Patents by Inventor Shinji Matsushita

Shinji Matsushita 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: 7133242
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive and magnetic disk drive control method for unloading a head safely with a simple configuration when a positioning control signal cannot be detected due, for instance, to a seek error. In one embodiment, when a head cannot detect servo information prerecorded on a disk, a positioning control section resets and starts a time counting section, and switches to an unloading control section for causing the unloading control section to output a position control signal to a VCM driver. The time counting section counts tacho-pulses generated by a motor driver, and outputs time information. The unloading control section receives the time information from the time counting section. In accordance with the received time information, the unloading control section computes the position control signal that the positioning control section outputs to the VCM driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Fujii, Sadahiro Nishida, Osamu Beppu, Shinji Matsushita, Hidefumi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 7114551
    Abstract: A cooling module designed so that the following components are stacked above a CPU: a cooling jacket allowing a cooling liquid to absorb heat generated by the CPU, a pump causing the cooling liquid to circulate, a reserve tank used to provide a supplementary cooling liquid and to bleed air from the cooling liquid, and a first radiator that cools the cooling liquid, the cooling module being also designed so that a second radiator is located at a side of the first radiator to cool the cooling liquid, wherein the cooling liquid is driven by the pump so as to circulate from the cooling jacket, which absorbs heat generated by the CPU, through the radiators to the reserve tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Matsushita, Hironori Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20060203375
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive and magnetic disk drive control method for unloading a head safely with a simple configuration when a positioning control signal cannot be detected due, for instance, to a seek error. In one embodiment, when a head cannot detect servo information prerecorded on a disk, a positioning control section resets and starts a time counting section, and switches to an unloading control section for causing the unloading control section to output a position control signal to a VCM driver. The time counting section counts tacho-pulses generated by a motor driver, and outputs time information. The unloading control section receives the time information from the time counting section. In accordance with the received time information, the unloading control section computes the position control signal that the positioning control section outputs to the VCM driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2005
    Publication date: September 14, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Fujii, Sadahiro Nishida, Osamu Beppu, Shinji Matsushita, Hidefumi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 7050299
    Abstract: An electronic module which is detachably mounted on electronic equipment. The electronic module includes a board having a heat generator mounted on a surface thereof, and a cooling jacket which is integrally attached to the electronic module. The cooling jacket is thermally coupled to the heat generator and has a passage of a cooling fluid therewithin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shigeo Ohashi, Rintaro Minamitani, Takashi Naganawa, Yuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Yasuhiko Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Osamu Suzuki, Shinji Matsushita, Yasunori Yamada
  • Patent number: 7044198
    Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket and a system for use in an electronic apparatus, preferable in the cooling capacity or performance, with less in man-hour and manufacturing costs in need of process thereof, and applicable into a narrow space, wherein a plural number of lamination plates, each being formed through the punching process, are piled up in the width direction thereof, for each piece thereof, and are bonded with each other. A cooling liquid flows in a flow passage defined between the laminating plates, and the laminating plates themselves function as a cooling fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Shinji Matsushita, Ichirou Asano, Tsunenori Takeuchi, Osamu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060039112
    Abstract: A liquid cooling system, enabling protection from corrosion due to liquid coolant for a long time-period (5-10 years) while cooling a heat-generation body effectively, comprises a pump 108, a heat-receiving jacket 107, a radiator for radiating heat into an outside, being made up with a heat-radiation pipe 201 and a heat-radiation plate 202, and further a tank 203 for accumulating the liquid coolant 209 within an inside thereof, wherein those are connected in a closed-loop, so as to circulating the cooling liquid therein, thereby cooling the heat-generation of a CPU 106, being a heat-generation element, effectively, through the heat-receiving jacket 107, and further a water-permeable bag 204 is disposed in a portion of flow path of the cooling liquid, which receives microcapsules 10 therein, each enclosing in an inside thereof anti-corrosion agent 20 for suppressing the corrosion due to the cooling liquid, including such as, a water, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Rintaro Minamitani, Shinji Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6950268
