and an open position, and a conveyer unit to convey a document sheet, is provided. The hinge includes an in-main-unit joint section attached to an end of the main unit, an on-cover joint section attached to an end of the document cover, and an urging member arranged in between the in-main-unit joint section and the on-cover joint section. A coupling device to couple the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit together and to restrict the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit from being separated from each other is disposed in an intermediate position between the document cover and the conveyer unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2013Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hirofumi Suzuki
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Patent number: 8431505Abstract: An alumina sintered body comprises alumina crystals as a main phase and a grain boundary phase made up of crystalline Y2Si2O7 and amorphous SiO2 at grain boundaries of the alumina crystals wherein when the alumina sintered body is taken as 100 wt %, the high melting phase is present in the range of from 0.1 wt % to 15 wt %. There is also provided a method for preparing the alumina sintered body, which method comprising a first mixing step P1 of mixing, at least, a yttria powder having an average particle size of 60 to 100 nm and a silica powder having a given average particle size to provide a mixed slurry and a second mixing step of further mixing an alumina powder having an average particle size of 0.5 to 1.0 ?m in the mixed slurry.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2010Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignees: Nippon Soken, Inc., Denso CorporationInventors: Itsuhei Ogata, Hirofumi Suzuki, Hiroshi Araki, Yasuki Aoi