Patents by Inventor Yoshiaki Ogiwara
Yoshiaki Ogiwara 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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Publication number: 20240021841Abstract: A positive electrode current collector plate, which is a current collector sheet for a lead-acid storage battery, includes a rolled sheet including a lead alloy in which a content ratio of tin (Sn) is between 1.0 mass % and 1.9 mass %, inclusive, a content ratio of calcium (Ca) is between 0.005 mass % and 0.028 mass %, inclusive, and a balance is lead (Pb) and inevitable impurities. A hole penetrating in a plate surface direction is not formed, and the number of crystal grains having a grain size of 10 ?m or more present in a range excluding top and bottom 10% in a thickness direction of the rolled sheet in an arbitrary cross section is between 25 and 55, inclusive, per area of 1 mm2 in the range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada, Atsushi Sato, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Publication number: 20240014405Abstract: A current collector sheet suitable as a positive electrode current collector plate used by being attached to a resin substrate surface of a space forming member constituting a bipolar lead-acid storage battery is provided. A current collector sheet for a lead-acid storage battery has a Vickers hardness of 10 or less when measured by a micro Vickers hardness test specified in JIS Z2244:2009, has a thickness of less than 0.5 mm, and is formed of a lead alloy in which a content ratio of tin (Sn) is 1.0 mass % or more and less than 2.0 mass %, a content ratio of calcium (Ca) is 0.005 mass % or more and less than 0.030 mass %, and a balance is lead (Pb) and unavoidable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: Ayano Koide, Keizo Yamada, Atsushi Sato, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Publication number: 20230299267Abstract: A lead alloy usable to manufacture a lead storage battery electrode the with easily predictable growth is described. The diffraction intensity determined by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy in a crystal orientation {211}<111> in a pole figure using an X-ray diffraction method is five or less times the diffraction intensity determined by analyzing powder of pure lead in a random orientation in a pole figure using the X-ray diffraction method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Jun Furukawa, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20230299268Abstract: A lead alloy that is difficult to cause extension even when force is applied to the lead alloy is described. The half width of a (311) diffraction peak in a diffraction chart obtained by analyzing the lead alloy using an X-ray diffraction method is 1.4 or more times the half width of a (311) diffraction peak in a diffraction chart obtained by analyzing powder of pure lead using the X-ray diffraction method.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Miho Yamauchi, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Jun Furukawa, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20230178712Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery with a reduced likelihood of causing growth. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass or less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. The diffraction intensity of a Cube orientation {001} <100> in a pole figure created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an X-ray diffraction method is 4 times or less the diffraction intensity of a random orientation in a pole figure created by analyzing a pure lead powder by the X-ray diffraction method.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
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Publication number: 20230170464Abstract: A lead alloy is described that is capable of manufacturing a positive electrode for a lead storage battery less likely to cause corrosion penetrating through a lead layer for the positive electrode in the thickness direction. The lead alloy contains 0.4% by mass or more and 2% by mass less of tin and 0.004% by mass or less of bismuth, with the balance being lead and inevitable impurities. When image analysis of a crystal orientation distribution map created by analyzing the surface of the lead alloy by an electron backscatter diffraction method is performed, intersection points of misorientation boundaries between crystal grains with a crystal misorientation of 5° or more and a straight line extending in one specific direction are extracted. The distances between two adjacent intersection points among the extracted intersection points are measured, and the average value of the distances is 50 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Miho Yamauchi, Akira Tanaka, Hideto Nakamura, Masanobu Aragaki, Jun Furukawa, Toru Mangahara, Keizo Yamada, Ayano Koide, Atsushi Sato
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Patent number: 11410787Abstract: The present invention provides a movable cable, which has strength that is at least equal to conventional movable cables while having excellent flexural fatigue resistance and flexibility as well as being lightweight. This movable cable 10 has an electric conductor therein. The conductor comprises a first conductor 2 made of a specific aluminum alloy material wherein: the alloy composition contains, in mass %, 0.05-1.8% Mg, 0.01-2.0% Si, 0.01-1.5% Fe, and at least a total of 0.00-2.00% of one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag, Zn, Ni, Co, Au, Mn, Cr, V, Zr, Ti and Sn, the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities; the crystal grains have a fiber-like metal structure in which the crystal grains all extend in one direction; and in a cross-section parallel to the one direction, the average crystal grain dimension perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is 400 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Kaneko, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Publication number: 20210180161Abstract: Provided is an