Patents by Inventor Hitoshi Sakamoto

Hitoshi Sakamoto 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: 20150062821
    Abstract: The size of an electronic device using a cooling structure for an electronic circuit board is increased when using a heating element with a large amount of heat generation, therefore, a cooling structure for an electronic circuit board according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes an evaporator with an evaporation container storing a refrigerant; a condenser condensing and liquefying a vapor-phase refrigerant vaporized in the evaporator and radiating heat; and a pipe connecting the evaporator to the condenser, wherein the evaporator includes a heat receiving area, on one side of the evaporation container, thermally connecting to a heating element disposed on the electronic circuit board, and a plurality of flow path plates, in an area including the heat receiving area, extending in the direction parallel to the electronic circuit board; and a vapor-liquid interface of the refrigerant is positioned above or at the level of a lower end and below an upper end of the heat receiving area in th
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Akira Shoujiguchi, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20150034288
    Abstract: In a cooling device using an ebullient cooling system, a cooling device becomes larger when a degree of freedom of the arrangement in installing it in electronic equipment is increased, and that it is impossible to obtain a sufficient degree of freedom of the arrangement, therefore, a flat plate cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a plate-like container including a first flat plate and a second flat plate opposite to the first flat plate; a refrigerant enclosed in the plate-like container; and a guiding wall unit connecting the first flat plate to the second flat plate and controlling a flow of the refrigerant in the plate-like container; wherein the plate-like container includes a heat receiving area which is thermally connected to a heating element disposed on at least one of the first flat plate and the second flat plate; and the guiding wall unit includes a pair of guiding walls, and the guiding walls are disposed on opposite sides of the heat receiving area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arihiro Matsunaga, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Minoru Yoshikawa, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba
  • Publication number: 20150037308
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (A) or (B), or a salt thereof capable of improving a red color of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) and obtaining functions of original PQQ, and to a method of efficiently manufacturing the compound. wherein R is an alkyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a dihydroxyalkyl group, or an alkoxyalkyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuto Ikemoto, Hitoshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140366572
    Abstract: [Problem] When a size of a cooling device using a boiling cooling system is reduced, a cooling performance decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Arihiro Matsunaga, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Akira Shoujiguchi, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba
  • Patent number: 8908373
    Abstract: A metal plate that forms a heat-absorbing surface has a center portion which protrudes so as to correspond to the size of a semiconductor element. A fixing support point of a plate spring is provided at a center of this protruding surface, and the plate spring is fixed on all sides. Grounding pressure is applied via the single point provided by the fixing support point. As a result, any tilting of the heat-absorbing surface relative to the surface of the heat-generating element is kept to a minimum. Heat pipes are provided around the periphery such that they enclose the protruding area from the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Chenpin Hsu
  • Publication number: 20140331709
    Abstract: When a cooling device employing an ebullient cooling system is mounted in a low-profile electronic device, not only is it impossible to obtain the sufficient cooling performance, but also the cooling efficiency of the entire electronic device decreases, therefore, a cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes evaporating means for storing a refrigerant; condensing means for condensing and liquefying a vapor-phase refrigerant vaporized in the evaporation means and radiating heat; a pipe connecting the evaporating means to the condensing means; and flow regulating means for regulating a flow direction of air passing through the condensing means, wherein the evaporating means and the condensing means are located on roughly the same level in the vertical direction; the evaporating means includes an evaporation container and bulkhead means for separating the refrigerant disposed in the evaporation container; the height of the bulkhead means is larger than or equal to the height of a v
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Masaki Chiba, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Akira Shoujiguchi, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140326016
