Patents by Inventor Taiki TANAKA

Taiki TANAKA 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: 20210057151
    Abstract: A method for producing a coil for electric apparatus of the present invention is the method for producing a coil for electric apparatus for cutting spirally a block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion, the spiral coil is formed by turning a cutting means while moving it relatively to the workpiece from a part corresponding to one end of the coil to a part corresponding the other end of the coil along a machining line spirally set in the circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion. According to the invention, since the coil is formed by cutting the continuous cutting machining plane without generating a step in design from the block-shaped workpiece formed with a cylindrical portion corresponding to the coil using a wire-tool etc., it is possible to constitute a high-quality coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
    Inventors: Yoshinori SASAKI, Masaki HASHIMOTO, Taiki TANAKA, Hiroshi SANO, Yuichi HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10913276
    Abstract: A liquid jetting head, includes: a nozzle plate having a nozzle surface in which nozzles are open, the nozzles being aligned on the nozzle surface in a first direction to form nozzle rows; a cover which is in thermal contact with ends in the first direction of the nozzle plate; and at least one heater which is in thermal contact with the cover and which is configured to heat the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10906308
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus, including: a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber arranged in a first direction; a first insulating film covering the first and second pressure chambers; a first piezoelectric element arranged to face the first pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a second piezoelectric element arranged to face the second pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a trace arranged between the first and the second piezoelectric elements adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a second insulating film covering the trace. An end, in the first direction, of a part of the second insulating film covering the trace between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is positioned inside an end of a partition wall partitioning the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Keita Hirai
  • Publication number: 20200384766
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head, having a plurality of individual flow paths, a common flow path, a first member, and a second member, is provided. Each of the individual flow paths includes a nozzle, a pressure chamber, and a connecting flow path arranged between the nozzle and the pressure chamber. The connecting flow path connects the nozzle with the pressure chamber. In the first member, a plurality of first holes each constituting the connecting flow path and a second hole constituting the common flow path are formed. The second member is arranged at a side of the connecting flow path opposite to the pressure chamber in an aligning direction, in which the nozzle, the connecting flow path, and the pressure chamber align with one another. The second member has a third hole that constitutes the common flow path but does not constitute the connecting flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200384768
    Abstract: A liquid discharging head including a flow path member with layered plates is provided. The flow path member includes a common flow path, pressure-chamber inclusive flow paths, discharging flow paths, at least one supplying flow path. The pressure-chamber inclusive flow paths are formed in a part of the plates belonging to a first plate group and are arrayed in the first direction. The discharging flow paths are formed in another part of the plates belonging to a second plate group. The at least one supplying flow path is formed in at least one of the plates belonging to a third plate group. The third plate group includes at least one of the part of the plates belonging to the second plate group. The at least one supplying flow path has a connecting portion connected with at least two of the pressure-chamber inclusive flow paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10786991
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a pressure chamber formation member having first pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, and an insulation film covering the first pressure chambers; a cover which is joined to the pressure chamber formation member and has a first convex portion and a second convex portion; and a wiring member joined to the pressure chamber formation member. Each of the first convex portion and the second convex portion has a bonding surface to the pressure chamber formation member and extends in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10744769
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: nozzles; a channel member including a plurality of pressure chambers each in communication with a corresponding one of the nozzles; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements corresponding to the pressure chambers. Each piezoelectric element includes: a vibrating film covering the corresponding pressure chamber; a piezoelectric film positioned opposite to the pressure chamber with respect to the vibrating film; a first electrode interposed between the vibrating film and the piezoelectric film; and a second electrode having compressive stress and positioned opposite to the vibrating film with respect to the piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film has a ratio of (001) orientation to (100) orientation that is equal to or greater than 50%. The vibrating film and the piezoelectric film are deflected convexly toward the corresponding pressure chamber while no potential difference is produced between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Kakiuchi, Taiki Tanaka, Yuichi Ito
  • Publication number: 20200215820
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a pressure chamber formation member having first pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, and an insulation film covering the first pressure chambers; a cover which is joined to the pressure chamber formation member and has a first convex portion and a second convex portion; and a wiring member joined to the pressure chamber formation member. Each of the first convex portion and the second convex portion has a bonding surface to the pressure chamber formation member and extends in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10693355
    Abstract: There is configured a coil unit arrangement device that forms an array coil group by arranging in a predetermined arrangement order each relevant coil of a coil unit in which a plurality of coils corresponding to a plurality of phases is connected by a jumper wire for each phase, the coil unit arrangement device including: a holding section provided with a rotatable coil unit support that supports the coil unit; and a receiving section provided with an array coil group support that supports the array coil group, the receiving section relatively turning with respect to the holding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: FUKUI PREFECTURAL GOVERNMENT
    Inventors: Yoshinori Sasaki, Taiki Tanaka, Masaki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20200189278
