Patents by Inventor Takao Ohba

Takao Ohba 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: 5511201
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus which includes a display unit and a power supply controller for supplying power to the display unit. The display unit has a display screen and a back light controller. The power supply controller comprises a switch, at least one output line for receiving the power from the switch and for supplying therethrough the power to electronic devices, a delay circuit for receiving the power from the switch and when the switch is turned ON to start supply of the power, for outputting the power after passage of a predetermined time from the start of the power supply, and a second output line for supplying the power from the delay circuit to the back light controller therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Video & Information System, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideki Kamimaki, Kiyokazu Nishioka, Tsuguji Tachiuchi, Nobuo Tsuchiya, Masahiro Jinushi, Hitoshi Sadamitsu, Hiroshi Ito, Takashi Yoshitomi, Koichi Isaji, Takao Ohba
  • Patent number: 5504924
    Abstract: An electronic computer cooling system having a cooling apparatus to cool an electronic computer and cooling members for thermally connecting semiconductor devices whose operating speeds are raised by cooling to a low temperature source of the cooling apparatus. Circuit boards onto which the semiconductor devices and the like constructing the electronic computer are mounted and the cooling apparatus such as a refrigerating apparatus and the like are compactly enclosed in a single casing. Or, the circuit boards and the cooling apparatus are compactly enclosed in separate detachable casings, respectively. Thus, a structure in which desired semiconductor devices can be certainly cooled by using the cooling members is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingeo Ohashi, Tadakatsu Nakajima, Heikichi Kuwahara, Toshio Hatada, Hitoshi Matsushima, Motohiro Sato, Hiroshi Inouye, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 5428503
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for electronic equipment for improving the reliability of the equipment by making uniform the temperature distribution of heat generating devices mounted on the electronic equipment, more particularly on a computer and for reducing the working process required at the time of performing a maintenance of a printed circuit board in the electronic equipment by stacking, in a frame, the electronic printed circuit boards on which the heat generating devices, such as a CPU and memories, are mounted at predetermined intervals. The cooling apparatus has a fan fastened to one wall surface of a chamber and a plurality of jet cooling devices formed on the surface opposing the wall surface. The jet cooling devices are formed in parallel to the printed circuit boards. The jet cooling devices are slits, or nozzles or jet stream ducts extending among the printed circuit boards and are so formed as to supply cooling air in a jet stream state to each heat generating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Matsushima, Toshihiro Komatu, Yoshihiro Kondou, Toshio Hatada, Susumu Iwai, Tetsuro Honma, Toshiki Iino, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 5365402
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus for an electronic device of high calorific density including an elastomer interposed between a semiconductor chip and a heat sink so as to connect them thermally. The elastomer may also be in close contact with a large number of semiconductor chips having various configurations which are mounted on a board, so that the elastomer is thermally connected with them, whereby the elastomer absorbs thermal deformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hatada, Shigeo Ohashi, Tadakatsu Nakajima, Heikichi Kuwahara, Hitoshi Matsushima, Motohiro Sato, Hiroshi Inouye, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa, Kanji Otsuka, Yuuji Shirai
  • Patent number: 5361188
    Abstract: In a cooling apparatus of an electronic equipment, a plurality each of integrated circuit devices and large-scale integrated circuit devices are mounted onto a plurality of substrates, respectively, and a cooling fan supplies cooling air from outside to each of these integrated circuit devices. A duct having a comb-tooth shape suitable for encompassing each substrate and defining flow paths along the substrates introduces the cooling air supplied by the cooling fan to each of the integrated circuit devices. The duct includes a plurality of small holes disposed at positions corresponding to the positions of the integrated circuit devices on the substrates and having open areas corresponding to the heating values of the integrated circuit devices. The small holes flow the cooling air supplied by the cooling fan as jet streams to the integrated circuit devices. This jet stream cooling improves cooling performance and can make uniform the temperature distribution of the integrated circuit devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kondou, Hitoshi Matsushima, Toshio Hatada, Hiroshi Inouye, Toshihiro Komatsu, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa
  • Patent number: 5315482
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus comprises a heat diffusing plate and a surface installing printed board. A semiconductor device of a high heat generation is installed on the heat diffusing plate. A surface installing package and chip parts are installed on both surfaces of the printed board. A through hole is formed at the center of the printed board so that the semiconductor device is located at the center. The heat diffusing plate on which the semiconductor device has been installed and the surface installing printed board are connected and integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Tanaka, Hiroichi Shinohara, Kazuji Yamada, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa, Hitoshi Yoshidome, Yuji Shirai, Toshio Hatada, Munehisa Kishimoto, Michiharu Honda
  • Patent number: 5313362
    Abstract: In a small-sized computer of a natural air-cooling type, a high-temperature radiator promotes natural convection so as to increase a quantity of heat radiation and to raise the allowable limit of heat generation of LSI chips, thereby improving the processing speed of the computer. For this purpose, a casing and fins are utilized as heat radiators at relatively low temperatures of about 40.degree. C. which are safe even if they are touched by an operator's hands. On the other hand, the high-temperature radiator set at about 50.degree. to 60.degree. C. is provided inside of the casing, thus preventing the operator's hands from touching it directly. Heat generated by the LSI chips and so forth is transmitted to the high-temperature radiator through heat conduction or the like, and heat exchange is performed between the high-temperature radiator increased in temperature and the air introduced into the casing, in order to promote natural convection inside of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hatada, Hiroshi Inouye, Takao Ohba, Susumu Iwai
  • Patent number: 5195576
    Abstract: An LSI cooling apparatus having various structures is used in electronic devices such as computer systems. In particular, the LSI cooling of apparatus is suitable for cooling of LSIs having high heat generating densities. In a cooling apparatus of the present invention, a heat sink is constructed to be small in pressure loss and excellent in cooling performance. This is because the heat sink comprises thin wire fins so set that the Reynold's number may not exceed 40. As a result, LSIs generating a large amount of heat can be cooled. Further, a heat sink having rigidity can be obtained by disposing wide-width wire drawn substances in thin wires or by using supports. Further, a computer comprising LSIs equipped with heat sinks can cope with various cooling air sending methods and it can be cooled with low noises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Hatada, Hitoshi Matsushima, Yoshihiro Kondou, Hiroshi Inoue, Kanji Otsuka, Yuji Shirai, Takao Ohba, Akira Yamagiwa