Patents by Inventor Shota KAWASHIMA

Shota KAWASHIMA 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: 20240011420
    Abstract: A fine particle filter for removing a particulate matter from exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes a wall-flow type filter that has a porous wall, and a ceramic layer that is made of ceramic particles and that is applied in a flow channel of the wall-flow type filter, wherein the ceramic layer has a porosity of 20% or more and 41% or less. The ceramic particles may be formed of one selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica, zirconia, ceria, titania, and zeolite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: UMICORE SHOKUBAI JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota KAWASHIMA, Yuki SANO, Takuya ENOSAKA
  • Publication number: 20230208215
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine includes a rotor and a stator including an annular stator core including core pieces connected to each other in a circumferential direction. Each of the core pieces includes a core back piece extending in the circumferential direction and a tooth radially extending from the core back piece. At least one of the coupling portions between the core back pieces adjacent in the circumferential direction is a first coupling portion. Each of the pair of core back pieces connected in the circumferential direction via the first coupling portion includes a first surface and a second surface continuously connected to the first surface in the radial direction. In the pair of core back pieces connected in the circumferential direction, the first surface of one core back piece and the first surface of the other core back piece are in contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Akira ICHIEN, Shota KAWASHIMA, Kentaro SEKI
  • Publication number: 20220216771
    Abstract: A drive device rotating an axle of a vehicle includes: a motor having a rotor and a stator; a housing; a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of the motor; and an oil passage supplying oil to the stator from above. The stator includes a stator core and a coil assembly having coils attached to the stator core. The coil assembly has a terminal portion located on one side of the motor axis in a predetermined direction orthogonal to both the axial direction and the vertical direction. The temperature sensor is in a portion of the coil assembly on one side in the predetermined direction with respect to the motor axis. The temperature sensor is on a lower side with respect to the terminal portion and an upper side with respect to an end on a lower side in the vertical direction with respect to the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Shota KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210320548
    Abstract: In a stator, a bus bar holder includes: a base; an annular inside wall protruding from a radially inner edge of the base; an annular outside wall protruding from a radially outer edge portion of the base; and a plurality of sidewalls connecting the inside wall and the outside wall. The base, the inside wall, the outside wall, and the sidewall constitute a plurality of recesses. The coil connection units of bus bars protrude from the base. Among the coil leaders, at least a part of the coil leaders is a first coil leader that is accommodated in the recess while the front end is bent onto the other side in the radial direction. The front end of at least one first coil leader is accommodated in each recess and connected to the coil connection unit in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji SHIMODAIRA, Takayuki MIGITA, Masato AONO, Shota KAWASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210320545
    Abstract: A stator includes a stator core, a plurality of coils, a bus bar holder, and a plurality of bus bars. The bus bar holder includes a base, an annular inside wall and an annular outside wall protruding toward one side in the axial direction, and constitutes a recess recessed on the other side in the axial direction. The coil connection units of bus bars protrude from the base toward one side in the axial direction. Among the coil leaders of each of coils, at least a part of the coil leaders is a first coil leader that is accommodated in the recess while a front end is bent onto the other side in the radial direction. The front end of the first coil leader is connected to the coil connection unit in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Shinji SHIMODAIRA, Takayuki MIGITA, Masato AONO, Shota KAWASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10680482
    Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of lead wires extending upward from a coil and a guide member supporting the lead wire above the coil. The guide member is an insulating body. The guide member includes a lower plate, an inner wall, and an upper plate. The lower plate spreads annularly around a central axis. The inner wall extends upward from an inner circumference of the lower plate. The upper plate extends from the inner wall to a radial outside. A single lead wire accommodation space exists on an upper side of the lower plate, a lower side of the upper plate, and a radial outside of the inner wall. The plurality of lead wires are circumferentially disposed along the inner wall in the lead wire accommodation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiya Okamoto, Shota Kawashima, Masato Aono, Takayuki Migita
  • Publication number: 20180351428
    Abstract: A stator includes a plurality of lead wires extending upward from a coil and a guide member supporting the lead wire above the coil. The guide member is an insulating body. The guide member includes a lower plate, an inner wall, and an upper plate. The lower plate spreads annularly around a central axis. The inner wall extends upward from an inner circumference of the lower plate. The upper plate extends from the inner wall to a radial outside. A single lead wire accommodation space exists on an upper side of the lower plate, a lower side of the upper plate, and a radial outside of the inner wall. The plurality of lead wires are circumferentially disposed along the inner wall in the lead wire accommodation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiya OKAMOTO, Shota KAWASHIMA, Masato AONO, Takayuki MIGITA
  • Patent number: 9944575
