Patents by Inventor Shuichi Tamura
Shuichi 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).
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Patent number: 9893594Abstract: Provided is an armature for a rotating electrical machine, which is capable of improving heat dissipation performance of an edgewise coil to enhance efficiency of the rotating electrical machine. The armature for a rotating electrical machine includes: a core including a yoke section and a tooth section that protrudes from the yoke section; an edgewise coil to be inserted onto the tooth section through intermediation of an insulating member, the edgewise coil being formed by winding a rectangular wire having a rectangular conductor cross-section through edgewise bending; and a heat transfer member filled into a gap between the tooth section and the edgewise coil. The armature has different gaps formed at two regions between the tooth section and a long side of the edgewise coil.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichiro Yoshida, Shuichi Tamura, Masaya Inoue, Akihiro Yamamura, Koichi Ojima, Shogo Okamoto, Yutaro Shirai
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Patent number: 9869975Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Teruhiko Fujisawa, Shuichi Tamura
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Publication number: 20170343964Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: November 30, 2017Inventors: Teruhiko FUJISAWA, Shuichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20170324291Abstract: In an armature coil according to the present invention and, more particularly, in an armature coil including a plurality of coil conductors wound around a plurality of slots which are formed in a stator core and opened on the radially inner side, the circumferential width of the plurality of the coil conductors is formed in a substantially trapezoidal shape which gets narrower toward the radially inner side and the cross-sectional areas of the plurality of the coil conductors in the slot are each substantially the same and the circumferential width thereof is formed narrower as the coil conductor is arranged toward the radially inner side; and one coil conductor is formed in a convex shape and another coil conductor is formed in a concave shape along the convex shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Koji TAMURA, Shuichi TAMURA, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Issei DOI, Hiroyuki MATSUO, Yasukazu NISHIMURA, Sachiko KAWASAKI, Akihiko MORI
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Publication number: 20170315510Abstract: An electronic timepiece includes an outer case, a back cover, and an antenna for receiving radio waves disposed in the outer case, wherein at least one of the outer case and the back cover is formed from a titanium alloy composed of aluminum in an amount of 3.50 mass % or more and 4.50 mass % or less and vanadium in an amount of 20.00 mass % or more and 23.00 mass % or less, with the remainder including titanium and impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Atsushi KOBAYASHI, Takahiro WATANABE, Shuichi TAMURA
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Patent number: 9766597Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Teruhiko Fujisawa, Shuichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9705374Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuro Hino, Akihiro Yamamura, Shuichi Tamura, Akira Hashimoto, Tetsuya Yokogawa, Atsushi Sakaue, Kazunori Muto
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Patent number: 9701053Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for manufacturing a fixing member includes: a metal mold capable of holding a base material of the fixing member in an inside thereof; and an injecting member including a group of openings configured to inject a liquid rubber containing a needle-like filler into the metal mold in which the base material is held. The injecting member is configured so that a ratio of a total perimeter of the group of openings to a sum of a perimeter of an inner surface of the metal mold and an outer surface of the base material is 1.3 or more and 3.3 or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Hiroto Sugimoto, Shinsuke Takahashi, Shigeaki Takada, Takeshi Suzuki, Jun Miura, Yutaka Arai
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Publication number: 20170102628Abstract: Provided is a recorded material in which a recording liquid is satisfactorily fixed to a recording medium and which has a sufficient chroma and a sufficient lightness, in high-speed printing. The recorded material comprises a recording medium, a toner particle including colorant particles, and a cured resin including the toner particle and fixing a toner image formed of the toner particle onto the recording medium, wherein an average circularity of the toner particle is not less than 0.70 and not more than 0.99, the toner particle is not exposed from a surface of the cured resin, and an average distance between wall surfaces of the adjacent toner particles is not less than 10 nm and less than 125 nm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Toru Kabashima, Shuhei Takahashi, Shuichi Tamura, Shinichirou Yoshikawa, Toshihiko Sugimoto, Erito Machida, Junji Ito, Jiro Ishizuka, Yuji Nakayama, Koji Amemiya
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Patent number: 9606486Abstract: An elastic layer includes a needle-shaped filler and a void and has a porosity of 20 vol % or more and 60 vol % or less. The elastic layer contains a first area and a second area. The first area extends from a surface of the elastic layer opposite to a surface facing the mandrel toward the mandrel and has a thickness of 30% of the thickness of the elastic layer. The second area is a central area in a thickness direction of the elastic layer and has a thickness of 40% of the thickness of the elastic layer. The needle-shaped filler in the second area has an orientation degree of 50% or lower. The needle-shaped filler in the first area has an orientation degree higher than that of the needle-shaped filler in the second area.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yutaka Arai, Takeshi Suzuki, Jun Miura, Shigeaki Takada, Toshinori Nakayama, Naoki Akiyama, Daigo Matsuura, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Shinsuke Takahashi, Hiroto Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20170060099Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Teruhiko FUJISAWA, Shuichi TAMURA
