Patents by Inventor Hiromasa Suzuki
Hiromasa Suzuki 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: 20240134336Abstract: Provided is a production system, comprising circuitry configured to: associate a plurality of rungs included in a ladder program with one of a plurality of scan groups each having an execution cycle that is specifiable; allocate each of the plurality of scan groups to one of a plurality of processor cores of a controller so that each of the plurality of scan groups is distributed; and execute one or more rungs associated with one or more scan groups allocated to each of the plurality of processor cores in parallel in each of the execution cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa DenkiInventors: Takahiko SUZUKI, Hiromasa SHIMIZU, Yu KATONO, Yosuke KAMIYA
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Patent number: 11915222Abstract: A receipt data processing device includes a data generating section, an output section, and a converting section. The data generating section is configured to generate receipt data of a first data format including information about an item purchased by a customer. The output section is configured to output the receipt data to at least one of a printing device and an external device that is different from the printing device. The converting section is configured to convert a data format of the receipt data from the first data format to a second data format that is different from the first data format when the receipt data is output to the external device.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 11795855Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purification catalyst capable of reducing a noble metal amount while maintaining a catalyst performance, which comprises a substrate and at least three catalyst coating layers formed on the substrate, the first and third catalyst coating layers contain Pd as a catalyst metal and are formed in a range of a predetermined length from an upstream end surface in an exhaust gas flow direction, and the second catalyst coating layer contains Rh as a catalyst metal and is formed in a range of a predetermined length from a downstream end surface in the exhaust gas flow direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Chinzei, Takahiro Nishio, Shogo Shirakawa, Masahide Miura, Hiromasa Suzuki, Yuki Kido, Minoru Ito, Sho Hoshino, Shin Nakayama
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Patent number: 11633724Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 11618009Abstract: The present invention relates to a honeycomb catalytic converter, including: a honeycomb structured body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween; and Pd and Rh supported on the partition walls of the honeycomb structured body, wherein the honeycomb structured body is an extrudate containing a ceria-zirconia complex oxide and alumina, a Pd-carrying region where only Pd is supported is formed on the partition walls within a predetermined width from one end of the honeycomb structured body, and a Rh-carrying region where only Rh is supported is formed on the partition walls within a predetermined width from the other end of the honeycomb structured body, and the Pd-carrying region extends to at least 50% of the length of the honeycomb structured body, and the Rh-carrying region extends to at least 20% of the length of the honeycomb structured body.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinnosuke Goto, Takumi Tojo, Takeru Yoshida, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 11607672Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 11577226Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst having an improved Rh activation, which comprises a substrate and a catalyst coat layer formed on the substrate, the catalyst coat layer having a two-layer structure, wherein the catalyst coat layer includes an upstream portion on an upstream side and a downstream portion on a downstream side in an exhaust gas flow direction, and a part or all of the upstream portion is formed on a part of the downstream portion, wherein the upstream portion contains Rh fine particles and Pt, wherein the Rh fine particles have an average particle size measured by a transmission electron microscope observation of 1.0 nm or more to 2.0 nm or less, and a standard deviation ? of the particle size of 0.8 nm or less, and wherein the downstream portion contains Rh.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Nakahigashi, Isao Chinzei, Shogo Shirakawa, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masahide Miura, Takahiro Nishio, Norimichi Shimano, Hiroki Nihashi, Mitsuyoshi Okada, Takashi Onozuka, Souta Akiyama, Hiromi Togashi, Takahiro Noguchi, Isao Naito
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Patent number: 11559768Abstract: The present disclosure provides the exhaust gas purification catalyst with the improved purification performance under the high Ga condition and the transient state in which an A/F repeats rich and lean phases. The present disclosure relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a catalyst coating layer on a substrate, the catalyst coating layer containing a noble metal, a composite oxide containing cerium oxide and zirconium oxide, and a composite oxide containing aluminum oxide, wherein in the catalyst coating layer: an average thickness of the coating layer is in a range from 20 ?m to 100 ?m; a porosity measured by a weight-in-water method is in a range from 50% by volume to 80% by volume; and high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for 0.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Chinzei, Masahide Miura, Seiji Nakahigashi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Akira Morikawa, Toshio Yamamoto, Satoru Katoh, Takashi Onozuka, Hirotaka Ori, Mitsuyoshi Okada, Sho Hoshino
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Publication number: 20220412244Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus has a honeycomb base material and a catalyst noble metal supported by the honeycomb base material, wherein: the honeycomb base material contains ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles as one of the constituent materials, is of a wall flow type, and includes inlet-side cells and outlet-side cells demarcated by porous partition walls; the catalyst noble metal is supported in inlet-side support regions and outlet-side support regions; each of the inlet-side support regions is formed with a specific length from the exhaust gas flow upstream end; the catalyst noble metal 70% support depth is not greater than 50% of the thickness of the porous partition walls; each of the outlet-side support regions is formed with a specific length from the exhaust gas flow downstream end; and the catalyst noble metal 70% support depth is greater than 50% of the thickness of the porous partition walls.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kana IWATA, Minoru ITOU, Takeru YOSHIDA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Hiromasa SUZUKI, Atsushi TANAKA
