Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Kudo

Hitoshi Kudo 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: 20230420172
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body having a multilayer structure including a first element body portion formed of a ferrite element body material, and a second element body portion laminated on the first element body portion and formed of a ferrite element body material having a composition different from the ferrite element body material forming the first element body portion, a multilayer coil having an axis parallel to a lamination direction of the element body, and a stress alleviation portion provided in an inner region of the multilayer coil when viewed from the lamination direction. In the multilayer coil component, the stress alleviation portion is provided in the inner region of the multilayer coil in which a stress tends to be concentrated to alleviate the stress in the inner region of the multilayer coil, and thereby occurrence of cracking in the element body can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu SATO, Takahiro SATO, Hitoshi KUDO, Takashi ENDO, Yusuke NAGAI, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Hiroko KORIKAWA, Kenji KOMORITA
  • Patent number: 11810704
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body having a multilayer structure including a first element body portion formed of a ferrite element body material, and a second element body portion laminated on the first element body portion and formed of a ferrite element body material having a composition different from the ferrite element body material forming the first element body portion, a multilayer coil having an axis parallel to a lamination direction of the element body, and a stress alleviation portion provided in an inner region of the multilayer coil when viewed from the lamination direction. In the multilayer coil component, the stress alleviation portion is provided in the inner region of the multilayer coil in which a stress tends to be concentrated to alleviate the stress in the inner region of the multilayer coil, and thereby occurrence of cracking in the element body can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Sato, Takahiro Sato, Hitoshi Kudo, Takashi Endo, Yusuke Nagai, Tatsuro Suzuki, Hiroko Korikawa, Kenji Komorita
  • Publication number: 20230182326
    Abstract: A wrist device includes a first element coupled to an arm to be rotatable about a fifth axis, and a second element coupled to the first element to be rotatable about a sixth axis. There is a fifth motor to rotationally drive the first element, and a sixth motor to rotationally drive the second element. A fifth transmission mechanism transmits a driving force of the fifth motor to the first element and a sixth transmission mechanism transmits a driving force of the sixth motor to the second element. The sixth transmission mechanism includes a first gear rotatably supported by the arm and a second gear rotatably supported by the first element and to mesh with the first gear, and reduces a rotation speed of a driving force in a component group including the first driving gear and components after the first driving gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi SHIBATA, Hitoshi KUDO
  • Patent number: 11386877
    Abstract: Sound equipment includes: a beat position acquiring unit configured to analyze a beat position of music piece data to be reproduced or acquire an analysis result; and a beat position displaying unit configured to display a scale of a differential numerical value of the number of beats in a plus direction and a minus direction of the music piece data with reference to a currently reproduced position of the music piece data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHATHETA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Hitoshi Kudo, Nao Takagi
  • Patent number: 11380476
    Abstract: In a multilayer coil component, a ferrite element body includes a first element body portion and a second element body portion adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the multilayer coil, in which a dielectric constant of the second element body portion is lower than a dielectric constant of the first element body portion, and a magnetic permeability of the second element body portion is higher than a magnetic permeability of the first element body portion. The inventors newly found that the first element body portion and the second element body portion contribute to coil characteristics when a coil winding portion is provided to extend over the first element body portion and the second element body portion. In the multilayer coil component, desired coil characteristics can be obtained by adjusting proportions of the first element body portion and the second element body portion in the ferrite element body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Hitoshi Kudo, Takashi Suzuki, Kouichi Kakuda, Tatsuro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Tanoue
  • Patent number: 11367559
    Abstract: The inventors have newly found that, even when a composition of a first element body portion and a composition of a second element body portion are different from each other, a high bonding strength at an interface between the first element body portion and the second element body portion can be obtained when both the first element body portion and the second element body portion contain Zn2SiO4 as a constituent component. That is, when the first element body portion and the second element body portion contain Zn2SiO4, a bonding strength at the interface is improved compared to a case in which the first element body portion and the second element body portion do not contain Zn2SiO4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sato, Hitoshi Kudo, Takashi Suzuki, Kouichi Kakuda, Tatsuro Suzuki, Hiroyuki Tanoue
  • Publication number: 20210074249
