Patents Assigned to Noritake Co., Limited
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Publication number: 20240101468Abstract: The present disclosure provides a technology of obtaining a ceramic product including a decorative film which has a sufficient chemical resistance and can reduce damage during cleaning. A decorative composition disclosed herein contains at least a noble metal element and a glass matrix element. The glass matrix element contains a rare-earth element and a first element which is at least one selected from the group consisting of Si and Al. In the decorative composition disclosed herein, the content of the rare-earth element in the glass matrix element is from 1 mol % to 45 mol % inclusive, and the content of the first element in the glass matrix element is from 50 mol % to 90 mol % inclusive. This allows the decorative film having both alkali resistance and acid resistance at high level to be formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yukiko Kikugawa, Yoshihide Maeno, Yoshihiro Suzuki
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Publication number: 20240001436Abstract: According to the present invention, an additively manufactured ceramic core having both strength and collapsibility, and meltability and moreover having surface roughness improved is provided. The additively manufactured ceramic core disclosed herein is an additively manufactured ceramic core to be used as a core when manufacturing a metal casting and includes a central part corresponding to an additively manufactured fired body of a predetermined ceramic powder, a first layer covering at least a part of the central part, and a second layer formed on a surface layer of the first layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Hirokazu Watanabe, Akihiro Kawahara, Tsuyoshi Hondo, Kouji Inukai, Shinji Kato
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Publication number: 20230407426Abstract: According to the present disclosure, a heat treatment apparatus includes a heating treatment unit that heat-treats a strip-shaped sheet while transferring the strip-shaped sheet, and a cooling unit that cools the strip-shaped sheet having been heat-treated in the heating treatment unit while transferring the strip-shaped sheet. The cooling unit includes a cooling roller that allows a refrigerant to flow through the inside thereof, and an outer wall that surrounds the space in which the cooling roller is disposed. The heat treatment apparatus may further include a take-up unit in which the strip-shaped sheet having been cooled in the cooling unit is wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Hidenori Nakamura, Hideki Yonekawa, Hiroshi Ishida, Hideaki Ohi, Masanobu Kato
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Publication number: 20230408198Abstract: A heat treatment vessel coupler for coupling together heat treatment vessels adjacent in a horizontal direction, of a plurality of rectangular box-shaped heat treatment vessels each loaded with a material to be treated, conveyed in a conveying direction on a plurality of rotationally driven conveyor rollers arranged in parallel inside a heat treatment furnace, the coupler comprises a plate body smaller than each of the heat treatment vessels, at least a pair of engagement protrusions each projecting from the plate body and engaging with a corresponding one of side walls of the heat treatment vessels, and a spacer protrusion projecting from the plate body between the at least a pair of engagement protrusions so as to be sandwiched between the heat treatment vessels with which the at least a pair of engagement protrusions engage respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Kenji MATSUDA, Kenji MATSUNAGA, Yoshihiro SEKIKAWA, Kazuhiro ONODA
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Publication number: 20230330890Abstract: Provided is a technique to manufacture an additive manufactured fired body in which the occurrence of deformation or the like is suppressed at a high level. Provided is a method for manufacturing an additive manufactured fired body, the method including a manufacturing step of manufacturing an additive manufactured object by using an additive manufacturing powder, and a firing step of obtaining the additive manufactured fired body by firing the additive manufactured object. In the manufacturing step, a supporter 20 that supports the additive manufactured object 10 is shaped together with the additive manufactured object 10 so as to surround the additive manufactured object 10 by using the additive manufacturing powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Tsuyoshi Hondo, Akihiro Kawahara
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Publication number: 20230321787Abstract: A plane polishing machine polishing one surface of a workpiece flat, the plane polishing machine comprises a stick-on disk decentering jig of a circular plate shape mounted on a rotating polishing surface plate, a jig rotation drive device having a plurality of guide rollers coming into contact with the stick-on disk decentering jig, a rotational direction restriction device permitting rotation of the stick-on disk in a direction identical to a rotational direction of the stick-on disk decentering jig and inhibiting rotation of the stick-on disk in a direction opposite to the rotational direction of the stick-on disk decentering jig, and a jig rotation suppression device periodically suppressing rotation of the stick-on disk decentering jig rotated by the drive guide roller, for a predetermined period.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventor: Makoto SATO
