Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Shirai

Hiroshi Shirai 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: 20180283972
    Abstract: A pressure sensor device includes a pressure sensor having a housing positioned on a center axis extending vertically, a sensing hole provided in a lower part of the housing, and an electrode unit provided in an upper part of the housing; and a connecting member having a contact spring that is pressed against the electrode unit of the pressure sensor. The electrode unit includes a first frame-shaped electrode having a frame-like shape that is rotationally symmetrical with respect to the center axis; and an annular first-surface portion on which the first frame-shaped electrode is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoka OSAWA, Hiroshi SHIRAI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180283970
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an oil pressure sensor attachment structure including: the oil path body; the sensor case; and a fixing member which fixes the sensor case to the oil path body. The sensor case has a columnar portion which is disposed along a central axis extending in an up and down direction, and a flange portion which protrudes from the columnar portion to an outside in a radial direction. The fixing member has a fixing portion which comes into contact with the oil path body and is fixed thereto, and a pressing portion which comes into contact with the upper surface of the flange portion and presses the flanges portion against the oil path body. The fixing portion and the pressing portion are disposed with an interval therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoka OSAWA, Hiroshi SHIRAI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180275006
    Abstract: An oil pressure sensor attachment structure includes the oil path body; the sensor case; and a seal member. The oil path body has an accommodation hole portion which accommodates the oil pressure sensor. The accommodation hole portion has a small-diameter hole portion and a large-diameter hole portion. The sensor case has a columnar portion which is disposed along a central axis extending in the up and down direction and of which at least a portion is inserted into the small-diameter hole portion. A flange portion which protrudes from the columnar portion to an outside in a radial direction and is inserted into the large-diameter hole portion. The flange portion is disposed to face a lower side of the upper body in the up and down direction. The seal member has an annular shape, and seals a portion between an inner surface of the accommodation hole portion and the sensor case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Tomoka OSAWA, Hiroshi SHIRAI, Toshiaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180219330
    Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder having right and left sides holding signal contacts. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has a first ground shield provided at the right side of the dielectric holder and a second ground shield provided at the left side of the dielectric holder. The first and second ground shields are electrically connected together between corresponding pairs of the signal contacts and providing electrical shielding between corresponding signal contacts along a majority of a length of the transition portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 9923309
    Abstract: A PCB includes a substrate having a connector surface with a PCB connector footprint defined along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis and subdivided into PCB column grouping footprints extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis. The PCB includes signal vias arranged in pairs along a signal pair axis with a plurality of pairs of signal vias in each PCB column grouping footprint. The signal pair axis is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis, non-parallel to the lateral axis and intersects the longitudinal axis at a lesser angle than the signal pair axis intersects the lateral axis. The PCB includes ground vias at least partially through the substrate. The ground vias are arranged around each of the pairs of signal vias to provide electrical shielding around each of the pairs of signal vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: Masayuki Aizawa, Chad William Morgan, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 9893480
    Abstract: A connector reduced in width and easily mated with a mating connector is provided. An insulative housing of a connector has a substantially rectangular mating face. Further, the metal shell has a base portion, a curved portion, and a supporting portion. The base portion upstands from a peripheral edge of the mating face extends along the peripheral edge and encloses the mating face circumferentially in a substantially rectangular shape. Further, the curved portion is continuous to an upper end of the base portion and curved inward in a semicircular shape for guiding the mating connector. Further, the supporting portion has a shape hanging from the curved portion toward the mating face along an inner wall face of the base portion for supporting the mating connector, so that the insulative housing does not have an upstanding wall extending along a side face of a longitudinally extending portion of the metal shell and the metal shell supports a widthwise inner face of the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 9812817
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a base with signal and ground contact openings therethrough and contact modules coupled to the base. Each contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions received in corresponding signal contact openings and extending into a chamber for mating with a mating electrical connector. A ground shield is coupled to the dielectric holder having a plurality of rails. At least two of the rails have ground hoods extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder along the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground hoods are received in corresponding ground contact openings and extend into the chamber for mating with the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shirai, Chad William Morgan, Masaaki Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170237188
    Abstract: A contact is disclosed. The contact has a press-fit portion and a deformable portion. The press-fit portion is press-fit into a passageway of a circuit board. The deformable portion is disposed adjacent the press-fit portion in a direction opposite a press-fitting direction and has a shape adjacent the press-fit portion larger than the passageway. The deformable portion is plastically deformable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Masaaki Iwasaki, Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20170070014
    Abstract: A connector reduced in width and easily mated with a mating connector is provided. An insulative housing of a connector has a substantially rectangular mating face. Further, the metal shell has a base portion, a curved portion, and a supporting portion. The base portion upstands from a peripheral edge of the mating face extends along the peripheral edge and encloses the mating face circumferentially in a substantially rectangular shape. Further, the curved portion is continuous to an upper end of the base portion and curved inward in a semicircular shape for guiding the mating connector. Further, the supporting portion has a shape hanging from the curved portion toward the mating face along an inner wall face of the base portion for supporting the mating connector, so that the insulative housing does not have an upstanding wall extending along a side face of a longitudinally extending portion of the metal shell and the metal shell supports a widthwise inner face of the mating connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 9203172
