Patents by Inventor Yoshiyuki Kono

Yoshiyuki Kono 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: 20190170498
    Abstract: An IC package includes a magnetic detection element, multiple lead lines electrically connected to the magnetic detection element, and multiple terminal lines weldable to the lead lines respectively. A first welding portion, in which a first lead line of the multiple lead lines is welded to a first terminal line of the multiple terminal lines, is not on vertical lines that pass through second welding portions in which the second lead lines of the multiple lead lines are welded to the second terminal lines of the multiple terminal lines respectively. The second lead lines are adjacent to the first lead line. The vertical lines are orthogonal to center axes of the second lead lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Takasuke ITO, Yoshiyuki KONO, Tomoyuki TAKIGUCHI, Sadahito FUKUMORI
  • Publication number: 20190170499
    Abstract: A position detection device is configured to detect a position of a detection target. The position detection device includes: an IC package including a magnetic detection element configured to output a signal that depend on a direction or a strength of an ambient magnetic field, a sealing portion in which the magnetic detection element is sealed, and lead lines, which are projected from the sealing portion and are electrically connected to the magnetic detection elements; terminal lines electrically connectable to the lead lines respectively; and a lead guide placed along the lead lines to restrict positional deviation of the lead lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Takasuke ITO, Yoshiyuki KONO, Tomoyuki TAKIGUCHI, Sadahito FUKUMORI
  • Publication number: 20190162518
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a position detection device including an IC package, a terminal line and a sensor housing. The IC package includes a magnetic detection element, a sealing portion sealing the magnetic detection element, and a lead line protruding from the sealing portion and electrically connected to the magnetic detection element. The lead line is fixed to the terminal line. The sensor housing is formed separately from the IC package and supports the terminal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Takuma UCHIDA, Yoshiyuki KONO
  • Publication number: 20190162556
    Abstract: A position detecting device includes an IC package, a first terminal line, a ground terminal line, a power supply terminal line, a second terminal line, a bypass terminal line, motor terminal lines, and a connector portion. A bypass terminal line is positioned on an opposite side of the ground terminal line across the first terminal line or the second terminal line and is connected to a bypass portion of the ground terminal line which connects to the ground connection portion. In the connector portion, the motor terminal line, the bypass terminal line, the second terminal line, the power supply terminal line, and the first terminal line are placed in this order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Takeshi ITO, Takamitsu KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki KONO
  • Publication number: 20190068076
    Abstract: Each arm circuit of a power conversion device includes a plurality of cascaded cell blocks and a plurality of bypass circuits connected in parallel to the respective cell blocks. Each cell block includes: a first connection node on a high potential side and a second connection node on a low potential side for connection to another cell block; and a plurality of converter cells cascaded between the first and second connection nodes, each converter cell containing an energy storage. The plurality of converter cells include at least one first converter cell of a full-bridge (or hybrid) configuration and at least one second converter cell of a half-bridge configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Uda, Kenichi Kuroda, Masashi Kitayama, Yoshiyuki Kono, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10199567
    Abstract: A sensor includes: an integrated circuit having a power supply lead, a ground lead and a signal lead; a power supply terminal connected to the power supply lead; a ground terminal connected to the ground lead; a first signal terminal connected to the signal lead; a second signal terminal connected to the first signal terminal; a filter member having one end connected to one of the terminals and another end connected to another one of the terminals; and a sealing body sealing the integrated circuit, the terminals and the filter member. A part of each terminal is exposed from the sealing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Itou, Takamitsu Kubota, Yoshiyuki Kono
  • Publication number: 20190011286
    Abstract: A sensor of a position detecting device includes a sensor body, a magnetic detector, and at least one engagement protrusion that extends from a position in the vicinity of the magnetic detector. The engagement protrusion engages with an engagement hole disposed on a casing. An anti-rotation hole is disposed on the casing in a position spaced apart from the engagement hole. An anti-rotation pin is disposed on the sensor body, and engages with the anti-rotation hole to prevent the casing and the sensor body from rotating relatively to each other about the engagement hole. At least a part of the engagement protrusion is in contact with an inner wall of the engagement hole on a straight line L connecting a center of the magnetic detector and a center of the anti-rotation pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Hitomi HONDA, Yoshiyuki KONO, Hirofumi HAGIO
  • Patent number: 10115889
