Patents by Inventor Masashi Okubo
Masashi Okubo 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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Publication number: 20240079552Abstract: An electrode to be used for a battery, the electrode including: a current collector, a first electrode layer arranged on the current collector, and a second electrode layer arranged on the first electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer includes a first active material, and a first binder covering a surface of the first active material; the second electrode layer includes a second active material, and a second binder covering a surface of the second active material; and when C1 (%) designates a coverage of the first binder with respect to the first active material, and C2 (%) designates a coverage of the second binder with respect to the second active material, the C1 is larger than the C2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi UEDA, Shinji Kojima, Takuo Yanagi, Sokichi Okubo
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Publication number: 20240079562Abstract: A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an electrode capable of reducing the resistance of a battery and also capable of improving resistance to high temperature storage. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an electrode to be used for a battery, the electrode including a current collector and an electrode layer, wherein the electrode layer includes layers in the order of a first layer and a second layer; the first layer contains a first binder, the second layer contains a second binder, and a degree of swelling of the first binder is lower than a degree of swelling of the second binder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masashi UEDA, Takuo Yanagi, Shinji Kojima, Sokichi Okubo
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Publication number: 20220149686Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an armature winding of a rotating electrical machine, the armature winding being a 3-phase 6 or more even-number pole two-layer wound armature winding. The armature winding includes three or more parallel circuits provided in each phase, an individual coil constituting each of the circuits being connected by wave winding, each circuit being arranged so that phase belts respectively overlap phase belts of “number of poles/2” in the circuits on both adjacent sides, and the phase belts being arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction in each circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Takashi UEDA, Masafumi FUJITA, Masashi OKUBO, Hiroaki ISHIZUKA
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Publication number: 20170277858Abstract: Attempts have been made in the past to predict the risk of onset of a disease from biological information, but, in practical terms, it is difficult to continuously acquire biological information on a regular basis, and there is no increase in the accuracy of predicting variations in the risk of onset of a disease based only on the acquired biological information. A compact pulse wave information acquisition element is fitted to a measurement subject, information is continuously acquired on a regular basis, and the risk of onset of cerebrovascular disease is predicted from fluctuations in blood pressure and pulse waveform on the basis of the pulse wave information continuously acquired on a regular basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2015Publication date: September 28, 2017Inventors: Masashi OKUBO, Hiroyuki NAKAMURA
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Patent number: 9722467Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided armature windings of a rotating electrical machine, in which a 3-phase winding of two layers including upper and lower layers is constituted of phase belts having an electrical phase difference of 60° in between, pairs of upper coil pieces and lower coil pieces are contained in slots, the number of slots per pole per phase includes a fractional number, and a denominator thereof is an integral number greater than or equal to 4, wherein coil arrangement is carried out such that at least one coil piece in either of the upper or lower coil pieces included in two layers of upper and lower layers in one phase belt is replaced with a coil piece of an adjacent different phase.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2014Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kadek Fendy Sutrisna, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Masashi Okubo, Toshiyuki Aso, Takashi Ueda, Kazuma Tsujikawa, Hideyuki Hachiya, Daisuke Hiramatsu, Toru Otaka
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Publication number: 20170187239Abstract: Though there have been methods for supplying power to mobile bodies in a wireless manner, it has been difficult to use the methods because of a large power supply efficiency change due to mobile body positions. The present invention reduces power supply efficiency fluctuation with respect to positional changes in a specific space by winding a power feeding coil such that the specific space is included.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Inventors: Masashi OKUBO, Kouichi ICHIKI
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Publication number: 20170149298Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided an armature winding for an electrical rotating machine. The armature winding includes a plurality of coil pieces partly housed in a plurality of winding slots formed in a stator core, each coil piece comprising a plurality of wire conductors which are formed to be transposed by being twisted, wherein at least some of coil-piece end portions protruding outward from side surfaces of the stator core are configured to have different wire conductor transposition angles according to an amount of impinging fluxes or an impinging flux density.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: MASAFUMI FUJITA, TAKASHI UEDA, TAKAAKI HIROSE, MASASHI OKUBO, TAKERU SAITO
