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).

  • Publication number: 20060160048
    Abstract: A dental attachment is embedded in a denture base so as to attach to a keeper made of a soft magnetic material built in a tooth root by magnetic attractive force. The dental attachment includes an attachment main body which has a magnetic body delivering magnetic attractive force and a cap which covers a head portion located on the opposite side of an attractive surface to attach the keeper of the attachment main body. The cap, made of a non-magnetic material, is installed in the attachment main body to be configured to move between a contacting position which contacts with the head portion and an extended position which is spaced from the head portion by a distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2004
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Kazuo Arai
  • Publication number: 20060139137
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved]To realize an anisotropic bonded magnet that reduces cogging torque without lowering output torque. [Means for Solving the Problem]The present invention provides a hollow cylindrically shaped anisotropic bonded magnet for use in a 4-pole motor, formed by molding anisotropic rare-earth magnet powder with resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2005
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Masahiko Kato, Daisuke Nagaya
  • Publication number: 20060123906
    Abstract: An accelerometer for measuring the displacement of a magnet body using magnetic detecting elements is provided, the accelerometer having superior measurement accuracy by suppressing influence of a peripheral magnetic field. The accelerometer has detecting units each having a cantilever which is elastically deformed so as to rotate around a fixed end thereof, a magnet body provided at a free end of the cantilever, and a magnetic detecting head portion disposed outside the rotation region of the cantilever. In order to correct detection signals output from the magnetic detecting head portions, the accelerometer has peripheral magnetic field detecting portions for measuring a peripheral magnetic field acting on the magnetic detecting head portions and the magnet bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Koutani, Masaki Mori, Eiji Kako, Kouei Genba, Takumi Asano, Naoki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20060113857
    Abstract: The present invention provides miniaturization of brushless motors and brush motors used in electric devices, a ring magnet which simultaneously achieves both high torque and a reduction in cogging torque, a ring magnet with yoke, and a brushless motor. The thin hybrid magnetized ring magnet of the present invention is structured of, in a ring magnet comprised of a plurality of magnetic poles, a radially magnetized main pole and an interface for which the interface of the adjoining main pole is polar anisotropic. When the thin hybrid magnetized ring magnet structured in this manner is applied to a brushless motor, in the case of radial magnetizing, the abrupt change in magnetic flux of the interface between the magnetic poles becomes smooth and cogging torque is greatly reduced due to polar anisotropic magnetization of the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Daisuke Nagaya
  • Publication number: 20060110484
    Abstract: A device capable of producing an annular magnet or arcuate magnet with excellent dimensional accuracy and magnet performance, of which the mass is not greatly scattered. The device for producing the annular magnet, for example, includes a preforming section for obtaining an annular preformed body from a compound of a mixture of an anisotropic magnet powder and a thermosetting resin, a magnetic field orienting and forming section for obtaining an annular intermediate formed body by subjecting the annular preformed body to orienting and pressure-forming, a main forming section for obtaining an annular magnet by further forming the annular intermediate formed body, and a work transferring section for transferring works.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsu Murata, Ryoji Makino, Yuji Takemoto, Katsuyuki Hiraiwa, Shinji Kawamura, Takahiro Nishiyama, Yoshinobu Honkura, Hironari Mitarai, Kenji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 7026812
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensitive member 11 including an amorphous wire, a detection coil 12 wound around the magnetic sensitive member 11, and a sample-and-hold circuit for detecting a voltage induced in the amorphous wire 11 when a pulse current is interrupted. The sample-and-hold circuit has a sample-and-hold unit B31 and a delay circuit. The sample-and-hold unit B31 includes an electronic switch S31, a capacitor C32, a resistor R32, a resistor R33, and a high-input amplifier A31. The delay circuit includes a resistor R31 connected to a control terminal of the electronic switch S31 and a capacitor C31.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Koutani, Kazumasa Sumi, Masaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20060048855
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an anisotropic magnet powder includes a high-temperature hydrogenation process of holding an RFeB-based alloy containing rare earth elements (R), B and Fe as main ingredients in a treating atmosphere under a first treating pressure (P1) of which a hydrogen partial pressure ranges from 10 to 100 kPa and at a first treating temperature (T1) which ranges from 953 to 1133 K, a structure stabilization process of holding the RFeB-based alloy after the high-temperature hydrogenation process under a second treating pressure (P2) of which a hydrogen partial pressure is 10 or more and at a second treating temperature (T2) which ranges from 1033 to 1213 K such that the condition T2>T1 or P2>P1 is satisfied, a controlled evacuation process of holding the RFeB-based alloy after the structure stabilization process in a treating atmosphere under a third treating pressure (P3) of which a hydrogen partial pressure ranges from 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Norihiko Hamada, Chisato Mishima
