Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro Nishikawa
Kazuhiro Nishikawa 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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Publication number: 20240088588Abstract: A power converter includes first and second components on which male and female fitting members of each of a plurality of pairs of fitting members are arranged, with a pair of first alignment keys formed in the first and second components as reference positions. The first and second components are coupled to each other by the female fitting member clamping an insertion portion of the male fitting member inserted between first and second clamping portions of the female fitting member arranged so as to face each other in a state where the pair of first alignment keys are positionally aligned. The first and second clamping portions are each bent so as to form one of protrusions toward one of surfaces thereof facing each other. A gap is formed in a distal end portion of each of the first and second clamping portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Motohiko FUJIMURA, Hiroshi OGURA, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KAWAKITA, Hidetoshi KITAURA
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Publication number: 20240087787Abstract: Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a coil part embedded in a magnetic element body. The coil part has a structure in which plural interlayer insulating films and plural conductor layers having a coil pattern are alternately stacked. At least one of the conductor layers has a clearance area having no coil pattern and extending radially outward from a center axis of the coil part. The magnetic element body includes a first magnetic resin layer provided in an inner diameter area of the coil part, a second magnetic resin layer provided in a radially outside area of the coil part, and a fifth magnetic resin layer filled in the clearance area and contacting the first and second magnetic resin layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Yuki HASHIMOTO, Toshiyuki ABE, Takeshi OKUMURA, Tomonaga NISHIKAWA, Naoaki FUJII, Kazuhiro YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20240072476Abstract: An electric power converter includes a first board, a second board, and a first board-to-board connector that electrically and mechanically connects the first board and the second board. The first board-to-board connector includes a male fitting member and a female fitting member. Each of a first clamp portion and a second clamp portion of the female fitting member includes a first contact forming portion and a second contact forming portion that are curved in a protruding shape, and a first spring portion and a second spring portion that are connected to the first contact forming portion and the second contact portion, respectively, and that are curved in corrugated shapes. An insert clamped between the first contact forming portion and the second contact forming portion forms an electrical contact, and the first spring portion and the second spring portion are independently deformable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: HIDETOSHI KITAURA, HIROSHI OGURA, MOTOHIKO FUJIMURA, KAZUHIRO NISHIKAWA, YOSHIHIRO KAWAKITA
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Patent number: 11860529Abstract: A substrate with a multilayer reflection film for an EUV mask blank including a substrate, and a multilayer reflection film formed on the substrate is provided. The multilayer reflection film includes a Si/Mo laminated portion and a protection layer containing Ru and including a lower layer composed of Ru, and an upper layer composed of a material containing Ru and at least one selected from the group consisting of metals other than Ru, and metalloids.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Inazuki, Tsuneo Terasawa, Takuro Kosaka, Hideo Kaneko, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
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Patent number: 11835851Abstract: A substrate with a multilayer reflection film for an EUV mask blank including a substrate, and a multilayer reflection film formed on the substrate is provided. The multilayer reflection film includes a Si/Mo laminated portion in which Si layers and Mo layers are alternately laminated, and a layer containing Si and N intervenes at one or more portions between the Si layer and the Mo layer of the Si/Mo laminated portion, and is contact with both of the Si layer and the Mo layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Yukio Inazuki, Tsuneo Terasawa, Takuro Kosaka, Hideo Kaneko, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230324133Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket includes, with a direction along a direction in which a refrigerant flows being defined as a first direction, and a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction being defined as a second direction, a refrigerant flow path having a width in the second direction and including a heat radiator on one side in the third direction, a bottom surface portion located on the other side of the refrigerant flow path in the third direction, and protrusions protruding from the bottom surface portion toward one side in the third direction and arranged in the first direction. With one side in the first direction being defined as a downstream side, the protrusions include a convex portion extending in the second direction and protruding toward the other side in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Yuta HORI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Kengo INOUE
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Publication number: 20230324132Abstract: A cooling device includes a liquid cooling jacket and a heat dissipator including a plate-shaped base portion extending in a first direction along a direction in which a refrigerant flows and in a second direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first direction and has a thickness in a third direction, a fin protruding from the base portion toward, a top plate portion provided at the fin, and a bent portion bent toward the one side in the third direction at an end on one side in the first direction of the top plate portion, with the one side in the first direction being a downstream side. Between the liquid cooling jacket and the top plate portion, a gap in the third direction is provided, and the bent portion opposes the liquid cooling jacket.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Kengo INOUE, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Yuta HORI
