Patents by Inventor Takafumi Yamauchi

Takafumi Yamauchi 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: 20130247543
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a control device controlling a urea addition valve for adding urea from an upstream side of a NOx reduction catalyst. The control device obtains an ammonia adsorption amount distribution through the NOx reduction catalyst. When an ammonia adsorption amount in a predetermined part on a downstream side equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold, the control device controls the urea addition valve to stop the urea supply or reduce the amount thereof. The urea addition valve is controlled based on an adsorption amount distribution obtained from a model on which the catalyst is divided into cells such that an ammonia adsorption amount in a first cell positioned furthest upstream equals or exceeds a predetermined threshold close to a saturation adsorption amount and an ammonia adsorption amount in a second cell positioned downstream of the first cell reaches a predetermined target value smaller than the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Hirota, Shunsuke Toshioka, Akira Mikami, Koichiro Fukuda, Sakutaro Hoshi, Takashi Endo, Ryoichi Hibino, Matsuei Ueda, Akihiko Asano, Takafumi Yamauchi, Akira Shichi, Makoto Koike, Masatoshi Maruyama, Masakazu Sakata
  • Patent number: 8540953
    Abstract: Utilizing the finding that the state of adsorption of NH3 on a selective reduction type NOx catalyst includes a weakly adsorbed state in which the adsorbed NH3 is useful for a reduction reaction of NOx and a strongly adsorbed state in which the adsorbed NH3 is not useful for the reduction reaction of NOx unless the state of adsorption is changed into the weakly adsorbed state, the apparatus of the invention includes an actual weakly-adsorbed amount-calculation NH3 that is adsorbed on the selective reduction type NOx catalyst in the weakly adsorbed state, and a dispensation control portion that performs a dispensation control of the reductant dispensed by a reductant-dispensation portion, according to the actual weakly adsorbed amount calculated by the actual weakly adsorbed amount calculation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toshioka, Shinya Hirota, Koichiro Fukuda, Takafumi Yamauchi
  • Publication number: 20130108529
    Abstract: Utilizing the finding that the state of adsorption of NH3 on a selective reduction type NOx catalyst includes a weakly adsorbed state in which the adsorbed NH3 is useful for a reduction reaction of NOx and a strongly adsorbed state in which the adsorbed NH3 is not useful for the reduction reaction of NOx unless the state of adsorption is changed into the weakly adsorbed state, the apparatus of the invention includes an actual weakly-adsorbed amount-calculation NH3 that is adsorbed on the selective reduction type NOx catalyst in the weakly adsorbed state, and a dispensation control portion that performs a dispensation control of the reductant dispensed by a reductant-dispensation portion, according to the actual weakly adsorbed amount calculated by the actual weakly adsorbed amount calculation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toshioka, Shinya Hirota, Koichiro Fukuda, Takafumi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 4439456
    Abstract: A fibrous food product is produced by the steps of: adding salt to fish and/or animal meat; kneading the resulting mixture to prepare a paste; and extruding the paste into an aqueous solution of a protein modifier through a nozzle having fine orifices to produce filaments. By varying the conditions of this process, the food filaments of various textures or mouth feeling can be produced. Further, the filaments can be aggregated in a variety of ways to further increase the variety of textures or mouth feeling and to produce various muscle-like fibrous food products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Youichi Kammuri, Takafumi Yamauchi, Toshikatsu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4284653
    Abstract: A process for handling and processing fish meat contaminated with sporozoa which comprises adding one or more substances which inhibit thiol protease to the fish meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ritsuo Shigeoka, Eizo Nagahisa, Takafumi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 4207354
    Abstract: Sporozoa-contaminated fish meat can be processed to coagulated fish meat paste ("neriseihin") by admixing about 4 to 40 parts of egg white with 100 parts of the fish meat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Haga, Ritsuo Shigeoka, Takafumi Yamauchi