    Abstract: Adsorption towers are filled with adsorbents that adsorb methane gas in coal mine gas and perform a PSA cycle. For each of adsorption towers, a plurality of different pressure states of the internal pressure of the adsorption tower are set as an intermediate pressure state. As a pressure equalization step, an initial pressure equalization step of transferring the gas in one of the adsorption towers that is in a high pressure state to another one of the adsorption towers that is in an intermediate pressure state, and a final pressure equalization step of transferring the gas in one of the adsorption towers that is in the high pressure-side intermediate pressure state to another one of the adsorption towers that is in the low pressure state are performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shota Kawashima, Takahisa Utaki
  • Patent number: 9732297
    Abstract: The rate of recovery of a purification target gas from a gas purification apparatus that uses a PSA device is improved, and both a high purity and a high recovery rate are achieved with good power efficiency. The present invention is directed to a gas purification method using the PSA method, in which a carbon molecular sieve having a pore volume, at a pore diameter of 0.38 nm or more, of not exceeding 0.05 cm3/g and a pore volume, at a pore diameter of 0.34 nm, of 0.15 cm3/g or more, in a pore diameter distribution measured by the MP method is used as an adsorbent, and, in an adsorption step, a miscellaneous gas is adsorbed from a source gas by bringing the source gas into contact with the adsorbent for 10 seconds or more and 6000 seconds or less so as to obtain a concentrated methane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahisa Utaki, Shota Kawashima, Kenji Seki, Yuhei Morita
  • Patent number: 9675927
    Abstract: A method for hydrogen production by pressure swing adsorption that can increase the recovery efficiency of an adsorption target component while enabling an off-gas to be appropriately supplied to a combustion device is provided that can achieve a cost reduction and an increase in the efficiency of the combustion operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsubasa Shimizu, Koichiro Ikeda, Shota Kawashima, Yukio Hiranaka, Satoshi Mori
  • Publication number: 20160272908
    Abstract: The rate of recovery of a purification target gas from a gas purification apparatus that uses a PSA device is improved, and both a high purity and a high recovery rate are achieved with good power efficiency. The present invention is directed to a gas purification method using the PSA method, in which a carbon molecular sieve having a pore volume, at a pore diameter of 0.38 nm or more, of not exceeding 0.05 cm3/g and a pore volume, at a pore diameter of 0.34 nm, of 0.15 cm3/g or more, in a pore diameter distribution measured by the MP method is used as an adsorbent, and, in an adsorption step, a miscellaneous gas is adsorbed from a source gas by bringing the source gas into contact with the adsorbent for 10 seconds or more and 6000 seconds or less so as to obtain a concentrated methane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Takahisa Utaki, Shota Kawashima, Kenji Seki, Yuhei Morita
  • Patent number: 9421528
    Abstract: A catalyst that is not only capable of efficiently treating CO even at a low exhaust gas temperature, but also capable of exerting favorable CO purification efficiency in a low-temperature exhaust gas even in a case of being exposed for a long time to an engine exhaust gas that is a high temperature and contains HC, CO, NOx, water vapor and the like; and an exhaust gas treatment technique are described. The catalyst for purifying exhaust gas contains: a noble metal; an oxide containing as a base material A at least two kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zirconium and titanium; and an oxide containing as a base material B at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of silicon, cerium, praseodymium and lanthanum; in which the base material A and the base material B satisfy a specific formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: UMICORE SHOKUBAI JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Goto, Naohiro Kato, Yuta Akasaka, Shota Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20160175761
    Abstract: A method for hydrogen production by pressure swing adsorption that can increase the recovery efficiency of an adsorption target component while enabling an off-gas to be appropriately supplied to a combustion device is provided that can achieve a cost reduction and an increase in the efficiency of the combustion operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Tsubasa SHIMIZU, Koichiro IKEDA, Shota KAWASHIMA, Yukio HIRANAKA, Satoshi MORI
  • Publication number: 20160016866
    Abstract: Adsorption towers are filled with adsorbents that adsorb methane gas in coal mine gas and perform a PSA cycle. For each of adsorption towers, a plurality of different pressure states of the internal pressure of the adsorption tower are set as an intermediate pressure state. As a pressure equalization step, an initial pressure equalization step of transferring the gas in one of the adsorption towers that is in a high pressure state to another one of the adsorption towers that is in an intermediate pressure state, and a final pressure equalization step of transferring the gas in one of the adsorption towers that is in the high pressure-side intermediate pressure state to another one of the adsorption towers that is in the low pressure state are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Shota Kawashima, Takahisa Utaki
  • Publication number: 20160001275
    Abstract: A catalyst that is not only capable of efficiently treating CO even at a low exhaust gas temperature, but also capable of exerting favorable CO purification efficiency in a low-temperature exhaust gas even in a case of being exposed for a long time to an engine exhaust gas that is a high temperature and contains HC, CO, NOx, water vapor and the like; and an exhaust gas treatment technique are described. The catalyst for purifying exhaust gas contains: a noble metal; an oxide containing as a base material A at least two kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of aluminum, zirconium and titanium; and an oxide containing as a base material B at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of silicon, cerium, praseodymium and lanthanum; in which the base material A and the base material B satisfy a specific formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: UMICORE SHOKUBAI JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke GOTO, Naohiro KATO, Yuta AKASAKA, Shota KAWASHIMA