Patents by Inventor Minoru Aoki

Minoru Aoki 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: 12107458
    Abstract: Stacked core sheets forming a stacked core of a rotating electric machine have tooth portions on the inner circumferential side. Axial-direction holes penetrating the stacked core in the axial direction are provided near the tooth bases and near the outer circumferential surface. Resin is injected through tooth base neighbor holes near the tooth bases and core outer circumferential holes near the outer circumferential surface of the stacked core, among the axial-direction holes in the rotating electric machine. Thus, the resin fills gaps near the tooth bases and near the outer circumferential surface of the stacked core, so that the stacked core sheets are bonded to each other, thus obtaining a rotating electric machine having such a stacked core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Okuda, Minoru Aoki
  • Publication number: 20230406784
    Abstract: The present invention is an efflorescence removing chemical liquid containing hydrochloric acid capable of efficiently dissolving efflorescence even in locations where the efflorescence removal work is performed in an underground space that is not adequately ventilated, i.e., in a nearly enclosed space. In addition, when the amount of hydrochloric acid exceeds 10%, the liquid is designated as a deleterious substance under Japan's Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act, and hence the wastewater after efflorescence removal cannot be easily disposed of underground or elsewhere. The invention solves all of these problems. The efflorescence removing chemical liquid in the present invention is made by mixing water, hydrochloric acid, glycolic acid, and lactic acid, which makes it possible to dramatically suppress the irritating odor of hydrochloric acid by the action of lactic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Minoru AOKI, Eiichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20220209588
    Abstract: Stacked core sheets forming a stacked core of a rotating electric machine have tooth portions on the inner circumferential side. Axial-direction holes penetrating the stacked core in the axial direction are provided near the tooth bases and near the outer circumferential surface. Resin is injected through tooth base neighbor holes near the tooth bases and core outer circumferential holes near the outer circumferential surface of the stacked core, among the axial-direction holes in the rotating electric machine. Thus, the resin fills gaps near the tooth bases and near the outer circumferential surface of the stacked core, so that the stacked core sheets are bonded to each other, thus obtaining a rotating electric machine having such a stacked core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuya OKUDA, Minoru AOKI
  • Patent number: 11169132
    Abstract: A purpose is to provide a monitoring system to monitor whether there is a substance to be monitored in the air, and a detecting device used in the monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a detecting device, an analyzing device, and an abnormality notification system. The detecting device determines whether the air is in an abnormal state on the basis of an output signal from an abnormality detection sensor, pours liquid to be inspected, into which the air is sucked and liquefied, into a previously-installed reagent container when determining the abnormal state, generates mixed liquid in which a reactant in the reagent container and the poured liquid to be inspected are mixed, and drops the generated mixed liquid to an electrode of the analyzing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: OSAKA UNIVERSITY, ALLIED TELESIS HOLDINGS K.K.
    Inventors: Noriyasu Katoh, Minoru Aoki, Eiichi Tamiya
  • Publication number: 20210278388
    Abstract: A purpose is to provide a monitoring system to monitor whether there is a substance to be monitored in the air, and a detecting device used in the monitoring system. The monitoring system includes a detecting device, an analyzing device, and an abnormality notification system. The detecting device determines whether the air is in an abnormal state on the basis of an output signal from an abnormality detection sensor, pours liquid to be inspected, into which the air is sucked and liquefied, into a previously-installed reagent container when determining the abnormal state, generates mixed liquid in which a reactant in the reagent container and the poured liquid to be inspected are mixed, and drops the generated mixed liquid to an electrode of the analyzing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Noriyasu Katoh, Minoru Aoki, Eiichi Tamiya
  • Patent number: 10396641
    Abstract: An object is to easily inject resin into a gap of a laminated core which constitutes a rotating electric machine. Included are: a resin supplying unit which feeds the resin; and a resin injection unit which injects the resin into an axial hole of the laminated core. The resin injection unit has an injection pipe and an elastic ring attached to the injection pipe. This elastic ring is made to firmly attach to the inner periphery of the axial hole; the resin is supplied from the resin supplying unit; and the resin is injected into the gap of the laminated core through the axial hole of the laminated core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Aoki, Yoshihide Kikuichi, Tetsuro Yanagi, Yuichiro Sasaki, Koji Mio, Hideaki Shigekiyo
