Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Tashiro

Tomoyuki Tashiro 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: 8300353
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes a shaft and a hub as a conductive rotating body that supports a recording disk. Also, the bearing unit includes a conductive resin housing configured to surround at least part of the shaft to support the shaft and to be able to conduct electricity to the recording disk via the shaft. The conductive resin housing includes a conductive adhesive to be applied to secure conduction with the base housing. The conductive resin housing has an exposed portion where the inner layer of the conductive resin housing is exposed, at a position to which the conductive adhesive is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Yuji Omura
  • Publication number: 20120262823
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomoyuki TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20120214049
    Abstract: An electronic component includes an electrochemical element, an electrolyte and an outer housing. The electrochemical element includes leading terminals, an anode, a cathode, a separator, and an insulating member. Respective first ends of the leading terminals are connected to the anode and the cathode. The separator is provided between the anode and the cathode. The insulating member is provided in at least one of the separator, the anode and the cathode. The electrochemical element, impregnated with the electrolyte, has a first end face formed by laminating the anode, the separator and the cathode in sequence, and second ends of the leading terminals are led out of the first end face. The outer housing accommodates the electrochemical element and the electrolyte. The insulating member covers the separator in positions corresponding to the first ends of the leading terminals. An end of the insulating member protrudes from the first end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Tadashi IWAMOTO, Tomoyuki Tashiro, Kazumitsu Honda, Toshiaki Shimizu, Tadashi Yamane, Makoto Chijimatsu
  • Patent number: 8213114
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Watanabe, Hiroshi Iwai, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 8139316
    Abstract: A disk drive device is configured such that a wall of a base plate is provided with a through hole that guides a lead from a drive unit outside. The through hole is covered by a sealing sheet having an insertion hole. The lead is guided from inside the housing via the insertion hole of the sealing sheet. The sealing sheet carries a curable resin. The curable resin, temporarily softened during a curing process, flows into a space between the base plate and the through hole and a space between the insertion hole and the lead. The curable resin is cured in this state, ensuring the airtightness of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Yoji Furui
  • Publication number: 20110176240
    Abstract: A disk drive device comprises a hub on which a magnetic recording disk is to be mounted; a base rotatably supporting the hub through a bearing unit; a sintered core fixed to the base, the sintered core having a ring portion and nine teeth that extend radially from the ring portion; coils wound around nine teeth; and a cylindrical magnet fixed to the hub. The sintered core is formed by heat-treating an iron powder. At least one of (a) the surfaces of particles of the iron powder and (b) the surfaces of the sintered core is insulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20110116188
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes a shaft and a hub as a conductive rotating body that supports a recording disk. Also, the bearing unit includes a conductive resin housing configured to surround at least part of the shaft to support the shaft and to be able to conduct electricity to the recording disk via the shaft. The conductive resin housing includes a conductive adhesive to be applied to secure conduction with the base housing. The conductive resin housing has an exposed portion where the inner layer of the conductive resin housing is exposed, at a position to which the conductive adhesive is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Yuji Omura
  • Publication number: 20110043948
    Abstract: The disk drive device includes a base member, a hub, a bearing unit which is arranged on the base member and which rotatably supports the hub, and a spindle drive unit which drives the hub to rotate. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole, a coil wound around the salient pole and a magnet opposed to the salient pole. The hub formed of magnetic material includes an outer cylinder portion engaged with an inner circumference of a recording disk and an inner cylinder portion to which an outer circumference of the magnet is fixed. The diameter of the inner cylinder portion is larger than the diameter of the outer cylinder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori WATANABE, Hiroshi IWAI, Tomoyuki TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20110002212
    Abstract: A base plate containing aluminum as a main component and an electrically conductive counter plate are bonded together through the medium of an electrically conductive adhesive. Even when an oxide film is formed on the surface of the base plate, electrical continuity between the base plate and the counter plate, which are connected together through the medium of the electrically conductive adhesive, is improved by a process of applying a resistance lowering voltage, which reduces the resistance component due to the oxide film by causing a dielectric breakdown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Akikazu Shibata
  • Publication number: 20100254044
    Abstract: The present invention provides a disk drive device that can easily be reduced in size with a simple structure by reducing foreign matters floating in a lubricant to reduce inconvenience caused by the floating foreign matters. The disk drive device includes a fixed body section, a rotating body section, a bearing unit and a drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki TASHIRO
  • Publication number: 20100238590
    Abstract: A disk drive device is provided with a base, a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted, a bearing unit arranged on the base and configured to rotatably support the hub, and a spindle drive unit configured to rotatably drive the hub. A circumferential ring wall portion is arranged on the outer circumference of the base and formed of a plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TASHIRO, Yoshio HIRATA, Hiroshi IWAI
  • Publication number: 20090316299
    Abstract: A disk drive device is configured such that a wall of a base plate is provided with a through hole that guides a lead from a drive unit outside. The through hole is covered by a sealing sheet having an insertion hole. The lead is guided from inside the housing via the insertion hole of the sealing sheet. The sealing sheet carries a curable resin. The curable resin, temporarily softened during a curing process, flows into a space between the base plate and the through hole and a space between the insertion hole and the lead. The curable resin is cured in this state, ensuring the airtightness of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Tashiro, Yoji Furui
  • Patent number: 6844642
    Abstract: A spindle motor for a hard disc drive including a motor base having a shaft, a rotor hub rotationally mounted on the shaft and loaded with an information recording disc, a ball bearing attached to an inner center side of the rotor hub for rotationally fixing the rotor hub on the shaft, and a conductive elastic member inserted between the rotor hub and the motor base to electrically contact each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Patent number: 6707640
    Abstract: In the rotary medium driving apparatus 1 equipped with the rotor 3, which can rotate freely around the shaft 18 fixed to the stator 4 by means of the ball bearings 16 and 17 and is provided with a certain diameter being capable of fitting a center hole of a rotary medium, the stator 4 is composed of the flat base 2 formed by a presswork and the stator core 15. The base 2 holds the shaft 18, which is inserted into the inner circumference surface 52 of the base 2, and has the ring shaped projection 5 for allocating the stator core 15 on the outer circumference surface 51 of the base 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: JVC Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Nishio, Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20030030340
    Abstract: A spindle motor for a hard disc drive including a motor base for having a shaft, a rotor hub rotationally mounted on the shaft and loaded with an information recording disc, a ball bearing attached to inner center side of the rotor hub for rotationally fixing the rotor hub on the shaft, and a conductive elastic member for being inserted between the rotor hub and the motor base to electrically contact with each other, wherein the elastic member is a washer in a ruffled shape and is made of a stainless metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Applicant: VICTOR COMPANY OF JAPAN, LIMITED
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tashiro
  • Publication number: 20010007519
    Abstract: In the rotary medium driving apparatus 1 equipped with the rotor 3, which can rotate freely around the shaft 18 fixed to the stator 4 by means of the ball bearings 16 and 17 and is provided with a certain diameter being capable of fitting a center hole of a rotary medium, the stator 4 is composed of the flat base 2 formed by a presswork and the stator core 15. The base 2 holds the shaft 18, which is inserted into the inner circumference surface 52 of the base 2, and has the ring shaped projection 5 for allocating the stator core 15 on the outer circumference surface 51 of the base 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2001
    Publication date: July 12, 2001
    Inventors: Akira Nishio, Tomoyuki Tashiro