Patents by Inventor Kazunari Yamamoto

Kazunari Yamamoto 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).

  • Patent number: 12113440
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter includes a positive electrode line, a negative electrode line, first and second switching elements, and a magnetic coupling reactor. The magnetic coupling reactor includes a reactor core, and first and second coils. The second coil is wound around a second outer leg of the reactor core and is magnetically differentially connected to the first coil. The controller is configured to execute a first discharge process and a second discharge process, which is executed after the first discharge process, to discharge electric charge remaining in the fuel cell. The controller is configured to, in the first discharge process, turn on the first switching element in a state where the second switching element is off, and, in the second discharge process, turn on the second switching element in a state where the first switching element is on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazunari Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20240304783
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a doped electrode may use an active metal layer doped with an alkali metal. A strip-shaped electrode may including an active material layer may be conveyed along a path that passes through a doping tank that stores a doping solution containing ions of an alkali metal and an aprotic organic solvent, a counter electrode unit, and a guide mechanism. In the doping tank, a distance between the electrode and the counter electrode unit may be maintained in a fixed range by the guide mechanism disposed between the electrode and the counter electrode unit. In the doping tank, the electrode and the counter electrode unit may be electrically connected via the doping solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: MUSASHI ENERGY SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro YAMAMOTO, Kazunari AITA
  • Publication number: 20240301838
    Abstract: This engine structure includes: a cylinder block in which a cylinder bore is formed; a piston provided in the cylinder bore; a cylinder head provided to an upper portion of the cylinder block in a manner to seal the cylinder bore; and a ring that is inserted in the upper end portion of the cylinder bore and has an inner diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the cylinder. A first abradable layer that is worn down by contact with an outer peripheral surface of the piston is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Misao GOTO, Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Takumi KOMIYAMA
  • Patent number: 12085008
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism 10 includes: a cooling circuit 11; and a compressor cooling path 30 branched from the cooling circuit 11 and joined to the cooling circuit 11 after passing through an inside of a compressor 22. The cooling mechanism 10 includes a flow rate adjustment valve 32 configured to control a flow rate of cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22. The flow rate adjustment valve 32 is configured to make the flow rate of the cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22 when a temperature of intake air at an outlet of the compressor 22 is lower than a temperature of the cooling water lower than the flow rate of the cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22 when the temperature of the intake air at the outlet of the compressor 22 becomes equal to or higher than the temperature of the cooling water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazunari Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12060311
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a method for producing an aromatic nitrile in which a fixed-bed reactor including a plurality of reaction tubes is used to subject a gaseous mixture comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia, and oxygen by contact catalytic reaction on a catalyst to thereby produce the corresponding aromatic nitrile, wherein the catalyst is composed of an oxide containing vanadium, chromium, and boron and one or more supports selected from among alumina, silica-alumina, zirconia, and titania. One of the reaction tubes is filled with the catalyst of one kind and examined as to where a hot spot lies therein. An inert substance is filled into that portion of each of the plurality of reaction tubes which corresponds at least to the hot spot, and the catalyst is filled into the remaining portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka Kanbara, Yuta Oomori, Yoichi Kyuuko, Tomoo Tsujimoto, Kazunari Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Hatakeyama
  • Patent number: 12060849
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a cylinder head positioned above the cylinder; a gasket disposed between the cylinder and the cylinder head; a stepped portion formed at an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder; a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion; and a seal member that is provided on an upper surface of the ring member and is sandwiched between the ring member and the cylinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunari Yamamoto, Misao Goto, Takumi Komiyama
  • Patent number: 12025073
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a stepped portion that is formed on an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder; and a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion. The thickness of the ring member decreases toward the bottom dear center of the piston, and an outer peripheral surface of the ring member is an inclined surface, where a lower end of the outer peripheral surface is positioned closer to the center in the radial direction of the ring member than an upper end of the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takumi Komiyama, Kazunari Yamamoto, Misao Goto
  • Patent number: 12000354
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a cylinder head positioned above the cylinder; a gasket disposed between the cylinder and the cylinder head; a stepped portion that is formed at an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and positioned below the gasket; a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion; and a protrusion portion that is formed in a manner to protrude from the ring member and bites into a lower surface of the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Kazunari Yamamoto, Misao Goto, Takumi Komiyama
  • Publication number: 20240093629
    Abstract: A cooling mechanism 10 includes: a cooling circuit 11; and a compressor cooling path 30 branched from the cooling circuit 11 and joined to the cooling circuit 11 after passing through an inside of a compressor 22. The cooling mechanism 10 includes a flow rate adjustment valve 32 configured to control a flow rate of cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22. The flow rate adjustment valve 32 is configured to make the flow rate of the cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22 when a temperature of intake air at an outlet of the compressor 22 is lower than a temperature of the cooling water lower than the flow rate of the cooling water flowing inside the compressor 22 when the temperature of the intake air at the outlet of the compressor 22 becomes equal to or higher than the temperature of the cooling water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Kazunari YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240053933
    Abstract: An object is to provide a technique to make it difficult to restore data remaining in a memory by a simple method. The printing apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive a file transmitted from an external device; a volatile memory storing data included in the file in a case where the external device is a predetermined server; and an overwriting unit configured to rewrite the data with dummy data, which is stored in a sector to a limit of the capacity in the volatile memory, in a case where the sector of the volatile memory storing the data is invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Kazunari Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230332558
