Patents by Inventor Koji Toyama

Koji Toyama 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).

  • Publication number: 20110163705
    Abstract: In an inverter in which noise reducing coils and a smoothing capacitor are provided on a power line to an inverter module to achieve a no-busbar configuration, simplification of the manufacturing process, reduction of the influence on the size of the inverter, enhanced noise reducing function, reduction in cost and so on, the smoothing capacitor is electrically connected, on the inverter module, to the power line in parallel with a power system board, and the noise reducing coils are connected to the power line by directly connecting output lead wires thereof to P-N terminals of the inverter module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Sato, Koji Nakano, Kazunori Teshima, Takashi Nakagami, Koji Toyama, Takeshi Hirano, Takayuki Watanabe, Naoto Kunieda
  • Publication number: 20110090580
    Abstract: A lens driving device 1 is provided, in which a spring 11 includes an outer ring portion 11b that is fixed to a body 5, an inner ring portion 11a that is fixed to a lens support 7, and an arm portion 11c that connects the outer ring portion 11b and the inner ring portion 11a, and the lens support 7 is moved in an optical axis direction of a lens by way of an electromagnetic force that is generated by applying electric current to a coil 15 from a terminal member 6, the terminal member 6 including a superimposed portion 6a that is superimposed on the outer ring portion of 11b of the spring 11, and a power supply terminal 6b that protrudes from the superimposed portion 6a, and the terminal member 6 disposing the superimposed portion 6a between the outer ring portion 11b of the spring and the body 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: SHICOH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Manabu Shiraki, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20110039599
    Abstract: A lens driving device, an autofocus camera and a camera-equipped mobile terminal are provided that can correct movement of a lens in an optical axis direction and tilt of an optical axis, and reduce the dimension thereof in the optical axis direction. The device includes: a lens support 5 for supporting a lens at an inner circumference; a plurality of coils 19a to 19d disposed at regular intervals in a circumferential direction on an outer periphery of the lens support 5; a base 8 that supports the lens support 5 so as to move freely in an optical axis direction of the lens; and a magnet portion 17 provided on the base 8 and facing each of the coils 19a to 19d, in which an electric current of equal current value is applied to each of the coils 19a to 19d when moving the lens support 5 in the optical axis direction, and current values of the electric current applied to predetermined coils 19a to 19d are varied when correcting tilt of the optical axis of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: SHICOH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MANABU SHIRAKI, Satoshi Asakawa, Koji Toyama
  • Patent number: 7879887
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel ?-amino acid derivatives of formula (1): (wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, X and Y are as defined in the claims) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs or solvates thereof. The derivatives of formula (1) have ?ARK1 inhibitory activity and are useful for preventing or treating heart failure. Moreover, the derivatives of formula (1) also have antitumor activity, particularly dual inhibitory activity on Aurora kinase and CDK, and are useful for cell proliferative diseases such as cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignees: Nissan Chemical Industries, Ltd., Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ohrai, Michiaki Adachi, Koji Toyama, Takanori Shimizu, Keishi Hayashi, Masataka Minami, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Masakazu Sugiyama, Masateru Ohta, Shojiro Kadono, Takuya Shiraishi, Haruhiko Sato, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Nobuya Ishii, Masahiro Sakaitani, Masami Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20110006718
    Abstract: There is provided an inverter device that is small in size and has high durability against long-term use with vibration. A power substrate 20 is placed at a bottom portion of a box-shaped module case 11, and a control substrate 30 forms a lid of an opening in the module case 11, and thus an inverter device 10 of the present invention is modularized, thereby reducing a height of the inverter device 10. In the inverter device 10, a capacitor 22 is provided between the power substrate 20 and the control substrate 30, and the capacitor 22 is covered with a resin mold layer 12 and fixed in the module case 11. The capacitor 22 is fixed in the module case 11 by the resin mold layer 12, which provides higher durability against vibration than that by conventional fastening with a screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Teshima, Koji Toyama, Koji Nakano, Hidetaka Sato
  • Publication number: 20100303648
    Abstract: An inverter-integrated electric compressor in which noise interference with an inverter circuit section due to electromagnetic noise generated from high-voltage-system components can be reliably eliminated without impairing the ease of assembly and a reduction in size. In an inverter-integrated electric compressor (1) provided with an inverter accommodating section (9) on the periphery of a housing (2) and an inverter (20) provided therein, the inverter accommodating section (9) is divided into a first accommodating section (9) accommodating an inverter module (21) equipped with a power system board on which semiconductor switching devices etc. are mounted and a CPU board on which a control and communication circuit etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Watanabe, Takeshi Hirano, Makoto Hattori, Kazuki Niwa, Takashi Nakagami, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20100247349
