Patents by Inventor Yoichi Mizukawa
Yoichi Mizukawa 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).
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Patent number: 8145045Abstract: A filament lamp has a bulb comprised of a straight light emitting tube from which a pair of flat hermetically sealed portions extend, a plurality of coiled filaments arranged within the light emitting tube, in the tube axis direction a pair of internal leads are connected to ends of the filament by a respective one of a plurality of metal foils that are embedded in the hermetically sealed portions, and external leads are connected to the metal foils. The width of metal foils embedded in the hermetically sealed portions is increased so as not to cause them to melt even when an electric current to be supplied to the filament lamp is increased, the hermetically sealed portions being made wider than the external diameter of the light emitting tube and the width between outer margins of the metal foils in a direction at right angles of the tube axis is greater than the internal diameter of the light emitting tube.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Kenji Tanino
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Patent number: 8072128Abstract: To provide the structure of a filament lamp having a plurality of independent power supply pathways, the structure being capable of preventing the power supply pathways from electrically shorting to each other, a filament lamp formed of a straight-tube shaped luminous part having multiple filaments (F1, F2, F3) divided in the axial direction, and sealing parts (20) on each of opposite ends of the luminous part (10) in which are embedded metal foils (31, 32, 33) corresponding to the number of filaments in an aligned manner, and leads for supplying electricity independently to each filament, the luminous part (10) having a first housing space (11) for housing the filaments and a second housing space (12) for housing the leads (51, 52, 53), the housing spaces be connected and extending in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Tanino, Yoichi Mizukawa
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Patent number: 7873265Abstract: A filament lamp comprising a bulb which has a hermetically sealed portion on at least one end and multiple filament assemblies, each filament assembly comprising a coiled filament and connected leads to supply power to that filament, the filament assemblies being sequentially arranged in the axial direction of the bulb, the leads of each filament assembly being electrically connected to respective multiple conductive parts set in the sealed portions, and power being independently suppliable to each of the filaments. A respective one of the coiled filaments is located in a respective first quadrant formed by intersecting planes that are perpendicular to each other and that are tangent to an outer coil diameter of the respective coiled filament. The leads are positioned in quadrants other than the quadrant in which the coiled filament is located. A light irradiation type heat treatment apparatus uses a plurality of such filament lamps.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tetsuya Kitagawa, Yoichi Mizukawa, Shinji Suzuki
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Patent number: 7756403Abstract: A light irradiation heating process in which, even in the case of an asymmetrical physical property of an article to be treated, uniform heating is possible, or in which heating can be performed such that the article acquires a desired physical property after heat treatment. Based on the measured value of the local physical property of the article to be treated, the emissivity distribution is obtained and the distribution pattern of the light intensity on the article to be treated is determined. According to this light intensity pattern, the individual intensity of the light emitted from respective light emitting parts of lamp units of the heating device are determined beforehand. According to this determined result, the intensity of the light emitted from the respective light emitting parts of the lamp units are controlled individually, and thus, the article to be treated is irradiated with light.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kyohei Seki, Shinji Suzuki, Yoichi Mizukawa
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Publication number: 20100079052Abstract: To provide the structure of a filament lamp having a plurality of independent power supply pathways, the structure being capable of preventing the power supply pathways from electrically shorting to each other, a filament lamp formed of a straight-tube shaped luminous part having multiple filaments (F1, F2, F3) divided in the axial direction, and sealing parts (20) on each of opposite ends of the luminous part (10) in which are embedded metal foils (31, 32, 33) corresponding to the number of filaments in an aligned manner, and leads for supplying electricity independently to each filament, the luminous part (10) having a first housing space (11) for housing the filaments and a second housing space (12) for housing the leads (51, 52, 53), the housing spaces be connected and extending in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji TANINO, Yoichi MIZUKAWA
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Publication number: 20100054719Abstract: A filament lamp has a bulb comprised of a straight light emitting tube from which a pair of flat hermetically sealed portions extend, a plurality of coiled filaments arranged within the light emitting tube, in the tube axis direction a pair of internal leads are connected to ends of the filament by a respective one of a plurality of metal foils that are embedded in the hermetically sealed portions, and external leads are connected to the metal foils. The width of metal foils embedded in the hermetically sealed portions is increased so as not to cause them to melt even when an electric current to be supplied to the filament lamp is increased, the hermetically sealed portions being made wider than the external diameter of the light emitting tube and the width between outer margins of the metal foils in a direction at right angles of the tube axis is greater than the internal diameter of the light emitting tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Kenji TANINO
