Patents by Inventor Makoto Noguchi

Makoto Noguchi 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: 11927561
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid electrolyte comprised of partially stabilized zirconia, and a gas sensor including the solid electrolyte. The partially stabilized zirconia includes crystal particles, the crystal particles include at least stabilizer low-concentration phase particles, and the partially stabilized zirconia further includes voids. Among the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles, the presence rate of the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles where each distance from a void is 5 ?m or less is 65 volume percent or more. The stabilizer low-concentration phase particles include specific stabilizer low-concentration phase particles each having a distance of 5 ?m or less from an adjacent void in the voids, a presence rate of the specific stabilizer low-concentration phase particles having 65 volume percent or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Noguchi, Satoshi Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11656196
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes partially stabilized zirconia in which a stabilizer forms a solid solution in zirconia. The partially stabilized zirconia includes, as crystal particles that configure the partially stabilized zirconia, stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which concentration of the stabilizer at a particle center is less than 4.7 mol % and stabilizer high-concentration phase particles of which the concentration of the stabilizer at the particle center is equal to or greater than 4.7 mol %. The partially stabilized zirconia includes an adjacent particle portion in which two or more particles of the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which an average particle size is greater than 0.1 ?m are adjacent. An abundance ratio of the stabilizer high-concentration phase particles on a cross-section of the solid electrolyte is equal to or greater than 70% in terms of area ratio relative to all crystal particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Suzuki, Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Makoto Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11643365
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid electrolyte including partially stabilized zirconia, a producing method thereof, and a gas sensor including a solid electrolyte. The partially stabilized zirconia includes crystal particles, the crystal particles include mixed phase particles each having a high-concentration phase and a low-concentration phase, the high-concentration phase being defined such that a concentration of the stabilizer is 4.7 mol % or more, the low-concentration phase being defined as a concentration of the stabilizer is less than 4.7 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Satoshi Suzuki, Makoto Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230086938
    Abstract: A flame-retardant rubber composition is provided which is excellent in flame retardancy and rubber properties and reduces environmental load. The flame-retardant rubber composition comprises an ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer, a hydrated metal oxide, a silane coupling agent, a plasticizer, and a cross-linking agent, wherein a carbon number of the ?-olefin of the ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer is three and more, and 180 to 350 parts by mass of the hydrated metal oxide and 10 to 60 parts by mass of the plasticizer are included per 100 parts by mass of the ethylene/?-olefin/non-conjugated diene copolymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro SUZUKI, Makoto NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11601582
    Abstract: To appropriately prevent an image with disadvantageous or inappropriate imaged content from being transmitted when such imaged content is generated in a use case such as real-time distribution of a captured image, and to prevent mistrust of a viewer due to malfunction or the like. Therefore, a transmission unit is caused to execute transmission of a first image that is delayed by a delay processing unit. If a switching trigger is detected during this time, the image that the transmission unit is caused to transmit is switched from a first image to a second image that is reproduced by a reproduction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Nogami, Makoto Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11592418
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes partially stabilized zirconia in which a stabilizer forms a solid solution in zirconia. The partially stabilized zirconia includes at least monoclinic phase particles and cubic phase particles as crystal particles that configure the partially stabilized zirconia, and an abundance ratio of the monoclinic phase particle is 5 to 25% by volume. The partially stabilized zirconia includes stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which concentration of the stabilizer at a particle center is equal to or less than 1 mol %, as the crystal particles. The stabilizer low-concentration phase particles have a particle-size distribution of number frequency thereof having a peak at which an average particle size is 0.6 to 1.0 ?m, and a particle size at 10% of a cumulative number is 0.5 ?m or greater, and of the overall low-concentration phase particles, 50% by volume or greater belong to the peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Yoshida, Satoshi Suzuki, Makoto Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20230027517
    Abstract: A rubber composition is provided that contains an ethylene-butene-diene terpolymer, silica having a CTAB specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more and 150 m2/g or less, a silane coupling agent, and a crosslinking agent, in which a content of the silica per 100 parts by weight of the ethylene-butene-diene terpolymer is 25 parts by weight or more and 90 parts by weight or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Akihiro SUZUKI, Makoto NOGUCHI, Hiromichi KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11553155
