Patents by Inventor Shinobu Tamura

Shinobu Tamura 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: 11335623
    Abstract: [Purpose] To provide is a method capable of producing a heat-dissipating unit easily and at low cost. [Solution] The method of producing a heat-dissipating unit 12 includes: inserting pins 17 punched out of a second plate member 22 for pins into a plurality of through-holes 16 formed in a first plate member 20 for a substrate. In the first plate member 20, a plurality of substrate forming portions 25 is provided side by side in the longitudinal direction of the first plate member 20. In the second plate member 22, a plurality of pin punch-out portions 26 is provided side by side in the longitudinal direction of the second plate member 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinobu Tamura, Takayuki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11075143
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a casing including a top wall, a bottom wall, and a cooling fluid passage. A heat radiator arranged in the cooling fluid passage includes heat radiation units arranged in a vertical direction and at least one intermediate plate each of which is arranged between adjacent heat radiation units of the heat radiation units in the vertical direction. Each of the heat radiation units includes a substrate and pin fins provided on the substrate. The substrate of each of the heat radiation units and the at least one intermediate plate are spaced apart in the vertical direction. The pin fins of the adjacent heat radiation units are in thermal contact with the at least one intermediate plate. The pin fins of the uppermost and lowermost heat radiation units of the heat radiation units are in thermal contact with the top and bottom walls of the casing, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinobu Tamura, Takayuki Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 10770373
    Abstract: A radiator for a liquid cooling type cooling device includes a plurality of fin plates and connecting members integrally connecting all the fin plates. The fin plate includes a vertically elongated rectangular flat plate body and narrow portions integrated with both end portions of the plate body. All the fin plates are arranged at intervals in the thickness direction of the plate body. The connecting member is formed into a corrugated shape and includes flat plate portions each integrated with the narrow portion of the plate body and arcuate portions and each connecting the adjacent flat plate portions. The plate body, the narrow portion, and the flat plate portion are equal in thickness. Both side surfaces of the plate body, both side surfaces of the narrow portion, and both side surfaces of the flat plate portion are positioned on the same plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Shinobu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20190393132
    Abstract: A radiator for a liquid cooling type cooling device includes a plurality of fin plates and connecting members integrally connecting all the fin plates. The fin plate includes a vertically elongated rectangular flat plate body and narrow portions integrated with both end portions of the plate body. All the fin plates are arranged at intervals in the thickness direction of the plate body. The connecting member is formed into a corrugated shape and includes flat plate portions each integrated with the narrow portion of the plate body and arcuate portions and each connecting the adjacent flat plate portions. The plate body, the narrow portion, and the flat plate portion are equal in thickness. Both side surfaces of the plate body, both side surfaces of the narrow portion, and both side surfaces of the flat plate portion are positioned on the same plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Shinobu TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190221501
    Abstract: [Purpose] To provide is a method capable of producing a heat-dissipating unit easily and at low cost. [Solution] The method of producing a heat-dissipating unit 12 includes: inserting pins 17 punched out of a second plate member 22 for pins into a plurality of through-holes 16 formed in a first plate member 20 for a substrate. In the first plate member 20, a plurality of substrate forming portions 25 is provided side by side in the longitudinal direction of the first plate member 20. In the second plate member 22, a plurality of pin punch-out portions 26 is provided side by side in the longitudinal direction of the second plate member 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinobu TAMURA, Takayuki MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20190139863
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus is provided with a casing having a top wall and a bottom wall and having a cooling fluid passage provided therein and a heat radiator disposed in the cooling fluid passage. The heat radiator is composed of a plurality of heat radiation units arranged in a vertically stacked manner and an intermediate plate arranged between adjacent heat radiation units. The heat radiation unit is composed of a substrate and a plurality of pin-like fins provided on the upper and lower surfaces of the substrate. The substrate of the heat radiation unit and the intermediate plate are separated in the vertical direction. The upper side pin-like fin of the upper end heat radiation unit is brazed to the top wall and the lower side pin-like fin of the lower end heat radiation unit is brazed to the bottom wall. To the intermediate plate between the adjacent heat radiation units, the pin-like fins of the heat radiation unit positioned on the upper and lower sides of the intermediate plate are brazed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinobu TAMURA, Takayuki MATSUZAWA
  • Patent number: 9671179
