Patents by Inventor Kohei Yoshikawa
Kohei Yoshikawa 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: 11972889Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil and the magnetic core, a leaf spring fitting for pressing the assembly toward an inner bottom surface of the case, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. Each of the winding portions is so arranged that an arrangement direction of the winding portions is along a depth direction of the case. The case includes an opening having a rectangular planar shape. The leaf spring fitting is arranged in a state curved toward the inner bottom surface by having both end parts of the leaf spring fitting directly pressed against parts of inner wall surfaces of the case facing each other in a long side direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Seiji Shitama, Kazuhiro Inaba, Naotoshi Furukawa
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Patent number: 11942251Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion; a magnetic core; and a case. The magnetic core includes a plurality of core pieces forming a closed magnetic circuit. The core pieces include two outer core pieces having a portion disposed outside the winding portion. The case includes a first and a second opposing faces are respectively opposed to outer edge faces of the outer core pieces, and a case inclined surface provided on at least one of the first and the second opposing faces. The case inclined surface is inclined such that a distance between the first opposing face and the second opposing face decreases from an opening side of the case toward an inner bottom face of the case, and a core inclined surface on the outer edge face side of the outer core piece is in surface contact with the case inclined surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Seiji Shitama, Kohei Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 11923121Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a winding portion; a magnetic core including an inner core portion and an outer core portion disposed outside the winding portion; a resin cover housing at least a portion of the magnetic core; and an adhesive portion filling a gap between an outer circumferential surface of a housing portion of the magnetic core and an inner circumferential surface of the resin cover bonding the housing portion with the resin cover. The resin cover includes: a flange portion having a surface that comes into contact with an end face of the winding portion and a through hole; an outer cover portion having housing portion housing the outer core portion and an abutting portion that contacts a portion of the flange portion; and a protruding portion that forms the gap between an outer circumferential surface of the outer core portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Inaba, Masatoshi Koike, Yoshiki Numazawa
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Patent number: 11908613Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil; a magnetic core arranged inside of the wound portion and an outer core portion arranged outside of the wound portion; and a resin molded portion. An interval between the wound portion and the inner core portion differs in a peripheral direction of the wound portion. The reactor includes an electrically insulating material that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the narrowest, and a thick portion that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the widest and forms a portion of the inner resin portion. The proportion of the interval of the narrowest location with respect to the thermal conductivity is less than the proportion of the interval with respect to the thermal conductivity.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinichiro Yamamoto, Kohei Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20240029930Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including one winding portion, a magnetic core, a resin member for specifying mutual positions of the coil and the magnetic core, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil, the magnetic core and the resin member, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The magnetic core includes a middle core portion to be arranged inside the winding portion, two side core portions to be arranged in parallel to the middle core portion outside the winding portion, and two end core portions connecting the middle core portion and the side core portions on both end parts of the winding portion. The case includes a side wall portion in the form of a rectangular frame for surrounding the assembly. The side wall portion includes a pair of long side parts and a pair of short side parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11875928Abstract: A reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and an outer core part of the magnetic core. The holding member is a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part is inserted. The outer core part has an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes a core coupling member, coupling the outer core part and the inner core part, having a supporting piece supporting the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece having a distal end engaging a peripheral surface engaging part formed on a peripheral surface of the inner core part.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Misaki, Kohei Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 11848141Abstract: Provided is a reactor that includes a coil having a winding portion, a magnetic core having an inner core portion and an outer core portion, and a resin molded portion covering a surface of the magnetic core. The inner core portion is a single body having a non-separated structure, and includes a groove portion provided along a direction intersecting with the axial direction in a surface in the vicinity of an end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction. The resin molded portion includes an outer resin portion and an inner resin portion that covers the surface of the end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction and with which an inner portion of the groove portion is filled. The inner resin portion is continuous with the outer resin portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Akinori Ooishi
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Patent number: 11830650Abstract: A reactor includes a coil having a wound part, a magnetic core, and a holding member holding an end face of the wound part in an axial direction and the outer core part. The holding member being a frame-shaped body having a through hole into which an end portion of the inner core part in the axial direction is inserted, the outer core part having an inward surface opposing the inner core part, an outward surface on an opposite side to the inward surface, and a plurality of peripheral surfaces joining between the inward surface and the outward surface. The reactor includes an outer retraining member pressing the outer core part against the holding member. The outer retraining member has a pressing piece pressing the outward surface of the outer core part, and an engaging leg piece extending from the pressing piece and having a distal end engaging the holding member.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 11776733Abstract: A reactor including a magnetic core and a coil having a wound part, the magnetic core having an inner core part disposed inside the wound part and an outer core part disposed outside the wound part, is provided with a bolt coupling the inner core part and the outer core part, the bolt being constituted by a composite material formed by dispersing a soft magnetic powder in a resin and including a shaft part passing through the outer core part, the shaft part including a tip reaching the inner core part, and the inner core part and the outer core part respectively being an integrated member having an undivided structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kohei Yoshikawa
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Publication number: 20230307169Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil and a magnetic core. The magnetic core has a first surface made of a material mainly containing a magnetic material, and a second surface facing the first surface. The first surface has a first region with a surface property following that of the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA
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Publication number: 20230298801Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil and a magnetic core. The magnetic core includes a first core and a second core formed into a ? shape by being combined in an X direction. The first core includes a first end core part, at least a part of a middle core part, at least parts of both side core parts including a first side core part and a second side core part. The second core includes a second end core part, a remaining part of the middle core part and remaining parts of the first and second side core parts. A relative magnetic permeability of the second core is higher than that of the first core. Each of the first and second side core parts of the first core has a tip surface. A surface of the second core has facing surfaces facing the tip surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Masaya MURASHITA, Kazuhiro INABA, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230187116Abstract: The magnetic core includes a middle core, a first end core, a second end core, a first side core, and a second side core. At least either the first side core or the second side core includes an inward recessed portion provided in an inward face that faces the first winding portion in a Y direction. In a plan view of the magnetic core from a Z direction, at least a portion of the inward recessed portion is overlapped with a range corresponding to the length of the first winding portion in an X direction. The X direction is a direction conforming to the axial direction of the middle core, the Y direction is a direction in which the middle core, the first side core, and the second side core are side-by-side, and the Z direction is a direction orthogonal to the X direction and the Y direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Masaya MURASHITA, Kazuhiro INABA, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230141010Abstract: This reactor comprises a coil having a first winding part, and a magnetic core, wherein the magnetic core includes a middle core, a first end core, a second end core, a first side core, and a second side core, wherein: the first end core includes a first outer surface at a position separated from the first end face in an X direction, and a first recess provided to the first outer surface; in a plan view of the magnetic core from a Z direction, the first recess is provided in a middle portion of the first end core in a Y direction; the X direction is a direction along the axial direction of the middle core; the Y direction is a direction in which the middle core, the first side core, and the second side core are arranged next to one another; and the Z direction is a direction orthogonal to the X direction and the Y direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: Masaya MURASHITA, Kazuhiro INABA, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11615907Abstract: A reactor includes an assembly, stored in a case, including a coil and a magnetic core; an insertion member, having a type A durometer hardness of 50 or higher, that is stored side-by-side with the assembly; and a sealing resin portion that fills the case. The case includes a bottom portion and a side wall portion. The insertion member includes a leading end portion separated from the bottom portion via a gap. A space formed between the assembly and the case and between the insertion member and the case includes a first region provided between the bottom portion and the leading end portion and a second region that is a region other than the first region. The sealing resin portion includes a first resin portion that fills the first region and a second resin portion that fills at least a portion of the second region.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takehito Kobayashi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Naotoshi Furukawa, Masaya Murashita
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Patent number: 11462355Abstract: Provided is a reactor including a coil and a magnetic core that includes inner core portions arranged inside of a wound portions and outer core portions arranged outside of the wound portions. A sensor measures a physical amount that is related to a combined body of the coil and the magnetic core. A wiring locking portion locks a wiring of the sensor. The wiring locking portion includes a first claw member and a second claw member. A wiring path is formed inside a bent portion of the claw members. The second claw member is spaced apart from the first claw member a distance L between the leading end of the first claw member and the leading end of the second claw member in the Y direction is greater than 1 times the diameter of the wiring and less than or equal to 1.5 times the diameter of the wiring.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kohei Yoshikawa, Takashi Misaki, Shinichiro Yamamoto, Hajime Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20220223329Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a holding member for specifying mutual positions of the coil and the magnetic core, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil, the magnetic core and the holding member, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The case includes a bottom plate portion, the assembly being placed on the bottom plate portion, a side wall portion for surrounding the assembly, and an opening facing the bottom plate portion. The assembly is so accommodated into the case that an axial direction of each winding portion is along a depth direction of the case. The magnetic core includes an outer core portion to be arranged outside the winding portions and on the opening side.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Naotoshi FURUKAWA, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA, Takehito KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20220215996Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a holding member for specifying mutual positions of the coil and the magnetic core, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil, the magnetic core and the holding member, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The case includes a bottom plate portion on which the assembly is placed, a side wall portion for surrounding the assembly, and an opening facing the bottom plate portion. The side wall portion includes a pair of long side parts facing each other and a pair of short side parts facing each other. The assembly is so accommodated into the case that an axial direction of each winding portion is along a depth direction of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220076870Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil and the magnetic core, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. The case includes a bottom plate portion, the assembly being placed on the bottom plate portion, a side wall portion constituted by a rectangular frame body for surrounding the assembly, and an opening provided on a side opposite to the bottom plate portion. The pair of winding portions are is orthogonal to the bottom plate portion. The side wall portion includes a pair of short side portions and a pair of long side portions. The short side portion or the long side portion includes a groove portion continuously provided from the opening side toward the bottom plate portion side and open inward of the case.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2020Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20220005642Abstract: A reactor is provided with a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel, a magnetic core to be arranged inside and outside the winding portions, a case for accommodating an assembly including the coil and the magnetic core, a leaf spring fitting for pressing the assembly toward an inner bottom surface of the case, and a sealing resin portion to be filled into the case. Each of the winding portions is so arranged that an arrangement direction of the winding portions is along a depth direction of the case. The case includes an opening having a rectangular planar shape. The leaf spring fitting is arranged in a state curved toward the inner bottom surface by having both end parts of the leaf spring fitting directly pressed against parts of inner wall surfaces of the case facing each other in a long side direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Takehito KOBAYASHI, Kohei YOSHIKAWA, Seiji SHITAMA, Kazuhiro INABA, Naotoshi FURUKAWA
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Publication number: 20220005641Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil including a pair of winding portions arranged in parallel via a coupling portion; a magnetic core including inner core portions arranged inside the winding portions and a pair of outer core portions arranged outside the winding portions; a pair of holding members arranged so as to face end faces of the winding portions; and a molded resin portion covering at least a portion of outer peripheral surfaces of the outer core portions and fills spaces between inner peripheral surfaces of the winding portions and the inner core portions. The coil is a single continuous winding wire, the coupling portion is formed by bending back a portion of the winding wire, and one of the holding members on a side on which the coupling portion is arranged includes a recessed portion housing the coupling portion and an inward projection is arranged inside the coupling portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Seiji Shitama, Akinori Ooishi, Kohei Yoshikawa, Naotoshi Furukawa, Kazuhiro Inaba