Patents by Inventor Teruo Maruyama
Teruo Maruyama 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).
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Publication number: 20230228787Abstract: A movable member coupled to a displacement detector via a void is disposed with respect to a fixed member to which a coil is fixed. By disposing the coil in a closed loop magnetic circuit including a permanent magnet, the movable-side member, and the fixed member, a Lorentz force for moving the movable-side member in the axial direction is generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Teruo MARUYAMA, Kozo OKAMOTO, Michihiko TANI, Takumi OKADA
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Patent number: 11335491Abstract: The present invention controls the pressure and flow rate of fluid, in order to obtain uniform performance, configure a closed loop magnetic circuit so as to include an electromagnet, a flapper, and a yoke material, and elastically deform the flapper itself by Maxwell attractive force generated between a magnetic pole of the electromagnet and the flapper to make the separation distance between the nozzle and the flapper variable. As opposed to a rigid flapper structure that swingably moves around a supporting point, like a conventional servo valve, the electromagnet, the magnetic pole, the nozzle, the flapper, and the like are arranged such that a change in magnetic gap directly leads to a change in air gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TOKKYOKIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Takumi Okada, Satoki Yamaguchi, Masataka Nakashima
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Publication number: 20200018418Abstract: The present invention controls the pressure and flow rate of fluid, in order to obtain uniform performance, configure a closed loop magnetic circuit so as to include an electromagnet, a flapper, and a yoke material, and elastically deform the flapper itself by Maxwell attractive force generated between a magnetic pole of the electromagnet and the flapper to make the separation distance between the nozzle and the flapper variable. As opposed to a rigid flapper structure that swingably moves around a supporting point, like a conventional servo valve, the electromagnet, the magnetic pole, the nozzle, the flapper, and the like are arranged such that a change in magnetic gap directly leads to a change in air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Takumi Okada, Satoki Yamaguchi, Masataka Nakashima
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Patent number: 10465816Abstract: The present invention controls the pressure and flow rate of fluid, in order to obtain uniform performance, configure a closed loop magnetic circuit so as to include an electromagnet, a flapper, and a yoke material, and elastically deform the flapper itself by Maxwell attractive force generated between a magnetic pole of the electromagnet and the flapper to make the separation distance between the nozzle and the flapper variable. As opposed to a rigid flapper structure that swingably moves around a supporting point, like a conventional servo valve, the electromagnet, the magnetic pole, the nozzle, the flapper, and the like are arranged such that a change in magnetic gap directly leads to a change in air gap.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: TOKKYOKIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Takumi Okada, Satoki Yamaguchi, Masataka Nakashima
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Publication number: 20160228889Abstract: The present invention controls the pressure and flow rate of fluid, in order to obtain uniform performance, configure a closed loop magnetic circuit so as to include an electromagnet, a flapper, and a yoke material, and elastically deform the flapper itself by Maxwell attractive force generated between a magnetic pole of the electromagnet and the flapper to make the separation distance between the nozzle and the flapper variable. As opposed to a rigid flapper structure that swingably moves around a supporting point, like a conventional servo valve, the electromagnet, the magnetic pole, the nozzle, the flapper, and the like are arranged such that a change in magnetic gap directly leads to a change in air gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Takumi Okada, Satoki Yamaguchi, Masataka Nakashima
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Patent number: 8833511Abstract: In a conventional hard material insulator, reproduced sound can be tuned with use of characteristics of the material; however, various types of acoustic materials have specific high frequency characteristics, and thus their acoustic effects lack versatility, require compatible audio devices, and change with environment, musical genre, etc. To address this, a wind-bell member (resonant member) is arranged in parallel with a main propagation path of vibration transferred from an audio device to an insulator. Accordingly, a vibration system of a wind-bell having a tone determined by many factors such as a fundamental tone, harmonic tones, lingering sound, and fluctuation assists (enhances) high frequency vibration propagated from the audio device. As a result, due to the above assist action that is different in principle from a conventional type, acoustic characteristics such as a sense of localization, resolution, and a sense of transparency and scale a sound image can be dramatically improved.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Tokkyokiki CorporationInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Satoki Yamaguchi, Akio Tajima
