Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Hemmi
Yoshinobu Hemmi 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: 9726692Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, and a movable portion connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the bellows body, the fixed portion and the movable portion are integrally molded by electroforming, and the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body, so that adjacent arc portions of the bellows body are brought into contact with each other to cause a short circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Patent number: 9598784Abstract: A contact element (25) (electroformed product) is produced by electroforming. The contact element (25) has a surface on which an insulating film (28) having been formed by use of a dry film resist or the like is provided. In a process of producing the contact element (25), the insulating film (28) is provided after a step of producing the contact element 25. This makes it possible to provide electroformed components configured so that respective electroformed products (contact terminals) are arranged at narrow pitches while maintaining electrical insulation of the electroformed products from each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Takahiro Sakai, Hideaki Ozaki, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9595773Abstract: A probe pin has a coil spring having a first end and a second end, a first plunger having a major portion, and a first elastic extension and a second elastic extension that from the major portion in the same direction, and a second plunger forcedly inserted between the first and the second elastic extensions. The first and the second plungers have electric conductivity. The first and the second plungers are inserted from the first and second ends of the coil spring, respectively, so that the first and the second elastic extensions of the first plunger hold the second plunger with the first elastic extension making a forced contact with a surface of the second plunger to form thereat an electric connection between the first and the second plungers.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Takahiro Sakai, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9590346Abstract: A connecting mechanism having a male contact and a female contact, each of the male and female contacts having a first surface including at least in part a flat surface portion defined therein, a second surface opposing the first surface, and a contact surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The contact surface is designed so that, when the first contact and the second contact are electrically connected with each other, the contact surfaces of the first contact and the second contact make a surface contact therebetween that inclines with respect to the flat surface portions of the first and second contacts in a cross section that crosses the first surface, the second surface, and the contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi, Takahiro Sakai, Yuki Kotake
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Publication number: 20160126656Abstract: A connecting mechanism having a male contact and a female contact, each of the male and female contacts having a first surface including at least in part a flat surface portion defined therein, a second surface opposing the first surface, and a contact surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The contact surface is designed so that, when the first contact and the second contact are electrically connected with each other, the contact surfaces of the first contact and the second contact make a surface contact therebetween that inclines with respect to the flat surface portions of the first and second contacts in a cross section that crosses the first surface, the second surface, and the contact surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi, Takahiro Sakai, Yuki Kotake
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Publication number: 20160115610Abstract: A contact element (25) (electroformed product) is produced by electroforming. The contact element (25) has a surface on which an insulating film (28) having been formed by use of a dry film resist or the like is provided. In a process of producing the contact element (25), the insulating film (28) is provided after a step of producing the contact element 25. This makes it possible to provide electroformed components configured so that respective electroformed products (contact terminals) are arranged at narrow pitches while maintaining electrical insulation of the electroformed products from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2014Publication date: April 28, 2016Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Takahiro Sakai, Hideaki Ozaki, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9322846Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, a movable portion connected to the other end of the bellows body, and a movable touch piece that extending from at least one side edge along the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring a movable contact point, located at a free end of the movable touch piece, into contact with the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20160072202Abstract: A probe pin has a coil spring having a first end and a second end, a first plunger having a major portion, and a first elastic extension and a second elastic extension that from the major portion in the same direction, and a second plunger forcedly inserted between the first and the second elastic extensions. The first and the second plungers have electric conductivity. The first and the second plungers are inserted from the first and second ends of the coil spring, respectively, so that the first and the second elastic extensions of the first plunger hold the second plunger with the first elastic extension making a forced contact with a surface of the second plunger to form thereat an electric connection between the first and the second plungers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2014Publication date: March 10, 2016Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Takahiro Sakai, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9231316Abstract: A terminal, including an insertion groove to be pressed into by a conductor disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, where a notched part larger than a width of the insertion groove is disposed at the end of the insertion groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9231324Abstract: A terminal includes an insertion groove for pressing a conductor thereinto disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, and a slit disposed proximate to the insertion groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9209545Abstract: A terminal, including an insertion groove for pressing a conductor thereinto disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, where, when t represents a distance from a center of a contact part between the conductive arm part and the conductor to an end of the conductive arm part at a time of pressing-in of the conductor; h represents a width of the conductive arm part at the end thereof; and Y represents a width between an arbitrary position of the insertion groove and an outer edge of the conductive arm part, the following relation holds: at a point of (½)×t, Y=(h/?2)×(0.8 to 1.2).Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9172196Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides a brush in which positional accuracy of elastic contact pieces is enhanced while production cost is reduced by simplifying production, whereby the brush includes a support that is connected to a base and a conductive portion that is integral with the support, such that the conductive portion includes plural elastic contact pieces extending in parallel from a side edge of the support.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hideaki Ozaki, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9130290Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion, connected to one end of the bellows body and provided with at least one fixed touch piece extending along the bellows body, and a movable portion, connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring the movable portion and/or the bellows body into contact with the fixed touch piece of the fixed portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Patent number: 9124012Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, and a movable portion, connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring a connecting projection, projectingly provided on the bellow body, into contact with the bellows body itself.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: September 1, 2015Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20140315449Abstract: A terminal includes an insertion groove for pressing a conductor thereinto disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, and a slit disposed proximate to the insertion groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi
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Publication number: 20140235112Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion, connected to one end of the bellows body and provided with at least one fixed touch piece extending along the bellows body, and a movable portion, connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring the movable portion and/or the bellows body into contact with the fixed touch piece of the fixed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20140227912Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, and a movable portion, connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring a connecting projection, projectingly provided on the bellow body, into contact with the bellows body itself.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: OMRON CorporationInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20140225638Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, and a movable portion connected to the other end of the bellows body, where the bellows body, the fixed portion and the movable portion are integrally molded by electroforming, and the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body, so that adjacent arc portions of the bellows body are brought into contact with each other to cause a short circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20140218062Abstract: A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, a movable portion connected to the other end of the bellows body, and a movable touch piece that extending from at least one side edge along the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring a movable contact point, located at a free end of the movable touch piece, into contact with the fixed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Yoshinobu Hemmi
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Publication number: 20140213097Abstract: A terminal, including an insertion groove to be pressed into by a conductor disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, where a notched part larger than a width of the insertion groove is disposed at the end of the insertion groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2012Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi