Patents by Inventor Nobuo Egami

Nobuo Egami 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: 20020148753
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a tray used for transporting a number of hard disk drive heads (HDD heads). The tray (10) according to the invention has small-projections provided on a part of the surface of the positioning part (12, 15) which contacts the HDD head (30) when the HDD heads (30) are set in the tray (10). An example of the small-projection (20) is a hemispherical projection (20) whose height is slightly larger than the thickness of the wiring (34) (e.g. about a few to several hundreds of micrometers). Another example of the small-projection is a ridge (21) of about one to several hundreds of micrometers in diameter and about a few millimeters in length. By virtue of such a design, the friction between the wire-applied surface of the HDD head (30) and the positioning part (12, 15) of the tray (10) is substantially reduced because they contact with each other only at the top of the small-projection (20, 21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: EGAMI CHEMICAL CO., LTD., NISSHO CORPORATION and MATSUSHITA-KOTOBUKI ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Nobuo Egami