Patents by Inventor Yousuke Fukumoto

Yousuke Fukumoto 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: 8134804
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to prevent dropout of a head slider from an micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and damage of the MEMS. In an embodiment of the present invention, a suspension for a slider dynamic electric test (DET) comprises an MEMS for supporting a head slider. The MEMS has a clamper for holding a head slider and the clamper moved by an external force can attach or detach a head slider. The suspension comprises limiters for limiting the clamper's lateral movement. The limiters limit the clamper's undesirable movement, which prevents the clamper's lateral movement in attaching a head slider, a head slider's dropout and the MEMS's damage caused by a contact with a magnetic disk, or a head slider's dropout and the MEMS's damage in handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Tadashi Honzawa, Yousuke Fukumoto, Kenji Itoh, Shinobu Hagiya, Haruhide Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7739785
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a head gimbal assembly manufacturing method which can attach another magnetic head slider to a suspension to be reused without addition of solder. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a head gimbal assembly (HGA) is attached to a jig. Both sides of a portion close to the rear end of a magnetic head slider are gripped with hot tweezers heated at about 200° C. They are heated for about four seconds while applying force in a direction of peeling off the magnetic head slider from gimbals, thus removing the magnetic head slider from the gimbals. When another magnetic head slider is attached to the suspension, an adhesive adhered to the gimbals is removed and another adhesive is applied to the gimbals. The back of another magnetic head slider is pressed to the adhesive, whereby the magnetic head slider is fixed to the gimbals. Next, the solder fillet left on the gimbals is irradiated with laser beams to be melted and joined to an electric terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Kenjirou Watanabe, Yoshio Uematsu, Yousuke Fukumoto, Yohtaroh Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20090251825
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention help to prevent dropout of a head slider from an micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and damage of the MEMS. In an embodiment of the present invention, a suspension for a slider dynamic electric test (DET) comprises an MEMS for supporting a head slider. The MEMS has a clamper for holding a head slider and the clamper moved by an external force can attach or detach a head slider. The suspension comprises limiters for limiting the clamper's lateral movement. The limiters limit the clamper's undesirable movement, which prevents the clamper's lateral movement in attaching a head slider, a head slider's dropout and the MEMS's damage caused by a contact with a magnetic disk, or a head slider's dropout and the MEMS's damage in handling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 8, 2009
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Tadashi Honzawa, Yousuke Fukumoto, Kenji Itoh, Shinobu Hagiya, Haruhide Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20080092365
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a head gimbal assembly manufacturing method which can attach another magnetic head slider to a suspension to be reused without addition of solder. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a head gimbal assembly (HGA) is attached to a jig. Both sides of a portion close to the rear end of a magnetic head slider are gripped with hot tweezers heated at about 200° C. They are heated for about four seconds while applying force in a direction of peeling off the magnetic head slider from gimbals, thus removing the magnetic head slider from the gimbals. When another magnetic head slider is attached to the suspension, an adhesive adhered to the gimbals is removed and another adhesive is applied to the gimbals. The back of another magnetic head slider is pressed to the adhesive, whereby the magnetic head slider is fixed to the gimbals. Next, the solder fillet left on the gimbals is irradiated with laser beams to be melted and joined to an electric terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Kenjirou Watanabe, Yoshio Uematsu, Yousuke Fukumoto, Yohtaroh Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20060207242
    Abstract: Weight saving of industrial engines. Making pollution-causing material harmless. Improvement in thermal efficiency and reduction of operating cost. Arrangement To produce compressed air, air is pressurized by a turbo charger or a super turbo charger and stored in an air tank. The air is fed, at an optimum temperature and a given pressure, to a cylinder liner shortened according to the pressure. Valves for taking in and out air are hydraulically driven for individual opening and closing according to a computer-aided optimum valve timing diagram. The engine is controlled under high-oxygen high-temperature lean burn condition, and a hydrocarbon is injected into an exhaust manifold to reduce peroxides, thus making pollution-causing material harmless. Effects Reduction of operating cost. Increase in carrying capacity due to the weight reduction of the vehicle body in the case of a vehicle-mounted engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukumoto, Yousuke Fukumoto, Keiko Ebato
  • Publication number: 20060138805
    Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To more increase the capability of a vehicle despite the fact that mankind cannot catch up an increase in performance of the vehicle by forming the vehicle to give less damage to persons in the event of the accident of the vehicle and to minimize emission from the vehicle. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The safety of occupants in the vehicle depends upon the degree of collapse of the vehicle at the time of collision. The non-pollution of the vehicle depends upon the speed to the design change of the vehicle to alter the specifications based on the latest technologies. For this purpose, a carriage allowing the easy design change must be developed. A structure allowing the easy change of the carriage portion of the vehicle has been developed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukumoto, Yousuke Fukumoto, Keiko Ebato
  • Publication number: 20060118345
    Abstract: A full hybrid electric car capable of decreasing an environmental pollution and an operation cost as well as a production cost through an increase in heat efficiency of the engine of a vehicle and a reduction in weight of the vehicle, wherein an AC generator (2) is driven by a prime mover (1) to feed an electric power to AC motors (12) and the vehicle is run by the AC motors (12) installed on the wheels of the vehicle or supplementary driven by a DC motor (3) through gears, a steering structure is abolished by the adjustment of the rotational speed of the wheels, the motors of the wheels are controlled by detecting the intention of an operator on a gyrocompass and an accelerometer, or the upper limit values of the rotational speeds of the wheels are set for safety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukumoto, Yousuke Fukumoto, Keiko Ebato