Patents by Inventor Koji Kitamura
Koji Kitamura 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: 6758420Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat member having a valve seat and a valve bore provided through a central portion of the valve seat, and an injector plate coupled to an outer end face of the valve seat member and having a plurality of fuel injection bores arranged in an annular shape surrounding an axis of the valve bore. A fuel diffusion chamber is defined between the valve seat member and the injector plate, and faced by the valve bore and all the fuel injection bores. The plurality of the fuel injection bores are formed in parallel to the axis of the valve bore, and the spreading angle of a fuel spray foam formed by the fuel injected from the fuel injection bores is determined depending on an axis distance between the valve bore and each of the fuel injection bores. Thus, it is possible to determine the spreading angle of the fuel spray foam as desired.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2001Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Akira Arioka, Koji Kitamura
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Publication number: 20040059531Abstract: A remote control receiving circuit for receiving a remote control signal from a transmitter includes a header interrupt generation circuit 160 that outputs a header interrupt signal S160 when detecting the header of the signal, a data interrupt generation circuit 170 that outputs a data interrupt signal S170 when the header has been detected and the predetermined data receiving is completed, and a switch 111 that selects the header interrupt signal S160 or data interrupt signal S170 in accordance with an instruction of the CPU 190. A CPU 190 has one interrupt port 191 for receiving the interrupt signal selected by the switch 111, and performs control in accordance with the received interrupt signal. Therefore, a remote control receiving system can reduces the codes, processing power, and resources of the CPU, which are used to implement the remote control signal receiving function, and reduce the cost of the entire system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2003Publication date: March 25, 2004Inventors: Yasuyuki Tomida, Hironobu Mori, Koji Kitamura
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Publication number: 20040050976Abstract: In a fuel injection valve including a flat fuel diffusion chamber provided between a valve seat member and an injector plate to widen radially outwards from an outer end edge of a valve seat bore, an annular step is formed on a ceiling surface of the fuel diffusion chamber so that a level of the ceiling surface is gradually lowered radially outwards, and fuel injection orifices are disposed immediately below the step and at a distance from an inner peripheral wall of the fuel diffusion chamber. Thus, a fuel spread radially in the fuel diffusion chamber is allowed to collide with the annular step, leading to an enhancement in fuel diffusing effect, so that it is possible to further promote the atomization of the fuel injected from the fuel injection orifices and to form more stable fuel spray forms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventor: Koji Kitamura
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Patent number: 6639834Abstract: The register disclosed herein includes a register block and a data writing block having non-volatile storage elements which store data output therefrom. The disclosed register further includes a data restoring block for reading data from the non-volatile storage elements. In a disclosed embodiment, the non-volatile storage elements are magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Toshio Sunaga, Hisatada Miyatake, Koji Kitamura, Hideo Asano, Kohki Noda, Hiroshi Umezaki
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Patent number: 6616071Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat member having a valve bore, and an injector plate coupled to an outer end face of the valve seat member. A fuel diffusion chamber is defined between the valve seat member and the injector plate. The injector plate is provided with a plurality of fuel injection bores which are parted on a plane including an axis of the valve bore into primary and secondary groups for injecting fuel toward primary and secondary intake ports. When a direction of arrangement of the primary and secondary intake ports is represented by X, and a direction perpendicular to the direction of arrangement is represented by Y, the fuel injection bores of the primary and secondary groups are formed so that they are inclined to a side opposite from the axis of the valve bore only in a direction X toward a downstream side.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2001Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignee: Keihin CorporationInventors: Koji Kitamura, Akira Arioka
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Publication number: 20020181275Abstract: The register disclosed herein includes a register block and a data writing block having non-volatile storage elements which store data output therefrom. The disclosed register further includes a data restoring block for reading data from the non-volatile storage elements. In a disclosed embodiment, the non-volatile storage elements are magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2002Publication date: December 5, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Toshio Sunaga, Hisatada Miyatake, Koji Kitamura, Hideo Asano, Kohki Noda, Hiroshi Umezaki
