Patents by Inventor Yuji Shiba

Yuji Shiba 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: 20140176268
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch has a contact device having a pair of fixed contacts fixed inside an arc extinguishing chamber housing and a movable contact disposed to contact with and separate from the fixed contacts; and an electromagnetic device having a movable plunger moving between an opened position wherein the movable contact separates from the fixed contacts and a closed position wherein the movable contact contacts with the fixed contacts and pressed down. The arc extinguishing chamber housing is provided with permanent magnets to extinguish an arc generated at an opening time when the movable contact separates from the fixed contacts from a state in the closed position wherein the movable contact is contacting with the fixed contacts. In a state wherein the movable plunger is in the opened position, a magnetic circuit is formed starting from the permanent magnets and returning to the permanent magnets through the movable plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Naka, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuji Shiba, Yuichi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8760247
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device including a contact housing for housing a pair of fixed contact pieces and a movable contact piece disposed to contact with and separate away from the pair of fixed contact pieces, a pair of arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets disposed on inner peripheral surfaces of the contact housing, and a pair of arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets disposed on outer peripheral surfaces of the contact housing at a section facing the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets. Magnetic pole surfaces of the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets are arranged in a close vicinity of the movable contact piece and are magnetized to have the same polarity facing each other. The arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets are magnetized in the same direction as the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets disposed nearby and coercive force of the arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets is greater than of that the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Isozaki, Osamu Kashimura, Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Yuji Shiba
  • Patent number: 8749331
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device having a contact housing case housing a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact disposed to be capable of contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts, and an insulating cylinder in a bottomed tubular shape disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the contact housing case to enclose the pair of fixed contacts and the movable contact. The insulating cylinder positions an arc extinguishing permanent magnet for extinguishing an arc generated between the pair of fixed contacts and the movable contact. A magnet housing portion to protect the arc extinguishing permanent magnet from the arc is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the insulating cylinder and faces a side surface of the movable contact. An arc extinguishing space is formed on an outer side of the magnet housing portion in an extending direction of the movable contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignees: Fuji Electric Co., Ltd., Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Kashimura, Masaru Isozaki, Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Yuji Shiba
  • Publication number: 20140014622
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor includes a contact device having a contact housing case formed from an insulating material and housing a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact disposed to be capable of contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts. On an inner peripheral surface of the contact housing case along the movable contact, arc extinguishing permanent magnets magnetized so that magnetic pole faces facing each other have same polarity are disposed to be near the movable contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Naka, Kouetsu Takaya, Kenji Suzuki, Yuji Shiba, Masaru Isozaki
  • Publication number: 20130335175
    Abstract: A contact mechanism where a shape of at least one of a fixed contactor including a pair of fixed contact portions and a movable contactor including a pair of movable contact portions capable of contacting with and separating from the pair of fixed contact portions is set to a shape that generates a Lorentz force resisting electromagnetic repulsion in a contactor opening direction generated between the fixed contact portions and the movable contact portions when a current is applied, has the fixed contactor and the movable contactor being inserted in a current path. Magnetic bodies are disposed on at least one of the fixed contactor and the movable contactor for suppressing a force driving arcs, which are generated between the pair of fixed contact portions and the pair of movable contact portions, to the fixed contactor on the opposite side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD., FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Masaru Isozaki, Osamu Kashimura, Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Yuji Shiba
  • Patent number: 8570125
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch has a contact device having a pair of fixed contacts fixed thereof and maintaining a predetermined interval inside an arc-extinguishing chamber receptacle, and a movable contact disposed to be connectable with the pair of fixed contacts; and an electromagnetic device driving the movable contact. The electromagnetic device has a cylindrical exciting coil, a fixed core passing through center of the exciting coil, a magnetic yoke covering an outer side of the exciting coil, and a movable core facing the fixed core and the magnetic yoke, and armature surfaces of the fixed core and the magnetic yoke are formed on a side of the contact device than the exciting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Naka, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba
  • Publication number: 20130257567
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device having a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact; and an electromagnet unit including an exciting coil driving a movable plunger connected through a connecting shaft. The contact device is configured such that L-shaped portions have a contact portion formed in the pair of fixed contacts fixed maintaining a predetermined interval, and two ends of the movable contact are disposed to be capable of contacting to and separating from the contact portions of the L-shaped portion on a side opposite to that of the electromagnet unit. The electromagnet unit includes a magnetic yoke enclosing a plunger drive portion, a movable plunger having a leading end protruding through an aperture formed in the magnetic yoke and urged by a return spring, and a ring-form permanent magnet magnetized in a movable direction of the movable plunger and fixed to enclose a peripheral flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Kenji Suzuki, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba
  • Publication number: 20130228552