  • Patent number: 9943881
    Abstract: An ultrasound transducer includes an electric vibrator including a vibrator contact layer, to transmit and receive ultrasound wave, and a circuit-board including a circuit contact layer connected to the vibrator contact layer, to transmit and receive ultrasound signals via the vibrator contact layer. A maximum width which width is an extent of a shorter side of the circuit contact layer, is same to a width of the electric vibrator. The circuit contact layer includes a bonding area that extends to a surface of a circuit-board and a surface of the vibrator contact layer. An adhesive is provided in the bonding area to adhere the electric vibrator and the circuit-board to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Okada, Minoru Aoki, Hiroyuki Shikata, Takashi Kubota, Yasuhiro Ona
  • Patent number: 9895136
    Abstract: According to the present embodiment, the ultrasound probe includes a piezoelectric vibrator, an open/short switching board, a short terminal, and a GND terminal. Then, the open/short switching board and the short terminal switch between a short state in which the electrode of the piezoelectric vibrator is connected to the GND terminal and an open state in which the electrode of the piezoelectric vibrator is not connected to the GND terminal, at any timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Aoki
  • Patent number: 9172024
    Abstract: A backing material is provided on the back face side of a piezoelectric transducer, with a first width substantially equal to the piezoelectric transducer widthwise and perpendicular to the radiation direction. A front face of a layer located on the front face side with regard to a wiring pattern has a width substantially equal to the first width. Moreover, the back face of this layer has a second width shorter than the first width. A space is provided between this layer and the backing material due to the difference between the first width and the second width of this layer, and a covering member covering the wiring pattern covers the wiring pattern extending at least from the folded section of the flexible substrate into the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kengo Okada, Hiroyuki Shikata, Minoru Aoki, Satoru Tezuka, Yasuhisa Makita
  • Publication number: 20150288263
    Abstract: An object is to easily inject resin into a gap of a laminated core which constitutes a rotating electric machine. Included are: a resin supplying unit which feeds the resin; and a resin injection unit which injects the resin into an axial hole of the laminated core. The resin injection unit has an injection pipe and an elastic ring attached to the injection pipe. This elastic ring is made to firmly attach to the inner periphery of the axial hole; the resin is supplied from the resin supplying unit; and the resin is injected into the gap of the laminated core through the axial hole of the laminated core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Aoki, Yoshihide Kikuichi, Tetsuro Yanagi, Yuichiro Sasaki, Koji Mio, Hideaki Shigekiyo
  • Publication number: 20150250447
    Abstract: A puncture adapter includes a guide of a puncture needle, a gripper to hold an ultrasound probe, and a pinch. The gripper grips the ultrasound probe. The puncture adapter is attached to the ultrasound probe by the engagement between the gripper and the ultrasound probe. The pinch is used to release the grip of the gripper. The pinch is located adjacent to the gripper in a direction that intersects a direction in which the gripper grips the ultrasound probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi KUBOTA, Takashi TAKEUCHI, Yasuhisa MAKITA, Minoru AOKI
  • Publication number: 20150251219
    Abstract: An ultrasound transducer includes an electric vibrator including a vibrator contact layer, to transmit and receive ultrasound wave, and a circuit-board including a circuit contact layer connected to the vibrator contact layer, to transmit and receive ultrasound signals via the vibrator contact layer. A maximum width which width is an extent of a shorter side of the circuit contact layer, is same to a width of the electric vibrator. The circuit contact layer includes a bonding area that extends to a surface of a circuit-board and a surface of the vibrator contact layer. An adhesive is provided in the bonding area to adhere the electric vibrator and the circuit-board to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo OKADA, Minoru Aoki, Hiroyuki Shikata, Takashi Kubota, Yasuhiro Ona
  • Publication number: 20150157293
    Abstract: The ultrasound probe insertable into a body cavity of a subject has a clamped member including a plurality of pairs of clamped surfaces capable of being clamped by a forcep. The clamped member is formed so as to protrude from a surface which is the opposite side of the surface from where ultrasound waves are emitted, among the surfaces of the probe head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi SHIBAMOTO, Hideki Kosaku, Takashi Kubota, Takashi Takeuchi, Minoru Aoki