    Abstract: In a disk drive, since high-frequency repeatable runout (RRO) components own low correlative relationships between adjoining tracks, a servo control system of a magnetic head is followed to the high-frequency RRO components, and thus, in the worst case, there is a possibility that data which have been previously recorded on these tracks are destroyed. To avoid this problem, both a tracking type repetitive control unit which is followed to low-frequency RRO components, and a rejection type repetitive control unit which cancels the high-frequency RRO components are provided in a following control loop in order that the following control system is not unnecessarily followed to the high-frequency RRO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Inoue, Kiyotada Itou, Kazuhisa Shishida, Shinji Matsushita, Takao Horiguchi
  • Patent number: 6950264
    Abstract: In a disk drive system, a data transducer control during a seek operation is based on the distance to be traversed. Acceleration of a motor coupled to the head initiates movement of the head. Deceleration of the motor is initiated based on the distance traversed by the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Horiguchi, Tatsuya Ito, Takao Araki, Yoshikatsu Fujii, Shinji Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20050180108
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a case mounting a semiconductor element therein, a heat-receiving member thermally connected with the semiconductor element, a heat-radiation member disposed on an inner side surface of the case, and a liquid driver which drives a liquid coolant between the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member. The apparatus further includes a tank accumulating the liquid coolant therein and having at least a predetermined volume of the coolant to delimit a coolant surface within the tank. The tank, the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member are connected with tubes, and a suction end portion of a suction pipe connected into the tank is located at a position which is always below the coolant surface irrespective of change of position of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shinji Matsushita, Shigeo Ohashi, Takashi Naganawa, Rintaro Minamitani, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Yuuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Hajime Katou
  • Publication number: 20050178533
    Abstract: In a liquid cooling system, comprising: a heat-receiving jacket for receiving heat from a heat-generation body therein; a heat-radiator for radiating the heat therefrom, which is received within the heat-receiving jacket; and a tank for accumulating refrigerant therein, which is connected with the heat-receiving jacket and the heat-radiator through flow passages, thereby enclosing a refrigerant within the heat-receiving jacket, the heat-radiator and the tank, including the flow passages provided therebetween, and further comprising: a liquid transfer means for generating a circulation flow of the refrigerant enclosed therein, wherein the tank 14 is built up on one side surface of a substrate 15 having superior heat-conductivity and heat-resistance, defined between a flexible film or sheet 16 or 23 having superior heat-conductivity and heat-resistance, and the heat-radiator having a heat-radiation flow passage 9 on the other side surface thereof, defined between the flexible film or sheet 16 or 23 having super
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Rintaro Minamitani, Shigeo Ohashi, Takashi Naganawa, Shinji Matsushita, Hironori Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20050126752
    Abstract: A liquid cooling jacket and a system for use in an electronic apparatus, preferable in the cooling capacity or performance, with less in man-hour and manufacturing costs in need of process thereof, and applicable into a narrow space, wherein a plural number of lamination plates, each being formed through the punching process, are piled up in the width direction thereof, for each piece thereof, and are bonded with each other. A cooling liquid flows in a flow passage defined between the laminating plates, and the laminating plates themselves function as a cooling fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Shinji Matsushita, Ichirou Asano, Tsunenori Takeuchi, Osamu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6885556
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a case mounting a semiconductor element within an inside thereof, a heat-receiving member thermally connected with the semiconductor element, a heat-radiation member disposed on an inner side surface of the casing, and a liquid driver for driving a liquid coolant between the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member. The apparatus further includes a tank accumulating the liquid coolant therein with at least a predetermined volume of the coolant to delimit a coolant surface within the tank, wherein the tank, the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member are connected with tubes, and a suction end portion of a suction pipe connected into the tank is located at a position which is always below the coolant surface irrespective of change of position of the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shinji Matsushita, Shigeo Ohashi, Takashi Naganawa, Rintaro Minamitani, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Yuuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Hajime Katou
  • Publication number: 20050081534
    Abstract: In a liquid cooling system of low costs and being installable with high density into a server having a several kinds of predetermined heights of housings, each of devices building up the liquid cooling system is set to be within about 44 mm, being the standard height of a lack when installing into a cabinet for the server lack of lack-mount method, in particular, about from 40 mm to 36 mm, and this is combined with, thereby building up a liquid cooling system of low costs and enabling high density installation, for an electronic apparatus of lack-mount method having different heights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Osamu Suzuki, Shigeo Ohashi, Hitoshi Matsushima, Shinji Matsushita, Ichirou Asano, Rintaro Minamitani