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided with a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector includes a housing and a plurality of conductive plug terminals arranged along a row in the housing. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of conductive receptacle terminals arranged along a row in the receptacle housing by an equidistance pitch, and a solder peg having a contact portion arranged along the row of the plurality of conductive receptacle terminals at a distance equal to the equidistance pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yoshihiko Shino, Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 9166350
    Abstract: A connector is disclosed with an insulating body. A plurality of contacts are positioned in the insulating body. The plurality of contacts include a group of first contacts with a first length, and a group of second contacts with a second length less than the first length. Each second contact is positioned in a gap between two adjacent first contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Shihao Zhang, Hiroshi Shirai, Xiang Xu, Biaobing Lv
  • Publication number: 20150270631
    Abstract: A connector assembly is provided with a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a housing and a lock spring arranged at an end portion of the housing. The lock spring includes a pair of arms extending parallel to a planar side of the housing. The second connector includes a catch to engage the lock spring by flexing the pair of arms away each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Katano, Hiroshi Shirai, Takeshi Kimura, Akira Kubo
  • Patent number: 9136636
    Abstract: A connector is provided that includes an insulation body and a plurality of contacts. The insulation includes a plurality of contact receiving grooves arranged in a row and the plurality of contacts are disposed in the plurality of contact receiving grooves. The plurality of contacts include a first group of contacts and a second group of contacts with a first pair of differential signal contacts and a second pair of differential signal contacts disposed at both sides of the first group of contacts, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Tyco Electronics AMP Korea Ltd., Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Limited, Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Shihao Zhang, Jung-Hoon Kim, Xiang Xu, Huei-Shun Feng, Wei Yao, Hiroshi Shirai, Cheng-Hsuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20150222142
    Abstract: A contactless charging device is disclosed having a power connector, a cable, and a charging head. The cable has a first end connected to the power connector. The charging head is connected to an opposite second end of the cable, and has a magnet or a magnetic substance, and an electromagnetic coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 9086321
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a nitride semiconductor layer in which a mixing ratio at a ternary mixed-crystal nitride semiconductor layer can be analyzed non-destructively, simply, and precisely, even its surface is covered with a cap layer is provided. The nitride semiconductor layer having an AN layer or a BN layer with a thickness of 0.5 to 10 nm that is stacked on an AxB1-xN layer (A and B: 13 group elements, 0?x?1) is subjected to reflection spectroscopy to obtain a reflection spectrum of the AxB1-xN layer. Let an energy value in a peak position of the reflection spectrum be a band gap energy Egap, and let a band gap energy value of AxB1-xN (x=1) be EA and a band gap energy value of AxB1-xN (x=0) be EB, x is calculated from Equation Egap=(1?x)EB+xEA?bx(1?x) (where b is bowing parameter corresponding to A and B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: COVALENT MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihata Yanase, Hiroshi Shirai, Jun Komiyama, Hiroshi Oishi
  • Publication number: 20150062828
    Abstract: A connector is provided that is capable of high-speed transmission over a carrier wave of, for example, 30 GHz or higher. The connector includes a housing, a wireless communication module and a first magnet. The housing includes a planar face, and the wireless communication module is disposed in the housing and includes a wireless signal transmission IC and a wireless signal reception IC. The first magnet is disposed along the planar face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Shirai
  • Publication number: 20140287628
    Abstract: A connector is disclosed with an insulating body. A plurality of contacts are positioned in the insulating body. The plurality of contacts include a group of first contacts with a first length, and a group of second contacts with a second length less than the first length. Each second contact is positioned in a gap between two adjacent first contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicants: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K., TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shihao Zhang, Hiroshi Shirai, Xiang Xu, Biaobing LV
  • Publication number: 20140220830
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided with a plug connector and a receptacle connector. The plug connector includes a housing and a plurality of conductive plug terminals arranged along a row in the housing. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of conductive receptacle terminals arranged along a row in the receptacle housing by an equidistance pitch, and a solder peg having a contact portion arranged along the row of the plurality of conductive receptacle terminals at a distance equal to the equidistance pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yoshihiko Shino, Yoshihiko Kodaira, Hiroshi Shirai
  • Patent number: 8780537
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a frame having a frame member with a frame connector. The frame defines a component cavity. The electronic device also includes a user interface coupled to the frame that is visible external of the frame, with the user interlace displaying data to an operator. A user input is coupled to the frame member and includes a terminal electrically coupled to the frame connector. A circuit board is received in the component cavity and is operably coupled to the user interface. The circuit board is electrically connected to the frame connector at a separable interface. The user input can pick up a signal from anywhere on the electronic device based on an action of touching, handling or placing and process that signal to cause a predetermined effect. The signal from the user input is transferred to the user interface via the frame connector and the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Raymond L. Sokola, Bruce Foster Bishop, Hiroshi Shirai, Kazukiyo Osada
  • Publication number: 20140065889
    Abstract: A connector is provided that includes an insulation body and a plurality of contacts. The insulation includes a plurality of contact receiving grooves arranged in a row and the plurality of contacts are disposed in the plurality of contact receiving grooves. The plurality of contacts include a first group of contacts and a second group of contacts with a first pair of differential signal contacts and a second pair of differential signal contacts disposed at both sides of the first group of contacts, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Shihao Zhang, Jung-Hoon Kim, Xiang Xu, Huei-Shun Feng, Wei Yao, Hiroshi Shirai, Cheng-Hsuan Yu