Patents by Inventor Ryota Nakashima
Ryota Nakashima 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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Publication number: 20240044276Abstract: A straddled vehicle, including: an engine, which includes a combustion chamber; a three-way catalyst, which is configured to purify exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber; an upstream oxygen sensor, which is provided upstream of the three-way catalyst in a flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect an oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; a downstream oxygen sensor, which is provided downstream of the three-way catalyst in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; and a controller, which includes a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions, execution of which by the processor causes the controller to execute a detachment determination process of determining whether the three-way catalyst is detached at least based on a signal input as a signal of the downstream oxygen sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Yoh ARAMAKI, Hisatoshi KINOSHITA, Nobuyuki KAWASHIMA, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Satoshi SHIOKAWA, Ryo TOMII, Yuta SHIMIZU, Haruhiko FUJITA
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Patent number: 11660589Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device that allows suppressing an increase in pressure loss is provided. The exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. The substrate includes a porous partition wall which defines inflow cells and outflow cells extending from an inflow side end to an outflow side end. The inflow cell side catalyst layer is disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow cell side catalyst region from an inflow side end to a position close to an outflow side end of the partition wall. The permeability of a portion including an outflow side region from the position to the outflow side end of the partition wall is higher than a gas permeability of a portion including the inflow cell side catalyst region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa Nishioka, Naoto Miyoshi, Akemi Sato, Masatoshi Ikebe, Ryota Nakashima, Yasutaka Nomura, Hirotaka Ori
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Patent number: 11602742Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purification device that ensures an improved purification performance and a suppressed pressure loss. An exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow side region of the partition wall. When a gas permeability coefficient of an inflow side partition wall portion including the inflow side region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer is Ka and a gas permeability coefficient of an outflow side partition wall portion including an outflow side region at least from the predetermined position to an outflow side end of the partition wall is Kb, a ratio Ka/Kb of the gas permeability coefficients is within a range of 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa Nishioka, Naoto Miyoshi, Akemi Sato, Ryota Nakashima, Masatoshi Ikebe, Keisuke Murawaki, Hirotaka Ori
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Patent number: 11473472Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a honeycomb substrate and an inlet cell-side catalyst layer. The honeycomb substrate includes a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inlet-side end face to an outlet-side end face. The cells include an inlet cell and an outlet cell that are adjacent to each other with the partition wall therebetween. The inlet cell is open at its inlet-side end and is sealed at its outlet-side end. The outlet cell is sealed at its inlet-side end and is open at its outlet-side end. The inlet cell-side catalyst layer is provided on a surface on the inlet cell side of the partition wall and extends from an inlet-side end of the partition wall. Porosity of the inlet cell-side catalyst layer is in a specific range.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa Nishioka, Naoto Miyoshi, Akemi Satou, Keisuke Murawaki, Masatoshi Ikebe, Takaya Ota, Ryota Nakashima, Hirotaka Ori
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Patent number: 11415039Abstract: There is provided a structure including: a substrate including a first and a second ends, and a porous partition wall defining a first and a second cells extending between the first and the second ends; a first catalyst; and a second catalyst. In a first area, the first catalyst is disposed on a first surface of the partition wall, and the partition wall with the first catalyst disposed on the partition wall is impermeable to gas. In a second area, the first catalyst is not provided, the second catalyst is disposed in a region including at least a part inside the partition wall, the part facing the first cell, and the partition wall with the second catalyst disposed in the partition wall is permeable to gas. In a third area, any of the first catalyst or the second catalyst is not provided, and the partition wall is permeable to gas.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa Nishioka, Naoto Miyoshi, Akemi Sato, Masatoshi Ikebe, Ryota Nakashima, Yasutaka Nomura
