Patents by Inventor Mikio Kitaoka

Mikio Kitaoka 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: 10224139
    Abstract: A coil device includes two core members, one of which is E-shaped. The E-shaped core member has left and right side faces, and a center leg that extends in a vertical direction. A conducting wire is wound around a core, the core being composed of the two core members arranged to face each other in the vertical direction with a gap between the two core members. The conducting wire is wound around the center leg. First and second heat-sinking plates made of metal are bent so as to be in contact with upper and side faces of the core. The first and second plates are arranged so that first edges of the plates are placed left-right symmetrically with respect to the core with a gap between the edges. Second edges of the plates are in contact with a metal heat-sinking board where the core is placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuko Kanazawa, Masaru Shinoda, Kiyoto Ono, Tetsu Yamanaka, Mikio Kitaoka
  • Publication number: 20180350507
    Abstract: A laminated transformer includes a magnetic substance layer, a coil lamination stacked on the magnetic substance layer, the coil lamination having formed thereinside a primary coil and a secondary coil, the primary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in a stacking direction, the secondary coil being wound spirally in convolutions in the stacking direction and formed inside the primary coil, a magnetic substance filling inside of the secondary coil in the coil lamination, and a non-magnetic substance filling a region between the primary coil and the secondary coil and filling outside of the primary coil in the coil lamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUBAYASHI, Mikio KITAOKA, Kiyohisa YAMAUCHI, Minako SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9978491
    Abstract: A choke coil including a coil (6) and a core (1) including a first core part (5) inserted into a central hole of the coil (6) and a plurality of second core parts (4) disposed along the outer periphery of the coil. The first core part (5) and the second core part (4) form a closed magnetic path. The second core parts (4) are shaped so that the total sum of the areas of cross sections thereof perpendicular to the axis of the coil is greater than the area of a cross section of the first core part (5). A gap part (G) is formed in the second core parts (4), and a ferrite magnet (7) that applies a magnetic bias is disposed in the gap part (G).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaru Ota, Mikio Kitaoka, Yuko Kanazawa
  • Publication number: 20180122560
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor includes a stack including a coil spirally wound and overlapped in a stacking direction in a magnetic body, an electrode provided on a bottom surface of the stack, a connecting conductor that passes through the stack toward the bottom surface from one end of the coil to the electrode to connect the end of the coil with the electrode, and a nonmagnetic part that surrounds the connecting conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji OKUDA, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Mikio Kitaoka, Shohei Itagaki
  • Publication number: 20170243688
    Abstract: A coil device includes two core members, one of which is E-shaped. The E-shaped core member has left and right side faces, and a center leg that extends in a vertical direction. A conducting wire is wound around a core, the core being composed of the two core members arranged to face each other in the vertical direction with a gap between the two core members. The conducting wire is wound around the center leg. First and second heat-sinking plates made of metal are bent so as to be in contact with upper and side faces of the core. The first and second plates are arranged so that first edges of the plates are placed left-right symmetrically with respect to the core with a gap between the edges. Second edges of the plates are in contact with a metal heat-sinking board where the core is placed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Yuko KANAZAWA, Masaru SHINODA, Kiyoto ONO, Tetsu YAMANAKA, Mikio KITAOKA
  • Patent number: 9653203
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor providing improved DC superposition characteristics by a permanent magnet that emits a bias magnetic flux, and having a low-loss material as a magnetic body to improve converter conversion efficiency. The multilayer inductor has a plurality of laminated electrically insulating magnetic layers; and laminated conductive patterns, each of the conductive patterns being connected in sequence in the lamination direction forming a spiral coil inside the magnetic layer. An magnetized annular permanent magnet layer emits a magnetic flux whose direction is opposite that of a magnetic flux excited by the coil is between an outer peripheral edge of the inductor and an outer peripheral edge of the coil so as not to overlap an inner peripheral part of the magnet layer with the conductive patterns and so as to block a space between the conductive patterns and the magnet layer, in axial view of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kiyohisa Yamauchi, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Juji Kato, Mikio Kitaoka, Shigenori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160307684
    Abstract: There is provided a winding component capable of reducing the core temperature compared to the past even in a usage scenario where the amount of core heat generation is great, and whose size and weight may be reduced as a result. The present invention is a winding component including a coil (2) and a pair of upper and lower cores (4, 5) that form a closed magnetic path by surrounding an outer perimeter of the coil (2), the winding component having a bottom surface of the lower core (5) mounted on a housing (1) with a heat dissipation function, where a metal plate (7) having a higher thermal conductivity than the lower core (5) is attached to an outer side surface (6) of the lower core (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi TAKIGUCHI, Mikio KITAOKA, Satoshi OTA
