Patents by Inventor Kenji Morimoto

Kenji Morimoto 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: 20240428900
    Abstract: A system performs either inference using a first model or inference using a second model and a third model according to accuracy of at least one model of the first to third models and, upon the inference, generates or updates recipe properties data that is data indicating an association between a manufacturing method recipe for a material and a material property/properties. The first model is a model to which a manufacturing method recipe dataset indicating a manufacturing method recipe is input and from which a material properties dataset indicating a material property/properties is output. The second model is a model to which a material characteristics dataset indicating a material characteristic(s) is input and from which a material properties dataset is output. The third model is a model to which a manufacturing method recipe dataset is input and from which a material characteristics dataset is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Takahiro TOMITA, Kyohei ATSUJI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shingo SOKAWA, Taisuke KATO, Takafumi NISHIWAKI, Atsunori INAGAKI
  • Patent number: 12160190
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine control system includes a base current instruction setting part that sets a base current instruction based on target torque of a rotating electrical machine; a correction current instruction setting part that sets a correction current instruction with a frequency determined based on torque ripple; and a current control part that performs current feedback control to compute a voltage instruction which is an instruction value of a voltage to be applied to the rotating electrical machine. The current control part includes a first current control part whose control target is a component of the base current instruction; and a second current control part whose control target is a component of the correction current instruction. A gain of the second current control part is set to be low compared to a gain of the first current control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, BluE Nexus Corporation
    Inventors: Arinori Shimada, Daisuke Yamashita, Yomei Hakumura, Kenji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20230291341
    Abstract: A rotating electrical machine control system includes a base current instruction setting part that sets a base current instruction based on target torque of a rotating electrical machine; a correction current instruction setting part that sets a correction current instruction with a frequency determined based on torque ripple; and a current control part that performs current feedback control to compute a voltage instruction which is an instruction value of a voltage to be applied to the rotating electrical machine. The current control part includes a first current control part whose control target is a component of the base current instruction; and a second current control part whose control target is a component of the correction current instruction. A gain of the second current control part is set to be low compared to a gain of the first current control part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, BluE Nexus Corporation
    Inventors: Arinori SHIMADA, Daisuke YAMASHITA, Yomei HAKUMURA, Kenji MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 11578629
    Abstract: A porous composite includes a porous base material, and a porous collection layer. The collection layer is provided on the base material. The collection layer contains praseodymium oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Takeno, Kousuke Ujihara, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 11071937
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body includes skeleton portions; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In a cross section parallel to a flow direction of the fluid, the skeleton portions have a ratio of a skeleton length of 40 ?m or more of 15% or less in a direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Ishikawa, Takahiro Tomita, Kenji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20210123365
    Abstract: A porous composite includes a porous base material, and a porous collection layer. The collection layer is provided on the base material. The collection layer contains praseodymium oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo TAKENO, Kousuke UJIHARA, Kenji MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10739300
    Abstract: A heater part of a planar sensor element includes: a Pt heater element; and an insulating layer including 90-99.9 wt % of an insulating material having a different coefficient of thermal expansion from a solid electrolyte forming a base part of the element. The heater part other than a heater electrode is buried in the base part. The heater element has a thickness of 10-50 ?m and is covered with the insulating layer. The insulating layer has a porosity of 4% or less and a thickness of 50-150 ?m. The distances of the insulating layer from an end portion of the element, from a main surface on which the heater electrode is located, and from a side surface of the element are respectively 0.25-0.75 mm, 0.20-0.60 mm, and 0.20-0.60 mm. The total length of the element is 80.0 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10632648
    Abstract: A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10620152
    Abstract: A heater part of a planar sensor element includes: a heater element containing Pt; an insulating layer covering the heater element; and a heater electrode located on a main surface of the sensor element to be exposed. A portion of the heater part other than the heater electrode is buried in a base part formed of a solid electrolyte. The insulating layer at least contains MgO, MgAl2O4, and Mg4Nb2O9 in a weight percentage of 97 wt % to 100 wt % in total. MgO, MgAl2O4, and Mg4Nb2O9 are contained in weight percentages of 30 wt % to 60 wt %, 30 wt % to 60 wt %, and 0.5 wt % to 15 wt %, respectively. The insulating layer has a porosity of 4% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10610830