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Publication number: 20020159286Abstract: A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) circuit block and access method thereof are disclosed herein which includes a circuit for sensing a data write current passing through a bitline 32 and, for generating a stop signal for stopping a data write current supply to the bitline 32 and a write wordline 30 after data is written in an magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element 44. Further, when data to be written to the storage element is the same as the data already stored therein, no write current is supplied to the write wordline 30, thereby saving power.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Toshio Sunaga, Hisatada Miyatake, Koji Kitamura, Hideo Asano, Kohki Noda, Hiroshi Umezaki
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Publication number: 20020159288Abstract: A magnetic random access memory (MRAM) array is disclosed herein in which a plurality of wordlines and a plurality of bitlines are provided in matrix form, the wordlines including read wordlines and write wordlines, and memory elements are provided at the intersections of the wordlines and the bitlines, memory elements, respectively, including at least a ferromagnetic layer having a magnetization direction determined by the orientation of a magnetic field generated by an electric current passing through the bitline, and a read wordline driver connected to the memory array adapted to provide a first read signal to a first read wordline of a plurality of read wordlines, wherein a second read signal is provided to activate a second read wordline while the first read wordline remains activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Toshio Sunaga, Hisatada Miyatake, Koji Kitamura
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Publication number: 20020136053Abstract: MRAM has read word lines WLR and write word line WLW extending in the y direction, write/read bit line BLW/R and write bit line BLW extending in the x direction, and the memory cells MC disposed at the points of the intersection of these lines. The memory MC includes sub-cells SC1 and SC2. The sub-cell SC1 includes magneto resistive elements MTJ1 and MTJ2 and a selection transistor Tr1, and the sub-cell SC2 includes magneto resistive elements MTJ3 and MTJ4 and a selection transistor Tr2. The magneto resistive elements MTJ1 and MTJ2 are connected in parallel, and the magneto resistive elements MTJ3 and MTJ4 are also connected in parallel. Further, the sub-cells SC1 and SC2 are connected in series between the write/read bit line BLW/R and the ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2002Publication date: September 26, 2002Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Hideo Asano, Koji Kitamura, Hisatada Miyatake, Kohki Noda, Toshio Sunaga, Hiroshi Umezaki
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Publication number: 20020063174Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat member having a valve seat and a valve bore provided through a central portion of the valve seat, and an injector plate coupled to an outer end face of the valve seat member and having a plurality of fuel injection bores arranged in an annular shape surrounding an axis of the valve bore. A fuel diffusion chamber is defined between the valve seat member and the injector plate, and faced by the valve bore and all the fuel injection bores. The plurality of the fuel injection bores are formed in parallel to the axis of the valve bore, and the spreading angle of a fuel spray foam formed by the fuel injected from the fuel injection bores is determined depending on an axis distance between the valve bore and each of the fuel injection bores. Thus, it is possible to determine the spreading angle of the fuel spray foam as desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Inventors: Akira Arioka, Koji Kitamura
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Publication number: 20020063175Abstract: A fuel injection valve includes a valve seat member having a valve bore, and an injector plate coupled to an outer end face of the valve seat member. A fuel diffusion chamber is defined between the valve seat member and the injector plate. The injector plate is provided with a plurality of fuel injection bores which are parted on a plane including an axis of the valve bore into primary and secondary groups for injecting fuel toward primary and secondary intake ports. When a direction of arrangement of the primary and secondary intake ports is represented by X, and a direction perpendicular to the direction of arrangement is represented by Y, the fuel injection bores of the primary and secondary groups are formed so that they are inclined to a side opposite from the axis of the valve bore only in a direction X toward a downstream side.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Inventors: Koji Kitamura, Akira Arioka
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Patent number: 6314005Abstract: A DC-DC converter includes a primary side circuit for allowing a switching device to perform on/off operations to output energy in a primary coil of a transformer to a secondary coil. A secondary side circuit rectifies and smooths a voltage outputted from the secondary coil so as to output a DC-DC voltage. A voltage-detecting circuit rectifies and smooths a voltage outputted from a voltage-detecting coil provided in the transformer so as to output the voltage as a detected voltage corresponding to a voltage to be outputted from the secondary side circuit. A control circuit applies to the switching device a pulse control signal used for controlling on/off operation of the switching device according to the voltage outputted from the voltage-detecting circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Nishi, Koji Kitamura, Hitoshi Tsuji, Takayoshi Nishiyama, Yoshihiro Matsumoto, Tadahiko Matsumoto
