Patents by Inventor Seiji Yasui

Seiji Yasui 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: 11606056
    Abstract: An inverter unit includes a switching element unit, a control board, a cooler, and an inverter case. The inverter case is integrally fixed to a rotating electrical machine case. The cooler is disposed so as to be in contact with the switching element unit on an opposite side to a rotating electrical machine side. The control board is disposed on the rotating electrical machine side of the switching element unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Hotta, Seiji Yasui, Shinya Osuka
  • Publication number: 20210344295
    Abstract: An inverter unit includes a switching element unit, a control board, a cooler, and an inverter case. The inverter case is integrally fixed to a rotating electrical machine case. The cooler is disposed so as to be in contact with the switching element unit on an opposite side to a rotating electrical machine side. The control board is disposed on the rotating electrical machine side of the switching element unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka HOTTA, Seiji YASUI, Shinya OSUKA
  • Publication number: 20130171891
    Abstract: A connection terminal that is conductive and that has a flat joint surface to be joined to a joint target surface by a brazing material interposed between the joint surface and the joint target surface. The joint surface has recesses provided on both sides across a predetermined reference line passing through a center of gravity of the joint surface and extending along the joint surface, and the recesses are dented from an outer edge portion of the joint surface toward the reference line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20130113120
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a metal substrate; a semiconductor element placed on the metal substrate; a flexible circuit substrate that has one end placed on the metal substrate and is electrically connected to the semiconductor element, the flexible circuit substrate extending over an edge of the metal substrate to outside the metal substrate; a resin wall portion placed, in an outer periphery of the metal substrate, at least at the edge of the metal substrate over which the flexible circuit substrate extends, the resin wall portion being provided on the flexible circuit substrate at the edge; and a resin seal portion provided inside the resin wall portion so as to cover the metal substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Junji TSURUOKA, Seiji YASUI, Osamu YAMATO, Takayuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20130105985
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a connection terminal. The connection terminal includes two legs bonded via a filler material to a bonding target object that is a substrate or one semiconductor element placed on the substrate; and a joining portion connected to the two legs, extending between the two legs, and separated from the bonding target object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Junji TSURUOKA, Seiji YASUI, Osamu YAMATO, Takayuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20120118635
    Abstract: A conductive connection terminal having a planar joining surface joined to a joining target surface by a soldering material interposed between the joining surface and the joining target surface. The conductive connection terminal is configured such that, on either side across a predetermined reference straight line which, as well as passing through a center of gravity of the joining surface, extends along the joining surface, the joining surface includes indented portions indented from outer edge portions of the joining surface toward the reference straight line side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junji TSURUOKA, Seiji YASUI
  • Patent number: 7859103
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other surface of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Patent number: 7760503
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other surface of the base plate. The coolant flow paths are formed such that coolant flows in a coolant flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Patent number: 7755898
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Patent number: 7728467
    Abstract: A heat generating member cooling structure in which a coolant space is formed between a heat releasing surface that is thermally connected to a heat generating member and an opposing surface that is positioned opposite the heat releasing surface, includes a plurality of heat releasing fins that are provided within the coolant space so as to be parallel to one another and stand from the heat releasing surface toward the opposing surface, and an inter-fin passage, through which a coolant flows, formed between every two of the plurality of heat releasing fins that are positioned adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Nakamura Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata, Hideyuki Miyahara, Masaharu Kumagai
  • Patent number: 7663886
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device includes a lower-side substrate formed with a main circuit; an upper-side substrate formed with a drive control circuit that drivingly controls the main circuit; a support body positionally fixed above the lower-side substrate with resin in a hardened state; and a case having a peripheral portion with an outer surface that has at least a portion of an external lead-out terminal of the drive control circuit and the main circuit thereon, and a substrate storage space that accommodates the lower-side substrate on a side inward from the peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignees: Aisin AW Co., Ltd., Fuji Electric Device Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata, Shin Soyano