    Abstract: A cooling device of the present invention is a cooling device arranged in a chassis equipped with an upper surface, and comprises: a refrigerant; a vaporizer that includes an evaporative vessel having a side face of a curved surface shape, and performs heat-absorption by making the refrigerant change its phase from a liquid phase state to a vapor phase state; a condenser that performs heat-radiation by making the refrigerant change its phase from a vapor phase state to a liquid phase state; a pipe that connects the vaporizer and the condenser; and a flow path suppression means for suppressing a cooling wind that flows between an area over the evaporative vessel and the upper surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventors: Akira Shoujiguchi, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140321056
    Abstract: An electronic substrate 200A mounts a heater element 220. A chassis 300A houses an electronic substrate 200 in an airtight manner. A cooling unit 400 cools the electronic substrate 200. The cooling unit 400 includes a heat receiving part 410 and a heat radiation part 420. The heat receiving part 410 receives heat from the electronic substrate 200. The heat radiation part 420 is connected with the heat receiving part 410, and radiates heat from the electronic substrate 200 which has received by the heat receiving part 410. Further, the heat receiving part 410 is provided in the chassis 300A in an airtight manner, and the heat radiation part 420 is provided outside the chassis 300. As a result, efficient cooling is possible, and moreover, maintenance replacement work can be performed for each piece of electronic substrate housing equipment individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140241550
    Abstract: A piezoelectric sound generating element capable of providing flatter and less fluctuated sound pressure frequency characteristics includes a diaphragm that is formed in a circular plate shape with a circular profile. A piezoelectric element is affixed to the side of a bottom wall portion of the diaphragm. The piezoelectric element has an asymmetric octagonal profile including a pair of long side portions opposing each other, a pair of short side portions opposing each other, and four connecting side portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicants: ANDEN CO., LTD., HOKURIKU ELECTRIC INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadao Sunahara, Masahide Tamura, Osamu Kawasaki, Masaru Tsuchiya, Ryuta Suzuki, Makoto Tsuruta, Nobuhiro Miwa, Hitoshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20140190738
    Abstract: An electronic substrate 100D has a tabular base material 110 which can install a heater element 120 and the cooling structure that cools the heater element 120. An electronic substrate 100 can be plugged in/out in the case 200 in the direction which is almost parallel to the face of the base material 110. The cooling structure is installed on the tabular base material 110, and has the first heat radiation part 160D with a hollow shape and the heat transfer part 700. The first heat radiation part 160D with a hollow shape radiates the generated heat of the heater element 120 installed in the base material. The heat transfer part 700 transfers the generated heat of the heater element 120 to the first heat radiation part 160D. The first heat radiation part 160D has the first joint surface 165 formed along a face which is almost vertical to the insert and removal direction W of the base material 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Minoru Yoshikawa, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140165638
    Abstract: A cooling device employing a boiling cooling method cannot exhibit sufficient cooling performance when it is installed in a low-profile electronic device. A cooling device of the present invention comprises an evaporation unit which contains a refrigerant, a condensation unit which performs heat radiation by condensing and liquefying vapor-phase refrigerant which was vaporized at the evaporation unit, and piping which connects the evaporation unit with the condensation unit; wherein the evaporation unit comprises an evaporation container and a partition wall section which is arranged within the evaporation container and constitutes a flow path of the refrigerant, and the height of the partition wall section is equal to or larger than the height of the vapor-liquid interface of the refrigerant and is smaller than the height of the evaporation container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Akira Shoujiguchi, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140144169
    Abstract: A cooling system comprising: an evaporator for evaporating a refrigerant by performing heat exchange with outside air; a condenser for condensing a gas refrigerant into a liquid refrigerant by making a refrigerant and a cooling medium perform heat exchange with each other; a gas refrigerant pipe and a liquid refrigerant pipe connecting the evaporator and the condenser; and the evaporator including: an upper part header provided in a highest position of the evaporator, and connected with the condenser by the gas refrigerant pipe, through the gas refrigerant pipe a gas refrigerant flowing; a lower part header provided in a lowest position of the evaporator, and connected with the condenser by the liquid refrigerant pipe, through the liquid refrigerant pipe a liquid refrigerant flowing; a middle header provided in an intermediate position between the upper part header and the lower part header, and connected with the condenser by the liquid refrigerant pipe, through the liquid refrigerant pipe the liquid refrige
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Inaba, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140128609
