Patents by Inventor Satoshi Murakami

Satoshi Murakami 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: 20220247272
    Abstract: A stator cooling structure including a supporting member that is a single piece member having a cylindrical form going in an axial direction of a rotating electrical machine and that supports a stator core of the rotating electrical machine and forms a passage through which fluid for cooling passes. The supporting member has an inner wall part that supports an outer circumferential surface of the stator core and has a cylindrical form; an outer wall part that faces a radial outer side of the inner wall part and has a cylindrical form; and one or more division wall parts that extend in a radial direction between the inner wall part and the outer wall part and divide the passage formed between the inner wall part and the outer wall part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, ART METAL MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAKAMI, Masaki IKEDA, Toshihiko OKAZAWA
  • Patent number: 11342847
    Abstract: A magnetically coupled reactor and a DC/DC converter are provided between a DC power supply and an inverter. A first smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC power supply and the coupled reactor. A second smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC/DC converter and the inverter. A controller is provided in order to control switching operations of the inverter and the DC/DC converter. The controller causes semiconductor switching elements composing upper and lower arms of the DC/DC converter to perform complementary operations so as to be alternately turned on/off, and causes left and right legs to operate with their switching phases shifted from each other, thereby electric charges stored in both smoothing capacitors are discharged by energy loss in the coupled reactor and the DC/DC converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Hiroyasu Iwabuki, Yoshihiro Takeshima
  • Patent number: 11324842
    Abstract: The light irradiation device includes a light source supporter having a tubular shape is closed on a side of one end, a plurality of light-emitting elements placed on an outer wall surface of the light source supporter, a tubular body extending inside the light source supporter in an axial direction of the light source supporter, a first flow channel formed between the tubular body and the light source supporter and having an annular shape when viewed from the axial direction; and a second flow channel formed inside the tubular body, wherein the first flow channel and the second flow channel communicate with each other on a side of one end of the light source supporter, and the tubular body contains a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of a material constituting an outer wall of the first flow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Yoshihiro Kanahashi
  • Patent number: 11310457
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a highly reliable display device at a low cost with high yield. According to the present invention, a step due to an opening in a contact is covered with an insulating layer to reduce the step, and is processed into a gentle shape. A wiring or the like is formed to be in contact with the insulating layer and thus the coverage of the wiring or the like is enhanced. In addition, deterioration of a light-emitting element due to contaminants such as water can be prevented by sealing a layer including an organic material that has water permeability in a display device with a sealing material. Since the sealing material is formed in a portion of a driver circuit region in the display device, the frame margin of the display device can be narrowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Murakami, Motomu Kurata, Hiroyuki Hata, Mitsuhiro Ichijo, Takashi Ohtsuki, Aya Anzai, Masayuki Sakakura
  • Publication number: 20220077199
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor display device having an interlayer insulating film which can obtain planarity of a surface while controlling film formation time, can control treatment time of heating treatment with an object of removing moisture, and can prevent moisture in the interlayer insulating film from being discharged to a film or an electrode adjacent to the interlayer insulating film. An inorganic insulating film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is formed so as to cover a TFT. Next, an organic resin film containing photosensitive acrylic resin is applied to the organic is insulting film, and the organic resin film is partially exposed to light to be opened. Thereafter, an inorganic insulting film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is formed so as to cover the opened organic resin film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Masahiko HAYAKAWA, Kiyoshi KATO, Mitsuaki OSAME
  • Publication number: 20220065433
    Abstract: A light source unit includes a plurality of LED elements; an LED substrate that comprises a plurality of subdivided regions arrayed in a circumferential direction at least at an outwardmost locus as viewed from a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface; and cooling member(s) which are provided at surface(s) on a side opposite the mounting surface of the LED substrate and at which provided at each of the plurality of subdivided regions there are inlet port(s) for flow thereinto of cooling medium for cooling LED element(s), outlet port(s) that are for discharge of cooling medium and that are disposed more toward a center of the LED substrate than inlet port(s) as viewed from the direction perpendicular to the mounting surface of the LED substrate, and flow passage(s) which connect inlet port(s) and outlet port(s) and through interior(s) of which cooling medium flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi NAKATANI, Takafumi MIZOJIRI, Satoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11101299
