Patents by Inventor Keiichi Tomizawa

Keiichi Tomizawa 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: 9514863
    Abstract: An inverter surge-resistant insulated wire has a baked enamel layer(s) around the outer periphery of a conductor having a rectangular cross-section, an extrusion-coated resin layer(s) around the outer side thereof, and an adhesive layer having a thickness of 2-20 ?m between the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer. A cross-sectional shape of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer in the cross-section of the wire is rectangular. In the cross-sectional shape formed by the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer surrounding the conductor in a cross-sectional view, at least a pair of two sides of two pairs of two sides opposing at the upper side and the downside or at the right side and the left side with respect to the conductor meet the conditions that a total thickness of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer is 80 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo Fukuda, Daisuke Muto, Dai Fujiwara, Keiichi Tomizawa, Tsuneo Aoi
  • Publication number: 20160307663
    Abstract: An insulated wire comprising a laminated resin-coated insulated wire containing: a thermosetting resin layer (A) directly or via an insulating layer (D) on a conductor having a rectangular cross-section; and at least a thermoplastic resin layer (B) on the outer periphery of the thermosetting resin layer (A), in which the cross-sectional shape of the thermosetting resin layer (A) composed of two pairs of two sides facing each other, and has at least four convex portions each of which has a film thickness in maximum, at least one convex portion of the at least four convex portions is on each of the four sides, or at least two convex portions of the at least four convex portions are at least on each of the two sides facing each other, and in the each side having the convex portion, provided that a minimum film thickness is designated as “a” ?m, and an average of maximum film thicknesses of the convex portions is designated as “b” ?m, the a/b ratio is 0.60 or more and 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke IKEDA, Makoto OYA, Hideo FUKUDA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 9424961
    Abstract: An insulated wire having a rectangular shaped cross-section, containing: a conductor having a rectangular shaped cross-section; and an insulating layer coated on the conductor, in which the insulating layer has a foamed layer composed of a thermosetting resin containing bubbles, the cross-section of the insulating layer has a shape composed of a flat portion and a corner portion, and the insulating layer satisfies the relationship represented by the following formula: ?1<3 and (T2/?2)>(T1/?1) wherein T1 [?m] represents a thickness of the flat portion; ?1 represents a relative dielectric constant of the flat portion; T2 [?m] represents a thickness of the corner portion; and ?2 represents a relative dielectric constant of the corner portion, and an electric/electronic equipment, a motor, or a transformer, using the insulated wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Magnet Wire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Oya, Daisuke Muto, Keiichi Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20160055940
    Abstract: An insulated wire having a rectangular shaped cross-section, containing: a conductor having a rectangular shaped cross-section; and an insulating layer coated on the conductor, in which the insulating layer has a foamed layer composed of a thermosetting resin containing bubbles, the cross-section of the insulating layer has a shape composed of a flat portion and a corner portion, and the insulating layer satisfies the relationship represented by the following formula: ?1<3 and (T2/?2)>(T1/?1) wherein T1 [?m] represents a thickness of the flat portion; ?1 represents a relative dielectric constant of the flat portion; T2 [?m] represents a thickness of the corner portion; and ?2 represents a relative dielectric constant of the corner portion, and an electric/electronic equipment, a motor, or a transformer, using the insulated wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicants: FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto OYA, Daisuke MUTO, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 9224523
    Abstract: An inverter surge-resistant insulated wire, having at least one baked enamel layer around the outer periphery of a conductor, and an extrusion-coated resin layer at the outside of the baked enamel layer, wherein a total thickness of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer is 50 ?m or more, a thickness of the baked enamel layer is 60 ?m or less, and a thickness of the extrusion-coated resin layer is 200 ?m or less, wherein the minimum of tensile elastic modulus of the extrusion-coated resin layer at a range of 25 to 250° C. is 100 MPa or more, wherein a dielectric constant of an insulation layer having a combination of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer is 3.5 or less at 25° C. and 5.0 or less at 250° C., and wherein a relation between dielectric constant (?1?) of the baked enamel layer at 250° C. and dielectric constant (?2?) of the extrusion-coated resin layer at 250° C. satisfies (?2?/?1?)>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Muto, Hideo Fukuda, Keiichi Tomizawa, Satoshi Naka
