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).
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Publication number: 20240428900Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Takahiro TOMITA, Kyohei ATSUJI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shingo SOKAWA, Taisuke KATO, Takafumi NISHIWAKI, Atsunori INAGAKI
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Patent number: 12160190Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: AISIN CORPORATION, BluE Nexus CorporationInventors: Arinori Shimada, Daisuke Yamashita, Yomei Hakumura, Kenji Morimoto
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Publication number: 20230291341Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicants: AISIN CORPORATION, BluE Nexus CorporationInventors: Arinori SHIMADA, Daisuke YAMASHITA, Yomei HAKUMURA, Kenji MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 11578629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Shogo Takeno, Kousuke Ujihara, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 11071937Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Ishikawa, Takahiro Tomita, Kenji Morimoto
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Publication number: 20210123365Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Shogo TAKENO, Kousuke UJIHARA, Kenji MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 10739300Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10632648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10620152Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10610830Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10596722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10564139Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Kosuke Ujihara, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
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Publication number: 20190351578Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Kenichi HIDAKA, Yoshio KIKUCHI, Masaki ISHIKAWA, Kisuke YAMAMOTO, Kenji MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190351577Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2019Publication date: November 21, 2019Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi KIMATA, Kenichi HIDAKA, Yoshio KIKUCHI, Masaki ISHIKAWA, Kisuke YAMAMOTO, Kenji MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20190299145Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Masaki ISHIKAWA, Takahiro TOMITA, Kenji MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 10421213Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 28, 2017Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Takafumi Kimata, Kenichi Hidaka, Yoshio Kikuchi, Masaki Ishikawa, Kisuke Yamamoto, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10421691Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Kenji Morimoto, Shinji Kawasaki
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Patent number: 10307743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10252248Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Kenji Morimoto
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Patent number: 10195597Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Yamazaki, Toru Hayase, Kenji Morimoto