Patents by Inventor Mamoru Kuwahara

Mamoru Kuwahara 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: 11961677
    Abstract: A capacitor module includes a capacitor element, a plurality of connection terminals for electrically connecting the capacitor element to a semiconductor module and a power supply that are another equipment, and an exterior coating that includes a resin film having electrical insulating property and wraps the capacitor element except the plurality of connection terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru Kuwahara, Yuta Hashimoto, Kazuya Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11942869
    Abstract: A power module is applied to an electric power conversion device in which multiple upper-lower arm circuits are connected to an electric power line in parallel. The power module includes the multiple upper-lower arm circuits; a capacitor connected to each of the multiple upper-lower arm circuits in parallel; an upper wiring that connects an upper arm and a positive electrode terminal of the capacitor; a lower wiring that connects a lower arm and a negative electrode of the capacitor; an upper electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a high potential line of the electric power line and the upper wiring; and a lower electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a lower potential line of the electric power line and the lower wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa Sano, Ryota Tanabe, Yuta Hashimoto, Kazuma Fukushima, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20220377948
    Abstract: A power converter includes a heat generator configured to generate heat through power conversion, and a case housing the heat generator. The case includes a case member that is made of resin and defines an opening, and a cooler that is made of metal and disposed to cover the opening. The cooler includes a cooling water passage for cooling the heat generator. The case member includes an upper case member that defines an upper opening to be covered by a cover member, and a lower case member that defines the opening covered by the cooler. One of the upper case member and the lower case member has an input side attachment portion to be attached to an input terminal and the other of the upper case member and the lower case member has an output side attachment portion to be attached to an output terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru KUWAHARA, Yuuta HASHIMOTO, Kazuya TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220359119
    Abstract: A capacitor module includes a capacitor element, a plurality of connection terminals for electrically connecting the capacitor element to a semiconductor module and a power supply that are another equipment, and an exterior coating that includes a resin film having electrical insulating property and wraps the capacitor element except the plurality of connection terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mamoru KUWAHARA, Yuta HASHIMOTO, Kazuya TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210143747
    Abstract: A power module is applied to an electric power conversion device in which multiple upper-lower arm circuits are connected to an electric power line in parallel. The power module includes the multiple upper-lower arm circuits; a capacitor connected to each of the multiple upper-lower arm circuits in parallel; an upper wiring that connects an upper arm and a positive electrode terminal of the capacitor; a lower wiring that connects a lower arm and a negative electrode of the capacitor; an upper electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a high potential line of the electric power line and the upper wiring; and a lower electric power wiring that is an electric power wiring connected to the electric power line and connects a lower potential line of the electric power line and the lower wiring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohisa SANO, Ryota TANABE, Yuta HASHIMOTO, Kazuma FUKUSHIMA, Mamoru KUWAHARA
  • Patent number: 8826941
    Abstract: There is provided a port closing device for a compressor which is fixed to a housing of the compressor by a bolt and includes a packing and a cap. The packing closes a suction port or a discharge port formed in the housing. The packing has a first end, a second end and a peripheral surface formed between the first end and the second end. The first end of the packing has a flat seal portion that is in contact with a surface of the housing surrounding the port. The cap has a holding portion that presses the peripheral surface of the packing for holding the packing, and a pressing portion that presses the second end of the packing. The pressing portion of the cap has therethrough a hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saito, Mamoru Kuwahara, Mitsunori Yoshida
  • Patent number: 7651324
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump for pumping a fluid includes a diaphragm and a driver. The diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface. The driver includes a support portion and is connected to the diaphragm via the support portion. The driver is reciprocated to deform the diaphragm thereby performing a pumping action. The support portion includes a first supporting surface for supporting the first surface and a second supporting surface for supporting the second surface. The support portion allows the diaphragm to slidingly move along an interval between the first and second supporting surfaces when the diaphragm is deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Makoto Yoshikawa, Takao Mishina, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 7364414
