Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Honkura

Yoshinobu Honkura 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: 11262419
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor comprising: an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); an insulating protective film formed on a surface of the ASIC; a substrate film formed on the insulating protective film; and a magnetic field detection element formed on the substrate film, the magnetic field detection element including two magnetic wires on the substrate film, a detection coil surrounding the two magnetic wires, two electrodes coupled to the two magnetic wires for wire energization, and two electrodes coupled to the coil for coil voltage detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Shinpei Honkura, Kazue Kudo, Junichi Tanabe, Eiki Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11156676
    Abstract: In a GSR sensor element, tm and ti of rising pulse detection are close, and the induced voltage is significantly high at tm. Thus, a variation due to the magnetic field cannot be ignored. To remove an induced voltage from an output voltage and achieve a GSR sensor with a rising pulse detection system. On the basis of the knowledge that the polarity of an induced voltage becomes opposite relative to a direction of the current flowing in a magnetic wire, if one coil includes therein two magnetic wires in which currents of opposite polarities flow, an induced current is cancelled, allowing for the detection of a voltage in proportion to a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Eiki Kikuchi, Kazue Kudo, Junichi Tanabe, Shinpei Honkura
  • Patent number: 11112229
    Abstract: A magnetic type azimuth/position measurement device is disclosed, comprising: a plurality of coils driven by circuitry, the circuitry and coils configured to selectively generate a uniform magnetic field and an inclined magnetic field in a three-dimensional space; a uniaxial magnetic field sensor configured to measure a strength of a magnetic field formed by the plurality of coils driven by circuitry; and arithmetic operation circuitry configured to receive signals representative of the strength of the magnetic field from the uniaxial magnetic field sensor and calculate a position and an azimuth of the uniaxial magnetic field sensor in the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Shinpei Honkura
  • Patent number: 11009566
    Abstract: The invention relates to a three-dimensional magnetic field detection device (1) which comprises three soft-magnetic bodies (21, 22) and a magnetic field detection element (3, 12, 13, 14) comprising three GSR elements. For three axial directions that are orthogonal to each other at an origin point that is the center point of measurement, the invention measures, for a first axial direction, a first-axial-direction magnetic field using two elements sandwiching the origin point, measures, for a second axial direction, a second-axial-direction magnetic field through disposing one element at the position of the origin point, and measures, for a third axial direction, a third-axial-direction magnetic field through combining the two elements for the first axial direction and the three soft-magnetic bodies and forming two crank-shaped magnetic circuits having point symmetry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Honkura
  • Patent number: 10989768
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor, comprising: a substrate having a groove; two conductive magnetic wires for magnetic field detection arranged adjacent and substantially parallel to one another and at least partially recessed in the groove on the substrate, the two conductive magnetic wires electrically coupled at one end; a coil surrounding the two magnetic wires; two electrodes coupled to the two conductive magnetic wires for wire energization; and two electrodes coupled to the coil for coil voltage detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Shinpei Honkura
  • Publication number: 20200124686
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor comprising: an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); an insulating protective film formed on a surface of the ASIC; a substrate film formed on the insulating protective film; and a magnetic field detection element formed on the substrate film, the magnetic field detection element including two magnetic wires on the substrate film, a detection coil surrounding the two magnetic wires, two electrodes coupled to the two magnetic wires for wire energization, and two electrodes coupled to the coil for coil voltage detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu HONKURA, Shinpei HONKURA, Kazue KUDO, Junichi TANABE, Eiki KIKUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200124396
    Abstract: A magnetic type azimuth/position measurement device is disclosed, comprising: a plurality of coils driven by circuitry, the circuitry and coils configured to selectively generate a uniform magnetic field and an inclined magnetic field in a three-dimensional space; a uniaxial magnetic field sensor configured to measure a strength of a magnetic field formed by the plurality of coils driven by circuitry; and arithmetic operation circuitry configured to receive signals representative of the strength of the magnetic field from the uniaxial magnetic field sensor and calculate a position and an azimuth of the uniaxial magnetic field sensor in the three-dimensional space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu HONKURA, Shinpei HONKURA
  • Publication number: 20200116803
