Patents by Inventor Takehito Tamaoka

Takehito Tamaoka 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: 11946491
    Abstract: A liquid feeder includes a pump which is prevented from idling, and a replenisher including a cylinder that is a bottomed tube including an opening on a side adjacent to a communication flow path, the opening being connected to the communication flow path, and that is capable of accommodating a liquid in at least a portion of the cylinder, a seal that is housed in the cylinder in a movable manner along the cylinder, and seals the liquid in the cylinder, and a pressurizer to pressurize the seal toward a pump chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takahiro Imanishi, Yoshihisa Kitamura, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Patent number: 11937400
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first heat dissipator, a second heat dissipator, a first tank connected to one side of each of the first heat dissipator and the second heat dissipator in a first direction, and a second tank connected to another side in the first direction. A coolant flows through an inside of the first heat dissipator, the second heat dissipator, the first tank, and the second tank. The first tank includes a tank-side first outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a first cooling device, and a tank-side first inflow port through which the coolant from the first cooling device flows in. The second tank includes a tank-side second outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a second cooling device, and a tank-side second inflow port through which the coolant from the second cooling device flows in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Takashima, Takehito Tamaoka, Toshihiko Tokeshi
  • Patent number: 11920879
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a radiator, a first tank, and a pump assembly. The radiator cools liquid and extends in a first direction. The first tank is connected to the radiator, and the liquid passes through the first tank. The pump assembly is connected to the first tank and circulates the liquid flowing in from the first tank. The radiator includes a pipe through which the liquid passes. The pipe extends along the first direction. The pump assembly is located on one side in the first direction of the radiator. The pump assembly includes a first pump, a second pump, and a flow path portion. The first pump feeds and circulates the liquid. The second pump feeds and circulates the liquid. The flow path portion guides the liquid fed from the first pump and the second pump toward an outside of the pump assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Genki Horiguchi, Takehito Tamaoka, Takaya Okuno
  • Publication number: 20240008224
    Abstract: A cooling assembly includes a radiator, a pump and a casing. The radiator includes a plurality of refrigerant flow paths and a plurality of ventilation paths. The radiator is operable to cool a refrigerant circulating in the plurality of refrigerant flow paths with air flowing through the plurality of ventilation paths. The pump is connected to the radiator to pressurize the refrigerant. The casing accommodates the radiator and the pump. The radiator is inclined with respect to a first surface of the casing. At least a portion of the pump is positioned between the radiator and the first surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 11841183
    Abstract: A cooling unit includes a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a tank defining a tank chamber that stores a refrigerant, the tank including an outer tank surface and an inner tank surface, and a pump defining a pump chamber, the pump including an outer pump surface and an inner pump surface. The pump chamber is spaced away from and outside of the tank chamber. A portion of the outer tank surface and a portion of the outer pump surface are directly adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction. The pump chamber accommodates a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant. An upper end of the tank chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction is positioned higher than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Publication number: 20230389226
    Abstract: A cold plate includes an opposing portion, a cover portion, and a heat exchange chamber. The opposing portion opposes a heat generating component on one side in a first direction. The cover portion is arranged on another side of the opposing portion in the first direction. The heat exchange chamber includes at least the opposing portion and the cover portion to conduct heat from the heat generating component to a refrigerant through the opposing portion. The opposing portion includes a first cooling surface and a second cooling surface. The first cooling surface is provided on the one side in the first direction. The second cooling surface is provided on the one side in the first direction. The second cooling surface is spaced away from the first cooling surface in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke KAWATA, Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230389228
    Abstract: A cooling assembly is connectable with a cold plate that comes into thermal contact with a heat source, and includes a first manifold, a second manifold, and a radiator. The first manifold causes a refrigerant having circulated through a first pipe to flow out from outflow ports toward the cold plate. In the second manifold, the refrigerant flowing into inflow ports from the cold plate circulates through a second pipe. In the radiator, the refrigerant having circulated through the second pipe circulates through the flow paths arranged side by side at intervals. Each of the first and second pipes opposes a portion of the radiator in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Keisuke KAWATA, Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 11725650
