Patents by Inventor Kazuto Miura

Kazuto Miura 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: 11065571
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb filter, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having an inflow end face and an outflow end face and including a porous partition wall surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed at any one of ends of the cells at the inflow end face and at the outflow end face. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, inflow cells have a pentagonal or a hexagonal shape, and outflow cells have a square shape. The cells are configured that the inflow cells surround one outflow cell and one side of an inflow cell and one side of an adjacent outflow cell are parallel to each other. The partition wall is configured that thickness of a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cells and the outflow cells is larger than thickness of a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Yasui, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Yukio Miyairi, Takashi Aoki
  • Patent number: 11058983
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb filter, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having an inflow end face and an outflow end face and including a porous partition wall surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed at any one of ends of the cells at the inflow end face and at the outflow end face. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, inflow cells have a pentagonal or a hexagonal shape, and outflow cells have a square shape. The cells are configured that the inflow cells surround one outflow cell and one side of an inflow cell and one side of an adjacent outflow cell are parallel to each other. The partition wall is configured that thickness of a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cells and the outflow cells is smaller than thickness of a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Yasui, Takashi Aoki, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Yukio Miyairi
  • Patent number: 10857531
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell and a second cell, on the partition wall disposed to surround the at least one first cell, a protrusion is each provided with, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are each disposed to at least partially overlap with each other on extended lines in extending directions of the respective protrusions, and an inter-protrusion length (X) of a distal end of the first protrusion and a distal end of the second protrusion is equal to or more than 10% and equal to or less than 70% with respect to a mutual distance (W) from the one part to the other part on the partition walls facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ilda, Kazuto Miura, Osamu Yasui
  • Patent number: 10857498
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure body is constituted of a circumferential region including the outermost circumference in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body which is perpendicular to an extending direction of cells, and a central region excluding the circumferential region. The circumferential region includes a specific circumferential region in which pressure loss with soot when an amount of the deposited soot is 4 g/L is higher than the pressure loss with soot of the central region as much as 15% or more and in which an open frontal area of the circumferential region is the same as or larger than an open frontal area of the central region. In the cross section of the honeycomb structure body, a ratio of an area of the specific circumferential region is 5% or more to a total area of the circumferential region and the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Yasui
  • Patent number: 10850223
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure includes a plurality of honeycomb segments, a bonding layer, and plugging portions plugging open ends of cells of the honeycomb segments. The honeycomb segments include circumferential segments and central segments. The circumferential segments include at least one specific circumferential segment in which pressure loss with soot when an amount of the deposited soot is 4 g/L is higher than the pressure loss with soot of the central segment as much as 15% or more and in which an open frontal area of the circumferential segment is the same as or larger than an open frontal area of the central segment. In a cross section of a honeycomb structure body which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a ratio of an area of the specific circumferential segment is 4% or more to a total area of the circumferential segments and the central segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Yasui
  • Patent number: 10737257
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell and a second cell, an open frontal area of the first cell on the first end face is larger than that of the second cell on the second end face, on the partition wall disposed to surround the at least one first cell, a protrusion which protrudes into the first cell is provided with, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are each disposed not to overlap with each other on extended lines in extending directions of the respective protrusions, and a protrusion height (H1) of the first protrusion and a protrusion height (H2) of the second protrusion are each equal to or more than 15% and equal to or less than 90% with respect to a mutual distance W of the partition walls facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Iida, Kazuto Miura, Osamu Yasui
  • Patent number: 10525394
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate including a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, an inflow side plugging portion disposed at the inflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of outflow cells and an outflow side plugging portion disposed at the outflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of inflow cells other than the outflow cells. The honeycomb substrate includes the partition wall that defines two of the inflow cells by division. An average of the plugging length LIN of the inflow side plugging portions disposed in the outflow cells of the honeycomb substrate is larger than an average of the plugging length LOUT of the outflow side plugging portions disposed in the inflow cells of the honeycomb substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Yoshioka, Kazuto Miura
  • Patent number: 10478766
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate including a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, an inflow side plugging portion disposed at the inflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of outflow cells; and an outflow side plugging portion disposed at the outflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of inflow cells other than the outflow cells. The honeycomb substrate includes the partition wall that defines two of the inflow cells by division. An average of the plugging length LOUT of the outflow side plugging portions disposed in the inflow cells of the honeycomb substrate is larger than an average of the plugging length LIN of the inflow side plugging portions disposed in the outflow cells of the honeycomb substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiko Yoshioka, Kazuto Miura
  • Publication number: 20180280859
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb filter, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having an inflow end face and an outflow end face and including a porous partition wall surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed at any one of ends of the cells at the inflow end face and at the outflow end face. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, inflow cells have a pentagonal or a hexagonal shape, and outflow cells have a square shape. The cells are configured that the inflow cells surround one outflow cell and one side of an inflow cell and one side of an adjacent outflow cell are parallel to each other. The partition wall is configured that thickness of a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cells and the outflow cells is smaller than thickness of a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Yasui, Takashi Aoki, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Yukio Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20180280956
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell and a second cell, on the partition wall disposed to surround the at least one first cell, a protrusion is each provided with, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are each disposed to at least partially overlap with each other on extended lines in extending directions of the respective protrusions, and an inter-protrusion length (X) of a distal end of the first protrusion and a distal end of the second protrusion is equal to or more than 10% and equal to or less than 70% with respect to a mutual distance (W) from the one part to the other part on the partition walls facing each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro IIDA, Kazuto Miura, Osamu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20180280957
