Patents by Inventor Koichi Harada

Koichi Harada 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: 9450312
    Abstract: A magnetic metal particle aggregate includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles including at least one magnetic metal selected from a first group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni. The plurality of magnetic metal particles are partly bound with each other, and an average particle diameter of the plurality of magnetic metal particles is 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less. The magnetic metal particle aggregate has an average particle diameter of 15 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihide Takahashi, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga, Tomoko Eguchi
  • Patent number: 9362033
    Abstract: A magnetic material is disclosed, which includes magnetic particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare earth elements, Ba and Sr; a first coating layer of a first oxide that covers at least a portion of the magnetic particles; oxide particles of a second oxide that is present between the magnetic particles and constitutes an eutectic reaction system with the first oxide; and an oxide phase that is present between the magnetic particles and has an eutectic structure of the first oxide and the second oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Seiichi Suenaga, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Koichi Harada, Yasuyuki Hotta
  • Patent number: 9318809
    Abstract: A radio wave absorber according to an embodiment includes a plurality of metal particles including at least one kind of magnetic metal element selected from a first group of Fe, Co, and Ni. Each of the plurality of metal particles has a linear expansion coefficient of 1×10?6/K or more and 10×10?6/K or less. The radio wave absorber also includes a binding layer binding the metal particles and having higher resistance than the metal particle, wherein a volume filling ratio of the metal particles in the radio wave absorber is 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihide Takahashi, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Tomoko Eguchi, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20160086717
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic material which includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles having a rate of change in the lattice constant of ±1% or less with respect to the lattice constant obtained after a heat treatment at 1000° C., a plurality of insulating coating layers insulating and covering at least a portion of the magnetic metal particles, and an insulating resin disposed around the magnetic metal particles and the insulating coating layers. The insulating coating layers are in contact with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi HARADA, Toshihide TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Tomoko EGUCHI, Seiichi SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20160086700
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a magnetic material, the method including preparing a mixed phase material including a first magnetic metal phase formed from a magnetic metal and a second phase containing any one of oxygen (O), nitrogen (N) or carbon (C) and a non-magnetic metal, conducting a first heat treatment to the mixed phase material at a temperature of from 50° C. to 800° C., forming nanoparticle aggregates including a plurality of magnetic metal nanoparticles formed from the first magnetic metal phase and the second phase, and conducting a second heat treatment to the nanoparticle aggregates at a temperature of from 50° C. to 800° C. The nanoparticle aggregates are formed by decreasing an average particle size and a particle size distribution variation of the first magnetic metal phase after the first heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Koichi HARADA, Tomoko EGUCHI, Toshihide TAKAHASHI, Seiichi SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20160086705
    Abstract: Provided is a magnetic material including a plurality of flat particles containing a magnetic metal, and a matrix phase disposed around the flat particles and having higher electrical resistance than the flat particles. In a cross-section of the magnetic material, the aspect ratio of the flat particles is 10 or higher. If the major axis of one of the flat particles is designated as L and the length of a straight line connecting two endpoints of the flat particle is designated as W, the proportion of the area surrounded by the outer peripheries of parts in which flat particles satisfying the relationship: W?0.95×L are continuously laminated, is 10% or more of the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko EGUCHI, Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Koichi HARADA, Toshihide TAKAHASHI, Seiichi SUENAGA
  • Publication number: 20160086728
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a magnetic material. The method includes preparing magnetic metal particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from a first group consisting of Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from a second group consisting of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, Ba, Sr, Cr, Mo, Ag, Ga, Sc, V, Y, Nb, Pb, Cu, In, Sn and rare earth elements, pulverizing and reaggregating the magnetic metal particles, and thereby forming composite particles containing a magnetic metal phase and an interstitial phase, and heat-treating the composite particles at a temperature of from 50° C. to 800° C. The particle size distribution of the magnetic metal particles in the preparing magnetic metal particles has two or more peaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Koichi Harada, Tomoko Eguchi, Toshihide Takahashi, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Patent number: 9225072