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Publication number: 20230324129Abstract: A cooling device includes a heat dissipator and a liquid cooling jacket. The heat dissipator includes a plate-shaped base portion that extends in a first direction along a direction where a refrigerant flows and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and has a thickness in a third direction, a fin that protrudes from the base portion to one side in the third direction, and a top plate portion provided to an end of the fin. The liquid cooling jacket includes a top surface located on one side of the top plate portion with a gap between the top surface and the top plate portion. Top surface recesses recessed from the top surface toward one side and located side by side in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Yuta HORI, Kengo INOUE
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Patent number: 11774598Abstract: A monitor unit (25) monitors positioning augmentation information for correction of satellite positioning errors, the positioning augmentation information being generated by an augmentation information generation device with use of a specified parameter value being a parameter value which is specified. In a case where an abnormality is detected in the positioning augmentation information by the monitor unit (25), a selection unit (26) selects a reserve parameter value that is to substitute for the specified parameter value, from among a plurality of reserve parameter values being a plurality of parameter values that are different from the specified parameter value and commands the augmentation information generation device to use the selected reserve parameter value as a new specified parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Seigo Fujita
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Publication number: 20230298967Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket includes a refrigerant flow path including a heat radiating portion on one side, a bottom surface located on the other side of the refrigerant flow path, and a protrusion protruding from the bottom surface toward one side. A first inclined portion is provided on the one side which is a downstream side of the protrusion. A first-direction length of the first inclined portion is longer than a height of the protrusion at a first-direction other end of the first inclined portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Yuta HORI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Kengo INOUE
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Publication number: 20230213372Abstract: A load detection mechanism for detecting a load of an object includes a first member connected to a fixed structure; a second member for suspending an object; a pin (CP1, CP2) configured to cause the second member to be suspended from the first member by continuously penetrating the first member and the second member; a plurality of strain gauges (SG1 to SG8) attached to the pin; and a circuit substrate disposed above the second member. A connection circuit (CC) forming a bridge circuit by connecting the plurality of strain gauges and an amplification circuit (AC) configured to amplify output from the bridge circuit are formed on the circuit substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Takuma OKAMOTO, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Takayuki KASAI
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Publication number: 20230204305Abstract: A heat dissipator includes a first top plate at one side end of a third direction at a first fin(s). A second top plate is at one side end of a third direction at a second fin(s). The second fin(s) includes an opening open to one side in the third direction and located on the other side in the first direction relative to the second top plate. A liquid-cooled jacket includes a top surface that can oppose the first top plate and the second top plate in the third direction. A first gap between the top surface and the first top plate and a second gap between the top surface and the second top plate are narrower toward one side in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Yuta HORI, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Koji MURAKAMI, Kengo INOUE, Yuki YANAGITA
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Publication number: 20230100262Abstract: A connection structure for attaching a first electronic device onto a second electronic device is disclosed. The connection structure comprises an action unit and an assist unit, wherein the action unit and the assist unit are particularly designed to be cooperated to each other in case of connecting the first electronic device to the second electronic device. After the first electronic device is attached to the second electronic device through the connection structure, a first electrical connection portion of an electronic card is inserted into an electronic card slot in the first electronic device, and a second electrical connection portion of the electronic card is inserted into an electronic card slot in the second electronic device, thereby making the two electronic devices communicate with to each other through the electronic card. As a result, the function(s) of the first electronic device is expended.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: LANNER ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Cheng-Yen Chung, Kazuhiro Nishikawa
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Publication number: 20230077047Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket includes a base portion and a protruding portion protruding from an end surface on a first side in a third direction of the base portion in the third direction. A heat dissipation assembly includes a recessed portion recessed from an end surface on a second side in the third direction. A refrigerant flow path having a width in the second direction is between the end surface on the first side in the third direction of the base portion and the end surface on the second side in the third direction of the heat dissipation assembly. A position of the recessed portion coincides with a position of the protruding portion. An end portion of the protruding portion is farther on the second side in the first direction than an end portion on the first side in the first direction of the recessed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Koji MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 11577490Abstract: A heat insulating material includes an aerogel that has macro-pores and meso-pores. A method for manufacturing a heat insulating material, including: a sol preparation step of adding a gelling agent into sodium silicate such that a molar ratio of the gelling agent relative to NaO2 is 0.1 to 0.75, and adjusting a sol into which macro-pores are introduced by leaving unreacted Na and non-cross-linked oxygen in a siloxane skeleton; an impregnating and gelling step of impregnating a nonwoven fabric fiber structure with the sol to form a composite of hydrogel-nonwoven fabric fiber; a hydrophobizating step of mixing the formed composite of hydrogel-nonwoven fabric fiber with a silylating agent to modify a surface thereof; and a drying step of removing a liquid contained in the surface modified composite of hydrogel-nonwoven fabric fiber by drying under a temperature and pressure lower than respective critical values.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuma Oikawa, Shigeaki Sakatani, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Daido Komyoji
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Publication number: 20220396457Abstract: A winding machine wherein a motor control means is able to control driving of a drive motor in a balancer mode, and the balancer mode includes a first balancer mode in which driving of the drive motor is controlled based on a first torque command value with an assist torque that assists the operating force added thereto, and a second balancer mode in which driving of the drive motor is controlled based on a second torque command value that does not assist the operating force, and a lifting/lowering position range is set to a first position range where control is performed in the first balancer mode regardless of the direction of the operating force being in either the winding up or winding down direction, and a second position range where control is performed to select whether control is performed in the first balancer mode or in the second balancer mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Kito CorporationInventor: Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220373272Abstract: A heat dissipator includes a plate-shaped base portion extending in a first direction along a refrigerant flowing direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and has a thickness in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, and fin groups including fins arranged in the second direction, protruding from the base portion to one side in the third direction and extending in the first direction. One of the fins includes a spoiler with an opposing surface that opposes one side in the first direction that is a downstream side in the refrigerant flowing direction. A number of the spoilers included in each of the fins in a same second direction position in the fin groups increases toward the one side in the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Yi-Huan KAO, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220373274Abstract: A heat dissipator includes a plate-shaped base portion that extends in a first direction along a direction where a refrigerant flows and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and has a thickness in a third direction, and fins that protrude from the base portion to one side in the third direction, extend in the first direction, are arranged in the second direction, and guide the refrigerant. A second of the fins is provided continuously on one side in the first direction that is a downstream side of a first of the fins, and a third fin that is provided continuously on another side in the first direction of the first fin, and includes an end on the one side in the third direction on the other side in the third direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA, Yi-Huan KAO
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Publication number: 20220322627Abstract: A cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant is provided having a growth ability equivalent to that of a Brassica rapa plant having a normal cytoplasm or a progeny of the cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant. For example, it is possible to improve the deterioration of growth ability which has been observed in the conventional cytoplasmic male sterile B. rapa plants and provide a cytoplasmic male sterile Brassica rapa plant having an improved growth ability.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Shingo HORIUCHI, Takao SUZUKI, Atsushi IZUMIDA, Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11397498Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrode film includes the steps of laminating a metal layer and a black photoresist layer sequentially on a first main surface of a transparent base material, subjecting the black photoresist layer to patterning in a mesh shape by partially exposing the black photoresist layer and performing development, processing the metal layer into a metal mesh electrode by subjecting the metal layer to etching by using the black photoresist layer subjected to the patterning as an etching mask until the metal layer has a width smaller than a width of a thin wire line constituting a mesh of the black photoresist layer, and covering an upper surface and both side surfaces of a thin wire line constituting a mesh of the metal mesh electrode with the black photoresist layer by heating and softening the black photoresist layer to cause the black photoresist layer softened to flow.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: NISSHA CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryomei Omote, Kazuhiro Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Sakata, Takeshi Nishimura, Takakuni Sunahase