Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Fukatsu

Yoshifumi Fukatsu 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: 7491897
    Abstract: In order to suppress the occurrence of damage on a press-fit joining wiring board, a peak value of stress generated on the board in the case of a press-fitting a press-fit terminal into a through-hole is reduced so that it can not exceed the design standard value of the board. In the press-fit terminal in which a body part, retaining part, introducing part and forward end part are integrally formed, a cross-sectional area of the introducing part is reduced to be smaller than that of the retaining part, so that an intensity of the elastic force of the introducing part is decreased to be lower than that of the elastic force of the retaining part. Alternatively, on the wiring board, elastic material is filled into resin for combining sheet-like base material of the board so as to relieve an intensity of stress generated on the board itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignees: Fujitsu Ten Limited, Kel Corporation, Shin-Kobe Electric Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Toshihiro Kasai, Naoki Sugita, Naofumi Saito, Hiroyuki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 7249957
    Abstract: A connector fixing structure includes a substrate, a connector, and a housing. The substrate defines a first hole portion and a second hole portion. The connector includes a terminal of a pressfit shape that is inserted into the first holed portion to connect with the substrate electrically, and a housing having a leg portion of a press fit shape that is inserted into the second hole portion when the terminal is inserted into the first hole portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Yasuo Nishioka
  • Patent number: 7108521
    Abstract: A pressfit terminal is to be inserted into a through hole defined in a substrate for electrically contacting with the through hole. The pressfit terminal includes a terminal main body and at least three protrusion portions. The at least three protrusion portions protrude outwardly from a surface of the terminal main body. At least part of the protrusion portions are arranged at intervals in a direction intersecting with an insertion direction of the terminal main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Yasuo Nishioka
  • Patent number: 7078628
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a substrate for circuit wiring in which an electronic component is mounted, by soldering, to a wiring pattern formed on an insulated layer deposited over a metallic substrate. A silica-based filler and a rubber-based filler are added in the insulated layer to reduce the linear thermal expansion of the layer and increase its elastic modulus. The mounting portion of an electronic component is molded with a resin material to which a silica-based filler has been added, and which thus has a coefficient of linear thermal expansion smaller than the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the insulated layer. This serves to alleviate the stress caused by the linear thermal expansion of the metallic substrate, and thereby to prevent separation from occurring between the insulated layer and the metallic substrate, as well as between the insulated layer and the wiring pattern, when subjected to a high-temperature environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Hideaki Kaino
  • Publication number: 20050130463
    Abstract: A pressfit terminal is to be inserted into a through hole defined in a substrate for electrically contacting with the through hole. The pressfit terminal includes a terminal main body and at least three protrusion portions. The at least three protrusion portions protrude outwardly from a surface of the terminal main body. At least part of the protrusion portions are arranged at intervals in a direction intersecting with an insertion direction of the terminal main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Yasuo Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20050118864
    Abstract: A connector fixing structure includes a substrate, a connector, and a housing. The substrate defines a first hole portion and a second hole portion. The connector includes a terminal of a pressfit shape that is inserted into the first holed portion to connect with the substrate electrically, and a housing having a leg portion of a press fit shape that is inserted into the second hole portion when the terminal is inserted into the first hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Yasuo Nishioka
  • Publication number: 20040182601
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a substrate for circuit wiring in which an electronic component is mounted, by soldering, to a wiring pattern formed on an insulated layer deposited over a metallic substrate. A silica-based filler and a rubber-based filler are added in the insulated layer to reduce the linear thermal expansion of the layer and increase its elastic modulus. The mounting portion of an electronic component is molded with a resin material to which a silica-based filler has been added, and which thus has a coefficient of linear thermal expansion smaller than the coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the insulated layer. This serves to alleviate the stress caused by the linear thermal expansion of the metallic substrate, and thereby to prevent separation from occurring between the insulated layer and the metallic substrate, as well as between the insulated layer and the wiring pattern, when subjected to a high-temperature environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Hideaki Kaino
  • Publication number: 20040145880
    Abstract: In order to suppress the occurrence of damage on a press-fit joining wiring board, a peak value of stress generated on the board in the case of a press-fitting a press-fit terminal into a through-hole is reduced so that it can not exceed the design standard value of the board. In the press-fit terminal in which a body part, retaining part, introducing part and forward end part are integrally formed, a cross-sectional area of the introducing part is reduced to be smaller than that of the retaining part, so that an intensity of the elastic force of the introducing part is decreased to be lower than that of the elastic force of the retaining part. Alternatively, on the wiring board, elastic material is filled into resin for combining sheet-like base material of the board so as to relieve an intensity of stress generated on the board itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2003
    Publication date: July 29, 2004
    Inventors: Hiromichi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Fukatsu, Toshihiro Kasai, Naoki Sugita, Naofumi Saito, Hiroyuki Yamanaka