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a cooling-liquid inlet and a cooling-liquid outlet, and an outflow pipe connected to the cooling-liquid outlet. The casing includes a cooling-liquid outflow portion, and the cooling-liquid outlet is formed in a top wall of the cooling-liquid outflow portion. The outflow pipe has a bottom wall parallel to a portion of the top wall of the cooling-liquid outflow portion where the cooling-liquid outlet is formed. The bottom wall has a through hole for communication with the cooling-liquid outlet. A guide portion is provided on a portion of an upper surface of a bottom wall of the cooling-liquid outflow portion, the portion corresponding to the cooling-liquid outlet, so as to change, toward an upward direction, the flow direction of cooling liquid flowing into the cooling-liquid outflow portion. Thus, a flow resistance which cooling liquid undergoes when flowing out of the casing can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Patent number: 9406585
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing which has a cooling-liquid inlet formed at a rear end portion of the casing and a cooling-liquid outlet formed at a front end portion of the casing. A corrugated fin for forming a plurality of flow channels through which a cooling liquid flows from the rear side toward the front side is disposed within the casing to be located between the cooling-liquid inlet and the cooling-liquid outlet. A heat-generating-body mounting region is provided on an outer surface of a top wall of the casing. Projections which come into contact with front and rear end portions of the corrugated fin to thereby position the corrugated fin in the front-rear direction are provided on an inner surface of the bottom wall of the casing at positions shifted, in the left-right direction, from an inner surface region corresponding to the heat-generating-body mounting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Patent number: 9190344
    Abstract: A casing of a liquid-cooled-type cooling device has a peripheral wall including mutually facing right and left side walls. A cooling-liquid inlet is formed at one end of the right side wall, and a cooling-liquid outlet is formed at an end of the left side wall corresponding to the other end of the right side wall. A parallel-flow-channel section is provided within the casing to be located between the left and right side walls and between the cooling-liquid inlet and outlet and includes flow channels through which cooling liquid flows. Internal regions of the casing located upstream and downstream of the parallel-flow-channel section serve as inlet and outlet header sections, respectively. The cross-sectional area of the inlet header section reduces from the cooling-liquid inlet toward the left side wall. The outlet and inlet header sections are asymmetric in shape with respect to the width direction of the parallel-flow-channel section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Patent number: 9159645
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing having a cooling-liquid inlet and a cooling-liquid outlet. A fin for forming flow channels is disposed within the casing between the inlet and the outlet. A portion of the interior of the casing located rearward of the fin is an inlet header section, and a portion of the interior of the casing located frontward of the fin is an outlet header section. A rear side surface within the inlet header section is skewed toward the fin in a direction from the right side toward the left side. A positioning vertical surface extending straight along the left-right direction and positioning a rear end portion of the fin is provided on a lower portion of a left end portion of the rear side surface within the inlet header section. The rear end portion of the fin is in contact with the positioning vertical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20150189791
    Abstract: A radiator for a liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a plurality of elongated rectangular fin plates and rod-shaped connection members. The fin plates are disposed, while being separated from one another in the thickness direction, such that their width direction coincides with the vertical direction. The connection members extend in a direction intersecting with the longitudinal direction of the fin plate, and connect and unite all the fin plates together. A first cutout is formed in an upper side edge portion of each fin plate, and a second cutout is formed in a lower side edge portion thereof at a position shifted from the first cutout in the longitudinal direction of the fin plate. The connection members are press-fitted into the first and second cutouts such that they do not project from the cutouts, whereby all the fin plates are connected and united together by the connection members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventor: Shinobu TAMURA
  • Patent number: 8958208
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an insulation substrate, a metal wiring layer, a semiconductor element, a heat sink, and a stress relaxation member located between the insulation substrate and the heat sink. The heat sink has a plurality of partitioning walls that extend in one direction and are arranged at intervals. The stress relaxation member includes a stress absorbing portion formed by through holes extending through the entire thickness of the stress relaxation member. Each hole is formed such that its dimension along the longitudinal direction of the partitioning walls is greater than its dimension along the arranging direction of the partitioning walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Shinobu Tamura, Shinobu Yamauchi, Taizo Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20130256867
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an insulation substrate, a metal wiring layer, a semiconductor element, a heat sink, and a stress relaxation member located between the insulation substrate and the heat sink. The heat sink has a plurality of partitioning walls that extend in one direction and are arranged at intervals. The stress relaxation member includes a stress absorbing portion formed by through holes extending through the entire thickness of the stress relaxation member. Each hole is formed such that its dimension along the longitudinal direction of the partitioning walls is greater than its dimension along the arranging direction of the partitioning walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Shinobu Tamura, Shinobu Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 8472193
