Patents by Inventor Yohei Murase

Yohei Murase 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: 12107025
    Abstract: A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface; a dielectric film on the first main surface, the dielectric film having an electrode layer disposing portion and a protective layer covering portion, and a thickness of the protective layer covering portion in a first outer peripheral end of the dielectric film is smaller than a thickness of the electrode layer disposing portion; a first electrode layer on the electrode layer disposing portion; a first protective layer covering a second outer peripheral end of the first electrode layer and at least a part of the protective layer covering portion; and a second protective layer covering the first protective layer, wherein the first protective layer has a relative permittivity lower than that of the second protective layer, and the second protective layer has moisture resistance higher than that of the first protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Yamaguchi, Tomoyuki Ashimine, Yasuhiro Murase
  • Publication number: 20240293935
    Abstract: A hand includes a hand body in which a predetermined first reference axis is defined, a gripper in which a predetermined second reference axis is defined and which grips a workpiece, and a coupler that couples the gripper to the hand body. The coupler includes at least one of a decentering supporter that supports the gripper such that the second reference axis is capable of being decentered with respect to the first reference axis, or a tilt supporter that supports the gripper such that the second reference axis is capable of being tilted with respect to the first reference axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Hiroaki FUKUDA, Tamami ORYU, Hisao WADA
  • Patent number: 12075978
    Abstract: A bending mechanism includes: a shaft part; a bendable part linked to the shaft part; a forward end part linked to the bendable part; an operating rod or an operating wire inserted through grooves or holes of the shaft part and the bendable part and having a distal end thereof fixed to the bendable part; and a pressing portion configured to be able to press the operating rod or the operating wire against a fixed portion of the shaft part. The bendable part is configured to be bendable as a result of the operating rod or the operating wire being operated in an extending direction thereof. The operating rod or the operating wire is configured such that, when pressed against the fixed portion of the shaft part by the pressing portion, the operating rod or the operating wire is fixed by friction force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Tamami Oryu
  • Publication number: 20230398700
    Abstract: A hand includes a base, two first fingers extending from the base and bendable, and an opening/closing actuator disposed in the base and moves the two first fingers in a predetermined opening/closing direction so that the two first fingers grip a workpiece. Further, there is a bending actuator disposed in the base and causes the two first fingers to bend. Each of the first fingers includes a second part extending from the base and a first part coupled to the second part to be rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to the opening/closing direction. The first part is bendable with respect to the second part. The first part includes a damper that causes the first part to elasticity extend and contract in an extension direction of the first part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Takeshi MATSUURA, Tamami ORYU, Hisao WADA, Hiroaki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230398701
    Abstract: A robot hand includes a first finger, a second finger, and a first moving mechanism that brings the first and second fingers close to each other in a predetermined moving direction so that the first and second fingers grip a workpiece. The first moving mechanism includes a first movable pulley, a first wire that has two ends, one of which is connected to the first finger and the other is connected to the second finger, and is wrapped around the first movable pulley, and a first air cylinder that moves the first movable pulley. The first air cylinder moves the first movable pulley so that a tension of the first wire acts on the first and second fingers and to bring the first and second fingers close to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tamami ORYU, Hisao WADA, Yohei MURASE, Hiroaki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230390944
    Abstract: A hand 100 includes a first gripper 2 and a second gripper 5. The second gripper 5 grips a workpiece located on a predetermined axis E. The first gripper 2 includes two first fingers 21 that are opened and closed in a predetermined opening/closing direction. Each of the first fingers 21 includes a first part 22 including a distal end and a second part 23 including a proximal end, and is bent or curved such that the first part 222 moves between an interference position M1 at which an imaginary region X defined by projecting the first part 22 in the opening/closing direction A interferes with the axis E and a non-interference position M2 at which the imaginary region X does not interfere with the axis E.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Takeshi MATSUURA, Tamami ORYU, Hisao WADA, Hiroaki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20230381975
    Abstract: A second hand H2 that couples a first workpiece to a second workpiece, where the first and second workpieces are to be coupled to each other by insertion coupling, includes: a second gripper 5 that grips the first workpiece; a straight-moving actuator 6 that moves the second gripper 5 straight in the direction of a predetermined axis E; and a rotation actuator 7 that rotates the second gripper 5 about the axis E. The second gripper 5 includes three second fingers 51 that grip the first workpiece, and a linkage 52 that opens and closes the three second fingers 51.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Takeshi MATSUURA, Tamami ORYU, Hisao WADA, Hiroaki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20220015609
