Patents by Inventor Takashi Atsumi

Takashi Atsumi 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: 11948711
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, a glass film, and a tension-insulation coating. When a glow discharge emission spectroscopy is conducted from a surface of the glass film toward a depth direction, an analysis starting time Ts, a time TAlp at which Al shows a maximum emission intensity, an Al emission intensity F(TAlp) at the TAlp, a time TSip at which Si shows a maximum emission intensity, and an Al emission intensity F(TSip) at the TSip satisfy 0.05?F(TSip)/F(TAlp)?0.50 and 2.0?(TAlp?Ts)/(TSip?Ts)?5.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Kataoka, Ichiro Tanaka, Haruhiko Atsumi, Kazutoshi Takeda, Ryutaro Yamagata, Nobusato Morishige
  • Publication number: 20230279946
    Abstract: In a parking lock mechanism of a transmission device including: a transmission case including at least a first and second cases detachably coupled to each other; a transmission mechanism having a transmission shaft rotatable in the transmission case and housed in the transmission case; and a parking lock mechanism configured to lock the transmission shaft as required and housed in the transmission case, a detent arm has a rotation fulcrum located in the first case while an engagement portion between the detent arm and a detent spring is located in the second case, the first case is provided with a support protrusion protruding toward the second caserelative to a mating surface between the first and second cases, and a fixed end of the detent spring is attached to the support protrusion on the second case side relative to the mating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Takashi ATSUMI
  • Patent number: 11138549
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a delivery plan making system that makes a delivery plan of articles, the system including: a storage unit that stores a restriction condition for making a delivery plan and cost information used for calculating a delivery cost based on the delivery plan; a delivery plan making and cost calculating unit that makes a delivery plan before alleviation of the restriction condition to satisfy the restriction condition and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan before the alleviation based on the cost information; and a restriction alleviating unit that alleviate the restriction condition to generate a restriction alleviation plan, wherein the delivery plan making and cost calculating unit further makes a delivery plan after alleviation of the restriction condition so as to satisfy the restriction alleviation plan and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan after the alleviation based on the cost information, and outputs the restriction alleviation plan if the delivery
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kotake, Takashi Atsumi, Takaharu Sakurada, Junko Hosoda
  • Publication number: 20200411450
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for making a thin film device and/or for reducing warp in a thin film device, the methods comprising applying at least one metal film to a convex surface of a glass substrate, wherein the glass substrate is substantially dome-shaped. Other methods disclosed include methods of determining the concavity of a glass sheet. The method includes determining the orientation of the concavity and measuring a magnitude of the edge lift of the sheet when the sheet is supported by a flat surface and acted upon by gravity. Thin film devices made according to these methods and display devices comprising such thin film devices are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: John Steele Abbott, III, Takashi Atsumi, Ahdi El-Kahlout, Yoshiki Goto, Steven Francis Hoysan, Chien Yu Hsu, Shinichi Ii, Kiat Chyai Kang, Yoshiaki Kato, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Timothy John O'Driscoll, Christian Lucien Stauter
  • Publication number: 20190080287
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a delivery plan making system that makes a delivery plan of articles, the system including: a storage unit that stores a restriction condition for making a delivery plan and cost information used for calculating a delivery cost based on the delivery plan; a delivery plan making and cost calculating unit that makes a delivery plan before alleviation of the restriction condition to satisfy the restriction condition and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan before the alleviation based on the cost information; and a restriction alleviating unit that alleviate the restriction condition to generate a restriction alleviation plan, wherein the delivery plan making and cost calculating unit further makes a delivery plan after alleviation of the restriction condition so as to satisfy the restriction alleviation plan and calculates a delivery cost of the delivery plan after the alleviation based on the cost information, and outputs the restriction alleviation plan if the delivery
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Kouichi KOTAKE, Takashi ATSUMI, Takaharu SAKURADA, Junko HOSODA
  • Publication number: 20180005960