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells include a first cell and a second cell, an open frontal area of the first cell on the first end face is larger than that of the second cell on the second end face, on the partition wall disposed to surround the at least one first cell, a protrusion which protrudes into the first cell is provided with, the first protrusion and the second protrusion are each disposed not to overlap with each other on extended lines in extending directions of the respective protrusions, and a protrusion height (H1) of the first protrusion and a protrusion height (H2) of the second protrusion are each equal to or more than 15% and equal to or less than 90% with respect to a mutual distance W of the partition walls facing each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Iida, Kazuto Miura, Osamu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20180280860
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb filter, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having an inflow end face and an outflow end face and including a porous partition wall surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed at any one of ends of the cells at the inflow end face and at the outflow end face. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, inflow cells have a pentagonal or a hexagonal shape, and outflow cells have a square shape. The cells are configured that the inflow cells surround one outflow cell and one side of an inflow cell and one side of an adjacent outflow cell are parallel to each other. The partition wall is configured that thickness of a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cells and the outflow cells is larger than thickness of a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu YASUI, Kazuto MIURA, Tomohiro llDA, Yukio MIYAIRI, Takashi AOKI
  • Patent number: 10040016
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls made of a material including silicon carbide, and plugging portions, wherein a porosity of the partition walls is from 42 to 52%, a thickness of the partition walls is from 0.15 to 0.36 mm, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters of 10 ?m or less to a total pore volume of the partition walls is 41% or less, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters in a range of 18 to 36 ?m to the total pore volume is 10% or less, the pore diameter indicating a maximum value of the log differential pore volume is in a range of 10 to 16 ?m, and a half-value width of a peak including the maximum value of the log differential pore volume is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Iida, Kazuto Miura, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20180214810
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls made of a material including silicon carbide, and plugging portions, wherein a porosity of the partition walls is from 42 to 52%, a thickness of the partition walls is from 0.15 to 0.36 mm, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters of 10 ?m or less to a total pore volume of the partition walls is 41% or less, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters in a range of 18 to 36 ?m to the total pore volume is 10% or less, the pore diameter indicating a maximum value of the log differential pore volume is in a range of 10 to 16 ?m, and a half-value width of a peak including the maximum value of the log differential pore volume is 5 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ilda, Kazuto Miura, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20180104635
    Abstract: A plugged honeycomb structure includes a plurality of honeycomb segments, a bonding layer, and plugging portions plugging open ends of cells of the honeycomb segments. The honeycomb segments include circumferential segments and central segments. The circumferential segments include at least one specific circumferential segment in which pressure loss with soot when an amount of the deposited soot is 4 g/L is higher than the pressure loss with soot of the central segment as much as 15% or more and in which an open frontal area of the circumferential segment is the same as or larger than an open frontal area of the central segment. In a cross section of a honeycomb structure body which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a ratio of an area of the specific circumferential segment is 4% or more to a total area of the circumferential segments and the central segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Kazuto MIURA, Tomohiro llDA, Takashi AOKI, Osamu YASUI
  • Publication number: 20180104636
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure body is constituted of a circumferential region including the outermost circumference in a cross section of the honeycomb structure body which is perpendicular to an extending direction of cells, and a central region excluding the circumferential region. The circumferential region includes a specific circumferential region in which pressure loss with soot when an amount of the deposited soot is 4 g/L is higher than the pressure loss with soot of the central region as much as 15% or more and in which an open frontal area of the circumferential region is the same as or larger than an open frontal area of the central region. In the cross section of the honeycomb structure body, a ratio of an area of the specific circumferential region is 5% or more to a total area of the circumferential region and the central region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio MIYAIRI, Kazuto Miura, Tomohiro Iida, Takashi Aoki, Osamu Yasui
  • Publication number: 20170274311
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate including a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, an inflow side plugging portion disposed at the inflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of outflow cells; and an outflow side plugging portion disposed at the outflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of inflow cells other than the outflow cells. The honeycomb substrate includes the partition wall that defines two of the inflow cells by division. An average of the plugging length LOUT of the outflow side plugging portions disposed in the inflow cells of the honeycomb substrate is larger than an average of the plugging length LIN of the inflow side plugging portions disposed in the outflow cells of the honeycomb substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko YOSHIOKA, Kazuto MIURA
  • Publication number: 20170274312
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate including a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, an inflow side plugging portion disposed at the inflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of outflow cells and an outflow side plugging portion disposed at the outflow end face of the honeycomb substrate to plug open ends of inflow cells other than the outflow cells. The honeycomb substrate includes the partition wall that defines two of the inflow cells by division. An average of the plugging length LIN of the inflow side plugging portions disposed in the outflow cells of the honeycomb substrate is larger than an average of the plugging length LOUT of the outflow side plugging portions disposed in the inflow cells of the honeycomb substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiko YOSHIOKA, Kazuto MIURA
  • Patent number: 9464551
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb catalyst body including porous partition walls in which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are defined and formed, and a plurality of pores are formed, wherein a cell density is from 93 to 186 cells/cm2, and onto the partition walls, a catalyst containing the zeolite is loaded in an amount of 100 to 300 g/L, a porosity (A) of the partition walls before the catalyst is loaded thereonto is 50% or more, and a porosity (B) of the partition walls in a state where the catalyst is loaded thereonto is from 0.3 to 0.6 times as much as the porosity (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Kazuto Miura, Hirotaka Yamamoto, Fumio Katsube
  • Publication number: 20140147342
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb catalyst body including porous partition walls in which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are defined and formed, and a plurality of pores are formed, wherein a cell density is from 93 to 186 cells/cm2, and onto the partition walls, a catalyst containing the zeolite is loaded in an amount of 100 to 300 g/L, a porosity (A) of the partition walls before the catalyst is loaded thereonto is 50% or more, and a porosity (B) of the partition walls in a state where the catalyst is loaded thereonto is from 0.3 to 0.6 times as much as the porosity (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Kazuto MIURA, Hirotaka YAMAMOTO, Fumio KATSUBE