Patents by Inventor Toshio Yamakawa

Toshio Yamakawa 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: 5002727
    Abstract: Composite magnetic compacts having good conductivity and excellent mechanical and magnetic properties and their forming methods. The composite magnetic compacts are basically made by forming mixtures consisting essentially of 1 to 50 percent by weight of a magnetic powder and the remaining percentage of a powder of superplastic Zn-22Al alloy. A drop in the strength of the compacts that occurs when the mixing percentage of the magnetic powder increases is made up for by the impregration of plastic in the compacts or the simpler addition of a plastic powder to the mixture of the powders of magnetic material and superplastic Zn-22Al alloy. The forming methods of the composite magnetic compacts are carried out at different temperatures and under different conditions depending on the composition of the powder mixtures and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kunio Okimoto, Tomio Sato, Toshio Yamakawa, Nanao Horiishi
  • Patent number: 4952331
    Abstract: Composite magnetic compacts having good conductivity and excellent mechanical and magnetic properties and their forming methods. The composite magnetic compacts are basically made by forming mixtures consisting essentially of 1 to 50 percent by weight of a magnetic powder and the remaining percentage of a powder of superplastic Zn-22A1 alloy. A drop in the strength of the compacts that occurs when the mixing percentage of the magnetic powder increases is made up for by the impregration of plastic in the compacts or the simpler addition of a plastic power to the mixture of the powders of magnetic material and superplastic Zn-22A1 alloy. The forming methods of the composite magnetic compacts are carried out at different temperatures and under different conditions depending on the composition of the powder mixtures and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kunio Okimoto, Tomio Sato, Toshio Yamakawa, Nanao Horiishi
  • Patent number: 4770017
    Abstract: Disclosed herein a method for forming plates into shapes having a double-curved surface, and an apparatus for carrying out the method. For forming a double-curved plate, a work is three-dimensionally formed by passing same through an entrance roll, flexible rolls and exit rolls which are in vertically adjusted positions relative to each other. The flexible rolls are constituted by a pair of flexible and contractibly extensible upper and lower rolls which are supported in flexed state by a plural number of bearings to define therebetween a desired bending shape. As the work is gripped between and fed through the two flexible rolls, it is imparted with a deformation across its width. Therefore, the bending form of the work can be preset by controlling the vertical positions of the bearings which support the flexible rolls, making it possible to form a double-curved plate by a simple control involving a reduced number of control points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Isamu Yamashita, Toshio Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 4412643
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel method for firmly bonding a porous body, e a sintered body prepared by the powder metallurgical techniques with a metal powder, and a fusion-made body, e.g. an iron casting body, hitherto undertaken by the method of pressure welding or diffusion bonding. The inventive method utilizes the principle of infiltration and an infiltrater material is placed at the contacting portion between the porous body and the fusion-made body and heated at a temperature to exceed the melting point of the infiltrater material in vacuum so that the molten infiltrater material is infiltrated into the porous body leading to strong bonding upon solidification to have the porous body and the fusion-made body integrally bonded together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1983
    Assignee: Director-General of the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Tomio Sato, Kunio Okimoto, Toshio Yamakawa