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices is provided. The method includes bonding a semiconductor element to a first surface of a planar lead frame, clamping a partial area of the lead frame to hold the lead frame and the semiconductor element in molding dies, and covering at least a part of the lead frame and the semiconductor element with a resin member by resin molding which fills the molding dies with resin. A thin-walled portion having a relative small thickness is previously formed on a shortest virtual line connecting a clamp area of the lead frame to an area where the semiconductor element is bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO CORPORATION, TDK-MICRONAS GMBH
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Koumori, Yoshiyuki Kono, Tomoyuki Takiguchi, Yoshinori Inuzuka, Akitoshi Mizutani, Seiji Nishimoto, Camillo Pilla
  • Publication number: 20180245953
    Abstract: A magnetic field detection device includes an IC package, a terminal, a resin mold member. The IC package includes a magnetism detection element, a lead frame located on a first side of the magnetism detection element, and a resin member covering the magnetism detection element and the lead frame. The resin mold member includes a base portion and a head portion. The head portion includes a thickest portion. An outer wall surface of the thickest portion located on a second side of the magnetism detection element is a detection reference surface. An element corresponding surface that is an outer wall surface of the IC package located on the second side is exposed to an outside of resin mold member or covered with a detection side thin portion thinner than a thickness from the element corresponding surface to the detection side reference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Seiji NISHIMOTO, Tomoyuki TAKIGUCHI, Yoshiyuki KONO, Akitoshi MIZUTANI
  • Publication number: 20180222096
    Abstract: A terminal insert article includes a metal terminal, and a resin molded article in which the terminal is inserted. The molded article is formed by injection molding. When a position of the molded article into which molten resin is injected at time of the injection molding is referred to as a resin injection position, the resin injection position is formed in a projecting shape. The molded article includes a spherical surface part at an opposite position from the resin injection position. The spherical surface part has a spherical surface shape swollen out in a direction away from the resin injection position. A component that constitutes a rotation angle sensor, which detects a rotation angle of a rotatably-supported shaft, is inserted in the molded article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Takehito MIZUNUMA, Takamitsu KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki KONO, Haruhiko SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10012167
    Abstract: An ECU loads detected values of a rotation angle sensor and a pressure sensor which are mounted to an electric throttle, and executes an abnormal-sensor determination control to determine whether one of the rotation angle sensor and the pressure sensor is abnormal. Specifically, the ECU determines that one of the rotation angle sensor and the pressure sensor is abnormal, in a case where a state that a tendency of the actual opening angle detected by the rotation angle sensor does not match a tendency of the pressure detected by the downstream pressure sensor has continued for a period greater than or equal to a predetermined period. Therefore, since the pressure sensor can replace the rotation angle sensor used for detecting abnormality in a conventional technology, two rotation angle sensors can be reduced to one rotation angle sensor, and a cost is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Hiramoto, Toru Shimizu, Yoshiyuki Kono
  • Patent number: 9974196
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a casing, a terminal, a substrate, an electric connector, and a conductive adhesive. The terminal is fixed to the casing. The substrate is attached to the casing at a position where at least a portion of the substrate faces the terminal. The electric connector is fixed to a circuit wiring formed in the substrate at a position where the substrate faces the terminal. The electric connector protrudes toward the terminal from the circuit wiring. The conductive adhesive electrically and mechanically connects the terminal to the electric connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma Uchida, Takamitsu Kubota, Yoshiyuki Kono
  • Patent number: 9944002
    Abstract: A position detector apparatus includes a detector part, wiring, a resin part, a resin body, a terminal, and a lead frame. The resin part has a thickness at a wiring side portion of the detector part that is greater than a thickness on a side opposite to the wiring side portion. Therefore, when injection-molding the resin part, due to a thickness change of the resin part, the detector part is pressed against a metal mold and a position of the detecting part is fixed. Further, the resin body has a thick-resin portion and a thin-resin portion. The thickness of the thin-resin portion allows a predetermined amount of dislocation of the detector part. Therefore, if the detector part is exposed, water is prevented from intruding the lead frame and the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takiguchi, Ninh Duc Hoang, Yoshiyuki Kono, Takehito Mizunuma
  • Publication number: 20180102473
