Patents by Inventor Toshinori Mimura

Toshinori Mimura 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).

  • Publication number: 20240083252
    Abstract: A vehicle display system, by executing a computer-readable program, being configured to: display multiple image contents in separate display areas of a display device arranged in a vehicle; detect a visual field range of an occupant of the vehicle; determine whether a frame rate of a certain image content displayed in the visual field range satisfies a lowest reference, the certain image content being one of the multiple image contents; and in response to determining that the frame rate of the certain image content does not satisfy the lowest reference, reduce a processing load of a different process while maintaining a display process of the certain image content in the visual field range of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Akira KAMIYA, Kiyotaka Taguchi, Yasuhiko Joho, Toshinori Mizuno, Hiroyuki Mimura
  • Patent number: 8590765
    Abstract: A solder drawing member (402) is detachably attached on the outer side of a jet nozzle (303) that jets molten solder pumped from a solder tank (102) storing the molten solder. The solder drawing member (402) is made of a material having higher wettability to the molten solder than the surface material of the jet nozzle (303). Thus a force of separating the solder from a point to be soldered can be increased by a surface tension of the molten solder flowing on the solder drawing member (402), thereby reducing bridge phenomena and icicle phenomena.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshino, Minoru Yamamoto, Toshinori Mimura
  • Publication number: 20120024938
    Abstract: A solder drawing member (402) is detachably attached on the outer side of a jet nozzle (303) that jets molten solder pumped from a solder tank (102) storing the molten solder. The solder drawing member (402) is made of a material having higher wettability to the molten solder than the surface material of the jet nozzle (303). Thus a force of separating the solder from a point to be soldered can be increased by a surface tension of the molten solder flowing on the solder drawing member (402), thereby reducing bridge phenomena and icicle phenomena.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinji Yoshino, Minoru Yamamoto, Toshinori Mimura
  • Publication number: 20110303737
    Abstract: A jet soldering device of the present invention includes: a solder bath (11) containing melted solder; a jet nozzle (15) that includes an end face for ejecting the melted solder, a cutout (30) provided on the end face, and a recovery wall (32) provided on the end face; a solder feeding mechanism (13, 20, 21, 22) that feeds the melted solder contained in the solder bath (11) to the jet nozzle (15); a tank moving mechanism (23, 24, 25, 26) that moves the solder bath (11); a solder receiving wall (42) that surrounds the jet nozzle (15) with a predetermined clearance and is connected to the jet nozzle (15); and a rotating mechanism (44, 45, 46) that transmits a drive force from the outside of the solder receiving wall (42) to rotate the solder receiving wall (42) and the jet nozzle (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Shinji Yoshino
  • Patent number: 7464838
    Abstract: A viscous material application apparatus includes a main body having a pressurized chamber which connects through to a discharge port and stores a viscous material, a viscous material supply device for transferring the viscous material to the pressurized chamber, and a discharge pressure regulating device for regulating the discharge pressure of the viscous material when the viscous material inside the pressurized chamber is pressurized and discharged by increasing or decreasing the capacity of the pressurized chamber, the discharge pressure regulating device being provided either inside the pressurized chamber or facing the pressurized chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Wataru Hirai, Hiroaki Onishi, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 7032513
    Abstract: A printing screen cleaning apparatus and a method for cleaning a printing screen by employing the cleaning apparatus which includes a cleaning head having a wiping member and a backup member for sucking the paste via a wiping member while sliding the wiping member on a lower surface of the printing screen. The backup member includes a suction port provided in a suction region of a backup surface of the backup member. The backup member also has a groove that extends parallel to the suction region and approximately perpendicular to the sliding direction of the wiping member. The groove partially releases the backup of the wiping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 6935232
    Abstract: When solder paste passes through a first gap located between a pressurizing member and a printing mask during solder paste printing, a pressure directed toward the printing mask is applied from the pressurizing member to the solder paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 6923117
    Abstract: When solder paste passes through a first gap located between a pressurizing member and a printing mask during solder paste printing, a pressure directed toward the printing mask is applied from the pressurizing member to the solder paste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20040173633
    Abstract: A viscous material application apparatus includes a main body having a pressurized chamber which connects through to a discharge port and stores a viscous material, a viscous material supply device for transferring the viscous material to the pressurized chamber, and a discharge pressure regulating device for regulating the discharge pressure of the viscous material when the viscous material inside the pressurized chamber is pressurized and discharged by increasing or decreasing the capacity of the pressurized chamber, the discharge pressure regulating device being provided either inside the pressurized chamber or facing the pressurized chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Wataru Hirai, Hiroaki Onishi, Koichi Nagai
  • Patent number: 6772937
    Abstract: By using an application unit having: a storage chamber for a viscous material; a discharge hole, for the viscous material, provided so as to communicate with the storage chamber, where a viscous-material feeding device for feeding the viscous material to the storage chamber is coupled to the application unit; and a discharge-pressure adjusting device for imparting a discharge pressure to the viscous material stored in the storage chamber, a screen mask having openings corresponding to the application object or the application object itself and the discharge hole of the application unit are brought into contact with each other, either the application unit and the screen mask or the application unit and the application object are moved relative to each other while the discharge pressure is imparted to the viscous material in the storage chamber, and the viscous material is applied onto the application object while the storage chamber is replenished at all times with the viscous material by the viscous-material
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroaki Onishi, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Jun Shirai, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Muneyoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20040108368
    Abstract: When solder paste passes through a first gap (34) located between a pressurizing member (28) and a printing mask (3) during solder paste printing, a pressure directed toward the printing mask is applied from the pressurizing member to the solder paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 6736291