  • Patent number: 9196401
    Abstract: An insulated wire, containing: an insulating film made from a thermosetting resin disposed on a conductor directly or via an insulating layer interposed therebetween, in which the insulating film made from a thermosetting resin is a layer containing bubbles prepared by baking a varnish of thermosetting resin, and a layer containing no bubbles is formed as an upper or lower layer of the layer containing bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Oya, Daisuke Muto, Makoto Onodera, Keiichi Tomizawa
  • Publication number: 20150325333
    Abstract: An enamel resin-insulating laminate that has a foamed region including cells and a non-foamed region including no cells on at least one surface of the foamed region, and is shaped into a flat plate form or cylindrical form, wherein the foamed region is configured such that a non-cell layer including no cells has cell layers formed of closed cells on both surface sides of the non-cell layer, a thickness of the non-cell layer is larger than a thickness of a partition wall among the closed cells, and 5 to 60% of a thickness of the foamed region, and at least the cell layer in the foamed region is formed of a thermosetting resin; an inverter surge-resistant insulated wire having a conductor and the enamel resin-insulating laminate; and electric/electronic equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MUTO, Makoto OYA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150310959
    Abstract: An insulated wire having a conductor, a foamed insulating layer containing a thermosetting resin having cells, coated directly or indirectly onto the outer periphery of the conductor and an outer insulating layer containing a thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 240° C. or higher when the thermoplastic resin is a crystalline resin or a thermoplastic resin having a glass transition temperature of 240° C. or higher when the thermoplastic resin is a non-crystalline resin; electrical equipment using the insulated wire; and a method of producing the insulated wire, containing a step of forming a foamed insulating layer by applying a varnish for forming the foamed insulating layer on the outer periphery of a conductor, by generating foams during baking and a step of forming an outer insulating layer by extrusion-molding a thermoplastic resin composition for forming the outer insulating layer on the outer periphery of the foamed insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto OYA, Makoto ONODERA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150262732
    Abstract: An insulated wire, containing a conductor, an insulating layer that directly or indirectly coats the outer periphery of the conductor and includes a foaming thermosetting resin, and an outer non-foamed insulating layer that directly or indirectly coats the outer periphery of the insulating layer, wherein the insulating layer has a thickness deformation ratio of 15% or more and 50% or less upon applying a pressure of 1 MPa at 25° C., wherein the outer non-foamed insulating layer has pencil hardness of 4H or more, and wherein a ratio of thickness of the insulating layer to the outer non-foamed insulating layer is 20:80 to 80:20; and a motor, wherein the insulated wire is wound into a stator slot in a state in which pressure is applied in a direction for reducing the outer diameter of the insulated wire and a thickness of the insulating layer is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto OYA, Daisuke MUTO, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150235736
    Abstract: An insulated wire having a conductor, and a multilayer insulating layer composed of two or more layers coating the conductor, wherein the innermost insulating layer of the multilayer insulating layer is an insulating layer formed of a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a storage elastic modulus of 10 MPa or more at 300° C. and outer insulating layer(s) other than the innermost insulating layer include(s) an insulating layer formed of a crystalline thermoplastic resin having a melting point of 260° C. or higher and a storage elastic modulus of 1,000 MPa or more at 25° C., and adjacent insulating layers have a relationship such that the storage elastic modulus at 25° C. of the thermoplastic resin of the outer insulating layer is equal to or smaller than the inner insulating layer; and electric/electronic equipment formed using the insulated wire as a winding and/or lead wire of a transformer that is incorporated into the electric/electronic equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke IKEDA, Hideo FUKUDA, Daisuke MUTO, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150027748