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor display device having an interlayer insulating film which can obtain planarity of a surface while controlling film formation time, can control treatment time of heating treatment with an object of removing moisture, and can prevent moisture in the interlayer insulating film from being discharged to a film or an electrode adjacent to the interlayer insulating film. An inorganic insulating film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is formed so as to cover a TFT. Next, an organic resin film containing photosensitive acrylic resin is applied to the organic insulting film, and the organic resin film is partially exposed to light to be opened. Thereafter, an inorganic insulting film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is fanned so as to cover the opened organic resin film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Satoshi Murakami, Masahiko Hayakawa, Kiyoshi Kato, Mitsuaki Osame
  • Publication number: 20210245233
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHOUJI, Shuho KOSEKI, Kenichi INOUE, Katsuhiro OBATA, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Naoki HAYASHI, Yoshikazu SUZUKI, Toshifumi MIYAMOTO, Toru OTOMO, Nobuhiro IKEDA, Kousuke UDA, Takashi OGISU
  • Publication number: 20210234416
    Abstract: A stator cooling structure in which the stator cooling structure includes a supporting member that has a cylindrical shape along an axial direction of a rotating electric machine, that supports a stator core of the rotating electric machine, and that forms a cooling water passage and oil passage, and the stator core, the cooling water passage, and the oil passage are disposed adjacent to each other in this order from an inner radial side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAKAMI, Masahiro NAGAYA
  • Patent number: 10989678
    Abstract: Provided is an X-ray analysis system with which it is possible to set appropriate conditions for vapor phase decomposition with ease. The X-ray analysis system includes an X-ray spectrometer and a vapor phase decomposition apparatus. The X-ray spectrometer includes: an X-ray source configured to irradiate a measurement sample having a thin film present on its surface with primary X-rays; a detector configured to measure an intensity of reflected X-rays, or an intensity of fluorescent X-rays; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a film thickness or a coating mass of the thin film based on the intensity of the reflected X-rays or the fluorescent X-rays. The vapor phase decomposition apparatus includes: a vapor phase decomposition portion configured to perform vapor phase decomposition on the thin film; and a control portion configured to determine a vapor phase decomposition time based on the film thickness or the coating mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: RIGAKU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kono, Satoshi Murakami
  • Patent number: 10985649
    Abstract: A power conversion device including: a reactor formed such that a DC winding and a plurality of coupled windings are wound around one magnetic body, one end of the DC winding is connected to a voltage source, one end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to another end of the DC winding, another end of each of the plurality of coupled windings is connected to each intermediate connection point between a plurality of upper and lower arms composed of switching elements, and magnetic fluxes generated by currents flowing through the DC winding and the coupled windings merge with each other in the same direction; and a control device for controlling the switching elements, wherein the upper arms or the lower arms are controlled by in-phase driving or interleave driving on the basis of the duty of switching operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Ryota Kondo, Takaaki Takahara
  • Publication number: 20210098508
    Abstract: A display device including a semiconductor element is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Masahiko Hayakawa, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210077641
    Abstract: The light irradiation device includes a light source supporter having a tubular shape is closed on a side of one end, a plurality of light-emitting elements placed on an outer wall surface of the light source supporter, a tubular body extending inside the light source supporter in an axial direction of the light source supporter, a first flow channel formed between the tubular body and the light source supporter and having an annular shape when viewed from the axial direction; and a second flow channel formed inside the tubular body, wherein the first flow channel and the second flow channel communicate with each other on a side of one end of the light source supporter, and the tubular body contains a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a thermal conductivity of a material constituting an outer wall of the first flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAKAMI, Yoshihiro KANAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20210059374