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Patent number: 11524285Abstract: The exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes an upper layer which includes first carrier particles and rhodium, and a lower layer which includes second carrier particles, and the upper layer includes a rhodium enriched area in the range a, from the upstream end in the exhaust gas flow to 50% of the upper layer length, and a range b from the upper layer top surface to 18 ?m in the depth direction. The rhodium enriched area contains at least 50% and less than 100% of all the rhodium in the upper layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi
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Patent number: 11511458Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a honeycomb structured body having excellent mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinnosuke Goto, Takeru Yoshida, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaru Kakinohana, Takumi Tojo
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Patent number: 11511459Abstract: The present invention provides a method of producing a honeycomb structured body having excellent mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinnosuke Goto, Masaru Kakinohana, Takeru Yoshida, Hiromasa Suzuki, Takumi Tojo
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Publication number: 20220339606Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shunsuke OISHI, Takaya OTA, Yoshinori SAITO, Seiji NAKAHIGASHI, Isao CHINZEI, Hiromasa SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220326097Abstract: A CPU executes acquisition processing of acquiring a cumulative time for each temperature of a coolant, conversion processing of converting each cumulative time into a converted value which is a cumulative time at a predetermined reference temperature, and calculation processing of calculating a deterioration level of the coolant based on the sum of the converted values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiromasa SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20220250037Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst device having a substrate and one or more catalytic noble metals supported on the substrate. The substrate has a plurality of cells partitioned by a porous wall 1 and includes ceria-zirconia compound oxide particles. A specific noble metal that is one of the one or more catalytic noble metals satisfies both the following requirements (1) and (2): (1) the noble metal 50% support depth for the specific noble metal is 30% or less of the distance from the surface of the porous wall 1 to the center of the interior of the porous wall 1, and (2) the noble metal 90% support depth for the specific noble metal is 35% or more of the distance from the surface of the porous wall 1 to the center of the interior of the porous wall 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kana IWATA, Minoru ITOU, Shunsuke OHISHI, Takeru YOSHIDA, Hiromasa SUZUKI, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Satoshi KAMITANI
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Patent number: 11400436Abstract: The present disclosure provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst having an improved low-temperature activity, which comprises a substrate and a catalyst coat layer formed on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coat layer contains Rh fine particles and a promoter comprising a Ce—Zr-based composite oxide and a Zr-based composite oxide not containing cerium oxide, wherein the Rh fine particles have an average particle size measured by a transmission electron microscope observation of 1.0 nm or more to 2.0 nm or less, and a standard deviation ? of the particle size of 0.8 nm or less, and wherein the Rh fine particles are supported on each of the Ce—Zr-based composite oxide and the Zr-based composite oxide not containing cerium oxide.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATIONInventors: Isao Chinzei, Seiji Nakahigashi, Shogo Shirakawa, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masahide Miura, Takahiro Nishio, Norimichi Shimano, Hiroki Nihashi, Hiromi Togashi, Mitsuyoshi Okada, Takashi Onozuka, Souta Akiyama, Isao Naito
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Patent number: 11404945Abstract: A stator assembly method of assembling a stator that includes a stator core that includes a slot that has an opening that opens on one side in a radial direction, a coil that includes a slot-housed portion housed in the slot, and insulation disposed between the slot and the slot-housed portion, the method including disposing the insulation in the slot; opening a portion of the insulation on the one side in the radial direction by inserting a first guide jig into the insulation, which is disposed in the slot, along a center axis direction of the stator core, after disposing the insulation; and inserting the slot-housed portion into the slot via the opening by moving the coil and the first guide jig together toward the other side in the radial direction with respect to the stator core, after opening the portion of the insulation.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuhiro Ide, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Publication number: 20220212171Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalytic device includes: a substrate; at least one type of noble-metal catalyst that is supported on the substrate; and a coating layer on the surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of cells which are demarcated by porous walls. The substrate and the coating layer each include ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kana IWATA, Minoru ITOU, Shunsuke OHISHI, Takeru YOSHIDA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Satoshi KAMITANI, Hiromasa SUZUKI
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Patent number: 11298686Abstract: The present invention relates to a honeycomb catalytic converter including: a honeycomb structured body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween; and a noble metal supported on the honeycomb structured body, wherein the honeycomb structured body contains a ceria-zirconia complex oxide and alumina, each partition wall includes a first carrier layer defining a surface layer of the partition wall and carrying Pd, and a second carrier layer located more inwardly of the partition wall than the first carrier layer and carrying Rh.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinnosuke Goto, Takeru Yoshida, Takumi Tojo, Hiromasa Suzuki
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Patent number: 11298685Abstract: The present invention provides a honeycomb catalytic converter including: a honeycomb structured body in which multiple through-holes are arranged longitudinally in parallel with one another with a partition wall therebetween; and a noble metal supported on the honeycomb structured body, wherein the honeycomb structured body contains a ceria-zirconia composite oxide and alumina, and cerium on a surface of each partition wall has a lower concentration than cerium in a central portion of the partition wall in a thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignees: IBIDEN CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinnosuke Goto, Takumi Tojo, Takeru Yoshida, Hiromasa Suzuki