Patents by Inventor Akira Matsuoka

Akira Matsuoka 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: 20160218370
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a catalyst, wherein the method comprises: a supplying step of supplying a dispersion containing a palladium-containing fine particle from a supplying part into a reaction container; a preparing step of preparing a copper-palladium-containing complex in which at least part of a surface of the palladium-containing fine particle is covered with copper, by passing the dispersion through a reacting part and bringing the palladium-containing fine particle in the dispersion into contact with a copper-containing member in the reacting part; and a substituting step of substituting the copper in the copper-palladium-containing complex emitted from an emitting part with platinum by bringing the complex into contact with a platinum-containing solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Noriyuki KITAO, Tsugio FUJISAWA, Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI, Tomohiro OOZONO
  • Publication number: 20160178077
    Abstract: Provided is a fluid flow device including a flow passage structure including in the interior a micro-channel and an escape flow passage for allowing a fluid to escape from the micro-channel. The micro-channel includes a folded-back flow passage portion that allows the fluid to flow upward before allowing the same to flow downward. The folded-back flow passage portion includes a top portion disposed at the highest position of the folded-back flow passage portion and an upward flow passage portion and a downward flow passage portion with the top portion as a boundary therebetween that allow the fluid to flow upward and downward, respectively, and the escape flow passage is connected to the top portion of the folded-back flow passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI, Tomohiro OOZONO
  • Publication number: 20160121263
    Abstract: A separation method including: preparing a separation device including an absorption processor absorbing into an absorption liquid a target component in a fluid to be processed, by an absorption microduct and a cooling medium microduct positioned for heat exchange; causing the fluid to be processed and the absorption liquid to pass through the absorption microduct in mutual contact, thus causing the target component to be absorbed into the absorption liquid from the fluid to be processed; cooling the fluid to be processed and the absorption liquid by flowing a cooling medium through the cooling medium microduct, and causing heat exchange between the fluid to be processed and absorption liquid flowing through the absorption microduct and the cooling medium; and separating, into the fluid to be processed and the absorption liquid, the mixed fluid of the fluid to be processed after the target component has been absorbed by the absorption liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akitoshi FUJISAWA, Koji NOISHIKI, Akira MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20160114282
    Abstract: A separation method including: an absorption process absorbing a desired component in a starting material gas into an absorption liquid by bringing the starting material gas and the absorption liquid into contact with each other inside an absorption unit; a regeneration process releasing the desired component from the absorption liquid and regenerating the absorption liquid by heating the absorption liquid, which absorbed the desired component in the absorption process, in a regeneration unit; a post-regeneration separation process separating the mixed fluid, which is the gas of the desired component released in the regeneration process and the regenerated absorption liquid, into the desired component gas and the absorption liquid; and a compression process compressing the starting material gas prior to the absorption process and the regeneration process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe-Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Akitoshi FUJISAWA, Koji NOISHIKI
  • Publication number: 20160107115
    Abstract: An absorption method includes: a step for preparing a minute passage; a main circulation step for circulating, in the minute passage, a gas as a first fluid containing a component to be absorbed and an absorbing liquid as a second fluid so that the component to be absorbed is absorbed from the gas into the absorbing liquid; and a sub-circulation step for circulating, while the gas and the absorbing liquid are circulated in the minute passage, a third fluid in the minute passage in order to raise the pressure inside the minute passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI, Akitoshi FUJISAWA
  • Publication number: 20160038901
    Abstract: A processing device and processing method that can perform processing of a starting material fluid while favorably controlling the processing temperature of same. The processing device includes: a processing member that leads in the starting material fluid and processes same therewithin; and a processing tank that houses the processing member and retains the processed processing products. The processing member includes: a minute duct provided therewithin and causes the flow-through of the starting material fluid; and a heat medium duct that causes the flow-through of a heat medium having a different temperature from that of the starting material fluid flowing through the minute duct. The minute duct and the heat medium duct are separated from each other so that heat exchange is possible between the starting material fluid and heat medium flowing through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI
  • Publication number: 20160008736
    Abstract: Provided are a processing device (1) and a processing method that enable an efficient chemical operation by means of reducing the time for separating into individual starting material fluids a mixture of starting material fluids that had once been fractionated. The processing device (1) is provided with: a separation tank (5) that contacts together a first and second starting material fluid (2a, 2b) that differ in specific gravity, performing a chemical operation at the portion at which both starting material fluids contact, and houses the first and second starting material fluids (2a, 2b) that are separated vertically; and a flow path forming member (6) that is disposed within the separation tank (5) and forms a plurality of minute ducts (7) for causing the upper starting material fluid (2a) layer to contact the lower starting material fluid (2b) layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Koji NOISHIKI
  • Patent number: 9234778
    Abstract: In an operation method of a multi-flow passage device, and a multi-flow passage of the present invention, blockage detection of a reaction flow passage can be readily performed and cleaning of the reaction passage can be easily performed. The operation method of the multi-flow passage device of the present invention is an operation method of a multi-flow passage device 1 formed with a reaction flow passage 20 for producing a reaction product S by allowing raw material fluids Q, R to flow and making chemical reaction, the method including steps of: partitioning the reaction flow passage 20 into a plurality of sections; and allowing the raw material fluids Q, R to flow in the reaction flow passage 20 and measuring pressure of the raw material fluids Q, R or the reaction product S flowing through the respective sections to determine blockage of the sections based on the pressure loss of the respective sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Noishiki, Akira Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 9200632
