Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Ikeda

Mitsuru Ikeda 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: 20220013296
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a multilayer body including a multilayer main body and side gap portions, the multilayer main body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal nickel electrode layers laminated alternately therein, and including end surfaces on both sides in a length direction. The internal nickel electrode layers are exposed at the end surfaces. External nickel layers are provided on the end surfaces. External copper electrode layers cover the end surfaces on which the external nickel layers are provided. A deviation amount in the width direction between positions of ends of two adjacent internal nickel electrode layers on both side surfaces is at least about 0.5 ?m. The external nickel layers are provided on the end surface, in a region excluding a rounded ridge portion. Nickel and tin layers are provided outside the external copper electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NISHISAKA, Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20220013291
    Abstract: An electronic component includes external nickel layers each provided on end surfaces of a multilayer body and external copper electrode layers each covering the end surfaces on which the external nickel layers are provided. When a dimension of each of the external nickel layers in the lamination direction is defined as TN, and a dimension of the inner layer portion in the lamination direction is defined as T1, T1<TN is satisfied. When a dimension of each of the external nickel layers in the width direction is defined as WN and a dimension of the inner layer portion in the width direction is defined as W1, a relationship of WN<W1 is satisfied, and a relationship of WN<TN is satisfied. The inner layer portion includes at least one uncovered region. The internal and external nickel electrode layers are directly bonded in the uncovered region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuhiro NISHISAKA, Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210388851
    Abstract: An electric pump includes a housing having a bottom portion and an opening portion provided at an opposite side to the bottom portion, a motor rotor rotatably accommodated in the housing, a field coil, a pump rotor configured to transmit fluid by being rotated by a driving force of the motor rotor, and a control substrate provided at an outside of the bottom portion. The bottom portion includes a heat conduction wall formed of material including heat conductivity which is higher than heat conductivity of the housing. The housing includes a space portion formed with a flow path configured to allow the fluid to flow into the space portion and flow out of the space portion after the fluid is in contact with an inner surface of the heat conduction wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuru IKEDA, Shinsuke ISOGAI, Shuji HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20210335548
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body and external electrodes. The multilayer body includes an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked, and first and second outer layer portions on opposite sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, side gap portions on opposite sides in a width direction, main surfaces on opposite sides in the stacking direction, side surfaces on opposite sides in the width direction, and end surfaces on opposite sides in a length direction. Each external electrode is provided at one end surfaces of the multilayer body, and extends from the end surface to a portion of the main surface. A difference in location between ends at the side surface of two adjacent internal electrode layers is about 0.5 ?m or less. The second outer layer portion is thicker than the first outer layer portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210335541
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body and two external electrodes. The multilayer body includes a multilayer main body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked, and outer layer portions on opposite sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, two side gap portions on opposite sides in a width direction, main surfaces on opposite sides in the stacking direction, side surfaces on opposite sides in the width direction, and end surfaces respectively provided on opposite sides in a length direction. The two external electrodes are provided at the end surfaces, each including a foundation electrode layer in contact with the multilayer body, and a conductive resin layer on the foundation electrode layer. An end region of the internal electrode layers in contact with the foundation electrode layer is thicker than other regions of the internal electrode layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210335551
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body, two external electrodes, and two wall portions. The multilayer body includes a multilayer main body including an inner layer portion in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are stacked, and two outer layer portions on opposite sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, two side gap portions on opposite sides of the multilayer main body in a width direction, two main surfaces on opposite sides in the stacking direction, two side surfaces on opposite sides in the width direction, and two end surfaces on opposite sides in a length direction. The two external electrodes each are provided at one of the two end surfaces of the multilayer body, and each extend from the one of the two end surfaces to a portion of the main surface. The wall portions cover portions of the external electrodes at the two end surfaces, and each include a protruding portion that protrudes from the main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210335549
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer main body including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately stacked, and outer layer portions on both sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, two external electrodes at two end surfaces of the multilayer body in which side gap portions are provided on both sides of the multilayer main body in the width direction, and an interposer on any of the main surfaces, the side surfaces, and the end surfaces of a capacitor main body including the multilayer and the external electrodes. The difference in location between ends at side surfaces of two adjacent internal electrode layers in the stacking direction is about 0.5 ?m or less. In the two side gap portions, a portion in contact with the multilayer main body has a thickness of about 10 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20210335550