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Patent number: 11179701Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst having first carrier particles, second carrier particles, and precious metal catalyst particles supported on the first and second carrier particles, wherein: the first carrier particles contain ceria, zirconia, and a rare-earth oxide other than ceria; the second carrier particles contain a rare-earth oxide other than ceria, and may contain ceria and zirconia; the contained proportion of ceria and zirconia in the first carrier particles is higher than the contained proportion of ceria and zirconia in the second carrier particles; the contained proportion of the rare-earth oxide in the second carrier particles is higher than the contained proportion of the rare-earth oxide in the first carrier particles; and the contained proportion of ceria in the first carrier particles is 45 wt % or less, while the precious metal catalyst particles include rhodium particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Sakurada, Takahiro Harada, Ryota Nakashima
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Publication number: 20210324777Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a honeycomb substrate and an inlet cell-side catalyst layer. The honeycomb substrate includes a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inlet-side end face to an outlet-side end face. The cells include an inlet cell and an outlet cell that are adjacent to each other with the partition wall therebetween. The inlet cell is open at its inlet-side end and is sealed at its outlet-side end. The outlet cell is sealed at its inlet-side end and is open at its outlet-side end. The inlet cell-side catalyst layer is provided on a surface on the inlet cell side of the partition wall and extends from an inlet-side end of the partition wall. Porosity of the inlet cell-side catalyst layer is in a specific range.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATOU, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Masatoshi IKEBE, Takaya OTA, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Hirotaka ORI
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Publication number: 20210283589Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purification device that ensures an improved purification performance and a suppressed pressure loss. An exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow side region of the partition wall. When a gas permeability coefficient of an inflow side partition wall portion including the inflow side region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer is Ka and a gas permeability coefficient of an outflow side partition wall portion including an outflow side region at least from the predetermined position to an outflow side end of the partition wall is Kb, a ratio Ka/Kb of the gas permeability coefficients is within a range of 0.4 or more and 0.8 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATO, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Masatoshi IKEBE, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Hirotaka ORI
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Patent number: 11053956Abstract: An ejector includes a body including an inflow space into which a refrigerant flows, a passage formation member disposed inside the body and having a conical shape, and a nozzle passage having an annular cross section which functions as a nozzle and a diffuser passage having an annular cross section which functions as a pressure increase portion, the nozzle passage and the diffuser passage being disposed between an inner wall surface of the body and a conical lateral surface of the passage formation member. A drive mechanism that displaces the passage formation member in a direction along a center axis is coupled to an upstream actuating bar which extends from the passage formation member toward the inflow space and is slidably supported by the body. Center axes of the passage formation member, the upstream actuating bar and the inflow space are coaxial with each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Haruyuki Nishijima, Yoshiaki Takano, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Oshitani, Yohei Nagano, Ryota Nakashima
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Publication number: 20210033009Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes: a honeycomb substrate including an inflow cell and an outflow cell adjacent to each other with a partition wall sandwiched between the inflow cell and the outflow cell; a first sealing part provided at an outflow side end of the inflow cell, and a second sealing part provided at an inflow side end of the outflow cell; and a catalyst layer provided on the partition wall, and at least one of the first sealing part and the second sealing part is an OSC material-containing sealing part containing an OSC material and a sealant, and a concentration of the OSC material in the OSC material-containing sealing part is uniform in an extending direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATO, Masatoshi IKEBE, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Yasutaka NOMURA, Hirotaka ORI