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Patent number: 6247012Abstract: An information reception and delivery system receives and delivers private information produced and delivered within an internal network 100 and global information reception from an external network 200 connected to the internal network 100. A directory includes information sources (or servers) and reception information used for receiving the information. A predetermined high-level server 110 of the system manages reception and delivery performed by other servers 120 etc. provided in the internal network, through use of both a global directory table 1 holding a directory regarding the global information and a private directory table 2 holding a directory regarding the private information.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 1998Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: PFU LimitedInventors: Koji Kitamura, Akira Kubota, Shinya Abe, Toshikuni Hamano, Kotaro Tsukuda, Shigeru Miki
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Patent number: 5942965Abstract: When a multilayer substrate is formed by alternately laminating a plurality of substrates having coil patterns and preimpregs including an epoxy resin, and by pressing in the direction of lamination while heating, the epoxy resin is melted and may leak from between the substrates, and may form voids between the coil patterns so as to render the electrical insulation therebetween unsatisfactory. According to the present invention, a fence pattern or another structure is formed around each coil pattern, which substantially prevents leakage of the melted epoxy resin from between the substrates, and therefore, the spaces between the coil patterns remain securely filled with the epoxy resin.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 1997Date of Patent: August 24, 1999Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kitamura, Seiichi Takahashi, Koji Nishi, Takayoshi Nishiyama
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Patent number: 5879586Abstract: An alkaline earth metal compound containing no fluorine atoms in its molecules, a rare earth compound containing no fluorine atoms in its molecules, and an aluminum compound containing no fluorine atoms in its molecules are fired in a high-temperature reducing atmosphere ranging from 1600.degree. to 2000.degree. C., so that an aluminate phosphor, the particle diameter and shape thereof are controlled, is provided. A mixture of 22 wt % of barium carbonate, 11 wt % of basic magnesium carbonate, 65 wt % of spherical alpha-alumina of 10 .mu.m diameter and 2 wt % of europium oxide is fired in a mixed gas atmosphere consisting of gaseous hydrogen of 5 volume % and gaseous nitrogen. The temperature is raised at 400.degree. C./hr, and lowered at 400.degree. C./hr after firing for two hours at 1700.degree. C. As a result, a spherical aluminate phosphor of 10 .mu.m diameter, which is expressed by formula (Ba.sub.0.9,Euo.sub.0.1)MgAl.sub.10 O.sub.17 is obtained.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1996Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Kitamura, Shozo Oshio, Teruaki Shigeta, Shigeru Horii, Takeshi Nishiura, Tomizo Matsuoka
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Patent number: 5272776Abstract: A bed system, for a CT scanner such as an MRI apparatus having a frame with an imaging space therein, in which rollers support a bed plate for carrying a body to be examined, and the bed plate is moved by a driver into and out of the imaging space of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 1990Date of Patent: December 28, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Koji Kitamura
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Patent number: 5257232Abstract: A sensing circuit for dynamic random access memory is disclosed including a pair of bitlines precharged to a first voltage before sensing. A sense amplifier circuit is provided having one node thereof being connected to an external power supply via a switching means including pulsed sense clocks. Control means is provided and is connected to the switching means for controlling the switching means such that the voltage of the power supply is coupled to the node of the sense amplifier for activation for a predetermined period of time, thereby limiting the swing for the high-going bitline to a second voltage lower than said power supply voltage and higher than the first voltage. The reduced bit-line swings are achieved by means of the pulsed sense clocks and the pulse widths for sense clocks are determined by means of a reference bitlines connected to the control means.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1992Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sang H. Dhong, Koji Kitamura, Toshiaki Kirihata, Toshio Sunaga
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Patent number: 4788834Abstract: To reduce the running cost of an MRI apparatus, power supplied to a normal conductive coil from a pre-regulator is reduced in an idling mode. This reduction in power also reduces the heat generated in the normal conductive coil and a shunt resistor. A computer controls a cooling unit according to the amount of the heat reduced in order to reduce to flow rate of a cooling medium. In this manner, the temperatures of the normal conductive coil and shunt resistor can be maintained at constant levels. Further, if a current value is set to maintain the temperatures of the normal conductive coil and shunt resistor at the constant levels only by natural heat radiating, circulation of the cooling medium can be stopped.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 1987Date of Patent: December 6, 1988Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yoshiyuki Usui, Koji Kitamura
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Patent number: 4040863Abstract: In the surface treatment of copper and its alloys with an acidic aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide, methylcyclohexanol or cyclohexanol or both of the two are added to the solution thereby inhibiting the hindering action of chlorine ion in removal of metals and oxide scales by dissolution.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 1976Date of Patent: August 9, 1977Assignee: Tokai Denka Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Koji Kitamura