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Publication number: 20130206499Abstract: In a conventional hard material insulator, reproduced sound can be tuned with use of characteristics of the material; however, various types of acoustic materials have specific high frequency characteristics, and thus their acoustic effects lack versatility, require compatible audio devices, and change with environment, musical genre, etc. To address this, a wind-bell member (resonant member) is arranged in parallel with a main propagation path of vibration transferred from an audio device to an insulator. Accordingly, a vibration system of a wind-bell having a tone determined by many factors such as a fundamental tone, harmonic tones, lingering sound, and fluctuation assists (enhances) high frequency vibration propagated from the audio device. As a result, due to the above assist action that is different in principle from a conventional type, acoustic characteristics such as a sense of localization, resolution, and a sense of transparency and scale a sound image can be dramatically improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: TOKKYOKIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Kozo Okamoto, Satoki Yamaguchi, Akio Tajima
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Patent number: 7647883Abstract: A fluid supply apparatus is provided for feeding a fluid to two faces relatively moving in a clearance direction, a continuous flow supplied from the fluid supply apparatus is converted to an intermittent flow by utilizing pressure change caused by a fluctuation of a clearance space of the relative moving faces, and an intermittent discharge quantity per dot is adjusted by the number of revolutions of the fluid supply apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 19, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Inoue, Ryoji Hyuga
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Publication number: 20100001445Abstract: There is provided a vibration isolator capable of, (1) vibration isolation performance for ground motion disturbance: vibration isolation for floor vibration, and (2) vibration control performance for direct acting disturbance: suppression of swing due to driving reaction force caused by stage movement, significantly improving the above (2), i.e., the vibration control performance, with keeping the above (1), i.e., the vibration isolation performance, at a high level.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2009Publication date: January 7, 2010Applicant: TOKKYOKIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Masashi Yasuda
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Patent number: 7520967Abstract: A meniscus of applying fluid is controlled by applying a voltage to a discharge-nozzle side electrode and a counter electrode placed downstream of the discharge nozzle and by increasing or decreasing fluid pressure inside a pump chamber with use of a mechanism for rotational motion or rectilinear motion.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2004Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Sonoda, Yoshimasa Takii
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Patent number: 7470447Abstract: Fluid discharge device and method for intermittently discharging and feeding fluid in a constant amount with high speed and high precision, the fluid exemplified by various kinds of liquids such as adhesives, solder paste, fluorescent materials, electrode materials, greases, paints, hot melts, chemicals, foods and the like in production processes in the fields of electronic components, household electrical appliances, displays, and the like. By providing a fluid supply device for supplying the fluid to two surfaces that are moved relative to each other along a direction of a gap, a continuous flow supplied from the fluid supply device is converted into an intermittent flow by utilizing a pressure change due to a change in the gap of the relatively moving surfaces, while the intermittent discharge amount per dot is controlled by the rotational speed of the fluid supply device.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Inoue, Ryoji Hyuga
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Patent number: 7323960Abstract: An actuator includes an electromagnetostrictive element that has one end located on a front side and the other end located on a rear side. An output shaft penetrates the electromagnetostrictive element and is pressurized toward the rear side of the electromagnetostrictive element. A housing houses therein the electromagnetostrictive element and the output shaft, and bearing portions respectively support the front side and the rear side of the output shaft. A bias spring is provided between the rear side of the output shaft and the housing, and a displacement sensor detects a position in an axial direction of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Teruo Maruyama
