Patents by Inventor Minoru Fukunaga

Minoru Fukunaga 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).

  • Publication number: 20240066580
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rectangular battery includes: ironing the blank thereby forming an interim cup including an interim bottom whose area is larger than a bottom plate of the rectangular battery can, an inclined wall tilting upwardly formed continuously from each longitudinal end of the interim bottom, a short side wall formed continuously from the inclined wall, and a long side wall formed continuously from a curved corner formed on each lateral end of the interim bottom; deforming the interim cup such that each boundary between the interim bottom and the inclined wall is displaced toward a longitudinal end of the bottom plate of the rectangular battery can, and a width of the interim bottom is adjusted to a width of the bottom plate of the rectangular battery can; and ironing the short side and long side walls to reduce thicknesses of the short side and long side walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Minoru FUKUNAGA, Kazuhiro SAEKI, Yasushi ENOKI
  • Publication number: 20240042508
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a two-piece can includes punching a metal plate into a disk shape, the metal plate including a Sn-plated layer of 100 mg/m2 or more and 1500 mg/m2 or less provided on a base material made of steel, a Cr-plated layer of 6 mg/m2 or more and 100 mg/m2 or less provided on the Sn-plated layer, and a coating layer laminated on the Cr-plated layer; and shaping by performing drawing and ironing on the metal plate having the disk shape into a can body having a bottomed cylindrical shape, wherein in the shaping, the drawing and ironing is performed so that ((Tb?Tw)/Tb)×100, which is a plate thickness reduction rate from the metal plate having the disk shape to the can body, is set as 35%?((Tb?Tw)/Tb)×100(%)?60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: DAIWA CAN COMPANY, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minoru Fukunaga, Koichiro Nakamura, Shigeru Hirano, Yoshiaki Tani
  • Publication number: 20230124823
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a battery case having a rectangular transverse cross-section in which an intermediate product having an elliptical transverse cross-section is shaped into a final product having a rectangular transverse cross-section by drawing and ironing the intermediate product multiple times to reduce a curvature radius of each corner and thicknesses of side walls formed on both sides of the corner. A difference between an ironing rate of the side wall formed on one side of the corner and an ironing rate of the side wall formed on the other side of the corner is reduced less than a predetermined difference, after the curvature radius of the corner between the side walls has been reduced shorter than a predetermined radius during the process of shaping the intermediate product into the final product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: DAIWA CAN COMPANY
    Inventors: Minoru FUKUNAGA, Kazuhiro SAEKI
  • Patent number: 8028102
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus in which a memory unit containing a memory and a controller to access the memory in response to an externally input command can be installed. The electronic apparatus comprises a first acquiring section which acquires identification information from the memory unit, a second acquiring section which, on the basis of the identification information acquired by the first acquiring section, acquires one from a plurality of control programs to control the controller of the memory unit, and a setting section which sets an operating environment so as to apply the control program acquired by the second acquiring section to the process of inputting and outputting data to and from the memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru Fukunaga, Shinya Kurishima, Keiji Okuhata, Yoshihide Katsuse
  • Publication number: 20090138653
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus in which a memory unit containing a memory and a controller to access the memory in response to an externally input command can be installed. The electronic apparatus comprises a first acquiring section which acquires identification information from the memory unit, a second acquiring section which, on the basis of the identification information acquired by the first acquiring section, acquires one from a plurality of control programs to control the controller of the memory unit, and a setting section which sets an operating environment so as to apply the control program acquired by the second acquiring section to the process of inputting and outputting data to and from the memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Minoru FUKUNAGA, Shinya KURISHIMA, Keiji OKUHATA, Yoshihide KATSUSE
  • Patent number: 7500025
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus in which a memory unit containing a memory and a controller to access the memory in response to an externally input command can be installed. The electronic apparatus comprises a first acquiring section which acquires identification information from the memory unit, a second acquiring section which, on the basis of the identification information acquired by the first acquiring section, acquires one from a plurality of control programs to control the controller of the memory unit, and a setting section which sets an operating environment so as to apply the control program acquired by the second acquiring section to the process of inputting and outputting data to and from the memory unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Minoru Fukunaga, Shinya Kurishima, Keiji Okuhata, Yoshihide Katsuse
  • Publication number: 20050228908
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus in which a memory unit containing a memory and a controller to access the memory in response to an externally input command can be installed. The electronic apparatus comprises a first acquiring section which acquires identification information from the memory unit, a second acquiring section which, on the basis of the identification information acquired by the first acquiring section, acquires one from a plurality of control programs to control the controller of the memory unit, and a setting section which sets an operating environment so as to apply the control program acquired by the second acquiring section to the process of inputting and outputting data to and from the memory unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Inventors: Minoru Fukunaga, Shinya Kurishima, Keiji Okuhata, Yoshihide Katsuse
  • Patent number: 6784527
    Abstract: Charge prevention patterns disposed on one surface of a circuit board and electrolytic plating patterns disposed on the other surface of the circuit board are disposed in a zigzag pattern in end surfaces of the substrate. The thickness of a coating layer is smaller than the thickness of a card case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Minoru Fukunaga
  • Publication number: 20030141580
    Abstract: Charge prevention patterns disposed on one surface of a circuit board and electrolytic plating patterns disposed on the other surface of the circuit board are disposed in a zigzag pattern in end surfaces of the substrate. The thickness of a coating layer is smaller than the thickness of a card case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Minoru Fukunaga
  • Patent number: 5880206
    Abstract: A rubber composition comprising (1) a rubber ingredient comprising a diene polymer rubber having a primary amino group, and (2) silica. The diene polymer rubber having a primary amino group is obtained by allowing a diene polymer having an active metal bound to the polymer molecule, to react with a N-unsubstituted aziridine compound. The rubber composition is made advantageously by a process wherein the above-mentioned rubber ingredient is mixed with silica, and then, additives other than the silica are incorporated in the rubber ingredient/silica mixture. The rubber composition exhibits good rebound resilience tensile properties and abrasion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masao Nakamura, Yukio Takagishi, Minoru Fukunaga