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Patent number: 7656079Abstract: A heating device in which uniform heating of an article to be processed is possible even in the case a temperature change which leads to a loss of the uniformity of the temperature distribution in a narrowly delineated area, and in which a reduction in the size of the device is possible. The heating device has a plurality of heaters, each heater having a single bulb of transparent material in which there is a filament that is divided in the axial direction into several filament parts and the respective filament parts are supplied with power independently of each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2006Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Keita Kanazu, Masaki Yoshioka, Shinji Suzuki, Kyohei Seki
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Patent number: 7639930Abstract: A filament lamp that allows independent control of the state of luminescence of multiple filaments and that reliably prevents the occurrence of unwanted discharge between adjacent portions of neighboring filaments, even when a high voltage is injected into the filaments to achieve a desired irradiation distribution, and light-irradiation-type heat treatment device that can heat the article to be treated uniformly. The filament lamp has multiple filament assemblies, each having a filament and respective leads arrangement sequentially within a light emitting bulb, in the axial direction of the light emitting bulb. With alternating current power supplied to each filament independently, the current will be supplied with the same phase and mutually adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will have the same potential, and with direct current power supplied to each filament independently, adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will be of the same polarity.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Tetsuya Kitagawa, Shinji Suzuki
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Publication number: 20090121607Abstract: A filament lamp and light irradiation type heat treatment device capable of uniformly thermally processing the entirety of an article to be treated has a filament lamp (100) in which coil-shaped filaments are disposed along the tube axis within a light emitting tube (102), wherein the filaments are electrically connected to a low-emission coil (F2?) having a relatively smaller effective surface area and to high-emission coils (F1?, F1?) having relatively large effective surface areas, with the low-emission coil disposed in between in the axis of the tube direction, and a light irradiation type heat treatment device utilizing the filament lamp (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji TANINO, Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Shinji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20090103905Abstract: Filament lamps whose individual filament coils can be set to specific temperatures in filament lamps that are supplied with electric power independently and to provide a heat treatment device of the light irradiation type that uses said lamps. Inside of a light emitting tube of each lamp, which has the hermetically sealed portions at each end, are multiple filament modules which have been made by linking pairs of leads which supply electrical power to both ends of coiled filaments and individual filaments that are placed so that they extend along the axis of the light emitting tube. In the electrically connected filament lamps, whose individual leads are connected to the respective electrically conductive material placed in the hermetically sealed portions, at least one of the individual filaments is made up of a single wire and at least two are made up of bundled wires with the single wire being located between the bundled wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenji TANINO, Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Shinji SUZUKI
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Patent number: 7471885Abstract: A filament lamp in which the article to be treated can be uniformly heated, and in which the disadvantage of poor sealing or the like does not arise even in the case of inserting a host of metal foils into a hermetically sealed portion is achieved in a filament lamp in the bulb of which there are several filament bodies, in which filaments and leads for supply of power to the filaments are connected to one another, and in which, on an end of the bulb, there is a hermetically sealed portion in which there is a rod-shaped sealing insulator on the periphery of which several electrically conductive components that are connected to the filaments are arranged spaced from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2006Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Norihiro Inaoka, Tetsuya Kitagawa
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Publication number: 20080298786Abstract: To provide a filament lamp and light irradiation type heat treatment device that eliminates device-by-device variation of the irradiation-intensity distribution on the article to be treated, a filament lamp (1) has multiple filament assemblies (41 to 45) with coiled filaments (411 to 451) connected to leads (412a to 452a, 412b to 452b) that supply electrical power to the filaments arranged within a tubular bulb (3), which is formed with hermetic seal areas (2a, 2b), extending along the bulb axis of the bulb, with power being supplied to each filament independently by electrical connection of the leads of the filament assemblies to multiple conductive parts (81a to 85a, 81b to 85b) located in the seal areas, and in which the leads (412a to 452a, 412b to 452b) of the filament assemblies (41 to 45) are inserted through the inside of the filaments (411 to 451).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinji SUZUKI, Yoichi MIZUKAWA