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes: a honeycomb structure body including a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion to alternately plug open end parts of the plurality of cells on one side as an inflow side of the exhaust gas and open end parts on the other side as an outflow side of the exhaust gas. The partition wall is loaded, on the side of the outflow cells, with an oxidation catalyst made of a transition metal oxide to oxidize NO gas or an oxidation catalyst made of a transition metal oxide loaded at CeO2 to oxidize NO gas. The partition wall has porosity of 70% or less, the oxidation catalyst has a particle diameter of more than 1 ?m and less than 50.0 ?m, and the loading amount of the oxidation catalyst is 5.0 g/L or more and 50 g/L or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10596722
    Abstract: A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10564139
    Abstract: A heater part of a planar sensor element includes: a Pt heater element; and an insulating layer including 90-99.9 wt % of an insulating material having a different coefficient of thermal expansion from a solid electrolyte forming a base part of the element. The heater part other than a heater electrode is buried in the base part. The insulating layer includes: a porous portion having a porosity of 20-40%; and a dense portion having a porosity of 4% or less. The heater element is covered with the dense portion. A laminated portion in which the porous portion and the dense portion are laminated has a total thickness of 25-100 ?m. The dense portion has a thickness of 5 ?m or more. A thickness ratio of the dense portion to the porous portion is 0.05 to 2.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20190351578
    Abstract: A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Kenichi HIDAKA, Yoshio KIKUCHI, Masaki ISHIKAWA, Kisuke YAMAMOTO, Kenji MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190351577
    Abstract: A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Kenichi HIDAKA, Yoshio KIKUCHI, Masaki ISHIKAWA, Kisuke YAMAMOTO, Kenji MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190299145
    Abstract: A ceramic porous body includes skeleton portions; and pore portions formed between the skeleton portions, the pore portions being capable of allowing a fluid to flow therethrough. In a cross section parallel to a flow direction of the fluid, the skeleton portions have a ratio of a skeleton length of 40 ?m or more of 15% or less in a direction orthogonal to the flow direction of the fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki ISHIKAWA, Takahiro TOMITA, Kenji MORIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10421213
    Abstract: A ceramic formed body extrusion method for forming a ceramic formed body having a wall-shaped or plate-shaped formed portion by using an extrusion die provided with a slit for extrusion of a ceramic formed body from a raw material for forming, the slit including a slit former stage unit located on an upstream side in an extrusion direction in the extrusion and a slit latter stage unit located on a downstream side in the extrusion direction, the slit latter stage unit having a width of three to 27 times a width of the slit former stage unit, and by extruding a raw material containing a first particle having an aspect ratio of two or more and less than 300 such that the raw material passes though the slit former stage unit of the extrusion die and then passes through the slit latter stage unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10421691
    Abstract: A joined body 20 according to the present invention includes a first member 22 made of a porous ceramic, a second member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint 30 joining the first member 22 to the second member 24. Alternatively, a joined body may include a first member made of a dense material, a second member made of a dense material, and a joint formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint joining the first member to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 10307743
    Abstract: The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body made of a zeolite material containing at least a coarse particle zeolite having a large average particle diameter (coarse zeolite particles). A fine particle zeolite having an average particle diameter smaller than that of the coarse particle zeolite (fine zeolite particles), and an inorganic bonding material, the coarse particle zeolite (the coarse zeolite particles) is a chabazite type zeolite in which an average particle diameter of primary particles is 2 ?m or more and 6 ?m or less, and in the fine particle zeolite (the fine zeolite particles), an average particle diameter of primary particles is 0.02 ?m or more and smaller than 2 ?m, and in the zeolite material which is comprised the honeycomb structure body, a ratio of a volume of pores having pore diameters of 0.02 to 0.15 ?m to a volume of all pores is 42% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10252248
    Abstract: The oxide-containing particles (transition metal oxide-containing cerium dioxide particle) exert a catalyst performance, and include at least an iron oxide containing an iron component and a manganese oxide containing a manganese component on a surface of each of cerium dioxide particles, wherein the iron oxide and manganese oxide have smaller particle diameters than that of the cerium dioxide particles, and the content rate of the iron oxide and the manganese oxide is within the range of from 15.0% by mass to 35.0% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Kenji Morimoto
  • Patent number: 10195597
    Abstract: The manufacturing method includes a step of mixing a coarse particle zeolite, a fine particle zeolite, and a raw material of an inorganic bonding material to prepare a zeolite raw material; a step of forming the prepared zeolite raw material into a honeycomb shape to prepare a honeycomb formed body; and a step of firing the prepared honeycomb formed body to prepare the honeycomb structure. In the step of preparing the zeolite raw material, as the coarse particle zeolite, a chabazite type zeolite having a specific average particle diameter, the fine particle zeolite having a specific average particle diameter, the raw material of the inorganic bonding material which includes at least basic aluminum lactate is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto