Patents by Inventor Kenichi Suzuki

Kenichi Suzuki 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: 10979043
    Abstract: A switching element control circuit includes a third electrode voltage control part which controls a third electrode voltage; a temperature detection part which detects an operation temperature of the switching element; a memory part which stores an initial threshold voltage, an initial temperature when the initial threshold voltage is measured, and a temperature characteristic of a threshold voltage; and a threshold voltage calculation part which calculates a threshold voltage at the time of operating the switching element based on information including the operation temperature of the switching element, the initial threshold voltage, and an initial temperature when the initial threshold voltage is measured, and information relating to a temperature characteristic of a threshold voltage, wherein the third electrode voltage control part controls the third electrode voltage based on a threshold voltage at the time of operating the switching element calculated by the threshold voltage calculation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Wataru Miyazawa
  • Patent number: 10953724
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vehicle air-conditioning device in which a refrigerant subcool degree in a radiator is appropriately controlled, so that comfortable and efficient vehicle interior air conditioning is achievable. The vehicle air-conditioning device executes a heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated by an outdoor expansion valve 6, and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in an outdoor heat exchanger 7. In the heating mode, the vehicle air-conditioning device controls a refrigerant subcool degree SC of the radiator 4 by the outdoor expansion valve 6. On a basis of a radiator inlet air temperature THin that is a temperature of the air flowing into the radiator 4, the controller corrects a target subcool degree TGSC that is a target value of the refrigerant subcool degree SC in the radiator 4 in a lowering direction, as the radiator inlet air temperature THin rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kouhei Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10947652
    Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing a non-woven fabric includes a diffusing shaft, which includes a first shaft portion in a defined location and provided with a slit-shaped air guide, wherein filaments are supplied together with air from an inlet side of the air guide to an outlet side of the air guide; a second shaft portion in a defined location, having an inlet side that is communicated with an outlet side of the first shaft portion and an outlet side that is disposed to face a filament collecting unit, wherein an opening width along a machine direction of the inlet side of the second shaft portion is larger than an opening width along a machine direction of the first shaft portion; and a stepped portion provided at a connecting portion between the outlet side of the first shaft portion and the inlet side of the second shaft portion and connecting the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shouichi Takaku, Kenichi Suzuki, Naosuke Kunimoto, Atsushi Kawada, Takayuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10946719
    Abstract: A vehicle air-conditioning device may achieve comfortable heating of a vehicle interior by starting a compressor, an indoor blower and heat generating means at appropriate timing. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a compressor which compresses a refrigerant, a radiator disposed in an air flow passage to let the refrigerant radiate heat, a heat absorber which lets the refrigerant absorb heat, and an indoor blower which blows the air through the air flow passage. The vehicle interior is heated by heat radiated from the radiator. The vehicle air-conditioning device includes a heating medium-air heat exchanger of a heating medium circulating circuit disposed in the air flow passage to heat air supplied to the vehicle interior. On a basis of an outdoor air temperature, the timing to start the compressor, the indoor blower and the heating medium circulating circuit is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Sanden Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi
  • Patent number: 10950522
    Abstract: An electronic device has an electronic module having an insulating substrate 60, a conductor layer 20 provided on the insulating substrate 60, an electronic element 40 provided on the conductor layer 20 and a heat dissipation layer 10 provided on the insulating substrate in an opposite side of the electronic element 40 and a cooling body 100 which abuts on the heat dissipation layer 10. The cooling body 100 has a divided part 110 being provided at a portion which abuts on the heat dissipation layer 10 and being a plurality of divided regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Yuguchi, Kousuke Ikeda, Kenichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20210075416
    Abstract: A power module includes a switching element, a temperature detection part which detects an operation temperature T of the switching element, a control electrode voltage control part which controls a control electrode voltage based on a threshold voltage Vth during an operation of the switching element which is calculated based on information including the operation temperature T of the switching element detected by the temperature detection part, and a switching speed control part which. controls a switching speed of the switching element based on the operation temperature T of the switching element detected by the temperature detection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi SUZUKI, Wataru MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10920349
