Patents by Inventor Shin Murakami

Shin Murakami 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: 20090178342
    Abstract: A sealing device for an elevator door includes a doorway member, doors, a movable member, a push-down mechanism and a sealing mechanism. The doorway member is provided for a gate. The doors open or close along the doorway member. The movable member is set horizontally and provided to be movable in a vertical direction in the doorway member, and it is urged upwards by an urging unit. The push-down mechanism pushes down the movable member against the force of the urging unit just before the doors are closed. The sealing mechanism is kept non-contact with the doors while they are moving, and seals the gap between the doors and the doorway member as it is brought into contact with upper section of the doors when the movable member is pushed down by the push-down mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Shin MURAKAMI, Toru KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20090178341
    Abstract: A sealing device for an elevator door includes a doorway member, doors, a movable member, a push-down mechanism and a sealing mechanism. The doorway member is provided for a gate. The doors open or close along the doorway member. The movable member is set horizontally and provided to be movable in a vertical direction in the doorway member, and it is urged upwards by an urging unit. The push-down mechanism pushes down the movable member against the force of the urging unit just before the doors are closed. The sealing mechanism is kept non-contact with the doors while they are moving, and seals the gap between the doors and the doorway member as it is brought into contact with upper section of the doors when the movable member is pushed down by the push-down mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2009
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Shin Murakami, Toru Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20080282533
    Abstract: A miniature surface-mount electronic component which can ensure sufficient impact resistance and vibration resistance especially in an application to a severe use environment such as a vehicle-mounted coil, by putting some contrivance into a method for fixing a coil in a molding process and a method for holding a core and terminals. A miniature surface-mount electronic component including a bar-shaped core 2 on which a winding wire 3 is wound, and metal plates 5, with an outer casing 7 made of an insulating resin molded, includes flanges 2b substantially quadrangular in section at both ends of the bar-shaped core 2, and vertical grooves a and b are provided on side surfaces of the flanges 2b of the bar-shaped core 2 as fixing portions for preventing positional displacement occurring when the outer casing 7 is molded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Applicant: Toko Inc.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yagi, Shingo Shimizu, Shin Murakami
  • Patent number: 7414509
    Abstract: A miniature surface-mount electronic component which can ensure sufficient impact resistance and vibration resistance especially in an application to a severe use environment such as a vehicle-mounted coil, by putting some contrivance into a method for fixing a coil in a molding process and a method for holding a core and terminals. A miniature surface-mount electronic component including a bar-shaped core 2 on which a winding wire 3 is wound, and metal plates 5, with an outer casing 7 made of an insulating resin molded, includes flanges 2b substantially quadrangular in section at both ends of the bar-shaped core 2, and vertical grooves a and b are provided on side surfaces of the flanges 2b of the bar-shaped core 2 as fixing portions for preventing positional displacement occurring when the outer casing 7 is molded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Toko Inc.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yagi, Shingo Shimizu, Shin Murakami
  • Patent number: 7357240
    Abstract: A conveyor apparatus comprises step chains which couple a plurality of steps such that the steps, and driving units which drive the chains. Each of the driving units comprises a power unit comprising a motor, and a driving machine including pulleys and belts that reduce a rotation speed of the motor so as to meet a required reduction gear ratio and transfer the rotation speed to the chains, and a pair of right and left driving mechanisms that convert a rotary movement transferred from the machine of the power unit via an eccentric shaft into a movement of rocking units, and apply a propelling force to the chains via pin rollers provided at any one of sides of the rocking units and the chains and gears provided at the other side of the rocking units and the chains to engage with the rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Ogimura, Takayuki Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Shin Murakami
  • Patent number: 7350623
    Abstract: An elevator door apparatus includes an engaging device which engages car doors with hall doors. The engaging device uses a spring unit to urge a movable vane provided in each of the car doors. While the doors are moving, engaging rollers supported by the hall doors are sandwiched between the movable vane and a fixed vane. Thus, the driving forces of the car doors are transmitted to the hall doors. When the hall doors reach a door stop position, the movable vane is moved away from the fixed vane. Thus, the car doors are disengaged from the hall doors. At this time, a direction in which the elastic force of the spring mechanism acts is switched. Consequently, the car doors and the hall doors are stably held so that the car doors remain disengaged from the hall doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tooru Kinoshita, Seiichi Someya, Satoshi Takasawa, Shin Murakami, Yoshinobu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080053788
