Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Usui
Hiroshi Usui 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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Patent number: 8416582Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a plurality of switch elements connected in series between both ends of a DC power source, a series circuit of a primary winding of a transformer and a capacitor, connected between a connection point of the plurality of switch elements and an end of the DC power source, a rectifying-smoothing circuit to rectify and smooth a voltage generated by a secondary winding of the transformer into a DC voltage, and a controller to change a switching frequency of the plurality of switch elements according to a feedback signal generated from the DC voltage and alternately turn on/off the plurality of switch elements. The controller includes a nonlinear response unit 11a to nonlinearly change the switching frequency according to a feedback amount represented by the feedback signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Patent number: 8411466Abstract: The present invention includes: a plurality of switching elements connected in series and connected between two ends of a DC power supply; a first control circuit to alternately turn on and off the switching elements in response to a constant oscillation frequency signal; a series circuit including a primary winding of a transformer and a capacitor connected together in series, and being connected to a connecting point between the switching elements, and to an end of the DC power supply; a rectifying/smoothing circuit to rectify and smooth a voltage in a secondary winding of the transformer thereby to output a DC voltage; a control switching element connected to two ends of the primary or secondary winding of the transformer; and a second control circuit to control the DC voltage at a predetermined voltage by turning on and off the control switching element.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Patent number: 8395912Abstract: The resonant switching power supply device is equipped with switching elements QH and QL connected in series to an input direct-current power source Vin, a transformer T1 having secondary windings S1 and S2 and a primary winding P1, a resonant circuit where the primary winding P1 and a current resonant capacitor Cri are connected in series and which is connected in parallel to any one of the switching elements, and a rectifying circuit (D1+D2+Co) connected to the secondary winding to obtain an output voltage Vo; the transformer T1 is equipped with a primary winding P2 closely coupled to the primary winding P1, one terminal of the primary winding P2 is connected to one or the other terminal of the primary winding P1. By the other terminal is an open circuit at any time, it suppresses the switching frequency raised at the time of light load.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Patent number: 8248830Abstract: A power source apparatus has a power source unit (AC, DB, Ci), a pair of reactors L1a and L1b each having a winding, and a controller 10 to accumulate energy of the power source unit in the pair of reactors and control the accumulated energy by turning on/off a switching element Q1. The windings of the pair of reactors are arranged so that the windings face each other and the polarities of magnetic flux from the windings are opposite to each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Usui, Takashi Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20120139512Abstract: The present invention provides a DC-DC converter including: a first series circuit which is connected to the two ends of a direct-current power source Vi, and in which a first switching element Q1 and a second switching element Q2 are connected together in series; a control circuit 10 configured to alternately turn on and off the first switching element and the second switching element; a second series circuit which is connected to the two ends of the first switching element, and in which a first capacitor Ci, a first reactor Ls and a second reactor Ll having a larger value than the first reactor are connected together in series; and rectifying/smoothing circuits (Do, Co) configured to rectify and smooth a voltage between the two ends of the second reactor, and to output a direct-current output voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi USUI
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Publication number: 20120033451Abstract: A converter includes a rectifying circuit of an AC voltage of an AC power source into a rectified voltage, an input smoothing capacitor Ci, a first series circuit connected to the input smoothing capacitor and including a first and a second switching elements, a second series circuit connected to a connection point of the first and second switching elements and a first end of the input smoothing capacitor and including a primary winding of a transformer and a first capacitor Cri, a controller to alternately turn on/off the first and second switching elements, a rectifying-smoothing circuit (D1, Co) to rectify and smooth a high-frequency voltage of a secondary winding of the transformer into a DC output voltage, and a second capacitor connected between a connection point of the primary winding of the transformer and the first capacitor and a first end of the AC power source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: February 9, 2012Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi USUI