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an insulation substrate, a metal wiring layer, a semiconductor element, a heat sink, and a stress relaxation member located between the insulation substrate and the heat sink. The heat sink has a plurality of partitioning walls that extend in one direction and are arranged at intervals. The stress relaxation member includes a stress absorbing portion formed by through holes extending through the entire thickness of the stress relaxation member. Each hole is formed such that its dimension along the longitudinal direction of the partitioning walls is greater than its dimension along the arranging direction of the partitioning walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Showa Denko K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Shinobu Tamura, Shinobu Yamauchi, Taizo Kuribayashi
  • Publication number: 20120182695
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an insulation substrate, a metal wiring layer, a semiconductor element, a heat sink, and a stress relaxation member located between the insulation substrate and the heat sink. The heat sink has a plurality of partitioning walls that extend in one direction and are arranged at intervals. The stress relaxation member includes a stress absorbing portion formed by through holes extending through the entire thickness of the stress relaxation member. Each hole is formed such that its dimension along the longitudinal direction of the partitioning walls is greater than its dimension along the arranging direction of the partitioning walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Shinobu TAMURA, Shinobu YAMAUCHI, Taizo KURIBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20120175765
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is disclosed that includes an insulation substrate, a metal wiring layer, a semiconductor element, a heat sink, and a stress relaxation member located between the insulation substrate and the heat sink. The heat sink has a plurality of partitioning walls that extend in one direction and are arranged at intervals. The stress relaxation member includes a stress absorbing portion formed by through holes extending through the entire thickness of the stress relaxation member. Each hole is formed such that its dimension along the longitudinal direction of the partitioning walls is greater than its dimension along the arranging direction of the partitioning walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicants: SHOWA DENKO K.K., KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Shinobu TAMURA, Shinobu YAMAUCHI, Taizo KURIBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 7966044
    Abstract: A medium storing a program for display control. When the program is executed by a computer realized in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal operates as follows. An area-information storing unit stores information on a first display area of an external display device and a second display area of a built-in display. A screen-data production unit acquires content to be displayed, and produces screen data corresponding to the first display area. An entire-image display unit divides the screen data into partial areas each corresponding to the second display area, adds to the entire screen data area-display data indicating the extent of each partial area and a corresponding identifier, and displays the screen data on the external display device. On receipt of an identifier, a partial-image display unit extracts a portion of the screen data for a partial area corresponding to the identifier, and displays the portion on the built-in display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Frontech Limited
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Hashimoto, Yoshiyuki Okada, Yoshiaki Kageyama, Shinobu Tamura, Rumiko Matsuda, Koji Sato, Shigenori Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20100252235
    Abstract: A casing of a liquid-cooled-type cooling device has a peripheral wall including mutually facing right and left side walls. A cooling-liquid inlet is formed at one end of the right side wall, and a cooling-liquid outlet is formed at an end of the left side wall corresponding to the other end of the right side wall. A parallel-flow-channel section is provided within the casing to be located between the left and right side walls and between the cooling-liquid inlet and outlet and includes flow channels through which cooling liquid flows. Internal regions of the casing located upstream and downstream of the parallel-flow-channel section serve as inlet and outlet header sections, respectively. The cross-sectional area of the inlet header section reduces from the cooling-liquid inlet toward the left side wall. The outlet and inlet header sections are asymmetric in shape with respect to the width direction of the parallel-flow-channel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo Mori, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Publication number: 20100051235
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled-type cooling device includes a casing which has a cooling-liquid inlet formed at a rear end portion of the casing and a cooling-liquid outlet formed at a front end portion of the casing. A corrugated fin for forming a plurality of flow channels through which a cooling liquid flows from the rear side toward the front side is disposed within the casing to be located between the cooling-liquid inlet and the cooling-liquid outlet. A heat-generating-body mounting region is provided on an outer surface of a top wall of the casing. Projections which come into contact with front and rear end portions of the corrugated fin to thereby position the corrugated fin in the front-rear direction are provided on an inner surface of the bottom wall of the casing at positions shifted, in the left-right direction, from an inner surface region corresponding to the heat-generating-body mounting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shogo MORI, Hideyasu Obara, Taizo Kuribayashi, Shinobu Tamura
  • Patent number: D822625
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SHOWA DENKO K.K.
    Inventors: Shinobu Tamura, Takayuki Matsuzawa