Patents by Inventor Hironori Suzuki
Hironori 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: 20200381158Abstract: An inductor component comprising a laminated body having a magnetic layer containing a resin and a metal magnetic powder contained in the resin; an inductor wiring disposed in the laminated body; and an external terminal exposed from the laminated body. The external terminal includes a metal part and a resin part, and in a cross section of the external terminal, the resin part is enclosed in the metal part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshimasa YOSHIOKA, Kouji YAMAUCHI, Hironori SUZUKI, Naoya NOO
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Patent number: 10818834Abstract: A mounting structure includes a first substrate which has a first surface on which a functional element is provided, a second substrate that has a second surface facing the first surface, a wiring portion that is provided at a position which is different from a position of the functional element on the first surface, has a third surface facing the second surface, and is electrically connected to the functional element, and a conduction portion that is provided on the second surface, protrudes toward the first surface, and is connected to the third surface so as to be electrically connected to the functional element, in which an area of the third surface is larger than an area of a first end section of the wiring portion on the first substrate side in a plan view which is viewed from a thickness direction of the first substrate and the second substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Hironori Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsuda, Koji Ohashi
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Publication number: 20200303618Abstract: An MEMS device includes: a first member; a second member forming a sealed space with the first member therebetween; and a third member disposed between the first member and the second member and joined to the first member and the second member, in which the third member has lower rigidity than rigidity of the first member and the second member, and the third member is provided with a communication portion that establishes communication between the sealed space and an external space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Eiji OSAWA, Koji OHASHI, Kanechika KIYOSE, Tomohiro SAYAMA, Hironori SUZUKI, Katsuhiro IMAI, Yasuyuki MATSUMOTO, Takahiro KAMIJO
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Publication number: 20200295251Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a base member including a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface, a vibration plate provided at the first surface of the base member, and a piezoelectric element provided at the vibration plate. The base member includes a hole formed from the first surface to the second surface, and a wall portion surrounding the hole. The vibration plate includes, when viewed in a direction from the first surface toward the second surface, a supporting portion overlapping the wall portion, and a blocking portion that overlaps the hole and blocks the hole. The piezoelectric element is laminated at the blocking portion. The supporting portion has a first Young's modulus. The blocking portion includes a first blocking portion having the first Young's modulus and a second blocking portion having a second Young's modulus smaller than the first Young's modulus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200291954Abstract: A centrifugal pump includes a housing and an impeller housed in the housing. The impeller has a main plate, a plurality of first blades, and a plurality of second blades. The first blades and the second blades extend radially along the main plate and have the same radial length. Each of the second blades has a low blade part and a high blade part extending radially from a radially outer end of the low blade part. When comparing the first blades and the second blades with each other at an equal distance from a rotational axis of the impeller, a height of the low blade part measured from the main plate is less than a height of each first blade measured from the main plate, and a height of the high blade part measured from the main plate is the same as that the height of each first blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hironori SUZUKI, Yoshihiko HONDA
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Publication number: 20200291956Abstract: A centrifugal pump includes an impeller and a housing defining a pump chamber that houses the impeller therein. The housing includes an inlet passage in fluid communication with the pump chamber and an outside of the housing. The inlet passage includes a connection passage part having a cylindrical shape extending from the pump chamber and a main passage part having a cylindrical shape connected to the connection passage part, so as to form a bent shape. A central axis of the main passage part is parallel to a reference plane that includes a central axis of the connection passage part. A flow direction of a fluid parallel the central axis of the main passage part is partly the same as the rotational direction of the impeller in a plan view along an axis of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko HONDA, Hironori SUZUKI, Naoki SHIRAI
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Publication number: 20200271127Abstract: A centrifugal pump includes an impeller rotated about a rotational axis in a rotational direction by a motor and a housing defining a pump chamber therein. The impeller is housed in the pump chamber. The impeller includes a main plate having substantially circular shape and a first surface extending perpendicular to the rotational axis. The main plate is provided with a plurality of blades projecting axially from the first surface and extending radially along the first surface. Each of the blades has a radially inner blade part and a radially outer blade part extending radially outward from the radially inner blade part. Each of the outer blade parts has a front surface that extends from the main plate obliquely either frontward or rearward relative to the rotational direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko HONDA, Hironori SUZUKI
