Patents by Inventor Shigeru Suzuki
Shigeru Suzuki 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: 20060141864Abstract: A flexible circuit sheet is electrically connected to an electric device. The electric device has a first row of electric terns and a second row of electric terminals. Both the first row of electric terminals and the second row of electric terminals extend along a first direction, the second row of electric terminals extends parallel to the first row of electric terminals. The flexible circuit comprises a base sheet, a first row of lands formed on the base sheet to be electrically connected to the first row of electric terminals, and a second row of lands formed on the base sheet to be electrically connected to the second row of electric terminals. A positional relationship between the first row of lands and the second row of lands is equal to a positional relationship between the first row of electric terminals and the second row of electric terminals. A surface area of each land of the first row of lands is greater than a surface area of each land of the second row of lands.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2005Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventor: Shigeru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20060117745Abstract: A hydraulic system 10 of the present invention has a hydraulic pump driven by a driving source 14, a hydraulic pump motor 52 driven by an operating oil discharged from the hydraulic pump and flowing in an oil path 50, an inertial body 60 connected to a rotary shaft of the hydraulic pump motor, an oil path 62 connected between an outlet port of the hydraulic pump motor and a load 22, an unloading oil path 64 branched from the oil path 62, and an on-off valve 68 inserted in the unloading oil path. In this configuration, as the on-off valve is opened and closed, a high pressure is generated in the oil path 62 by making use of kinetic energy of the inertial body. The inertial body is driven by hydraulic power and the inertial body is separated from the driving source, which also provides an effect of increasing degrees of freedom for an instrument layout.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: June 8, 2006Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Satoru Shimada, Takahiro Yamano, Sumiko Seki, Takahiko Itoh
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Patent number: 7043906Abstract: A hydraulic apparatus realizes the same function as that of a variable discharge pump by regulating a hydraulic device such as a control valve in a state always operated at a substantially constant number of revolutions with a high efficiency regardless of the type of a hydraulic pump driven by a driving source such as a heat engine or electric motor. This hydraulic apparatus drives a hydraulic pump with a driving source internally or additionally provided with a predetermined amount of inertia, so as to construct a fixed pressure hydraulic source, and further provides peripheral devices corresponding to a required load, so as to open/close a control valve according to a state of a load including an energy accumulating device, a hydraulic motor, or the like such that the load can be supplied with an operating fluid ranging from a low flow rate at a high pressure to a high flow rate at a low pressure.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2002Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Assignees: Saxa Inc., Yukigawa Institute Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Kouichi Aoyama, Satoru Shimada, Sumiko Seki, Takahiko Itoh
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Publication number: 20050269124Abstract: [Problems] To provide a body section with sufficient rigidity without impairment of the sliding facilitating ability of a sliding section of a slidingly detachable core member included in a cold shrink tube unit. [Solving Means] A slidingly detachable core member 12 includes a body section 22 that forms a hollow cylinder, and a sliding section 24 that is integrated with one axial end of the body section 22 and is so flexible as to be turned over to lie on the outer circumferential surface of the body section 22. The body section 22 consists of a plurality of plate-like portions 26 that are assembled to form the hollow cylinder. The sliding section 24 consists of a plurality of porous structural parts 28 that are formed adjacently to the plate-like portions 26 respectively. The core member 12 is incorporated in a seal region of an elastic tube member included in a cold contractile unit with the sliding section thereof turned over to lie on the outer circumferential surface of the body section 22.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Mitsuharu Inoue, Tsunehisa Nakamura