    Abstract: A common mode coil can be installed without having to increase the planar area for an inverter accommodating section so that high performance and size reduction and compactness of an inverter device can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Asai, Makoto Hattori, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Koji Nakano, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20100183457
    Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable inverter-integrated electric compressor that is capable of suppressing electromagnetic noise interference from a power-system metal board on which a semiconductor switching devices are bare-mounted and preventing malfunction of the inverter device. In an inverter-integrated electric compressor in which an inverter accommodating section provided on a housing accommodates an inverter device, the inverter device includes an inverter module in which a power-system metal board on which at least semiconductor switching devices are bare-mounted and a CPU board on which is mounted a control and communication circuit having a device operating at low voltage, such as a CPU, are modularized via a resin case, wherein the inverter module has a metal shield plate supported by the resin case and interposed between the power-system metal board and the CPU board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Koji Toyama, Takashi Nakagami
  • Publication number: 20100086413
    Abstract: There is provided an electric compressor capable of being actuated rapidly. During the time when the operation of an automotive air conditioner is stopping, by heating a motor 12, a refrigerant on the outlet side 11b of a compressor body 11 is heated. Thereby, the temperature of refrigerant on the outlet side 11b is raised, and the refrigerant is prevented from being liquefied on the outlet side 11b of the compressor body 11, by which the automotive air conditioner can be actuated rapidly. Besides, by rotating the motor 12 at the number of revolutions lower than that at the time of normal operation, the refrigerant liquefied on the outlet side lib of the compressor body 11 may be pushed out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadahiro Matsukawa, Takayuki Takashige, Kenichi Aiba, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20100074772
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electric compressor for automobile use, which can satisfy a plurality of requirements including protection of an inverter board, suppression of electromagnetic noise, vibration and noise, and the like. A cover 20B covering an opening of a housing 11 of the electric compressor is configured by laminating a conductive material layer 21 formed of a conductive material and an insulating material layer 22 formed of an insulating material. By the conductive material layer 21 of the cover 20B, electromagnetic noise radiated from the inverter board 12 and the like is prevented from leaking to the outside of the housing 11. Also, by providing the insulating material layer 22 so as to be directed to the inside of the housing 11, the conductive material layer 21 of the cover 20B is insulated from the inverter board 12 to which a high voltage is applied, so that the electric compressor is made small in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hoshino, Koji Nakano, Makoto Hattori, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20090291002
    Abstract: There is provided an integrated electric compressor that can be made small in size while reducing radio noise effectively. In an inverter of the electric compressor, a snubber circuit 21 comprising a resistor R and a capacitor C is provided between input/output terminals 20 of a power source and a switching element 18. The snubber circuit 21 is formed by surface mounting a resistive element constituting the resistor R and a capacitor element constituting the capacitor C on a power board 16. A leakage current from a motor 19 is thus restrained and radio noise is reduced. The resistive element and the capacitor element constituting the snubber circuit 21 are preferably surface mounted on the power board 16 on the side opposite to the side on which a control circuit board is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Kasai, Koji Nakano, Koji Toyama, Makoto Hattori, Kazuki Niwa
  • Publication number: 20090275623
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel ?-amino acid derivatives of formula (1): (wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, X and Y are as defined in the claims) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs or solvates thereof. The derivatives of formula (1) have ?ARK1 inhibitory activity and are useful for preventing or treating heart failure. Moreover, the derivatives of formula (1) also have antitumor activity, particularly dual inhibitory activity on Aurora kinase and CDK, and are useful for cell proliferative diseases such as cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Ohrai, Michiaki Adachi, Koji Toyama, Takanori Shimizu, Keishi Hayashi, Masataka Minami, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Masakazu Sugiyama, Masateru Ohta, Shojiro Kadono, Takuya Shiraishi, Haruhiko Sato, Yoshiaki Watanabe, Nobuya Ishii, Masahiro Sakaitani, Masami Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20090246047
