Patents by Inventor Naoki Tamura

Naoki Tamura 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: 20240144979
    Abstract: A sorbent breather filter for an electronic device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) is configured with a first chamber for housing a first sorbent and environmentally coupled with an external environment via at least a first orifice and a second orifice, a corresponding replaceable first sorbent such as zeolite or silica gel beads in the first chamber, a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber for housing a second sorbent, and a corresponding second sorbent such as carbon beads in the second chamber. The first orifice is a through-hole such that the first sorbent can be loaded into the first chamber therethrough, and the second orifice is a slitted or grated hole such that the first sorbent cannot move from the first chamber to the external environment through the second orifice while loading sorbent into the first chamber through an HDD first cover breather hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Takeji Sumiya, Shin Nagahiro, Hitoshi Tamura, Naoki Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11962224
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft extending in an axial direction, a cylindrical magnet portion provided at an outer peripheral portion of the shaft, a cylindrical scattering-prevention member provided so as to cover an outer peripheral surface of the magnet portion, a first balancing member provided at one end of the magnet portion in the axial direction, and a second balancing member provided at the other end of the magnet portion in the axial direction from which one end side of the shaft extends in the axial direction and having a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the scattering-prevention member and the second balancing member has an end surface in contact with the magnet portion, the end surface being not surrounded by the scattering-prevention member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuchika Tsuchida, Naoki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20240097008
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: an n-type semiconductor layer; a p-type drift region formed in a surface layer of the n-type semiconductor layer; an n-type body region formed in the surface layer of the n-type semiconductor layer so as to be spaced apart from or adjacent to the p-type drift region; a p-type drain region formed in a surface layer of the p-type drift region; a p-type source region formed in a surface layer of the n-type body region; a gate insulating film formed over a surface of the n-type semiconductor layer so as to straddle the p-type drift region and the n-type body region; a gate electrode formed over the gate insulating film; and an n-type region formed in the surface layer of the p-type drift region and arranged between a side edge of the p-type drift region near the n-type body region and the p-type drain region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TAMURA, Naoki IZUMI, Hajime OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240097028
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type drift region formed in a surface layer portion of the semiconductor layer, an n-type body region formed in the surface layer portion of the semiconductor layer, a p-type drain region formed in a surface layer portion of the drift region, a p-type source region formed in a surface layer portion of the body region, a gate insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor layer, and a polysilicon gate formed on the gate insulating film, wherein a region extending from the source region to a side edge of the drift region is a channel region, and wherein the polysilicon gate includes a p-type first portion facing at least a portion of the channel region, and an n-type second portion facing at least a portion of the drift region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro TAMURA, Naoki IZUMI, Yusuke SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240097533
    Abstract: A rotor includes a resin magnet and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet. The resin magnet includes a first magnetic flux generating part having a first magnetic pole center and a first inter-pole part and a second magnetic flux generating part having a second magnetic pole center and a second inter-pole part. The first inter-pole part and the second inter-pole part are shifted to each other in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20240030756
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor having 10×N (N is an integer equal to or larger than 1) magnetic poles and a stator including 9×N teeth. A center tooth includes a first main body and a first tooth end portion. A downstream-side tooth includes a second main body and a second tooth end portion. The electric motor satisfies TCR>TBR, where TCR is a maximum length of the first upstream-side portion in the first upstream-side radial direction of the first tooth end portion and TBR is a maximum length of the second upstream-side portion in the second upstream-side radial direction of the second tooth end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11852167
    Abstract: A motor has a sufficient heat dissipation function even when a non-magnetic material having low thermal conductivity is used for a shaft of a motor using a consequent pole rotor. A motor includes: a stator; a consequent pole rotor including a rotor core and a magnet; a casing housing the stator and the rotor; a shaft including a non-magnetic material and fixed to the rotor; and heat dissipation blades that are a first heat dissipation promoting means that rotates with the shaft. This promotes heat dissipation through a heat dissipation path from an inside of the motor through the shaft, preventing problems due to overheat in the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaya Shimokawa, Hiroki Aso, Naoki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230318372
    Abstract: A rotor includes a rotary shaft, a first permanent magnet supported by the rotary shaft, and a second permanent magnet supported by an outer periphery of the first permanent magnet and having a magnetic pole stronger than a magnetic pole of the first permanent magnet . The second permanent magnet includes a plurality of magnet parts arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the first permanent magnet. A first width as a width in the circumferential direction of each of the plurality of magnet parts at a central part of the first permanent magnet in an axial direction of the rotary shaft is wider than a second width as a width in the circumferential direction of each of the magnet parts at an end part of the first permanent magnet in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230243360
    Abstract: A blower includes a rotor that includes a shaft, a rotor core in an annular shape about at a central axis of the shaft, and permanent magnets attached to the rotor core. The permanent magnets form magnet magnetic poles, portions of the rotor core form virtual magnetic poles, and a number of magnetic poles including the magnet magnetic poles and the virtual magnetic poles is P. The blower includes a stator that surrounds the rotor from outside in a radial direction about the central axis and includes S slots arranged in a circumferential direction about the central axis, and N blades that are attached to the shaft and arranged in the circumferential direction. A combination of the number P of magnetic poles and the number S of slots is one of P=8 and S=9, P=10 and S=9, P=10 and S=12 and P=14 and S=12. The number N of blades is an integer greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 10 excluding integral multiples of P/2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Naoki TAMURA, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11658526