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a cylinder head positioned above the cylinder; a gasket disposed between the cylinder and the cylinder head; a stepped portion that is formed at an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder and positioned below the gasket; a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion; and a protrusion portion that is formed in a manner to protrude from the ring member and bites into a lower surface of the gasket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Misao GOTO, Takumi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230332559
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a cylinder head positioned above the cylinder; a gasket disposed between the cylinder and the cylinder head; a stepped portion formed at an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder; a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion; and a seal member that is provided on an upper surface of the ring member and is sandwiched between the ring member and the cylinder head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Misao GOTO, Takumi KOMIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230323833
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder in which a piston reciprocates; a stepped portion that is formed on an upper end portion of an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder; and a ring member having a cylindrical shape provided to the stepped portion. The thickness of the ring member decreases toward the bottom dear center of the piston, and an outer peripheral surface of the ring member is an inclined surface, where a lower end of the outer peripheral surface is positioned closer to the center in the radial direction of the ring member than an upper end of the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Takumi KOMIYAMA, Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Misao GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230297218
    Abstract: A terminal includes processors and memory storing one or more sets of instructions including instructions for: at initial activation of an application program after a user installs the application program on the terminal, in response to a predetermined input made by the user, causing a transition between introducing screens corresponding to functions of the application program, each introducing screen introducing a corresponding function; displaying an object on each of the introducing screens; and upon detection of that the user designates an object, displaying on a display first a function screen that enables the user to use a function corresponding to an introducing screen including the object designated by the user, from among function screens corresponding to the functions of the application program, each function screen enabling the user to use a corresponding function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Masanari KOSHINO, Kazunari YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230208289
    Abstract: A power supply system includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter includes a positive electrode line, a negative electrode line, first and second switching elements, and a magnetic coupling reactor. The magnetic coupling reactor includes a reactor core, and first and second coils. The second coil is wound around a second outer leg of the reactor core and is magnetically differentially connected to the first coil. The controller is configured to execute a first discharge process and a second discharge process, which is executed after the first discharge process, to discharge electric charge remaining in the fuel cell. The controller is configured to, in the first discharge process, turn on the first switching element in a state where the second switching element is off, and, in the second discharge process, turn on the second switching element in a state where the first switching element is on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazunari YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230003256
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device (1) including: an outer member (2) on the inner periphery of which an outer-side rolling surface (2c/2d) is formed; an inner member (3) on the outer periphery of which an inner-side rolling surface (3c/3d) is formed; and a plurality of rolling bodies (41) interposed between the rolling surfaces (2c/2d/3c/3d) of the outer member (2) and the inner member (3). The wheel bearing device having a spline hole (3b) formed in a through hole (3h) of the inner member (3). The spline hole includes a guide groove (3G) formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof. A guide plate (8G) of a finishing broach (8) passes through the guide groove in the inner periphery of the spline hole (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Hayato TANIGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11506241
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device (1) including: an outer member (2) on the inner periphery of which an outer-side rolling surface (2c/2d) is formed; an inner member (3) on the outer periphery of which an inner-side rolling surface (3c/3d) is formed; and a plurality of rolling bodies (41) interposed between the rolling surfaces (2c/2d/3c/3d) of the outer member (2) and the inner member (3). The wheel bearing device having a spline hole (3b) formed in a through hole (3h) of the inner member (3). The spline hole includes a guide groove (3G) formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof. A guide plate (8G) of a finishing broach (8) passes through the guide groove in the inner periphery of the spline hole (3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Yamamoto, Hayato Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11021012
    Abstract: A bearing device (1) for a vehicle wheel provided with: an outer member (2); and an inner member comprising a hub wheel (3), and at least one inner wheel (4) press-fitted into the small-diameter ridge (3A) of the hub wheel (3); wherein a belt-shaped part (2F) that radially protrudes by a protrusion amount (P1) is formed over a prescribed width (W1) in the outer peripheral surface of the outer member (2) so that at least part of the belt-shaped part (2F) radially overlaps the outside rolling surface (2D) which is on the vehicle-wheel-attachment-flange-facing side of the outer member (2). The present invention addresses the problem of providing a bearing device for a vehicle wheel in which the amount of deformation in an opening of an outer member can be reduced and decreases in rolling fatigue service life can be prevented while keeping overall weight increase to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NTN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazunari Yamamoto, Syougo Suzuki, Shunsuke Morita, Chinami Kitanaka
  • Publication number: 20210107864
    Abstract: The present invention can provide a method for producing an aromatic nitrile in which a fixed-bed reactor including a plurality of reaction tubes is used to subject a gaseous mixture comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia, and oxygen by contact catalytic reaction on a catalyst to thereby produce the corresponding aromatic nitrile, wherein the catalyst is composed of an oxide containing vanadium, chromium, and boron and one or more supports selected from among alumina, silica-alumina, zirconia, and titania. One of the reaction tubes is filled with the catalyst of one kind and examined as to where a hot spot lies therein. An inert substance is filled into that portion of each of the plurality of reaction tubes which corresponds at least to the hot spot, and the catalyst is filled into the remaining portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Yutaka KANBARA, Yuta OOMORI, Yoichi KYUUKO, Tomoo TSUJIMOTO, Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Tsuyoshi HATAKEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200318681
    Abstract: A wheel bearing device (1) including: an outer member (2) on the inner periphery of which an outer-side rolling surface (2c/2d) is formed; an inner member (3) on the outer periphery of which an inner-side rolling surface (3c/3d) is formed; and a plurality of rolling bodies (41) interposed between the rolling surfaces (2c/2d/3c/3d) of the outer member (2) and the inner member (3). The wheel bearing device having a spline hole (3b) formed in a through hole (3h) of the inner member (3). The spline hole includes a guide groove (3G) formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof. A guide plate (8G) of a finishing broach (8) passes through the guide groove in the inner periphery of the spline hole (3b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Kazunari YAMAMOTO, Hayato TANIGUCHI