aluminum alloy material having high strength and excellent wear resistance, which can be a substitute for an iron-based metal material or a copper-based metal material. The aluminum alloy material has an alloy composition containing 0.05-1.80% by mass of Mg, 0.01-2.00% by mass of Si, and 0.01-1.50% by mass of Fe, the remainder comprising Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the aluminum alloy material has a fibrous microstructure in which crystal grains extend along substantially one direction, the average value of the short-direction dimension L2 perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the crystal grains is 500 nm or less in a cross section parallel to the substantially one direction, and the arithmetic mean roughness Ra of a principal surface of the aluminum alloy material is no greater than 1.000 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi ARAKI, Yoshiaki OGIWARA
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Publication number: 20210164120Abstract: Provided is a plated wire rod having excellent salt water corrosion resistance, solder wettability, thermal peeling resistance, and fatigue resistance. A plated wire rod having a wire rod made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a surface treatment coating which is constituted by one or more metal layers and with which the wire rod is coated, the plated wire rod comprising: a mixed layer in a boundary region between the wire rod and the surface treatment coating, the mixed layer containing a metal component of the wire rod, a metal component of the surface treatment coating, and an oxygen component, wherein the one or more metal layers constituting the surface treatment coating includes an innermost metal layer which is located closest to the wire rod among the one or more metal layers, the innermost metal layer being made of copper or a copper alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Applicant: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Miho YAMAUCHI, Yoshiaki OGIWARA
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Publication number: 20210082596Abstract: The present invention provides a movable cable, which has strength that is at least equal to conventional movable cables while having excellent flexural fatigue resistance and flexibility as well as being lightweight. This movable cable 10 has an electric conductor therein. The conductor comprises a first conductor 2 made of a specific aluminum alloy material wherein: the alloy composition contains, in mass %, 0.05-1.8% Mg, 0.01-2.0% Si, 0.01-1.5% Fe, and at least a total of 0.00-2.00° of one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Ag, Zn, Ni, Co, Au, Mn, Cr, V, Zr, Ti and Sn, the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities; the crystal grains have a fiber-like metal structure in which the crystal grains all extend in one direction; and in a cross-section parallel to the one direction, the average crystal grain dimension perpendicular to the longitudinal direction is 400 nm or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi ARAKI, Hiroshi KANEKO, Yoshiaki OGIWARA
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Publication number: 20210062303Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy material which has high resistance to flexural fatigue and prescribed elongation characteristics; contains, in terms of mass %, 0.20-1.80% Mg, 0.20-2.00% Si, and 0.01-1.50% Fe; and further contains at least one element selected from among Cu, Ag, Zn, Ni, Ti, Co, Au, Mn, Cr, V, Zr, and Sn in a total amount of 0.00-2.00%, with the remainder made up of Al and inevitable impurities. The aluminum alloy material has a fibrous metal structure in which crystal grains extend in one direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi ARAKI, Hiroshi KANEKO, Yoshiaki OGIWARA
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Publication number: 20200024764Abstract: A plated wire rod material according to the present disclosure contains a substrate containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and a surface treatment coat including one or more metal layers and covering the substrate. Of the one or more metal layers, an undermost metal layer which is a metal layer formed on the substrate includes nickel, a nickel alloy, cobalt or a cobalt alloy. A mixed layer containing a metal component in the substrate, a metal component in the surface treatment coat and an oxygen component is present at an interface between the substrate and the surface treatment coat.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Miho YAMAUCHI, Yoshiaki OGIWARA
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Patent number: 8101285Abstract: A metallic material for a connecting part, having a rectangular wire material of copper or a copper alloy as a base material, and formed at an outermost surface thereof, a copper-tin alloy layer substantially composed of copper and tin, wherein the copper-tin alloy layer of the outermost surface further contains at least one selected from the group consisting of zinc, indium, antimony, gallium, lead, bismuth, cadmium, magnesium, silver, gold, and aluminum, in a total amount of 0.01% or more and 1% or less in terms of mass ratio with respect to the content of the tin.