    Abstract: A multilayer nonwoven fabric includes: an elastic nonwoven fabric containing a specific low crystalline polypropylene; and a mixed fiber spunbonded nonwoven fabric disposed on at least one surface of the elastic nonwoven fabric, wherein the mixed fiber spunbonded nonwoven fabric contains a long fiber of a thermoplastic elastomer (A) and a long fiber of a thermoplastic elastomer (B) other than the thermoplastic elastomer (A), in a ratio of 10 to 90% by mass:90 to 10% by mass ((A):(B), with the proviso that (A)+(B)=100% by mass).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Koichi Shimada, Kenichi Suzuki, Shouichi Takaku
  • Publication number: 20210016629
    Abstract: There is provided a vehicle air conditioning device of a heat pump system which improves comfortability when changing to heating only by an auxiliary heating device. The device includes a heating medium circulating circuit 23 to heat air to be supplied from an air flow passage 3 to a vehicle interior, and when shifting to the heating of the vehicle interior only by the heating medium circulating circuit 23 in a heating mode, a controller executes a shifting control to increase a heating capability of the heating medium circulating circuit 23 prior to stopping a compressor 2 and decrease a heating capability of a radiator 4 in accordance with the increase of the heating capability of the heating medium circulating circuit 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: SANDEN AUTOMOTIVE CLIMATE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryo MIYAKOSHI, Kenichi SUZUKI, Kohei YAMASHITA
  • Patent number: 10882480
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle body structure comprising an exterior component configured to form an outer surface of a vehicle body and provided with an opening portion; and an attachment component attached on a vehicle body inner side of the exterior component with respect to the opening portion, wherein the exterior component includes an extended portion extended from a periphery of the opening portion toward the vehicle body inner side, and the extended portion includes an abutted portion configured to restrict a displacement of the attachment component to the vehicle body inner side by abutment against an abutment portion provided on the attachment component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinari Nagane, Kazuya Ban, Kenichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10879892
    Abstract: A switching element control circuit is configured to perform a measurement mode in which a threshold voltage of a switching element is measured and a control mode in which an ON/OFF operation of the switching element is controlled in a switching manner. The switching element control circuit includes: a threshold voltage measurement power source; a third electrode voltage control part; an ON/OFF state determination part; and a memory part which stores the third electrode voltage applied to the third electrode as a threshold voltage of the switching element. The third electrode voltage control part controls, in the control mode, the third electrode voltage based on information including the threshold voltage stored in the memory part at the time of bringing the switching element into an ON state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Wataru Miyazawa
  • Publication number: 20200386795
    Abstract: A semiconductor component 150 has a semiconductor layer 1 including a winding wire part 10 and a winding return wire part 50 connected at a terminal end part of the winding wire part 10 and returning from the terminal end part toward a starting end part side, wherein the semiconductor component is disposed so as to surround an object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi SUZUKI, Kazuyuki SASHIDA, Mizue YAMAJI, Kenichi YOSHIDA, Shinji KUNORI
  • Publication number: 20200373379
    Abstract: A semiconductor device 100 has a first electrode 61; a second electrode 62; and a semiconductor layer 1 including a first winding wire part 10 provided so as to surround a current flowing between the first electrode 61 and the second electrode 62, and a second winding wire part 50 connected to a terminal end part of the first winding wire part 10 and returning from the terminal end part toward a starting end part side of the first winding wire part 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SASHIDA, Mizue YAMAJI, Kenichi YOSHIDA, Kenichi SUZUKI, Shinji KUNORI
  • Publication number: 20200373826
    Abstract: A power conversion device according to the present invention is provided with two or more sets of power modules each of which includes a switching element and a switching element control circuit having a third electrode voltage control part and a temperature detection part. The power modules PM1, PM2 are connected in parallel to each other. The switching element control circuit includes a temperature comparison part which calculates an average operation temperature of the switching element, and compares an operation temperature of the corresponding switching element and the average operation temperature. The third electrode voltage control part controls a third electrode voltage based on information including an average operation temperature, an operation temperature of the switching element, and a threshold voltage during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi SUZUKI, Wataru MIYAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20200371137