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device having a contact housing case housing a pair of fixed contacts and a movable contact disposed to be capable of contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts, and an insulating cylinder in a bottomed tubular shape disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the contact housing case to enclose the pair of fixed contacts and the movable contact. The insulating cylinder positions an arc extinguishing permanent magnet for extinguishing an arc generated between the pair of fixed contacts and the movable contact. A magnet housing portion to protect the arc extinguishing permanent magnet from the arc is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the insulating cylinder and faces a side surface of the movable contact. An arc extinguishing space is formed on an outer side of the magnet housing portion in an extending direction of the movable contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: FUJIELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Kashimura, Masaru Isozaki, Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Yuji Shiba
  • Publication number: 20130229247
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device including a pair of fixed contacts disposed to maintain a predetermined distance and a movable contact disposed to be capable of contacting to and separating from the pair of fixed contacts. An insulating cover covering all except a contact portion contacting with the movable contact is mounted on the pair of fixed contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Fuji Electric FA Componets & Systems Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Tachikawa, Masaru Isozaki, Osamu Kashimura, Kouetsu Takaya, Yasuhiro Naka, Yuji Shiba
  • Publication number: 20130106543
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor has a contact device including a contact housing for housing a pair of fixed contact pieces and a movable contact piece disposed to contact with and separate away from the pair of fixed contact pieces, a pair of arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets disposed on inner peripheral surfaces of the contact housing, and a pair of arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets disposed on outer peripheral surfaces of the contact housing at a section facing the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets. Magnetic pole surfaces of the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets are arranged in a close vicinity of the movable contact piece and are magnetized to have the same polarity facing each other. The arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets are magnetized in the same direction as the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets disposed nearby and coercive force of the arc-extinguishing outer permanent magnets is greater than of that the arc-extinguishing inner permanent magnets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Masaru ISOZAKI, Osamu KASHIMURA, Hiroyuki TACHIKAWA, Kouetsu TAKAYA, Yasuhiro NAKA, Yuji SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20120326815
    Abstract: An electromagnetic switch has a contact device having a pair of fixed contacts fixed thereof and maintaining a predetermined interval inside an arc-extinguishing chamber receptacle, and a movable contact disposed to be connectable with the pair of fixed contacts; and an electromagnetic device driving the movable contact. The electromagnetic device has a cylindrical exciting coil, a fixed core passing through center of the exciting coil, a magnetic yoke covering an outer side of the exciting coil, and a movable core facing the fixed core and the magnetic yoke, and armature surfaces of the fixed core and the magnetic yoke are formed on a side of the contact device than the exciting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Naka, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba
  • Patent number: 8251684
    Abstract: A trochoid pump, comprising a driving shaft, wherein a drive gear comprising of a bevel gear is fixed on one end thereof and an inner rotor is penetrated onto the other end thereof, an outer rotor, the center of which is decentered to the inner rotor, wherein both rotors are covered with the cap and the casing, a first regulatory structure, wherein the driving shaft or a means of control fixed on the driving shaft regulates an one-way movement to the casing, a second regulatory structure, wherein an end face on the other side of the driving shaft is engaged with one end of the cap and regulates the other way movement of the cap, wherein the thrust of the driving shaft is axially regulated by the first regulatory structure and by the second regulatory structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Shiba, Akio Ikeda, Satoshi Hattori
  • Publication number: 20120175345
    Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor includes a first stationary contact having a stationary contact portion and a stationary terminal portion for connecting to a power supply; a second stationary contact having a stationary contact portion and a stationary terminal section for connecting to a load; a stationary-contact supporting case supporting the stationary terminal portions of the first and second stationary contacts to protrude the contact support casing, and maintaining a predetermined distance in between; a moving-contact portion contactable to and separable from the stationary contact portion of the first and second stationary contact and arranged in the stationary-contact supporting case; and a pair of arc-extinguishing magnets arranged in parallel to sandwich the moving-contact portion in the longitudinal direction and having same magnetic polarity at opposing magnetic pole surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TACHIKAWA, Masaru ISOZAKI, Osamu KASHIMURA, Kouetsu TAKAYA, Yasuhiro NAKA, Yuji SHIBA
  • Publication number: 20120175344
    Abstract: A magnetic contactor has a stationary contact including a first and second stationary contact pieces, each having a stationary contact portion and a stationary terminal portion, a third stationary contact piece disposed between the first stationary contact piece and the second stationary contact piece and having two stationary contact portions; a contact support casing supporting the stationary contact with the stationary terminal portions protruding out of the contact support casing; and a movable contact installed in the contact support casing, and including a first and second movable contact pieces contactable and separable from the stationary contact portions of the stationary contact pieces and the stationary contact portions of the third stationary contact piece accordingly, and an insulator fixing the first movable contact piece and the second movable contact piece. A driving mechanism drives the movable contact to contact and separate from the stationary contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicants: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD, FUJI ELECTRIC FA COMPONENTS & SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki TACHIKAWA, Masaru ISOZAKI, Yuji SHIBA
  • Patent number: D656901
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: D656902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: D656903
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Fa Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: D656904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: D657749
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka
  • Patent number: D690660
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Electric FA Components & Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kouetsu Takaya, Yuichi Yamamoto, Yuji Shiba, Yasuhiro Naka