Patents by Inventor Katsuhiko Nishihata

Katsuhiko Nishihata 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).

  • Patent number: 10418175
    Abstract: Apparatus for aligning magnetic wire aligns magnetic wires on a wire alignment substrate along its base lines, which are positions the magnetic wires are aligned with, with a small interval and without inducing torsional stresses. A microscope is used to detect misplacement between the base line and a reference line that is the magnetic wire taking a form of a straight line under application of tensile force and pulled out by a wire chuck. The misplacement is corrected using a position adjustment device of a substrate attaching base to which the wire alignment substrate is attached. The magnetic wires are temporarily fixed to the wire alignment substrate by magnetic power, and then permanently fixed to the wire alignment substrate using resin while free from the torsional stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Nishihata
  • Patent number: 10418176
    Abstract: Apparatus for aligning magnetic wire aligns magnetic wires on a wire alignment substrate along its base lines, which are positions the magnetic wires are aligned with, with a small interval and without inducing torsional stresses. A microscope is used to detect misplacement between the base line and a reference line that is the magnetic wire taking a form of a straight line under application of tensile force and pulled out by a wire chuck. The misplacement is corrected using a position adjustment device of a substrate attaching base to which the wire alignment substrate is attached. The magnetic wires are temporarily fixed to the wire alignment substrate by magnetic power, and then permanently fixed to the wire alignment substrate using resin while free from the torsional stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiko Nishihata
  • Publication number: 20190051456
    Abstract: Apparatus for aligning magnetic wire aligns magnetic wires on a wire alignment substrate along its base lines, which are positions the magnetic wires are aligned with, with a small interval and without inducing torsional stresses. A microscope is used to detect misplacement between the base line and a reference line that is the magnetic wire taking a form of a straight line under application of tensile force and pulled out by a wire chuck. The misplacement is corrected using a position adjustment device of a substrate attaching base to which the wire alignment substrate is attached. The magnetic wires are temporarily fixed to the wire alignment substrate by magnetic power, and then permanently fixed to the wire alignment substrate using resin while free from the torsional stresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiko NISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20190051457
    Abstract: Apparatus for aligning magnetic wire aligns magnetic wires on a wire alignment substrate along its base lines, which are positions the magnetic wires are aligned with, with a small interval and without inducing torsional stresses. A microscope is used to detect misplacement between the base line and a reference line that is the magnetic wire taking a form of a straight line under application of tensile force and pulled out by a wire chuck. The misplacement is corrected using a position adjustment device of a substrate attaching base to which the wire alignment substrate is attached. The magnetic wires are temporarily fixed to the wire alignment substrate by magnetic power, and then permanently fixed to the wire alignment substrate using resin while free from the torsional stresses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Katsuhiko NISHIHATA
  • Publication number: 20150262748
    Abstract: Provided is a magneto-impedance element (an MI element) which can attain an increase in output power and size reduction. In the MI element of the present invention, a detection coil (13) winding around a magneto-sensitive wire (12) provided above a substrate (11) comprises a first wiring part (131) comprising film-shaped electrically conductive bodies formed along a flat surface of the substrate and crossing the magneto-sensitive wire; a second wiring part (132) comprising film-shaped electrically conductive bodies formed on an opposite side of the magneto-sensitive wire to the first wiring part and crossing the magneto-sensitive wire; and a connecting part (133, 134) comprising columnar or tubular electrically conductive bodies surrounded by an electrically insulating part at both lateral sides of the magneto-sensitive wire and extending in a normal direction of the substrate so as to connect predetermined positions of the first wiring part and those of the second wiring part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Nishihata, Hidenobu Ito, Norikazu Naitoh, Hisatsune Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 8461834
    Abstract: A magneto-impedance sensor element is formed in a planar type structure in which an amorphous wire is incorporated in a substrate. The magneto-impedance sensor element includes a nonmagnetic substrate, an amorphous wire arranged in an aligning direction of a planar pattern that forms a detecting coil, a spiral detecting coil formed of a planar pattern and a cubic pattern on an outer periphery of the amorphous wire, a planar insulating portion that insulates the planar pattern from the amorphous wire, a wire fixing portion to fix the amorphous wire on an upper surface of the planar insulating portion, and a cubic insulating portion that insulates the cubic pattern from the amorphous wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Nishihata
  • Patent number: 8455962
    Abstract: A magneto-impedance sensor element has a base body, a magnetic amorphous wire, a coating insulator, a detecting coil, a terminal base having a terminal mounting surface, wire electrode terminals and coil electrode terminals formed on the terminal mounting surface, wire connecting wirings for electrically connecting the wire electrode terminals and a pair of wire conducting terminals provided to the magnetic amorphous wire, and coil connecting wirings for electrically connecting the coil electrode terminals and a pair of coil conducting terminals provided to the detecting coil. A normal of the terminal mounting surface has a longitudinal direction component of the magnetic amorphous wire, and the terminal mounting surface is arranged between both ends of the magnetic amorphous wire in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic amorphous wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Nishihata
  • Publication number: 20110291649
    Abstract: A magneto-impedance sensor element is formed in a planar type structure in which an amorphous wire is incorporated in a substrate. The magneto-impedance sensor element includes a nonmagnetic substrate, an amorphous wire arranged in an aligning direction of a planar pattern that forms a detecting coil, a spiral detecting coil formed of a planar pattern and a cubic pattern on an outer periphery of the amorphous wire, a planar insulating portion that insulates the planar pattern from the amorphous wire, a wire fixing portion to fix the amorphous wire on an upper surface of the planar insulating portion, and a cubic insulating portion that insulates the cubic pattern from the amorphous wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Nishihata
  • Publication number: 20110089512
    Abstract: A magneto-impedance sensor element 1 has a base body 2, a magnetic amorphous wire 3, a coating insulator 4, a detecting coil 5, a terminal base 6 having a terminal mounting surface 61, wire electrode terminals 11 and coil electrode terminals 12 formed on the terminal mounting surface 61, wire connecting wirings 110 for electrically connecting the wire electrode terminals 11 and a pair of wire conducting terminals 31 provided to the magnetic amorphous wire 3, and coil connecting wirings 120 for electrically connecting the coil electrode terminals 12 and a pair of coil conducting terminals 51 provided to the detecting coil 5. A normal of the terminal mounting surface 61 has a longitudinal direction component of the magnetic amorphous wire 3, and the terminal mounting surface 61 is arranged between both ends of the magnetic amorphous wire 3 in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic amorphous wire 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Nishihata