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Publication number: 20200368735Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device that allows suppressing an increase in pressure loss is provided. The exhaust gas purification device of the present disclosure includes a honeycomb substrate and an inflow cell side catalyst layer. The substrate includes a porous partition wall which defines inflow cells and outflow cells extending from an inflow side end to an outflow side end. The inflow cell side catalyst layer is disposed on a surface on the inflow cell side in an inflow cell side catalyst region from an inflow side end to a position close to an outflow side end of the partition wall. The permeability of a portion including an outflow side region from the position to the outflow side end of the partition wall is higher than a gas permeability of a portion including the inflow cell side catalyst region of the partition wall and the inflow cell side catalyst layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATO, Masatoshi IKEBE, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Yasutaka NOMURA, Hirotaka ORI
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Patent number: 10828602Abstract: A novel exhaust gas purifying catalyst, method for producing same, and an exhaust gas purification device using same, which are capable of maintaining catalytic activity of a precious metal at a higher level than compared with conventional exhaust gas purifying catalysts. An exhaust gas purifying catalyst having a first carrier particle, a second carrier particle, and a precious metal catalyst particle carried on the first and second carrier particles, wherein: the first carrier particle contains a rare-earth oxide other than ceria and at least one metal oxide selected from the group consisting of silica, alumina, ceria, zirconia, and titania; the second carrier particle contains a rare-earth oxide other than ceria; and the contained amount of the rare-earth oxide in the second carrier particle is higher than the contained amount of the rare-earth oxide in the first carrier particle.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yu Sakurada, Satoshi Matsueda, Sho Hoshino, Ryota Nakashima
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Publication number: 20200332698Abstract: There is provided a structure including: a substrate including a first and a second ends, and a porous partition wall defining a first and a second cells extending between the first and the second ends; a first catalyst; and a second catalyst. In a first area, the first catalyst is disposed on a first surface of the partition wall, and the partition wall with the first catalyst disposed on the partition wall is impermeable to gas. In a second area, the first catalyst is not provided, the second catalyst is disposed in a region including at least a part inside the partition wall, the part facing the first cell, and the partition wall with the second catalyst disposed in the partition wall is permeable to gas. In a third area, any of the first catalyst or the second catalyst is not provided, and the partition wall is permeable to gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATO, Masatoshi IKEBE, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Yasutaka NOMURA
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Publication number: 20200316578Abstract: There is provided a filter catalyst that has a wall-flow structure, and the filter catalyst has an excellent purification performance. The embodiment is a filter catalyst including a wall-flow type substrate that includes an inlet-side cell, an outlet-side cell, and a partition wall. The inlet-side cell has an open end portion on an exhaust gas flow-in side and a closed end portion on an exhaust gas flow-out side. The outlet-side cell is adjacent to the inlet-side cell and has an open end portion on the exhaust gas flow-out side and a closed end portion on the exhaust gas flow-in side. The partition wall has a porous structure and interposes between the inlet-side cell and the outlet-side cell. The filter catalyst includes an oxygen occlusion portion and a catalyst portion dispersed and disposed in the porous structure. The oxygen occlusion portion is disposed on a wall surface of the porous structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Naoto MIYOSHI, Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Akemi SATO, Masatoshi IKEBE, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Yasutaka NOMURA, Hirotaka ORI
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Patent number: 10767905Abstract: An ejector includes a body including an inflow space into which a refrigerant flows, a passage formation member disposed inside the body and having a conical shape, and a nozzle passage having an annular cross section functioning as a nozzle and a diffuser passage having an annular cross section functioning as a pressurizing portion between an inner wall surface of the body and a conical lateral surface of the passage formation member. A drive mechanism that displaces the passage formation member along a center axis is coupled to an upstream actuating bar which extends from the passage formation member toward the inflow space and is slidably supported by the body. A largest outer diameter portion of an annular member forming a wall surface of the nozzle passage provides a throat portion functioning as an edge for enlarging a passage cross-sectional area to cause a separation vortex in the refrigerant.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Haruyuki Nishijima, Yoshiaki Takano, Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Hiroshi Oshitani, Yohei Nagano, Ryota Nakashima
