Patents by Inventor Masatsugu Arai

Masatsugu Arai 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: 5400659
    Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter comprises a ceramic measuring tube through which fluid to be measured flows, a pair of electromagnetic coils disposed on the outer surface of the measuring tube in the central region thereof at diametrically opposite positions and generating a magnetic field in a direction perpendicular to the direction of flow of the fluid, a pair of measuring electrodes fixed to the outer surface of the measuring tube in the central region thereof at diametrically opposite positions and having electrode axes perpendicular to both the direction of flow of the fluid and the direction of the magnetic field, and a pair of metallic shields fixed to the outer surface of the measuring tube in surrounding relation to the measuring electrodes. A pair of the measuring electrodes and a pair of the metallic shields are fixed to the ceramic measuring tube by a reaction product due to an interface reaction with the ceramic measuring tube under heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuaki Yokoi, Masatsugu Arai, Akiomi Kohno, Yuji Yoshitomi, Yutaka Sakurai, Tamio Ishihara
  • Patent number: 5358032
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LSI package cooling heat sink having a heat diffusion plate and thin wire fins joined to the heat diffusion plate. The heat sink is mounted on an LSI package and the LSI package is cooled by the flowing of fluid through the thin wire fins. The wire fins are made of a net formed of longitudinal thin wires intersecting with horizontal thin wires. The net is formed to continuous rectangular shapes or a swirl shape and joined to the heat diffusion plate. The net is constituted so that the number of the thin wires vertical to the heat diffusion plate is larger than the number of the thin wires parallel thereto and the net is joined to the heat diffusion plate by brazing, diffusion joint, pressure welding or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Arai, Akiomi Kohno, Toshio Hatada, Yoshihiro Kondo, Toshihiro Komatsu, Kanji Otsuka, Yuji Shirai, Susumu Iwai
  • Patent number: 5307687
    Abstract: An electromagnetic flowmeter for measuring the flow rate of a fluid. The flowmeter has a measuring tube made of ceramics and defining a fluid passage therein for the fluid, electrodes having ends exposed to an interior of the measuring tube through holes which are formed in a wall of the measuring tube, a magnetic field generating device disposed around the electrodes, and a case encasing the measuring tube, the electrodes and the magnetic field generating means. A ratio t/R between a wall thickness t and a mean radius R of the measuring tube is determined such that stress generated in the measuring tube by the fluid in the measuring tube does not exceed the rupture stress of the measuring tube. The measuring tube can have flanges on both axial ends thereof, a radial height of the flange from an outer surface of the measuring tube is not greater than the wall thickness of the tube when the tube is made of Al.sub.2 O.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatsugu Arai, Akiomi Kohno, Kazuaki Yokoi, Yuuji Yoshitomi, Yutaka Sakurai, Tamio Ishihara