Patents by Inventor Shinichi Miwa

Shinichi Miwa 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: 11916164
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes providing the light-emitting element that includes a light-emitting layer with an emission wavelength of not more than 306 nm and a p-type layer including AlGaInN including Mg as an acceptor, and removing hydrogen in the p-type layer from the light-emitting element by irradiating the light-emitting element with ultraviolet light at a wavelength of not more than 306 nm from outside and treating the light-emitting element with heat in a state in which a reverse voltage, or a forward voltage lower than a threshold voltage of the light-emitting element, or no voltage is applied to the light-emitting element. The removing of hydrogen in the p-type layer from the light-emitting element is performed in a N2 atmosphere at not less than 650° C. or in a N2+O2 atmosphere at not less than 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., MEIJO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yoshiki Saito, Shinya Boyama, Shinichi Matsui, Hiroshi Miwa, Kengo Nagata, Tetsuya Takeuchi, Hisanori Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11569142
    Abstract: This semiconductor device is provided with a device substrate in which a semiconductor circuit including two high frequency amplifiers; a cap substrate and a sealing frame of a conductor which forms and air-tightly seals space surrounding an area, in which the semiconductor circuit is formed, between the device substrate and the cap substrate, wherein the sealing frame is configured as a line of a 90-degree hybrid circuit or a line of a rat-race circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 11511596
    Abstract: An acoustic wave generation unit oscillates working fluid of 35 atm or less so as to generate acoustic waves with a frequency in a range from 50 Hz or more and 500 Hz or less. A heat/acoustic wave conversion component has a partition wall of 5.0 W/mK or less between two end faces which defines a plurality of cells of 620 cells/cm2 or more and 3100 cells/cm2 or less. A heat exchanger disposed close to one end face receives heat from a first external air flowing into the heat exchanger and gives the heat to the one end face so as to flow out a cold air. Another heat exchanger disposed close to the other end face receives heat from the other end face and gives the heat to a second external air flowing into the another heat exchanger so as to flow out a warm air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 11164828
    Abstract: An amplifier includes a transistor chip including a plurality of transistor cells, a gate pad, and a drain pad, a matching substrate having a surface on which a metal pattern is formed, a terminal with a width larger than a width of the transistor chip and than a width of the matching substrate, a plurality of terminal wires connecting the terminal to the metal pattern, and a plurality of chip wires connecting the metal pattern to the transistor chip. Inter-wire distances of portions of the plurality of terminal wires connected to the metal pattern are larger than inter-wire distances between portions of the plurality of terminal wires connected to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei Fukunaga, Shinichi Miwa, Yoshinobu Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11125131
    Abstract: A heat generation system including: a liquid storage tank; a heating element including: a reaction container having a storage space, and a porous body stored in the storage space, and loaded with an exothermic reaction solid that causes an exothermic reaction when being in contact with the liquid; a liquid injection mechanism member including: a liquid flow pipe that communicates between the liquid storage tank and the storage space of the reaction container, through which the liquid flows, and an injection unit that injects the liquid into the storage space; and discharge mechanism member including: a discharge pipe that communicates with the storage space of the reaction container, and a discharge unit that discharges a liquid product generated by the exothermic reaction caused by contact between the liquid and the exothermic reaction solid, and a vaporized material of the liquid, from the storage space through the discharge pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 11015876
    Abstract: A porous honeycomb heat storage structure including: a honeycomb structure which has a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells extending one end face to the other end face and allows a reaction medium to flow into the cells; and a heat storage portion which is configured by filling a heat storage material performing heat storage and heat dissipation by a reversible chemical reaction with the reaction medium or physical adsorption/desorption in at least a portion of each cells, wherein the heat storage portion has an area ratio in a range from 60% to 90% with respect to a cross sectional area of a honeycomb cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Publication number: 20210057295
    Abstract: This semiconductor device is provided with a device substrate in which a semiconductor circuit including two high frequency amplifiers; a cap substrate and a sealing frame of a conductor which forms and air-tightly seals space surrounding an area, in which the semiconductor circuit is formed, between the device substrate and the cap substrate, wherein the sealing frame is configured as a line of a 90-degree hybrid circuit or a line of a rat-race circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shinichi MIWA
  • Publication number: 20200118950
