Patents by Inventor Natsuhiko Mori

Natsuhiko Mori 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: 11351608
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered bearing (1), including 3 to 12% by mass of aluminum, 0.05 to 0.5% by mass of phosphorus, and the balance including copper as a main component, and inevitable impurities, the sintered bearing (1) having a structure in which an aluminum-copper alloy is sintered with a sintering aid added to raw material powder, a pore (db, do) in a surface layer portion of the sintered bearing (1) being formed smaller than an internal pore (di).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Jinnou, Natsuhiko Mori, Yoshinori Ito
  • Patent number: 11133579
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted fin type antenna device 1 includes a plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d, a circuit board 4 electrically connected to the plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d, and a radome 3 accommodating the plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d and the circuit board 4 in an inside of the radome. The radome 3 is formed of a resin material that contains a crystalline resin as a base resin and has a deflection temperature under load of 100° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sonozaki, Natsuhiko Mori, Fuminori Satoji, Katsuo Shibahara
  • Publication number: 20200295443
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted fin type antenna device 1 includes a plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d, a circuit board 4 electrically connected to the plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d, and a radome 3 accommodating the plurality of antenna units 5a to 5d and the circuit board 4 in an inside of the radome. The radome 3 is formed of a resin material that contains a crystalline resin as a base resin and has a deflection temperature under load of 100° C. or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tomokazu SONOZAKI, Natsuhiko MORI, Fuminori SATOJI, Katsuo SHIBAHARA
  • Patent number: 10459036
    Abstract: A battery checker is provided with: voltage application unit configured to apply an AC voltage to a battery to be measured; ripple voltage measurement unit configured to measure a ripple voltage contained in a terminal voltage of the battery; and electric power storage level detection unit configured to detect an electric power storage level of the battery by comparing the measured ripple voltage with a set reference. The voltage application unit includes a transformer that transforms voltage for an alternating current of an AC power supply such as a commercial AC power supply, and an output circuit that applies, to the battery, an alternating current with transformed voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Noda, Masatoshi Mizutani, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Patent number: 10395813
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic core which can be produced with improved productivity without increasing a material cost and has required magnetic and mechanical properties and a process for producing the same. The magnetic core is produced by compression molding and thereafter thermally hardening iron-based soft magnetic powder having resin films formed on surfaces of particles thereof. The resin film is an uncured resin film formed by dry mixing the iron-based soft magnetic powder and epoxy resin containing a latent curing agent with each other at a temperature not less than a softening temperature of the epoxy resin and less than a thermal curing starting temperature thereof. The iron-based soft magnetic powder having the resin films formed on the surfaces of the particles thereof is compression molded by using a die to produce a compression molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuo Uemoto, Shinji Miyazaki, Takuji Harano, Natsuhiko Mori, Hiroyuki Noda
  • Patent number: 10079426
    Abstract: Provided is a chip antenna (1), including: an antenna pattern (3); and a base body (2), which has a hexahedral shape, the antenna pattern (3) including: an antenna part (31), which is held on an upper surface of the base body (2); and a plurality of terminal parts (32), which are held on a lower surface of the base body (2), each of the plurality of terminal parts (32) being soldered to a circuit board (10), in which the antenna pattern (13) further includes a band-shaped protruding part (34), which extends in a long-side direction of the antenna part (31), and is embedded in the base body (2), and the band-shaped protruding part (34) is provided at least along a range of each of two long sides of the antenna part (31) excluding a range in which the plurality of terminal parts (32) are arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sonozaki, Hiroyuki Noda, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20180221956
    Abstract: Provided is a sintered bearing (1), including 3 to 12% by mass of aluminum, 0.05 to 0.5% by mass of phosphorus, and the balance including copper as a main component, and inevitable impurities, the sintered bearing (1) having a structure in which an aluminum-copper alloy is sintered with a sintering aid added to raw material powder, a pore (db, do) in a surface layer portion of the sintered bearing (1) being formed smaller than an internal pore (di).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Makoto JINNOU, Natsuhiko MORI, Yoshinori ITO
  • Patent number: 10033291