  • Patent number: 7569957
    Abstract: A heat generating member cooling structure in which a coolant space is formed between a heat releasing surface that is thermally connected to a heat generating member and an opposing surface that is positioned opposite the heat releasing surface, includes a plurality of heat releasing fins that are provided within the coolant space so as to be parallel to one another and stand from the heat releasing surface toward the opposing surface, and an inter-fin passage, through which a coolant flows, formed between every two of the plurality of heat releasing fins that are positioned adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Aisini Aw Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata
  • Publication number: 20080290506
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other surface of the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20080291710
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20080291628
    Abstract: A semiconductor module includes a base plate; a plurality of substrates placed on one surface of the base plate, with each substrate of the plurality of substrates including a switching element, a diode element, and a connection terminal area; and a parallel flow forming device that forms parallel coolant flow paths that are provided so as to be in contact with the other surface of the base plate. The coolant flow paths are formed such that coolant flows in a coolant flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui
  • Patent number: 7433187
    Abstract: A heat spreader module has a pedestal, a heat spreader member joined to the pedestal by a first active hard brazing material, an intermediate layer joined to the heat spreader member by a second active hard brazing material, an insulating board joined to the intermediate layer by a third active hard brazing material, and a circuit board joined to the insulating board by a fourth active hard brazing material. The first through fourth active hard brazing materials are supplied such that the active hard brazing materials have a thickness ranging from 3 to 20 ?m when the components of the heat spreader module are joined together under pressure, and contain an active element in an amount ranging from 400 to 1000 ?g/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ishikawa, Masayuki Shinkai, Makoto Miyahara, Shuhei Ishikawa, Nobuaki Nakayama, Seiji Yasui
  • Publication number: 20080179972
    Abstract: A heat generating member cooling structure in which a coolant space is formed between a heat releasing surface that is thermally connected to a heat generating member and an opposing surface that is positioned opposite the heat releasing surface, includes a plurality of heat releasing fins that are provided within the coolant space so as to be parallel to one another and stand from the heat releasing surface toward the opposing surface, and an inter-fin passage, through which a coolant flows, formed between every two of the plurality of heat releasing fins that are positioned adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., NAKAMURA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata, Hideyuki Miyahara, Masaharu Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20080169088
    Abstract: A heat generating member cooling structure in which a coolant space is formed between a heat releasing surface that is thermally connected to a heat generating member and an opposing surface that is positioned opposite the heat releasing surface, includes a plurality of heat releasing fins that are provided within the coolant space so as to be parallel to one another and stand from the heat releasing surface toward the opposing surface, and an inter-fin passage, through which a coolant flows, formed between every two of the plurality of heat releasing fins that are positioned adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Applicant: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata
  • Publication number: 20080158824
    Abstract: An electronic circuit device includes a lower-side substrate formed with a main circuit; an upper-side substrate formed with a drive control circuit that drivingly controls the main circuit; a support body positionally fixed above the lower-side substrate with resin in a hardened state; and a case having a peripheral portion with an outer surface that has at least a portion of an external lead-out terminal of the drive control circuit and the main circuit thereon, and a substrate storage space that accommodates the lower-side substrate on a side inward from the peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicants: AISIN AW CO., LTD., FUJI ELECTRIC DEVICE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Aoki, Junji Tsuruoka, Seiji Yasui, Yasushi Kabata, Shin Soyano
  • Patent number: 6953539
    Abstract: A composite material includes an SiC porous ceramic sintered body, which is formed by preliminarily sintering a porous body, having a coefficient of thermal expansion lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of copper to construct a network therein. A copper alloy impregnating the porous ceramic sintered body includes copper and one or more additive elements which are prepared to impart a coefficient of thermal conductivity of 160 W/mK or higher to the composite material. The additive elements include up to 5% of at least one element selected from Be, Al, Si, Mg, Ti, Ni, Bi, Te, Zn, Pb, Sn, and mish metal, and also contain unavoidable impurities and gas components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuhei Ishikawa, Tsutomu Mitsui, Ken Suzuki, Nobuaki Nakayama, Hiroyuki Takeuchi, Seiji Yasui