    Abstract: A fluid pump system has a cover, a fluid pump and a conduit. An inside of the cover is divided into a main chamber and a sub chamber. The fluid pump is accommodated in the main chamber. The conduit extends from the fluid pump to an outside of the cover through the sub chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Satoru Kuramoto, Shinya Yamamoto, Nobuaki Hoshino, Ryosuke Koshizaka, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 7255541
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a housing, a drive source, a rotary unit and a pumping mechanism. The drive source is accommodated in the housing and includes a rotary member for rotation. The rotary unit includes the rotary member and a rotary shaft, which is operatively connected to the rotary member for rotation. The rotary unit forming an engaging portion for engaging with a maintenance tool which is prepared outside the housing. The pumping mechanism is placed in the housing and is operated in accordance with the rotation of the rotary shaft. An allowing means is formed in the housing for allowing the maintenance tool to engage with the engaging portion so as to face the engaging portion. The rotary shaft is rotated by rotating the maintenance tool in a state that the maintenance tool is engaged with the engaged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Satoru Kuramoto, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Shinya Yamamoto, Nobuaki Hoshino, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Patent number: 7140846
    Abstract: A vacuum pump having a rotary shaft that is rotated by a drive source has a main pump and a sub pump. The main pump includes a pump chamber and a gas transferring body that is located in the pump chamber. The main pump is driven by the drive source through the rotary shaft for transferring gas to an exhaust space. The sub pump is connected to the exhaust space for partially exhausting the gas from the exhaust space. The sub pump is driven by the same drive source. The displacement volume of the sub pump is smaller than that of the main pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Satoru Kuramoto, Osamu Uchiyama, Daisuke Sato, Mika Fujiwara, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Mamoru Kuwahara, Nobuaki Hoshino, Ryosuke Koshizaka
  • Publication number: 20060225447
    Abstract: A cooling unit which contains refrigerant for exchanging heat with an object member of cooling includes a refrigerant passage and cooling means. The refrigerant passage allows the refrigerant to circulate therethrough. The cooling means communicates with the refrigerant passage for supplying the refrigerant passage with the refrigerant. The cooling means includes a refrigeration circuit, a compressor, a condenser, decompression means, an evaporator, a refrigerant supply path, a refrigerant return path, refrigerant control means and first pressure control means. The refrigerant control means has an on mode which allows the refrigerant to circulate through the refrigerant passage at a flow rate which enables the refrigerant to maintain gas-liquid two-phase flow by allowing the condenser to communicate with the refrigerant passage, and an off mode which prevents the refrigerant from circulating through the refrigerant passage by preventing the condenser from communicating with the refrigerant passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Hideyuki Ito, Ryosuke Koshizaka, Osamu Uchiyama, Mamoru Kuwahara, Takeshi Kawata, Satoru Kuramoto
  • Patent number: 7108492
    Abstract: A roots pump has a housing, a plurality of rotary shafts, a rotor, a confluent passage and a closed space. The housing forms therein a pump chamber. The rotary shafts are supported on the housing in parallel relation to each other. The rotor is mounted on each of the rotary shafts, and the rotors on any adjacent rotary shafts are in engagement with each other. A set of the engaged rotors is accommodated in the pump chamber. The confluent passage is formed along one crossing line of paired imaginary swept peripheral surfaces in one-to-one correspondence with the paired and engaged rotors. The closed space is formed in one-to-one correspondence with each of the paired rotors between the paired rotors and paired peripheral wall surfaces which form the pump chamber. The closed space initially joins the confluent passage from a terminal end thereof with rotation of the paired rotors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Mamoru Kuwahara, Mika Fujiwara, Nobuaki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 6971859
    Abstract: A diaphragm unit includes a diaphragm and a diaphragm case. The diaphragm has a center point and an outer peripheral portion. The diaphragm case includes a fixing surface and a regulating surface. The fixing surface supports the diaphragm at the outer peripheral portion thereof, thereby defining a fluid chamber in the diaphragm case. The regulating surface forms an inner surface of the fluid chamber, thereby providing a limit of deformation of the diaphragm. The regulating surface has a convex surface region and a concave surface region. The convex surface region is formed continuously with the fixing surface for supporting the diaphragm at a portion thereof adjacent to the outer peripheral portion. The concave surface region is formed continuously with the convex surface region for supporting the diaphragm at a portion thereof adjacent to the center point. Curvatures of the convex and concave surface regions are the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Satoru Kuramoto, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20050265862
    Abstract: A pump includes a unit case, a volume-changing body, a support portion, a driver and a seal member. The volume-changing body is accommodated in the unit case for defining a pump chamber. The support portion is provided in the unit case. The driver is connected to the volume-changing body and slidably supported by the support portion. The driver is reciprocated to deform the volume-changing body thereby changing a volume of the pump chamber to perform a pumping action. The seal member is provided between the unit case and the driver for preventing lubricant from leaking from a sliding region between the driver and the support portion to the volume-changing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Makoto Yoshikawa, Takao Mishina, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20050265861