  • Publication number: 20050067145
    Abstract: A cooling module designed so that the following components are stacked above a CPU: a cooling jacket allowing a cooling liquid to absorb heat generated by the CPU, a pump causing the cooling liquid to circulate, a reserve tank used to provide a supplementary cooling liquid and to bleed air from the cooling liquid, and a first radiator that cools the cooling liquid, the cooling module being also designed so that a second radiator is located at a side of the first radiator to cool the cooling liquid, wherein the cooling liquid is driven by the pump so as to circulate from the cooling jacket, which absorbs heat generated by the CPU, through the radiators to the reserve tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Shinji Matsushita, Hironori Oikawa
  • Publication number: 20050047091
    Abstract: A liquid cooling system for use in an electronic apparatus, being super small-sized and thin in the shape and being suitable for cooling a heat-generation part, such as, a semiconductor element having large amount of heat generation, for example, with maintaining the corrosion resistance thereof for a long time period, comprises: a pump for supplying a cooling liquid; a heat-receiving jacket, being supplied with the cooling liquid, for receiving heat from an electronic parts; a radiator, being supplied with the cooling liquid passing through the heat-receiving jacket, for radiation heat; and flow passages for circulating the cooling liquid in a route passing through the radiator back to said pump, wherein an ion exchange bag, having an ion exchange resin and a bag enclosing it therein, is disposed in a part of the constituent parts of the liquid cooling system, and/or the ion exchange bag is exchangeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Rintaro Minamitani, Shinji Matsushita, Shigeo Ohashi, Yoshihiro Kondo, Takashi Naganawa, Osamu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050047083
    Abstract: An electronic module which is detachably mounted on electronic equipment. The electronic module includes a board having a heat generator mounted on a surface thereof, and a cooling jacket which is integrally attached to the electronic module. The cooling jacket is thermally coupled to the heat generator and has a passage of a cooling fluid therewithin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shigeo Ohashi, Rintaro Minamitani, Takashi Naganawa, Yuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Yasuhiko Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Osamu Suzuki, Shinji Matsushita, Yasunori Yamada
  • Publication number: 20040233317
    Abstract: An imaging device for a microscope comprises an electronic camera which images an observation image captured by the microscope, a display which displays an observation image imaged by the electronic camera and photograph information of the observation image, and a display setting portion which controls the display to set display of the photograph information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20040228092
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a case mounting a semiconductor element within an inside thereof, a heat-receiving member thermally connected with the semiconductor element, a heat-radiation member disposed on an inner side surface of the casing, and a liquid driver for driving a liquid coolant between the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member. The apparatus further includes a tank accumulating the liquid coolant therein with at least a predetermined volume of the coolant to delimit a coolant surface within the tank, wherein the tank, the heat-radiation member and the heat-receiving member are connected with tubes, and a suction end portion of a suction pipe connected into the tank is located at a position which is always below the coolant surface irrespective of change of position of the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: November 18, 2004
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shinji Matsushita, Shigeo Ohashi, Takashi Naganawa, Rintaro Minamitani, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Yuuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Hajime Katou
  • Publication number: 20040221604
    Abstract: A rack-mount server system of a liquid cooling system, in which a heat-generating component such as a CPU is cooled by a coolant has a plurality of server modules with heat-generating components which are cooled by the circulating coolant. The server modules are connected in parallel to a circulation coolant path through which the coolant to cool the server modules is circulated. In the middle of the coolant circulation path is a cooling unit that cools the coolant by radiating its heat to the outside air. Furthermore, a bypass route parallel to the server modules and going around the server modules is provided in the coolant circulation path, and the circulation quantity of the coolant is controlled in the bypass route. Alternatively, the flow quantity of the coolant is controlled in each of the server modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Shigemi Ota, Shinji Matsushita
  • Patent number: 6807056
    Abstract: A plurality of electronic apparatuses, each apparatus having a closed loop cooling system, are installed in a cabinet having another closed loop fluid cooling system. Each of the closed loop fluid cooling systems includes a heat receiver and a pump. A projection is mounted on the electronic apparatus and a switching valve is arranged on the cabinet to stop or start circulation of a cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondo, Shigeo Ohashi, Rintaro Minamitani, Takashi Naganawa, Yuji Yoshitomi, Masato Nakanishi, Yasuhiko Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa, Osamu Suzuki, Shinji Matsushita, Yasunori Yamada