Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Shibuya
Kiyoshi Shibuya 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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Patent number: 8737041Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a collector plate joined to an electrode of the capacitor element, and a case accommodating the capacitor element and the collector plate. An inner surface of a bottom plate of the case has a contacting portion contacting the collector plate and a junction portion facing the collector plate. The junction portion of the inner surface of the bottom plate has a joining point joined to the collector plate and a separation part facing the collector plate around the joining point by a gap between the junction portion and the collector plate. The collector plate is located away from the contacting portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
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Publication number: 20120120550Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element, a collector plate joined to an electrode of the capacitor element, and a case accommodating the capacitor element and the collector plate. An inner surface of a bottom plate of the case has a contacting portion contacting the collector plate and a junction portion facing the collector plate. The junction portion of the inner surface of the bottom plate has a joining point joined to the collector plate and a separation part facing the collector plate around the joining point by a gap between the junction portion and the collector plate. The collector plate is located away from the contacting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2011Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
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Patent number: 8130487Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element including first and second electrodes, an electrolyte solution, first and second collector plates made of metal and joined to the first and second electrodes of the capacitor element, respectively, a case accommodating the capacitor element, the electrolyte solution, the first and second collector plates, a terminal plate placed at an opening of the case and joined to the second collector plate, and a sealing rubber sealing the terminal plate and the opening of the case. The case has a tubular portion and a bottom plate closing the tubular portion. An inner surface of the bottom plate of the case has a contacting portion contacting the first collector plate and a junction portion facing the first collector plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
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Publication number: 20100079927Abstract: A capacitor includes a capacitor element including first and second electrodes, an electrolyte solution, first and second collector plates made of metal and joined to the first and second electrodes of the capacitor element, respectively, a case accommodating the capacitor element, the electrolyte solution, the first and second collector plates, a terminal plate placed at an opening of the case and joined to the second collector plate, and a sealing rubber sealing the terminal plate and the opening of the case. The case has a tubular portion and a bottom plate closing the tubular portion. An inner surface of the bottom plate of the case has a contacting portion contacting the first collector plate and a junction portion facing the first collector plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
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Patent number: 5769544Abstract: A dynamic pressure pneumatic bearing device has a groove for generating a dynamic pressure and formed on an inner circumferential face of a rotating shaft or an outer circumferential face of a fixed shaft; each of these shafts being formed by an aluminum alloy; and a wear resisting film formed on each of the inner circumferential face and the outer circumferential face. Another dynamic pressure pneumatic bearing device is constructed by a rotating shaft having a cylindrical hollow and a fixed shaft inserted into this hollow. The fixed shaft has a bearing face opposed to an inner circumferential face of the rotating shaft and separated from this inner circumferential face with a predetermined clearance. Herringbone grooves for generating a dynamic pressure and recessed portions having the same depth as the herringbone grooves are formed on the bearing face.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Yukio Itami, Kunio Ikeda, Yuzuru Kudo, Takao Abe, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kiyoshi Shibuya
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Patent number: 5562151Abstract: Apparatus and method of producing a thin metal ribbon by pouring a molten metal onto the surface of a quench roll rotating at a high speed so as to rapidly cool and solidify the metal to form the ribbon, separating the ribbon from the quench roll and conveying the same to a take-up device. A compressed gas is blown tangent to the quench roll to separate the ribbon from the quench roll. The separated ribbon is sucked and caught by a suction conveyor which runs at a velocity greater than the speed of production of the thin meal ribbon thereby imparting tension to the ribbon.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kenji Nakagawa, Nozomu Tamura, Saburo Moriwaki, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Shun Suhara, Kazuyuki Katoh, Toru Sato, Toshitane Matsukawa
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Patent number: 5499673Abstract: A continuous thin metal strip formed by quenching on a single quenching roll is separated from the quenching roll and conveyed along a fly path to a coiling system directly or via pinch rolls. The path along which the thin metal strip flies is stabilized by a jet of a fluid jetted from a slit and biased to flow along a convex curved surface, whereby the time until the strip is taken up or nipped by the pinch rolls is shortened.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1994Date of Patent: March 19, 1996Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Nobuo Shiga, Tomohiro Marui, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Michiharu Ozawa, Masao Yukumoto
