Patents Assigned to PROTERIAL, LTD.
  • Patent number: 12090564
    Abstract: A copper-ceramic joint body having high joint strength is provided. The copper-ceramic joint body includes: a copper member made of Cu or Cu alloy; a ceramic member joined to the copper member and made of nitride of Si or Al; and a joint layer formed on joint surfaces of the copper member and the ceramic member, and containing Cu and Mg and further containing at least one type of active metal elements selected from a group of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Ca, Y, Ce, La, Sm, Yb, Nd, Gd and Er, and shear strength of the joint layer is equal to or higher than 10 MPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Nogawa, Shun Takano, Kenji Okishiro, Atsushi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20240304365
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide: an iron-chromium-cobalt alloy magnet having improved magnetic characteristics, especially maximum energy product; and a method for producing the same. Provided is an iron-chromium-cobalt alloy magnet, wherein: the iron-chromium-cobalt alloy magnet includes titanium; the number density of Ti-enriched phases having a maximum diameter of 3 ?m or greater in a cross-section is, on average, less than 1.0 per 10,000 ?m2; and the squareness ratio represented by (BH)ma×/(Br×HcB) exceeds 0.72.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya OKAMOTO, Atsuhiko ONUMA, Nobuyuki OKAMURA, Kousuke KUWABARA, Shunya ADACHI, Masahiro SATO, Takahiro ISHII
  • Publication number: 20240300825
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery involves reacting at least 95 mass % of a lithium compound through a heat treatment step using a rotary firing furnace and having a batch firing process for heating a precursor while rolling the same in a heating region in a furnace tube, wherein the batch firing process has: a tilted input stage for tilting the furnace tube and inputting the precursor from an inlet of the firing furnace; a horizontal firing stage for performing firing while making the furnace tube horizontal; and a tilted discharge stage for tilting the furnace tube and discharging a fired powder from an outlet of the firing furnace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuichi Takano, Hisato Tokoro, Akira GUNJI, Shin Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240296971
    Abstract: A laminate structure includes a first layer as a substrate and a second layer provided on the first layer. The second layer is composed of a rubber composition including a rubber component, first fine particles for providing a surface with irregularity, and second fine particles for shielding UV-C light. When performing Raman mapping analysis on a first peak derived from oscillation of the second fine particles in Raman scattering spectrum obtained by Raman scattering measurement of the second layer, the second layer includes a region where an intensity of the first peak is greater in an area where the first fine particles are not present than an area where the first fine particles are present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi KASHIMURA, Kazufumi SUENAGA, Tamotsu KIBE, Kanako SUGANUMA
  • Patent number: 12078514
    Abstract: A cable with sensor, including a cable including a plurality of electric wires and a sheath collectively covering the plurality of electric wires, and a sensor section provided at an end of the cable. The sensor section includes a plurality of magnetic sensors each including a detection section that includes a magnetism detection element and a cover covering the magnetism detection element, and a housing portion coating the plurality of magnetic sensors, the plurality of electric wires, and the sheath. The cable is extending out of the housing portion. The respective detection sections are arranged to be aligned with each other in a same direction as an extending direction of the cable from the housing portion of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Onimoto, Teruyoshi Shirota
  • Patent number: 12080448
    Abstract: An insulated electrical wire is provided. The insulated electrical wire includes a conductor and an insulating film including pores. The insulating film at least includes a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer includes a first center region, a first inner side region, and a first outer side region. The first center region is a center region in the first insulating layer in a thickness direction and is formed of an insulating material and first pores that are the pores. The first pores are derived from a liquid thermally decomposable polymer. The first inner side region and the first outer side region are formed not to include the first pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Nishi, Ikumi Ando, Takami Ushiwata, Yuki Honda
  • Patent number: 12076960
    Abstract: A multilayer magnetic sheet comprises laminate substrates each comprising two or more stacked layers of band-shaped magnetic ribbons. The laminate substrates are arranged side by side in a plate shape in a direction in which long sides of the laminate substrates are adjacent to each other and short sides of the laminate substrates extend. The plate shapes each provided by the laminate substrates arranged side by side are stacked in a thickness direction of the laminate substrate. Ten or more layers of the magnetic ribbons are stacked in total. Positions of the long sides of the laminate substrates adjacent to each other in a direction in which the laminate substrates are stacked are different and separated from each other by 0.5 mm or more in the direction in which the short sides extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouhei Miyano, Yasuo Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 12073964
