Patents by Inventor Junji Nunomura

Junji Nunomura 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: 11932956
    Abstract: An aluminum member includes: a base material made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; and an anodized coating including a barrier layer on a surface of the base material and a porous layer on the barrier layer, wherein the anodized coating contains phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S), and has a thickness of 100 ?m or less, and, in a depth direction heading from a surface of the anodized coating toward the base material, a depth providing a maximum content of S in a region situated at a depth of 500 nm or more from the surface of the anodized coating is larger than a depth providing a maximum content of P, and an inequality (the maximum content of S)>(the maximum content of P) holds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mihoko Kikuchi, Junji Nunomura
  • Publication number: 20230212776
    Abstract: An aluminum member (1) includes: a base material (2) composed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; and an anodic oxide film (3) formed on a surface of the base material. The anodic oxide film includes: an amorphous layer (31), which is composed of an amorphous aluminum oxide and is formed on the base material (2); and a crystal layer (32), which is composed of a crystalline aluminum oxide and is formed on the amorphous layer (31). The aluminum member (1) can be obtained by forming the anodic oxide film (3) on the base material (2) by performing an anodization process on the base material (2) in an electrolytic solution, which contains boron atoms and has a pH of 7.0-12.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Tatsuya KIKUCHI, Miu SATO, Junji NUNOMURA, Yoshiyuki OYA
  • Patent number: 11549190
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum member including a mother material containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and an anodic oxide film on the surface of the mother material. The anodic oxide film has a barrier layer on the surface of the mother material, and a porous layer on the barrier layer), and the BET specific surface area of the anodic oxide film is 0.1 to 10.0 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syu Saito, Junji Nunomura
  • Patent number: 11519090
    Abstract: The method for producing an electrolytic aluminum foil of the present disclosure is a method for producing an electrolytic aluminum foil, the method including supplying an electrolytic solution in an electrolytic cell provided with a diaphragm between an anode and a cathode and depositing an aluminum foil on a surface of the cathode by electrolysis, wherein the diaphragm is made of aluminum having a purity of 85.0% or more and has a plurality of pores having an average pore diameter of 100 to 1000 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Honkawa, Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20220196340
    Abstract: A heat-transfer member (1) is used in a cooling system in which an alcohol serves as a coolant. The heat-transfer member (1) has: a heat-receiving surface (11) configured such that it can receive heat from a heat-generating body; and a heat-dissipating surface (12) configured such that it can dissipate, to the coolant, the heat received at the heat-receiving surface (11). The heat-dissipating surface (12) has a plurality of pores (121) whose average pore diameter is 5 nm or more and 1,000 nm or less. A cooling system can be configured by causing the coolant to contact the heat-dissipating surface (12) of the heat-transfer member (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Yasuyuki TAKATA, Koji TAKAHASHI, Biao SHEN, Junji NUNOMURA, Yoichiro BEKKI, Akihiro FUKATSU
  • Patent number: 11225725
    Abstract: A method for producing aluminum includes: a dissolution step of dissolving a hydrate containing Al in water to prepare an aqueous solution that contains Al ions; an extraction step of bringing an organic phase that is composed of an extractant into contact with an aqueous phase that is composed of the aqueous solution to extract the Al ions in the aqueous phase into the organic phase; and an electrodeposition step of electrolyzing the organic phase as an electrolytic solution to electrodeposit metallic Al onto a surface of a cathode from the Al ions in the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Nunomura, Yukio Honkawa, Yoichi Kojima, Mikito Ueda
  • Publication number: 20220002892
    Abstract: A method for producing an aluminum material, including: providing an electrolytic cell in which an anode electrode containing 0.01 to 30% by mass Si and Al and a cathode electrode are immersed in an electrolytic solution and depositing aluminum on the cathode electrode by energizing the anode electrode and the cathode electrode in the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji NUNOMURA, Yukio HONKAWA, Yoichi KOJIMA, Tetsuya TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20210348293
