Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Satou
Yoshiharu Satou 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: 20240071676Abstract: An inductor includes a base body including a coil conductor and a core in which the coil conductor is embedded. The coil conductor includes a wound band-shaped conductive wire. The core contains soft magnetic particles and a resin. The base body is rectangular-parallelepiped-shaped and includes a pair of principal faces that are opposite to each other, a pair of end faces that are opposite to each other and adjacent to the principal faces, and a pair of side faces that are opposite to each other and adjacent to the principal faces. A base-body protection layer is on a surface of the base body. The coil conductor includes a wound section and extended sections extending from the wound section. The extended sections have surfaces exposed on the surface of the base body at respective exposed portions on each of which a metal layer that is an outer electrode is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keita MUNEUCHI, Hideaki OOI, Yoshiharu SATOU
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Publication number: 20230207183Abstract: An inductor includes a body that includes a coil and that contains a magnetic portion in which the coil is embedded, and a pair of outer electrodes that is disposed on a mounting surface of the body. The coil includes a winding portion formed by winding a conductive wire that has a coating layer and that has a pair of wide surfaces, and a pair of extended portions that extends from the winding portion. The pair of extended portions includes a twisted portion that is connected to the winding portion. The twisted portion is twisted about a virtual center line of an end portion of the winding portion, and a twisted part bends toward the mounting surface about an axis substantially perpendicular to the wide surfaces at the end portion. End portions of the pair of extended portions near the mounting surface are connected to the pair of outer electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kozo SATO, Hiroshi OKUIZUMI, Yoshiharu SATOU
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Patent number: 11626240Abstract: An inductor includes a body that includes a coil and that contains a magnetic portion in which the coil is embedded, and a pair of outer electrodes that is disposed on a mounting surface of the body. The coil includes a winding portion formed by winding a conductive wire that has a coating layer and that has a pair of wide surfaces, and a pair of extended portions that extends from the winding portion. The pair of extended portions includes a twisted portion that is connected to the winding portion. The twisted portion is twisted about a virtual center line of an end portion of the winding portion, and a twisted part bends toward the mounting surface about an axis substantially perpendicular to the wide surfaces at the end portion. End portions of the pair of extended portions near the mounting surface are connected to the pair of outer electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kozo Sato, Hiroshi Okuizumi, Yoshiharu Satou
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Publication number: 20220165474Abstract: An inductor is provided so that reduction in DC superposition characteristics can be suppressed even when a filling rate of a magnetic powder is increased. The inductor includes a coil including a winding portion and a pair of extended portions extended from the winding portion, and a body having the coil embedded therein and containing a magnetic powder containing a first magnetic powder and a second magnetic powder, in which an average particle diameter of the first magnetic powder is larger than an average particle diameter of the second magnetic powder. In a cross section of the body including a winding axis of the winding portion and extending in a long side direction of the body, Voronoi partition is performed with a center of gravity of each magnetic powder as a generating point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu SATOU, Sumie ARAI, Takuya ISHIDA
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Publication number: 20220108824Abstract: An inductor includes a body containing soft magnetic powder and resin, a coil embedded in the body, outer electrodes on the body, and a protective film on the surface of the body. The protective film has a thickness of 10 ?m or more and contains silica particles and resin. In the protective film, the silica particles have an average diameter of 15 nm to 75 nm, and the percentage by weight of the silica particles to the resin is between 150% and 250%.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiji ISO, Yuki KITASHIMA, Yoshiharu SATOU, Noriyuki OOKAWA, Hiroshi MARUSAWA
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Publication number: 20200411223Abstract: An inductor includes a body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and a pair of outer electrodes. The body includes a core having a base and a columnar portion formed on an upper surface of the base, includes a coil including a pair of extended portions and a wound portion having an upper stage portion and a lower stage portion, and includes a magnetic material containing magnetic powder and covering a part of the core, a part of the pair of extended portions, and the wound portion. The pair of outer electrodes are disposed on a mounting surface of the body and are connected to the pair of respective extended portions. A shape in plan view of the wound portion is hollow and a substantially circular shape having a short direction and a long direction, and the upper stage portion includes a protruding portion protruding in the short direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu SATOU, Sumie ARAI, Takuya ISHIDA
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Patent number: 10878986Abstract: An inductor includes a body having a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and a pair of outer electrodes. The body includes a core having a base and a columnar portion formed on an upper surface of the base, includes a coil including a pair of extended portions and a wound portion having an upper stage portion and a lower stage portion, and includes a magnetic material containing magnetic powder and covering a part of the core, a part of the pair of extended portions, and the wound portion. The pair of outer electrodes are disposed on a mounting surface of the body and are connected to the pair of respective extended portions. A shape in plan view of the wound portion is hollow and a substantially circular shape having a short direction and a long direction, and the upper stage portion includes a protruding portion protruding in the short direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Satou, Sumie Arai, Takuya Ishida
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Publication number: 20200312528Abstract: An inductor includes a body that includes a coil and that contains a magnetic portion in which the coil is embedded, and a pair of outer electrodes that is disposed on a mounting surface of the body. The coil includes a winding portion formed by winding a conductive wire that has a coating layer and that has a pair of wide surfaces, and a pair of extended portions that extends from the winding portion. The pair of extended portions includes a twisted portion that is connected to the winding portion. The twisted portion is twisted about a virtual center line of an end portion of the winding portion, and a twisted part bends toward the mounting surface about an axis substantially perpendicular to the wide surfaces at the end portion. End portions of the pair of extended portions near the mounting surface are connected to the pair of outer electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kozo SATO, Hiroshi OKUIZUMI, Yoshiharu SATOU
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Patent number: 8005599Abstract: A lubricating oil supply control device for delivering lubricating oil to the transmission of a vehicle is provided which overcomes disadvantages of the prior art by providing a simple and reliable configuration which does not require the addition of new sensors to an existing device. The lubricating oil supply control device includes, in part, an engine controller and a transmission controller, a lubricating oil supplying oil passage, a bypass oil passage, a relief valve or a control valve, a restrictor, and a lubricating oil supply controlling controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2005Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiharu Satou
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Publication number: 20080234903Abstract: To configure a lubricating oil supply control device for a transmission, a device of a control system is configured simple and can be configured at a low cost by eliminating the necessity of addition of a new sensor and simplifying the arithmetic processing to be performed by a controller. To configure a lubricating oil supply control device for a transmission, a hydraulic device is configured simple and can be configured at a low cost by simplifying the structure of a valve body and the arrangement of hydraulic piping.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2005Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventor: Yoshiharu Satou