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Publication number: 20140333170Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided armature windings of a rotating electrical machine, in which a 3-phase winding of two layers including upper and lower layers is constituted of phase belts having an electrical phase difference of 60° in between, pairs of upper coil pieces and lower coil pieces are contained in slots, the number of slots per pole per phase includes a fractional number, and a denominator thereof is an integral number greater than or equal to 4, wherein coil arrangement is carried out such that at least one coil piece in either of the upper or lower coil pieces included in two layers of upper and lower layers in one phase belt is replaced with a coil piece of an adjacent different phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Kadek Fendy SUTRISNA, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Masashi Okubo, Toshiyuki Aso, Takashi Ueda, Kazuma Tsujikawa, Hideyuki Hachiya, Daisuke Hiramatsu, Toru Otaka
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Patent number: 8699187Abstract: A manufacturing method for a head-stack assembly. The method includes preparing a head-stack assembly. The method further includes placing a connection pad forming surface of a connector tab formed on an end of the trace so as to be positioned opposite to an edge of a circuit board; sliding an elastic component along a backside of the connection pad forming surface; and, stopping the elastic component on the backside and pressing the backside with the elastic component so as to press the connection pad forming surface against the edge. In addition, the method includes metal-joining the connector tab and a connection pad of the circuit board by applying heat to a connection pad of the connector tab and the connection pad on the circuit board while pressing the connection pad forming surface against the edge with the elastic component; and, removing the elastic component after the metal-joining.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2009Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Sakai, Masahiko Katoh, Yasushi Inoue, Tetsuya Nakatsuka, Satoshi Kaneko, Masashi Okubo
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Publication number: 20110109996Abstract: A manufacturing method for a head-stack assembly. The method includes preparing a head-stack assembly. The method further includes placing a connection pad forming surface of a connector tab formed on an end of the trace so as to be positioned opposite to an edge of a circuit board; sliding an elastic component along a backside of the connection pad forming surface; and, stopping the elastic component on the backside and pressing the backside with the elastic component so as to press the connection pad forming surface against the edge. In addition, the method includes metal joining the connector tab and a connection pad of the circuit board by applying heat to a connection pad of the connector tab and the connection pad on the circuit board while pressing the connection pad forming surface against the edge with the elastic component; and, removing the elastic component after the metal joining.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2009Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Tetsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Sakai, Masahiko Katoh, Yasushi Inoue, Tetsuya Nakatsuka, Satoshi Kaneko, Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7684780Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first analog circuit (53) adapted to a first performance, and a second analog circuit (55) realizing a second performance higher than the first performance by cooperating with the first analog circuit. It becomes possible to switch circuit characteristics appropriately in accordance with a requested performance while suppressing an increase of a circuit scale, by operating the first analog circuit and interrupting a power supply to the second analog circuit when the first performance is requested, and by operating the first analog circuit and the second analog circuit together when the second performance is requested to thereby share the first analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Fujitsu Microelectronics LimitedInventors: Kenichi Minobe, Atsushi Matsuda, Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7633191Abstract: The multiphase step motor is capable of reducing vibrations of a rotor and torque ripples in spite of switching current flowing through stator coils. Stator units are divided into 2n (n is an integer one or more) per one phase and coaxially layered, and the stator units of the same phase are plane-symmetrically layered with respect to a plane perpendicular to an axial center of a stator.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroaki Usui, Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7621723Abstract: A pump apparatus that produces a pumping action for a gas or a liquid is produced in an extremely small and slim form and can be favorably used as a cooling pump apparatus for an electronic appliance or the like. There is provided an electromagnetic pump where a plunger 10 including a magnetic body is provided so as to be capable of sliding inside a cylinder that is sealed at both end surfaces thereof by a pair of frames 20a, 20b with spaces between the plunger 10 and the end surfaces of the respective frames 20a, 20b as pump chambers 30a, 30b, air-core electromagnetic coils 50a, 50b are disposed around an outer circumference of the cylinder, and a fluid is conveyed by passing a current through the electromagnetic coils 50a, 50b to reciprocally move the plunger 10 in an axial direction of the cylinder, wherein intake valves 34a, 34b and outflow valves 36a, 36b that connect the pump chambers 30a, 30b and the outside are provided inside regions of the frames 20a, 20b at the end surfaces of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masashi Okubo