    Abstract: A bending mechanism includes: a shaft part; a bendable part linked to the shaft part; a forward end part linked to the bendable part; an operating rod or an operating wire inserted through grooves or holes of the shaft part and the bendable part and having a distal end thereof fixed to the bendable part; and a pressing portion configured to be able to press the operating rod or the operating wire against a fixed portion of the shaft part. The bendable part is configured to be bendable as a result of the operating rod or the operating wire being operated in an extending direction thereof. The operating rod or the operating wire is configured such that, when pressed against the fixed portion of the shaft part by the pressing portion, the operating rod or the operating wire is fixed by friction force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Tamami ORYU
  • Patent number: 10536067
    Abstract: A rotary machine cools a cooling target inside a rotor rotatable around a rotational axis, includes a condenser section disposed outside the rotor and condenses a gas phase cooling medium into a liquid phase cooling medium; an evaporator section disposed inside the rotor, and evaporates the liquid phase cooling medium generated by condensation in the condenser section into the gas phase cooling medium, by heat exchange between the cooling target and the liquid phase cooling medium; and a coupling pipe flows the liquid phase cooling medium and the gas phase cooling medium between the evaporator section and the condenser section, wherein the coupling pipe has a pipe structure in which a liquid phase cooling medium passage flows the liquid phase cooling medium generated by the condensation in the condenser section and a gas phase cooling medium passage flows the gas phase cooling medium generated by evaporation in the evaporator section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Etsuya Yanase, Toshiyuki Yanamoto, Mitsuru Izumi, Motohiro Miki, Kota Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10476365
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary machine capable of increasing cooling efficiency while preventing an increase in the weight and cost of a rotor even in a case where the diameter of the rotor is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Etsuya Yanase, Toshiyuki Yanamoto, Mitsuru Izumi, Motohiro Miki, Kota Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20190036438
    Abstract: Provided is a rotary machine capable of increasing cooling efficiency while preventing an increase in the weight and cost of a rotor even in a case where the diameter of the rotor is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Etsuya YANASE, Toshiyuki YANAMOTO, Mitsuru IZUMI, Motohiro MIKI, Kota YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20180248464
    Abstract: A rotary machine cools a cooling target inside a rotor rotatable around a rotational axis, includes a condenser section disposed outside the rotor and condenses a gas phase cooling medium into a liquid phase cooling medium; an evaporator section disposed inside the rotor, and evaporates the liquid phase cooling medium generated by condensation in the condenser section into the gas phase cooling medium, by heat exchange between the cooling target and the liquid phase cooling medium; and a coupling pipe flows the liquid phase cooling medium and the gas phase cooling medium between the evaporator section and the condenser section, wherein the coupling pipe has a pipe structure in which a liquid phase cooling medium passage flows the liquid phase cooling medium generated by the condensation in the condenser section and a gas phase cooling medium passage flows the gas phase cooling medium generated by evaporation in the evaporator section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei MURASE, Etsuya YANASE, Toshiyuki YANAMOTO, Mitsuru IZUMI, Motohiro MIKI, Kota YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9799434
    Abstract: A magnetic field generating device includes a superconducting coil formed by winding a superconductive wire material; an unseparated conductor plate which includes an electric conductor and is placed such that the conductor plate is insulated from the superconducting coil and is adjacent to the superconducting coil in a winding axis direction of the superconducting coil, and one of main surfaces of the conductor plate faces the superconducting coil; and a protection circuit which is connected in parallel with the superconducting coil and attenuates a current flowing through the superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Katsuya Umemoto
  • Patent number: 9768652
    Abstract: Superconducting field poles each include a superconducting coil body formed by spirally winding a superconducting wire material, a ferromagnetic outer magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially outer side of a rotor, and a ferromagnetic inner magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially inner side of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Katsuya Umemoto, Mitsuru Izumi, Keita Tsuzuki
  • Publication number: 20150229168
    Abstract: Superconducting field poles each include a superconducting coil body formed by spirally winding a superconducting wire material, a ferromagnetic outer magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially outer side of a rotor, and a ferromagnetic inner magnetic field-deflecting member arranged on an end face of the superconducting coil body at a radially inner side of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Katsuya Umemoto, Mitsuru Izumi, Keita Tsuzuki
  • Publication number: 20150206635
    Abstract: A magnetic field generating device includes a superconducting coil formed by winding a superconductive wire material; an unseparated conductor plate which includes an electric conductor and is placed such that the conductor plate is insulated from the superconducting coil and is adjacent to the superconducting coil in a winding axis direction of the superconducting coil, and one of main surfaces of the conductor plate faces the superconducting coil; and a protection circuit which is connected in parallel with the superconducting coil and attenuates a current flowing through the superconducting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yohei Murase, Katsuya Umemoto