Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kusunoki
Masahiro Kusunoki 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: 10097039Abstract: [OBJECT] There is provided a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting power efficiently even when it is rotated. [ORGANIZATION] A power transmission device has a first and a second electrode (a center electrode 311 and an annular electrode 312) each having a rotationally symmetrical shape with respect to a common center axis, a first and a second connection line (connection lines 315, 316), and a first inductor to (inductor 313, 314). A power reception device has a third and a fourth electrode (center electrode 321 and annular electrode 322) each having a rotationally symmetrical shape with respect to a common center axis, a third and a fourth connection line (connection lines 325, 326), and a second inductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Mitsuru Masuda
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Patent number: 10075021Abstract: [OBJECT] There is provided a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting power efficiently even when there is an obstacle or the like. [ORGANIZATION] A power transmission device has a first and a second electrode (111, 112), a first and a second connection line (115, 116), and a first inductor (113, 114). A power reception device has a third and a fourth electrode (121, 122), a third and a fourth connection line (125, 126), and a second inductor (123, 124). At least one of the first to the fourth electrode is housed in a conductive casing (310, 320) having an opening corresponding to an opposing electrode, and a resonance frequency of a power transmission coupler constituted of the first and the second electrode and the first inductor (113, 144) and a resonance frequency of a power reception coupler constituted of the third and the fourth electrode and the second inductor (123, 124) are set to be substantially equal.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Mitsuru Masuda
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Patent number: 9824817Abstract: A wireless power transmission system that transmits alternating-current power includes a power-transmitting device including first and second electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of ?/2? or less, i.e., a near field range, and a first inductor between the first and second electrodes and a AC power-generating section, and a power-receiving device including third and fourth electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of ?/2? or less, and a second inductor between the third and fourth electrodes and a load. A coupler including the first and second electrodes and the first inductor forms one resonant circuit and a coupler including the third and fourth electrodes and the second inductor forms another resonant circuit. Resonance frequencies of the couplers are substantially equal. The first and second electrodes and the third and fourth electrodes are spaced apart by ?/2? or less.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTDInventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Mitsuru Masuda, Hiroyuki Tamaoka, Yoichi Iso
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Publication number: 20150333538Abstract: [OBJECT] There is provided a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting power efficiently even when there is an obstacle or the like. [ORGANIZATION] A power transmission device has a first and a second electrode (111, 112), a first and a second connection line (115, 116), and a first inductor (113, 114). A power reception device has a third and a fourth electrode (121, 122), a third and a fourth connection line (125, 126), and a second inductor (123, 124). At least one of the first to the fourth electrode is housed in a conductive casing (310, 320) having an opening corresponding to an opposing electrode, and a resonance frequency of a power transmission coupler constituted of the first and the second electrode and the first inductor (113, 144) and a resonance frequency of a power reception coupler constituted of the third and the fourth electrode and the second inductor (123, 124) are set to be substantially equal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Masahiro KUSUNOKI, Mitsuru MASUDA
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Publication number: 20150333539Abstract: [OBJECT] There is provided a wireless power transmission system capable of transmitting power efficiently even when it is rotated. [ORGANIZATION] A power transmission device has a first and a second electrode (a center electrode 311 and an annular electrode 312) each having a rotationally symmetrical shape with respect to a common center axis, a first and a second connection line (connection lines 315, 316), and a first inductor to (inductor 313, 314). A power reception device has a third and a fourth electrode (center electrode 321 and annular electrode 322) each having a rotationally symmetrical shape with respect to a common center axis, a third and a fourth connection line (connection lines 325, 326), and a second inductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Masahiro KUSUNOKI, Mitsuru MASUDA
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Publication number: 20140327321Abstract: A wireless power transmission system that transmits alternating-current power includes a power-transmitting device including first and second electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of ?/2? or less, i.e., a near field range, and a first inductor between the first and second electrodes and a AC power-generating section, and a power-receiving device including third and fourth electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of ?/2? or less, and a second inductor between the third and fourth electrodes and a load. A coupler including the first and second electrodes and the first inductor forms one resonant circuit and a coupler including the third and fourth electrodes and the second inductor forms another resonant circuit. Resonance frequencies of the couplers are substantially equal. The first and second electrodes and the third and fourth electrodes are spaced apart by ?/2? or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Masahiro KUSUNOKI, Mitsuru MASUDA, Hiroyuki TAMAOKA, Yoichi ISO
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Patent number: 5038230Abstract: A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a control section, a recording section and a medium access section having a head. The control section sets a write mode in response to an input write access command, and outputs write data and density indication data to the recording section. In the write mode, the recording section generates dummy data in accordance with the density indication data and modulates a write current in accordance with the write data and the dummy data subsequent to the write data. The modulated write current is supplied to the medium access section. A value of the write current is determined in accordance with the density indication data, and the write current decays with a time constant while the write current is modulated in accordance with the dummy data. The medium access section write-accesses a medium in accordance with the modulated write current in the write mode.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1989Date of Patent: August 6, 1991Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Koji Osafune, Hiroshi Okamura, Yoshihisa Nakamori
