Patents by Inventor Kazumi MASE

Kazumi MASE 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: 20140291315
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body and a pair of electrode members, an electrical resistivity of the honeycomb structure body is from 1 to 200 ?cm, each of the pair of electrode members is formed into a band-like shape extending in a cell extending direction of the honeycomb structure body, one electrode member is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode member via a center of the honeycomb structure body, there are formed one or more electrode member slits as slits opened in an electrode member region, there are formed one or more honeycomb structure body slits as slits opened in a honeycomb structure body region, and a depth of at least one of the electrode member slits is deeper than a depth of at least one of the honeycomb structure body slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi MASE, Yoshiyuki KASAI, Yoshimasa OMIYA
  • Publication number: 20140294689
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a tubular honeycomb structure body including porous partition walls defining a plurality of cells, and an outer peripheral wall and a pair of electrode parts disposed on a side face of the honeycomb structure body, wherein the honeycomb structure body has electric resistivity of 1 to 200 ?cm, each electrode part has a belt-like shape extending in an extending direction of the cells, each electrode part is placed on an opposite side each other across a center of the honeycomb structure body, the honeycomb structure body includes an inflow-side area that is an area on the inflow-side and covering the inflow end face, and an outflow-side area that is an area other than the inflow-side area, and the inflow-side area is made of a material having electric resistivity lower than electric resistivity of a material of the outflow-side area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi MASE, Yoshimasa OMIYA, Atsushi KANEDA, Takashi NORO
  • Publication number: 20140294688
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a tubular honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls to define and form a plurality of cells and an outer peripheral wall, and a pair of electrodes disposed on a side surface of the honeycomb structure body. An electrical resistivity of the honeycomb structure body is from 1 to 200 ?cm, each of the pair of electrodes is formed into a band-like shape extending in an extending direction of the cells of the honeycomb structure body, one electrode in the pair of electrodes is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode in the pair of electrodes via a center of the honeycomb structure body, the honeycomb structure body has a central region and an outer peripheral region, and an electrical resistivity of the central region is lower than an electrical resistivity of the outer peripheral region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumi MASE, Yoshimasa OMIYA, Atsushi KANEDA, Takashi NORO
  • Publication number: 20140294690
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a tubular bonded honeycomb segment assembly having a plurality of honeycomb segments and a bonding layer which bonds side surfaces of the plurality of honeycomb segments to each other; and a pair of electrode members disposed on a side surface of the bonded honeycomb segment assembly, a volume resistivity of each of the honeycomb segments is from 1 to 200 ?cm, at least a part of the bonding layer is made of a bonding material having a conductivity, a volume resistivity of the bonding layer is from 2 to 2000 ?cm, and each of the pair of electrode members is formed into a band-like shape extending in an extending direction of the cells of the bonded honeycomb segment assembly, and one electrode member is disposed on a side opposite to the other electrode member via a center of the bonded honeycomb segment assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa OMIYA, Atsushi KANEDA, Kazumi MASE
  • Publication number: 20140127085
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a cylindrical honeycomb structure section having porous partition walls to define and form a plurality of cells, and an outer peripheral wall, and a pair of electrode sections disposed on a side surface of the honeycomb structure section. An electrical resistivity of the honeycomb structure section is from 1 to 200 ?cm, and each of the pair of electrode sections is constituted of a laminated body of two or more electrode bodies. An area of the electrode body disposed closest to an outer peripheral wall side is larger than an area of the other electrode body, and in a cross section perpendicular to a cell extending direction, a center angle of the electrode body disposed closest to the outer peripheral wall side is larger than a center angle of the other electrode body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa OMIYA, Yoshiyuki KASAI, Kazumi MASE
  • Publication number: 20140010720
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure section having porous partition walls, and an outer peripheral wall; and a pair of electrode sections, each of the pair of electrode sections are formed into a band shape, the one electrode section is disposed on an opposite side to the other electrode section via a center O of the honeycomb structure section, a shape of the cells is a quadrangular shape or a hexagonal shape, and in the cross section perpendicular to the extending direction of the cells and including the electrode sections, a straight line parallel to a diagonal line connecting two facing vertexes of the one cell and passing the center of the honeycomb structure section is a reference line L, and each of the electrode sections is disposed at a position to intersect with the at least one reference line L.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki KASAI, Yoshimasa OMIYA, Kazumi MASE