Patents by Inventor Shigehiro Kataoka
Shigehiro Kataoka 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).
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Publication number: 20190271309Abstract: An electric pump includes a motor, a pump, an electric pump case, a pressure sensor device to measure a pressure of fluid, and a circuit board. The pump includes a pump gear to rotate along with rotation of a shaft, and a pump body including a pump chamber recessed from a surface and housing the pump gear, and a through-hole with openings at two ends in an axial direction, one of the openings being opened to the pump chamber. The pressure sensor device includes a pressure sensor device body between the pump and the motor, and an electrical connection cable electrically connecting the pressure sensor device body and the circuit board. The electrical connection cable is routed from the pressure sensor device body to the circuit board inside of the electric pump case.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20190271307Abstract: A pressure sensor device for an electrically powered pump includes a pressure sensor that measures a pressure of a fluid inside the electrically powered pump, first and second terminals that project from the pressure sensor in a first direction extending toward one side in the horizontal direction, a third terminal that projects from the pressure sensor in a second direction extending toward another side in the horizontal direction, a fourth terminal that projects from the pressure sensor in the second direction and that is electrically connected to the second terminal; a first capacitor that is located on one side, in the horizontal direction, of the pressure sensor and that is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal, and a second capacitor that is located on another side, in the horizontal direction, of the pressure sensor and that is connected between the third terminal and the fourth terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Yoshihiro KAMIMURA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20190265120Abstract: A sensor case of pressure sensor device includes a sensor housing portion, a first terminal housing portion that extends from the sensor housing portion in a first direction, and a second terminal housing portion that extends from the sensor housing portion in a second direction. The first terminal housing portion includes a first upper-side opening that opens upward, and a first lower-side opening that opens downward. The second terminal housing portion includes a second upper-side opening that opens upward, and a second lower-side opening that opens downward. A first terminal part includes a first exposed portion including an upper surface exposed to outside of the first terminal housing portion through the first upper-side opening and a lower surface exposed to outside of the first terminal housing portion through the first lower-side opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Yoshihiro KAMIMURA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20190195346Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated. The pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part. The control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board on which the electronic components are mounted. The motor housing has a cylindrical part. An end of the board is disposed at a position overlapping the cylindrical part in a direction orthogonal to a surface of the board.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yutaka OMORI
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Publication number: 20190195345Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is positioned on one side of the motor part and is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part, wherein the motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, and a motor housing, wherein the pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part, wherein the control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board, the plurality of electronic components include a heat generating component, wherein the motor housing has a cylindrical part and a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, wherein the board has a first surface and a second surface, and the heat generating component is mounted on the second surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190195347Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; and a pump part that is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator disposed to face the rotor, a coil provided in the stator, and a motor housing having a cylindrical part in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated. The pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is accommodated. The motor housing includes a bearing that supports the shaft, a tubular bearing housing that holds the bearing, and a bus bar assembly connected to a coil end of the coil that extends from the stator. In this feature, the stator, the bus bar assembly, and the bearing housing are sequentially disposed from the pump part to the motor part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190195348Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing. The pump part includes a pump rotor and a pump housing having a housing part. The control part includes a plurality of electronic components and a board. The motor housing has a cylindrical part in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated, a plurality of heat dissipating fins that extend from the cylindrical part, and a fin support that supports the heat dissipating fins. The heat dissipating fins are disposed at intervals in the axial direction. The fin support has an inter-fin through-hole between a pair of heat dissipating fins adjacent in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190195349Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor part having a shaft; a pump part that is driven by the motor part via the shaft and discharges oil; and a control part configured to control an operation of the motor part. The motor part includes a rotor, a stator, and a motor housing in which the rotor and the stator are accommodated. The pump part includes a pump rotor attached to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is accommodated. The control part includes an electronic component and a board having a surface on which the electronic component is mounted. The board is disposed outside the stator in a radial direction and within a range of the motor part in the axial direction, and the surface of the board is disposed to face the stator and extends in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190064025Abstract: A pressure detection device includes: a base plate that includes a first principal surface, a second principal surface located on the back of the first principal surface, and a through-hole in which a fluid to be measured flows, the through-hole penetrating the base plate from the first principal surface to the second principal surface; a pressure sensor arranged above the first principal surface to cover the through-hole and that outputs an electric signal corresponding to the pressure of the fluid in the through-hole; a lead terminal that is electrically connected to the pressure sensor; a housing; and a capacitor (50) that is electrically connected to the lead terminal. The housing includes: a recessed portion that retains the base plate and the lead terminal and allows a part of the lead terminal to be exposed; and a capacitor holder that includes an outwardly opened recess and holds the capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Shigehiro Kataoka, Yoshihiro Kamimura
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Publication number: 20190032657Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft, and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of a motor unit and is driven via the shaft and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor that rotates around the shaft, a stator that is disposed to face the rotor, and a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed. The pump unit includes a pump rotor installed to the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is housed. A step that is recessed inwardly in the radial direction of the pump housing is provided on an outer surface outside the pump housing in the radial direction, the step is disposed on a rear side with respect to the housing part, and a front side end of the resin housing is fixed to the step.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI
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Publication number: 20190036415Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction of the shaft and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of the motor unit, is driven by the motor unit, and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor that is fixed on a rear side of the shaft, a stator that is disposed outside the rotor in a radial direction, a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a connector assembly that is disposed outside the resin housing in the radial direction. The connector assembly is integrally molded with the resin housing. The pump unit includes a pump rotor installed to the shaft that protrudes from the motor unit and a pump housing in which the pump rotor is housed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Noriyuki IKEDA
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Publication number: 20190032656Abstract: An electric oil pump includes a motor unit having a shaft and a pump unit which is disposed on a front side of the motor unit, is driven by the shaft, and discharges oil. The motor unit includes a rotor, a stator, and a resin housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed. The pump unit includes a pump rotor provided at the shaft and a pump housing having a housing part in which the pump rotor is housed. The pump housing includes the pump body that is supported by the shaft via a sliding bearing and a pump cover that covers a front side of the pump body. A rear side of the shaft is supported by the resin housing via a rolling bearing and a front side of the shaft that protrudes from the motor unit is supported by a pump body via the sliding bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koji HIGUCHI, Yutaka HASHIMOTO, Shigehiro KATAOKA
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Publication number: 20190036409Abstract: A motor includes a rotor having a shaft centered on a central axis that extends in an axial direction, a stator which is disposed to face the rotor and includes a plurality of coils, a housing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a bus bar assembly that is disposed on one side of the shaft in the axial direction, wherein the bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars that are electrically connected to the plurality of coils of the stator and a bus bar holder that holds the plurality of bus bars, and wherein at least one bus bar among the plurality of bus bars is placed on a disposition surface part provided on the bus bar holder and extends in a direction crossing the central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicants: NIDEC TOSOK CORPORATION, NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Kazuhiro HOMMA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Hideaki UCHISE, Masato AONO, Akihiro OKITA
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Publication number: 20180274540Abstract: An electric oil pump apparatus includes an electric oil pump including a housing main body that accommodates a motor and a pump driven by the motor, a flange portion formed on the housing main body, and a control circuit case for accommodating a control circuit, and a base plate attached to the electric oil pump. The base plate includes an annular main body fixed to the housing main body, and a sealing member located between the annular main body and the housing main body. The annular main body includes a first surface located on one side, a second surface located on the other side, a first through hole for passing the housing main body therethrough, and an annular stepped portion configured to accommodate the sealing member, and formed along an inner edge of the first through hole. The first surface of the base plate is opposed to the flange portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Shigehiro KATAOKA, Yoshiyuki KOBAYASHI, Koji HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 6395280Abstract: An oral deodorant for excreta containing a proanthocyanidin as an active ingredient and a method of reducing the odor of excreta of an object comprising dosing the object with an effective amount of a proanthocyanidin.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Jun Yamakoshi, Shigehiro Kataoka, Hiroshi Hosoyama, Toshiaki Ariga
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Patent number: 6051234Abstract: A health diet for preventing life-habit diseases (adult diseases) is provided.The health diet is prepared by directly encapsulating or tableting an organic solvent extract of soy sauce cakes or an aqueous alkali extract of a soy sauce oil, or blending the extracts with a diet.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Akio Obata, Jun Yamakoshi, Yukihiko Iwai, Tatuo Manaka, Toru Izumi, Koichiro Tobe, Nobuyuki Yamaji
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Patent number: 5972357Abstract: The present invention relates to healthy foods and cosmetics. More particularly, it relates to healthy foods and cosmetics containing a polyisoprenylated benzophenone derivatives as effective ingredients and having a variety of functions for maintaining health such as anti-ulcer activity, the Maillard reaction inhibiting activity, anti-oxidation activity, reactive oxygen species scavenging activity, and anti-tumor promotion activity.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Fumio Yamaguchi, Makoto Saito, Hiroharu Ishikawa, Shigehiro Kataoka, Toshiaki Ariga
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Patent number: 5804597Abstract: An agent for the prevention or treatment of cataracts comprising a proanthocyanidin oligomer is provided. The oral administration or application to the eyes of the agent of the invention produces a sufficient preventive or therapeutic effect against cataracts caused by oxidative disorders.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1997Date of Patent: September 8, 1998Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Jun Yamakoshi, Toshiaki Ariga, Hiroharu Ishikawa, Yukihiko Iwai, Tatuo Manaka, Shigehiro Kataoka, Katsumi Yuasa, Mamoru Kikuchi
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Patent number: 5246922Abstract: The present invention relates to a N.sup.6,N.sup.6 -disubstituted-cyclic adenosine-3',5'-monophosphate represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a linear alkyl group having 3 or more carbon atoms or a branched alkyl group having 4 or more carbon atoms, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group; A.sup..sym. represents a hydrogen ion, an alkali metal ion, an alkaline earth metal ion, an ammonium ion or an organoammonium ion, or a salt thereof, and a cardiac composition comprising it as an effective component, and further includes a process for preparing a compound represented by the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group and A.sup..sym. has the same meanings as defined above, or a salt thereof, characterized in that a 2'-O-protected-cyclic adenosine-3',5'-monophosphate represented by the formula ##STR3## wherein Y represents a protecting group and A.sup..sym.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 1990Date of Patent: September 21, 1993Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Shigehiro Kataoka, Nobuyuki Yamaji, Motohiko Kato, Shoichi Imai
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Patent number: 5231193Abstract: A process for producing ellagic acid comprising reacting a tannin having gallic acid residues attached as constituents with an oxidizing agent at pH 7 or higher.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Kikkoman CorporationInventors: Kiyoshi Mizusawa, Yasuhiko Imai, Katsumi Yuasa, Hirokazu Koyama, Nobuyuki Yamaji, Shigehiro Kataoka, Tetsuya Oguma