Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Maeoka

Tatsuo Maeoka 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: 6305365
    Abstract: An ignition apparatus for a gasoline engine of independent cylinder type with low-voltage wiring has no distributor, and a CDI (Capacitor Discharge Ignitor) is employed to improve the ignition characteristic of lean mixture. In order to lengthen a discharge time of the ignition apparatus of CDI type, the primary winding of a transformer in series with a switching element is connected in parallel to a capacitor, the ends of which are connected to a DC power supply. The switching element includes an IGBT and a diode connected in parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Maeoka, Yoshimasa Yabu
  • Patent number: 5525951
    Abstract: Two coils 3a, 3b are wound over adjacent portions of a first magnetic core having two closed magnetic circuits and a second magnetic core. The winding directions of the two coils are set so that the magnetomotive forces generated by both coils may cancel each other in the second magnetic core. The magnetic fluxes flowing in the first magnetic core decrease the higher harmonics of an input current of the power source circuit, while the magnetic fluxes flowing in the second magnetic core 2 decrease the noise between the line and the ground. That is, the choke coil performs the function of choke coil and the function of noise filter at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1996
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Sunano, Yusuke Ikeda, Tsunetsugu Imanishi, Tatsuo Maeoka
  • Patent number: 5146394
    Abstract: An improved regenerative control type power supply device having a higher efficiency is disclosed. The power supply device has: a first switching elements which is connected in series with the primary winding of a transformer (this series circuit is connected to the terminals of a DC power source); a second switching element; a capacitor which is connected in series with the second switching means (this series circuit is connected to the primary winding); a rectifying and smoothing circuit for rectifying and smoothing a flyback voltage which generates in the secondary winding and for outputting a resulting DC voltage; and a drive circuit for driving alternately the first and second switching means with predetermined ON-OFF periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Ishii, Tatsuo Maeoka
  • Patent number: 4988958
    Abstract: An AC power source apparatus to be used in an AC corona generator necessary for a de-electrification/separation process, which is one of electrographic image forming processes, or in a case where a low frequency AC power source is required, has a construction such that a high-frequency pulse, whose time ratio is modulated trapezoidally with time, is applied to switching elements connected in inverse-series across a primary winding of a transformer, an inductance element having a regenerative diode and a reset winding is inserted between an intermediate tap of the primary winding of the transformer and a DC power supply input terminal, and an LC filter is formed by stray capacitance of a secondary winding of the transformer, whereby a desired output waveform can be produced with a simple circuit construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tosiaki Tsuruoka, Tatsuo Maeoka, Masafumi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4947312
    Abstract: An AC power source apparatus to be used in an AC corona generator necessary for a de-electrification/separation process, which is one of electrographic image forming processes, or in a case where a low frequency AC power source is required, has a construction such that a high-frequency pulse, whose time ratio is modulated trapezoidally with time, is applied to switching elements connected in inverse-series across a primary winding of a transformer, an inductance element having a regenerative diode and a reset winding is inserted between an intermediate tap of the primary winding of the transformer and a DC power supply input terminal, and an LC filter is formed by stray capacitance of a secondary winding of the transformer, whereby a desired output waveform can be produced with a simple circuit construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 7, 1990
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tosiaki Tsuruoka, Tatsuo Maeoka, Masafumi Nakamura