Patents by Inventor Masafumi Kunieda

Masafumi Kunieda 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: 20150273446
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb structure which is suppressed in the occurrence of cracks and hydration degradation, while maintaining excellent NOx removal performance of SAPO. A honeycomb structure having a honeycomb unit that comprises two zeolite species and an inorganic binder, and that has a plurality of through holes arranged side by side with a partition wall therebetween to be extended in the longitudinal direction of the unit. This honeycomb structure is characterized in that one of the two zeolite species is silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) having a composition ratio Si/(Si+Al+P) of 0.1-0.25, and the other is aluminosilicate (CHA) having a composition ratio Si/Al of 2-10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Serika Murakoshi
  • Patent number: 8992847
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit has a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The partition walls have a thickness of approximately 0.1 mm to approximately 0.4 mm. The honeycomb unit is manufactured by molding raw material paste by extrusion molding and thereafter by firing the molded raw material paste. The raw material paste contains zeolite and an inorganic binder. A specific surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 500 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 800 m2/g. An external surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 40 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 80 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yosuke Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20150087499
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit has a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The partition walls have a thickness of approximately 0.1 mm to approximately 0.4 mm. The honeycomb unit is manufactured by molding raw material paste by extrusion molding and thereafter by firing the molded raw material paste. The raw material paste contains zeolite and an inorganic binder. A specific surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 500 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 800 m2/g. An external surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 40 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 80 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUNIEDA, Yosuke MATSUKAWA
  • Patent number: 8961886
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit having a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and a noble metal catalyst. The zeolite is ion-exchanged with Cu and/or Fe to reduce NOx on the zeolite by providing ammonia or its precursor. The noble metal catalyst is supported only in a region of the honeycomb unit. The region extends from one end portion of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction over approximately 1.5% or more to approximately 20% or less of an overall length of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction. The region is provided on a downstream side of the honeycomb unit in a direction in which an exhaust gas is configured to flow through the honeycomb unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Ken Yoshimura, Toshiyuki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8932532
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit having a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit is manufactured by molding raw material paste by extrusion molding and thereafter by firing the molded raw material paste. The raw material paste contains zeolite obtained by ion-exchange with iron ions and an inorganic binder. A specific surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 500 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 800 m2/g. An external surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 40 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 80 m2/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yosuke Matsukawa
  • Patent number: 8808633
    Abstract: A silico-alumino phosphate includes Si, Al, and P. A ratio of an amount of substance of Si to a sum of an amount of substance of Al and an amount of substance of P is approximately 0.22 or more and approximately 0.33 or less. An acid point is approximately 1.2 mmol/g or more. A honeycomb structural body includes a honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes the silico-alumino phosphate and an inorganic binder. The honeycomb unit has a plurality of through-holes divided by a plurality of partition walls and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. An exhaust gas conversion apparatus includes the honeycomb structural body, a holding sealing member and a metal pipe. The holding sealing member is provided at an outer peripheral portion of the honeycomb structural body. The honeycomb structural body and the holding sealing member are installed in the metal pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yosuke Matsukawa, Takunari Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140171292
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit having a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls extending along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and a noble metal catalyst. The zeolite is ion-exchanged with Cu and/or Fe to reduce NOx on the zeolite by providing ammonia or its precursor. The noble metal catalyst is supported only in a region of the honeycomb unit. The region extends from one end portion of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction over approximately 1.5% or more to approximately 20% or less of an overall length of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction. The region is provided on a downstream side of the honeycomb unit in a direction in which an exhaust gas is configured to flow through the honeycomb unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUNIEDA, Ken YOSHIMURA, Toshiyuki MIYASHITA
  • Publication number: 20140147673
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a honeycomb structure that has excellent NOx purification performance and can suppress the breakage of a honeycomb unit due to the adsorption or desorption of water, a method for manufacturing the honeycomb structure, and an exhaust gas purifying apparatus including the honeycomb structure. In addition, the honeycomb structure of the invention includes a honeycomb unit provided with a plurality of through holes arrayed in a longitudinal direction with a partition wall therebetween, in which the honeycomb unit is produced by extruding and firing raw material paste containing silicoaluminophosphate particles and an inorganic binder, and the silicoaluminophosphate particles have a ratio of an amount of Si to a sum of amounts of Al and P in a range of 0.16 to 0.33, a specific surface area in a range of 200 m2/g to 400 m2/g, and an average diameter of original silicoaluminophosphate particles in a range of 2.0 ?m to 6.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yoshitoyo Nishio
  • Patent number: 8691157
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit. The at least one honeycomb unit has a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes zeolite, an inorganic binder, and a noble metal catalyst. The noble metal catalyst is supported in a region of the honeycomb unit. The region extends from one end portion of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction over approximately 1.5% or more to approximately 20% or less of an overall length of the honeycomb unit in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Ken Yoshimura, Toshiyuki Miyashita
  • Patent number: 8685331
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes at least one honeycomb unit including a ? type zeolite, a phosphate group zeolite, and an inorganic binder and having a plurality of through holes divided by partition walls and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The ? type zeolite includes secondary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.5 ?m or more and approximately 5 ?m or less. The phosphate group zeolite includes primary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.5 ?m or more and approximately 5 ?m or less. A ratio of a mass of the phosphate group zeolite with respect to a total mass of the ? type zeolite and the phosphate group zeolite is approximately 5% or more and approximately 35% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yuki Fujita, Hiroki Sato