    Abstract: A sensor includes: an integrated circuit having a power supply lead, a ground lead and a signal lead; a power supply terminal connected to the power supply lead; a ground terminal connected to the ground lead; a first signal terminal connected to the signal lead; a second signal terminal connected to the first signal terminal; a filter member having one end connected to one of the terminals and another end connected to another one of the terminals; and a sealing body sealing the integrated circuit, the terminals and the filter member. A part of each terminal is exposed from the sealing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Takeshi ITOU, Takamitsu KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki KONO
  • Publication number: 20180026562
    Abstract: The present electric power generation control device includes: an event detection unit which detects an event attributable to a deterioration in the balance between a torque input to a generator and an effective power output by the generator, the deterioration being caused by a reduction in a set value of the effective power received from the generator by an electric power converter when the electric power converter has detected a failure necessitating interruption of electric power transmission from the generator by a direct-current (DC) power transmission unit, the DC power transmission unit transmitting DC power, the electric power converter connecting a generator to the DC power transmission unit; and a torque command reduction unit which causes a reduction in a torque command to a motor when the event detection unit has detected the event attributable to the deterioration in the balance, the motor outputting the torque input to the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Masayuki HASHIMOTO, Tsuyoshi WAKASA, Yoshiyuki KONO, Shuhei FUJIWARA
  • Publication number: 20170345998
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices is provided. The method includes bonding a semiconductor element to a first surface of a planar lead frame, clamping a partial area of the lead frame to hold the lead frame and the semiconductor element in molding dies, and covering at least a part of the lead frame and the semiconductor element with a resin member by resin molding which fills the molding dies with resin. A thin-walled portion having a relative small thickness is previously formed on a shortest virtual line connecting a clamp area of the lead frame to an area where the semiconductor element is bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Toshiyuki KOUMORI, Yoshiyuki KONO, Tomoyuki TAKIGUCHI, Yoshinori INUZUKA, Akitoshi MIZUTANI, Seiji NISHIMOTO, Camillo PILLA
  • Publication number: 20170292856
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotational angle detecting device. An IC substrate has a flat surface extending along a rotational axis of a throttle valve. Yokes forms, together with the magnets, a closed magnetic circuit. A first Hall element outputs a first signal according to the magnetic flux density in a first direction along the flat surface. A second Hall element outputs a second signal according to the magnetic flux density in a second direction intersecting the flat surface. The first and second Hall elements are positioned within a region that is surrounded by the magnets and the yoke and that is between an edge surface and an edge surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki TAKIGUCHI, Yoshiyuki KONO, Akitoshi MIZUTANI
  • Patent number: 9784188
    Abstract: A sensor module is adapted to be attached to an actuator body incorporating an electric actuator. The sensor module includes a sensor assembly, a sensor cover, and a connector housing. The sensor assembly includes a sensor detection part and a sensor housing. The sensor detection part is configured to detect a physical change amount of a driven body driven by the electric actuator and to convert the physical change amount into an electrical signal. The sensor housing incorporates the sensor detection part. The sensor cover is provided separately from the sensor housing and is attached to the actuator body. The sensor module is configured integrally by attaching the sensor assembly to the sensor cover. A connector terminal electrically connected to a connection terminal of the sensor detection part is insert-molded in the connector housing. The connector housing is provided integrally with the sensor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Nishimoto, Yoshiyuki Kono
  • Patent number: 9689711
    Abstract: A position detecting device includes a first sensor portion having a first mold resin object molded for a first magnetic sensor and a first wiring and a second sensor portion having a second mold resin object molded for a second magnetic sensor and a second wiring. The first sensor portion and the second sensor portion have a protrusion part defined between the first magnetic sensor of the first sensor portion and the second magnetic sensor of the second sensor portion to provide a clearance between the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehito Mizunuma, Tomoyuki Takiguchi, Takamitsu Kubota, Yoshiyuki Kono
  • Publication number: 20170164492
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a casing, a terminal, a substrate, an electric connector, and a conductive adhesive. The terminal is fixed to the casing. The substrate is attached to the casing at a position where at least a portion of the substrate faces the terminal. The electric connector is fixed to a circuit wiring formed in the substrate at a positon where the substrate faces the terminal. The electric connector protrudes toward the terminal from the circuit wiring. The conductive adhesive electrically and mechanically connects the terminal to the electric connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuma UCHIDA, Takamitsu KUBOTA, Yoshiyuki KONO