    Abstract: Sound equipment includes: a beat position acquiring unit configured to analyze a beat position of music piece data to be reproduced or acquire an analysis result; and a beat position displaying unit configured to display a scale of a differential numerical value of the number of beats in a plus direction and a minus direction of the music piece data with reference to a currently reproduced position of the music piece data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Daisuke Tanaka, Hitoshi Kudo, Nao Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200335075
    Abstract: Sound equipment includes: a display; and mask covering a part of the display. The display includes a first display area where an image is to be freely displayed and a second display area covered with the mask. The mask includes a transmissive portion configured to transmit light emitted from the second display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Nao Takagi, Daisuke Tanaka, Hitoshi Kudo, Takahiro Kuramoto
  • Publication number: 20200135375
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes an element body having a multilayer structure including a first element body portion formed of a ferrite element body material, and a second element body portion laminated on the first element body portion and formed of a ferrite element body material having a composition different from the ferrite element body material forming the first element body portion, a multilayer coil having an axis parallel to a lamination direction of the element body, and a stress alleviation portion provided in an inner region of the multilayer coil when viewed from the lamination direction. In the multilayer coil component, the stress alleviation portion is provided in the inner region of the multilayer coil in which a stress tends to be concentrated to alleviate the stress in the inner region of the multilayer coil, and thereby occurrence of cracking in the element body can be suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu SATO, Takahiro SATO, Hitoshi KUDO, Takashi ENDO, Yusuke NAGAI, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Hiroko KORIKAWA, Kenji KOMORITA
  • Publication number: 20190198232
    Abstract: In a multilayer coil component, a ferrite element body includes a first element body portion and a second element body portion adjacent to each other in an axial direction of the multilayer coil, in which a dielectric constant of the second element body portion is lower than a dielectric constant of the first element body portion, and a magnetic permeability of the second element body portion is higher than a magnetic permeability of the first element body portion. The inventors newly found that the first element body portion and the second element body portion contribute to coil characteristics when a coil winding portion is provided to extend over the first element body portion and the second element body portion. In the multilayer coil component, desired coil characteristics can be obtained by adjusting proportions of the first element body portion and the second element body portion in the ferrite element body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro SATO, Hitoshi KUDO, Takashi SUZUKI, Kouichi KAKUDA, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Hiroyuki TANOUE
  • Publication number: 20190198227
    Abstract: The inventors have newly found that, even when a composition of a first element body portion and a composition of a second element body portion are different from each other, a high bonding strength at an interface between the first element body portion and the second element body portion can be obtained when both the first element body portion and the second element body portion contain Zn2SiO4 as a constituent component. That is, when the first element body portion and the second element body portion contain Zn2SiO4, a bonding strength at the interface is improved compared to a case in which the first element body portion and the second element body portion do not contain Zn2SiO4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro SATO, Hitoshi KUDO, Takashi SUZUKI, Kouichi KAKUDA, Tatsuro SUZUKI, Hiroyuki TANOUE
  • Patent number: 9396877
    Abstract: A high voltage capacitor comprises a columnar capacitor element body, made of a dielectric material, having a pair of principal surfaces opposing each other; a pair of electrodes arranged on the respective principal surfaces; a pair of terminal metal fittings connected to the respective electrodes; a case; and a resin part. The case contains a resin material and has a bottom part formed with an opening for exposing the terminal metal fitting and a trunk part extending from an edge of the bottom part in a direction intersecting the bottom part. The bottom part and trunk part define a space for containing the capacitor element body. The resin part is made of an insulating material and arranged within the case so as to seal the capacitor element body within the case. The case has a degree of hardness lower than that of the resin part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Iwao Miura, Hitoshi Kudo, Masato Sakakibara
  • Publication number: 20140177131
    Abstract: A high voltage capacitor comprises a columnar capacitor element body, made of a dielectric material, having a pair of principal surfaces opposing each other; a pair of electrodes arranged on the respective principal surfaces; a pair of terminal metal fittings connected to the respective electrodes; a case; and a resin part. The case contains a resin material and has a bottom part formed with an opening for exposing the terminal metal fitting and a trunk part extending from an edge of the bottom part in a direction intersecting the bottom part. The bottom part and trunk part define a space for containing the capacitor element body. The resin part is made of an insulating material and arranged within the case so as to seal the capacitor element body within the case. The case has a degree of hardness lower than that of the resin part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Iwao MIURA, Hitoshi KUDO, Masato SAKAKIBARA
  • Publication number: 20100128585
    Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: a reading device (10) for reading contents data; an operating device (41) constructed to rotate depending on an operation of a user; a detecting device (42) for detecting rotating operation performed on the operating device as operating signal (d); a generating device (22) for generating modulation signal (d?) by adding a predetermined additional signal (d?) vibrating at a fixed frequency or a variable frequency to the operating signal; a reproducing device (15) for reproducing the contents data, while determining reproduction speed and reproduction direction of the contents data on the basis of the modulation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kudo, Shogo Suzuki, Katsunobu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100027388
    Abstract: An information reproducing apparatus (1) is provided with: a reading device (10) for reading contents data; an operating device (41) constructed to rotate depending on an operation of a user; a reproducing device (15) for reproducing the contents data, while determining reproduction speed and reproduction direction of the contents data on the basis of the operating signal which shows a rotating operation of the user performed on the operating device; and an adjusting device (22) for adjusting reproducing intensity of a plurality of data parts distributed in the contents data periodically or discretely during the reproduction of the contents data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION, TOKOROZAWA WORKS.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kudo, Shogo Suzuki, Katsunobu Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20100014399
    Abstract: An information reproducer (1) includes a element (15) for reproducing content data, a first setting element (20) for setting first loop reproduction unit data, a conversion element (20) for generating conversion data by dividing or elongating/contracting a plurality of unit beat data each corresponding to one beat included in first loop reproduction unit data, a second setting element (20) for setting second loop reproduction unit data where (i) the reproduction period is substantially identical to that of the first loop reproduction unit data, and (ii) a beat appears at a timing synchronous with that of a beat appearing in the first loop reproduction unit data by combining the conversion data, and a element (20) for controlling the reproduction element to perform loop reproduction of the first loop reproduction unit data and the second loop reproduction unit data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kudo, Katsuhiro Shiba, Katsuhik Goda, Shogo Suzuki, Katsunobu Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 7156886
    Abstract: A reforming apparatus for producing a reformed gas from a fuel gas and steam, including a reformed gas-producing passage and a combustion gas passage, the reformed gas-producing passage having reforming catalyst, shift catalyst, and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections along a flowing direction of the reformed gas, the reformed gas-producing passage having a first passage adjacent to the combustion gas passage and including the reforming catalyst section and a second passage adjacent to the first passage, the second passage including a first heat-recovering section adjacent to the reforming catalyst section, and the first passage having a second heat-recovering section adjacent to one of the shift catalyst and CO-selective oxidizing catalyst sections, the first heat-recovering section located on an upstream side along the flow direction of the reformed gas relative to the reforming catalyst section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Nakamura, Susumu Kobayashi, Hitoshi Kudo, Mikio Sei, Yuichiro Yasuda, Zhongmin Fei
  • Publication number: 20040068933
    Abstract: There is provided a reforming apparatus which shows high efficiency and excellent operation-starting performance, in spite of its compact body and simple structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nakamura, Susumu Kobayashi, Hitoshi Kudo, Mikio Sei, Yuichiro Yasuda, Zhongmin Fei
  • Patent number: 6413479
    Abstract: This reforming apparatus is provided with a raw material reforming unit including a heat source for generating heat when a fuel gas is burnt and adapted to reaction heat directly from the heat source, steam-reform a material, and produce a reformed gas containing hydrogen as a main component, a shift reaction unit for reducing by a water shift reaction the amount of CO contained in the reformed gas produced in the raw material reforming unit, a CO oxidation unit adapted to further reduce the amount of CO contained in the reformed gas after the process in the shift reaction unit, by oxidizing the same. These units are united as independent units. These raw material reforming unit, shift reaction unit and CO oxidation unit are arranged so that the shift reaction unit and the CO oxidation unit are indirectly heated by the heat transmitted from the heat source of the raw material reforming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kudo, Noriyuki Yamaga, Mikio Shinagawa
  • Patent number: RE39675
    Abstract: This reforming apparatus is provided with a raw material reforming unit including a heat source for generating heat when a fuel gas is burnt and adapted to reaction heat directly from the heat source, steam-reform a material, and produce a reformed gas containing hydrogen as a main component, a shift reaction unit for reducing by a water shift reaction the amount of CO contained in the reformed gas produced in the raw material reforming unit, a CO oxidation unit adapted to further reduce the amount of CO contained in the reformed gas after the process in the shift reaction unit, by oxidizing the same. These units are united as independent units. These raw material reforming unit, shift reaction unit and CO oxidation unit are arranged so that the shift reaction unit and the CO oxidation unit are indirectly heated by the heat transmitted from the heat source of the raw material reforming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kudo, Noriyuki Yamaga, Mikio Shinagawa