  • Publication number: 20060038561
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensitive member 11 including an amorphous wire, a detection coil 12 wound around the magnetic sensitive member 11, and a sample-and-hold circuit for detecting a voltage induced in the amorphous wire 11 when a pulse current is interrupted. The sample-and-hold circuit has a sample-and-hold unit B31 and a delay circuit. The sample-and-hold unit B31 includes an electronic switch S31, a capacitor C32, a resistor R32, a resistor R33, and a high-input amplifier A31. The delay circuit includes a resistor R31 connected to a control terminal of the electronic switch S31 and a capacitor C31.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Applicant: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Koutani, Kazumasa Sumi, Masaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20050242805
    Abstract: A three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor 10a includes a first sensor 101, a second sensor 102, and a third sensor 103 each constituted by a magneto-impedance sensor element 10 comprising a magnetic sensitive member 2 having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, an insulator 4 formed to allow penetration of the magnetic sensitive member 2 therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil 3 made up of foil-like conductive patterns 31, 32 arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of the insulator 4. The first sensor 101, the second sensor 102, and the third sensor 103 are disposed such that directions in which the magnetic sensitive members 2 in respective sensors have maximum magnetic field detection sensitivities are substantially orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Kouei Genba
  • Patent number: 6955729
    Abstract: An alloy for bonded magnets of the present invention includes at least a main component of iron (Fe), 12-16 atomic % (at %) of rare-earth elements (R) including yttrium (Y), and 10.8-15 at % of boron (B), and is subjected to a hydrogen treatment method as HDDR process or d-HDDR process. Using the magnet powder obtained from carrying out d-HDDR processing, etc. on this magnet alloy, pellets with superior insertion characteristics into bonded magnet molding dies can be obtained, and bonded magnets with superior magnetic properties and showing low cost can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Norihiko Hamada, Chisato Mishima
  • Patent number: 6932607
    Abstract: The aim of the present invention is to offer a keeper for a dental magnetic attachment that is strong, has low manufacturing costs, and is not easily detached from the tooth root. The keeper proposed herein has a keeper body, which is shaped like a plate, and a root, which is attached to the bottom of the keeper body. The keeper body and the root are machined from a single piece of soft magnetic material in one piece. The root has a smaller diameter part that is linked to a larger diameter part whose external diameter is larger than an external diameter of the smaller diameter part. The smaller diameter part is linked to the bottom of the keeper. There are multiple circumferential grooves around the outer side of the larger diameter part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Kazuo Arai, Aki Watarai, Yasuhiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6917132
    Abstract: The challenge to be solved by the present invention is the miniaturization of a 1-300 W class of motor. This can be achieved by using a hollow-cylinder shaped anisotropic bonded magnet magnetized in a 4-pole configuration. The anisotropic bonded magnet has a maximum energy product approximately 4 times greater than the conventional sintered ferrite magnets. The use of a 4-pole configuration shortens the magnetic path length of the individual magnetic circuits and the magnetic force contributing to the torque is increased. When the torque is kept the same as in the conventional motor, the length of the electromagnetic rotor core and the axial magnet length can be reduced. In this fashion, 1-300 W class motors can be reduced in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Yoji Hashimoto, Hironari Mitarai
  • Publication number: 20050145301
    Abstract: The bonded magnet of the present invention, in which average particle diameter and compounding ratio are specified, is comprised of R1FeB coarse powder that has been surface coated with surfactant, R2Fe(N, B) fine powder that has been surface coated with surfactant (R1 and R2 are rare-earth elements), and a resin which is a binder. Because the outside of R1FeB coarse powder is enveloped by resin in which R2Fe(N, B) fine powder is evenly dispersed, the R2Fe(N, B) fine powder and resin become a cushion and the R1FeB coarse powder does not deteriorate. As a result, the R1FeB coarse powder exhibits intrinsically excellent magnetic properties, and a bonded magnet with excellent magnetic properties and permanent flux loss ratio is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Honkura
  • Patent number: 6909368
    Abstract: The present invention is a magnetic field detection device that makes use of a frequency characteristic affording circuit in order to selectively detect magnetic signals from a frequency domain accurately at a high level of sensitivity. The present invention has a magneto-impedance element, a detector coil and a negative feedback coil which is wound around the magneto-impedance element, and a frequency characteristic affording circuit which affords a frequency characteristics on the negative feedback signal of a negative feedback connecting an output terminal thereof with the negative feedback coil. Using filters as the frequency characteristic affording circuit, the following are possible uses of this magnetic field detection device: a geomagnet detection device for earthquake prediction (using a high-pass filter), a bill validation apparatus for vending machines, etc. (using a low-pass filter), and a magnetic oscillation detection device for a magnetic gate system (using a band-reject filter).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Aichi Micro Intelligent Corporation
