Patents by Inventor Seiji Matsushima

Seiji Matsushima 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: 9845999
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a cooling-liquid passage, and a radiating member disposed in the cooling-liquid passage. The radiating member has a substrate and a plurality of pin-shaped fins. Longitudinally intermediate portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of fin insertion holes, and the pin-shaped fins are inserted into the fin insertion holes of the substrate. A plurality of convex portions are integrally formed on the longitudinally intermediate portion of each pin-shaped fin. The substrate and the pin-shaped fins are provisionally fixed together by plastically deforming the convex portions such that they are crushed. In this state, the substrate and the pin-shaped fins are brazed together. The upper and lower end portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the top wall and bottom wall, respectively, of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Seiji Matsushima, Kouji Tomita
  • Publication number: 20140091453
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a base and a plurality of radiator fins. The base includes an exterior, an interior, an inlet, and an outlet. A heat generation element is connected to the exterior of the base. The radiator fins are located near the heat generation element in the interior of the base. The radiator fins are arranged from the inlet to the outlet. Each radiator fin has a sidewise cross-section with a dimension in a flow direction of the cooling medium and a dimension in a lateral direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the cooling medium. The dimension in the flow direction is longer than the dimension in the lateral direction. The radiator fins are separated from one another by a predetermined distance in the lateral direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Yuri OTOBE, Naoki KATO, Shinsuke NISHI, Tomoya HIRANO, Seiji MATSUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20130284404
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a top wall, a bottom wall, and a cooling-liquid passage, and a radiating member disposed in the cooling-liquid passage. The radiating member has a substrate and a plurality of pin-shaped fins. Longitudinally intermediate portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of fin insertion holes, and the pin-shaped fins are inserted into the fin insertion holes of the substrate. A plurality of convex portions are integrally formed on the longitudinally intermediate portion of each pin-shaped fin. The substrate and the pin-shaped fins are provisionally fixed together by plastically deforming the convex portions such that they are crushed. In this state, the substrate and the pin-shaped fins are brazed together. The upper and lower end portions of the pin-shaped fins are brazed to the top wall and bottom wall, respectively, of the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Seiji Matsushima, Kouji Tomita
  • Publication number: 20110094722
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a cooling-liquid flow channel. Fins are provided on an inner surface of a top wall of the casing. Each fin has a wavy shape on a horizontal plane perpendicular to a fin height direction. In a left fin of two adjacent fins, lines of intersection between the horizontal plane and right side surfaces of two slant portions connecting two adjacent wave crest portions and a wave trough portion therebetween intersect each other at a first point located on a first straight line. In a right fin, lines of intersection between the horizontal plane and left side surfaces of two slant portions connecting two adjacent wave trough portions and a wave crest portion therebetween intersect each other at a second point located on a second straight line. The first straight line is located on the right fin side of the second straight line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Satoshi Ito, Seiji Matsushima, Taizo Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20100314075
    Abstract: A cooling plate configured so that the cooling efficiency can be improved, the weight can be reduced, high corrosion resistance can be provided, the work efficiency can be improved, and furthermore the manufacturing cost can be reduced, and a manufacturing method for the cooling plate is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Satoshi TAKAHASHI, Seiji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20080245516
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger plate, machine time required for processing can be shortened, production costs can be reduced, and a penetration bead of a weld can be prevented from intruding into a flow channel, thereby preventing the weld from deforming a cover section. The heat exchanger plate comprises: a flat main body on a surface of which is formed at least one first groove having a rectangular cross-sectional shape; and a cover which has substantially the same shape as the first groove in plan view and which is formed such that when embedded in the first groove, a rear face thereof contacts a bottom of the first groove and opposite side faces thereof contact opposite side faces of the first groove, and a surface thereof is substantially flush with that of the main body, wherein there is provided a second groove formed extending along the opposite side faces at a center of the rear face, and the cover is joined to the main body by friction stir welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Soichiro Ishikawa, Haretaro Hidaka, Seiji Matsushima
  • Publication number: 20080245517
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger plate freedom of design of the flow channel is improved. A flat main body on a surface of which is formed at least one first groove having a rectangular cross-sectional shape, and a second groove having a rectangular cross-sectional shape that is narrower than the first groove, and that is formed following along opposite side faces of the first groove at a center of a bottom face of the first groove; and a flat cover which covers an entire surface of the main body, and on a rear face of which is formed a protrusion whose top face contacts a bottom face of the first groove and whose opposite side faces contact opposite side faces of the first groove, when the cover is superposed on the surface of the main body, and which forms a flow channel by means of a top face thereof and the second groove, are joined by friction stir welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Soichiro Ishikawa, Haretaro Hidaka, Seiji Matsushima
  • Patent number: D873396
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Seiji Matsushima
  • Patent number: D886967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Seiji Matsushima