Patents by Inventor Shigeo Hayashi

Shigeo Hayashi 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: 20140091081
    Abstract: A heater wire is obtained by twisting together a plurality of heating element wires in which a rectangular wire is spirally wound around a core wire, and forming an insulating sheath on an outer peripheral surface of the twisted heating element wires, The current carrying capacity can be increased by increasing the number of the heating element wires and there is no need of increasing the cross-sectional area of each of the rectangular wires, Therefore, a reduction in the bending capacity due to an increase in the cross-sectional area of the rectangular wires can be avoided, and the bending capacity can be improved significantly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Inventors: Shohei Miyahara, Yuichi Nakajo, Shigeo Hayashi, Shinji Yoda
  • Patent number: 8531818
    Abstract: An electric double layer capacitor 200 is configured such that a positive electrode 206, a separator 205, and a negative electrode 207 stacked in this order are contained in a container, and a portion between the positive electrode 206 and the negative electrode 207 is filled with an electrolytic solution. A polar plate of one or each of the positive electrode 206 and the negative electrode 207 includes a current collector 201, 203 and a plurality of electrically-conductive fine fibers 202, 204 formed and standing on a surface of the current collector such that one end of each of the fine fibers is electrically connected to the surface of the current collector. A surface of the polar plate is covered with the separator 205, the surface corresponding to the surface of the current collector. The polar plate and the separator 205 are pressure bonded to be integrated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Takuma Asari, Hironori Kumagai, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20130114214
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a housing; a circuit board arranged in the housing; an electronic component mounted on the circuit board; a reinforcing member comprising a first surface in contact with the circuit board, and a second surface located on an opposite side of the first surface and exposed to an inside of the housing; a component contained in the housing, the component comprising a first supported area located at a distance from a surface of the circuit board; and a support member configured to support the component, the support member comprising a first end portion fixed to the first supported area of the component, and a second end portion fixed to the second surface of the reinforcing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventors: Koichiro Takeguchi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8325475
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a side wall, an interface component, a partition wall, and a protrusion. The side wall is formed on one of the bottom wall and the top wall of a housing to spatially separate the inside of the housing from the outside. The side wall includes a through opening. The interface component faces the through opening in the housing. The partition wall is formed on the one of the bottom wall and the top wall and coupled perpendicularly to the side wall. The partition wall spatially separates the inside of the housing and a component retainer formed as a cutout or a recess of the housing. The protrusion is formed on the one of the bottom wall and the top wall to be spaced apart from the partition wall. The interface component is held between the partition wall and the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichiro Takeguchi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8296789
    Abstract: In a chucking device, a rolling guide portion is arranged below an upper cover portion of a rotor holder and radially inwards of a cylinder portion of the rotor holder. This helps restrain the noises generated by the rolling movement of balls from propagating to the outside. Moreover, the turntable and the rolling guide portion are formed of a single resin member extending continuously through a through-hole defined in the rotor holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Yamane, Haruhiko Ito, Hisakazu Motomochi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8284821
    Abstract: A message is efficiently relayed in a cut-through mode to a communication line of the transmission destination of a transmission rate higher than that of the communication line of the recipient while preventing the state that there is no data to be transmitted. A vehicle-mounted relay connection unit is used to relay messages received through first CAN communication lines to a second CAN communication line of a transmission rate higher than that of the first transmission lines in a cut-though mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Isoyama, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8277967
    Abstract: The present invention provides an energy device including a carbon nanotube electrode which prevents a carbon nanotube from peeling from an electric conductor. The energy device includes rolled electrode bodies, wherein at least one of the electrode bodies is formed such that a carbon nanotube layer is formed on the electric conductor, and concave regions are formed in a stripe shape on the carbon nanotube layer so as to extend in a direction parallel to a roll axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takuma Asari, Toshiya Yokogawa, Shigeo Hayashi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Hironori Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20120243179