    Abstract: A diaphragm pump for pumping a fluid includes a diaphragm and a driver. The diaphragm has a first surface and a second surface. The driver includes a support portion and is connected to the diaphragm via the support portion. The driver is reciprocated to deform the diaphragm thereby performing a pumping action. The support portion includes a first supporting surface for supporting the first surface and a second supporting surface for supporting the second surface. The support portion allows the diaphragm to slidingly move along an interval between the first and second supporting surfaces when the diaphragm is deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Makoto Yoshikawa, Takao Mishina, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20050244294
    Abstract: A screw fluid machine includes a screw-shaped male rotor having formed helically therearound teeth and a screw-shaped female rotor having formed helically therearound grooves. The female rotor is engaged with the male rotor. A housing accommodates therein the male and female rotors. A working chamber is defined by the housing and the male and female rotors. Lead angles of the teeth and the grooves decrease from an inlet toward an outlet. An outline of each tooth includes a pair of first arc portions whose arc center is located on a pitch circle of the male rotor, and a second arc portion provided between the first arc portions. An outline of each groove includes a pair of third arc portions corresponding with the first arc portions, and a fourth arc portion substantially corresponding with the second arc portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
    Inventors: Kazuo Murakami, Shinya Yamamoto, Mamoru Kuwahara, Rieko Harada
  • Publication number: 20050118042
    Abstract: A diaphragm unit includes a diaphragm and a diaphragm case. The diaphragm has a center point and an outer peripheral portion. The diaphragm case includes a fixing surface and a regulating surface. The fixing surface supports the diaphragm at the outer peripheral portion thereof, thereby defining a fluid chamber in the diaphragm case. The regulating surface forms an inner surface of the fluid chamber, thereby providing a limit of deformation of the diaphragm. The regulating surface has a convex surface region and a concave surface region. The convex surface region is formed continuously with the fixing surface for supporting the diaphragm at a portion thereof adjacent to the outer peripheral portion. The concave surface region is formed continuously with the convex surface region for supporting the diaphragm at a portion thereof adjacent to the center point. Curvatures of the convex and concave surface regions are the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Satoru Kuramoto, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20040241027
    Abstract: A roots pump has a housing, a plurality of rotary shafts, a rotor, a confluent passage and a closed space. The housing forms therein a pump chamber. The rotary shafts are supported on the housing in parallel relation to each other. The rotor is mounted on each of the rotary shafts, and the rotors on any adjacent rotary shafts are in engagement with each other. A set of the engaged rotors is accommodated in the pump chamber. The confluent passage is formed along one crossing line of paired imaginary swept peripheral surfaces in one-to-one correspondence with the paired and engaged rotors. The closed space is formed in one-to-one correspondence with each of the paired rotors between the paired rotors and paired peripheral wall surfaces which form the pump chamber. The closed space initially joins the confluent passage from a terminal end thereof with rotation of the paired rotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Mamoru Kuwahara, Mika Fujiwara, Nobuaki Hoshino
  • Publication number: 20040131472
    Abstract: A reciprocating pump has an action chamber, a diaphragm, a drive shaft, and a roller. The diaphragm is displaced for changing the volume of the action chamber. A groove is formed on a circumference of the drive shaft. The roller is engaged with the groove and is connected to the diaphragm. When the drive shaft is rotated, the roller is guided by the groove to reciprocate along the axis of the drive shaft. When the roller reciprocates, the diaphragm is displaced along the axis of the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Shinya Yamamoto, Daisuke Sato, Makoto Yoshikawa, Satoru Kuramoto, Nobuaki Hoshino, Mamoru Kuwahara
  • Publication number: 20040126255
    Abstract: A fluid pump includes a housing, a drive source, a rotary unit and a pumping mechanism. The drive source is accommodated in the housing and includes a rotary member for rotation. The rotary unit includes the rotary member and a rotary shaft, which is operatively connected to the rotary member for rotation. The rotary unit forming an engaging portion for engaging with a maintenance tool which is prepared outside the housing. The pumping mechanism is placed in the housing and is operated in accordance with the rotation of the rotary shaft. An allowing means is formed in the housing for allowing the maintenance tool to engage with the engaging portion so as to face the engaging portion. The rotary shaft is rotated by rotating the maintenance tool in a state that the maintenance tool is engaged with the engaged portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Satoru Kuramoto, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Shinya Yamamoto, Nobuaki Hoshino, Mamoru Kuwahara