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods for making a thin film device and/or for reducing warp in a thin film device, the methods comprising applying at least one metal film to a convex surface of a glass substrate, wherein the glass substrate is substantially dome-shaped. Other methods disclosed include methods of determining the concavity of a glass sheet. The method includes determining the orientation of the concavity and measuring a magnitude of the edge lift of the sheet when the sheet is supported by a flat surface and acted upon by gravity. Thin film devices made according to these methods and display devices comprising such thin film devices are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: John Steele Abbott, III, Takashi Atsumi, Ahdi El-Kahlout, Yoshiki Goto, Steven Francis Hoysan, Chien Yu Hsu, Shinichi Li, Kiat Chyai Kang, Yoskiaki Kato, Shawn Rachelle Markham, Timothy John O'Driscoll, Christian Lucien Stauter
  • Publication number: 20170271075
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a reactor includes: assembling an assembly constituted by a coil and a bobbin by inserting the bobbin, which includes a tube portion and a flange portion, through the coil so that a tip of the tube portion protrudes from the coil; forming a cavity by installing the assembly in a first die so that a portion of a coil lateral face comes into contact with a cavity face of the first die, and closing a second die so that the second die is opposed to the first die; and extending first press rods from a cavity face of the second die toward the bobbin in the cavity, and injecting a resin into the cavity while pressing both ends of the bobbin in an axial direction of the coil from an opposite side to the portion of the coil lateral face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio KITAMI, Takashi ATSUMI, Nobuki SHINOHARA, Takeshi OKADA
  • Patent number: 9679694
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a reactor includes: assembling an assembly constituted by a coil and a bobbin by inserting the bobbin, which includes a tube portion and a flange portion, through the coil so that a tip of the tube portion protrudes from the coil; forming a cavity by installing the assembly in a first die so that a portion of a coil lateral face comes into contact with a cavity face of the first die, and closing a second die so that the second die is opposed to the first die; and extending first press rods from a cavity face of the second die toward the bobbin in the cavity, and injecting a resin into the cavity while pressing both ends of the bobbin in an axial direction of the coil from an opposite side to the portion of the coil lateral face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio Kitami, Takashi Atsumi, Nobuki Shinohara, Takeshi Okada
  • Patent number: 9466415
    Abstract: A reactor provided with a cooler, comprising: a coil, a core formed of a soft magnetic material, the core covers an inside of the coil and an outer periphery of the coil; the cooler being arranged on both sides of the core, the core and the cooler being pressed in a stacking direction of the core and the cooler; a thickness of the core in the stacking direction being smaller than a length of a height of a surface of the core that faces the stacking direction; and the thickness of the core in the stacking direction being smaller than a length of a width of the surface of the core that faces the stacking direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mao Nobusaka, Takashi Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20150357109
    Abstract: A reactor provided with a cooler, comprising: a coil, a core formed of a soft magnetic material, the core covers an inside of the coil and an outer periphery of the coil; the cooler being arranged on both sides of the core, the core and the cooler being pressed in a stacking direction of the core and the cooler; a thickness of the core in the stacking direction being smaller than a length of a height of a surface of the core that faces the stacking direction; and the thickness of the core in the stacking direction being smaller than a length of a width of the surface of the core that faces the stacking direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mao NOBUSAKA, Takashi ATSUMI
  • Patent number: 9171666
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil, a magnetosensitive element attached to a lead wire of the coil, a magnetic shielding plate that shields the magnetosensitive element from a magnetic field of the coil, and a case body in which the magnetic shielding plate, the magnetosensitive element and the coil are housed. In the reactor, the magnetosensitive element and the coil are covered with a resin containing a magnetic material in the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20150279550
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a reactor includes: assembling an assembly constituted by a coil and a bobbin by inserting the bobbin, which includes a tube portion and a flange portion, through the coil so that a tip of the tube portion protrudes from the coil; forming a cavity by installing the assembly in a first die so that a portion of a coil lateral face comes into contact with a cavity face of the first die, and closing a second die so that the second die is opposed to the first die; and extending first press rods from a cavity face of the second die toward the bobbin in the cavity, and injecting a resin into the cavity while pressing both ends of the bobbin in an axial direction of the coil from an opposite side to the portion of the coil lateral face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akio KITAMI, Takashi ATSUMI, Nobuki SHINOHARA, Takeshi OKADA
  • Publication number: 20140320249
    Abstract: A reactor that can be disposed between stacked coolers, the reactor includes a flat case, a pair of coils, and core material. The pair of coils is (i) located in the flat case, (ii) wound in opposite directions from each other, and (iii) disposed adjacent to each other in a radial direction of the coils. The core material is covering the coils in the flat case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mao NOBUSAKA, Takashi ATSUMI