    Abstract: An integrated-inverter electric compressor whose grounding effect and grounding reliability are increased by reliably grounding an inverter device to a housing and in which the size the inverter device are reduced by simplifying the grounding structure is provided. The integrated-inverter electric compressor includes an inverter device provided in an inverter container on the outer circumference of a housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Kazuki Niwa, Koji Nakano, Takashi Nakagami, Takayuki Takashige, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20090146594
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an inverter system for a vehicle-mounted air conditioner that prevents noise from entering a control circuit and allows high speed communication. A motor control microcomputer 24 is isolated from a gate circuit 22, and communication therebetween is performed via a photocoupler 80. This suppresses the influence of noise resulting from changes caused by changes in voltage and current that occur in a high voltage system for driving a motor 30. Also, the motor control microcomputer 24 and a communication driver 27 can be directly bus-connected without a photocoupler, thereby allowing high speed communication therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Nakano, Takashi Nakagami, Hiroyuki Kamitani, Makoto Hattori, Koji Toyama
  • Publication number: 20090131659
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds useful for prevention, treatment or alleviation of diseases against which activation of the thrombopoietin receptor is effective. A compound represented by the formula (1): wherein A, B, R1, L1, R2, L2, L3, Y, L4, R3 and X are the same as defined in the description, a tautomer, prodrug or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or a solvate thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Miyaji, Shunsuke Iwamoto, Satoshi Nakano, Hirofumi Ota, Yukihiro Shigeta, Yutaka Hirokawa, Kazufumi Yanagihara, Koji Toyama, Shingo Owada, Masato Horikawa, Norihisa Ishiwata
  • Patent number: 7534109
    Abstract: A control board has a pattern for a low-voltage circuit including a ground pattern connectable to a ground and a pattern for a high-voltage circuit including a ground pattern. The patterns for the low-voltage and high-voltage circuits each have one or more ground-connection lands configured to connect the ground patterns thereof to each other via one or more capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Masahiko Asai, Koji Toyama, Koji Nakano
  • Publication number: 20090087322
    Abstract: The present invention has an object to provide an integrated electric compressor further downsized. An inverter control apparatus comprises: a power board 16 converting a direct current supplied from a high voltage power supply to an alternating current and applying it to a motor; and a control circuit board 15 controlling the application of the alternating current to the motor, wherein the power board 16 and the control circuit board 15 respectively have tall components 28 and 52 surface-mounted on one surfaces, which are relatively taller than components on the other surfaces, and the one surfaces face each other. The tall components 28 and 52 of the power board 16 and the control circuit board 15 are placed facing each other without interfering with each other in projection directions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koji TOYAMA, Koji NAKANO, Takashi NAKAGAMI, Makoto HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20080087458
    Abstract: A control board has a pattern for a low-voltage circuit including a ground pattern connectable to a ground and a pattern for a high-voltage circuit including a ground pattern. The patterns for the low-voltage and high-voltage circuits each have one or more ground-connection lands configured to connect the ground patterns thereof to each other via one or more capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Makoto Hattori, Masahiko Asai, Koji Toyama, Koji Nakano
  • Patent number: 6082939
    Abstract: In a machine tool having a worktable feed mechanism of the type that a worktable is moved in a horizontal direction relative to a tool spindle along a pair of guideways in parallel with the horizontal direction, there is provided a cutting chips collection space formed between the pair of guideways fixed to a base. A pair of ball screws are arranged outside of the cutting chips collection space for moving the worktable relative to the tool spindle in the horizontal direction. The cutting chips and coolant generated by contacting a tool with a workpiece drop into the cutting chips collection space directly without being heaped onto a cover mechanism of the worktable feed mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Assignee: Toyoda Koki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kunimichi Nakashima, Tetsuo Teramura, Yasukazu Yamaguchi, Akiyoshi Tashiro, Hirotaka Imaizumi, Mitsuyoshi Taniguchi, Koji Toyama
  • Patent number: 4686138
    Abstract: There is disclosed a direct image printing plate for offset printing which comprises a water resistant support and an image receiving layer provided thereon which comprises an inorganic pigment and a mixed binder comprising a water-soluble high polymer compound and a synthetic high polymer latex. There is also disclosed a direct image printing plate for offset printing which comprises a water resistant support and an image receiving layer provided thereon which comprises a mixed pigment comprising a synthetic silica fine powder of 20.mu. or less in particle diameter and a colloidal silica of 50 m.mu. or less in particle diameter and a binder which is preferably polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Paper Mills, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Toyama, Hideo Shimizu