    Abstract: A liquid feeder switches a flow path of a liquid having flowed in from an inflow port to one of a flow path communicating with a first base communication port and a bypass outflow path. When a pump is attached to a base, the bypass outflow path is closed to allow the liquid having flowed in from the inflow port to flow to the pump. When the pump is removed from the base, the bypass outflow path is opened to allow the liquid having flowed in from the inflow port to flow from the bypass outflow path to the outflow port. The liquid feeder is able to prevent liquid leakage when a pump of a liquid feeder is replaced or repaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kitamura, Takaya Okuno, Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Akihiko Makita
  • Publication number: 20230247792
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a first cooling section, a second cooling section, a first pump section, a second pump section, a branch section, a first flow path section, a second flow path section, a merging section, and a connection section. The branch section branches a refrigerant into two. The first flow path section connects the first cooling section and the first pump section, and one portion of the refrigerant passes through the first flow path section. The second flow path section connects the second cooling section and the second pump section, and another portion of the refrigerant passes through the second flow path section. The merging section merges the refrigerant having passed through each of the first flow path section and the second flow path section. The connection section connects the first and second flow path sections between the branch section and the merging section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Yoshimasa KITAMURA, Naoyuki TAKASHIMA, Takehito TAMAOKA, Toshihiko TOKESHI
  • Publication number: 20230069806
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a radiator, a first tank, and a pump assembly. The radiator cools liquid and extends in a first direction. The first tank is connected to the radiator, and the liquid passes through the first tank. The pump assembly is connected to the first tank and circulates the liquid flowing in from the first tank. The radiator includes a pipe through which the liquid passes. The pipe extends along the first direction. The pump assembly is located on one side in the first direction of the radiator. The pump assembly includes a first pump, a second pump, and a flow path portion. The first pump feeds and circulates the liquid. The second pump feeds and circulates the liquid. The flow path portion guides the liquid fed from the first pump and the second pump toward an outside of the pump assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Genki HORIGUCHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Takaya OKUNO
  • Publication number: 20230008735
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus includes a cold plate made of a metal, a casing, a pump, a ground wire, and a conductive component. The pump includes a motor to drive an impeller, and a circuit board to control the motor. The circuit board is connected to the ground wire. The conductive component electrically connects the cold plate to the ground wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takehito TAMAOKA, Takahiro IMANISHI
  • Patent number: 11523540
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling plate with a bottom wall portion with a lower surface which contacts a heat-generating component, a top wall portion which covers an upper surface of the bottom wall portion, a side wall portion which couples the bottom wall portion and the top wall portion, and an internal space which is surrounded by the bottom wall portion, the top wall portion, and the side wall portion to define a first cooling medium flow passage. The bottom wall portion includes blades on the upper surface. An inlet port or an outlet port is on one end side of the first cooling medium flow passage. An inner peripheral wall of the side wall portion includes a first bent portion which is bent convex inward between ends of the blades and the at least one of the inlet port and the outlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Patent number: 11497148
    Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooling assembly which includes a cold plate extending in a first direction, a pump and a tank on one side of the cold plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a partition extending in the first direction and covering the cold plate on one side in the second direction. The cold plate and the partition define a first refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The pump includes a pump chamber in which an impeller is housed, the impeller moving the refrigerant. The tank includes a tank chamber in which the refrigerant flows. The pump chamber and the tank chamber communicate with each other through a first tank hole portion. The partition includes a first hole portion through which the first refrigerant flow path and the tank chamber communicate. The first tank hole portion is provided on one side in the first direction with respect to the first hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Patent number: 11470743