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Patent number: 5392837Abstract: Apparatus separates a thin metal strip produced from a molten metal from a surface of a cooling roll by rapidly solidifying using a single roll method and conveys and guides the separated thin strip downstream. A separation/tensioning/guiding unit is positioned adjacent the cooling roll to separate tension and guide the rapidly solidified thin strip, which unit includes a cooperating doctor blade in pressure contact with the cooling roll. A suction conveyor is provided downstream of the separation/tensioning/guiding unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1993Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Masao Yukumoto, Michiharu Ozawa, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Saburo Moriwaki, Toru Sato
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Patent number: 5322113Abstract: A method of producing amorphous alloy thin strip suitable for use in commercial frequency band transformers utilizes a high-quality molten steel suitable for electromagnetic silicon steel plates but containing insufficient silicon and boron. The molten steel is divided when tapped out of a converter or after a vacuum degasifying steel making process, and silicon and boron are added with heating to create the desired composition. The molten steel is formed into thin amorphous alloy strip by quenching.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1992Date of Patent: June 21, 1994Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuo Shiga
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Patent number: 5271539Abstract: A pressure type automatic pouring furnace is formed with a molten metal outlet which has an opening end opening at a lower elevation than the general portion of the floor of a molten metal chamber. Preferably, the molten metal chamber communicates with a groove type induction heater section at a lower section thereof so that the molten metal in the chamber can be effectively heated. In addition, the bottom wall of the molten metal outlet is declined for a given angle, e.g. 3.degree. with respect to the horizontal plane so as to prevent the molten metal from accumulating within the outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1993Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Michiharu Ozawa, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Fumio Kogiku
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Patent number: 5230381Abstract: A gaseous atmosphere having a predetermined composition is formed near an injected molten metal flow and an injection nozzle of the atmospheric gas so as to manufacture a thin metal strip exhibiting excellent surface property. A thin strip manufacturing apparatus includes an injection nozzle 1 for injecting a molten metal onto a cooling roll 2, an atmospheric gas injection nozzle 3 for injecting an atmosphere having a predetermined composition, a sensor 5 for measuring the concentration of the atmospheric gas, a control device 6 for adjusting a flow rate of the atmospheric gas on the basis of the output of the sensor 5, a cover 4 for maintaining the concentration of the atmospheric gas, and a heating device for preventing cooling of the injection nozzle 1.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Seiko Nara, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Kyoji Nakanishi
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Patent number: 5207777Abstract: A method of guiding and transferring a rapidly quenched metallic tape includes steps of peeling the rapidly quenched metallic tape produced by solidification through rapid quenching on a circumferential surface of a single cooling roll rotating at a high speed, introducing the metallic tape into a cylindrical transfer guide to a pinch roll unit arranged at a terminal end of the transfer guide to catch the metallic tape by the pinch roll unit, and moving the pinch roll unit to a winder for the metal tape. The metallic tape is fed in the transfer guide substantially without being in contact with the transfer guide.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1992Date of Patent: May 4, 1993Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuyuki Morito, Seiko Nara, Teruo Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 5134189Abstract: An ink for heat-sensitive recording which comprises, as color developing components, an aromatic or heterocyclic isocyanate compound and an imino compound which are dispersed and/or dissolved in an organic solvent and, as a binder, (1) a copolymer of a mixture of component (a) which is an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid and component (b) which is at least one monomer selected from the group consisting of acrylic acid esters, methacrylic acid esters and aromatic vinyl compounds and/or (2) a three-component- or more component-copolymer, the fundamental skeleton of which is composed of isobutylene and maleic anhydride. The ink may additionally contain a heat-meltable substance and the like. The ink has a good wettability to a plastic substrate and can be dried rapidly in a printing machine.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1989Date of Patent: July 28, 1992Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Toshihiko Matsushita, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Sadao Morishita
