Patents by Inventor Yoshikazu Murakami
Yoshikazu Murakami 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: 20240132738Abstract: The present invention provides a polymeric dispersant that is to be blended in an aqueous pigment dispersion in which a pigment is finely dispersed in a stable manner and at a high level, the aqueous pigment dispersion enabling preparation of an aqueous inkjet ink capable of recording an image excellent in adhesiveness and durability on plastic media and textiles. The polymeric dispersant is a polymer that includes a constituent unit (i) derived from styrene, a constituent unit (ii) derived from methyl methacrylate and/or the like, a constituent unit (iii) derived from 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate and/or the like, a constituent unit (iv) derived from 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate and/or the like, and a constituent unit (v) derived from methacrylic acid, and at least part of carboxy groups is neutralized with an alkali.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Katsuhiko KANO, Kosuke KUME, Chikako MIYAZAKI, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Sachio YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11958101Abstract: A method for manufacturing a forged article, capable of improving the durability of a die for forging is provided. The method, includes forging a steel material, by using a die, by spraying or applying a water-soluble polymer lubricant containing 0.01 to 0.98 mass % of a water-soluble sulfate onto a working surface of the die, the die being made of a raw material having a constituent composition of by mass %, of 0.4 to 0.7% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 1.0% or less of Mn, 4.0 to 6.0% of Cr, 2.0 to 4.0% of (Mo+½W), 0.5 to 2.5% of (V+Nb), 0 to 1.0% of Ni, 0 to 5.0% of Co, 0.02% or less of N, and a remnant composed of Fe and impurities, and having hardness of 55 to 60 HRC, and the die including a nitrided layer or a nitrosulfidized layer on the working surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: PROTERIAL, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DAIDO CHEMICAL CO., LTD., UMETOKU CO., LTDInventors: Tatsuya Shouji, Shuho Koseki, Kenichi Inoue, Katsuhiro Obata, Satoshi Murakami, Naoki Hayashi, Yoshikazu Suzuki, Toshifumi Miyamoto, Toru Otomo, Nobuhiro Ikeda, Kousuke Uda, Takashi Ogisu
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Patent number: 11961989Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando, Takashi Yanagiura, Kazunori Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20230357479Abstract: The present invention provides an environmentally friendly pigment dispersant composition that can be produced relatively easily. In this pigment dispersant composition, the content of a volatile component is significantly reduced even though the pigment dispersant composition contains a pigment dispersant mainly containing a constituent unit derived from a vinyl-based monomer, and a pigment dispersion and an ink which are excellent in pigment dispersability can be prepared using this pigment dispersant composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Jun KAMABAYASHI, Toshiyasu FUJITA, Kazutaka ARAI, Sachio YOSHIKAWA
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Publication number: 20230348651Abstract: The present invention provides an A-B block copolymer that enables preparation of a polymer emulsion useful as a binder component for an aqueous inkjet ink that is excellent in inkjet printability and is capable of forming a printed film excellent in durability, such as adhesiveness and rub resistance, on a substrate to be printed, such as a polyolefin-based plastic film. The block copolymer is an A-B block copolymer satisfying the following requirements (1-1) to (1-3). (1-1) Containing 90% by mass or more of a constituent unit derived from a methacrylate-based monomer or the like. (1-2) The chain A has a constituent unit (A-i) derived from methyl methacrylate or the like and a constituent unit (A-ii) derived from 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate or the like. (1-3) The chain B has a constituent unit (B) derived from methacrylic acid, a constituent unit (B-i) derived from methyl methacrylate or the like, and a constituent unit (B-ii) derived from 2-ethylhexyl methacrylate or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Jun KAMABAYASHI, Akifumi TANAKA, Toshie OKUBO, Lu TIAN, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Sachio YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 11799155Abstract: A housing that houses a fuel cell system including: a hydrogen storage unit having a hydrogen supply/discharge hole and capable of storing hydrogen; a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using the supplied hydrogen; a pipe having one end connected to the supply/discharge hole and the other end connected to the fuel cell stack, and supplying the hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage unit to the fuel cell stack; and a power storage unit that stores at least electric power obtained by electric power generation performed by the fuel cell stack, the housing includes: a first portion, in which the power storage unit is disposed on a lower surface portion of the housing; and a second portion, in which the supply/discharge hole, the fuel cell stack, and the pipe are provided, the second part being located higher than an upper surface portion of the power storage unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando
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Patent number: 11791490Abstract: A housing that houses a fuel cell system including: a hydrogen storage unit; a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage unit; a pipe that connects the hydrogen storage unit and the fuel cell stack; and a power storage unit, the housing includes: an upper surface portion; a plurality of side surface portions; a ventilation hole, provided with the upper surface portion, configured to ventilate an inside and an outside of the housing; a ventilation hole, provided with a side surface portion of the plurality of side surface portions, configured to ventilate the inside and the outside of the housing; and an air supply device configured to discharge air taken in through one ventilation hole of the ventilation hole of the upper face portion and the ventilation hole of the side face portion from the other ventilation hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinji Matsunaga, Takashi Arai, Akiji Ando
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Patent number: 11746247Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid being such that a pigment is finely dispersed, and the viscosity, and the particle diameters of the pigment are unlikely to fluctuate, being excellent in storage stability, and enabling preparation of an emulsion-polymerized toner having properly controlled particle diameters while improving the pigment utilization rate. The aqueous pigment dispersion liquid is an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid for an emulsion-polymerized toner containing a pigment, a dispersant, and an aqueous medium.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Yosuke Sakai, Misaki Narita, Yasuhiro Yoshida, Shinichiro Aoyagi, Yoshikazu Murakami, Hiroyuki Shimanaka
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Patent number: 11746178Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel production technique that enables production of a polymer whose molecular weight and molecular weight distribution are controlled and production of a polymer having a complicated structure in a desirably controlled manner using commercially available materials without using a radical polymerization initiator or a special material for use in living radical polymerization and without the need for strict polymerization conditions; and a radical polymerization initiating group-containing compound for use in the technique.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: DAINICHISEIKA COLOR & CHEMICALS MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Yoichi Tagi, Yoshikazu Murakami
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Publication number: 20230212343Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon material dispersion in which a carbon material is contained at a high concentration in a liquid medium containing an organic solvent but is unlikely to reaggregate and is stably dispersed, and from which various products, such as an ink capable of forming a coating film having excellent electric conductivity, can be formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Jun KAMABAYASHI, Seiji DOI
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Publication number: 20220140423Abstract: A housing that houses a fuel cell system including: a hydrogen storage unit having a hydrogen supply/discharge hole and capable of storing hydrogen; a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using the supplied hydrogen; a pipe having one end connected to the supply/discharge hole and the other end connected to the fuel cell stack, and supplying the hydrogen stored in the hydrogen storage unit to the fuel cell stack; and a power storage unit that stores at least electric power obtained by electric power generation performed by the fuel cell stack, the housing includes: a first portion, in which the power storage unit is disposed on a lower surface portion of the housing; and a second portion, in which the supply/discharge hole, the fuel cell stack, and the pipe are provided, the second part being located higher than an upper surface portion of the power storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Shinji MATSUNAGA, Takashi ARAI, Akiji ANDO
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Publication number: 20220140381Abstract: A housing that houses a fuel cell system including: a hydrogen storage unit; a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage unit; a pipe that connects the hydrogen storage unit and the fuel cell stack; and a power storage unit, the housing includes: an upper surface portion; a plurality of side surface portions; a ventilation hole, provided with the upper surface portion, configured to ventilate an inside and an outside of the housing; a ventilation hole, provided with a side surface portion of the plurality of side surface portions, configured to ventilate the inside and the outside of the housing; and an air supply device configured to discharge air taken in through one ventilation hole of the ventilation hole of the upper face portion and the ventilation hole of the side face portion from the other ventilation hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Shinji MATSUNAGA, Takashi ARAI, Akiji ANDO
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Publication number: 20220140424Abstract: A control method for a fuel cell system, the fuel cell system including a hydrogen storage part and a fuel cell stack that generates electric power using hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen storage part, the fuel cell system being mounted on a towed portion of a moving body that includes the towed portion and a towing portion, the fuel cell system being electrically connected to the towing portion, the towing portion including a battery and a drive device performing driving in response to supply of electric power, the towed portion being towed by the towing portion, the control method includes: acquiring remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, and starting supply of electric power to the towing portion when it is determined that the remaining amount of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold