Patents by Inventor Masayuki Nakamoto
Masayuki Nakamoto 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: 20240112850Abstract: To suppress deformation of a mounting portion, a coil component includes a drum core including a winding core portion, a first flange portion, and a second flange portion. The coil component includes a first metal terminal. The first metal terminal includes a joining portion, a mounting portion, and an extending portion. A first wire end of the first wire is connected to a surface of the joining portion facing a first positive direction. The mounting portion is located closest to the first positive direction in the first metal terminal. The extending portion connects the mounting portion and the joining portion. The extending portion includes a second portion having a thickness dimension smaller than the thickness dimension of the mounting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki HONDA, Takuya ISHIDA, Masayuki ISHIDA, Shingo NAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 11563251Abstract: A battery module including a plurality of battery cells that prevents the movement of the battery cells due to impact and has excellent cooling performance of the battery cells includes a battery cell group including a laminate of a plurality of flattened rectangular battery cells stacked in a thickness direction of the battery cells, and a housing storing the battery cell group. The battery cell group includes a plurality of cell holders configured to hold the individual battery cells from both sides in the thickness direction, and a plurality of side plates disposed at both ends of the plurality of battery cells in a width direction via the plurality of cell holders. Each of the cell holders has a restriction portion configured to restrict movement of the corresponding battery cell in a direction intersecting the thickness direction, and fixing portions that engage with the side plates.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC.Inventors: Masayuki Nakamoto, Takayuki Nakajima
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Publication number: 20220412669Abstract: An inner spiral grooved tube includes: a tube body; and grooves and fins aligned in an inner circumferential direction of the tube body, wherein the grooves and the fins are formed in a spiral along a longitudinal direction, an outer diameter is 3 mm or more and 10 mm or less, a number of the fins is 30 to 60, made of a metal, a cross sectional shape of each of the fins has a rectangular shape having an apex angle of 0±10°, a ratio h/f is 0.90 or more and 3.40 or less, h being a fin height and f being fin width, a ratio c/f is 0.50 or more and 3.80 or less, c being a fin spacing, and an average of the ratio h/f and the ratio c/f is 0.8 or more and 3.3 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: MA Aluminum CorporationInventors: Toshihiro HARATA, Masayuki NAKAMOTO, Takuya OKAWA, Yusuke NAKAURA
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Publication number: 20220294074Abstract: Provided is a battery pack capable of accumulating gas released from a battery cell in the battery pack as much as possible while suppressing the other battery cells from becoming hot due to the gas. The battery pack 100 includes a battery module 30, an electrical unit 50, and a housing 70. The housing 70 internally has a first storage space 70a that stores the battery module 30 and a second storage space 70b that stores the electrical unit 50. A part of the housing 70 defining the second storage space 70b includes a duct 80 that communicates the second storage space 70b with an outside of the housing 70. The duct 80 includes a filter 91 that closes a gas flow path 80a of the duct 80. In response to a gas pressure in the second storage space 70b reaching a predetermined value or more relative to an atmospheric pressure outside the housing 70, the filter 91 opens the flow path 80a of the duct 80.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Masashi NAITOH, Masayuki NAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20210083243Abstract: A battery module including a plurality of battery cells that prevents the movement of the battery cells due to impact and has excellent cooling performance of the battery cells includes a battery cell group including a laminate of a plurality of flattened rectangular battery cells stacked in a thickness direction of the battery cells, and a housing storing the battery cell group. The battery cell group includes a plurality of cell holders configured to hold the individual battery cells from both sides in the thickness direction, and a plurality of side plates disposed at both ends of the plurality of battery cells in a width direction via the plurality of cell holders. Each of the cell holders has a restriction portion configured to restrict movement of the corresponding battery cell in a direction intersecting the thickness direction, and fixing portions that engage with the side plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: VEHICLE ENERGY JAPAN INC.Inventors: Masayuki NAKAMOTO, Takayuki NAKAJIMA
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Publication number: 20150333312Abstract: An assembled battery is configured by connecting a plurality of battery cells arranged in a laminated structure via a bus bar. The battery cell includes a first electrode terminal and a second electrode terminal; and the bus bar includes a first electrode connection portion connected to the first electrode terminal of one battery cell and a second electrode connection portion connected to the second electrode terminal of another battery cell adjacent to the one battery cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2013Publication date: November 19, 2015Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki NAKAMOTO, Sadayuki AOKI