    Abstract: A detection substrate 150 has a body film 1a having a through hole 91; a winding wire part 10 provided on a surface of one side of the body film 1a, on a surface of another side of the body film 1a and in the through hole 91, and disposed so as to surround a current to be detected; and a winding return wire part 50, provided on the body film 1a, connected at a terminal end part of the winding wire part 10 and returning from the terminal end part toward a starting end part side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SHINDENGEN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki SASHIDA, Kenichi SUZUKI, Mizue YAMAJI, Kenichi YOSHIDA, Shinji KUNORI
  • Publication number: 20200373827
    Abstract: A semiconductor switch control circuit configured to perform an ON/OFF control of a semiconductor switch and includes: a pulse signal generating part configured to generate a pulse signal; a drive current generating part configured to generate a drive current based on the pulse signal which the pulse signal generating part generates and supplies the drive current to a gate electrode of the semiconductor switch; a gate voltage detecting part configured to detect a gate voltage VGS of the semiconductor switch; and a drive current control part configured to control the drive current which the drive current generating part generates based on the pulse signal which the pulse signal generating part generates and the gate voltage VGS which the gate voltage detecting part detects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Wataru MIYAZAWA, Kenichi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10843527
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner has a bypass pipe which passes a radiator, an outdoor expansion valve, and opening/closing valves. A controller is configured to execute a heating mode to open a first solenoid valve and close a second solenoid valve, and a dehumidifying and heating mode to close the first solenoid valve, open the second solenoid valve, let a refrigerant radiate heat in an outdoor heat exchanger, let the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber, and generate heat in an auxiliary heater. When changing from the heating mode to the dehumidifying and heating mode, the controller sends the refrigerant to a receiver drier, controls a compressor to reduce a difference between pressures before and after the second solenoid valve, opens the second solenoid valve, closes the first solenoid valve, shuts off the outdoor expansion valve, and shifts the compressor to control in the dehumidifying and heating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SANDEN AUTOMOTIVE CLIMATE SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryo Miyakoshi, Kohei Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10842682
    Abstract: A nonwoven fabric layered body, including: an elastic nonwoven fabric; and an extensible spunbond nonwoven fabric that is disposed on at least one surface side of the elastic nonwoven fabric and that has a degree of maximum load elongation of 50% or more in at least one direction, the nonwoven fabric layered body satisfying the following (1) and (2). (1) The elastic nonwoven fabric includes a resin composition containing a specific low-crystalline polypropylene, and an ?-olefin copolymer A containing an ethylene-derived constitutional unit and a propylene-derived constitutional unit, and having a melting point of 100° C. or more and a crystallization degree of 15% or less. (2) The resin composition contains from 5 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass of the ?-olefin copolymer A with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Shouichi Takaku, Kenichi Suzuki, Tetsuya Yokoyama, Koichi Shimada
  • Patent number: 10840768
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a housing, a stator, and a rotor. The stator is composed of a stator core and a stator coil. The stator coil is composed of a plurality of individual coils provided to teeth of the stator core. The housing has lubricating oil supply portion, through which the lubricating oil is supplied onto coil ends of upper individual coils. A temperature detector for detecting the temperature of the stator coil is disposed at a position lower than an axis of a rotor and higher than an oil level of the lubricating oil accumulated in the bottom portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200341047
    Abstract: A power module according to the present invention switches an operation mode between a control mode where an ON/OFF operation of a switching element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode is controlled, and a deterioration determination mode where the deterioration is determined based on information including ?Vgs based on information including a threshold voltage detected before a stress current is supplied to the switching element and a threshold voltage detected after the stress current is supplied to the switching element. According to the power module of the present invention, the deterioration can be determined during an operation time and hence, breaking of the device can be prevented, and operation efficiency of the power module can be increased, and a manufacturing cost of the power module can be lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Kenichi SUZUKI, Wataru MIYAZAWA
  • Patent number: 10816259
    Abstract: A substrate transport apparatus includes a substrate holding unit configured to hold a substrate; a casing; and a drive mechanism at least partially provided within the casing and configured to drive the substrate holding unit using air. The drive mechanism is capable of supplying air into the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: EBARA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Ryuichi Kosuge, Kenichiro Saito