  • Publication number: 20140313671
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a refrigerant supply and discharge portion and a laminated body. The refrigerant supply and discharge portion performs supply and discharge of refrigerant with respect to the cooler. The refrigerant supply and discharge portion is placed on a first end face of the laminated body, the first end face intersecting with a first vertical direction vertical to a laminating direction in the laminated body. One of the terminal portion and the electrode terminal of the semiconductor module is placed on a second end face of the laminated body, the second end face intersecting with the first vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayuki SUGITA, Takashi ATSUMI, Shinichi MIURA
  • Patent number: 8754511
    Abstract: In order to prevent an increase in temperature of a discharge resistance discharging an electric charge accumulated in a smoothing capacitor, the present description discloses a power module. The power module has a first lead frame, a second lead frame, first and second semiconductor switches connected in series between the first lead frame and the second lead frame, a resistor connected between the first lead frame and the second lead frame, and a resin package that encapsulates the first lead frame, the second lead frame, the first semiconductor switch, the second semiconductor switch, and the resistor. In this power module, a radiator portion for radiating heat from the first lead frame and/or the second lead frame is formed in at least a part of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takashi Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20140085041
    Abstract: A reactor includes a coil, a magnetosensitive element attached to a lead wire of the coil, a magnetic shielding plate that shields the magnetosensitive element from a magnetic field of the coil, and a case body in which the magnetic shielding plate, the magnetosensitive element and the coil are housed. In the reactor, the magnetosensitive element and the coil are covered with a resin containing a magnetic material in the case.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi ATSUMI
  • Publication number: 20130335881
    Abstract: The present invention is a capacitor device comprising: one or a plurality of capacitor elements; a pair of electrode plates disposed and connected substantially in parallel to the capacitor element(s); an insulating layer formed between the pair of electrode plates; an insulating adhesive layer formed between the capacitor element(s) and the pair of electrode plates; a case body for housing the capacitor element(s) and the pair of electrode plates; and a resin molding that is filled into the case body so as to cover peripheries of the capacitor element(s) and the pair of electrode plates. A capacitor device that can be made smaller and can achieve greater reductions in loss is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Atsumi
  • Publication number: 20130113090
    Abstract: In order to prevent an increase in temperature of a discharge resistance discharging an electric charge accumulated in a smoothing capacitor, the present description discloses a power module. The power module has a first lead frame, a second lead frame, first and second semiconductor switches connected in series between the first lead frame and the second lead frame, a resistor connected between the first lead frame and the second lead frame, and a resin package that encapsulates the first lead frame, the second lead frame, the first semiconductor switch, the second semiconductor switch, and the resistor. In this power module, a radiator portion for radiating heat from the first lead frame and/or the second lead frame is formed in at least a part of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Inventor: Takashi Atsumi
  • Patent number: 8283783
    Abstract: A zinc based solder material 55 of the present invention is prepared by providing on the surface of a zinc based material 50, from which an oxide film 501 has been removed or at which an oxide film 501 does not exist, with a coating layer 51 containing primarily a metal whose oxide is more easily reducible than the oxide film 501. In a joined body and a power semiconductor module of the present invention, the zinc based solder material 55 is used in the joining portion, and after joining, the coating layer 51 does not exist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Tohoku University
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamada, Yuji Yagi, Yoshikazu Takaku, Ikuo Ohnuma, Kiyohito Ishida, Takashi Atsumi, Ikuo Nakagawa, Mikio Shirai
  • Publication number: 20100193801
    Abstract: A zinc based solder material 55 of the present invention is prepared by providing on the surface of a zinc based material 50, from which an oxide film 501 has been removed or at which an oxide film 501 does not exist, with a coating layer 51 containing primarily a metal whose oxide is more easily reducible than the oxide film 501. In a joined body and a power semiconductor module of the present invention, the zinc based solder material 55 is used in the joining portion, and after joining, the coating layer 51 does not exist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamada, Yuji Yagi, Yoshikazu Takaku, Ikuo Ohnuma, Kiyohito Ishida, Takashi Atsumi, Ikuo Nakagawa, Mikio Shirai