Patents by Inventor Koichi SENDO

Koichi SENDO 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: 12570581
    Abstract: A porous honeycomb structure including cordierite, having a plurality of cell channels which pass through an interior of the porous honeycomb structure and are partitioned by porous partition walls, wherein the porous partition walls have a porosity of 45 to 60% as measured by a mercury intrusion method, wherein in a volume-based cumulative pore diameter distribution measured by the mercury intrusion method, the porous partition walls have a cumulative 10% pore diameter (D10) and a cumulative 50% pore diameter (D50) calculated from a small pore side, and satisfy a relationship of 0.45?(D50?D10)/D50, and 3 ?m?D50?10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsubasa Aoki, Koichi Sendo
  • Patent number: 12544702
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including a plurality of first cells and a plurality of second cells, the first cells and the second cells being alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween, wherein a ceramic porous film, in which an average film thickness T (unit: ?m) is 2 to 50 ?m, a porosity P (unit: %) is 65 to 90%, and the average film thickness T and the porosity P satisfy a relational expression of 0.36 T+60?P?0.75 T+72, is formed on a surface of each of the first cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Sendo
  • Patent number: 12472455
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed, surrounding a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from a first end face to a second end face; and a plugging portion provided at an open end on the first end face side or the second end face side of each of the cells, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, an average pore diameter of the partition wall is 20 to 30 ?m, an average equivalent circle diameter of pores existing at a surface of the partition wall and having equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 18 to 30 ?m, and a number per unit area of pores existing at a surface of the partition wall and having equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 400 per mm2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Sendo, Yu Torii, Shuji Ueda, Shungo Nagai
  • Patent number: 11761361
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a plurality of first cells and a plurality of second cells that are alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween; adhering ceramic particles containing 50% by mass or more in total of one or two selected from SiC and SiN to a surface of the first cells; and performing a heat-oxidation treatment on the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure in which the ceramic particles are adhered to the surface of the first cells to form a porous film comprised of the ceramic particles having an oxide film thereon so as to satisfy: (1) 0.05?T?0.5; (2) 0.05?T/D50; and (3) 4?{(W1?W0)/W0×100}/D50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Sendo
  • Patent number: 11612844
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells extending from an inlet side end surface to an outlet side end surface, and a plurality of second cells extending from the inlet side end surface to the outlet side end surface, with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween, wherein a porous film having a porosity higher than that of the partition walls is provided on a surface of each of the first cells, and at a cross-section orthogonal to the direction in which the first cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter extend, the average thickness of the porous film in the central portion is larger than the average thickness of the porous film in the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sato, Shuji Ueda, Koichi Sendo, Yutaka Ishii, Yuichi Tajima, Seiya Nakano, Ken Itazu
  • Publication number: 20220314250
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including; attaching ceramic particles to a surface of the first cells by ejecting an aerosol including the ceramic particles toward the inlet side end surface from a direction perpendicular to the inlet side end surface while applying a suction force to the outlet side end surface to suck the ejected aerosol from the inlet side end surface, wherein the ejection of the aerosol is carried out using an aerosol generator including a drive gas flow path for flowing a pressurized drive gas, a supply port provided on the way of the drive gas flow path and capable of sucking the ceramic particles from an outer peripheral side of the drive gas flow path toward an inside of the drive gas flow path, and a nozzle attached to a tip of the drive gas flow path and capable of ejecting the aerosol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SATO, Shuji UEDA, Yuichi TAJIMA, Seiya NAKANO, Ken ITAZU, Koichi SENDO, Yutaka ISHII
  • Publication number: 20220314154
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including a plurality of first cells extending from an inlet side end surface to an outlet side end surface, and a plurality of second cells extending from the inlet side end surface to the outlet side end surface, with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween, wherein a porous film having a porosity higher than that of the partition walls is provided on a surface of each of the first cells, and at a cross-section orthogonal to the direction in which the first cells of the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter extend, the average thickness of the porous film in the central portion is larger than the average thickness of the porous film in the outer peripheral portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SATO, Shuji UEDA, Koichi SENDO, Yutaka ISHII, Yuichi TAJIMA, Seiya NAKANO, Ken ITAZU
  • Publication number: 20220267220
    Abstract: A porous honeycomb structure including cordierite, having a plurality of cell channels which pass through an interior of the porous honeycomb structure and are partitioned by porous partition walls, wherein the porous partition walls have a porosity of 45 to 60% as measured by a mercury intrusion method, wherein in a volume-based cumulative pore diameter distribution measured by the mercury intrusion method, the porous partition walls have a cumulative 10% pore diameter (D10) and a cumulative 50% pore diameter (D50) calculated from a small pore side, and satisfy a relationship of 0.45?(D50?D10)/D50, and 3 ?m?D50?10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsubasa AOKI, Koichi SENDO
  • Patent number: 11359528
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells and a plugging portion provided at an open end on a first end face side or a second end face side of each of the cells, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, a number per unit area of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 1400 per mm2 or more, and, in a pore diameter distribution which indicates a cumulative pore volume of the partition wall, with a log pore diameter on a horizontal axis and a log differential pore volume (cm3/g) on a vertical axis, a half-value width of a first peak that includes a maximum value of the log differential pore volume is 0.30 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sendo, Yu Torii, Shuji Ueda, Shungo Nagai
  • Publication number: 20210299603
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including a plurality of first cells and a plurality of second cells, the first cells and the second cells being alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween, wherein a ceramic porous film, in which an average film thickness T (unit: ?m) is 2 to 50 ?m, a porosity P (unit: %) is 65 to 90%, and the average film thickness T and the porosity P satisfy a relational expression of 0.36T+60?P?0.75T+72, is formed on a surface of each of the first cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi SENDO
  • Publication number: 20210301695