    Abstract: An amplifier includes a transistor chip including a plurality of transistor cells, a gate pad, and a drain pad, a matching substrate having a surface on which a metal pattern is formed, a terminal with a width larger than a width of the transistor chip and than a width of the matching substrate, a plurality of terminal wires connecting the terminal to the metal pattern, and a plurality of chip wires connecting the metal pattern to the transistor chip. Inter-wire distances of portions of the plurality of terminal wires connected to the metal pattern are larger than inter-wire distances between portions of the plurality of terminal wires connected to the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Kei FUKUNAGA, Shinichi MIWA, Yoshinobu SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10495072
    Abstract: The thermoacoustic energy converting element part includes a plurality of through holes extending along a uniform direction to penetrate a body of the thermoacoustic energy converting element part to form traveling paths of acoustic waves. The element part includes a wall surrounding each of the through holes to extend in an extending direction of the through hole and configured to exchange heat between the fluid. The through hole includes a through hole that has a hydraulic diameter of 0.4 mm or smaller, and an open area ratio of the through holes is 60% or higher. A first layer and a second layer are alternately provided on the wall of the thermoacoustic energy converting element part along the extending direction. A porosity of the first layer is 0% or smaller than a porosity of the second layer. The thermal conductivity of the structure of the thermoacoustic energy converting element part along the extending direction is 2 W/m/K or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 10480832
    Abstract: The thermoacoustic energy converting element part is provided with a plurality of through holes extending along a direction to penetrate the thermoacoustic energy converting element part to form travelling routes of acoustic waves. The thermoacoustic energy converting element part includes a wall surrounding each of the through holes to extend in an extending direction of the through hole and configured to exchange heat with the fluid. The through hole includes a hole that has a hydraulic diameter of 0.4 mm or smaller, and an open area ratio of the through holes in the thermoacoustic energy converting element part is 60% or higher. Thermal conductivity of the thermoacoustic energy converting element part in fluid atmosphere is 0.4 W/m/K or lower, and heat capacity of the thermoacoustic energy converting element part at 400° C. in the fluid atmosphere is higher than 0.5 J/cc/K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Publication number: 20190339024
    Abstract: A porous honeycomb heat storage structure including: a honeycomb structure which has a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells extending one end face to the other end face and allows a reaction medium to flow into the cells; and a heat storage portion which is configured by filling a heat storage material performing heat storage and heat dissipation by a reversible chemical reaction with the reaction medium or physical adsorption/desorption in at least a portion of each cells, wherein the heat storage portion has an area ratio in a range from 60% to 90% with respect to a cross sectional area of a honeycomb cross section orthogonal to an axial direction of the honeycomb structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Shinichi MIWA
  • Publication number: 20190329625
    Abstract: An acoustic wave generation unit oscillates working fluid of 35 atm or less so as to generate acoustic waves with a frequency in a range from 50 Hz or more and 500 Hz or less. A heat/acoustic wave conversion component has a partition wall of 5.0 W/mK or less between two end faces which defines a plurality of cells of 620 cells/cm2 or more and 3100 cells/cm2 or less. A heat exchanger disposed close to one end face receives heat from a first external air flowing into the heat exchanger and gives the heat to the one end face so as to flow out a cold air. Another heat exchanger disposed close to the other end face receives heat from the other end face and gives the heat to a second external air flowing into the another heat exchanger so as to flow out a warm air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Shinichi Miwa
  • Publication number: 20190301331
    Abstract: A heat generation system including: a liquid storage tank; a heating element including: a reaction container having a storage space, and a porous body stored in the storage space, and loaded with an exothermic reaction solid that causes an exothermic reaction when being in contact with the liquid; a liquid injection mechanism member including: a liquid flow pipe that communicates between the liquid storage tank and the storage space of the reaction container, through which the liquid flows, and an injection unit that injects the liquid into the storage space; and discharge mechanism member including: a discharge pipe that communicates with the storage space of the reaction container, and a discharge unit that discharges a liquid product generated by the exothermic reaction caused by contact between the liquid and the exothermic reaction solid, and a vaporized material of the liquid, from the storage space through the discharge pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Shinichi MIWA
  • Patent number: 10393449
    Abstract: A heat storage member including a substrate containing a SiC sintered body as a principal ingredient and a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by a reversible chemical reaction with a reaction medium or a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by physical adsorption to a reaction medium and physical desorption from a reaction medium. The substrate has a three-dimensional network structure including a skeleton having porosity of 1% or less. A void ratio of a void formed in the three-dimensional network structure of the substrate is ranging from 30 to 95%. The heat storage material is disposed at least in a part of a surface of the void in the three-dimensional network structure of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: NGK Insulators, Ltd., NGK Adrec Co., Ltd., Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Shinichi Miwa, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Iori Himoto, Yukitaka Kato, Jun Kariya