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Patent number: 7994736Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp inverter apparatus includes a series circuit connected to a DC power source and including first and second switching elements, a series circuit connected between a connection point of the first and second switching elements and the DC power source and including a primary winding of a transformer, a reactor, and a capacitor, a cold cathode fluorescent lamp connected to a secondary winding of the transformer, a current detector connected to the cold cathode fluorescent lamp and to the secondary winding, to detect a value of a current passed through the cold cathode fluorescent lamp, and a controller to turn on/off the first and second switching elements alternately with each other according to the detected current value. The current detector detects a ripple component in the DC power source, and corrects the current of the cold cathode fluorescent lamp according to the detected ripple component.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Usui, Toru Ashikaga, Jaehee Cho
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Patent number: 7952334Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a series circuit of a switch element Q1 and a switch element Q2 connected to a DC power source, a series circuit of a primary winding P1 of a transformer and a capacitor connected in parallel with one of the switch elements, a rectifying-smoothing circuit of a voltage generated by a secondary winding (S1, S2) of the transformer, a controller to alternately turn on/off the switch elements according to an output of the rectifying-smoothing circuit, first and second timing detectors to detect ON/OFF states of the switch elements, and an ON time storing part to operate in response to a detection signal from the second timing detector and store an ON time of the switch element Q1 based on an OFF time of the switch element Q2. The controller turns on the switch element Q2 only during the stored ON time.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2008Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Patent number: 7928701Abstract: An AC-DC converter includes a rectifier DB for rectifying an alternating current supplied from an alternating power source AC, a power factor controller 11a connected to an output side of the rectifier DB to improve a power factor and also output either a power or a current limited to a predetermined value, a DC-DC converter 12 that converts a voltage outputted from the power factor controller 11 to another voltage, a capacitor EDLC for storing an energy and a two-way converter 13 having one input/output terminals connected to the output side of the power factor controller 11a and the other input/output terminals connected to the capacitor to carry out a two-way power conversion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Publication number: 20110051465Abstract: Provided is a technique of making the leakage inductance of a transformer serve as a current resonant reactor and connecting a stray capacitance Cf1 in parallel to the leakage inductance in a resonant switching power supply device, thereby making the resonant switching power supply device smaller as well as reducing costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventor: Hiroshi USUI
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Patent number: 7872417Abstract: A diode chip is sealed by a glass material. There are provided a light emitting diode chip and a glass member in close contact with at least one portion of the surface of the light emitting diode chip. The glass member has a surface shape containing a curved surface at least a portion thereof. The curved surface is preferably a portion of a spherical surface or a spheroidal surface. The glass member has a surface shape containing a spherical portion and a flat portion, and the diode chip is preferably disposed on the flat portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Nobuhiro Nakamura, Syuji Matsumoto, Hitoshi Onoda, Yutaka Segawa, Tetsuro Matsumoto, Hiroshi Usui
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Publication number: 20110007529Abstract: The present invention includes: a plurality of switching elements connected in series and connected between two ends of a DC power supply; a first control circuit to alternately turn on and off the switching elements in response to a constant oscillation frequency signal; a series circuit including a primary winding of a transformer and a capacitor connected together in series, and being connected to a connecting point between the switching elements, and to an end of the DC power supply; a rectifying/smoothing circuit to rectify and smooth a voltage in a secondary winding of the transformer thereby to output a DC voltage; a control switching element connected to two ends of the primary or secondary winding of the transformer; and a second control circuit to control the DC voltage at a predetermined voltage by turning on and off the control switching element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi USUI
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Patent number: 7857680Abstract: A method for producing a glass substrate for a magnetic disk by polishing a circular glass plate, which comprises a step of polishing the principal plane of the circular glass plate by using a slurry containing a CeO2 crystal powder, the CeO2 crystal powder being obtained in such a manner that a melt containing CeO2 is quenched to obtain an amorphous material, and the amorphous material is subjected to heat treatment to obtain a CeO2 crystals-precipitated amorphous material, which is subjected to acid treatment to separate and extract the CeO2 crystal powder from the CeO2 crystals-precipitated amorphous material.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, LimitedInventors: Katsuaki Miyatani, Osamu Miyahara, Yuzuru Tanabe, Hiroshi Usui, Yoshihisa Beppu, Kazuo Sunahara, Mitsuru Horie, Satoshi Kashiwabara, Tomohiro Sakai, Yoshinori Kon, Iori Yoshida