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Aso, Takaya Shimokawa, Junichiro Oya, Naoki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20230035739
    Abstract: An outdoor unit includes a motor and a heat exchanger. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a heat dissipation member. The rotor is rotatable about an axis, and has a rotor core and a permanent magnet attached to the rotor core. The permanent magnet forms a magnet magnetic pole. A part of the rotor core forms a virtual magnetic pole. The stator surrounds the rotor from outside in a radial direction about the axis. The heat dissipation member is disposed on a side of the stator in a direction of the axis. The heat exchanger is disposed to face the heat dissipation member in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Takanori WATANABE, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11538623
    Abstract: A coil component including a terminal for external connection to which a plurality of secondary-side winding wires are connected, and a gathering member that gathers vicinities of terminal ends of the plurality of winding wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220376568
    Abstract: A rotor includes a plurality of cores stacked in an axial direction, a permanent magnet, and a nonmagnetic resin. The plurality of cores include a magnet insertion hole, a first opening communicating with one end of the magnet insertion hole in a circumferential direction, and an indent part communicating with the first opening and indented in the circumferential direction. The permanent magnet is disposed in the magnet insertion hole. The nonmagnetic resin is provided in the first opening and the indent part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220345005
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft extending in an axial direction, a cylindrical magnet portion provided at an outer peripheral portion of the shaft, a cylindrical scattering-prevention member provided so as to cover an outer peripheral surface of the magnet portion, a first balancing member provided at one end of the magnet portion in the axial direction, and a second balancing member provided at the other end of the magnet portion in the axial direction from which one end side of the shaft extends in the axial direction and having a diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the scattering-prevention member and the second balancing member has an end surface in contact with the magnet portion, the end surface being not surrounded by the scattering-prevention member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuchika TSUCHIDA, Naoki TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11415238
    Abstract: An electromagnetic valve includes a mover that is able to move in a predetermined direction. The mover includes a valve body part including a valve body base part and an annular elastic body. The valve body base part includes a large diameter part and a small diameter part connected via a step difference. The annular elastic body includes a first contact surface, a second contact surface in contact with a step difference surface in the step difference, and a sealing projecting part that is able to come into contact with a peripheral edge part of an opening part of a first flow path in the predetermined direction. The sealing projecting part surrounds the opening part when seen in the predetermined direction. The sealing projecting part, the second contact surface, and the step difference surface are at least partially superimposed on each other when seen in the predetermined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Nakanishi, Yuji Takada, Hiroki Shimizu, Naoki Tamura
  • Publication number: 20220243740
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a motor having a sufficient heat dissipation function even when a non-magnetic material having low thermal conductivity is used for a shaft of a motor using a consequent pole rotor. A motor 1 includes: a stator; a consequent pole rotor including a rotor core and a magnet; a casing housing the stator and the rotor; a shaft 8 including a non-magnetic material and fixed to the rotor; and heat dissipation blades 24 that are a first heat dissipation promoting means that rotates with the shaft 8. This promotes heat dissipation through a heat dissipation path from an inside of the motor 1 through the shaft 8, preventing problems due to overheat in the motor 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220224556
    Abstract: A connection management device is included in a terminal device, which is communicatively connected to a plurality of server devices. A location information acquirer acquires location information indicating a location where the terminal device exists. A region determiner determines based on the acquired location information, a region where the terminal device exists. A connection destination determiner determines, based on the determined region, which of the plurality of server devices is the server device to which the terminal device is to connect. A transmitter transmits to the determined server device a request for connection to connect to the server device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshinori NAKAJIMA, Kanji MIZUNO, Masayuki KOMATSU, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220166279
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core having a yoke extending in a circumferential direction about an axis and a tooth extending from the yoke toward the axis, an insulator having a winding portion surrounding the tooth, and a coil wound around the winding portion of the insulator. The winding portion of the insulator has a first end portion, a second end portion, and a side portion. The first end portion has a maximum thickness T1 in the direction of the axis, the second end portion has a maximum thickness T2 in the direction of the axis, and the side portion has a maximum thickness T3 in the circumferential direction. The maximum thicknesses T1, T2 and T3 satisfy T3<T1<T2. The insulator has a gate mark on the same side as the first end portion in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20220140672
    Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic sensor. The rotor includes a rotor core, a permanent magnet, and a sensor magnet. The magnetic sensor detects magnetic flux from the sensor magnet. The electric motor satisfies Rh1>Rm1, where Rh1 is a minimum distance from a rotation axis of the rotor to the magnetic sensor, and Rm1 is a minimum distance from the rotation axis to the permanent magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Hiroki ASO, Ryogo TAKAHASHI, Naoki TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210376674
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a magnetic pole position detection element to detect a position of a magnetic pole of the rotor. The rotor includes a resin magnet having a first orientation and a second orientation, and a shaft fixed to the resin magnet, and the first and second orientations and are different from each other in a radial direction. The magnetic pole position detection element faces the resin magnet in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki ASO, Takaya SHIMOKAWA, Junichiro OYA, Naoki TAMURA