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Publication number: 20080085648Abstract: The electric conductive material has flexibility and elasticity. Electric conductivity is less varied even if the electric conductive material is extended and shrunk. The electric conductive material of the present invention comprises an elastic spiral yarn being composed of organic fibers, and the yarn has been carbonized.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2007Publication date: April 10, 2008Inventors: Shinsuke HIROSUE, Masashi OKUBO
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Publication number: 20080067880Abstract: The multiphase step motor is capable of reducing vibrations of a rotor and torque ripples in spite of switching current flowing through stator coils. Stator units are divided into 2n (n is an integer one or more) per one phase and coaxially layered, and the stator units of the same phase are plane-symmetrically layered with respect to a plane perpendicular to an axial center of a stator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventors: Hiroaki Usui, Masashi Okubo
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Publication number: 20070236089Abstract: The solenoid is capable of generating great thrust and having broad-ranging thrust characteristics. The solenoid of the present invention comprises: a guide pipe formed into a cylindrical shape and provided inside of an excitation coil; a movable element having a small diameter section and a large diameter section; a first yoke part covering one end face of the excitation coil, the first yoke part having a first facing surface, which faces an outer circumferential face of the small diameter section of the movable element, and a second facing surface, which faces one end face of the small diameter section; and a second yoke part covering the other end face of the excitation coil, the second yoke part having a third facing surface, which faces an outer circumferential face of the large diameter section of the movable element, and a fourth facing surface, which faces one end face of the large diameter section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventor: Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7205686Abstract: A linear actuator has improved output performance and can be assembled with high precision. The linear actuator includes: a yoke part where yoke components, where a hollow is formed between an outer circumferential surface of a first yoke provided on one side of a ring-shaped permanent magnet and an inner circumferential surface of a second yoke provided on another side of the ring-shaped permanent magnet, are combined on an outer circumference of a guide pipe with end surfaces of the first yokes and/or end surfaces of the second yokes being in contact and magnetic poles formed in facing yoke surfaces having a same polarity; and a shaft-linked part where a coil bobbin, which is disposed in the hollow of the yoke part and around which a coil has been wound, and a shaft inserted into the guide pipe are linked. By switching the direction of the current flowing in the coil, relative movement between the yoke part and the shaft-linked part is reciprocally caused in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7202586Abstract: There is provided an electrical contact member where wear can be reduced. The electrical contact member is characterized by one or both of conductive metal particles and conductive metal fibers, at least outer circumferential surfaces of which have been modified with carbon nanofibers or carbon nanotubes, being disposed in a contact layer through which current flows.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masashi Okubo
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Publication number: 20060183456Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first analog circuit (53) adapted to a first performance, and a second analog circuit (55) realizing a second performance higher than the first performance by cooperating with the first analog circuit. It becomes possible to switch circuit characteristics appropriately in accordance with a requested performance while suppressing an increase of a circuit scale, by operating the first analog circuit and interrupting a power supply to the second analog circuit when the first performance is requested, and by operating the first analog circuit and the second analog circuit together when the second performance is requested to thereby share the first analog circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Kenichi Minobe, Atsushi Matsuda, Masashi Okubo
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Patent number: 7091808Abstract: A solenoid that has a small body and increased propulsion in a controlled range is provided. The solenoid is characterized by being provided with a bearing 40 formed of a nonmagnetic body, n (where n is a positive integer of zero or above) grooves 56 and n+1 tooth parts 58 that are adjacent to the grooves 56 and function as magnetic poles being provided in a facing surface 52 of a first upper yoke 54a, m (where m is a positive integer of zero or above) grooves 70 and m+1 tooth parts 72, 74 that are adjacent to the grooves 70 and function as magnetic poles being provided in a facing surface 55 of a second upper yoke 54b, n+1 grooves 56 and n+1 tooth parts 58, 59 that are adjacent to the grooves 56 and function as magnetic poles being provided in a surface 52 of the slider 36 that faces the first upper yoke 54a, and m grooves 76 and m tooth parts 78 that are adjacent to the grooves 76 and function as magnetic poles being provided in a surface 55 of the slider 36 that faces the second upper yoke 54b.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2003Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Shinano Kenshi Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masashi Okubo