    Abstract: Reduction of recorded noise is achieved at the time of imaging in an environment of generation of noticeable noise while securing user convenience. A communication controller includes a wireless communication unit that performs first wireless communication using a first wireless communication method, and second wireless communication using a second wireless communication method, and a control unit that detects a volume of a voice, and changes a wireless output of the first wireless communication on the basis of the detected volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomonori Sato, Makoto Noguchi, Kazuhiko Ozawa
  • Publication number: 20220390410
    Abstract: A limiting current-type gas sensor element including a plurality of stacked ceramic layers and configured to output a limiting current value which depends on a concentration of a specific gas in a gas to be measured when a certain voltage is applied. The gas sensor element includes a solid electrolyte member having oxygen ion conductivity; a heater that heats the solid electrolyte member; a measurement electrode and a reference electrode provided on the solid electrolyte member; a chamber facing the measurement electrode and into which the gas to be measured is introduced; a gas inlet located to a tip side of the chamber in a longitudinal direction; and a diffusion resistance part provided in the gas inlet. A heating center of the heater is located further to the tip side than an electrode center of the measurement electrode is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tomofumi FUJII, Makoto NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220373504
    Abstract: A laminated gas sensor element is provided by laminating a plurality of ceramic layers. The gas sensor element includes: a solid electrolyte body having oxygen ion conductivity; a measurement electrode provided on a first principal surface of the solid electrolyte body; a reference electrode provided on a second principal surface of the solid electrolyte body; a chamber facing the measurement electrode and into which a measured gas is introduced; and a heater heating the solid electrolyte body. The chamber comprises at least one projecting corner portion, the at least one projecting corner portion projecting, on a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the gas sensor element, in a width direction perpendicular to both of the longitudinal direction and a laminating direction. A tip of the projecting corner portion is disposed on a side closer to the heater than a center of the chamber in the laminating direction is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kei SUGIURA, Makoto NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11505922
    Abstract: The working machine includes a traveling device, a traveling motor, a hydraulic pump including a swashplate, a prime mover to drive the hydraulic pump, a first servo-cylinder to set an angle of the swashplate, a charge pump to supply pilot fluid to the first servo-cylinder, a switching valve shiftable between a traveling position to supply the pilot fluid from the charge pump to the first servo-cylinder and a neutral position to stop the pilot fluid supply to the first servo-cylinder, a switching operation member operable to select either a traveling mode or a neutral mode, and a controller to shift the switching valve between the traveling position and the neutral position. The controller holds the switching valve at the neutral position after the switching operation member is operated to select the traveling mode until a rotation speed of the prime mover becomes not less than a first predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki Nishimoto, Teruhiko Iwamoto, Tsutomu Aizawa, Makoto Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11289743
    Abstract: A battery module includes: a battery cell unit including a plurality of battery cells connected together in series or series-parallel; a cell monitoring unit configured to monitor temperatures and voltages of the battery cells; and a plurality of overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of n systems (n: an integer greater than or equal to 2). The overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units of the n systems are configured to independently detect an overtemperature or an overvoltage of the battery cells as an abnormal state, and to mutually notify one another of results of the detection. Each of the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting units is configured to, upon being notified that the abnormal state is detected from another overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit of another system in the battery module, operate on the assumption that the overtemperature/overvoltage detecting unit detects the abnormal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuto Kuroda, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Norihiro Kaneko, Ryo Okabe, Yusuke Kikuchi, Yosuke Saeki, Makoto Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11286841
    Abstract: A prime mover includes an engine, a fan to generate a cooling airflow around the engine, an air-intake tube to supply outside air to the engine, a connection tube to supply, to the air-intake tube, a blow-by gas generated in the engine, and a wind shielding member to shield the connection tube from the cooling airflow, the wind shielding member being arranged around the connection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Takano, Makoto Noguchi, Tetsuji Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20220018094
    Abstract: The working machine includes a traveling device, a traveling motor, a hydraulic pump including a swashplate, a prime mover to drive the hydraulic pump, a first servo-cylinder to set an angle of the swashplate, a charge pump to supply pilot fluid to the first servo-cylinder, a switching valve shiftable between a traveling position to supply the pilot fluid from the charge pump to the first servo-cylinder and a neutral position to stop the pilot fluid supply to the first servo-cylinder, a switching operation member operable to select either a traveling mode or a neutral mode, and a controller to shift the switching valve between the traveling position and the neutral position. The controller holds the switching valve at the neutral position after the switching operation member is operated to select the traveling mode until a rotation speed of the prime mover becomes not less than a first predetermined rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuki NISHIMOTO, Teruhiko IWAMOTO, Tsutomu AIZAWA, Makoto NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20210281899