    Abstract: A cooling device includes at least two cooling units, each cooling unit including a plate-shaped cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a radiator extending in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction and having a plurality of plate-shaped fins which, on the cold plate, is disposed parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a pump which supplies a refrigerant liquid to the cold plate and the radiator, in which the pump is adjacent to the radiator and is disposed in the second direction of the radiator, and the pump of one first cooling unit of the two cooling units faces the other second cooling unit of the two cooling units in the second direction or in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Nobuya Nakae, Takahiro Imanishi, Akihiko Makita, Takehito Tamaoka
  • Publication number: 20220316787
    Abstract: A cooling unit includes a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, a tank defining a tank chamber that stores a refrigerant, the tank including an outer tank surface and an inner tank surface, and a pump defining a pump chamber, the pump including an outer pump surface and an inner pump surface. The pump chamber is spaced away from and outside of the tank chamber. A portion of the outer tank surface and a portion of the outer pump surface are directly adjacent to one another in the horizontal direction. The pump chamber accommodates a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant. An upper end of the tank chamber in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction is positioned higher than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Nobuya NAKAE
  • Publication number: 20220287204
    Abstract: A heat dissipation device includes a first heat dissipator, a second heat dissipator, a first tank connected to one side of each of the first heat dissipator and the second heat dissipator in a first direction, and a second tank connected to another side in the first direction. A coolant flows through an inside of the first heat dissipator, the second heat dissipator, the first tank, and the second tank. The first tank includes a tank-side first outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a first cooling device, and a tank-side first inflow port through which the coolant from the first cooling device flows in. The second tank includes a tank-side second outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a second cooling device, and a tank-side second inflow port through which the coolant from the second cooling device flows in.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Naoyuki TAKASHIMA, Takehito TAMAOKA, Toshihiko TOKESHI
  • Publication number: 20220243735
    Abstract: A pump device includes a first pump, a second pump, and a casing. The first pump and the second pump are centrifugal pumps. The casing includes a first pump chamber in which the first pump is located and a second pump chamber in which the second pump is located. The first pump chamber includes a first bottom surface, a first side surface, a first inlet, and a first outlet. The first bottom surface is located on one side in the first direction with respect to a first motor of the first pump. The first side surface is connected to the first bottom surface and extends in the first direction. The first outlet is open with respect to the first side surface. The second pump chamber includes a second bottom surface, a second side surface, a second inlet, and a second outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshihisa KITAMURA, Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Takaya OKUNO
  • Patent number: 11397039
    Abstract: A cooling unit has a cold plate extending in a horizontal direction, and a tank and a pump disposed above the cold plate in a first direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction. The tank has a tank chamber which stores a refrigerant. The pump has a pump chamber in which a rotating body that transfers the refrigerant is accommodated, and an upper end of the tank chamber in the first direction is positioned at an upper side than an upper end of the pump chamber in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Tokeshi, Takehito Tamaoka, Nobuya Nakae
  • Publication number: 20220232731
    Abstract: A tank includes a housing, a tank chamber inflow hole, a tank chamber outflow hole, and a protruding flow path. The housing includes a tank chamber. Liquid flows into the tank chamber from the tank chamber inflow hole. Liquid in the tank chamber flows out from the tank chamber outflow hole. The protruding flow path is connected to the tank chamber outflow hole, and protrudes into the tank chamber from the tank chamber outflow hole. With this arrangement, outflow of gas from the tank chamber through which liquid flows is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Naoyuki TAKASHIMA, Takehito TAMAOKA, Toshihiko TOKESHI
  • Publication number: 20220151101
    Abstract: A liquid feeder includes a first casing with a flow path, and a pump. An upstream flow path located upstream of the pump and communicating with a pump inlet includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a third flow path, a fourth flow path, a fifth flow path, and a sixth flow path that are located on one side in a first direction, another side in the first direction, one side in a second direction, another side in the third direction, one side in the third direction, and another side in the third direction with respect to the pump inlet, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOKESHI, Takehito TAMAOKA, Naoyuki TAKASHIMA