    Abstract: A hair iron includes a first hair holding part including a first hair holding surface and a second hair holding part including a second hair holding surface configured to face the first hair holding surface. The hair iron holds hair with the first hair holding surface and the second hair holding surface facing each other. The hair iron further includes a discharge device that generates ions and an ion ejection port that ejects the ions thus generated. The discharge device is disposed at a portion of the first hair holding part that does not overlap the first hair holding surface. This can provide the hair iron that can be downsized in the thickness direction while increasing hair care effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAKAMI, Yui KITA
  • Publication number: 20210036619
    Abstract: A magnetically coupled reactor and a DC/DC converter are provided between a DC power supply and an inverter. A first smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC power supply and the coupled reactor. A second smoothing capacitor is provided between the DC/DC converter and the inverter. A controller is provided in order to control switching operations of the inverter and the DC/DC converter. The controller causes semiconductor switching elements composing upper and lower arms of the DC/DC converter to perform complementary operations so as to be alternately turned on/off, and causes left and right legs to operate with their switching phases shifted from each other, thereby electric charges stored in both smoothing capacitors are discharged by energy loss in the coupled reactor and the DC/DC converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi MURAKAMI, Hiroyasu IWABUKI, Yoshihiro TAKESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20200408706
    Abstract: Provided is an X-ray analysis system with which it is possible to set appropriate conditions for vapor phase decomposition with ease. The X-ray analysis system includes an X-ray spectrometer and a vapor phase decomposition apparatus. The X-ray spectrometer includes: an X-ray source configured to irradiate a measurement sample having a thin film present on its surface with primary X-rays; a detector configured to measure an intensity of reflected X-rays, or an intensity of fluorescent X-rays; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a film thickness or a coating mass of the thin film based on the intensity of the reflected X-rays or the fluorescent X-rays. The vapor phase decomposition apparatus includes: a vapor phase decomposition portion configured to perform vapor phase decomposition on the thin film; and a control portion configured to determine a vapor phase decomposition time based on the film thickness or the coating mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroshi KONO, Satoshi MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10854642
    Abstract: A display device including a semiconductor element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Masahiko Hayakawa, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20200266699
    Abstract: A period from when switching elements S1, S4 at first diagonal positions in a full-bridge inverter are turned off at the same time to when switching elements S2, S3 at second diagonal positions are turned on at the same time, is defined as T1, and a period from when the switching elements S2, S3 at the second diagonal positions are turned off at the same time to when the switching elements S1, S4 at the first diagonal positions are turned on at the same time, is defined as T2. With a total length of T1 and T2 set to be constant, the lengths of T1 and T2 are controlled to be changed every switching cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki TAKAHARA, Hiroto MIZUTANI, Ryota KONDO, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Hiroyasu IWABUKI, Kei HAYASE
  • Publication number: 20200267871
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes: a main body including a substrate to which a power conversion unit and a coil are provided; and a first heat dissipation portion which holds the substrate and dissipates heat of the substrate, wherein the substrate is formed by one sheet, the coil is formed integrally with the substrate, the first heat dissipation portion is fixed to a substrate first surface of the substrate, a heat dissipation second surface of the first heat dissipation portion has a coil cooling portion opposed to and abutting on a part where the coil is formed, of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Takaaki TAKAHARA, Satoshi MURAKAMI, Ryota KONDO, Hiroyasu IWABUKI, Hiroyuki HIGASHINO
  • Patent number: 10734655
    Abstract: An electric storage device according to the present invention includes: an electrode assembly including positive and negative electrode plates that are insulated from each other, at least one of the electrode plates having an active material layer formed part and an active material layer non-formed part; positive and negative current collectors; and a metal material abutted against the active material layer non-formed part, wherein the metal material includes a curled part in which an edge of the metal material is curved in a direction away from the active material layer non-formed part, and the active material layer non-formed part, each of the current collectors, and the metal material are integrally coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Masamitsu Tononishi