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Publication number: 20050233854Abstract: A variable speed compressor has a housing, a compression mechanism and a variable speed mechanism including input and output shafts and a carrier each rotatable around a first axis, planetary cones received by the carrier and each rotatable around a respective second axis inclining to the first axis, and a control ring coaxial with the first axis to vary the speed of rotation of the planetary cones to move along the first axis. The rotating speed of the input shaft is controllably transmittable to the output shaft by transmitting torque thereof to the output shaft so that the input and output shafts and the control ring contact the planetary cones. The control ring having a cylindrical shape has first and second pressure sensing surfaces coaxial with the first axis, formed on the opposite side thereof, sensing pressure applied to the sensing surfaces for movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2005Publication date: October 20, 2005Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventors: Masaki Ota, Masahiro Kawaguchi, Akinobu Kanai, Akihito Yamanouchi, Shigeru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050219301Abstract: A recording head comprises: a plurality of recording elements; a driver for driving the recording elements; a circuit board for supplying to the driver a signal for driving the recording elements; a wiring member connecting the recording elements to the driver, and connecting the driver to the circuit board; and a heatsink for releasing heat generated at the driver. A surface of a first portion of the wiring member is held in contact with a surface of the heatsink, and the first portion of the wiring member is separated from the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2005Publication date: October 6, 2005Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shigeru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050203149Abstract: A insecticide characterized by containing as active ingredient a hydrazone derivative of formula (I) wherein A and Q are an aryl or a heterocyclic group, W is oxygen atom, an aminylene, an alkylene group, an oxyalkylene group or an alkyleneoxy, X1 and X2 are hydrogen atom, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, a heterocyclic group, formyl, an acyl, an alkoxycarbonyl, an aryloxycarbonyl, a heterocyclic oxycarbonyl, an alkylsulfinyl, an arylsulfinyl, a heterocyclic sulfinyl, an alkylsulfonyl, an arylsulfonyl or a heterocyclic sulfonyl, Y is oxygen atom or sulfur atom, Z is hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, cyano, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an amino, an alkoxy or an alkylthio, the substituents may be substituted; and novel hydrazon derivatives.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2003Publication date: September 15, 2005Applicant: NIHON NOHYAKU CO., LTDInventors: Shinji Kawata, Shuko Okui, Shigeru Suzuki, Toshiki Fukuchi, Akiyuki Suwa
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Patent number: 6943115Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor device having a multilayer wiring structure in which at least one insulating film is formed with a set of conducting portions which are electrically connected to each other to have a surface area of no less than 500 ?m2 and which include a wiring having a width of no more than 1.0 ?m. The method includes a polishing step for flattening the conducting portions together with the insulating film by chemical mechanical polishing, a chemical cleaning step for cleaning the flattened surface of the insulating film with a cleaning liquid, and a rising step for removing the cleaning liquid using a rinsing liquid. The rinsing step is performed using water with a dissolved oxygen concentration decreased to no more than 6 ppm by weight as the rinsing liquid.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hiroshi Horiuchi, Tamotsu Yamamoto, Yukio Takigawa, Shigeru Suzuki, Nobuaki Santo, Motoshu Miyajima
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Publication number: 20050174368Abstract: A flexible wiring cable 60 connects a recording head 7 and a relay board, and includes COF (chip on film) 62 for connecting an output side wiring pattern of an IC chip 61 to the recording head 7, and general purpose FFC (flexible flat cable) 63 formed with a parallel wiring pattern. The flexible wiring cable 60 connects the output side wiring pattern of the IC chip 61 to the relay board 50 via FFC 63, thereby decreasing the use of more expensive COF 62 by the use of cheap, general purpose FFC 63. Thus, the product cost as the entire recording apparatus is reduced by using the general purpose flexible board for a part of a flexible board having a driving circuit mounted thereon and serving as a connecting means for connecting a recording means and a relay board, suppressing the manufacturing cost of parts for connecting means.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Inventor: Shigeru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050165063Abstract: It is intended to provide novel amine compounds which are efficacious against diseases such as infection with HIV virus, rheumatism and cancer metastasis. Namely, amine compounds represented by the following general formula (1): In a typical case, A1 and A2 represent each an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic heterocycle; W represents cyclic C3-10 alkylene, an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic heterocycle, a monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring or a partly saturated polycyclic aromatic ring; X represents O, CH2, C(?O) or NR11; and D is a group represented by the following general formula (4) or (6). In the formula (6), Q represents a single bond, S, O or NR12; and Y is a group represented by the following general formula (7). z represents an optionally substituted monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic ring. In the formula (6), B represents NR25R26. In the above formulae, R1 to R26 each represents hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: Kureha Chemical Industry Company, Limited.Inventors: Toru Yamazaki, Shigeyuki Kikumoto, Masahiro Ono, Atsushi Saitou, Haruka Takahashi, Sei Kumakura, Kunitaka Hirose, Mikiro Yanaka, Yoshiyuki Takemura, Shigeru Suzuki, Ryo Matsui
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Patent number: 6916062Abstract: A cable guide (1) has a plurality of tubular links (11) consecutively connected to one another for pivoting about substantially parallel axes. At least some of the cables to be inserted into a cable guide (1) are flat cables (5) placed one over another so that the width of the flat cables (5) is parallel to the pivotal axes of the links (11) of the cable guide (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: July 12, 2005Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Yoshinao Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6913038Abstract: A pump exerts pressure on fluid that has higher saturation pressure than atmospheric pressure at room temperature in a fluid reserving chamber in a fluid tank. The pump is located near the fluid tank. The pump has a housing and a heat generating mechanism. The housing defines a pump chamber, a motor chamber and a communication passage between the pump chamber and the motor chamber and includes at least one introducing port for introducing the fluid from the fluid reserving chamber into the housing and a bleeding port located above the introducing port for returning the fluid from the housing to the fluid reserving chamber. The heat generating mechanism is located in the housing. The fluid circulates into the housing through the introducing port and out of the housing through the bleeding port for substantially reducing the temperature in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2002Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota JidoshokkiInventor: Shigeru Suzuki
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Publication number: 20050069657Abstract: In a cold-shrink tube device, to permit a core member to be readily and correctly removed from an elastic tube member without deteriorating an attaching operability onto an object wherein the core member holds an end region of an elastic tube member in an elastically expanded condition. A hollow tubular body of the core member is torn into a ribbon shape along a weakened line formed spirally and continuously over an entire axial length of the body. A ribbon-shaped region defined in a spiral on the body by the weakened line includes a major ribbon section having an axial dimension larger than an axial dimension of an end ribbon section defined, adjacent to a tearing-start end, between the weakened line and one axial end of the body. When the core member is arranged in the end region of the elastic tube member, the ribbon-shaped region of the body with around three coils, including the end ribbon section and the major ribbon section, is accommodated inside the end region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2002Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Mitsuharu Inoue
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Publication number: 20050062310Abstract: Bases (10) for guiding a movable end (37) of a conductor path (30) have a cross section along a direction normal to a parallel direction to guide rails (12) that is constant over the entire length. Thus, the bases (10) can be obtained by cutting an elongated raw material to a specified length in conformity with a vehicle type, thereby enabling a cost reduction. Further, since the bases (10) are symmetrical with a moving path of the movable end (37) located therebetween, it is sufficient to prepare only one kind of elongated raw material. In this respect as well, costs can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2004Publication date: March 24, 2005Applicant: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Kida, Shigeru Suzuki, Yoshinao Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20050050982Abstract: A device for rotating body windage loss reduction, capable of rotating a rotating body at a high peripheral speed in an environment at atmospheric pressure or close to atmospheric pressure while reducing fluid resistance loss at a low cost by making use of the conventional bearing technology, is implemented, thereby enhancing efficiency of an energy storage device such as, for example, a flywheel, and so forth. The device is provided with a rotating body held rotatably; and a covering rotating body installed on the outer side of the rotating body so as to enclose the same, held rotatably and coaxially with the rotating body. Further, optional plural numbers of the covering rotating bodies installed coaxially with the rotating body and covering the outer side of the device for rotating body windage loss reduction are provided on top of each other in sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2002Publication date: March 10, 2005Inventors: Satoru Shimada, Shigeru Suzuki, Koichi Aoyama, Sumiko Seki, Takahiko Ito