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure filter including a step of preparing a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure having a plurality of first cells and a plurality of second cells that are alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a porous partition wall interposed therebetween; a step of adhering ceramic particles containing 50% by mass or more in total of one or two selected from SiC and SiN to a surface of the first cells; and a step of performing a heat-oxidation treatment on the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure in which the ceramic particles are adhered to the surface of the first cells to form a porous film comprised of the ceramic particles having an oxide film thereon so as to satisfy: (1) 0.05?T?0.5; (2) 0.05?T/D50; and (3) 4?{(W1?W0)/W0×100}/D50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi SENDO
  • Publication number: 20210268422
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed, surrounding a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from a first end face to a second end face; and a plugging portion provided at an open end on the first end face side or the second end face side of each of the cells, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, an average pore diameter of the partition wall is 20 to 30 ?m, an average equivalent circle diameter of pores existing at a surface of the partition wall and having equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 18 to 30 ?m, and a number per unit area of pores existing at a surface of the partition wall and having equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 400 per mm2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Yu TORII, Shuji UEDA, Shungo NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20210268688
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a honeycomb filter includes a kneaded material preparation process, a forming process, and a firing process, wherein the cordierite forming raw material contains porous silica as an inorganic pore former, in a cumulative particle size distribution of the cordierite forming raw material, particle diameters (?m) of 10% by volume, 50% by volume, and 90% by volume of the total volume from a small diameter side, are denoted by D(a) 10, D(a) 50 and D(a) 90, respectively, and a particle diameter (?m) of 50% by volume of the total volume from the small diameter side is denoted by D(b) 50 in a cumulative particle size distribution of the organic pore former, and the cordierite forming raw material and the organic pore former satisfy given expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Yu TORII, Shuji UEDA, Shungo NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20210270162
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells which serve as fluid through channels extending from a first end face to a second end face; and a plugging portion provided at an open end on the first end face side or the second end face side of each of the cells, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, and a number per unit area of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 600 per mm2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Yu TORII, Shuji UEDA, Shungo NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20210270161
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall disposed to surround a plurality of cells and a plugging portion provided at an open end on a first end face side or a second end face side of each of the cells, wherein the partition wall is composed of a material containing cordierite as a main component thereof, a number per unit area of pores which exist at a surface of the partition wall and which have equivalent circle diameters exceeding 3.0 ?m is 1400 per mm2 or more, and, in a pore diameter distribution which indicates a cumulative pore volume of the partition wall, with a log pore diameter on a horizonal axis and a log differential pore volume (cm3/g) on a vertical axis, a half-value width of a first peak that includes a maximum value of the log differential pore volume is 0.30 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Yu TORII, Shuji UEDA, Shungo NAGAI
  • Publication number: 20210268478
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a honeycomb filter includes a kneaded material preparation process, a forming process and a firing process, wherein the cordierite forming raw material contains at least one of porous silica and fused silica, particle diameters (?m) of 10% by volume, 50% by volume and 90% by volume, from a small diameter side, are denoted by D(a) 10, D(a) 50 and D(a) 90 in a cumulative particle size distribution of the cordierite forming raw material, and a particle diameter (?m) of 50% by volume from a small diameter side is denoted by D(b) 50 in a cumulative particle size distribution of the organic pore former, D(b) 50 is 40 ?m or less, and a cordierite forming raw material and an organic pore former satisfy given expressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Yu TORII, Shungo NAGAI, Shuji UEDA
  • Patent number: 9346003
    Abstract: There is provided a honeycomb structure 100 comprising partition walls 1 separating and forming a plurality of cells 2 functioning as fluid passages. The partition walls 1 are made of cordierite, and, when an average pore size of the partition walls 1 is x (?m) while a porosity of the partition walls 1 is y (%), a relation of x and y is y??8.33x+86.66 and satisfies 0.5?x?5 and 35?y?70. The honeycomb structure 100 can improve thermal shock resistance without sacrificing any of light-off performance, catalyst coatability, and strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suenobu, Koichi Sendo, Takahiko Nakatani, Takaya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9174880
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure onto which a large amount of catalyst can be carried while suppressing an increase in pressure drop. In a honeycomb structure comprising porous partition walls by which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are partitioned and in which a plurality of pores are formed. In each of the partition walls, pores having pore diameters larger than a thickness of the partition wall in a section thereof which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells are formed so as to occupy 4 to 11% of the total volume of the pores formed in the partition walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sendo, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Shogo Hirose
  • Patent number: 9091197
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes porous partition walls arranged to form a plurality of cells which become through channels of a fluid, porosities of the partition walls are from 45 to 70%, a pore diameter distribution of the partition walls is measured by mercury porosimetry, the pore diameter distribution indicates a bimodal distribution, in the bimodal distribution, a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a small pore side distribution is from 1 to 10 ?m, and a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a large pore side distribution exceeds 10 ?m, and a ratio between a pore volume of the small pores and a pore volume of the large pores is in a range of 1:7 to 1:1 in the honeycomb structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Yukio Miyairi, Eriko Kodama, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Koichi Sendo, Yusuke Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140167304
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure onto which a large amount of catalyst can be carried while suppressing an increase in pressure drop. In a honeycomb structure comprising porous partition walls by which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are partitioned and in which a plurality of pores are formed. In each of the partition walls, pores having pore diameters larger than a thickness of the partition wall in a section thereof which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells are formed so as to occupy 4 to 11% of the total volume of the pores formed in the partition walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Hiroyuki SUENOBU, Shogo HIROSE