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Patent number: 10690094Abstract: An intake apparatus includes an intake manifold, an EGR gas distributor, and an EGR cooler. The intake manifold includes a surge tank and branch pipes. The EGR gas distributor includes a gas inlet, a gas chamber, and gas distribution pipes connected to the branch pipes. The branch pipes are each formed with a connecting hole for the gas distribution pipes. The EGR cooler is provided adjacent to the gas chamber to warm the inside wall of the gas chamber and includes a hot water passage and a gas passage. The gas chamber and the hot water passage are arranged to traverse the branch pipes. The gas distribution pipes are connected to the corresponding connecting holes. The EGR gas distributor and the EGR cooler in an integrated form are attached to the intake manifold.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naruto Ito, Mamoru Yoshioka, Akinari Yasue, Hironori Suzuki, Kaisho So
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Publication number: 20200182789Abstract: An electricity measuring type surface plasmon resonance sensor including: a plasmon polariton intensifying sensor chip in which a prism and a sensor chip including a transparent electrode, an n-type transparent semiconductor film, and a plasmon resonance film electrode arranged in this order are arranged in an order of the prism, the transparent electrode, the n-type transparent semiconductor film, and the plasmon resonance film electrode; and an electric measuring apparatus which directly measures a current or voltage from the transparent electrode and the plasmon resonance film electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Hironori SUZUKI, Giles ALLISON, Masanori SASAKI, Koki HAYASHI, Hiroaki MISAWA, Kosei UENO
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Publication number: 20200166638Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes an element substrate having a first and a second surface at an opposite side of the first surface, including an opening section piercing through the element substrate in a Z direction from the first to second surface, a vibrating plate on the first surface of the element substrate to close the opening section, a plurality of vibration regions extending along an X direction orthogonal to the Z direction on the vibration plate in positions overlapping the opening section, and a plurality of piezoelectric elements to correspond to the plurality of vibration regions of the vibration plate. The opening section includes, on the first surface, a first and second side parallel to the X direction and a third and fourth side coupling end portions in the X direction of the first and second sides at an acute or obtuse angle to the first and the second side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200164407Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor includes an opening portion, vibrating plate covering the opening portion, piezoelectric element overlapping with the opening portion, and a coupling electrode coupled to the piezoelectric element, extended from a position overlapping the opening portion to a position not overlapping the opening portion, and having a line width smaller than a width of the piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric has a first and second line portion, and a corner portion coupling the first and second line portions, when an intersection point connects a center of gravity of the piezoelectric and the corner portion with a virtual circle inscribed in the outline of the piezoelectric is a first intersection point of a tangent line. The first intersection point with the first and second line portions are a second and third intersection points, the coupling electrode coupled to a corner portion from the second intersection point to the third intersection point.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20200168784Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a substrate having opening portions, a vibrating plate provided to overlap with the substrate and having a plurality of vibrating regions overlapping with the opening portions in a plan view as seen from a thickness direction of the substrate, piezoelectric elements provided in the vibrating regions, and bypass wires provided outside of the vibrating regions of the vibrating plate and electrically coupled to the plurality of piezoelectric elements, wherein slits penetrating the bypass wires in the thickness direction are provided in the bypass wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI, Kanechika KIYOSE, Katsuhiro IMAI, Yasuyuki MATSUMOTO, Takahiro KAMIJO
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Publication number: 20200166618Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes nine ultrasonic array units arranged in a grid pattern of three rows and three columns, nine drive bypass wires that input and output drive signals to and from the respective ultrasonic array units, a first common bypass wire to which a common potential is applied, coupled to the eight ultrasonic array units, a second common bypass wire coupled to the ultrasonic array unit to which the first common bypass wire is not coupled, and a third common bypass wire coupling the first and the second common bypass wires. One of the drive bypass wires, the first common bypass wire, and the second common bypass wire is placed between the ultrasonic array units placed adjacent to each other. The third common bypass wire is placed inside of the ultrasonic array unit placed adjacent to the ultrasonic array unit coupled to the second common bypass wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI, Tomohide ONOGI
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Publication number: 20200152857Abstract: An ultrasonic device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a substrate in which an opening section piercing through the substrate in a thickness direction is provided, a vibration plate provided on the substrate to close the opening section, a piezoelectric element provided in a position corresponding to the opening section on a first surface at the opposite side of the substrate side of the vibration plate, and an elastic layer provided in contact with a second surface at the substrate side of the vibration plate at the inner side of the opening section of the substrate. The elastic layer includes a curved surface recessed to the vibration plate side at the opposite side of the vibration plate side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Koji OHASHI, Hironori SUZUKI, Chikara KOJIMA