    Abstract: A laminate structure includes a first layer as a substrate and a second layer provided on the first layer. The second layer is composed of a rubber composition including a rubber component, first fine particles for providing a surface with irregularity, and second fine particles for shielding UV-C light. When performing Raman mapping analysis on a first peak derived from oscillation of the second fine particles in Raman scattering spectrum obtained by Raman scattering measurement of the second layer, the second layer includes a region where an intensity of the first peak is greater in an area where the first fine particles are not present than an area where the first fine particles are present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Kashimura, Kazufumi Suenaga, Tamotsu Kibe, Kanako Suganuma
  • Patent number: 12070794
    Abstract: A method for producing an Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy ribbon, the method including a step of supplying a molten Fe-based alloy onto a rotating chill roll, and rapidly solidifying the molten Fe-based alloy that has been supplied onto the chill roll, thereby obtaining an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon having a free solidified surface and a roll contact surface, and a step of heat-treating the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon, thereby obtaining an Fe-based nanocrystalline alloy ribbon; wherein an outer peripheral part of the chill roll is composed of a Cu alloy, and a thermal conductivity of the outer peripheral part is from 70 W/(m·K) to 225 W/(m·K).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Sunakawa, Nakao Moritsugu
  • Patent number: 12066303
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor-fixing structure includes a holder holding a physical quantity sensor including a detection unit to detect a physical quantity and a plurality of lead wires connected to the detection unit. The holder fixes the physical quantity sensor to a plurality of conductive support members to be respectively connected to the plurality of lead wires. The holder includes a main body member including a housing portion to house at least a portion of the physical quantity sensor, and a lid member covering at least a portion of the housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Fukuchi
  • Patent number: 12066384
    Abstract: A quality control method for a diisononyl phthalate includes a measuring step of irradiating the diisononyl phthalate with a laser to measure a Raman spectrum; and an acceptance or rejection decision step of determining an acceptance or a rejection of a quality of the diisononyl phthalate on the basis of a high and low intensity relationship between an intensity of a first spectral peak, which is ascribed to a vibration of molecular chains in a straight chain hydrocarbon, and an intensity of a second spectral peak, which is ascribed to a vibration of isopropyl groups, in the measured Raman spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazufumi Suenaga, Ryutaro Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20240261715
    Abstract: A ceramic honeycomb filter has (a) cross section areas of intake flow paths being larger than those of discharge flow paths; (b) the intake and discharge flow paths having octagonal cross section shapes with four-fold rotation symmetry each obtained by cutting off four corners from a square; (c) the intake and discharge flow paths being alternately arranged in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, such that their opposing sides are parallel; (d) the opening ratio of the intake flow paths being 45-60%; (e) the number of the flow paths per cm2 being 30-60; (f) the thickness t1 of a cell wall between an intake flow path and a discharge flow path adjacent to that intake flow path being 0.150-0.260 mm; and (g) the thickness t2 of a cell wall between adjacent intake flow paths meeting 1.175<t2/t1<1.6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohisa OGATA
  • Publication number: 20240262755
    Abstract: A silicon carbide ceramic honeycomb structure having large numbers of axially penetrating flow paths partitioned by porous silicon carbide cell walls, the cell walls having porosity of 35-50% and a median pore diameter of 8-18 ?m, when a straight line C is drawn in parallel with the cell wall surface such that it passes a center in the direction of the thickness T of the cell wall, and straight lines are drawn in parallel with the straight line C such that they are separate from the straight line C by ±T/5 and ±2T/5 in the thickness direction of the cell wall, to measure the lengths (pore widths) of pore portions crossing each straight line, and the number of pores crossing each straight line, in a cell wall cross section perpendicular to the axial direction, an average pore width W determined by averaging the lengths (pore widths) of all measured pore portions being 10-25 ?m, and the number N of pores per length determined by dividing the total number of the measured pores by the total length of the straight
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20240247146
    Abstract: A coated member manufacturing method includes: an application step for applying a magnesium hydroxide solution on a surface of a Fe—Co-based alloy base material; and a baking step for baking the base material after the application step at 600-900° C. to form a magnesium oxide coating on the base material. This coated member has, on a Fe—Co-based alloy base material, a baked coating of magnesium oxide having a lattice constant of 4.20-4.23 ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Yakabe