  • Patent number: 10371460
    Abstract: A heat storage member including: a substrate containing a SiC sintered body as a principal ingredient; a coating layer disposed at least to a part of surface of the substrate; and a heat storage material disposed at least to a part of a surface of the coating layer and configured to store and radiate heat by a reversible chemical reaction with a reaction medium or a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by physical adsorption to a reaction medium and by physical desorption from a reaction medium. A softening point of the coating layer is a temperature at 1000° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: NGK Insulators, Ltd., NGK Adrec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miwa, Toshiharu Kinoshita, Iori Himoto
  • Patent number: 10279559
    Abstract: The method includes: a formed body forming step of forming each of a plurality of honeycomb-segment formed bodies by extrusion; an aggregate formation step of forming a honeycomb-segment aggregate by applying a fluid bonding material to side faces of the honeycomb-segment formed bodies, and arranging the honeycomb-segment formed bodies so that the side faces are brought into contact with each other; an aggregate shaping step of shaping the honeycomb-segment aggregate by performing a press treatment to the side faces of the honeycomb-segment aggregate; and a drying/firing step of drying and firing the honeycomb-segment aggregate, wherein the aggregate shaping step are performed while keeping the water amount of each of the honeycomb-segment formed bodies to be 30 mass % or more, each of the honeycomb segments has cell density that is 620 cells/cm2 or more, and the press treatment is performed with a contact pressure of 0.005 kg/cm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 9976467
    Abstract: An exhaust system includes: an exhaust pipe defining an exhaust path of exhaust gas to atmosphere; a recirculation pipe defining a recirculation path separating a part of exhaust gas passing through the exhaust pipe and allowing the part to flow back to a power unit; a purification unit purifying exhaust gas by catalyst; and a heating device heating exhaust gas before purification to activate the purification ability of the catalyst. The heating device includes: an acoustic-wave generator generating acoustic waves by absorbing heat from exhaust gas passing through the recirculation pipe and by giving the heat to working fluid to cause the working fluid to oscillate, and a heat transfer part transferring heat of exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe passing through a downstream position from the purification unit to exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe passing through an upstream position from the purification unit by using acoustic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kasai, Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 9906217
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a depletion-type field-effect transistor including a gate terminal, a drain terminal and a source terminal; a group III-V heterojunction bipolar transistor including a base terminal, an emitter terminal electrically connected to the gate terminal and a collector terminal connected to same potential as that of the source terminal; a first resistor connected between the base terminal and the emitter terminal; and a second resistor connected between the base terminal and the collector terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shohei Imai, Kazuya Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Sasaki, Shinichi Miwa
  • Patent number: 9869303
    Abstract: A heat/acoustic wave conversion component having a first end face and a second end face, includes a partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from the first end face to the second end face, inside of the cells being filled with working fluid that oscillates to transmit acoustic waves, the heat/acoustic wave conversion component mutually converting heat exchanged between the partition wall and the working fluid and energy of acoustic waves resulting from oscillations of the working fluid. Hydraulic diameter HD of the heat/acoustic wave conversion component is 0.4 mm or less, where the hydraulic diameter HD is defined as HD=4×S/C, where S denotes a cross-sectional area of each cell perpendicular to the cell extending direction and C denotes a perimeter of the cross section, and the heat/acoustic wave conversion component has three-point bending strength of 5 MPa or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Shinichi Miwa, Naomi Noda, Yuji Deguchi, Teruyoshi Mori, Kazuhiko Hamatsuka, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Masayuki Hironaga, Kazuhiko Kumazawa
  • Publication number: 20170284746
    Abstract: A heat storage member including a substrate containing a SiC sintered body as a principal ingredient and a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by a reversible chemical reaction with a reaction medium or a heat storage material configured to store and radiate heat by physical adsorption to a reaction medium and physical desorption from a reaction medium. The substrate has a three-dimensional network structure including a skeleton having porosity of 1% or less. A void ratio of a void formed in the three-dimensional network structure of the substrate is ranging from 30 to 95%. The heat storage material is disposed at least in a part of a surface of the void in the three-dimensional network structure of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicants: NGK INSULATORS, LTD., NGK Adrec Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi MIWA, Toshiharu KINOSHITA, Iori HIMOTO