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing having low and high pressure spaces, a screw rotor inserted in a cylinder part of the casing, and a slide valve disclosed in the cylinder part. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The slide valve is moveable along an axis of the screw rotor and faces an outer periphery of the screw rotor to form a discharge port to communicating the compression chamber with the high pressure space. Fluid in the low pressure space is sucked into the compression chamber, compressed, and then discharged to the high-pressure space when the screw rotor rotates. The slide valve includes a sealing projection located on a back surface of the slide valve opposite to the screw rotor, and separating the low and high pressure spaces from each other when the sealing projection is in slidable contact with the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Masanori Masuda, Hiromichi Ueno, Mohammod Anwar Hossain, Akira Matsuoka
  • Publication number: 20150314258
    Abstract: A reactor and a reaction method are provided with which temperature changes due to a large amount of reaction heat generated immediately after confluence of raw material fluids can be suppressed. A reactor (2) includes reaction passages (22) and temperature control passages (42). Each reaction passage (22) includes first and second supply passage parts (24, 26), a confluence part (30), and a reaction passage part (28) connected in this order from upstream to downstream. Each temperature control passage (42) includes: first temperature control passage parts (44) extending at least along a particular range of the corresponding reaction passage part (28); and a second temperature control passage part (46) connected thereto, which is fewer in number than the first temperature control passage parts (44). Each second temperature control passage part (46) has a cross section area larger than that of each first temperature control passage part (44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira MATSUOKA, Akitoshi FUJISAWA, Koji NOISHIKI
  • Publication number: 20150030531
    Abstract: A method of operating a microchannel reactor, in which a reaction channel is formed, includes generating a reaction product by causing a chemical reaction in a raw material fluid while causing the same to flow through a reaction channel. If the flow rate of the raw material fluid and/or the reaction product fluid flowing through a reaction channel decreases, a fluid which is inert to the raw material fluid and the reaction product is mixed into the fluid flowing through the reaction channel, in a flow rate corresponding to the decreased flow rate and at a position downstream of the introduction position of the raw material fluid into the reaction channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Koji Noishiki
  • Publication number: 20140102214
    Abstract: In an operation method of a multi-flow passage device, and a multi-flow passage of the present invention, blockage detection of a reaction flow passage can be readily performed and cleaning of the reaction passage can be easily performed. The operation method of the multi-flow passage device of the present invention is an operation method of a multi-flow passage device 1 formed with a reaction flow passage 20 for producing a reaction product S by allowing raw material fluids Q, R to flow and making chemical reaction, the method including steps of: partitioning the reaction flow passage 20 into a plurality of sections; and allowing the raw material fluids Q, R to flow in the reaction flow passage 20 and measuring pressure of the raw material fluids Q, R or the reaction product S flowing through the respective sections to determine blockage of the sections based on the pressure loss of the respective sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Koji NOISHIKI, Akira MATSUOKA
  • Publication number: 20140061131
    Abstract: A total solvent use amount is reduced while a final concentration of a specific element of a separation target in a target fluid is reliably decreased to a target value or less. In a separation method, a solvent greater than a theoretical amount of a solvent necessary for decreasing a concentration of a specific element in an extraction remaining liquid supplied from a second extraction stage as an immediately previous stage to the target value is supplied to a third micro channel of a third extraction stage as a final stage, an extraction liquid separated by a third settler of the third extraction stage as the final stage is distributed to a first extraction stage and the second extraction stage, and the extraction liquid distributed to a first micro channel of the first extraction stage and a second micro channel of the second extraction stage are used as solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Koji Noishiki
  • Publication number: 20130171018
    Abstract: A screw compressor includes a casing having low and high pressure spaces, a screw rotor inserted in a cylinder part of the casing, and a slide valve disclosed in the cylinder part. The screw rotor has a plurality of helical grooves forming a compression chamber. The slide valve is moveable along an axis of the screw rotor and faces an outer periphery of the screw rotor to form a discharge port to communicating the compression chamber with the high pressure space. Fluid in the low pressure space is sucked into the compression chamber, compressed, and then discharged to the high-pressure space when the screw rotor rotates. The slide valve includes a sealing projection located on a back surface of the slide valve opposite to the screw rotor, and separating the low and high pressure spaces from each other when the sealing projection is in slidable contact with the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Inventors: Takashi Inoue, Masanori Masuda, Hiromichi Ueno, Mohammod Anwar Hossain, Akira Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8310639
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7932982
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20090051838
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 7453539
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080158462
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20050162601
    Abstract: A display device with a plurality of gate signal lines extended in the first direction; a plurality of drain signal lines extended in the second direction; a plurality of pixel regions in a state that each pixel region includes a switching device, a pixel electrode which is connected with the drain signal line and a counter electrode. The counter electrode is formed with respect to the pixel electrode by way of an insulation film and is formed every pixel. The pixels include first pixels and second pixels, wherein only the first pixels have a counter voltage signal line which extends in the first direction, and the counter voltage signal line is connected with the counter electrodes in the first pixels. Further, the counter electrodes of the first pixels and the counter electrodes of the second pixels are electrically connected with each other using conductive stride over the gate signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: July 28, 2005
    Inventors: Akira Matsuoka, Kikuo Ono