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Patent number: 11745303Abstract: In an abrasive body used for polishing by a CMP method, provided with a resin structure, a plurality of abrasive grains, and a plurality of longitudinal pores, and made in a form of disc, the longitudinal pore has a length in a thickness direction of the abrasive body longer than a length in a planar direction of the abrasive body, the resin structure includes communicating pores each of which communicating with the longitudinal pore and/or communicating with other communicating pore, the communicating pores include at least one of the abrasive grains in the pores respectively, and the average diameter of the communicating pores is not more than 18 times larger than the average diameter of the abrasive grains.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Wataru Omori, Takaya Yamaguchi, Shota Kitajima, Makoto Sato
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Patent number: 11731838Abstract: A roller conveyor device including a three-line conveyor for conveying objects that form at least three lines extending in a conveying direction. The three-line conveyor includes first conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form at least one central line of the at least three lines, second conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form at least one non-central line of the at least three lines, and third conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form another at least one non-central line of the at least three lines. A rotary shaft of each of the first, second and third conveyor rollers includes a shaft end portion having a projection portion that projects out from a conveying path in a widthwise direction of the conveying path, and the projection portion is to be driven so as to convey the objects in the conveying direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yuta Kobayashi, Kenichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 11724415Abstract: The present invention is a sintering method of a ceramic for sintering characterized by forming a layer containing a carbon powder on a surface of an article consisting of a ceramic for sintering, and then irradiating with laser a surface of the carbon powder-containing layer of a lamination obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: Japan Fine Ceramics Center, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, TOTO LTD., NGK INSULATORS, LTD., NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.Inventors: Teiichi Kimura, Satoshi Suehiro
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Publication number: 20230204286Abstract: A rotary kiln includes: a heating tube; a material feeding unit disposed on a first end of the heating tube; a material collection unit disposed on a second end of the heating tube; an inner cylinder supported at the second end of the heating tube with the inner cylinder being inserted in a central portion of the heating tube; a plurality of branch tubes disposed circumferentially on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder, each of the branch tubes branching from the inner cylinder and extending in an axial direction along an inner circumferential surface of the heating tube; a hot air supply tube supported to be relatively rotatable with respect to the inner cylinder with the hot air supply tube being inserted in one end of the inner cylinder that extends outside the heating tube; and a drive mechanism that rotates the heating tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Hidenao Goto, Sayaka Kato, Yoshiaki Ozawa, Minoru Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20230150094Abstract: A method for producing a high-porosity vitrified grinding stone that has a plurality of pores communicating with each other. The method includes: (a) a grinding-stone-material preparing step of obtaining a grinding-stone raw material slurry that is a mixture fluid of abrasive grains, a vitrified bond, a gellable water-soluble polymer and a water; (b) a molding step of obtaining a molded body, by gelling the grinding-stone raw material slurry with use of a molding mold; (c) a freeze vacuum drying step of generating a plurality of frozen particles inside the molded body by freezing the molded body, and placing the molded body under a vacuum state, so as to sublimate the frozen particles generated inside the molded body for thereby drying the molded body; and (d) a firing step of obtaining the high-porosity vitrified grinding stone, by binding the abrasive grains with the vitrified bond by firing the molded body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Kouichi YOSHIMURA, Tomoki KIMURA
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Publication number: 20230050576Abstract: An AE-signal detecting device for an abrasive wheel includes: an AE sensor which outputs an AE signal upon receipt of an elastic wave generated in an annular abrasive wheel sandwiched between a fixed flange fixed to a rotating shaft and a movable flange provided capable of getting closer to/separating from the fixed flange; a transmission circuit portion which wirelessly transmits the AE signal output from the AE sensor; and a reception circuit portion which receives the AE signal transmitted wirelessly, wherein the AE sensor is disposed on the movable flange or the fixed flange, detects the elastic wave transmitted from the abrasive wheel, and outputs the AE signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Satoshi ISOGIMI, Tomomi OHASHI
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Patent number: 11504781Abstract: A twin-head bar cutting device includes a first cutting head and a first bar holding device as well as a second cutting head and a second bar holding device placed on a common base. The base includes a first placement surface on which the first cutting head is placed, a second placement surface on which the second cutting head is placed, and a holding device placement surface formed higher than the first placement surface and the second placement surface between the first placement surface and the second placement surface and on which the first bar holding device and the second bar holding device are placed, and the first cutting head and the second cutting head are arranged symmetrically about a vertical plane passing through a center in a width direction of the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Katsuyuki Masuya, Takaaki Shirozu