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Patent number: 7421900Abstract: An ultrasonograph, an ultrasonic transducer, an inspection device, and an ultrasonic imaging device enabling easy and quick inspection and high-resolution or high-speed processing are provided. Barium titanate (BaTiO3) or lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is used for a piezoelectric material constituting the ultrasonic transducer, and the thickness thereof is 0.1 ?m to 100 ?m. Included therein are a drive section capable of driving an arbitrary one of piezoelectric layers, a detecting section detecting electrical signals generated by the plural piezoelectric layers based on echoes from an inspection object, the echoes being originated from an ultrasonic wave generated by the driven piezoelectric layer, and a processing section performing processing for visualizing a state of the inspection object based on the detected electrical signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hirokazu Karasawa, Masayuki Nakamoto, Makoto Ochiai, Katsuyoshi Fukuda, Taiji Hirasawa, Takahiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 7187112Abstract: A field emission cold cathode device of a lateral type includes a cathode electrode and gate electrode disposed on a major surface of a support substrate laterally side by side. The cathode electrode and gate electrode have side surfaces which oppose each other, and an emitter is disposed on the opposite side surface of the cathode electrode. The emitter includes a metal plating layer formed on the cathode electrode, and a plurality of granular or rod-shaped micro-bodies. The micro-bodies are consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphite, a material with a low work function, a material with a negative electron affinity, and a metal material, and are supported in the metal plating layer in a dispersed state.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2005Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Patent number: 7175495Abstract: A method of manufacturing a field emission device having emitter shapes, comprise the steps of forming a first original plate having a major surface provided with emitter shapes, by cutting a surface portion of a base material, forming a first material layer on the major surface of the first original plate on which the emitter shapes are provided; separating the first material layer from the first original plate, thereby obtaining a second original plate having recesses onto which the emitter shapes on the first original plate are transferred, forming a second material layer on a major surface of the second original plate on which the recesses are provided; and separating the second material layer from the second original plate, thereby to obtain a substrate having projections portions onto which shapes of the recesses of the second original plate are transferred.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2003Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Masayuki Nakamoto, Atsuo Inoue
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Publication number: 20060244364Abstract: A field emission type cold cathode device comprises a substrate, and a metal plating layer formed on the substrate, the metal plating layer contains at least one carbon structure selected from a group of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, the carbon structure is stuck out from the metal plating layer and a part of the carbon structure is buried in the metal plating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Patent number: 7102277Abstract: A field emission cold cathode device of a lateral type includes a cathode electrode and gate electrode disposed on a major surface of a support substrate laterally side by side. The cathode electrode and gate electrode have side surfaces which oppose each other, and an emitter is disposed on the opposite side surface of the cathode electrode. The emitter includes a metal plating layer formed on the cathode electrode, and a plurality of granular or rod-shaped micro-bodies. The micro-bodies are consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphite, a material with a low work function, a material with a negative electron affinity, and a metal material, and are supported in the metal plating layer in a dispersed state.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2004Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20060178076Abstract: A method of manufacturing a field emission device having emitter shapes, comprise the steps of forming a first original plate having a major surface provided with emitter shapes, by cutting a surface portion of a base material, forming a first material layer on the major surface of the first original plate on which the emitter shapes are provided; separating the first material layer from the first original plate, thereby obtaining a second original plate having recesses onto which the emitter shapes on the first original plate are transferred, forming a second material layer on a major surface of the second original plate on which the recesses are provided; and separating the second material layer from the second original plate, thereby to obtain a substrate having projections portions onto which shapes of the recesses of the second original plate are transferred.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Masayuki Nakamoto, Atsuo Inoue