    Inventors: Kazumasa Sumi, Tomohiko Nagao, Yoshinobu Honkura, Masaki Mori
  • Publication number: 20050116708
    Abstract: A magneto impedance sensor element with electromagnetic coil comprised of: a terminal board (1) on which an extended groove (11) which extends in one direction has been formed; an electromagnetic coil(3), made with one part of the coil (31) formed in a spiral shape inside the extended groove (11) in the terminal board (1), and joined to each tip of that coil the other part of the coil (32) placed across the top of the groove; insulating material (4) placed in the extended groove (11) on the terminal board(1); and a magnetic sensitive body (2) inserted within the insulating material (4), to which either high frequency or pulse electic current is applied. When either high frequency or pulse electrical current is applied to the magnetic sensitive body, voltage is output from the above electromagnetic coil in response to the intensity of the external magnetic field which is generated in the electromagnetic coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORP
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Michiharu Yamamoto, Masaki Mori, Yoshiaki Koutani
  • Publication number: 20050076974
    Abstract: The bonded magnet of the present invention, in which average particle diameter and compounding ratio are specified, is comprised of Cobalt-less R1 d-HDDR coarse magnet powder that has been surface coated with surfactant, R2 fine magnet powder that has been surface coated with surfactant (R1 and R2 are rare-earth metals), and a resin which is a binder. The resin, a ferromagnetic buffer in which R2 fine magnet powder is uniformly dispersed, envelops the outside of the Cobalt-less R1 d-HDDR coarse magnet powder. Despite using Cobalt-less R1 d-HDDR anisotropic magnet powder, which is susceptible to fracturing and therefore vulnerable to oxidation, the bonded magnet of the present invention exhibits high magnetic properties along with extraordinary heat resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Norihiko Hamada, Hironari Mitarai, Kenji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 6831457
    Abstract: The present invention is a two-dimensional magnetic sensor having a first magneto-impedance sensor element including a first magneto-sensitive element and a first electro-magnetic coil which is wound around said first magneto-sensitive element; a second magneto-impedance sensor element including a second magneto-sensitive element and a second electro-magnetic coil which is wound around said second magneto-sensitive element; and an integrated circuit including an oscillator, a current switching element, a voltage detector, and an amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Aichi Micro Intelligent Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Masaki Mori, Michiharu Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Koutani
  • Publication number: 20040201300
    Abstract: The challenge to be solved by the present invention is the miniaturization of a 1-300 W class of motor. This can be achieved by using a hollow-cylinder shaped anisotropic bonded magnet magnetized in a 4-pole configuration. The anisotropic bonded magnet has a maximum energy product approximately 4 times greater than the conventional sintered ferrite magnets. The use of a 4-pole configuration shortens the magnetic path length of the individual magnetic circuits and the magnetic force contributing to the torque is increased. When the torque is kept the same as in the conventional motor, the length of the electromagnetic rotor core and the axial magnet length can be reduced. In this fashion, 1-300 W class motors can be reduced in size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Yoji Hashimoto, Hironari Mitarai
  • Publication number: 20040063072
    Abstract: The aim of the present invention is to offer a keeper for a dental magnetic attachment that is strong, has low manufacturing costs, and is not easily detached from the tooth root. The keeper proposed herein has a keeper body, which is shaped like a plate, and a root, which is attached to the bottom of the keeper body. The keeper body and the root are machined from a single piece of soft magnetic material in one piece. The root has a smaller diameter part that is linked to a larger diameter part whose external diameter is larger than an external diameter of the smaller diameter part. The smaller diameter part is linked to the bottom of the keeper. There are multiple circumferential grooves around the outer side of the larger diameter part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Applicant: AICHI STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Kazuo Arai, Aki Watarai, Yasuhiro Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 6709533
    Abstract: This invention aims to provide a manufacturing method of an anisotropic magnet powder from which a bonded magnet with an improved loss of magnetization due to structural changes can be achieved. This is achieved by employing a low-temperature hydrogenation process, high-temperature hydrogenation process and the first evacuation process to an RFeB material (R: rare earth element) to manufacture a hydride powder (RFeBHx); the obtained RFeBHx powder (the precursory anisotropic magnet powder) is subsequently blended with a diffusion powder composed of hydride of dysprosium or the like and a diffusion heat-treatment process and a dehydrogenation process are employed. Through this series of processes, an anisotropic magnet powder with a great coercivity and a great degree of anisotropy can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: Aichi Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Honkura, Norihiko Hamada, Chisato Mishima