Patents by Inventor Yuji Shibuya
Yuji Shibuya 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).
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Patent number: 12136351Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus that is detachable from a human body. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that generates feedback information that provides feedback. The generation of the feedback information is based on information that is based on a strength or a weakness of a keystroke of a musical instrument.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Yuji Kitazawa, Naoki Shibuya
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Patent number: 11969830Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet including a core material, a sacrificial material provided on one surface of the core material, a brazing filler material provided on the other surface side of the core material, and an intermediate layer provided between the core material and the brazing filler material. The core material contains Si: 0.30 to 1.00 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.60 to 1.20 mass %, Mg: 0.05 to 0.80 mass %, and Al. The sacrificial material contains Si: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, Zn: 2.00 to 7.00 mass %, Mn: 0.40 mass % or less, and Al. The intermediate layer contains Si: 0.05 to 1.20 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, and Al.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuki Hashimoto, Kenichiro Yoshida, Yuji Shibuya, Akihiro Tsuruno, Yoshikazu Miyano, Hajime Sugito, Michiyasu Yamamoto, Masayuki Makita, Arisu Fujii, Shin Takewaka, Hayaki Teramoto, Koichi Yamamoto, Toshihide Ninagawa
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Publication number: 20230234172Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a core material, a brazing filler material provided on one surface of the core material, and an intermediate material provided between the core material and the brazing filler material. The core material contains, in mass%, Mn: 0.20% to 2.00%, Si: 0.20% to 1.50%, Cu: 0.20% to 1.50%, and Mg: 0.10% to 0.90%, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. The intermediate material contains, in mass%, Zn: 0.50% to 8.00%, and Mg: 0.10% to 0.90%, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. The brazing filler material contains, in mass%, Si: 5.00% to 15.00%, Mg: 0.10% to 0.90%, Bi: 0.10% to 0.50%, and Cu: 0.05% to 0.50%, with the remainder being Al and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet satisfies the formula 10.0?[Zn]/[Cu]?40.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Katsuhiro MATSUKADO, Akihiro TSURUNO, Yuji SHIBUYA, Yousuke UCHIDA, Atsushi SAJI
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Publication number: 20230117687Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet including a core material, a sacrificial material provided on one surface of the core material, a brazing filler material provided on the other surface side of the core material, and an intermediate layer provided between the core material and the brazing filler material. The core material contains Si: 0.30 to 1.00 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.60 to 1.20 mass %, Mg: 0.05 to 0.80 mass %, and Al. The sacrificial material contains Si: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, Zn: 2.00 to 7.00 mass %, Mn: 0.40 mass % or less, and Al. The intermediate layer contains Si: 0.05 to 1.20 mass %, Mn: 0.50 to 2.00 mass %, Cu: 0.10 to 1.20 mass %, and Al.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Tatsuki HASHIMOTO, Kenichiro YOSHIDA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Akihiro TSURUNO, Yoshikazu MIYANO, Hajime SUGITO, Michiyasu YAMAMOTO, Masayuki MAKITA, Arisu FUJII, Shin TAKEWAKA, Hayaki TERAMOTO, Koichi YAMAMOTO, Toshihide NINAGAWA
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Publication number: 20230098425Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet including a core material and a brazing material provided on at least one surface of the core material. The brazing material includes 5.0-9.0 mass % Si, 0.10-0.90 mass % Mg, and 0.05-0.60 mass % Bi, and further includes at least one of 0.80 mass % or less Mn and 0.60 mass % or less Ti, with the remainder being Al and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)Inventors: Yuto AZUMA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Akihiro TSURUNO, Shogo YAMADA, Masashi UTSUNOMIYA, Atsushi SAJI
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Patent number: 11437176Abstract: An electronic component includes a member with marking having at least one marking area to be processed digitally, as well as a member other than the member with marking. The marking allows for tracing the production history of individual electronic components.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Shibuya, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Tetsuya Oga
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Publication number: 20200350110Abstract: An electronic component includes a member with marking having at least one marking area to be processed digitally, as well as a member other than the member with marking. The marking allows for tracing the production history of individual electronic components.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Yuji SHIBUYA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA, Tetsuya OGA
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Patent number: 10748696Abstract: An electronic component includes a member with marking having at least one marking area to be processed digitally, as well as a member other than the member with marking. The marking allows for tracing the production history of individual electronic components.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Shibuya, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Tetsuya Oga
