Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Noda

Toshihiro Noda 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: 10011154
    Abstract: An in-vehicle cooling device includes: a header to be mounted so as to be adjacent to a side surface of a transformer mounted on a back side of a bottom portion of a vehicle, the header having a vertical surface along a traveling direction and a direction orthogonal to the travelling direction; a vertical-direction installed cooling pipe having both ends fixed to the header and being installed on a vertical plane orthogonal to the traveling direction; and a traveling-direction installed cooling pipe having both ends fixed to the header and being installed on a travel plane that is parallel to a horizontal plane, the vertical-direction installed cooling pipe and the traveling-direction installed cooling pipe being installed to overlap with each other in a direction orthogonal to the header.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Iwamoto, Koji Kise, Toshihiro Noda
  • Publication number: 20170333263
    Abstract: An absorbent article is provided, which is resistant to deformation and can maintain the breathability even under the force applied by various body movements, such as load of sitting. An absorbent article of the present invention includes a liquid permeable top surface sheet, a liquid impermeable back surface sheet, and an absorber disposed between the top surface sheet and the back surface sheet. Grooves extend on the top surface sheet side, and in each of the grooves, a plurality of recess portions formed by integrally joining the top surface sheet and the absorber are arranged. Each of the recess portions has a sidewall and a bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Izumi Tashiro, Yoshihiro Takiyama, Akira Sonoda, Toshihiro Noda, Daishi Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20170296401
    Abstract: An absorbent article according to the present invention having a liquid-permeable top sheet, a liquid-impermeable back sheet, and an absorber disposed between the top sheet and the back sheet includes a first recessed portion configured in a top surface of the absorber facing the top sheet and extending along a first direction and a second recessed portion configured in the top surface of the absorber facing the top sheet so as to intersect the first recessed portion, the second recessed portion extending along a second direction different from the first direction. The first recessed portion and the second recessed portion each have a first area having a shallow depth from the top surface of the absorber to a bottom surface of the first area and a second area having a deeper depth than the first area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Sugiyama, Izumi Tashiro, Hiroyuki Hanao, Yoshihiro Takiyama, Toshihiro Noda, Harue Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20160268035
    Abstract: A vehicle-mounted transformer comprising an iron core including a main leg, two side legs, and two pairs of connections, a winding, two covers each connected to each of opposite end faces of the iron core in a direction in which the steel plates are stacked, each of the covers surrounding the periphery of the winding together with the iron core and storing insulating oil in which the winding is immersed, and each of the covers having an opening serving as a flow path for the insulating oil, and a pump connected to the openings to circulate the insulating oil to flow from the opening in one of the covers and through two windows each surrounded by the main leg, each of the side legs and one pair of the connections toward the opening in the other cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro NODA
  • Patent number: 9406431
    Abstract: A transformer includes a plurality of high-voltage side coils and a plurality of low-voltage side coils. The high-voltage side coils and the corresponding low-voltage side coils form a plurality of coil groups. A first coil group includes one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around a first leg and one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around a second leg adjacent to the first leg. A second coil group of the plurality of coil groups includes one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around the first leg, and one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around the second leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro Noda
  • Publication number: 20150321534
    Abstract: An in-vehicle cooling device includes: a header to be mounted so as to be adjacent to a side surface of a transformer mounted on a back side of a bottom portion of a vehicle, the header having a vertical surface along a traveling direction and a direction orthogonal to the travelling direction; a vertical-direction installed cooling pipe having both ends fixed to the header and being installed on a vertical plane orthogonal to the traveling direction; and a traveling-direction installed cooling pipe having both ends fixed to the header and being installed on a travel plane that is parallel to a horizontal plane, the vertical-direction installed cooling pipe and the traveling-direction installed cooling pipe being installed to overlap with each other in a direction orthogonal to the header.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki IWAMOTO, Koji KISE, Toshihiro NODA
  • Publication number: 20150213945
    Abstract: A transformer includes a plurality of high-voltage side coils and a plurality of low-voltage side coils. The high-voltage side coils and the corresponding low-voltage side coils form a plurality of coil groups. A first coil group includes one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around a first leg and one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around a second leg adjacent to the first leg. A second coil group of the plurality of coil groups includes one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around the first leg, and one of the high-voltage side coils and one of the low-voltage side coils wound around the second leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Noda