    Abstract: A radiowave absorber of an embodiment includes: core-shell particles each including: a core portion that contains at least one magnetic metal element selected from a first group including Fe, Co, and Ni, and at least one metal element selected from a second group including Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare-earth elements, Ba, and Sr; and a shell layer that coats at least part of the core portion, and includes an oxide layer containing at least one metal element selected from the second group and contained in the core portion; and a binding layer that binds the core-shell particles, and has a higher resistance than the resistance of the core-shell particles. The volume filling rate of the core-shell particles in the radiowave absorber is not lower than 10% and not higher than 55%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihide Takahashi, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20150303583
    Abstract: A radio wave absorber according to an embodiment includes a plurality of metal particles including at least one kind of magnetic metal element selected from a first group of Fe, Co, and Ni. Each of the plurality of metal particles has a linear expansion coefficient of 1×10?6/K or more and 10×10?6/K or less. The radio wave absorber also includes a binding layer binding the metal particles and having higher resistance than the metal particle, wherein a volume filling ratio of the metal particles in the radio wave absorber is 10% or more and 50% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihide TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Tomoko Eguchi, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20150107566
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device includes an EGR passage, a cooling medium circuit, an EGR cooler, and an intercooler. A part of exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is recirculated as EGR gas into an intake passage of the engine through the EGR passage. A cooling medium flows through the cooling medium circuit. The EGR cooler performs a heat exchange between EGR gas flowing through the EGR passage and the cooling medium flowing through the cooling medium circuit so as to cool EGR gas. The intercooler is disposed at the intake passage on a downstream side of a merging part between the intake passage and the EGR passage in a flow direction of intake air, and performs a heat exchange between intake air including EGR gas and flowing through the intake passage, and the cooling medium flowing through the cooling medium circuit so as to cool intake air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Yuuki Sugiyama, Koichi Harada
  • Publication number: 20150084804
    Abstract: A magnetic metal particle aggregate includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles including at least one magnetic metal selected from a first group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni. The plurality of magnetic metal particles are partly bound with each other, and an average particle diameter of the plurality of magnetic metal particles is 10 nm or more and 50 nm or less. The magnetic metal particle aggregate has an average particle diameter of 15 nm or more and 200 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihide TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga, Tomoko Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20150083959
    Abstract: A magnetic material of an embodiment includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles, a plurality of columnar oxide particles, and a matrix phase. Each of the plurality of the magnetic metal particles includes at least one element selected from a first group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni. Each of the plurality of the columnar oxide particles includes at least one oxide selected from a second group consisting of Al2O3, SiO2, and TiO2 and is in contact with the magnetic metal particle. The matrix phase has a higher electrical resistance than each of the plurality of the magnetic metal particles. The matrix phase surrounds the plurality of magnetic metal particles and the plurality of columnar oxide particles. In the magnetic material, 5 nm?l?L and 0.002?L/R?0.4 hold, where R represents a particle size of the magnetic metal particle, L represents a length of the columnar oxide particle, and l represents a breadth of the columnar oxide particle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko EGUCHI, Seiichi SUENAGA, Koichi HARADA, Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Toshihide TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 8988301
    Abstract: A core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high-frequency band, in particular a GHz-band and a high environment resistance is provided. The core-shell magnetic material includes: a magnetic member in which plural core-shell magnetic particles are bound by a binder made of a first resin; and a coating layer that is made of a second resin different from the first resin, a surface of the magnetic member being covered with the coating layer. The core-shell magnetic material is characterized in that the core-shell magnetic particle includes a magnetic metallic particle and a covering layer that covers at least part of a surface of the magnetic metallic particle, the magnetic metallic particle contains at least one magnetic metal selected from a group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni, and the covering layer is made of an oxide, a nitride, or a carbide that contains at least one magnetic metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Maki Yonetsu, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga, Shinji Murai, Yasuyuki Hotta, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Noritsugu Shiokawa