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a heat pipe, a fan unit and a fixing unit. The heat pipe has a first end physically fixed to and thermally connected to a first circuit component, and a second end opposite to the first end. The fan unit is provided in the vicinity of the second end of the heat pipe, and cools the second end. The fixing unit fixes the position of the heat pipe at a position different from the position of the first circuit component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Hideki Watanabe, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120236214
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a television receiver includes: a housing; a circuit board arranged in the housing; an electronic component mounted on the circuit board; a reinforcing member comprising a first surface in contact with the circuit board, and a second surface located on an opposite side of the first surface and exposed to an inside of the housing; a component contained in the housing, the component comprising a first supported area located at a distance from a surface of the circuit board; and a support member configured to support the component, the support member comprising a first end portion fixed to the first supported area of the component, and a second end portion fixed to the second surface of the reinforcing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Inventors: KOICHIRO TAKEGUCHI, SHIGEO HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20120224817
    Abstract: It is expected to provide an optical communication module that can avoid the reduction in the performance of light communication when an edge emitting type photoelectric device is mounted. The optical communication module is configured to include: a basement where a convex first and second lenses are integrally formed on the upper and lower surfaces, respectively; and a laser diode aligned with the first lens on the upper surface to emit light in the direction toward the first lens. It is configured that the first lens refracts the light emitted from the laser diode to become substantially parallel to the upper surface of the basement and the refracted light is reflected toward the direction of second lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8259034
    Abstract: An original monochrome image recorded with an FPD (flat panel detector) which comprises an array, m rows and n columns, of pixels is reduced and converted into a display image which comprises an array, q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns, of pixels before the display image is transferred to a monochrome liquid crystal display equipped with a monochrome LCD which comprises an array, q rows and P columns, of pixels, where m, n, q, and P are natural numbers and m?n, q<P, n/m<P/q, and m>q are given. The monochrome liquid crystal display drives the three sub pixels of each pixel independently aligned along the row of the monochrome LCD to display the display image of the pixels in q rows and (3*n*q/m) columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignees: Totoku Electric Co., Ltd., National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Katuhiro Ichikawa, Yoshie Kodera, Shigeo Hayashi, Tatumi Naganuma
  • Patent number: 8248971
    Abstract: A vehicle network system is provided with a plurality of star networks, a plurality of devices mounted on a vehicle are connected in a star shape through respective branch lines in each of the star networks, and a trunk line for connecting the plurality of star networks, the branch lines are communication lines for optical communications, and the trunk line is a communication line for electric communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Co.
    Inventors: Hideki Goto, Manabu Kagami, Seigo Takai, Hayato Yuuki, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8218312
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board, a heat pipe, a fan unit and a fixing unit. The heat pipe has a first end physically fixed to and thermally connected to a first circuit component, and a second end opposite to the first end. The fan unit is provided in the vicinity of the second end of the heat pipe, and cools the second end. The fixing unit fixes the position of the heat pipe at a position different from the position of the first circuit component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hideki Watanabe, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120141143
    Abstract: It is expected to provide an optical communication module that does not require making a conductive plate, such as a leadframe, become thinner in response to the downsizing of the photoelectric conversion device, such as a laser diode or a photodiode, and does not require downsizing a lens. A laser diode is connected and fixed to a conductive plate on the top surface of a transparent light-passing board. The light-passing board is connected and fixed to a conductive plate on the top surface of a transparent base. A first lens and a second lens are integrally formed on the top and the bottom surfaces of the base, respectively. The laser diode performs transmission of optical signals through the gap of conductive plate, the transparent light-passing board, the opening portion of a conductive plate, the opening portion of conductive plate, the first lens, the transparent base and the second lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hayashi, Toshio Takagi
  • Publication number: 20120099872