  • Publication number: 20160276093
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor for reducing a difference in inductance values and suppressing magnetic interference. Plural electrically insulating magnetic layers and conductive patterns are laminated, each of the conductive patterns being connected in sequence in the lamination direction, so that two coils having substantially the same number of turns and substantially the same coil diameter are formed, the two coils are in parallel such that each coil is a mirror image with respect to a virtual surface between the coils, and ends of each coil are located at an outer peripheral part on a side opposite to the virtual surface, an electrically insulating nonmagnetic pattern corresponding in shape to each of the conductive patterns is between the conductive patterns adjacent in the lamination direction, and at least one electrically insulating nonmagnetic layer is disposed only inside the coils in the lamination direction in place of the magnetic layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke MATSUBAYASHI, Mikio KITAOKA, Kiyohisa YAMAUCHI, Minako SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20160141089
    Abstract: A multilayer inductor providing improved DC superposition characteristics by a permanent magnet that emits a bias magnetic flux, and having a low-loss material as a magnetic body to improve converter conversion efficiency. The multilayer inductor has a plurality of laminated electrically insulating magnetic layers; and laminated conductive patterns, each of the conductive patterns being connected in sequence in the lamination direction forming a spiral coil inside the magnetic layer. An magnetized annular permanent magnet layer emits a magnetic flux whose direction is opposite that of a magnetic flux excited by the coil is between an outer peripheral edge of the inductor and an outer peripheral edge of the coil so as not to overlap an inner peripheral part of the magnet layer with the conductive patterns and so as to block a space between the conductive patterns and the magnet layer, in axial view of the coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyohisa YAMAUCHI, Daisuke MATSUBAYASHI, Juji KATO, Mikio KITAOKA, Shigenori SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9082546
    Abstract: A method of magnetizing into a permanent magnet comprises placing magnetizing magnetic field applying means to be adjacent to an object to be magnetized into the permanent magnet, and continuing to apply a magnetizing magnetic field to the object by the magnetizing magnetic field applying means while cooling the object from a temperature of its Curie point or above to a temperature of below the Curie point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Minebea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruhiro Komura, Mikio Kitaoka, Ikuo Ohashi, Teruo Kiyomiya, Sachiko Shinmura, Nobuyuki Sueyoshi
  • Publication number: 20150042433
    Abstract: Problem to be Solved To provide a choke coil that can apply an optimal magnetic bias even when the current increases and can be reduced in size, weight and cost. Solution The present invention provides a choke coil including a coil (6) and a core (1) including a first core part (5) inserted into a central hole of the coil (6) and a plurality of second core parts (4) disposed along the outer periphery of the coil, the first core part (5) and the second core part (4) forming a closed magnetic path, wherein the second core parts (4) are shaped so that the total sum of the areas of cross sections thereof perpendicular to the axis of the coil is greater than the area of a cross section of the first core part (5), a gap part (G) is formed in the second core parts (4), and a ferrite magnet (7) that applies a magnetic bias is disposed in the gap part (G).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Masaru Ota, Mikio Kitaoka, Yuko Kanazawa
  • Patent number: 8698585
    Abstract: A high power inductance device enables a large ferrite magnetic core to be manufactured at low cost and with ease and improves heat radiation efficiency to reduce an increase in the temperature of the core. The inductance device has a ferrite magnetic core and a winding wire wound around the ferrite magnetic core and is mounted on a heat radiation structure through at least one of the front surfaces of the ferrite magnetic core. The ferrite magnetic core is made of a core aggregate obtained by arranging side by side a plurality of ferrite cores 10 having a completely-closed magnetic path structure or a quasi-closed magnetic path structure with a magnetic gap such that an interval is placed between the ferrite cores and magnetic paths are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Takiguchi, Yuko Kanazawa, Mikio Kitaoka, Satoshi Ota
  • Publication number: 20120169443
    Abstract: A high power inductance device enables a large ferrite magnetic core to be manufactured at low cost and with ease and improves heat radiation efficiency to reduce an increase in the temperature of the core. The inductance device has a ferrite magnetic core and a winding wire wound around the ferrite magnetic core and is mounted on a heat radiation structure through at least one of the front surfaces of the ferrite magnetic core. The ferrite magnetic core is made of a core aggregate obtained by arranging side by side a plurality of ferrite cores 10 having a completely-closed magnetic path structure or a quasi-closed magnetic path structure with a magnetic gap such that an interval is placed between the ferrite cores and magnetic paths are parallel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Takashi Takiguchi, Yuko Kanazawa, Mikio Kitaoka, Satoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 7821365