  • Patent number: 12044672
    Abstract: A first synthesized characteristic value calculated based on a first blending ratio of constituent materials contained in a first composite material and on a first characteristic value corresponding to the constituent materials contained in the first composite material, as well as first blending information of the constituent materials contained in the first composite material are used as input parameters (explanatory variables) for an approximate function to estimate a value of physical quantity (objective variable) for the first composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Shanai, Tomonori Watanabe, Takahiro Suzuki, Tamotsu Kibe, Takehiko Tani
  • Patent number: 12038487
    Abstract: A disconnection detecting system for detecting disconnection of any of a plurality of wires included in a cable is provided. The disconnection detecting system includes: a bending mechanism configured to periodically apply force to the cable so as to cause the cable to reciprocate between a first bending state to be bent in one direction of clockwise and counterclockwise directions and a second bending state to be bent in the other direction; and a measuring apparatus configured to measure a resistance value of the cable, which varies on a time series basis in accordance with the reciprocation of the bending mechanism, and extract a component of a bending frequency for reciprocating between the first and second bending states once from frequency components included in time-series variation in the resistance value of the cable. The disconnection is detected on a basis of amplitude of the component of the bending frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventor: Izumi Fukasaku
  • Patent number: 12030230
    Abstract: A resin-sealed electronic component includes an electronic component main body sealed with a resin housing. The resin housing includes a pair of resin members aligned in a first direction with sandwiching a housing space housing the electronic component main body, and a sealing member including a molding resin and being molded so as to cover at least a portion of each of the pair of resin members. A portion of one resin member of the pair of resin members and a portion of the other resin member are aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction to constitute a suppression structure that suppresses the molding resin from entering the housing space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Proterial, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiming Jin, Akitoshi Fujimori
  • Patent number: 12031190
    Abstract: A method for producing a Ni- or Ti-based alloy product includes preliminarily processing a hot working material of a Ni- or Ti-based alloy after hot working into a predetermined shape; heating and holding the material at a solution treatment temperature to obtain a material held in a heated state; and cooling the material to obtain a solution-treated material. The cooling step includes placing a flow path-forming member having a space for forming a flow path for a fluid on a surface of the material held in a heated state to form a fluid flow path defined by the surface of the material held in a heated state and an inner surface of the space of the flow path-forming member; and allowing a fluid to flow in the fluid flow path so that the fluid in the flow path locally cools a part of the surface of the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Mari Yoshihara, Takuya Murai, Tadashi Fukuda, Shoichi Takahashi
  • Patent number: 12033921
    Abstract: A cable connection structure is provided with an electronic component including electrodes on an electrode-forming surface, a cable including electric wires connected to the electrodes respectively, and a buried member which is composed of a cured resin and embedded with the electric wires. At least three electric wires are separating wires including separating regions being separated from each other in the normal direction as being distant from the electrode-forming surface. At least three electrodes are arranged side by side on a virtual circle. At least three separating wires are connected to the at least three electrodes. The separating regions of the at least three separating wires are provided to be located eccentric radially outwardly in the virtual circle as being distant from the electrode surface in the normal direction of the electrode-forming surface. An angle between the separating region and the normal direction of the electrode-forming surface is 10 degrees or more and 45 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuta Takahashi, Hideki Nonen, Yuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12027234
    Abstract: A high-temperature bimetal capable of being inhibited from considerably shifting from an original position when the temperature has fallen to an ordinary temperature is provided. This high-temperature bimetal (1) includes a high thermal expansion layer (2) made of austenitic stainless steel and a low thermal expansion layer (3) made of a thermosensitive magnetic metal having a Curie point and bonded to the high thermal expansion layer. The high-temperature bimetal is employed over both a high temperature range of not less than the Curie point and a low temperature range of less than the Curie point, while an upper limit of operating temperatures in the high temperature range of not less than the Curie point is at least 500° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: PROTERIAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimitsu Oda, Masaaki Ishio