  • Publication number: 20150160182
    Abstract: Soil-water-air coupled analyzing computes various matrices with respect to a time rate of volume change of a soil skeleton, tangent stiffness and water permeability, air permeability, moisture characteristic and mass of soil, based on the settings of soils such as clay, intermediate soil and sand with regard to respective soil elements of a soil foundation, settings of a solid soil model and settings of analysis conditions, establishes simultaneous equations using these matrices, provides a boundary condition regarding deformation, a stress rate or the like, a hydraulic condition regarding pore water and an air boundary condition regarding pore air and determines solutions of unknown “jerk field”, pore water pressure field and pore air field. This enables the soil foundation made of any type of soil in any state to be analyzed with high accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Masaki Nakano, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Akira Asaoka
  • Patent number: 8648684
    Abstract: A voltage transforming apparatus includes a primary winding receiving an AC voltage, a plurality of secondary windings that are different in number of turns, and a voltage conversion circuit for converting an AC voltage induced in each of the plurality of secondary windings. Each of the plurality of secondary windings includes the first terminal and the second terminal each having a potential that is not fixed. The first terminal and the second terminal are separately provided in each of the secondary windings. The voltage transforming apparatus further includes a switching circuit for selectively connecting the first terminal and the second terminal of each of the plurality of secondary windings to the voltage conversion circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Katsumi Konii
  • Patent number: 8614613
    Abstract: A transformer includes a tank that is attached under a floor of a vehicle, the tank being for housing an iron core, a coil, and an insulating liquid, thereby immersing the iron core and the coil in the insulating liquid; and a cooling unit for air-cooling the insulating liquid that has flowed from tank and returning the insulating liquid to tank, the cooling unit including a plurality of pipes arranged to be spaced from one another such that a spacing in a region relatively closer to floor of the vehicle is greater than a spacing in a region relatively away from floor of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Koji Kise
  • Patent number: 8421571
    Abstract: A transformer includes the first iron core having a plurality of legs arranged spaced apart from each other; a plurality of high-voltage side coils wound around the plurality of legs, respectively, and receiving a common single-phase AC power; and a plurality of low-voltage side coils provided corresponding to the high-voltage side coils, magnetically coupled to the corresponding high-voltage side coils, and wound around the plurality of legs, respectively. The high-voltage side coils and the corresponding low-voltage side coils constitute a plurality of coil groups. The transformer further includes the second iron core provided between the coil groups adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroshi Kiuchi
  • Patent number: 8274351
    Abstract: A transformer device includes an iron core, a plurality of stacked coils, wound onto the iron core, a plurality of base members arranged between the plurality of coils adjacent in a stacking direction, a plurality of flow channel member groups provided for each of the coils, each provided at a corresponding base member, and forming a flow channel directed to a flow of an insulating liquid between the corresponding base member and a corresponding coil, and an obstruction member arranged to obstruct the flow of the insulating liquid such that at least one of the flow channels formed by the plurality of flow channel member groups differs in the flow volume of the insulating liquid from another of the flow channels, and to obstruct the flow of the insulating liquid at a region not overlapping with the iron core in the flowing direction of the insulating liquid, among the flow channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kiuchi, Koji Kise, Toshihiro Noda
  • Patent number: 8274804
    Abstract: A voltage transforming apparatus includes a first high voltage side coil, a first low voltage side coil magnetically coupled to the first high voltage side coil, a second low voltage side coil magnetically coupled to the first high voltage side coil, and a first switch switching an externally supplied voltage between being supplied to the first low voltage side coil and the second low voltage side coil and being supplied to the first high voltage side coil. The first low voltage side coil and the second low voltage side coil are provided such that a magnetic flux that is generated by current flowing through the first low voltage side coil and a magnetic flux that is generated by current flowing through the second low voltage side coil cancel each other out when a voltage is supplied via the first switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroshi Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20120154090
    Abstract: A voltage transforming apparatus includes a primary winding receiving an AC voltage, a plurality of secondary windings that are different in number of turns, and a voltage conversion circuit for converting an AC voltage induced in each of the plurality of secondary windings. Each of the plurality of secondary windings includes the first terminal and the second terminal each having a potential that is not fixed. The first terminal and the second terminal are separately provided in each of the secondary windings. The voltage transforming apparatus further includes a switching circuit for selectively connecting the first terminal and the second terminal of each of the plurality of secondary windings to the voltage conversion circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Katsumi Konii