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Patent number: 10488558Abstract: [Problem] To provide: a photosensitive resin composition which is cured by radiation and exhibits excellent wear resistance, antifouling properties, marker pen ink wiping-off properties, fingerprint wiping-off properties and low refractive index, and which provides low reflectance in cases where the photosensitive resin composition is used for an antireflection film; and an antireflection film which has a cured coating film of this photosensitive resin composition. [Solution] A photosensitive resin composition for an antireflection film that is characterized in that a low refractive index layer contains an acrylate, a colloidal silica, and an organic modified dimethyl polysiloxane having an acryloyl group and an acrylate-modified perfluoropolyether that serve as surface modification agents; and an antireflection film which is obtained by curing the photosensitive resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignees: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha, Polatechno Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiko Taira, Ryota Nakashima
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Patent number: 10330123Abstract: In an ejector, a substantially conical passage formation member is disposed in the interior of a body forming a space therein to define a nozzle passage functioning as a nozzle, a mixing passage in which an ejection refrigerant ejected from the nozzle passage and a suction refrigerant drawn from a suction passage are mixed together, and a diffuser passage that converts a kinetic energy of the refrigerant that has flowed out of the mixing passage into a pressure energy, between an inner peripheral surface of the body and the passage formation member. The passage formation member is configured so that a spread angle of a portion forming an outlet side of the nozzle passage is smaller than a spread angle of a portion forming an inlet side of the nozzle passage in a cross-section parallel to an axial direction of the passage formation member.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2014Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Ryota Nakashima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Haruyuki Nishijima, Yoshiaki Takano
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Patent number: 10316865Abstract: An ejector has a nozzle, a body, a passage defining member and a drive portion. The body has a refrigerant suction port and a pressure increasing portion. A nozzle passage is defined between an inner surface of the nozzle and an outer surface of the passage defining member and has a minimum sectional area portion, a tapered portion, and an expansion portion. The minimum sectional area portion has a smallest passage sectional area. The tapered portion is located upstream of the minimum sectional area portion in a refrigerant flow direction and has a passage sectional area decreasing toward the minimum sectional area portion gradually. The expansion portion is located downstream of the minimum sectional area portion in the refrigerant flow direction and has a passage sectional area increasing gradually. The passage defining member has a groove that is recessed to increase the passage sectional area of the nozzle passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiyuki Yokoyama, Haruyuki Nishijima, Etsuhisa Yamada, Ryota Nakashima, Yoshiaki Takano, Kazunori Mizutori, Yorito Kohara, Hiroshi Shintani
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Patent number: 10307736Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst, excellent in the NOx purification capacity and the HC purification capacity, includes a substrate and a catalyst coating layer formed on the surface of the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating layer comprises the upper and lower layer including a lower layer being closer to the surface of the substrate and an upper layer being relatively remote from the surface of the substrate. The upper layer of the catalyst coating layer includes Rh, Pd, and a carrier. The lower layer of the catalyst coating layer includes at least one noble metal selected from Pd and Pt and a carrier. 65% by mass or more of Pd in the upper layer exists in a layer up to 50% of the upper layer in a thickness direction from the surface of the upper layer being relatively remote from the surface of the substrate. The ratio of Pd to Rh by mass (Pd/Rh) is 0.5 to 7.0 in the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinori Saito, Hiromasa Suzuki, Tatsuya Ohashi, Keiichi Narita, Ryota Nakashima, Mitsuyoshi Okada, Ryosuke Takasu, Shunsuke Oishi
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Publication number: 20190099715Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst having first carrier particles, second carrier particles, and precious metal catalyst particles supported on the first and second carrier particles, wherein: the first carrier particles contain ceria, zirconia, and a rare-earth oxide other than ceria; the second carrier particles contain a rare-earth oxide other than ceria, and may contain ceria and zirconia; the contained proportion of ceria and zirconia in the first carrier particles is higher than the contained proportion of ceria and zirconia in the second carrier particles; the contained proportion of the rare-earth oxide in the second carrier particles is higher than the contained proportion of the rare-earth oxide in the first carrier particles; and the contained proportion of ceria in the first carrier particles is 45 wt % or less, while the precious metal catalyst particles include rhodium particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2017Publication date: April 4, 2019Applicant: CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Yu SAKURADA, Takahiro HARADA, Ryota NAKASHIMA