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Patent number: 5075170Abstract: A thermal transfer recording sheet comprising a substrate and a hot-melt ink containing layer coated on one side of the substrate, said hot-melt ink layer comprising materials which cause cohesive failure by heat at the time of transfer, which thermal transfer recording sheet can give lusterless mat-type letters.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1989Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Toshihiko Matsushita, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Sadao Morishita
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Patent number: 5047284Abstract: The present invention provides a thermal transfer recording sheet which can form a matte and glossless image high in quality on an image receiving sheet. This thermal transfer recording sheet comprises a support and an undercoating layer comprising a heat-meltable olefin resin and a heat-meltable ink layer laminated in succession on one side of said support wherein difference in melting point of the undercoating layer and that of the heat-meltable ink layer is 20.degree. C. or less and the undercoating layer and the heat-meltable ink layer mix with each other and melt in the vicinity of interface therebetween after coating of these layers. The thickness of the under coating layer is preferably 0.5-5.0 .mu.m.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1989Date of Patent: September 10, 1991Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills LimitedInventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toshihiko Matsushita, Sadao Morishita
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Patent number: 4977949Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a rapidly quenched metallic tape, which is produced by solidification through rapid quenching on a circumferential surface of a single cooling roll rotating at a high speed, from the cooling roll into a winder, comprises a transfer means provided with a pinch roll unit for catching and feeding out the peeled metallic tape, a fan for breaking and discharging the metallic tape fed out from the pinch roll unit, and a dust device for recovering metallic pieces and powder generated in the breakage of the metallic tape by the fan.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 1989Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuyuki Morito, Seiko Nara, Teruo Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 4964583Abstract: A method and an apparatus for transporting a rapidly quenched ribbon from a cooling roll to a winding reel by a pinch roll are disclosed. The pinch roll comprises a brush roll and a solid roll for transporting the ribbon such as to maintain an adequate tension in the ribbon without any transversal displacement and breakdown of ribbon. The tension is controlled within a range of 2.about.8 kgf by adjusting at least one of an amount of pressing of the brush roll against the solid roll, a pressing force on the brush roll and a ratio between circumferential speeds of the pinch roll and the cooling roll.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 1988Date of Patent: October 23, 1990Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Masao Yukumoto, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Nobuyuki Morito, Teruo Hiramatsu
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Patent number: 4891235Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for forming voids within foods, including such solid foods as meat, fruit and vegetable, such liquid foods as water and syrup, and other foods in the form of sol or gel and a method for cooling and solidifying the aforementioned foods while maintaining many voids therein. The method for expansion treatment of these foods according to the present invention comprises forcing a water-soluble gas, such as carbon dioxide, into a moisture containing food under a pressure of not less than 15 kg/cm.sup.2 in a pressure vessel and then reducing the pressure in the vessel at a rate of 1.5 to 150 kg/cm.sup.2 /min to cause expansion of the food.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 1987Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: House Food Industrial Company LimitedInventors: Takeshi Mizuguchi, Kiyoshi Shibuya
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Patent number: 4827505Abstract: A subscriber line interface circuit receives and twice inverts currents from a 2-wire subscriber line and returns the currents to the subscriber line so longitudinal input impedance is low. Any differential input current in the subscriber lines is bypassed by a capacitor, so differential input impedance is very high. The circuit also sends a signal current from one system having one ground to another system having a different ground through one current path, while sending another current, having a phase opposite and amplitude equal to the signal current, through another path. This effectively isolates the two systems having different grounds.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 1986Date of Patent: May 2, 1989Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kenji Takato, Toshiro Tojo, Yozo Iketani, Mitsutoshi Ayano, Kiyoshi Shibuya
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Patent number: 4766947Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing a rapidly solidified microcrystalline metallic tape. The method provides for molten metal to be continuously poured through a nozzle onto surfaces of cooling members to form a rapidly solidified metallic tape and then coiling the tape on a reel. According to this method, the metallic tape is secondarily cooled and rolled before the coiling. The apparatus includes a device for cutting out a non-steadly portion of the metallic tape, a device for measuring tape thickness, a secondary cooling member, and a device for controlling the tension of the metallic tape.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1987Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Assignee: Kawasaki Steel CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Fumio Kogiku, Michiharu Ozawa