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Publication number: 20200130014Abstract: An ultrasonic element includes an element substrate including a first surface, a second surface having a front-back relation with the first surface, an opening section piercing through the element substrate from the first surface to the second surface, and a partition wall section surrounding the opening section, a supporting film provided on the first surface of the element substrate to cover the opening section and including a third surface facing the opening section and a fourth surface having a front-back relation with the third surface, a piezoelectric element provided on the fourth surface of the supporting film and disposed in a region overlapping the opening section of the supporting film in a plan view from a film thickness direction extending from the third surface to the fourth surface, a sealing plate provided to be opposed to the fourth surface of the supporting film and joined to the supporting film by an adhesive member via a beam section projecting toward the supporting film, and a wall sectioType: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Hironori SUZUKI, Chikara KOJIMA, Koji OHASHI, Yasuyuki MATSUMOTO, Katsuhiro IMAI
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Publication number: 20200072166Abstract: An evaporated fuel processing apparatus includes a canister to collect vapor generated in a fuel tank, a purge passage to purge vapor into an intake passage from the canister, a purge pump provided in the purge passage, a first trifurcated valve in the purge passage between an exhaust port of the purge pump and an outflow port of the purge passage, a second trifurcated valve provided in the purge passage between an inflow port of the purge passage and an intake port of the purge pump, a first bypass passage between the purge passage upstream of the second trifurcated valve and the first trifurcated valve, and a second bypass passage between the purge passage downstream of the first trifurcated valve and the second trifurcated valve. Passages for the vapor and others are switched by switching the first trifurcated valve and the second trifurcated valve during operation of the purge pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiko HONDA, Hironori SUZUKI, Hiroyuki TAKAHASHI
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Patent number: 10544760Abstract: The EGR gas distributor is attached to an intake manifold to distribute EGR gas to each of branch pipes constituting the intake manifold. The EGR gas distributor includes a gas distribution part including a gas inlet port for EGR gas, a plurality of gas outlet ports connected to each corresponding branch pipe, and a gas passage that extends by branching off into a plurality of branch sections from the gas inlet port to each gas outlet port. The gas passage has a tournament branch shape that extends by stepwise branching off from the gas inlet port to each gas outlet port and is symmetric about the gas inlet port. The EGR gas distributor includes a heating part provided adjacent to the entire gas distribution part to heat the gas distribution part. The heating part is constituted of a hot-water passage part configured to allow hot water to flow therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akinari Yasue, Hironori Suzuki
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Patent number: 10524764Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a base, a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements, and a reinforcing body. The base defines a plurality of openings arranged in an array form. The ultrasonic transducer elements are arranged respectively corresponding to the openings with a plurality of vibration films being respectively provided for the ultrasonic transducer elements. The reinforcing body is fixed to the base in an area between adjacent ones of the vibration films when viewed in a plan view along a thickness direction of the base. The reinforcing body has Young's modulus greater than Young's modulus of the base.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kanechika Kiyose, Hironori Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Patent number: 10517566Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a base, a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements, an acoustic adjustment layer, and a wall part. The ultrasonic transducer elements are arranged in an array form on the base, each of the ultrasonic transducer elements having a vibration film. The acoustic adjustment layer is disposed on each of the ultrasonic transducer elements. The wall part is arranged between adjacent ones of the ultrasonic transducer elements when viewed in a plan view along a thickness direction of the base such that the acoustic adjustment layer on the adjacent ones of the ultrasonic transducer elements are separated by the wall part in a range of at least a portion of a height of the acoustic adjustment layer measured from the base. The wall part has an acoustic impedance that is higher than an acoustic impedance of the acoustic adjustment layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Kanechika Kiyose, Hironori Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsuda
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Publication number: 20190376932Abstract: An ultrasonic device has a substrate in which ultrasonic elements transmitting an ultrasonic wave in a first direction are arrayed. A reverberation reduction film which reduces reverberant vibration of the substrate is arranged on a side of the first direction in the ultrasonic element. In the reverberation reduction film, a groove is arranged between the ultrasonic elements next to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: Hironori SUZUKI, Chikara KOJIMA