based on the remaining amount information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Shinji MATSUNAGA, Takashi ARAI, Akiji ANDO, Takashi YANAGIURA, Kazunori YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20220127485Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid being such that a pigment is finely dispersed, and the viscosity, and the particle diameters of the pigment are unlikely to fluctuate, being excellent in storage stability, and enabling preparation of an emulsion-polymerized toner having properly controlled particle diameters while improving the pigment utilization rate. The aqueous pigment dispersion liquid is an aqueous pigment dispersion liquid for an emulsion-polymerized toner containing a pigment, a dispersant, and an aqueous medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Yosuke SAKAI, Misaki NARITA, Yasuhiro YOSHIDA, Shinichiro AOYAGI, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA
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Publication number: 20210261713Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel production technique that enables production of a polymer whose molecular weight and molecular weight distribution are controlled and production of a polymer having a complicated structure in a desirably controlled manner using commercially available materials without using a radical polymerization initiator or a special material for use in living radical polymerization and without the need for strict polymerization conditions; and a radical polymerization initiating group-containing compound for use in the technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Yoichi TAGI, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI
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Patent number: 10995159Abstract: Provided are: a novel polymerization technique by which a polymer having a controlled molecular weight or molecular weight distribution or a polymer having a desirably regulated, complicated structure can be obtained using commercially available general-purpose materials without using any radical polymerization initiator, or any special material for use in living radical polymerization and without requiring any strict polymerization conditions; a radical polymerization initiation group-containing compound for use in the technique; and a polymer obtained thereby.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Yoshikazu Murakami
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Patent number: 10982020Abstract: There is provided a resin-treated pigment that is useful as a coloring agent for color filters or inkjet inks, that can expand a hue range and improve performances such as color density, color developability, and transparency, and that is excellent in properties such as dispersibility and dispersion stability of pigments, re-dissolvability, and alkali-solubility. An A-B block copolymer 90% by mass or more of which is constituted by a methacrylate-based monomer or methacrylate-based monomers, in which the block A has a carboxy group-containing methacrylate as a constituent, and the block B has an ionic bond moiety represented by formula (1) as a constitutional unit, the ionic bond moiety containing a methacrylate, and an organic coloring matter having one or more sulfonate ions each being bonded thereto and each being a counter ion of a nitrogen cation of a quaternary ammonium salt.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Yoichi Tagi, Yoshikazu Murakami, Shinichiro Aoyagi, Kazutaka Arai, Sachio Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10982033Abstract: The present invention provides: a novel production technique that enables production of a polymer whose molecular weight and molecular weight distribution are controlled and production of a polymer having a complicated structure in a desirably controlled manner using commercially available materials without using a radical polymerization initiator or a special material for use in living radical polymerization and without the need for strict polymerization conditions; and a radical polymerization initiating group-containing compound for use in the technique.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Dainichiseika Color & Chemicals Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Shimanaka, Yoichi Tagi, Yoshikazu Murakami
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Publication number: 20210078438Abstract: An information processing system comprises a requirement specification acquisition unit for acquiring requirement specification information indicative of a content of a requirement specification relating to a fuel cell; and a fee plan determination unit for determining a fee plan for determining a usage fee of the fuel cell, based on the requirement specification indicated by the requirement specification information. The fee plan may include information indicative of a correspondence between a degree of operation of the fuel cell and the usage fee of the fuel cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventor: Yoshikazu MURAKAMI
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Publication number: 20200385496Abstract: Provided are: a novel polymerization technique by which a polymer having a controlled molecular weight or molecular weight distribution or a polymer having a desirably regulated, complicated structure can be obtained using commercially available general-purpose materials without using any radical polymerization initiator, or any special material for use in living radical polymerization and without requiring any strict polymerization conditions; a radical polymerization initiation group-containing compound for use in the technique; and a polymer obtained thereby.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: Hiroyuki SHIMANAKA, Yoshikazu MURAKAMI