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Publication number: 20080203924Abstract: A filament lamp comprising a bulb which has a hermetically sealed portion on at least one end and multiple filament assemblies, each filament assembly comprising a coiled filament and connected leads to supply power to that filament, the filament assemblies being sequentially arranged in the axial direction of the bulb, the leads of each filament assembly being electrically connected to respective multiple conductive parts set in the sealed portions, and power being independently suppliable to each of the filaments. A respective one of the coiled filaments is located in a respective first quadrant formed by intersecting planes that are perpendicular to each other and that are tangent to an outer coil diameter of the respective coiled filament. The leads are positioned in quadrants other than the quadrant in which the coiled filament is located. A light irradiation type heat treatment apparatus uses a plurality of such filament lamps.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuya KITAGAWA, Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Shinji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20080050104Abstract: A filament lamp that allows independent control of the state of luminescence of multiple filaments and that reliably prevents the occurrence of unwanted discharge between adjacent portions of neighboring filaments, even when a high voltage is injected into the filaments to achieve a desired irradiation distribution, and light-irradiation-type heat treatment device that can heat the article to be treated uniformly. The filament lamp has multiple filament assemblies, each having a filament and respective leads arrangement sequentially within a light emitting bulb, in the axial direction of the light emitting bulb. With alternating current power supplied to each filament independently, the current will be supplied with the same phase and mutually adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will have the same potential, and with direct current power supplied to each filament independently, adjacent terminals of neighboring filament assemblies will be of the same polarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2007Publication date: February 28, 2008Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Tetsuya KITAGAWA, Shinji SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20070120454Abstract: A filament lamp in which the article to be treated can be uniformly heated, and in which the disadvantage of poor sealing or the like does not arise even in the case of inserting a host of metal foils into a hermetically sealed portion is achieved in a filament lamp in the bulb of which there are several filament bodies, in which filaments and leads for supply of power to the filaments are connected to one another, and in which, on an end of the bulb, there is a hermetically sealed portion in which there is a rod-shaped sealing insulator on the periphery of which several electrically conductive components that are connected to the filaments are arranged spaced from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoichi MIZUKAWA, Norihiro INAOKA, Tetsuya KITAGAWA
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Patent number: 7218847Abstract: A heating unit heats a work piece 6 by heat conduction from a heat conducting plate 4 on which light from a light source 1 is irradiated, wherein the heat conducting plate 4 comprises a holding member 2 having optical transparency, and a heat conducting layer 3 which is provided on a surface of the holding member 2, and absorbs light emitted from a light source 1 and is transmitted through the holding member 2, so as to generate heat. The heating unit has the heat conducting plate 4 in which deformation does not occur, and temperature thereof changes rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KasihaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Koji Miyauchi
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Publication number: 20070071906Abstract: A light irradiation heating process in which, even in the case of an asymmetrical physical property of an article to be treated, uniform heating is possible, or in which heating can be performed such that the article acquires a desired physical property after heat treatment. Based on the measured value of the local physical property of the article to be treated, the emissivity distribution is obtained and the distribution pattern of the light intensity on the article to be treated is determined. According to this light intensity pattern, the individual intensity of the light emitted from respective light emitting parts of lamp units of the heating device are determined beforehand. According to this determined result, the intensity of the light emitted from the respective light emitting parts of the lamp units are controlled individually, and thus, the article to be treated is irradiated with light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: USHIODENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kyohei SEKI, Shinji SUZUKI, Yoichi MIZUKAWA
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Publication number: 20060197454Abstract: A heating device in which uniform heating of an article to be processed is possible even in the case a temperature change which leads to a loss of the uniformity of the temperature distribution in a narrowly delineated area, and in which a reduction in the size of the device is possible. The heating device has a plurality of heaters, each heater having a single bulb of transparent material in which there is a filament that is divided in the axial direction into several filament parts and the respective filament parts are supplied with power independently of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2006Publication date: September 7, 2006Applicant: Ushiodenki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichi Mizukawa, Keita Kanazu, Masaki Yoshioka, Shinji Suzuki, Kyohei Seki
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Patent number: 7082261Abstract: A heating stage according to the present invention comprises a flat stage portion on which a work piece is placed, a glass section having cylindrical portion in which two or more lamps are disposed as a heating unit, and a metal section having a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion forming an inner space by fixing the metal section and the glass section integrally wherein the inner space is under reduced pressure, and inert gas is filled.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2005Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Ushio Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toru Odagaki, Yoichi Mizukawa
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Publication number: 20050213951Abstract: A heating stage according to the present invention comprises a flat stage portion on which a work piece is placed, a glass section having cylindrical portion in which two or more lamps are disposed as a heating unit, and a metal section having a cylindrical portion and a bottom portion forming an inner space by fixing the metal section and the glass section integrally wherein the inner space is under reduced pressure, and inert gas is filled.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2005Publication date: September 29, 2005Inventors: Toru Odagaki, Yoichi Mizukawa