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor, comprising: a substrate having a groove; two conductive magnetic wires for magnetic field detection arranged adjacent and substantially parallel to one another and at least partially recessed in the groove on the substrate, the two conductive magnetic wires electrically coupled at one end; a coil surrounding the two magnetic wires; two electrodes coupled to the two conductive magnetic wires for wire energization; and two electrodes coupled to the coil for coil voltage detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu HONKURA, Shinpei HONKURA
  • Patent number: 10607755
    Abstract: Anisotropic rare earth magnet powder particles include R2TM14B1-type crystals of a tetragonal compound consisting of one or more rare earth element, B, and one or more transition element, and enveloping layers containing at least Nd and Cu. Surfaces of the R2TM14B1-type crystals are enveloped by the enveloping layers. The particles has an average crystal grain diameter of 0.05 to 1 ?m. The particles contain, when the whole particles are taken as 100 atomic %, 11.5 to 15 atomic % of total rare earth element (Rt); 5.5 to 8 atomic % of B; and about 0.05 atomic % to about 2 atomic % of Cu. The powder particles have an atomic ratio of Cu, which is a ratio of the total number of Cu atoms to a total number of atoms of Rt, falling within the range of 1 to 6%. The powder particles do not include dysprosium Dy, Tb, Ho and Ga. Coercivity of the magnetic powder is more than 955 kA/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Chisato Mishima, Masao Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10473732
    Abstract: A magnetometer provides a newly designed signal processing circuit that can reduce noise and increase the magnetic sensitivity by means of reducing the noise of GND electrode potential occurred at the timing when the pulse current passes through the magnetic wire. It is characterized by preparing a differential element with a neutral coil electrode, a differential sample holding circuit and a differential amplifier circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Magnedesign Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Honkura
  • Publication number: 20190310324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a three-dimensional magnetic field detection device (1) which comprises three soft-magnetic bodies (21, 22) and a magnetic field detection element (3, 12, 13, 14) comprising three GSR elements. For three axial directions that are orthogonal to each other at an origin point that is the center point of measurement, the invention measures, for a first axial direction, a first-axial-direction magnetic field using two elements sandwiching the origin point, measures, for a second axial direction, a second-axial-direction magnetic field through disposing one element at the position of the origin point, and measures, for a third axial direction, a third-axial-direction magnetic field through combining the two elements for the first axial direction and the three soft-magnetic bodies and forming two crank-shaped magnetic circuits having point symmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu HONKURA
  • Publication number: 20190302195
    Abstract: In a GSR sensor element, tm and ti of rising pulse detection are close, and the induced voltage is significantly high at tm. Thus, a variation due to the magnetic field cannot be ignored. To remove an induced voltage from an output voltage and achieve a GSR sensor with a rising pulse detection system. On the basis of the knowledge that the polarity of an induced voltage becomes opposite relative to a direction of the current flowing in a magnetic wire, if one coil includes therein two magnetic wires in which currents of opposite polarities flow, an induced current is cancelled, allowing for the detection of a voltage in proportion to a magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: ASAHI INTECC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu HONKURA, Eiki KIKUCHI, Kazue KUDO, Junichi TANABE, Shinpei HONKURA
  • Patent number: 10398341
    Abstract: The gradiometers of the present invention are developed by applying GSR sensors to have the detectability of magnetic field same to that of SQUID without a cryogenic temperature retainer. Plural GSR elements are fitted on two parallel convex line guides of the gradiometer board using two parallel concave line guides of the GSR element board to keep the parallel among wires direction of GSR elements perfectly and to cancel the outside magnetic field noise without a magnetic shield room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MAGNEDESIGN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Honkura
  • Patent number: 9925023
    Abstract: An implant overdenture system is used to fix an implant overdenture onto alveolar ridge by the support of implants. The implant overdenture has artificial teeth, a denture base, and magnetic assemblies. The implants each have an implant body and a keeper. A largest circumscribed circle diameter d1 in an outer shape of a surface-to-be-attracted of the keeper is equal to or larger than ?1.8 mm, and a largest diameter d2 of the implant body is equal to or larger than ?1.2 mm and equal to or less than ?3.5 mm, and these largest diameters have a relationship expressed by d1/d2?1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Arai, Yoshinobu Honkura, Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Rudi Wigianto
  • Patent number: 9857436