    Abstract: There is provided a conveyor apparatus free of pulsing motion in circulating chains to provide a comfortable ride quality on steps. A conveyor apparatus 1 includes a step guide rail 3, a plurality of steps 5, a step chain 4, and a chain driving mechanism 10 for driving the step chain 4. The chain driving mechanism 10 includes a rotating and driving unit 11, a driving sprocket 12 which is rotated by a driving force given by the rotating and driving unit 11, and circulating chain 13 for giving a thrust to the step chain 4. The circulating chain 13 has chain links 13a and hinges 13b to be connected to the adjacent chain links 13a. The chain link 13a includes a placing surface 13c on which the step roller 4b is placed, and pressing surfaces 13d and 13d that are in contact with step rollers 4b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Kenzo Tonoki, Taihei Koyama, Yoshio Ogimura, Takayuki Kikuchi, Nobuhiro Oku, Shin Murakami, Hitoshi Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20070268102
    Abstract: A miniature surface-mount electronic component which can ensure sufficient impact resistance and vibration resistance especially in an application to a severe use environment such as a vehicle-mounted coil, by putting some contrivance into a method for fixing a coil in a molding process and a method for holding a core and terminals. A miniature surface-mount electronic component including a bar-shaped core 2 on which a winding wire 3 is wound, and metal plates 5, with an outer casing 7 made of an insulating resin molded, includes flanges 2b substantially quadrangular in section at both ends of the bar-shaped core 2, and vertical grooves a and b are provided on side surfaces of the flanges 2b of the bar-shaped core 2 as fixing portions for preventing positional displacement occurring when the outer casing 7 is molded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Toko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yagi, Shingo Shimizu, Shin Murakami
  • Publication number: 20070231348
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes at least five internal genes from an influenza virus isolate that replicates to high titers in embryonated chicken eggs or MDCK cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Taisuke Horimoto, Shin Murakami
  • Patent number: 7243760
    Abstract: An elevator door unit includes cage doors, a cage door lock unit, hall doors, and a lock release unit. The cage doors are provided in a cage which moves in a shaft. The cage door lock unit limits and locks the opening width of the cage doors to the width not to permit passing of passengers. The hall doors are provided in a landing hall, and opened interlocking with the cage doors, when the cage stops in a range of facing to the cage doors. The lock release unit releases the cage door lock unit within the opening width by opening the cage doors by manual operation, when the cage stops in a range that the cage doors face to the hall doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Toshiba Elevator Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenzo Tonoki, Yoshiaki Fujita, Shin Murakami, Norihito Togashi
  • Publication number: 20060243535
    Abstract: An elevator door apparatus includes an engaging device which engages car doors with hall doors. The engaging device uses a spring unit to urge a movable vane provided in each of the car doors. While the doors are moving, engaging rollers supported by the hall doors are sandwiched between the movable vane and a fixed vane. Thus, the driving forces of the car doors are transmitted to the hall doors. When the hall doors reach a door stop position, the movable vane is moved away from the fixed vane. Thus, the car doors are disengaged from the hall doors. At this time, a direction in which the elastic force of the spring mechanism acts is switched. Consequently, the car doors and the hall doors are stably held so that the car doors remain disengaged from the hall doors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Inventors: Tooru Kinoshita, Seiichi Someya, Satoshi Takasawa, Shin Murakami, Yoshinobu Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20060237283
    Abstract: A conveyor apparatus comprises step chains which couple a plurality of steps such that the steps, and driving units which drive the chains. Each of the driving units comprises a power unit comprising a motor, and a driving machine including pulleys and belts that reduce a rotation speed of the motor so as to meet a required reduction gear ratio and transfer the rotation speed to the chains, and a pair of right and left driving mechanisms that convert a rotary movement transferred from the machine of the power unit via an eccentric shaft into a movement of rocking units, and apply a propelling force to the chains via pin rollers provided at any one of sides of the rocking units and the chains and gears provided at the other side of the rocking units and the chains to engage with the rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshio Ogimura, Takayuki Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Shin Murakami
  • Patent number: 7042411