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Publication number: 20220347774Abstract: A gear-grinding multilayer grindstone includes: a first thread-shaped grindstone and a second thread-shaped grindstone that are fixed to each other, such that the first and second thread-shaped grindstones have a rotational axis that is common to the first and second thread-shaped grindstones; and a thread-shaped groove that is provided in a first outer circumferential surface of the first thread-shaped grindstone and a second outer circumferential surface of the second thread-shaped grindstone. The thread-shaped groove extends continuously over the first outer circumferential surface and the second outer circumferential surface. The second thread-shaped grindstone is constituted by abrasive cloths that are laminated on each other, and has a higher elasticity than the first thread-shaped grindstone.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicants: NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, NORITAKE COATED ABRASIVE CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa ISHIZAWA, Yusuke OURA, Masayuki HATTORI, Yasuhiro KAMIYA, Koshi HASHIMOTO
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Publication number: 20220333864Abstract: The transport roller disclosed herein includes: an outer tubular member which is tubular and is made of a metal material; an inner tubular member which is provided inside the outer tubular member, is tubular, and is made of a ceramic material; multiple ring-shaped projections which each have a ring shape along an outer peripheral surface of the outer tubular member, are made of a metal material, and are supporting the heating target; and protection members which are formed in respective portions of the ring-shaped projections in contact with the heating target, and each include a ceramic coating containing a ceramic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Takanori Uehara, Hidetaka Kato, Masaharu Ohashi
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Publication number: 20220331892Abstract: A gear-grinding multilayer grindstone includes a rough machining portion and a finish machining portion that are disposed adjacent to each other on a rotational axis. The rough machining portion includes a first core and a rough machining grindstone that is held on the first core. The finish machining portion includes a second core that is adjacent to the first core, and a finish machining grindstone that is held on the second core. The first core and the second core are fixed to each other, without the rough machining grindstone and the finish machining grindstone being fixed at least at outer peripheral portions thereof to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicants: NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, NORITAKE COATED ABRASIVE CO., LTD.Inventors: Takamasa ISHIZAWA, Yusuke OURA, Yuji FUJITA, Koshi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 11458593Abstract: In a high-porosity CBN vitrified grinding stone having a homogeneous structure, a CBN abrasive grain, a large-diameter inorganic hollow filler having an average particle diameter in a range from a grain size one class coarser to a grain size one class finer with respect to a class indicating a grain size of the CBN abrasive grain, and a small-diameter inorganic hollow filler having an average particle diameter of ? to ½ of that of the CBN abrasive grain are bonded by an inorganic bonding agent.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Ryoma Ito, Takeshi Mishima, Kouichi Yoshimura
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Publication number: 20220306396Abstract: A roller conveyor device including a three-line conveyor for conveying objects that form at least three lines extending in a conveying direction. The three-line conveyor includes first conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form at least one central line of the at least three lines, second conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form at least one non-central line of the at least three lines, and third conveyor rollers for conveying ones of the objects that form another at least one non-central line of the at least three lines. A rotary shaft of each of the first, second and third conveyor rollers includes a shaft end portion having a projection portion that projects out from a conveying path in a widthwise direction of the conveying path, and the projection portion is to be driven so as to convey the objects in the conveying direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: NORITAKE CO., LIMITEDInventors: Yuta KOBAYASHI, Kenichi TANAKA
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Publication number: 20220307769Abstract: The baked object taking-out apparatus is an apparatus that takes out a baked object from a baking base plate including a disposing surface on which the baked object is disposed. The baked object taking-out apparatus includes a robot arm, a holding member that is provided on the robot arm, that is formed of a metal material, and that is capable of holding the baking base plate, and a protective member that is formed at a portion of the holding member which comes into contact with the baking base plate and that is configured with a ceramic coating which contains a ceramic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Hiromu Kondo, Kenichi Tanaka, Akira Sakai, Hidetaka Kato
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Patent number: 11384059Abstract: A carrier for an ethylene epoxidation catalyst, the carrier comprising a porous alumina body formed of sintered particles of alumina in a substantial absence of inorganic binder species other than alumina, wherein the substantial absence of inorganic binder species corresponds to an amount of less than 0.6 wt % inorganic binder species other than alumina and comprises at least a substantial absence of silicon-containing species.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: Scientific Design Company, Inc., Noritake Co., LimitedInventors: Serguei Pak, Yasuyuki Kato