    Abstract: To provide a magnetizing apparatus and magnetizing method in which, even in preparation of a ring-shaped permanent magnet having a narrow magnetization pitch with multiple poles magnetized on an extremely small diameter, sufficient magnetization and high magnetization quality can be achieved and powerful magnetization can be carried out efficiently and quickly at low cost. A permanent magnet magnetizing apparatus includes a heating section 10, a magnetizing section 12 axially disposed as a discrete structure from the heating section 10, and a holding member 22 for holding magnetization object 20 and movable relative to the heating section and the magnetizing section. The magnetization object heated in the heating section is transferred to the magnetizing section and is magnetized therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhiro Komura, Mikio Kitaoka, Ikuo Ohashi, Teruo Kiyomiya, Sachiko Shinmura, Masutaro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7605682
    Abstract: In a magnetic core type laminated inductor, magnetic gap layers are interposed between layers of conductive patterns, and the magnetic gap layers are formed separately on multiple layers mutually distant from each other while sandwiching a magnetic body layer. Moreover, the multiple magnetic gap layers are vertically symmetrically disposed relative to a central portion of lamination in a magnetically equivalent fashion, and the respective magnetic gap layers interpose at least two layers of the conductive patterns therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Nakao, Kazunari Suzuki, Mikio Kitaoka, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Shigenori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080169892
    Abstract: To provide a magnetizing apparatus and magnetizing method in which, even in preparation of a ring-shaped permanent magnet having a narrow magnetization pitch with multiple poles magnetized on an extremely small diameter, sufficient magnetization and high magnetization quality can be achieved and powerful magnetization can be carried out efficiently and quickly at low cost. A permanent magnet magnetizing apparatus includes a heating section 10, a magnetizing section 12 axially disposed as a discrete structure from the heating section 10, and a holding member 22 for holding magnetization object 20 and movable relative to the heating section and the magnetizing section. The magnetization object heated in the heating section is transferred to the magnetizing section and is magnetized therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2006
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiro Komura, Mikio Kitaoka, Ikuo Ohashi, Teruo Kiyomiya, Sachiko Shinmura, Masutaro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20080122565
    Abstract: A method of magnetizing into a permanent magnet comprises placing magnetizing magnetic field applying means to be adjacent to an object to be magnetized into the permanent magnet, and continuing to apply a magnetizing magnetic field to the object by the magnetizing magnetic field applying means while cooling the object from a temperature of its Curie point or above to a temperature of below the Curie point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: FDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiro Komura, Mikio Kitaoka, Ikuo Ohashi, Teruo Kiyomiya, Sachiko Shinmura, Nobuyuki Sueyoshi
  • Patent number: 7280264
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce the size of a magneto-optical device, increase the speed of optical control, simplify power supply structure and its control, and maintain a Faraday rotation angle in an arbitrary state even after shut-off of the excitation current. The magneto-optical device includes a magnetic yoke (10) made of a high-permeability magnetic material, the magnetic yoke including a tabular portion (16) and four pillar portions (18) protruding from one side of the tabular portion (16), a coil (12) wound on each of the pillar portions, and a magneto-optical element (14) arranged in an open-magnetic-circuit region surrounded by the end portions of the four pillar portions. A magnetic field obtained by a coil is applied to the magneto-optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Goto, Mikio Kitaoka, Hiromitsu Umezawa, Tsugio Tokumasu, Toshihiko Watanabe, Akitoshi Mesaki, Takashi Kato, Masaharu Hoshikawa, Chiharu Nishida
  • Patent number: 7218196
    Abstract: A noncontact coupler comprising a pair of magnetic cores 1, 1 each having a U-shaped open magnetic path, a primary coil L1 and secondary coil L2 being wound around said cores 1, 1 separately respectively, said coupler transmitting AC electric power between said primary and secondary coils L1, L2 by means of an annular closed magnetic path B formed by opposing in proximity both open magnetic face sides of said cores, wherein said primary and secondary magnetic cores 1, 1 are respectively split at least at their sides facing to each other, and a gap forming a spatial magnetic path is interposed between said split pieces. A diameter a of a medium leg 51 positioned inside an annular groove 52 around in which the coils L1, L2 are wound (housed) is set almost equal to a width b of the annular groove 52. These provide effects of lightening a noncontact coupler while securing its performance and improving handleability with enhancing tolerance for positioning of the primary and secondary cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiaki Nakao, Yoshio Matsuo, Mikio Kitaoka, Katsuo Yamada, Hiroshi Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20070002425
    Abstract: It is possible to reduce the size of a magneto-optical device, increase the speed of optical control, simplify power supply structure and its control, and maintain a Faraday rotation angle in an arbitrary state even after shut-off of the excitation current. The magneto-optical device includes a magnetic yoke (10) made of a high-permeability magnetic material, the magnetic yoke including a tabular portion (16) and four pillar portions (18) protruding from one side of the tabular portion (16), a coil (12) wound on each of the pillar portions, and a magneto-optical element (14) arranged in an open-magnetic-circuit region surrounded by the end portions of the four pillar portions. A magnetic field obtained by a coil is applied to the magneto-optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Yuji Goto, Mikio Kitaoka, Hiromitsu Umezawa, Tsugio Tokumasu, Toshihiko Watanabe, Akitoshi Mesaki, Takashi Kato, Masaharu Hoshikawa, Chiharu Nishida