    Abstract: To appropriately prevent an image with disadvantageous or inappropriate imaged content from being transmitted when such imaged content is generated in a use case such as real-time distribution of a captured image, and to prevent mistrust of a viewer due to malfunction or the like. Therefore, a transmission unit is caused to execute transmission of a first image that is delayed by a delay processing unit. If a switching trigger is detected during this time, the image that the transmission unit is caused to transmit is switched from a first image to a second image that is reproduced by a reproduction unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUKI NOGAMI, MAKOTO NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 10865692
    Abstract: A cooling control system for a working machine includes a fan, a housing to which the fan is attached, a prime mover having an output shall, a rotor to be rotated by a rotating power of the output shaft and to be rotated with the housing by a fluid introduced to a gap formed between the housing and the rotor, a fluid setting circuit to set an introduction amount of the fluid introduced to the gap, and a control device to control the fluid setting circuit to control the fan. The control device includes a setting circuit to set a target rotation speed of the fan based on a responsiveness of an actual rotation speed of the fan at time of changing of the target rotation speed of the fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Kinugawa, Nozomu Minagawa, Hiroshi Tatsumi, Keisuke Miura, Makoto Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10790553
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a wiring diagnostic apparatus of embodiments includes a counter, an acquirer, and an abnormality determiner. The counter counts the number of battery modules connected to a plurality of first communication lines to which a plurality of battery modules are connected to form a communication channel for each of the first communication lines. The acquirer acquires identification information for identifying a battery module connected to a corresponding second communication line among battery modules connected to a plurality of second communication lines each forming a communication channel with a first communication line via the second communication line. The abnormality determiner determines an abnormality in a wiring relationship of the first communication line or the second communication line on the basis of the number of battery modules counted by the counter and identification information acquired by the acquirer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Okabe, Shinichiro Kosugi, Masahiro Sekino, Norihiro Kaneko, Yusuke Kikuchi, Kazuto Kuroda, Makoto Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20200256822
    Abstract: A solid electrolyte includes partially stabilized zirconia in which a stabilizer forms a solid solution in zirconia. The partially stabilized zirconia includes, as crystal particles that configure the partially stabilized zirconia, stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which concentration of the stabilizer at a particle center is less than 4.7 mol % and stabilizer high-concentration phase particles of which the concentration of the stabilizer at the particle center is equal to or greater than 4.7 mol %. The partially stabilized zirconia includes an adjacent particle portion in which two or more particles of the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles of which an average particle size is greater than 0.1 ?m are adjacent. An abundance ratio of the stabilizer high-concentration phase particles on a cross-section of the solid electrolyte is equal to or greater than 70% in terms of area ratio relative to all crystal particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi SUZUKI, Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA, Makoto NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200256823
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid electrolyte comprised of partially stabilized zirconia, and a gas sensor including the solid electrolyte. The partially stabilized zirconia includes crystal particles, the crystal particles include at least stabilizer low-concentration phase particles, and the partially stabilized zirconia further includes voids. Among the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles, the presence rate of the stabilizer low-concentration phase particles where each distance from a void is 5 ?m or less is 65 volume percent or more. The stabilizer low-concentration phase particles include specific stabilizer low-concentration phase particles each having a distance of 5 ?m or less from an adjacent void in the voids, a presence rate of the specific stabilizer low-concentration phase particles having 65 volume percent or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Makoto NOGUCHI, Satoshi SUZUKI, Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200255340
    Abstract: The invention relates to a solid electrolyte including partially stabilized zirconia, a producing method thereof, and a gas sensor including a solid electrolyte. The partially stabilized zirconia includes crystal particles, the crystal particles include mixed phase particles each having a high-concentration phase and a low-concentration phase, the high-concentration phase being defined such that a concentration of the stabilizer is 4.7 mol % or more, the low-concentration phase being defined as a concentration of the stabilizer is less than 4.7 mol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro YOSHIDA, Satoshi SUZUKI, Makoto NOGUCHI