Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Yamashita
Yoshiharu Yamashita 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: 10128770Abstract: An adverse effect on a smoothing capacitor device caused by heat is suppressed. A flow path forming body 240 provided with protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching a capacitor board, a smoothing inductor device 130 mounted on the flow path forming body 240, and a capacitor board 170A on which a smoothing capacitor device 170 is implemented are provided, and the capacitor board 170A is fixed to the protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching the capacitor board, in such a manner that the smoothing capacitor device 170 is away from the flow path forming body 240.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro Goto, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Hidenori Shinohara, Tadahiko Chida
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Publication number: 20180241313Abstract: Provided is a DCDC converter integrated charger having a small occupation area of a storage space and capable of suppressing noise interference. Included are a first wall separating a first space, where a switching circuit section is disposed, and a second space where an input filter circuit section and an output filter circuit section are disposed, and a second wall separating a third space which faces the first wall through a second space and where a DCDC converter circuit section is disposed and the second space.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro GOTO, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA, Hiroyuki SHOJI
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Patent number: 9935558Abstract: To achieve reduction in size and reduction in cost of a DC-DC converter apparatus. Rectifier elements and are installed onto a metal base, and a drive circuit board is installed to an upper part of the rectifier element. Each terminal of the rectifier elements and is soldered to the drive circuit board. Three terminals of the rectifier elements are soldered, respectively, to a drive signal wiring pattern, a high-potential-side main current wiring pattern, and a low-potential-side main current wiring pattern of the board. A pair of output terminals of a transformer is connected to at least the pair of high-potential-side main current wiring patterns using high-potential-side metal conductors.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Nakazawa, Yuji Sobu, Hidenori Shinohara, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Patent number: 9866127Abstract: An electrical power converting device includes: a converter circuit part that includes a switching circuit and a transformer and converts a voltage between a voltage on a high voltage power source side and a voltage on a low voltage power source side in an unidirectional or bidirectional manner; a filter circuit part that is connected to a low-voltage side of the converter circuit part and includes an inductor and a capacitor; a control circuit board on which a control part is mounted, the control part controlling the switching circuit; and a metal housing in which an interior space of the housing is divided into a first accommodation space and a second accommodation space by a partition wall including a cooling liquid flow path, wherein the converter circuit part is arranged in the first accommodation space, and the filter circuit and the control circuit board are arranged in the second accommodation space.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Fukumasu, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Masayoshi Takahashi
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Patent number: 9814154Abstract: Provided is a power converter without a crack in a board or peeling-off of a pattern at the time of being grounded to a metal base. A GND protruding terminal is molded in a metal base in an integrated manner. A drive circuit board is provided with rectifier elements, first to third wiring patterns, and a ground pattern. A ground metal conductor, which connects the ground pattern and the metal base, is placed on a top surface of the GND protruding terminal, and is screwed to a female screw portion of the GND protruding terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Nakazawa, Hidenori Shinohara, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Patent number: 9608528Abstract: Objects of the invention are not to receive influence of an electromagnetic noise from a transformer and to reduce a possibility of breakage caused by shock or vibration. In a DC-DC converter apparatus of the invention, a shielding metal frame 300 is placed between a transformer 250 and a control circuit board assembly 240A housed in a case 101. A plate spring 311 attached to the metal frame 300 is pressed to cores 251 of the transformer 250 to fix the transformer 250 to a bottom portion 101a of the case 101. Heat generated from the transformer 250 is transmitted to the metal frame 300 and the bottom portion 101a of the case 101 and is then radiated.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Hidenori Shinohara, Akihiro Goto
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Publication number: 20170040907Abstract: An adverse effect on a smoothing capacitor device caused by heat is suppressed. A flow path forming body 240 provided with protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching a capacitor board, a smoothing inductor device 130 mounted on the flow path forming body 240, and a capacitor board 170A on which a smoothing capacitor device 170 is implemented are provided, and the capacitor board 170A is fixed to the protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching the capacitor board, in such a manner that the smoothing capacitor device 170 is away from the flow path forming body 240.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro GOTO, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Tadahiko CHIDA
