Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Ashiwake

Noriyuki Ashiwake 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: 5515912
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus of electronic devices including thermal conductive members each of which is positioned with one side thereof being in contact with a surface of each electronic device, the other side thereof being fitted to a housing with a small clearance provided therebetween, so as to diffuse and remove heat generated in the electronic devices. In order to press each thermal conductive member onto the associated electronic device, a resilient member is provided between the housing and the thermal conductive member, and is arranged to have a width larger than a width of grooves between fins formed on the housing and also larger than a width of grooves between fins formed on the thermal conductive member. A setting space to receive each resilient member therein is formed in a region where the fins are fitted to each other, so that the resilient member and the thermal conductive member can be fitted and positioned with respect to the housing when the resilient member is provided in this setting space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 14, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Daikoku, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Nobuo Kawasaki, Shizuo Zushi
  • Patent number: 5488255
    Abstract: A cooling device according to the present invention, in which a space is formed by means of flat electrodes and side plates disposed on the ends of the flat electrodes, and a flexible film fastened in that space in a shape of the letter S, is fixed to a semiconductor package so that one of the flat electrodes is fitted on the semiconductor package. The respective flat electrodes are alternately powered to move the S shaped section of the flexible film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Sato, Mitsuhiro Shikida, Shigeo Ohashi, Toshio Hatada, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Shinji Tanaka, Takeshi Harada, Yukio Honda
  • Patent number: 5406807
    Abstract: An apparatus for cooling semiconductor devices includes a module for cooling semiconductor devices; a refrigerant cooling device for receiving via an outlet pipe the refrigerant discharged through an outlet port of the module to cool the refrigerant; a refrigerant circulation pump for receiving, via a suction pipe, the refrigerant cooled by the refrigerant cooling device and sending the refrigerant to the module via an inlet pipe; and a refrigerant-flow stabilizing mechanism for stabilizing a refrigerant circulation flow discharged from the refrigerant circulation pump to be returned to the refrigerant circulation pump via the module and the refrigerant cooling device. Since the refrigerant-flow stabilizing mechanism stabilize the refrigerant flow, the refrigerant flow can be stably circulated so that the semiconductor devices in the module are stably cooled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ashiwake, Tadakatsu Nakajima, Shigeyuki Sasaki, Yasuo Ohsone, Toshio Hatada, Toshiki Iino, Kenichi Kasai, Akio Idei
  • Patent number: 5365400
    Abstract: Disclosed are heat sinks particularly effective in cooling semiconductors of a high heat dissipating density and including a multiplicity of tabular fins laminated via spacers and having through-holes pierced in their central parts, the holes admitting introduction of cooling fluids which radially flow in between the fins. The cooling fluids are supplied to the respective heat sinks attached to the multiplicity of semiconductors mounted on a board. In a specific form of the invention, the semiconductor cooling device has a heat sink provided with parallel tabular internal fins and a cooling fluid nozzle having an elongated opening substantially orthogonal to the fins, the nozzle being disposed to span over the parallel tabular fins substantially at longitudinal mid portions of these fins, so that the cooling fluid is evenly distributed from the mid portions of the fins to both longitudinal ends of the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ashiwake, Takahiro Daikoku, Toshio Hatsuda, Shizuo Zushi, Satomi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5345107
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling apparatus for an electronic device, in which a cooling solid body in close contact through thermal conductive fluid with a heat transfer portion of the electronic device is provided, on its one surface in contact with the electronic device, with a number of grooves communicating with the outside of the heat transfer portion, and a spring member for elastically pressing this cooling solid body on the electronic device is provided for forcing the cooling solid body into close contact with the electronic device by means of the thermal conductive fluid in a third layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Daikoku, Nobuo Kawasaki, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Keizou Kawamura, Shizuo Zushi, Mitsuo Miyamoto, Atsushi Morihara
  • Patent number: 5276586
    Abstract: A semiconductor module comprises a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor chips mounted on the substrate, a plurality of heat conduction members mounted on the back surfaces of the plurality of semiconductor chips, respectively, and a cooling jacket, on which the plurality of heat conduction members are bonded with heat conductive bonding agent, sealed with the substrate, wherein, in a surface of each of the plurality of heat conduction members adjacent to the cooling jacket and in a surface of the cooling jacket adjacent to the heat conduction members, around a portion corresponding to the back surface of each of the semiconductor chip is formed a portion which has non-affinity for the heat conductive bonding agent. Further, it is preferred that a reservoir having an affinity for the heat conductive bonding agent and serving to receive an excessive bonding agent is formed around each of the non-affinity portions of the plurality of heat conduction members and the cooling jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hatsuda, Takahiro Daikoku, Tetsuya Hayashida, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Keizou Kawamura, Sohji Sakata
  • Patent number: 5270572
    Abstract: A semiconductor cooling unit for directly jetting a cooling medium against surfaces of semiconductor devices for use in a high-speed computer or the like to effectively remove heat from the semiconductor devices, in which partition members for partitioning a space into regions where semiconductor devices are placed. Each partitioned region has an opening at its ceiling side, and a pipe for supplying or discharging the cooling medium through the opening is disposed so as to project toward a central portion of the back surface of each semiconductor device. This pipe is utilized to also section a cooling medium supply header or a cooling medium return header so that bubbles generated from the semiconductor device surfaces can be smoothly removed, and so that the cooling medium can flow smoothly onto the semiconductor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadakatsu Nakajima, Shigeo Ohashi, Heikichi Kuwahara, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Motohiro Sato, Toshio Hatsuda, Takahiro Daikoku, Toshio Hatada, Shigeyuki Sasaki, Hiroshi Inouye, Atsuo Nishihara, Kenichi Kasai
  • Patent number: 5126829
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an electronic device makes a cooling solid body in contact with the electronic device so as to cool the electronic device. The apparatus has a high viscous thermal conductive fluid provided on a heat transfer portion of the electronic device, and a cooling solid body in close contact through the thermal conductive fluid with the heat transfer portion of the electronic device. The close contact portion of at least one of the cooling solid body and the electronic device has multiple grooves open to the outside of the one of the cooling solid body and the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Daikoku, Nobuo Kawasaki, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Shizuo Zushi
  • Patent number: 4770242
    Abstract: A cooling device for providing cooling of integrated circuit semiconductor chips is so arranged as to transfer a heat via thin fin members which are fitted with each other with a small clearance. The bottom surface of one of thermal conductive members which is provided integrally with the fin members is made greater in surface area than a back planar surface of the semiconductor chip, and the thermal conductive member and the semiconductor chip are kept at all times in plane contact with each other, thereby enhancing the cooling performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Daikoku, Tadakatsu Nakajima, Noriyuki Ashiwake, Keizo Kawamura, Motohiro Sato, Fumiyuki Kobayashi, Wataru Nakayama