  • Patent number: 8870775
    Abstract: A generating unit generates a plurality of ultrasonic cross-sectional images at a plurality of angles when an ultrasonic wave emitting surface in an ultrasonic probe is rotated. A regenerating unit saves information on the angle of the ultrasonic wave emitting surface when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and rotates the ultrasonic wave emitting surface from the angle of the ultrasonic wave emitting surface different from the saved angle information to the angle based on the saved angle information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Oonuki, Hiroyuki Shikata, Hideki Kosaku, Takashi Ogawa, Minoru Aoki
  • Patent number: 8717848
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe is provided that may improves specific desensitization of the frequency observed in the frequency characteristics and/or directional characteristics. The ultrasound probe related to this embodiment comprises an ultrasound transducer 10 and a plurality of acoustic matching layers 20 arranged in layers in the direction of irradiation irradiated from the ultrasound transducer 10, wherein, the plurality of acoustic matching layers 20 form a film and each of the adjacent acoustic impedance of longitudinal waves is substantially the same and has a different Poisson's ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Shibamoto, Hiroyuki Shikata, Minoru Aoki, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20130241355
    Abstract: A backing material is provided on the back face side of a piezoelectric transducer, with a first width substantially equal to the piezoelectric transducer widthwise and perpendicular to the radiation direction. A front face of a layer located on the front face side with regard to a wiring pattern has a width substantially equal to the first width. Moreover, the back face of this layer has a second width shorter than the first width. A space is provided between this layer and the backing material due to the difference between the first width and the second width of this layer, and a covering member covering the wiring pattern covers the wiring pattern extending at least from the folded section of the flexible substrate into the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kengo OKADA, Hiroyuki Shikata, Minoru Aoki, Satoru Tezuka, Yasuhisa Makita
  • Publication number: 20130229893
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe is provided that may improves specific desensitization of the frequency observed in the frequency characteristics and/or directional characteristics. The ultrasound probe related to this embodiment comprises an ultrasound transducer 10 and a plurality of acoustic matching layers 20 arranged in layers in the direction of irradiation irradiated from the ultrasound transducer 10, wherein, the plurality of acoustic matching layers 20 form a film and each of the adjacent acoustic impedance of longitudinal waves is substantially the same and has a different poisson's ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Koichi Shibamoto, Hiroyuki Shikata, Minoru Aoki, Takashi Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20130231568
    Abstract: According to the present embodiment, the ultrasound probe includes a piezoelectric vibrator, an open/short switching board, a short terminal, and a GND terminal. Then, the open/short switching board and the short terminal switch between a short state in which the electrode of the piezoelectric vibrator is connected to the GND terminal and an open state in which the electrode of the piezoelectric vibrator is not connected to the GND terminal, at any timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicants: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Minoru Aoki
  • Patent number: 8477385
    Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a casing, a light emitting section, a substrate, a support member, and a light guide. The light emitting section includes plural point light sources disposed in a row. The light emitting section is installed to a first face of the substrate. The support member is installed to the casing and supports a second face of the substrate at a projection portion where a position of the light emitting section is projected at the second face of the substrate. The light guide is installed to the casing adjacent to the light emitting section, and guides light from the light emitting section to a read-face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Takahashi, Hironori Shimada, Minoru Aoki, Masayuki Saito
  • Patent number: 8287965
    Abstract: A nozzle for injecting a semiconductive coating material from the internal diameter side of a stator to the external diameter side of the stator is inserted in a core duct serving as an air flow passage between adjacent slots, and the semiconductive coating material is coated on the surface of the stator coil exposed to the air flow passage without drawing out the stator coil from the slot in the stator core to form a semiconductive coating layer, thereby repairing exfoliation of the semiconductive coating material on the surface of the stator coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Minoru Aoki