    Abstract: Plural conductive plates extend from a transparent containing unit containing the photoelectric conversion device, plural electrical circuit components are connected to the conductive plate, and the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is accommodated in a housing while the conductive plate is bent. At that time, the conductive plate extending from the transparent containing unit is coupled at two portions in an extending direction by coupled-fixing members made of non-conductive synthetic resin, the electrical circuit components are mounted between the coupled-fixing members and the conductive plate is bent at portions outside these two coupled-fixing members. In the case that the conductive plate must be cut to generate a floating point portion, a floating-point fixing member is provided for coupling and fixing the floating point portion to an adjacent conductive plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicants: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeo Hayashi, Satoshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 8156513
    Abstract: A motor includes a bearing mechanism, a stationary unit including a stator arranged radially outwards of the bearing mechanism, and a rotary unit supported by the bearing mechanism at the upper side of the stationary unit for rotation about a center axis with respect to the stationary unit. The rotary unit includes a substantially cylindrical closed-top rotor yoke having a cover portion arranged to cover the stator. The bearing mechanism includes a substantially cylindrical closed-bottom bush formed by a press work, a sleeve fixed inside the bush and provided with an upper portion protruding beyond the bush and a shaft inserted into the sleeve. An upper end of the bush is lower than or flush with an upper end of the stator in a direction parallel to the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Hidaka, Shigeo Hayashi, Hiroyuki Ichizaki, Akihiro Nakagawa, Tatsuya Tatara, Harushige Osawa, Atsushi Inoue, Kazuya Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8115689
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device is provided with the following an antenna, a first radio module configured to perform wireless communications by use of the antenna, a second radio module configured to perform wireless communications by use of the antenna, a first printed circuit board with reference to which the second radio module is attachable or detachable, a first cable which connects the antenna and the second radio module together, a second cable which connects the second radio module and the first radio module together, and a connection mechanism which connects the first and second cables together in a state where the second radio module is detached from the first printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichiro Takeguchi, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20120028123
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate on which carbon nanotubes each having one end connected to the substrate can be formed at a high synthetic rate and from which the carbon nanotubes are less likely to be peeled off. The substrate is a substrate for forming the carbon nanotubes and includes a buffer layer 13 formed on at least one of surfaces of a substrate main body 14 and containing aluminum atoms and fluorine atoms. The carbon nanotube complex includes the substrate and a plurality of carbon nanotubes 11 each having one end connected to a surface of the buffer layer 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventors: Takuma Asari, Hironori Kumagai, Shigeo Hayashi, Yasuhiro Hashimoto, Naoki Yoshikawa, Takashi Okada
  • Patent number: 8099746
    Abstract: A motor includes a stationary unit, a bearing mechanism, a rotary unit, and a chucking device. The rotary unit includes a rotor yoke provided with a cover portion extending around the chucking device and designed to allow the storage disk to be directly or indirectly mounted thereto and a removal-preventing member fixed to the cover portion to prevent removal of the rotary unit from the stationary unit. The removal-preventing member made of metal. The removal-preventing member includes a removal-preventing portion, an upper fixing portion having a plurality of upper protrusions inserted into the through-holes of the cover portion and bent toward the upper surface of the cover portion, and a lower fixing portion making direct or indirect contact with the lower surface of the cover portion and cooperating with the upper fixing portion to fix the position of the removal-preventing portion in a direction parallel to the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Hidaka, Shigeo Hayashi, Hiroyuki Ichizaki, Akihiro Nakagawa, Tatsuya Tatara, Harushige Osawa, Atsushi Inoue, Kazuya Ichimura
  • Patent number: 8082561
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotating body including a magnet, and a fixed body including a stator. The stator includes a stator core having an annular core back portion with an upper and a lower surface, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced-apart tooth portions extending from the core back portion in a direction away from the rotational axis, and a plurality of coils provided by winding a conductive wire around the tooth portions of the stator core with multiple turns. The rotor holder is arranged axially above the stator to cover the stator. Further, an annular or arc-shaped attracting magnet arranged to attract the rotor holder toward the stator is arranged radially inwardly of the core back portion, the attracting magnet having an upper surface axially facing toward the rotor holder, and a lower surface arranged axially below the upper surface of the core back portion of the stator core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Takaki, Shigeo Hayashi, Yusuke Iwai, Nobuaki Yasumoto, Yosuke Kawano