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Publication number: 20050042121Abstract: A hydraulic apparatus realizes the same function as that of a variable discharge pump by regulating a hydraulic device such as a control valve in a state always operated at a substantially constant number of revolutions with a high efficiency regardless of the type of a hydraulic pump driven by a driving source such as a heat engine or electric motor. This hydraulic apparatus drives a hydraulic pump with a driving source internally or additionally provided with a predetermined amount of inertia, so as to construct a fixed pressure hydraulic source, and further provides peripheral devices corresponding to a required load, so as to open/close a control valve according to a state of a load including an energy accumulating device, a hydraulic motor, or the like such that the load can be supplied with an operating fluid ranging from a low flow rate at a high pressure to a high flow rate at a low pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2002Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Kouichi Aoyama, Satoru Shimada, Sumiko Seki, Takahiko Itoh
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Publication number: 20050003874Abstract: A mobile communication unit has an antenna unit including an extensible rod element and a fixed element. While the rod element is held by an antenna holder which is fixed in the mobile communication unit main body with a fixing member made of conducting material, the fixed element is attached to the inner wall of a hollow and cylindrical antenna casing. The antenna holder is inserted in the antenna casing. The feeding end of the fixed element is in contact with a projection formed outside the lower metallic portion of the antenna holder. The fixed element is fed from an RF functional block in the main body through the fixing member connected with the RF functional unit, the antenna holder and the projection. The rotational position of the feeding end around the rod element extending direction is determined and by the projection and the depression portions formed on the antenna casing and the antenna mount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2004Publication date: January 6, 2005Inventors: Osamu Ebisawa, Shigeru Suzuki, Yasumasa Tsukida
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Publication number: 20040213680Abstract: A multistage gear pump for pressurizing fluid includes a housing, a drive shaft and a gear assembly. The drive shaft is rotatably supported in the housing. The gear assembly is disposed in the housing. The gear assembly includes at least first and second gear trains. Each train has a pair of drive and driven gears that are engaged with each other. The drive gear is provided on the drive shaft and followed by the driven gear. The first gear train and the second gear train are arranged so that fluid sequentially passes therethrough as the drive shaft rotates. A theoretical discharge capacity of the first gear train is larger than that of the second gear train.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2004Publication date: October 28, 2004Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Toshiro Fujii
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Publication number: 20040200053Abstract: A bearing member manufacturing method manufactures a bearing member 20 formed of a light-metal-base material and capable of stably supporting a rotational shaft at a reduced manufacturing cost. The bearing member manufacturing method manufactures a bearing member 20 including a bearing body 21 formed of a first material, a light-metal-base material, and a bearing part 22 formed of a light-metal-base material different from that forming the body part 21, the bearing part 22 having a bearing surface 23 and bonded to the body part 21. A first workpiece 30 having a cylindrical inside surface 30a serving as the bearing surface 23 is placed in a mold 50. The molten first material is poured into a cavity 56 surrounding the first workpiece 30 to cast a second workpiece 32. The first workpiece 30 and the second workpiece 32 are bonded metallurgically along the interface between the first work-piece 30 and the second workpiece 32 to form a primary workpiece 34 in the form of a semifinished workpiece 33.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Masayuki Takahashi, Teruaki Midorikawa, Shigeru Suzuki, Hideharu Ogawa, Takachika Moriyama
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Publication number: 20040202557Abstract: An electric pump draws and discharges fluid. When the fluid receives heat from the pump, the fluid has a saturation vapor pressure that can surpass the pressure of fluid that is drawn into the pump and is lower than the pressure of fluid discharged from the pump. The pump includes an electric motor; a pump section that is driven by the electric motor to draw, pressurize, and discharge the fluid; and a housing for accommodating the pump section. The housing defines a motor chamber that accommodates the electric motor. The pressure in the motor chamber is equal to the pressure of fluid that is discharged from the pump section. Therefore, the pump prevents fluid in the motor chamber from vaporizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2004Publication date: October 14, 2004Inventors: Shigeru Suzuki, Toshiro Fujii