  • Publication number: 20120013427
    Abstract: A transformer includes a tank that is attached under a floor of a vehicle, the tank being for housing an iron core, a coil, and an insulating liquid, thereby immersing the iron core and the coil in the insulating liquid; and a cooling unit for air-cooling the insulating liquid that has flowed from tank and returning the insulating liquid to tank, the cooling unit including a plurality of pipes arranged to be spaced from one another such that a spacing in a region relatively closer to floor of the vehicle is greater than a spacing in a region relatively away from floor of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Koji Kise
  • Publication number: 20110248813
    Abstract: A transformer includes the first iron core having a plurality of legs arranged spaced apart from each other; a plurality of high-voltage side coils wound around the plurality of legs, respectively, and receiving a common single-phase AC power; and a plurality of low-voltage side coils provided corresponding to the high-voltage side coils, magnetically coupled to the corresponding high-voltage side coils, and wound around the plurality of legs, respectively. The high-voltage side coils and the corresponding low-voltage side coils constitute a plurality of coil groups. The transformer further includes the second iron core provided between the coil groups adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroshi Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20110205007
    Abstract: A transformer device includes an iron core, a plurality of stacked coils, wound onto the iron core, a plurality of base members arranged between the plurality of coils adjacent in a stacking direction, a plurality of flow channel member groups provided for each of the coils, each provided at a corresponding base member, and forming a flow channel directed to a flow of an insulating liquid between the corresponding base member and a corresponding coil, and an obstruction member arranged to obstruct the flow of the insulating liquid such that at least one of the flow channels formed by the plurality of flow channel member groups differs in the flow volume of the insulating liquid from another of the flow channels, and to obstruct the flow of the insulating liquid at a region not overlapping with the iron core in the flowing direction of the insulating liquid, among the flow channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kiuchi, Koji Kise, Toshihiro Noda
  • Patent number: 7966165
    Abstract: The soil-water coupled analysis program of the invention computes a global L matrix and a modified global L matrix regarding a volume change rate of a soil skeleton over time, a global H matrix regarding a water permeability of soil, a global M matrix regarding a mass, and a global K matrix regarding a tangent stiffness of the soil skeleton, based on input settings of soils, such as clay, intermediate soil, and sand, to respective elements of a soil foundation, input settings of a solid soil model, and input settings of analysis conditions (steps S140 to S165). The soil-water coupled analysis program formulates a global tangent stiffness equation (simultaneous linear equations) using all these computed matrixes and determines an unknown ‘jerk field’ and a ‘pore water pressure field’ under given boundary conditions, for example, a given deformation condition and a given stress rate condition (step S170).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Akira Asaoka, Toshihiro Noda, Masaki Nakano
  • Publication number: 20100284205
    Abstract: A voltage transforming apparatus includes a first high voltage side coil, a first low voltage side coil magnetically coupled to the first high voltage side coil, a second low voltage side coil magnetically coupled to the first high voltage side coil, and a first switch switching an externally supplied voltage between being supplied to the first low voltage side coil and the second low voltage side coil and being supplied to the first high voltage side coil. The first low voltage side coil and the second low voltage side coil are provided such that a magnetic flux that is generated by current flowing through the first low voltage side coil and a magnetic flux that is generated by current flowing through the second low voltage side coil cancel each other out when a voltage is supplied via the first switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2008
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Noda, Tetsuya Matsuda, Hiroshi Kiuchi
  • Publication number: 20090164179
    Abstract: The soil-water coupled analysis program of the invention computes a global L matrix and a modified global L matrix regarding a volume change rate of a soil skeleton over time, a global H matrix regarding a water permeability of soil, a global M matrix regarding a mass, and a global K matrix regarding a tangent stiffness of the soil skeleton, based on input settings of soils, such as clay, intermediate soil, and sand, to respective elements of a soil foundation, input settings of a solid soil model, and input settings of analysis conditions (steps S140 to S165). The soil-water coupled analysis program formulates a global tangent stiffness equation (simultaneous linear equations) using all these computed matrixes and determines an unknown ‘jerk field’ and a ‘pore water pressure field’ under given boundary conditions, for example, a given deformation condition and a given stress rate condition (step S170).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Akira Asaoka, Toshihiro Noda, Masaki Nakano