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Publication number: 20200206849Abstract: This aluminum alloy brazing sheet is provided with: a core material comprising 2.0 mass % or less (including 0 mass %) of Mg and a remainder of Al and unavoidable impurities; and a brazing material comprising Si, Bi, Mg, and a remainder of Al and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum alloy brazing sheet satisfies the expressions 3?CSi?13, 0.13CMg?0.3?CBi?0.58CMg0.45, CMg-b?0.1, and 0.2?CMg?1.1 when the Si content of the brazing material is denoted by CSi, the Bi content of the brazing material is denoted by CBi, the Mg content of the brazing material is denoted by CMg-b, the Mg content of the core material is denoted by CMg-c, and CMg=CMg-b+CMg-c/2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro IZUMI, Akihiro TSURUNO, Shimpei KIMURA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Takahiro SHINODA, Shogo YAMADA, Shingo OONO
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Publication number: 20200086430Abstract: Provided is a brazing method for an aluminum alloy brazing sheet provided with a core material and a brazing material in which the Si content of the brazing material is denoted by CSi, the Bi content of the brazing material is denoted by CBi, the Mg content of the brazing material is denoted by CMg-b, the Mg content of the core material is denoted by CMg-c, CMg=CMg-b+CMg-c/2, and an aluminum alloy brazing sheet satisfying 3?CSi?13, 0.13CMg?0.3?CBi?0.58CMg0.45, CMg-b?0.1, and 0.2?CMg?1.1 is brazed in an inert gas atmosphere at a heating temperature of 560-620° C. without using flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2018Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro IZUMI, Akihiro TSURUNO, Shimpei KIMURA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Takahiro SHINODA, Shogo YAMADA, Shingo OONO
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Patent number: 10369665Abstract: This brazed structure includes a brazing sheet that has been brazed and that comprises: a core material comprising an aluminum alloy which contains 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Si, 0.6-2.0 mass %, excluding 0.6 mass %, Mn, 0.3-1.0 mass %, excluding 0.3 mass %, Cu, and 0.15-0.5 mass %, excluding 0.15 mass %, Mg, with the remainder comprising Al and unavoidable impurities, and has an average crystal grain diameter of 50 ?m or larger and in which an Mg—Si intermetallic compound and an Al—Mg—Si—Cu intermetallic compound account for 40% or less of the grain boundaries; and, clad to the core material, a brazing material comprising an Al—Si alloy.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignees: KOBE STEEL, LTD., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Izumi, Shimpei Kimura, Yuji Shibuya, Shoei Teshima, Hayaki Teramoto, Osamu Hakamata
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Patent number: 10312010Abstract: In an embodiment, a coil component 10 has a drum core 20 housed in a through hole 32 of a ring core 30, and two types of securing parts are provided in a gap G between an outer circumference of one flange part 24 of the drum core 20 and an inner circumference of the through hole 32. Terminal electrodes 50A, 50B connecting to ends 46A, 46B pulled out from a winding wire 40 wound around the drum core 20 are assembled to the ring core 30. Second securing parts 60A, 60B are arranged to opposite to each other with respect to a center C of the flange part 24, and first securing parts 62A, 62B are provided to cover an outer side of the second securing parts 60A, 60B. A hardness of the second securing part is higher than that of the first securing part.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tetsuya Oga, Kazuhiko Otsuka, Yuji Shibuya
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Patent number: 10307869Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy brazing sheet for electric resistance welding, which has high strength while being thinned and can reduce the occurrence of welding defects in the electric resistance welding. Disclosed is an aluminum alloy brazing sheet for electric resistance welding, including a core layer and a brazing filler layer cladded on at least one surface of the core layer, wherein the brazing filler layer is made of an aluminum alloy comprising Si: 5.5 to 12.0% by mass, and at least one of Na: 0.0003 to 0.0030% by mass and Sr: 0.0020 to 0.1000% by mass, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the brazing filler layer in a molten state at 650° C. exhibits a viscosity of 0.01 Pa·s or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Shimpei Kimura, Toshiki Ueda, Takahiro Izumi, Yuji Shibuya
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Patent number: 10286496Abstract: A brazing sheet formed of an aluminum alloy and exhibiting excellent post-brazing strength, corrosion resistance and brazability with a thickness of less than 200 ?m is provided. The brazing sheet includes a core layer, a filler layer of an Al—Si based alloy on one side of the core layer, and a sacrificial layer on the other side of the core layer. The core layer includes more than 1.5 mass % and 2.5 mass % or less of Cu, 0.5 mass % to 2.0 mass % of Mn, Al, and inevitable impurities. The sacrificial layer includes 2.0 mass % to 7.0 mass % of Zn, more than 0.10 mass % and 3.0 mass % or less of Mg, Al, and inevitable impurities. The filler layer and the sacrificial layer each have a thickness of 15 ?m to 50 ?m. A total clad rate of the filler layer and the sacrificial layer is equal to or less than 50%.