  • Patent number: 8920670
    Abstract: A magnetic material of an embodiment includes: first magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are 1 ?m or greater in particle size, and are 5 to 50 ?m in average particle size; second magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are smaller than 1 ?m in particle size, and are 5 to 50 nm in average particle size; and an intermediate phase that exists between the first magnetic particles and the second magnetic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Harada, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Toshihide Takahashi, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20140374644
    Abstract: A magnetic material of an embodiment includes a plurality of magnetic metal particles and a matrix phase. Each of the plurality of magnetic metal particles includes a magnetic metal and a first compound included in the magnetic metal. The magnetic metal includes at least one element selected from Fe, Co, and Ni. The first compound is an oxide, a nitride, or a carbide including at least one element selected from Fe, Al, Si, B, Mg, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, Nb, Ta, Mo, Cr, Cu, W, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr. The matrix phase fills a space between the plurality of magnetic metal particles and has higher electric resistance than the plurality of magnetic metal particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoko EGUCHI, Seiichi Suenaga, Koichi Harada, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Toshihide Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140319406
    Abstract: A magnetic material is disclosed, which includes magnetic particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare earth elements, Ba and Sr; a first coating layer of a first oxide that covers at least a portion of the magnetic particles; oxide particles of a second oxide that is present between the magnetic particles and constitutes an eutectic reaction system with the first oxide; and an oxide phase that is present between the magnetic particles and has an eutectic structure of the first oxide and the second oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Seiichi Suenaga, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Koichi Harada, Yasuyuki Hotta
  • Patent number: 8840800
    Abstract: A magnetic material is disclosed, which includes magnetic particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare earth elements, Ba and Sr; a first coating layer of a first oxide that covers at least a portion of the magnetic particles; oxide particles of a second oxide that is present between the magnetic particles and constitutes an eutectic reaction system with the first oxide; and an oxide phase that is present between the magnetic particles and has an eutectic structure of the first oxide and the second oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro Suetsuna, Seiichi Suenaga, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Koichi Harada, Yasuyuki Hotta
  • Publication number: 20130257639
    Abstract: A radiowave absorber of an embodiment includes: core-shell particles each including: a core portion that contains at least one magnetic metal element selected from a first group including Fe, Co, and Ni, and at least one metal element selected from a second group including Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare-earth elements, Ba, and Sr; and a shell layer that coats at least part of the core portion, and includes an oxide layer containing at least one metal element selected from the second group and contained in the core portion; and a binding layer that binds the core-shell particles, and has a higher resistance than the resistance of the core-shell particles. The volume filling rate of the core-shell particles in the radiowave absorber is not lower than 10% and not higher than 55%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Toshihide Takahashi, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Koichi Harada, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20130228717
    Abstract: A magnetic material of an embodiment includes: first magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are 1 ?m or greater in particle size, and are 5 to 50 ?m in average particle size; second magnetic particles that contain at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co, and Ni, are smaller than 1 ?m in particle size, and are 5 to 50 nm in average particle size; and an intermediate phase that exists between the first magnetic particles and the second magnetic particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koichi Harada, Tomohiro Suetsuna, Toshihide Takahashi, Seiichi Suenaga
  • Publication number: 20130228716
    Abstract: A magnetic material is disclosed, which includes magnetic particles containing at least one magnetic metal selected from the group including Fe, Co and Ni, and at least one non-magnetic metal selected from Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, rare earth elements, Ba and Sr; a first coating layer of a first oxide that covers at least a portion of the magnetic particles; oxide particles of a second oxide that is present between the magnetic particles and constitutes an eutectic reaction system with the first oxide; and an oxide phase that is present between the magnetic particles and has an eutectic structure of the first oxide and the second oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomohiro SUETSUNA, Seiichi Suenaga, Toshihide Takahashi, Tomoko Eguchi, Koichi Harada, Yasuyuki Hotta