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body, and two external electrodes. The multilayer body includes a multilayer body main portion including an inner layer portion including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers that are stacked, and two outer layer portions on opposite sides of the inner layer portion in a stacking direction, two side gap portions on opposite sides of the multilayer main body in a width direction, two main surfaces on opposite sides in the stacking direction, two side surfaces on opposite sides in the width direction, and two end surfaces on opposite sides in a length direction. Each of the two external electrodes are at an end surface of the multilayer body, and extend from the end surface to a portion of the main surface. An end of the side gap portion on a side of the main surface protrudes farther than the multilayer main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Mitsuru IKEDA
  • Patent number: 10257459
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10062508
    Abstract: A three terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers. The conductor layers include a pair of outermost conductor layers that are respectively nearest to the fifth and sixth surfaces, and thicknesses of the pair of outermost conductor layers are greater than a thickness of a center conductor layer nearest to a center of the capacitor element in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirobumi Adachi, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hitoaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9842700
    Abstract: A capacitor element includes first through sixth surfaces, a first-side outer electrode at a first end portion of the first surface and on portions of the third, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a second-side outer electrode at a second end portion of the first surface and on portions of the fourth, fifth, and sixth surfaces, a center outer electrode at a portion of the first surface between the first-side outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode and on portions of the fifth and sixth surfaces, and two outermost conductor layers of first and second conductor layers are disposed at both outermost ends in the width direction, a first of the two outermost conductor layers next to one of the first conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the center outer electrode, and a second of the pair of outermost conductor layers next to one of the second conductor layers with an inner dielectric layer therebetween is connected to the first-side outer electrode and the second-side ou
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Ikeda, Hirobumi Adachi, Hitoaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9831036
    Abstract: A ceramic body includes outer layer portions of about 15 ?m or more and about 25 ?m or less in thickness outside an inner layer portion where internal electrodes are stacked with dielectric ceramic layers interposed therebetween, the inner layer portion includes inner cover electrodes opposed to the internal electrode located outermost in the stacking direction with the dielectric ceramic layers interposed therebetween, the outer layer portions include outer cover electrodes opposed to the inner cover electrodes with the dielectric ceramic layers interposed therebetween, the inner cover electrodes have a coverage of about 75% or more and about 100% or less, the outer cover electrodes have a coverage of about 50% or more and about 70% or less, and boundary layers containing Mg and Mn are provided at the boundaries between the outer cover electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers located outside the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuru Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20170339368
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9824822
    Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirobumi Adachi, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hitoaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170309401
    Abstract: A three terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers. The conductor layers include a pair of outermost conductor layers that are respectively nearest to the fifth and sixth surfaces, and thicknesses of the pair of outermost conductor layers are greater than a thickness of a center conductor layer nearest to a center of the capacitor element in a width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Mitsuru IKEDA, Hitoaki KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9784374
    Abstract: A fluid control device includes: a valve body accommodating chamber having an inner space divided into a first chamber and a second chamber by a first valve body; a receiving port, which opens to the first chamber and through which a fluid from an accumulator is received in the first chamber, and a discharge port, which opens to the first chamber and through which the fluid is discharged from the first chamber; a guide path guiding the fluid from the accumulator to the second chamber such that the first valve body moves to a valve-closed position to close the discharge port; a second valve body switchable between a state of maintaining pressure of the fluid guided to the second chamber and a state of releasing the pressure; and a bias member biasing the first valve body to the valve-closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Mitsuru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9781375
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives expected waves, and a control unit that sets the receiving unit to an operational state that has a lower electricity consumption within a range in which reception performance is allowed, depending on interference waves with respect to the expected waves that the receiving unit receives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasunari Takiguchi, Takahiro Furuya, Tomonori Nakajima, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hiroyuki Shimizu, Masaru Fujii, Toshikazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9715967
    Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirobumi Adachi, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hitoaki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9711285
    Abstract: A three terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers. The conductor layers include a pair of outermost conductor layers that are respectively nearest to the fifth and sixth surfaces, and thicknesses of the pair of outermost conductor layers are greater than a thickness of a center conductor layer nearest to a center of the capacitor element in a width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirobumi Adachi, Mitsuru Ikeda, Hitoaki Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170110247
    Abstract: A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Hirobumi ADACHI, Mitsuru IKEDA, Hitoaki KIMURA