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Publication number: 20170005581Abstract: An electrical power converting device includes: a converter circuit part that includes a switching circuit and a transformer and converts a voltage between a voltage on a high voltage power source side and a voltage on a low voltage power source side in an unidirectional or bidirectional manner; a filter circuit part that is connected to a low-voltage side of the converter circuit part and includes an inductor and a capacitor; a control circuit board on which a control part is mounted, the control part controlling the switching circuit; and a metal housing in which an interior space of the housing is divided into a first accommodation space and a second accommodation space by a partition wall including a cooling liquid flow path, wherein the converter circuit part is arranged in the first accommodation space, and the filter circuit and the control circuit board are arranged in the second accommodation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Keisuke FUKUMASU, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA, Masayoshi TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20160248333Abstract: To achieve reduction in size and reduction in cost of a DC-DC converter apparatus. Rectifier elements and are installed onto a metal base, and a drive circuit board is installed to an upper part of the rectifier element. Each terminal of the rectifier elements and is soldered to the drive circuit board. Three terminals of the rectifier elements are soldered, respectively, to a drive signal wiring pattern, a high-potential-side main current wiring pattern, and a low-potential-side main current wiring pattern of the board. A pair of output terminals of a transformer is connected to at least the pair of high-potential-side main current wiring patterns using high-potential-side metal conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Tatsuya NAKAZAWA, Yuji SOBU, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA
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Patent number: 9425695Abstract: There is provided a device in which superimposition of noise radiated from a circuit is reduced, and a noise reducing effect of a filter is ensured. A DC-DC converter according to the present invention includes a transformer, a high voltage-side switching circuit section, a low voltage-side switching circuit section, a noise filter circuit section electrically disposed between the low voltage-side switching circuit section and the low voltage-side circuit section, a metallic case that houses the transformer, the high voltage-side switching circuit section, the low voltage-side switching circuit section, and the noise filter circuit section, a drive circuit board having a drive circuit that drives the low voltage-side switching circuit section, and a metallic base board having the drive circuit board mounted thereon. The case has a metallic partition wall connected to the case. The partition wall is disposed between the low voltage-side switching circuit section and the noise filter circuit section.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hidenori Shinohara, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Keisuke Fukumasu, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Publication number: 20160242308Abstract: Provided is a power converter without a crack in a board or peeling-off of a pattern at the time of being grounded to a metal base. A GND protruding terminal is molded in a metal base in an integrated manner. A drive circuit board is provided with rectifier elements, first to third wiring patterns, and a ground pattern. A ground metal conductor, which connects the ground pattern and the metal base, is placed on a top surface of the GND protruding terminal, and is screwed to a female screw portion of the GND protruding terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Tatsuya NAKAZAWA, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA
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Publication number: 20150357923Abstract: Objects of the invention are not to receive influence of an electromagnetic noise from a transformer and to reduce a possibility of breakage caused by shock or vibration. In a DC-DC converter apparatus of the invention, a shielding metal frame 300 is placed between a transformer 250 and a control circuit board assembly 240A housed in a case 101. A plate spring 311 attached to the metal frame 300 is pressed to cores 251 of the transformer 250 to fix the transformer 250 to a bottom portion 101a of the case 101. Heat generated from the transformer 250 is transmitted to the metal frame 300 and the bottom portion 101a of the case 101 and is then radiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuya NAKAZAWA, Yoshiharu YAMASHITA, Hidenori SHINOHARA, Akihiro GOTO
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Publication number: 20150194898Abstract: There is provided a device in which superimposition of noise radiated from a circuit is reduced, and a noise reducing effect of a filter is ensured. A DC-DC converter according to the present invention includes a transformer, a high voltage-side switching circuit section, a low voltage-side switching circuit section, a noise filter circuit section electrically disposed between the low voltage-side switching circuit section and the low voltage-side circuit section, a metallic case that houses the transformer, the high voltage-side switching circuit section, the low voltage-side switching circuit section, and the noise filter circuit section, a drive circuit board having a drive circuit that drives the low voltage-side switching circuit section, and a metallic base board having the drive circuit board mounted thereon. The case has a metallic partition wall connected to the case. The partition wall is disposed between the low voltage-side switching circuit section and the noise filter circuit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Hidenori Shinohara, Tatsuya Nakazawa, Keisuke Fukumasu, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Patent number: 8434862Abstract: An image forming apparatus, including: a recording unit configured to form an image on a recording medium conveying in a conveying direction; a main body portion configured to support the recording unit in an openable and closable manner; a conveying unit configured to convey, in the conveying direction, the recording medium on which an image is to be formed by the recording unit, the conveying unit being disposed below the recording unit; a holder configured to contain the recording medium on which an image is to be formed by the recording unit, the holder being disposed upstream of the conveying unit in the conveying direction; and a raising and lowering mechanism configured to raise and lower the holder between a first position for feeding the recording medium to the recording unit and a second position placed above the first position.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.Inventors: Kensuke Izuma, Junichi Nakamura, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Hisaya Sorita, Yuichi Takahashi, Iwao Kawamura