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel pyrroloquinoline quinone disodium crystal having excellent dispersibility in solvents and excellent permeability through skin, and a method for producing the pyrroloquinoline quinone disodium crystal with high efficiency. According to the present invention, provided are a novel pyrroloquinoline quinone disodium crystal which is produced by drying a crystal produced under specified conditions through a drying means such as lyophilization, ambient drying and vacuum drying, and a method for producing the pyrroloquinoline quinone disodium crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuto Ikemoto, Hitoshi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8698010
    Abstract: Resistivity to dust and cooling performance are improved by a simple structure. Electronic apparatus (image display apparatus) 1 includes: housing 31 that forms sealed inner space 33; circuit unit 39 that is provided in inner space 33; first partition plate 34 that is provided in inner space 33 and that has upper/lower partition portion 7, wherein upper/lower partition portion 7 at least partially extends in a lateral direction extending above at least a part of circuit unit 39 and that terminates in front of both lateral sides of housing 31; and first fan 5, 6 that is provided through upper/lower partition portion 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Kazuyuki Mikubo, Takeya Hashiguchi
  • Publication number: 20140083652
    Abstract: A sealed casing includes a container provided with a plurality of opening and houses at least one heat-generating body, and a plurality of top boards sealing the openings respectively, and is characterized in that at least one of the openings is disposed in a heat-generating area where the heat-generating body is disposed, and that a cooling unit is disposed on the top board sealing the opening in the heat-generating area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Arihiro Matsunaga, Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba
  • Publication number: 20140027100
    Abstract: In a piping structure of a cooling device using an ebullient cooling system, the cooling performance of the cooling device is degraded if the pipe is provided with flexibility, therefore, a piping structure of a cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a first tubular part with a hollow portion through which a refrigerant used in the cooling device flows; wherein the first tubular part is made of metal materials; and the surface roughness of the inner surface of the first tubular part is less than or equal to the size of a condensation nucleus for the refrigerant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20140020386
    Abstract: The invention related gas recovering system contains at least one gas supply system, a gas treatment system, and a gas separation system. The gas supply system includes a gas supply unit and a supply source. The gas treatment system includes a gas reactor and a gas reduction device. Also, the gas separation system includes a first exhaust unit, a purifying unit, a second exhaust unit and a heating evaporation unit. The gas recovering system can avoid the unnecessary waste of gas to form hazardous waste. Therefore, gas can make more effective use to reduce cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicants: KERN ENERGY ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying-Shih HSIAO, Hitoshi SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20140008188
    Abstract: A switch unit including operating keys, an LCD that displays an image, lenses that are disposed between the LCD and the operating keys and show the image displayed by the LCD on the operating surfaces of the operating keys, a PCB having contacts that detect when an operating key has been depressed, and a rubber that is disposed between the operating keys and the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Junya Fujita
  • Publication number: 20130319639
    Abstract: In a cooling device using an ebullient cooling system, it is difficult to improve the cooling performance without increasing manufacturing costs, therefore, a cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a heat receiving unit storing a refrigerant and receiving the heat from an object to be cooled; a heat radiating unit radiating heat by condensing and liquefying a vapor-state refrigerant arising from a refrigerant vaporizing in the heat receiving unit; and a connection connecting the heat receiving unit to the heat radiating unit; wherein the heat receiving unit includes a base thermally contacting with the object to be cooled, and a container connected to the connection; the base includes a heat receiving unit outer wall composing a part of an outer wall of the heat receiving unit, and a plurality of projections disposed on a heat receiving unit undersurface of an undersurface at an inner wall side contacting with the refrigerant; the base includes a bubble nucleus forming surfa
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Sakamoto, Minoru Yoshikawa, Masaki Chiba, Kenichi Inaba, Arihiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8593810
    Abstract: A cooling device of the present invention includes: a substrate having a first surface which supports an electronic component and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface; a container which can form a space between itself and the second surface of the substrate; and an evaporation section which is thermally connected to the electronic component supported on the substrate, which is arranged in the space so that at least a portion thereof is in contact with a liquid within the space, and which changes a phase of at least a portion of the liquid to gas on a basis of heat generated by the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Sakamoto, Takeya Hashiguchi