    Abstract: A viscous material application apparatus includes a main body having a pressurized chamber which connects through to a discharge port and stores a viscous material, a viscous material supply device for transferring the viscous material to the pressurized chamber, and a discharge pressure regulating device for regulating the discharge pressure of the viscous material when the viscous material inside the pressurized chamber is pressurized and discharged by increasing or decreasing the capacity of the pressurized chamber, the discharge pressure regulating device being provided either inside the pressurized chamber or facing the pressurized chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Wataru Hirai, Hiroaki Onishi, Koichi Nagai
  • Publication number: 20040035306
    Abstract: When solder paste passes through a first gap (34) located between a pressurizing member (28) and a printing mask (3) during solder paste printing, a pressure directed toward the printing mask is applied from the pressurizing member to the solder paste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Hiroaki Onishi, Toshinori Mimura, Naoichi Chikahisa, Ken Takahashi, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hitoshi Nakahira, Sadayuki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 6371017
    Abstract: The temperature of a portion that belongs to a stencil and is located in the vicinity of a portion retaining a printing paste is increased to reduce the viscosity of printing paste that adheres to the portion retaining the printing paste, thereby allowing the printing paste to be easily separated from the retaining portion for the achievement of easy printing on an object on which a print is to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Yamazaki, Kimihito Kuwabara, Kazumi Ishimoto, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Toshinori Mimura
  • Publication number: 20020038814
    Abstract: By using an application unit having: a storage chamber for a viscous material; a discharge hole, for the viscous material, provided so as to communicate with the storage chamber, where a viscous-material feeding device for feeding the viscous material to the storage chamber is coupled to the application unit; and a discharge-pressure adjusting device for imparting a discharge pressure to the viscous material stored in the storage chamber, a screen mask having openings corresponding to the application object or the application object itself and the discharge hole of the application unit are brought into contact with each other, either the application unit and the screen mask or the application unit and the application object are moved relative to each other while the discharge pressure is imparted to the viscous material in the storage chamber, and the viscous material is applied onto the application object while the storage chamber is replenished at all times with the viscous material by the viscous-material
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2001
    Publication date: April 4, 2002
    Inventors: Toshinori Mimura, Hiroaki Onishi, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Jun Shirai, Yoshiyuki Nagai, Muneyoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 6230619
    Abstract: The temperature of a portion that belongs to a stencil and is located in the vicinity of a portion retaining a printing paste is increased to reduce the viscosity of printing paste that adheres to the portion retaining the printing paste, thereby allowing the printing paste to be easily separated from the retaining portion for the achievement of easy printing on an object on which a print is to be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Yamazaki, Kimihito Kuwabara, Kazumi Ishimoto, Toshiaki Yamauchi, Toshinori Mimura
  • Patent number: 5772768
    Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a loading section for guiding wiring boards into the apparatus, a printing section equipped with a mask for printing a conductive material onto each of the wiring boards, a position detecting device for detecting a position of the wiring board held by the holding device, an alignment section for positionally correcting the mask or wiring board held by the holding device on the basis of an output signal from the position detecting device, and a transfer device having holding device for holding the wiring boards and turning to transfer the holding device and stop the holding device at the loading, printing, and alignment sections at the same time so that loading, printing, and alignment operations are simultaneously performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inagaki, Toru Hattori, Toshinori Mimura
  • Patent number: 5740729
    Abstract: In a printing apparatus and method, printing material is printed on to-be-printed circuit boards in a predetermined pattern and a printing state of the material is inspected. The apparatus includes the following devices. A board supporting device has a rotary body supporting a plurality of board-fixed tables to which the boards are secured, and turns the rotary body together with the board-fixed tables intermittently at predetermined angular intervals so as to stop the board-fixed tables at each of a fixing, recognizing, printing, and inspecting position. A board feed device feeds the boards to the board-fixed tables arranged at the fixing position. A board discharge device discharges the boards from the board-fixed tables arranged at the fixing position. A recognizing device recognizes fixed positions of the boards relative to the board-fixed tables at the recognizing position. A printing device prints the printing material on the boards at the printing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Hikita, Syoji Sato, Toshinori Mimura, Kazue Okanoue, Youichi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5735203
    Abstract: An apparatus for printing a solder paste to a printed circuit board with use of a screen mask plate and a squeegee. The apparatus includes a device for moving one of the printed circuit board and the screen mask plate at a first moving speed in a direction to be separated from the other of them after printing of the solder paste and until the moving one of the printed circuit board and the screen mask plate reaches a plate-separation position which is a position immediately before the screen mask plate and the printed circuit board are completely separated from each other, and a controller for changing the first moving speed to a second moving speed higher than the first moving speed when the moving one of the printed circuit board and the screen mask plate reaches the plate-separation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Taniguchi, Toshinori Mimura, Kazue Okanoue, Hiroaki Onishi, Nobuya Matsumura
  • Patent number: 5715990
    Abstract: The present invention provides a reflow apparatus and method effective to make constant the internal gas flow direction in a heating section within a reflow furnace. A circulating gas path is formed in a heating unit which collects and causes the gas to flow from a sirocco fan, up the rear side of the heating unit and then down towards a circuit board moving along a transfer path at the front side of the heating unit. Moreover, a plurality of straightening plates are arranged above the transfer path of the heating unit so as to guide the hot gas, which is flowing forwardly downwardly toward the circuit board moving along the transfer path. A blow-down nozzle is provided and includes a plurality of plates aligned in rows in the transferring direction of the circuit boards. The plates have an inverse U-shaped cross section. The blow-down nozzle is arranged below the straightening plates to cause the vertical hot gas flows to flow uniformly over the whole surface of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Taniguchi, Youichi Nakamura, Kazumi Ishimoto, Kimihito Kuwabara, Toshinori Mimura, Kurayasu Hamasaki, Kenichi Nakano, Manabu Ando