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus, including: a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber arranged in a first direction; a first insulating film covering the first and second pressure chambers; a first piezoelectric element arranged to face the first pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a second piezoelectric element arranged to face the second pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a trace arranged between the first and the second piezoelectric elements adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a second insulating film covering the trace. An end, in the first direction, of a part of the second insulating film covering the trace between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is positioned inside an end of a partition wall partitioning the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki TANAKA, Keita HIRAI
  • Patent number: 10675870
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20200171826
    Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator comprises a vibration plate, a first electrode, a first piezoelectric layer, a second electrode, a second piezoelectric layer and a third electrode. With respect to a top-bottom direction orthogonal to a surface of the vibration plate, the vibration plate, the first electrode, the first piezoelectric layer, the second electrode, the second piezoelectric layer and the third electrode are stacked in this order. The second piezoelectric layer is narrower than the first piezoelectric layer in a first direction parallel to the surface of the vibration plate. The third electrode extends in the first direction and covers both side surfaces of both of the first piezoelectric layer and the second piezoelectric layer in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Taiki TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200156373
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki TANAKA, Takashi YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 10618282
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a pressure chamber formation member having first pressure chambers arranged in a first direction, and an insulation film covering the first pressure chambers; a cover which is joined to the pressure chamber formation member and has a first convex portion and a second convex portion; and a wiring member joined to the pressure chamber formation member. Each of the first convex portion and the second convex portion has a bonding surface to the pressure chamber formation member and extends in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10611149
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus, including: a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber arranged in a first direction; a first insulating film covering the first and second pressure chambers; a first piezoelectric element arranged to face the first pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a second piezoelectric element arranged to face the second pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a trace arranged between the first and the second piezoelectric elements adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a second insulating film covering the trace. An end, in the first direction, of a part of the second insulating film covering the trace between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is positioned inside an end of a partition wall partitioning the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Keita Hirai
  • Patent number: 10589553
    Abstract: A liquid jetting apparatus includes: a liquid jetting module having drive elements; a wiring member including: a base material having a first surface; wirings formed on the first surface of the base material; and a protective film configured to covers the first surface of the base material and the wirings; and a heat sink. One of the protective film and the base material, of the wiring member, is formed with an opening through which at least some of the wirings are partially exposed, the wirings of the wiring member are electrically connected to terminals of the drive elements, and the heat sink is joined to the at least some of the wirings via the opening of the wiring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10583654
    Abstract: A liquid ejection apparatus is disclosed. One apparatus includes a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The lower electrode has a partial overlapping portion and a non-overlapping portion. The partial overlapping portion at least partially overlaps the pressure chamber. The partial overlapping portion of the lower electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. The upper electrode has two ends in the transverse direction. A distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to one of the two ends of the upper electrode in the transverse direction is smaller than a distance from the center of the pressure chamber in the transverse direction to a corresponding one of the two ends of the partial overlapping portion in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Tanaka, Takashi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10583655
    Abstract: A liquid ejection device is disclosed. One device includes a plurality of contacts aligned along a first direction. The plurality of contacts are positioned between two piezoelectric-element rows of four piezoelectric-element rows in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the two piezoelectric-element rows is closer to a center line of a first substrate with respect to the second direction than each of another two piezoelectric-element rows of the four piezoelectric-element rows in the second direction. Each of a plurality of piezoelectric elements of a four piezoelectric-element rows is individually connected with a corresponding one of the plurality of contacts, respectively. One of the plurality of piezoelectric elements of the another two piezoelectric-element rows connect with a corresponding one of the plurality of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Taiki Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20200061996
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid jetting apparatus, including: a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber arranged in a first direction; a first insulating film covering the first and second pressure chambers; a first piezoelectric element arranged to face the first pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a second piezoelectric element arranged to face the second pressure chamber with the first insulating film being intervened therebetween; a trace arranged between the first and the second piezoelectric elements adjacent to each other in the first direction; and a second insulating film covering the trace. An end, in the first direction, of a part of the second insulating film covering the trace between the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element is positioned inside an end of a partition wall partitioning the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Taiki TANAKA, Keita HIRAI
  • Publication number: 20200047496
    Abstract: A liquid ejection head includes: nozzles; a channel member including a plurality of pressure chambers each in communication with a corresponding one of the nozzles; and a plurality of piezoelectric elements corresponding to the pressure chambers. Each piezoelectric element includes: a vibrating film covering the corresponding pressure chamber; a piezoelectric film positioned opposite to the pressure chamber with respect to the vibrating film; a first electrode interposed between the vibrating film and the piezoelectric film; and a second electrode having compressive stress and positioned opposite to the vibrating film with respect to the piezoelectric film. The piezoelectric film has a ratio of (001) orientation to (100) orientation that is equal to or greater than 50%. The vibrating film and the piezoelectric film are deflected convexly toward the corresponding pressure chamber while no potential difference is produced between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Toru Kakiuchi, Taiki Tanaka, Yuichi Ito