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Publication number: 20170047808Abstract: A radially outer insulating paper includes: an annular radially outer insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially inner side of a row of first coil terminals; and radially outer insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially outward from an axially outer end portion of the radially outer insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent first coil terminals axially further outward than second bent portions; and a radially inner insulating paper includes: an annular radially inner insulating paper base portion that is disposed on a radially outer side of a row of second coil terminals; and radially inner insulating paper protruding portions that each protrude radially inward from an axially outer end portion of the radially inner insulating paper base portion, and that are inserted between adjacent second coil terminals axially further outward than fourth bent portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Tatsuro HINO, Akihiro YAMAMURA, Shuichi TAMURA, Akira HASHIMOTO, Tetsuya YOKOGAWA, Atsushi SAKAUE, Kazunori MUTO
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Publication number: 20170023915Abstract: A timepiece has a solar panel including a plurality of solar cells; a dial disposed on the face side of the solar panel and configured to transmit a light; a molding member disposed to the face side of the dial overlapping the outside edge of the dial when seen from the face side of the timepiece; and an opaque light shield disposed on the face side of the dial on the inside side of the molding member; the solar panel having connectors that connect adjacent solar cells in series, and at least part of each connector is covered by the light shield when seen from the face.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Inventors: Akihiro Sawada, Shuichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9523963Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2015Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Teruhiko Fujisawa, Shuichi Tamura
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Patent number: 9367009Abstract: A fixing member used for fixing a toner image on a recording material includes: a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer and containing a needle-like filler. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof in a first region where the elastic layer is contactable to the recording material on the fixing member, and the thermal conductivity is 6 times to 900 times a thermal conductivity with respect to a thickness direction in the first region. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction thereof in a second region outside the first region with respect to the longitudinal direction, and the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the second region is larger than the thermal conductivity with respect to the thickness direction in the first region.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Naoki Akiyama, Shigeaki Takada, Daigo Matsuura, Yasuhiro Miyahara, Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Toshinori Nakayama, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura, Takeshi Suzuki, Katsuhisa Matsunaka, Shinsuke Takahashi, Hiroto Sugimoto
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Publication number: 20160161920Abstract: An electronic timepiece has a time display unit including a dial made from a non-conductive material, and hands; and a movement that drives the hands. The movement includes a circuit board, a planar antenna attached to the circuit board, a stepper motor that drives the hands, and a battery. The planar antenna, the stepper motor, and the battery are disposed to positions overlapping the time display unit in plan view, and not overlapping each other in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2015Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Teruhiko FUJISAWA, Shuichi TAMURA
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Patent number: 9348282Abstract: A fixing member, includes: a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer and configured to contain a needle-like filler. The elastic layer has a thermal conductivity, with respect to a longitudinal direction thereof, which is 6 times to 900 times a thermal conductivity with respect to a thickness direction thereof. The elastic layer has an open cell rate larger at longitudinal end portions than at a longitudinal central portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shuichi Tamura, Akeshi Asaka, Hiroto Sugimoto, Shinsuke Takahashi, Shigeaki Takada, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura
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Patent number: 9335690Abstract: A pressing roller includes a cylindrical core metal; a first rubber layer of non-porous material provided on the core metal; and a second rubber layer of porous material provided on the first rubber layer, wherein the second rubber layer includes a thermo-conductive filler dispersed therein such that a thermal conductivity of the second rubber layer in a longitudinal direction is higher than a thermal conductivity thereof in a thickness direction, and wherein the first rubber layer includes a thermo-conductive filler dispersed therein such that a thermal conductivity of the first rubber layer in an thickness direction is higher than a thermal conductivity of the second rubber layer in the thickness direction of the second rubber layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akeshi Asaka, Shuichi Tamura, Daigo Matsuura, Shigeaki Takada, Naoki Akiyama, Yasuhiro Miyahara
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Patent number: 9268273Abstract: A pressing rotatable member for use with an image heating apparatus including a base layer; and a porous elastic layer provided on the base layer, wherein the elastic layer has a thermal conductivity in an axial direction thereof and a thermal conductivity in a circumferential direction thereof which are not less than 6-times and not more than 900-times a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Miyahara, Shigeaki Takada, Toshinori Nakayama, Daigo Matsuura, Naoki Akiyama, Shuichi Tamura, Yutaka Arai, Jun Miura, Takeshi Suzuki, Katsuhisa Matsunaka
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Publication number: 20160043604Abstract: The rotary electric machine includes concentrated winding coil that is configured by winding a conductor wire around a tooth for multiple laps so as to pass through a concave space that is formed by trunk portions and first and second flange portions of first and second insulators, a crossover points of the conductor wire being formed on a coil end of the concentrated winding coil that is positioned above the first insulator, slot-housed portions of the concentrated winding coil that are positioned on two circumferential sides of the tooth being configured such that the conductor wire is arranged in a staggered stacking pattern in multiple rows and in multiple layers, and a varnish being applied to the coil end that is positioned above the first insulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2013Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Shinichiro YOSHIDA, Michiya YASUI, Toshiyuki SUGAI, Shuichi TAMURA, Yuki YAMAMOTO, Masaya INOUE, Akihiro YAMAMURA