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei Kimura, Akihiro Tsuruno, Takahiro Izumi, Yuji Shibuya, Hayaki Teramoto, Shoei Teshima, Manabu Hasegawa, Michiyasu Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20190118311Abstract: An aluminum alloy brazing sheet 1 characterized by comprising a core material 2, a brazing material 3 made of an Al—Si based alloy provided on one surface of the core material 2, a sacrificial material 4 provided on another surface of the core material 2, and an intermediate material 5 provided between the core material 2 and the sacrificial material 4; a plate thickness being less than 200 ?m; the core material 2 containing a predetermined amount of Mn and Cu, with a balance being Al and inevitable impurities; the sacrificial material 4 containing a predetermined amount of Zn and less than a predetermined amount of Mg, with a balance being Al and inevitable impurities; and the intermediate material 5 containing a predetermined amount of Mg with a balance being Al and inevitable impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei KIMURA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Akihiro TSURUNO, Hayaki TERAMOTO, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Kota HAGIHARA, Yosuke UCHIDA
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Publication number: 20180214990Abstract: The present invention provides an aluminum alloy brazing sheet for electric resistance welding, which has high strength while being thinned and can reduce the occurrence of welding defects in the electric resistance welding. Disclosed is an aluminum alloy brazing sheet for electric resistance welding, including a core layer and a brazing filler layer cladded on at least one surface of the core layer, wherein the brazing filler layer is made of an aluminum alloy comprising Si: 5.5 to 12.0% by mass, and at least one of Na: 0.0003 to 0.0030% by mass and Sr: 0.0020 to 0.1000% by mass, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the brazing filler layer in a molten state at 650° C. exhibits a viscosity of 0.01 Pa·s or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Shimpei KIMURA, Toshiki UEDA, Takahiro IZUMI, Yuji SHIBUYA
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Publication number: 20180111232Abstract: Disclosed herein is a brazing sheet made of an aluminum alloy, which can maintain excellent strength after braizing and corrosion resistance even though the sheet is thinned The brazing sheet 1A includes a core material 2, a brazing material 4 provided on at least one side of the core material 2, and an intermediate layer 3 provided between the core material 2 and the brazing material 4 on the at least one side, wherein the core material 2 includes Cu: 0.50 to 1.10% by mass, Si: 0.10 to 1.10% by mass, and Mn: 0.60 to 2.00% by mass, and Al and inevitable impurities, and the intermediate layer 3 includes Zn: 0.50 to 10.00% by mass, and Si: exceeding 0.20% by mass and 1.10% by mass or less, and Al and inevitable impurities, and wherein the brazing material 4 is made of an AlSi based alloy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Yuji SHIBUYA, Shimpei KIMURA, Akihiro TSURUNO
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Publication number: 20180096775Abstract: An electronic component includes a member with marking having at least one marking area to be processed digitally, as well as a member other than the member with marking. The marking allows for tracing the production history of individual electronic components.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Yuji SHIBUYA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA, Tetsuya OGA
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Publication number: 20170287614Abstract: In an embodiment, a coil component 10 has a drum core 20 housed in a through hole 32 of a ring core 30, and two types of securing parts are provided in a gap G between an outer circumference of one flange part 24 of the drum core 20 and an inner circumference of the through hole 32. Terminal electrodes 50A, 50B connecting to ends 46A, 46B pulled out from a winding wire 40 wound around the drum core 20 are assembled to the ring core 30. Second securing parts 60A, 60B are arranged to opposite to each other with respect to a center C of the flange part 24, and first securing parts 62A, 62B are provided to cover an outer side of the second securing parts 60A, 60B. A hardness of the second securing part is higher than that of the first securing part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Tetsuya OGA, Kazuhiko OTSUKA, Yuji SHIBUYA
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Publication number: 20170232561Abstract: Disclosed is an aluminum alloy brazing sheet including a core material, a brazing filler material provided on one surface of the core material and formed of an Al—Si based alloy, and a sacrificial anode material provided on the other surface of the core material, the brazing sheet having a thickness of less than 200 ?m, wherein the core material includes more than 1.5% by mass and 2.5% or less by mass of Cu, and 0.5 to 2.0% by mass of Mn, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the sacrificial anode material includes 2.0 to 10.0% by mass of Zn, an Mg content in the sacrificial anode material being restricted to 0.10% or less by mass, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, and wherein each of the brazing filler material and the sacrificial anode material has a thickness thereof in a range of 15 to 50 ?m, and the total of cladding rates of the brazing filler material and sacrificial anode material is 50% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Shimpei KIMURA, Akihiro TSURUNO, Takahiro IZUMI, Yuji SHIBUYA, Hayaki TERAMOTO, Michiyasu YAMAMOTO, Manabu HASEGAWA, Shoei TESHIMA