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kengo Mitose, Shuichi Kitagawa, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Publication number: 20110041986Abstract: A structure of a microreactor includes a joined body having a pair of substrates joined together, a flow path formed by a microchannel portion formed on a joining surface of at least one of the substrates, and a catalyst carrying member disposed in the flow path. In the production of such a microreactor, the catalyst carrying member is produced separately from formation of the joined body and the catalyst carrying member is disposed in the flow path at the time of forming the joined body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicants: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD., FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp.Inventors: Takeshi KIHARA, Hiroshi Yagi, Koichi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Junji Ninomiya, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20110020664Abstract: A metallic material for a connecting part, having a rectangular wire material of copper or a copper alloy as a base material, and formed at an outermost surface thereof, a copper-tin alloy layer substantially composed of copper and tin, wherein the copper-tin alloy layer of the outermost surface further contains at least one selected from the group consisting of zinc, indium, antimony, gallium, lead, bismuth, cadmium, magnesium, silver, gold, and aluminum, in a total amount of 0.01% or more and 1% or less in terms of mass ratio with respect to the content of the tin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2010Publication date: January 27, 2011Inventors: Kengo MITOSE, Shuichi Kitagawa, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Patent number: 7857874Abstract: A structure of a microreactor includes a joined body having a pair of substrates joined together, a flow path formed by a microchannel portion formed on a joining surface of at least one of the substrates, and a catalyst carrying member disposed in the flow path. In the production of such a microreactor, the catalyst carrying member is produced separately from formation of the joined body and the catalyst carrying member is disposed in the flow path at the time of forming the joined body.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2005Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp.Inventors: Takeshi Kihara, Hiroshi Yagi, Koichi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Junji Ninomiya, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20070228443Abstract: An inexpensive conductive base material with a thin film resistance layer having small variation of the sheet resistance value and a conductive base material with a resistance layer enabling production of a printed resistor circuit board by stably leaving behind resistance elements, that is, a conductive base material with a thin film resistance layer comprised of a conductive base material having a resistance layer formed on its surface wherein the resistance layer includes Ni containing P and an amorphous and a crystalloid form are mixed together and a conductive base material with a thin film resistance layer comprised of a conductive base material having a resistance layer formed on its surface wherein the resistance layer is a crystalline thin film resistance layer including Ni containing P.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicants: Furukawa Circuit Foil Co., Ltd, THE FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuuki KIKUCHI, Yuuji Suzuki, Sadao Matsumoto, Satoru Zama, Yoshiaki Ogiwara
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Patent number: 7247392Abstract: An aluminum alloy heat exchanger having a tube composed of a thin aluminum alloy clad material, wherein, in the clad material, one face of an aluminum alloy core material containing Si 0.05–1.0 mass % is clad with an Al—Si-series filler material containing Si 5–20 mass %, and the other face is clad with a sacrificial material containing Zn 2–10 mass % and/or Mg 1–5 mass %, and wherein an element diffusion profile of the clad material by EPMA satisfies (1) and/or (2): L-LSi-LZn?40(?m) ??(1) L-LSi-LMg?5(?m) ??(2) wherein L is a tube wall thickness (?m); LSi is a position (?m) indicating an amount of Si diffused from the filler material; and LZn and LMg each represent a region (?m) indicating an amount of Zn or Mg diffused from the sacrificial material, respectively; and a method of producing the heat exchanger.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignees: Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp., Denso CorporationInventors: Kazumitsu Sugano, Noriyuki Yamada, Akio Niikura, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Masaki Shimizu, Kenji Negura, Sunao Fukuda, Yoshihiko Kamiya
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Publication number: 20070163175Abstract: A structure of a microreactor includes a joined body having a pair of substrates joined together, a flow path formed by a microchannel portion formed on a joining surface of at least one of the substrates, and a catalyst carrying member disposed in the flow path. In the production of such a microreactor, the catalyst carrying member is produced separately from formation of the joined body and the catalyst carrying member is disposed in the flow path at the time of forming the joined body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2005Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicants: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd, Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp.Inventors: Takeshi Kihara, Hiroshi Yagi, Koichi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Junji Ninomiya, Kazunori Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20050153155Abstract: An aluminum alloy heat exchanger having a tube composed of a thin aluminum alloy clad material, wherein, in the clad material, one face of an aluminum alloy core material containing Si 0.05-1.0 mass % is clad with an Al—Si-series filler material containing Si 5-20 mass %, and the other face is clad with a sacrificial material containing Zn 2-10 mass % and/or Mg 1-5 mass %, and wherein an element diffusion profile of the clad material by EPMA satisfies (1) and/or (2): L-LSi-LZn?40 (?m)??(1) L-LSi-LMg?5 (?m)??(2) wherein L is a tube wall thickness (?m); LSi is a position (?m) indicating an amount of Si diffused from the filler material; and LZn and LMg each represent a region (?m) indicating an amount of Zn or Mg diffused from the sacrificial material, respectively; and a method of producing the heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2004Publication date: July 14, 2005Inventors: Kazumitsu Sugano, Noriyuki Yamada, Akio Niikura, Yoshiaki Ogiwara, Masaki Shimizu, Kenji Negura, Sunao Fukuda, Yoshihiko Kamiya