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Publication number: 20060061257Abstract: A field emission cold cathode device of a lateral type includes a cathode electrode and gate electrode disposed on a major surface of a support substrate laterally side by side. The cathode electrode and gate electrode have side surfaces which oppose each other, and an emitter is disposed on the opposite side surface of the cathode electrode. The emitter includes a metal plating layer formed on the cathode electrode, and a plurality of granular or rod-shaped micro-bodies. The micro-bodies are consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphite, a material with a low work function, a material with a negative electron affinity, and a metal material, and are supported in the metal plating layer in a dispersed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2005Publication date: March 23, 2006Inventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Patent number: 6891320Abstract: A field emission cold cathode device of a lateral type includes a cathode electrode and gate electrode disposed on a major surface of a support substrate laterally side by side. The cathode electrode and gate electrode have side surfaces which oppose each other, and an emitter is disposed on the opposite side surface of the cathode electrode. The emitter includes a metal plating layer formed on the cathode electrode, and a plurality of granular or rod-shaped micro-bodies. The micro-bodies are consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphite, a material with a low work function, a material with a negative electron affinity, and a metal material, and are supported in the metal plating layer in a dispersed state.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: May 10, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20040265592Abstract: A field emission type cold cathode device comprises a substrate, and a metal plating layer formed on the substrate, the metal plating layer contains at least one carbon structure selected from a group of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, the carbon structure is stuck out from the metal plating layer and a part of the carbon structure is buried in the metal plating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Patent number: 6796870Abstract: A field emission type cold cathode device comprises a substrate, and a metal plating layer formed on the substrate, the metal plating layer contains at least one carbon structure selected from a group of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, the carbon structure is stuck out from the metal plating layer and a part of the carbon structure is buried in the metal plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2003Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20040183421Abstract: A field emission cold cathode device of a lateral type includes a cathode electrode and gate electrode disposed on a major surface of a support substrate laterally side by side. The cathode electrode and gate electrode have side surfaces which oppose each other, and an emitter is disposed on the opposite side surface of the cathode electrode. The emitter includes a metal plating layer formed on the cathode electrode, and a plurality of granular or rod-shaped micro-bodies. The micro-bodies are consisting essentially of a material selected from the group consisting of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphite, a material with a low work function, a material with a negative electron affinity, and a metal material, and are supported in the metal plating layer in a dispersed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2004Publication date: September 23, 2004Inventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20040072494Abstract: A field emission type cold cathode device comprises a substrate, and a metal plating layer formed on the substrate, the metal plating layer contains at least one carbon structure selected from a group of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, the carbon structure is stuck out from the metal plating layer and a part of the carbon structure is buried in the metal plating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventor: Masayuki Nakamoto
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Publication number: 20040024320Abstract: An ultrasonograph, an ultrasonic transducer, an inspection device, and an ultrasonic imaging device enabling easy and quick inspection and high-resolution or high-speed processing are provided. Barium titanate (BaTiO3) or lead zirconate titanate (PZT) is used for a piezoelectric material constituting the ultrasonic transducer, and the thickness thereof is 0.1 &mgr;m to 100 &mgr;m. Included therein are a drive section capable of driving an arbitrary one of piezoelectric layers, a detecting section detecting electrical signals generated by the plural piezoelectric layers based on echoes from an irradiation object, the echoes being originated from an ultrasonic wave generated by the driven piezoelectric layer, and a processing section performing processing for visualizing a state of the irradiation object based on the detected electrical signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Hirokazu Karasawa, Masayuki Nakamoto, Makoto Ochiai, Katsuyoshi Fukuda, Taiji Hirasawa, Takahiro Ikeda
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Patent number: 6664727Abstract: A field emission type cold cathode device comprises a substrate, and a metal plating layer formed on the substrate, the metal plating layer contains at least one carbon structure selected from a group of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, the carbon structure is stuck out from the metal plating layer and a part of the carbon structure is buried in the metal plating layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2001Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Masayuki Nakamoto