Patents by Inventor Hiroaki NOGUCHI

Hiroaki NOGUCHI 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: 20240113469
    Abstract: A board connector includes a pair of inner terminals. The board connector includes a terminal body. Further, the board connector includes a low-dielectric constant portion having a relative dielectric constant set to be lower than that of the terminal body and interposed between the intermediate extending portion of one of the inner terminals and the intermediate extending portion of the other one of the inner terminals. An spacing between the intermediate extending portion of the one inner terminal and the intermediate extending portion of the other inner terminal is set to be smaller than at least one of an spacing between the fitting-side extending portion of the one inner terminal and the fitting-side extending portion of the other inner terminal or an spacing between the board-side extending portion of the one inner terminal and the board-side extending portion of the other inner terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Noguchi, Hiroaki Yukutake
  • Patent number: 11898762
    Abstract: A ceiling-embedded air conditioner includes a main unit, and a decorative panel that has an intake port and an outlet guide tube, wherein the main unit includes a box-shaped housing, a heat exchanger that is disposed inside the housing, a fan unit that is disposed inside the housing and collects air from the intake port and discharge the air from an outlet tube, and a drain pan that has an outlet port opening through which the air discharged from the outlet tube passes toward the outlet guide tube, the outlet guide tube has a top opening communicating with the outlet tube, a bottom opening facing a direction below a front plate of the housing, and a curved outlet ventilation path connecting the top opening to the bottom opening, and a bottom end of the bottom opening protrudes more downwards than the decorative panel does.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220315496
    Abstract: A porous honeycomb structure including cell channels passing through an interior of the porous honeycomb structure and partitioned by porous partition walls, wherein the porous partition walls include skeleton portions containing an aggregate and a bonding material, and pore portions formed among the skeleton portions and through which a fluid can flow; and the porous partition walls have a porosity of 40 to 48% as measured by a mercury intrusion method, and a cumulative 50% pore diameter (D50) from a large pore side of 6 to 10 ?m in a volume-based cumulative distribution of pore diameters measured by the mercury intrusion method, and a maximum pore diameter observed with a scanning electron microscope of 40 ?m or less, and a ratio of a contact area between the aggregate and the bonding material to a surface area of the bonding material observed with the scanning electron microscope of 61 to 80%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Taira HAYAKAWA, Suguru KODAMA, Hiroaki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11339529
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide cellulose fibers covered by inorganic particles on the fiber surface. According to the present invention, complexes of a cellulose fiber and inorganic particles wherein 15% or more of the surface of the cellulose fiber is covered by the inorganic particles can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moe Fukuoka, Toru Nakatani, Shisei Goto, Masatoshi Oishi, Hiroaki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10974186
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body comprising: skeleton portions; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In the ceramic porous body, the pore portions satisfy the following equations (1) and (2) in a cross section parallel to a flow direction of the fluid; L1/L2?0.92??(1), and L1+L2?27 ?m??(2) in which L1 is an average length of the pore portions in the flow direction of the fluid; and L2 is an average length of the pore portions in a direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Horimoto, Mitsuhiro Ito, Akifumi Kawakami, Yuki Jin, Hiroaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20210010686
    Abstract: A ceiling-embedded air conditioner includes a main unit, and a decorative panel that has an intake port and an outlet guide tube, wherein the main unit includes a box-shaped housing, a heat exchanger that is disposed inside the housing, a fan unit that is disposed inside the housing and collects air from the intake port and discharge the air from an outlet tube, and a drain pan that has an outlet port opening through which the air discharged from the outlet tube passes toward the outlet guide tube, the outlet guide tube has a top opening communicating with the outlet tube, a bottom opening facing a direction below a front plate of the housing, and a curved outlet ventilation path connecting the top opening to the bottom opening, and a bottom end of the bottom opening protrudes more downwards than the decorative panel does.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITED
    Inventor: Hiroaki NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10882796
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body comprising: skeleton portions including an aggregate and at least one binding material; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In the ceramic porous body, the pore portions have a pore volume ratio of pores having a pore diameter of from 1 to 10 ?m, of 45% or more, and a ratio of a contact area between the aggregate and the binding material to a surface area of the binding material of from 20 to 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Noguchi, Shuichi Ichikawa, Akifumi Kawakami, Mitsuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20190299144
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body comprising: skeleton portions; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In the ceramic porous body, the pore portions satisfy the following equations (1) and (2) in a cross section parallel to a flow direction of the fluid; L1/L2?0.92??(1), and L1+L2?27 ?m??(2) in which L1 is an average length of the pore portions in the flow direction of the fluid; and L2 is an average length of the pore portions in a direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Rui HORIMOTO, Mitsuhiro Ito, Akifumi Kawakami, Yuki Jin, Hiroaki Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20190300445
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body comprising: skeleton portions including an aggregate and at least one binding material; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In the ceramic porous body, the pore portions have a pore volume ratio of pores having a pore diameter of from 1 to 10 ?m, of 45% or more, and a ratio of a contact area between the aggregate and the binding material to a surface area of the binding material of from 20 to 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki NOGUCHI, Shuichi Ichikawa, Akifumi Kawakami, Mitsuhiro Ito
  • Publication number: 20180282936
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide cellulose fibers covered by inorganic particles on the fiber surface. According to the present invention, complexes of a cellulose fiber and inorganic particles wherein 15% or more of the surface of the cellulose fiber is covered by the inorganic particles can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Moe Fukuoka, Toru Nakatani, Shisei Goto, Masatoshi Oishi, Hiroaki Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9945077
    Abstract: Clupak paper is manufactured using a gap-former paper-making machine equipped with a Clupak system, in such a way that its longitudinal tensile energy absorption index and lateral tensile energy absorption index as specified in JIS P8113 become 2.5 J/g or more and 1.0 J/g or more, respectively. The paper has excellent strength characteristics in both the longitudinal and lateral directions, especially in the longitudinal direction so that when the Clupak paper can be processed into a sack, the sack rarely breaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiko Hashiguchi, Hirofumi Kondo, Hiroaki Noguchi, Yuji Abe, Satoshi Ishikawa, Yukio Shini
  • Publication number: 20160355985
    Abstract: Clupak paper is manufactured using a gap-former paper-making machine equipped with a Clupak system, in such a way that its longitudinal tensile energy absorption index and lateral tensile energy absorption index as specified in JIS P8113 become 2.5 J/g or more and 1.0 J/g or more, respectively. The paper has excellent strength characteristics in both the longitudinal and lateral directions, especially in the longitudinal direction so that when the Clupak paper can be processed into a sack, the sack rarely breaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Keiko HASHIGUCHI, Hirofumi KONDO, Hiroaki NOGUCHI, Yuji ABE, Satoshi ISHIKAWA, Yukio SHINI