  • Patent number: 8609031
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit including zeolite, an inorganic binder, and cell walls. The cell walls extend from a first end face to a second end face to define cells along a longitudinal direction of the at least one honeycomb unit. Each of the cell walls includes a center part in the longitudinal direction and a first end part adjacent to the first end face. The first end part has a thickness larger than a thickness of the center part, and/or the first end part has a porosity smaller than a porosity of the center part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Patent number: 8551412
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes plural cells, inorganic particles, and at least one of a flake substance, a tetrapod-shaped substance, and a three-dimensional needle-shaped substance. The plural cells extend from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb structure along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb structure. The plural cells are defined by cell walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sato, Masafumi Kunieda, Ikuhito Teshima, Yuki Fujita
  • Patent number: 8480780
    Abstract: A honeycomb filter includes a ceramic laminated body including columnar porous ceramic members and an adhesive layer combining the columnar porous ceramic members with one another. The columnar porous ceramic members each have a partition wall and through holes, the through holes extend in parallel with one another in a length direction of the columnar porous ceramic members, the partition wall separates the through holes and filters particulates in an exhaust gas, and the adhesive layer includes an inorganic binder, an inorganic fiber, inorganic particles and an inorganic balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kudo, Masafumi Kunieda
  • Patent number: 8394347
    Abstract: An exhaust gas conversion system includes an oxide catalyst, a filter, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst and an ammonia supplying device. The filter has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The oxide catalyst, the filter and the selective catalytic reduction catalyst are sequentially arranged in a direction in which an exhaust gas flows. A ratio of an area of a cross section of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst with respect to an area of a cross section of the filter perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the filter is approximately 0.55 or more and approximately 0.90 or less. The area of the cross section of the filter is approximately 300 cm2 or more and approximately 1000 cm2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Shigeaki Goto
  • Patent number: 8357333
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes a honeycomb unit having a plurality of through holes defined by cell walls and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit includes an inorganic binder, a first zeolite, and second zeolite. The first zeolite includes at least one of a ? type zeolite and a ZSM-5 type zeolite, and primary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.01 ?m or more and approximately 0.1 ?m or less. The second zeolite includes a phosphate group zeolite and primary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.5 ?m or more and approximately 5 ?m or less. A ratio between a mass of the first zeolite and a total mass of the first and second zeolites is approximately 0.1 or more and approximately 0.5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yuki Fujita, Hiroki Sato
  • Patent number: 8334230
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes at least one honeycomb unit which includes walls. The walls have a thickness of from about 0.10 mm to about 0.50 mm and extend along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb structure to define through-holes. The honeycomb structure has a center area inside a boundary line passing through positions located at substantially a half of a length from a center of the honeycomb structure to a periphery of the honeycomb structure in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The honeycomb structure has a peripheral area outside the boundary line. A thickness of the walls located in the peripheral area is larger than a thickness of the walls located in the center area. A first opening ratio in the center area in the cross section is larger than a second opening ratio in the peripheral area in the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushige Ohno, Masafumi Kunieda, Takahiko Ido
  • Publication number: 20120252658
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit containing zeolite and an inorganic binder and having a plurality of cell walls to define a plurality of cells extending from a first end face to a second end face of the honeycomb unit along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit is manufactured by molding and firing raw material paste containing zeolite particles and the inorganic binder. The zeolite particles have a D50 of approximately 3.6 ?m or more. An average pore size of the cell walls is more than or equal to approximately 0.10 ?m and less than or equal to approximately 0.50 ?m. An average particle size of the cell walls is more than or equal to approximately 3.6 ?m and less than or equal to approximately 7.0 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUNIEDA, Yosuke Matsukawa
  • Publication number: 20120251400
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes at least one honeycomb unit including a ? type zeolite, a phosphate group zeolite, and an inorganic binder and having a plurality of through holes divided by partition walls and arranged in a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The ? type zeolite includes secondary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.5 ?m or more and approximately 5 ?m or less. The phosphate group zeolite includes primary particles having an average particle diameter of approximately 0.5 ?m or more and approximately 5 ?m or less. A ratio of a mass of the phosphate group zeolite with respect to a total mass of the ? type zeolite and the phosphate group zeolite is approximately 5% or more and approximately 35% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUNIEDA, Yuki FUJITA, Hiroki SATO
  • Publication number: 20120251419
    Abstract: An exhaust gas conversion system includes an oxide catalyst, a filter, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst and an ammonia supplying device. The filter has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The selective catalytic reduction catalyst has a honeycomb structural body including a honeycomb unit. The oxide catalyst, the filter and the selective catalytic reduction catalyst are sequentially arranged in a direction in which an exhaust gas flows. A ratio of an area of a cross section of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the selective catalytic reduction catalyst with respect to an area of a cross section of the filter perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the filter is approximately 0.55 or more and approximately 0.90 or less. The area of the cross section of the filter is approximately 300 cm2 or more and approximately 1000 cm2 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi KUNIEDA, Shigeaki Goto
  • Publication number: 20120251401
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb unit having a plurality of through holes defined by partition walls along a longitudinal direction of the honeycomb unit. The honeycomb unit is manufactured by molding raw material paste by extrusion molding and thereafter by firing the molded raw material paste. The raw material paste contains zeolite obtained by ion-exchange with iron ions and an inorganic binder. A specific surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 500 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 800 m2/g. An external surface area of the zeolite is more than or equal to approximately 40 m2/g and less than or equal to approximately 80 m2/g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi Kunieda, Yosuke Matsukawa