    Abstract: The magnetometers possess detector part with a magnetic wire sensitive to magnetic field consisting of a domain structure of the surface domain with circular spin alignment and core domain with longitudinal spin alignment and micro coil surrounding its magnetic wire to pick up the change of longitudinal magnetizing caused by spin rotation in surface domain with circular spin alignment called as GSR effect excited by pulse with frequency of 0.5 GHz to 4 GHz. Peak coil voltage is detected by a circuit characterized with pulse generator, GSR element, Buffer circuit, sample holding circuit, amplifier circuit and means to invert it to external magnetic field. The induced coil voltage caused by parasitic coil capacitance and wiring loop is vanished by combination coil of right and left turn coil. The magnetometers can provide lower noise, wide measuring range with a small size detector part and is applied to smartphones, wearable computer and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: MAGNEDESIGN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Honkura
  • Patent number: 9799446
    Abstract: A production method for an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: filling the annular cavity with a magnet raw material including one or more types of rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder and a binder resin; applying aligning magnetic fields to the magnet raw material being aligned in the softened or molten binder resin, the aligning magnetic fields are applied from an even number of aligning magnetic pole bodies arranged around outer periphery of the annular cavity such that directions of magnetic fields are alternated; subjecting the magnet raw material to a molding to form a compact; rotating the aligning magnetic pole bodies in circumferential direction for a predetermined angle; and applying demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact from the aligning magnetic pole bodies during the alignment step. The demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170221631
    Abstract: A production method for an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: filling the annular cavity with a magnet raw material including one or more types of rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder and a binder resin; applying aligning magnetic fields to the magnet raw material being aligned in the softened or molten binder resin, the aligning magnetic fields are applied from an even number of aligning magnetic pole bodies arranged around outer periphery of the annular cavity such that directions of magnetic fields are alternated; subjecting the magnet raw material to a molding to form a compact; rotating the aligning magnetic pole bodies in circumferential direction for a predetermined angle; and applying demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact from the aligning magnetic pole bodies during the alignment step. The demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura
  • Publication number: 20170221618
    Abstract: Anisotropic rare earth magnet powder particles include R2TM14B1-type crystals of a tetragonal compound consisting of one or more rare earth element, B, and one or more transition element, and enveloping layers containing at least Nd and Cu. Surfaces of the R2TM14B1-type crystals are enveloped by the enveloping layers. The particles has an average crystal grain diameter of 0.05 to 1 ?m. The particles contain, when the whole particles are taken as 100 atomic %, 11.5 to 15 atomic % of total rare earth element (Rt); 5.5 to 8 atomic % of B; and about 0.05 atomic % to about 2 atomic % of Cu. The powder particles have an atomic ratio of Cu, which is a ratio of the total number of Cu atoms to a total number of atoms of Rt, falling within the range of 1 to 6%. The powder particles do not include dysprosium Dy, Tb, Ho and Ga. Coercivity of the magnetic powder is more than 955 kA/m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Chisato Mishima, Masao Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20170176547
    Abstract: A magnetometer provides a newly designed signal processing circuit that can reduce noise and increase the magnetic sensitivity by means of reducing the noise of GND electrode potential occurred at the timing when the pulse current passes through the magnetic wire. It is characterized by preparing a differential element with a neutral coil electrode, a differential sample holding circuit and a differential amplifier circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Yoshinobu HONKURA
  • Patent number: 9666341
    Abstract: A method for production of an anisotropic bonded magnet includes: aligning magnetic pole bodies which include an even number of permanent magnets arranged uniformly around an outer periphery of an annular cavity filled with magnetic raw material, aligning magnetic fields to cause rare-earth anisotropic magnet powder to be semi-radially aligned; compressively molding the semi-radially aligned magnet raw material to obtain an annular compact; discharging the compact from the annular cavity; demagnetizing causing the aligning magnetic pole bodies to relatively move only in circumferential direction with respect to the compact after the molding step thereby to apply demagnetization magnetic fields to the compact; The demagnetization magnetic fields are applied from the aligning magnetic pole bodies with opposite poles to those during the alignment step, and the demagnetization magnetic fields are in directions for cancelling the magnetization of the compact caused by the aligning magnetic fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masayuki Kato, Ikuzou Okumura