    Abstract: Provided is an aluminum member including a base material containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy and an anodic oxide film having a barrier layer on the surface of the base material and a porous layer on the barrier layer, in which the anodic oxide film has a thickness of 100 ?m or less, the porous layer contains S and P, the concentration of S, CS, and the concentration of P, CP, in the porous layer, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, satisfy CS>CP over the depth direction from the surface of the anodic oxide film toward the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventor: Junji NUNOMURA
  • Publication number: 20210285120
    Abstract: The aluminum member of the present disclosure includes a mother material containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and an anodic oxide film on the surface of the mother material, in which the arithmetical mean roughness Ra, the mean length of roughness curve elements RSm, and the Hunter whiteness of the aluminum member, measured from the surface side of the anodic oxide film, are 0.1 ?m or more, 10 ?m or less, and 60 to 90, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro FUKATSU, Junji NUNOMURA
  • Patent number: 11035047
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-quality electrolytic aluminum foil which includes a smooth surface and an end portion containing no dendritic deposit, and a method for producing the same which can obtain the electrolytic aluminum foil at a high collection rate. An electrolytic aluminum foil of the present disclosure includes a surface having an arithmetic average height (Sa) of 0.15 ?m or less, wherein when, for a size of a crystal grain present in a cross-sectional surface, a first maximum dimension as measured in a thickness direction of the cross-sectional surface is x (?m), and a second maximum dimension as measured in a width direction of the cross-sectional surface is y (?m), x and y satisfy (x+y)/2?3 ?m and 1?x/y?4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Honkawa, Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima, Koichi Ui
  • Publication number: 20210147997
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aluminum member including a mother material containing aluminum or an aluminum alloy, and an anodic oxide film on the surface of the mother material. The anodic oxide film has a barrier layer on the surface of the mother material, and a porous layer on the barrier layer), and the BET specific surface area of the anodic oxide film is 0.1 to 10.0 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syu SAITO, Junji NUNOMURA
  • Patent number: 10927469
    Abstract: A production method of aluminum including: a step of synthesizing an aluminum compound from a mixture including a halogenated aluminum hydrate and a perfluoroalkylsulfonimide-type or perfluoroalkylsulfonamide-type ionic liquid represented by general formula (1); a step of dissolving the aluminum compound in a nitrile-based organic solvent to prepare an aluminum electrolyte; a step of adding at least one ligand selected from a phosphorus compound and an organic compound having an amide group to the aluminum electrolyte and dehydrating water molecules from a hydrate included in the aluminum electrolyte; and a step of electrodepositing aluminum on a cathode by allowing electricity to pass between an anode and the cathode in the aluminum electrolyte after the dehydrating step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima, Mikito Ueda
  • Publication number: 20210002783
    Abstract: An aluminum member includes: a base material made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy; and an anodized coating including a barrier layer on a surface of the base material and a porous layer on the barrier layer, wherein the anodized coating contains phosphorus (P) and sulfur (S), and has a thickness of 100 ?m or less, and, in a depth direction heading from a surface of the anodized coating toward the base material, a depth providing a maximum content of S in a region situated at a depth of 500 nm or more from the surface of the anodized coating is larger than a depth providing a maximum content of P, and an inequality (the maximum content of S)>(the maximum content of P) holds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mihoko KIKUCHI, Junji NUNOMURA
  • Patent number: 10844506
    Abstract: An aluminum member comprises a base material made of aluminum or art aluminum alloy, and an anodized coating provided on a surface of the base material and having a thickness of 100 ?m or less. The anodized coating comprises a barrier layer formed on the surface of the base material and having a thickness of 10 to 150 nm, and a porous layer formed on the barrier layer and having a thickness of 6 ?m or more. The porous layer comprises a first pore extending in a thickness direction of the porous layer from a boundary between the porous layer and the barrier layer, and a second pore connected to the first pore and extending so as to branch radially in the thickness direction of the porous layer toward a surface of the porous layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: UACJ Corporation