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Patent number: 4979053Abstract: A magnetic disk apparatus comprises an access section including a read/write head, for applying to a magnetic disk a recording magnetic field in a gap of the read/write head in accordance with input generation control data. A discriminator discriminates a recording density of the magnetic disk and outputs recording density data representing the recording density to a access controller. The access controller generates and outputs to the access section the generation control data in accordance with input write data and the recording density data from the discriminator.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1988Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masahiro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 4939608Abstract: Disclosed is a magnetic head apparatus, which comprises a pair of magnetic cores defining a magnetic gap for recording and reproducing information, and grooves in the lateral faces of the magnetic cores, extending at right angles to those faces of the cores which are opposed to a magnetic recording medium or which define the magnetic cores. The grooves determine the width of the magnetic gap. That face of at least one of the magnetic cores which is opposed to the recording medium, is recessed from the remaining portion of the core, so as to cover a width equivalent to the length of the grooves, at the maximum. In the magnetic head of the invention, moreover, a nonmagnetic portion is formed at least on an erase gap, so that the degree of magnetic coupling between the erase gap and the recording medium is lower than that between a read/write gap and the medium. Thus, magnetic induction, which is produced in the erase core when data is read from the medium, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1988Date of Patent: July 3, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Okamura, Susumu Kimura, Masahiro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 4914532Abstract: A magnetic recording apparatus capable of efficiently erasing data in accordance with a type of magnetic recording medium, comprises a current source, an erase head for erasing data recorded on a recording medium using a supplied erase current, and a current supplying section for supplying an erase current from the current source to the erase head in accordance with input erase current control data. The current supplying section comprises a selecting section for selecting a combination of a plurality of control elements in accordance with the input erase current control data, and a supplying section for supplying an erase current determined in accordance with the selected combination from the current source to the erase head.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 1988Date of Patent: April 3, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Yoshiaki Uchida, Masahiro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 4891721Abstract: A magnetic head device for use with a high recording density, large memory capacity floppy disk, is disclosed. The slider of the magnetic head device has a contact surface for effecting contact with a disk, the lead/write gap is located at a predetermined position in the contact surface, and the width of the slider contact surface is 1 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1988Date of Patent: January 2, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Masahiro Kusunoki
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Patent number: 4845576Abstract: A magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus of the invention has a magnetic head for reading a vertical magnetically recorded signal, an inplane magnetic recorded signal or a magnetic recorded signal having both a vertical magnetic component and an inplane magnetic component and for supplying a reproduced signal, a first analog signal converting circuit for converting the reproduced signal into an analog inplane reproduced signal when the reproduced signal is a vertical reproduced analog signal, a second analog signal converting circuit for bypassing an inplane analog reproduced signal when the reproduced signal is the inplane reproduced analog signal, and a third analog signal converting circuit for converting the reproduced signal into an inplane reproduced analog signal when the reproduced signal is the inplane reproduced analog signal. The circuits are switched to operate selectively in accordance with the type of signals reproduced from a magnetic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1988Date of Patent: July 4, 1989Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Computer Engineering CorporationInventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Toshiya Saito, Hiroshi Okamura, Hiroshi Ohashi
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Patent number: 4811143Abstract: Leaf spring is fixed at one end thereto to a carriage, and extended at a predetermined angle to the carriage. A part of the leaf spring has rigidity. A gimbal spring, which free from the carriage, is mounted on the rigid portion. Head is fixed to the gimbal spring. The head can move perpendicularly to the carriage by the operation of the leaf spring, and can roll and pitch by the operation of the gimbal spring. Thus, the head can follow to move elevationally upward and downward and incline to the disk-like recording medium and contact the medium with good contacting property.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1987Date of Patent: March 7, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroshi Ohashi, Toshiyuki Fujioka, Masahiro Kusunoki, Susumu Kimura, Shigeru Takekado
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Patent number: 4803571Abstract: In a horizontal recording medium, new information can be overwritten upon old information at a low recording density without erasing the medium. In a perpendicular recording medium, on the other hand, new information is recorded at a high recording density after having erased the medium. On the basis of the above features of the horizontal and perpendicular recording mediums with different recording densities, the apparatus comprises first magnetic head with a long gap for the horizontal recording medium, a second magnetic head with a short gap for the perpendicular recording medium, and a heat selector, in order to provide a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus compatible with both high and low recording density mediums.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1987Date of Patent: February 7, 1989Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Toshiyuki Fujioka, Masahiro Kusunoki, Koji Osafune
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Patent number: 4769724Abstract: In a magnetic head drive apparatus of this invention, a coil of an erasing head is connected to a center point of the coils of a read/write head, and a drive current from a constant-current source is alternately supplied to both terminals of the coil of the read/write head, according to the polarity of the write data. When the read/write head is driven to write data in a magnetic recording medium, the erasing head and the read/write head are driven at an identical timing. In this case, the drive currents for the read/write head and the erasing head are supplied from a single-current source. For this reason, separate constant-current sources are not necessary for the read/write head and the erasing head.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 1986Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masahiro Kusunoki, Hiroshi Ohashi