    Abstract: This power transmission device is connected between an AC wiring system connected to an AC power supply, and a DC power supply, and transmits power from the DC power supply to the AC wiring system. The power transmission device includes an AC power supply voltage signal generator, a power converter, a DC voltage conversion unit, a switching element, and a switch open/close signal generator. The switch open/close signal generator includes: a control signal generation unit to generate a control signal formed from a pulse signal; and a pulse width determination unit to receive the control signal and generate a delayed signal obtained by delaying rising of the control signal, and when the delayed signal becomes a value corresponding to a magnitude of voltage of the AC power supply voltage signal, cause the control signal to fall, thereby making the control signal into the switch open/close signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi Mizutani, Hiroyuki Noda, Natsuhiko Mori, Tomoya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20180048071
    Abstract: Provided is a waveguide tube slot antenna (A), including: a waveguide tube (10) having a transverse section having a rectangular shape in each part of a waveguide (2) in an extending direction thereof; and a plurality of radiating slots (3) arranged in the waveguide tube (10) at predetermined intervals, in which: the waveguide tube (10) includes a first waveguide tube forming member (11) and a second waveguide tube forming member (12) each having the transverse section having a shape with an end, the first waveguide tube forming member (11) and the second waveguide tube forming member (12) being configured to define the waveguide (2) by being coupled to each other; and the first waveguide tube forming member (11) is formed to have a flat shape and includes the plurality of radiating slots (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Tomokazu SONOZAKI, Hiroyuki NODA, Natsuhiko MORI
  • Patent number: 9812785
    Abstract: Provided is a waveguide tube slot antenna (A), including: a waveguide tube (10) having a transverse section having a rectangular shape in each part of a waveguide (2) in an extending direction thereof; and a plurality of radiating slots (3) arranged in the waveguide tube (10) at predetermined intervals, in which: the waveguide tube (10) includes a first waveguide tube forming member (11) and a second waveguide tube forming member (12) each having the transverse section having a shape with an end, the first waveguide tube forming member (11) and the second waveguide tube forming member (12) being configured to define the waveguide (2) by being coupled to each other; and the first waveguide tube forming member (11) is formed to have a flat shape and includes the plurality of radiating slots (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sonozaki, Hiroyuki Noda, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20170184677
    Abstract: A battery checker is provided with: voltage application unit configured to apply an AC voltage to a battery to be measured; ripple voltage measurement unit configured to measure a ripple voltage contained in a terminal voltage of the battery; and electric power storage level detection unit configured to detect an electric power storage level of the battery by comparing the measured ripple voltage with a set reference. The voltage application unit includes a transformer that transforms voltage for an alternating current of an AC power supply such as a commercial AC power supply, and an output circuit that applies, to the battery, an alternating current with transformed voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NODA, Masatoshi Mizutani, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20170187215
    Abstract: A charging device includes a rectifier circuit that rectifies an alternating current of an AC power supply, and outputs the rectified alternating current as a pulsating current; power factor correction unit that enhances a power factor of the pulsating current outputted from the rectifier circuit; and an output circuit. The output circuit has an output terminal connecting to a charging terminal of a charging target device, and outputs a power-factor-corrected pulsating current outputted from the power factor correction unit, without performing voltage smoothing. The charging device further includes charging level detection unit that monitors a terminal voltage of a battery of the charging target device, and detects a charging level of the battery based on a fluctuating range of a ripple voltage, in the terminal voltage, generated by the pulsating current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NODA, Masatoshi Mizutani, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Patent number: 9685708
    Abstract: Provided is a waveguide tube slot antenna (1) including: a plurality of waveguides (2) arranged in parallel with each other; a plurality of radiating slots (3) formed along each of the plurality of waveguides (2); and a plurality of waveguide tubes (10) connected in parallel with each other, in which the plurality of waveguide tubes (10) each include a first waveguide tube forming member (11) and a second waveguide tube forming member (12) each having a transverse section having a shape with an end, the first waveguide tube forming member and the second waveguide tube forming member being configured to define one of the plurality of waveguides (2) by being connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sonozaki, Hiroyuki Noda, Natsuhiko Mori
  • Publication number: 20170163167