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Patent number: 8350989Abstract: Each of plural light source units is formed by combining a light source formed of plural light emitting elements mounted on a wiring substrate with a light guide plate having a side surface serving as a light incident surface. The wiring substrate is attached to the chassis such that the light output surface of the light emitting element is perpendicular to the light emitting element mount surface of the wiring substrate. The wiring patterns each with the larger width than that of the electrode are formed on both upper and back surfaces of the substrate at the portion to which the power feeding electrode of the light emitting element is soldered. They are connected via the through holes which are arranged in plural rows around the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Ohashi, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Patent number: 8350980Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display apparatus capable of avoiding heat radiation hindrance caused from blocking of a heat radiation path by electric wiring and from interference of the electric wiring with a radiating portion for heat generated from circuit boards, in which a heat diffusion member and the circuit boards including an LED driver substrate are arranged in a plane at the rear of a frame in a housing while being isolated from one another, and LED light sources mounted on metal blocks are connected to the LED substrate through a flexible cable which is led from the outsides of the metal blocks and the heat diffusion member and is then led between the heat diffusion member and a rear case.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigeo Ohashi, Noriyo Nishijima, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Katsunari Sato
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Patent number: 8284351Abstract: A backlight unit and a video display apparatus having a plural number of sets of one or more of light sources. A light guidance plate for guiding lights from the light sources to a side of a liquid crystal panel, to be emitted. The light sources are disposed on one end side of the light guidance plate. Assuming that width of the gap or groove is “d”, distance between a light incident surface of the liquid crystal panel and a light emission surface of the light guidance plate, or distance between a light incident surface of an optical member disposed between the liquid crystal panel and the light guidance plate and a light emission surface of the light guidance plate is “h”, and further 2.0 mm>d?0.1 mm and 10.0 mm>h?0.4 mm, then the following condition is satisfied: 4?h/d?100.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Ouchi, Koichi Sakita, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiharu Yamashita
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Patent number: 8279359Abstract: A flat panel display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a power supply substrate, a signal processing substrate, a Y sustaining substrate, and an X sustaining substrate. The power supply substrate, the signal processing substrate, the Y sustaining substrate and the X sustaining substrate are arranged at a back of the plasma display panel. When viewing the plasma display panel from the back, the power supply substrate is arranged at a center portion of the plasma display panel, the Y sustaining substrate is arranged at one of a left and right side of the plasma display panel, the X sustaining substrate is arranged at the other of the left and right side, and the signal processing substrate is arranged under the X sustaining substrate. A circuit substrate other than the power supply substrate, the Y sustaining substrate, and the X sustaining substrate is arranged under the power supply substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 2, 2012Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Teppei Tanaka, Yasushi Naito, Yasuhiro Tomita, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Yutaka Yamada, Kohei Miyoshi, Seiichi Sekiguchi
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Publication number: 20120194499Abstract: A flat panel display apparatus includes a plasma display panel, a power supply substrate, a signal processing substrate, a Y sustaining substrate, and an X sustaining substrate. The power supply substrate, the signal processing substrate, the Y sustaining substrate and the X sustaining substrate are arranged at a back of the plasma display panel. When viewing the plasma display panel from the back, the power supply substrate is arranged at a center portion of the plasma display panel, the Y sustaining substrate is arranged at one of a left and right side of the plasma display panel, the X sustaining substrate is arranged at the other of the left and right side, and the signal processing substrate is arranged under the X sustaining substrate. A circuit substrate other than the power supply substrate, the Y sustaining substrate, and the X sustaining substrate is arranged under the power supply substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2012Publication date: August 2, 2012Inventors: Teppei Tanaka, Yasushi Naito, Yasuhiro Tomita, Yoshiharu Yamashita, Yutaka Yamada, Kohei Miyoshi, Seiichi Sekiguchi
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Patent number: D678405Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2011Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.Inventors: Takahiro Okuda, Yoshiharu Yamashita