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Publication number: 20100302817Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a plurality of switch elements connected in series between both ends of a DC power source, a series circuit of a primary winding of a transformer and a capacitor, connected between a connection point of the plurality of switch elements and an end of the DC power source, a rectifying-smoothing circuit to rectify and smooth a voltage generated by a secondary winding of the transformer into a DC voltage, and a controller to change a switching frequency of the plurality of switch elements according to a feedback signal generated from the DC voltage and alternately turn on/off the plurality of switch elements. The controller includes a nonlinear response unit 11a to nonlinearly change the switching frequency according to a feedback amount represented by the feedback signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui
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Publication number: 20100265741Abstract: A power factor correcting converter includes a DC-DC converter to convert a DC voltage, which is formed by rectifying an AC voltage of an AC power source through a rectifier, into a DC voltage of the DC-DC converter and a step-up converter to step up the DC voltage of the DC-DC converter. Secondary windings of a transformer Ta in the DC-DC converter are directly connected to the step-up converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2010Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi USUI
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Publication number: 20100262320Abstract: An actuator monitoring circuit 1 which is mounted in an airplane and monitors an actuator 30 having a piston (output portion) calculates the moving distance of the piston, and outputs, when the moving distance exceeds a predetermined threshold, an approaching notification signal 78s and a progression notification signal 79s to notify the excess over the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2010Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Koizumi, Hiroshi Usui, Kiyoshi Yasuda
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Patent number: 7768801Abstract: A current resonant DC-DC converter of multi-output type is provided which comprises an output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 connected between a secondary winding 5c of a transformer 5 and a smoothing capacitor 16 in a second rectifying smoother 17, and an output control circuit 41 for controlling the on-off operation of output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 based on voltage VO2 from smoothing capacitor 16 in second rectifying smoother 17. By turning the on-off operation of output-regulatory MOS-FET 40 in synchronization with switching frequency of first or second MOS-FETs 1, 2, an ideal cross regulation among respective DC outputs can be obtained, providing the inexpensive converter with simple circuit alteration capable of producing highly stable DC outputs with high power conversion efficiency, high accuracy and less power conversion loss.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: August 3, 2010Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Usui, Yukihiro Kaminaga, Syohei Osaka
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Patent number: 7757389Abstract: For providing a flexible printed circuit board in which the distance between each of plural wiring patterns is a desired distance by cutting the flexible printed circuit board having plural wiring patterns, plural wiring patterns are formed so as to extend on the surface of an electrically insulative base film, and each of the plural wiring patterns is formed so as to include a portion where the distance between each of them is narrowed along the extending direction of the base film.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Mitsuhiro Nozaki, Hiroshi Isono, Hiroshi Usui
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Publication number: 20100127685Abstract: A power source apparatus has a power source unit (AC, DB, Ci), a pair of reactors L1a and L1b each having a winding, and a controller 10 to accumulate energy of the power source unit in the pair of reactors and control the accumulated energy by turning on/off a switching element Q1. The windings of the pair of reactors are arranged so that the windings face each other and the polarities of magnetic flux from the windings are opposite to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Applicant: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Usui, Takashi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 7719240Abstract: An AC-DC converter includes a rectifier DB for rectifying an alternating current supplied from an alternating power source AC, a power factor controller 11 connected to an output side of the rectifier DB to improve a power factor, a DC-DC converter 12 that converts a voltage outputted from the power factor controller 11 to another voltage and also outputs either a power or a current limited to a predetermined value, a capacitor for storing an energy and a two-way converter 13 having one input/output terminals connected to output terminals of the DC-DC converter 12 and the other input/output terminals connected to the capacitor to carry out a two-way power conversion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroshi Usui