    Inventor: Junji Nunomura
  • Publication number: 20200131656
    Abstract: A production method of aluminum including: a step of synthesizing an aluminum compound from a mixture including a halogenated aluminum hydrate and a perfluoroalkylsulfonimide-type or perfluoroalkylsulfonamide-type ionic liquid represented by general formula (1); a step of dissolving the aluminum compound in a nitrile-based organic solvent to prepare an aluminum electrolyte; a step of adding at least one ligand selected from a phosphorus compound and an organic compound having an amide group to the aluminum electrolyte and dehydrating water molecules from a hydrate included in the aluminum electrolyte; and a step of electrodepositing aluminum on a cathode by allowing electricity to pass between an anode and the cathode in the aluminum electrolyte after the dehydrating step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji NUNOMURA, Yoichi KOJIMA, Mikito UEDA
  • Patent number: 10590555
    Abstract: A method for producing high quality electrolytic aluminum foil excellent in peelability from a cathode surface is provided. A method for producing electrolytic aluminum foil according to the present disclosure is a method for producing electrolytic aluminum foil, comprising steps of depositing an aluminum film on a surface of a cathode in an electrolytic cell supplied with an electrolytic solution and comprising the cathode; and peeling the deposited aluminum film from the surface of the cathode to provide aluminum foil, wherein the cathode has surface roughness of an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 0.10 to 0.40 ?m and a ten-point average roughness (Rz) of 0.20 to 0.70 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Honkawa, Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190330752
    Abstract: A method for producing aluminum includes: a dissolution step of dissolving a hydrate containing Al in water to prepare an aqueous solution that contains Al ions; an extraction step of bringing an organic phase that is composed of an extractant into contact with an aqueous phase that is composed of the aqueous solution to extract the Al ions in the aqueous phase into the organic phase; and an electrodeposition step of electrolyzing the organic phase as an electrolytic solution to electrodeposit metallic Al onto a surface of a cathode from the Al ions in the electrolytic solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junji Nunomura, Yukio Honkawa, Yoichi Kojima, Mikito Ueda
  • Publication number: 20190292670
    Abstract: The method for producing an electrolytic aluminum foil of the present disclosure is a method for producing an electrolytic aluminum foil, the method including supplying an electrolytic solution in an electrolytic cell provided with a diaphragm between an anode and a cathode and depositing an aluminum foil on a surface of the cathode by electrolysis, wherein the diaphragm is made of aluminum having a purity of 85.0% or more and has a plurality of pores having an average pore diameter of 100 to 1000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Honkawa, Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20190276945
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a high-quality electrolytic aluminum foil which includes a smooth surface and an end portion containing no dendritic deposit, and a method for producing the same which can obtain the electrolytic aluminum foil at a high collection rate. An electrolytic aluminum foil of the present disclosure includes a surface having an arithmetic average height (Sa) of 0.15 ?m or less, wherein when, for a size of a crystal grain present in a cross-sectional surface, a first maximum dimension as measured in a thickness direction of the cross-sectional surface is x (?m), and a second maximum dimension as measured in a width direction of the cross-sectional surface is y (?m), x and y satisfy (x+y)/2?3 ?m and 1?x/y?4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: UACJ CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Honkawa, Junji Nunomura, Yoichi Kojima, Koichi Ui
  • Publication number: 20190161881
    Abstract: An aluminum member comprises a base material made of aluminum or art aluminum alloy, and an anodized coating provided on a surface of the base material and having a thickness of 100 ?m or less. The anodized coating comprises a barrier layer formed on the surface of the base material and having a thickness of 10 to 150 nm, and a porous layer formed on the barrier layer and having a thickness of 6 ?m or more. The porous layer comprises a first pore extending in a thickness direction of the porous layer from a boundary between the porous layer and the barrier layer, and a second pore connected to the first pore and extending so as to branch radially in the thickness direction of the porous layer toward a surface of the porous layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: UACJ Corporation
    Inventor: Junji Nunomura