    Abstract: An inverter surge-resistant insulated wire, having at least one baked enamel layer around the outer periphery of a conductor having a rectangular cross-section, at least one extrusion-coated resin layer around the outer side thereof, and an adhesive layer having a thickness of 2 to 20 ?m between the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer, wherein each of the at least one extrusion-coated resin layer on the adhesive layer is formed by the same resin, a cross-sectional shape of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer in the cross-section of the inverter surge-resistant insulated wire is rectangular, and in the cross-sectional shape formed by the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer surrounding the conductor in a cross-sectional view, at least a pair of two sides of two pairs of two sides opposing at the upper side and the downside or at the right side and the left side with respect to the conductor each meet the conditions that a total thickness of the bak
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideo FUKUDA, Daisuke MUTO, Dai FUJIWARA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA, Tsuneo AOI
  • Publication number: 20150021067
    Abstract: An inverter surge-resistant insulated wire, having at least one baked enamel layer around the outer periphery of a conductor, and an extrusion-coated resin layer at the outside of the baked enamel layer, wherein a total thickness of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer is 50 ?m or more, a thickness of the baked enamel layer is 60 ?m or less, and a thickness of the extrusion-coated resin layer is 200 ?m or less, wherein the minimum of tensile elastic modulus of the extrusion-coated resin layer at a range of 25 to 250° C. is 100 MPa or more, wherein a dielectric constant of an insulation layer having a combination of the baked enamel layer and the extrusion-coated resin layer is 3.5 or less at 25° C. and 5.0 or less at 250° C., and wherein a relation between dielectric constant (?1?) of the baked enamel layer at 250° C. and dielectric constant (?2?) of the extrusion-coated resin layer at 250° C. satisfies (?2?/?1?)>1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicants: FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke MUTO, Hideo FUKUDA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA, Satoshi NAKA
  • Publication number: 20140354394
    Abstract: An insulated wire, containing: an insulating film made from a thermosetting resin disposed on a conductor directly or via an insulating layer interposed therebetween, in which the insulating film made from a thermosetting resin is a layer containing bubbles prepared by baking a varnish of thermosetting resin, and a layer containing no bubbles is formed as an upper or lower layer of the layer containing bubbles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Makoto OYA, Daisuke MUTO, Makoto ONODERA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20140225704
    Abstract: The present invention provides a multilayer insulated electric wire to achieve a good balance between heat resistance and voltage resistance characteristics, then satisfy IEC standards Pub. 61558 which require strict voltage regulation, and electric or electronic equipment such as transformer formed by winding the insulated electric wire. The present invention is a multilayer insulated electric wire including two or more insulating layers, wherein at least one layer of the insulating layers other than the outermost layer is an insulating layer containing a resin having a melting point of 200° C. or higher and a tensile modulus of elasticity at 25° C. of 1000 MPa or less, and the multilayer insulated electric wire is coated with a resin material (also simply called a resin) having a tensile modulus of elasticity at 25° C. of 1000 MPa or more as the outermost layer, and electric or electronic equipment such as transformer formed by winding the insulated electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke IKEDA, Makoto OYA, Daisuke MUTO, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20130330554
    Abstract: Insulating paint, containing a resin that can form an insulating film by application and baking, and a reducing agent having a boiling point of 160° C. or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicants: Furukawa Magnet Wire Co., Ltd., Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto OYA, Makoto ONODERA, Keisuke IKEDA, Keiichi TOMIZAWA
  • Patent number: 4745540
    Abstract: A process input/output system for a sequence controller includes integrally an input portion having a data reading portion for reading an external input signal from an external unit, an input control portion for judging an input condition of the external input signal from the read signal, and a first data memory for storing an input condition determined by the input control portion an output portion having a second data memory for storing output data inputted from a bus of the sequence controller to an external unit, and an output control portion for outputting the stored data to the external unit and holding the stored output data; a preset portion for presetting the selection of whether the unit is to be used as an input unit or as an output unit, the selection of the number of input terminals and output terminals and input response time; and a bus controlling portion for controlling the bus to perform exchanges of data between the first and second data memories and the bus, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1988
    Assignees: Fuji Electric Company Ltd., Fuji Facom Corporation
    Inventors: Akihide Hamada, Keiichi Tomizawa