    Abstract: This power transmission device is connected between an AC wiring system connected to an AC power supply, and a DC power supply, and transmits power from the DC power supply to the AC wiring system. The power transmission device includes an AC power supply voltage signal generator, a power converter, a DC voltage conversion unit, a switching element, and a switch open/close signal generator. The switch open/close signal generator includes: a control signal generation unit to generate a control signal formed from a pulse signal; and a pulse width determination unit to receive the control signal and generate a delayed signal obtained by delaying rising of the control signal, and when the delayed signal becomes a value corresponding to a magnitude of voltage of the AC power supply voltage signal, cause the control signal to fall, thereby making the control signal into the switch open/close signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi MIZUTANI, Hiroyuki NODA, Natsuhiko MORI, Tomoya KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20170133916
    Abstract: A power generator includes: an output iron core having an output winding wound therearound; and a field iron core having a main field winding and an auxiliary field winding wound therearound, and is a self-excitation type in which one of the output iron core and the field iron core serves as a stator and the other serves as a rotor, the main field windin is connected to a first rectifying element, the auxiliary field winding is connected to a second rectifying element, and power is generated by relative rotation of the stator and the rotor. The power generator is provided with an initial excitation unit configured to apply, to one or both of the output iron core and the field iron core, a magnetic force to a degree required for initial excitation in power generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatoshi MIZUTANI, Hiroyuki Noda, Natsuhiko Mori, Ryousuke Karasawa, Tomomi Goto, Yuuki Shimura
  • Publication number: 20170117610
    Abstract: Provided is a chip antenna (1), including: an antenna pattern (3); and a base body (2), which has a hexahedral shape, the antenna pattern (3) including: an antenna part (31), which is held on an upper surface of the base body (2); and a plurality of terminal parts (32), which are held on a lower surface of the base body (2), each of the plurality of terminal parts (32) being soldered to a circuit board (10), in which the antenna pattern (13) further includes a band-shaped protruding part (34), which extends in a long-side direction of the antenna part (31), and is embedded in the base body (2), and the band-shaped protruding part (34) is provided at least along a range of each of two long sides of the antenna part (31) excluding a range in which the plurality of terminal parts (32) are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Tomokazu SONOZAKI, Hiroyuki NODA, Natsuhiko MORI
  • Patent number: 9634384
    Abstract: After a three-dimensional antenna pattern (10) is formed by bending a conductive plate, the three-dimensional antenna pattern (10) thus bent is supplied in an injection molding die set as an insert component and a base (20) is formed by injection molding of a resin. With this, a chip antenna (1) comprising the three-dimensional antenna pattern (10) can be formed easier as comparison to a case where the antenna pattern is formed over a plurality of surfaces by printing and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuo Shibahara, Natsuhiko Mori, Tatsuya Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20170110783
    Abstract: Provided is a chip antenna (1), including: an antenna pattern (3) formed through bending a conductive plate into a three-dimensional shape, the antenna pattern including an antenna part (31) and a terminal part (32) electrically connected to a circuit substrate (10); and a base body (2) formed through injection molding a resin with the antenna pattern (3) serving as an insert component, in which the base body (2) includes: a rectangular plate-like top wall (21) holding the antenna part (31) on a surface thereof; and a rectangular plate-like vertical wall (22) provided upright along a long-side direction of the top wall (21) with one end (upper end) thereof in a short-side direction being connected to the top wall (21) and with another end (lower end) thereof in the short-side direction holding the terminal part (32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Tomokazu SONOZAKI, Hiroyuki NODA, Natsuhiko MORI
  • Publication number: 20170098499
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnetic core part by which failures such as cracks do not occur even if the magnetic core part contains 90% by mass or more of an amorphous metal powder. The magnetic core part is formed by thermoset molding at least one magnetic powder selected from an amorphous metal powder alone and an amorphous metal powder coated with an insulating material, and a thermosetting binder resin. The magnetic core part contains the magnetic powder in an amount of 90% by mass or more and 99% by mass or less with respect to the total amount of the magnetic powder and the thermosetting binder resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Natsuhiko MORI, Hiroyuki NODA, Eiichirou SHIMAZU, Nobuyoshi YAMASHITA, Shougo KANBE, Takayuki ODA, Shinji MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20160372833
    Abstract: Provided is a waveguide tube slot antenna (A), including: a waveguide tube (10) having a transverse section having a rectangular shape in each part of a waveguide (2) in an extending direction thereof; and a plurality of radiating slots (3) arranged in the waveguide tube (10) at predetermined intervals, in which: the waveguide tube (10) includes a first waveguide tube forming member (11) and a second waveguide tube forming member (12) each having the transverse section having a shape with an end, the first waveguide tube forming member (11) and the second waveguide tube forming member (12) being configured to define the waveguide (2) by being coupled to each other; and the first waveguide tube forming member (11) is formed to have a flat shape and includes the plurality of radiating slots (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Tomokazu SONOZAKI, Hiroyuki NODA, Natsuhiko MORI