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Publication number: 20070116861Abstract: In manufacturing a display panel of a PDP, a CRT, or the like, for example, a screen stripe is formed on a panel surface in a production cycle time equivalent to or faster than that of a screen printing system. By using a dispenser of a variable flow rate type for a display panel that has an effective display area in which a paste layer is to be formed and a non-effective display area in which no paste layer is to be formed, outside this effective display area, paste discharge is promptly interrupted when a discharge nozzle runs through the non-effective display area of the display panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2007Publication date: May 24, 2007Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Nobutaka Hokazono, Takayuki Furukawa, Koji Matsuo, Takashi Kanehisa, Takafumi Okubo, Takahiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20070068657Abstract: A sheet-shaped heat pipe including working fluid, a partition plate having a vapor flow path which is formed by a concave portion provided in a spacer and through which vapor of the working fluid passes and a fluid flow path provided on an inner surface of the concave portion through which the working fluid passes, a container with an opening portion, which includes the working fluid and the partition plate inside thereof, and a sealed portion for hermetically sealing the opening portion of the container. Since container has a laminated structure of at least a metal film and a resin film, it realizes a sheet-shaped heat pipe with high flexibility and little deterioration of a sealing performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventors: Kenichi Yamamoto, Teruo Maruyama, Akio Mitsuhashi, Daisuke Suetsugu, Daido Komyoji
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Publication number: 20070029070Abstract: A sheet type fluid circulating apparatus includes: a fluid path having a closed structure provided in an inner space of a stacked flexible sheet; fluid filled in the fluid path; a fluid transport unit provided in at least a part of the fluid path of the flexible sheet to circulate the fluid in the fluid path; and a control ciruit unit for controlling the fluid transport unit. A flexible compact light-weight sheet type fluid circulating apparatus can be provided, and a circuit board or a specimen in a biomedical process can be individually and optimally cooled.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2006Publication date: February 8, 2007Inventors: Kenichi Yamamoto, Teruo Maruyama, Akio Mitsuhashi, Daisuke Suetsugu, Keizaburo Kuramasu
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Patent number: 7131555Abstract: A method for discharging fluid, includes while keeping two members relatively moving to each other along a gap direction of a gap formed by two opposing surfaces of the two members, feeding fluid from a fluid supply device to the gap, and intermittently discharging the fluid by utilizing a pressure change made by changing the gap, and controlling a fluid discharge amount per dot depending on pressure and flow rate characteristics of the fluid supply device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Inoue, Ryoji Hyuga
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Patent number: 7118353Abstract: A reduced pressure or pressurizing pump is provided which can be used in a wide variety of fields of foods, pharmaceuticals, medical treatment, agriculture, healthcare equipment, room air conditioning, combustion, biotechnology, and so on. By the application of the pump of the present invention, there can be materialized, for example, an oxygen enriching apparatus or a nitrogen enriching apparatus, which have the features of an oil-free structure, a small size, compactness, low vibration, low noise, long operating life, and so on. A transport groove of a viscosity pump, which exerts a force feed action on the fluid, is formed at a relative displacement interface between a rotor and a housing, and the rotor supported by a bearing capable of coping with a high-speed rotation is rotated at a high speed.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Keigo Kusaka, Miyuki Furuya, Kazuichi Yamashita
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Publication number: 20060163759Abstract: A meniscus of applying fluid is controlled by applying a voltage to a discharge-nozzle side electrode and a counter electrode placed downstream of the discharge nozzle and by increasing or decreasing fluid pressure inside a pump chamber with use of a mechanism for rotational motion or rectilinear motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2004Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Sonoda, Yoshimasa Takii
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Patent number: 7059538Abstract: A method of applying fluid includes feeding fluid between two faces disposed with a gap maintained therebetween, and changing the gap between the two faces by driving an actuator for intermittently discharging the fluid filled in between the two faces. An input signal, in which a high-frequency component and a DC component are superimposed, is provided to drive the actuator in order to change the gap between the two faces, so that the fluid filled in between the two faces is intermittently discharged for fluid application.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Sonoda
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Publication number: 20060093493Abstract: A fluid supply apparatus for feeding a fluid to two faces relatively moving in clearance direction is disposed, a continuous flow supplied from the fluid supply apparatus is converted to an intermittent flow by utilizing pressure change caused by fluctuation of a clearance space of the relative moving faces, and an intermittent discharge quantity per dot is adjusted by the number of revolutions of the fluid supply apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Teruo Maruyama, Takashi Inoue, Ryoji Hyuga