    Abstract: A triaxial antenna coil prevents wires from snapping, increases productivity, is resilient against dropping, and is suitable for being made small and light. A triaxial antenna coil includes coils, that are wound around three intersecting winding axes, and a flat core having winding grooves in three intersecting axial directions. A base has a terminal element, that is fitted with a plurality of external connectors and terminal connectors of windings. The base is fixed to one face of the core. The coils are wound in respective winding grooves, and their terminals are connected to the terminal connectors of the terminal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Toko Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yagi, Shin Murakami
  • Publication number: 20050269038
    Abstract: A sealing device for an elevator door includes a doorway member, doors, a movable member, a push-down mechanism and a sealing mechanism. The doorway member is provided for a gate. The doors open or close along the doorway member. The movable member is set horizontally and provided to be movable in a vertical direction in the doorway member, and it is urged upwards by an urging unit. The push-down mechanism pushes down the movable member against the force of the urging unit just before the doors are closed. The sealing mechanism is kept non-contact with the doors while they are moving, and seals the gap between the doors and the doorway member as it is brought into contact with upper section of the doors when the movable member is pushed down by the push-down mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Shin Murakami, Toru Kinoshita
  • Publication number: 20050083242
    Abstract: A triaxial antenna coil prevents wires from snapping, increases productivity, is resilient against dropping, and is suitable for being made small and light. A triaxial antenna coil includes coils, that are wound around three intersecting winding axes, and a flat core having winding grooves in three intersecting axial directions. A base has a terminal element, that is fitted with a plurality of external connectors and terminal connectors of windings. The base is fixed to one face of the core. The coils are wound in respective winding grooves, and their terminals are connected to the terminal connectors of the terminal element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yagi, Shin Murakami
  • Publication number: 20040206582
    Abstract: An elevator door unit comprises cage doors, a cage door lock unit, hall doors, and a lock release unit. The cage doors are provided in a cage which moves in a shaft. The cage door lock unit limits and locks the opening width of the cage doors to the width not to permit passing of passengers. The hall doors are provided in a landing hall, and opened interlocking with the cage doors, when the cage stops in a range of facing to the cage doors. The lock release unit releases the cage door lock unit within the opening width by opening the cage doors by manual operation, when the cage stops in a range that the cage doors face to the hall doors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Kenzo Tonoki, Yoshiaki Fujita, Shin Murakami, Norihito Togashi
  • Patent number: 6640935
    Abstract: An elevator including a cage for accommodating passengers configured to move up and down in a shaft along a guide rail, a support base attached to a lower portion of the cage, a plurality of car sheaves rotatably secured to the support base through respective axles, a cable placed around the car sheaves and configured to suspend the cage, and at least one damper coupled to the cage and configured to attenuate vibration transferred from the cable to the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shin Murakami, Shigeo Nakagaki, Yoshiaki Fujita
  • Patent number: 6488124
    Abstract: In an elevator, a driving unit is installed at the top of an elevator shaft above a counterweight. Traction sheaves engage with ropes and are rotated by the driving device. These traction sheaves are positioned close to wall surfaces of the elevator shaft, that are adjacent to its wall surface facing the counterweight. The traction sheaves are also positioned outside the horizontally projected plane of a car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kunio Yasuda, Yoshiaki Fujita, Kosei Kamimura, Ikuo Asami, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Tadashi Munakata, Shin Murakami, Yoshinobu Ishikawa, Takeshi Miyata, Mitsuo Hayase
  • Patent number: 6443266
    Abstract: An elevator including a cage configured to move up and down in a shaft along a guide rail, a plurality of car sheaves installed at a bottom of the cage, a cable placed around the car sheaves and configured to suspend the cage, a hoisting machine having a traction sheave configured to drive the cable, a base extending in a width direction of the cage and configured to support the car sheaves, and a first elastic member disposed between the cage and the base so as to attenuate vibration transferred to the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shin Murakami, Yasuyuki Wagatsuma, Tadashi Shudo
  • Publication number: 20010047908
    Abstract: An elevator including a cage configured to move up and down in a shaft along a guide rail, a plurality of car sheaves installed at a bottom of the cage, a cable placed around the car sheaves and configured to suspend the cage, a hoisting machine having a traction sheave configured to drive the cable, a base extending in a width direction of the cage and configured to support the car sheaves, and a first elastic member disposed between the cage and the base so as to attenuate vibration transferred to the cage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Publication date: December 6, 2001
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: SHIN MURAKAMI, YASUYUKI WAGATSUMA, TADASHI SHUDO