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).

  • Patent number: 8737041
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20120120550
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 8130487
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
  • Publication number: 20100079927
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Shimizu, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Takumi Yamaguchi, Kouji Ueoka, Ichiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 5769544
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tohoku Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Yukio Itami, Kunio Ikeda, Yuzuru Kudo, Takao Abe, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Kiyoshi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 5562151
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Nakagawa, Nozomu Tamura, Saburo Moriwaki, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Shun Suhara, Kazuyuki Katoh, Toru Sato, Toshitane Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 5499673
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1996
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Shiga, Tomohiro Marui, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Michiharu Ozawa, Masao Yukumoto
  • Patent number: 5392837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Yukumoto, Michiharu Ozawa, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Saburo Moriwaki, Toru Sato
  • Patent number: 5322113
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuo Shiga
  • Patent number: 5271539
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Michiharu Ozawa, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Fumio Kogiku
  • Patent number: 5230381
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Seiko Nara, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Kyoji Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 5207777
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuyuki Morito, Seiko Nara, Teruo Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 5134189
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiko Matsushita, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Sadao Morishita
  • Patent number: 5075170
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 24, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiko Matsushita, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Sadao Morishita
  • Patent number: 5047284
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills Limited
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toshihiko Matsushita, Sadao Morishita
  • Patent number: 4977949
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Toru Sato, Nobuyuki Morito, Seiko Nara, Teruo Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 4964583
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1990
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Yukumoto, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Nobuyuki Morito, Teruo Hiramatsu
  • Patent number: 4891235
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: House Food Industrial Company Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Mizuguchi, Kiyoshi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 4827505
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Takato, Toshiro Tojo, Yozo Iketani, Mitsutoshi Ayano, Kiyoshi Shibuya
  • Patent number: 4766947
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shibuya, Fumio Kogiku, Michiharu Ozawa