Patents by Inventor Masahiro Kimura

Masahiro Kimura 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: 9808767
    Abstract: A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a water collection tube; and a plurality of separation membrane leaves stacked on each other and wound around the water collection tube, each of the separation membrane leaves includes one or more separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and is configured so that the feed-side faces face each other, and a sheet having a plurality of projections fixed thereto is provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membrane leaves stacked on each other. Regarding a height of the projections, a ratio of the maximum height to the minimum height is from 1.10 to 1.50, and a variation coefficient of the height is from 0.02 to 0.15, and an impregnation ratio of the projections into the sheet is from 10% to 100%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshie Marutani, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, Shuji Furuno, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9802160
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element which are capable of exhibiting good water production performance and excellent in handleability and process passage. A separation membrane of the present invention is a separation membrane including: a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member adhered to the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, in which the permeate-side channel member includes a composition containing at least a high-crystalline polypropylene (A) and satisfies the following requirements (a) and (b): (a) a content of the high-crystalline polypropylene (A) in the composition is from 40 to 95% by weight; and (b) the permeate-side channel member has a melting endothermic energy amount (?H) of from 20 to 70 J/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamada, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Yoshie Marutani, Shunsuke Tabayashi, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura, Yuji Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170271177
    Abstract: In a substrate processing apparatus, the inner peripheral edge of a second-cup canopy part radially opposes an outer peripheral surface of an opposing-member side wall part. This suppresses dispersion of processing liquids to above a cup part. A second-cup gap distance that is a radial distance between the outer peripheral surface of the opposing-member side wall part and the inner peripheral edge of the second-cup canopy part is greater than a holder gap distance that is a radial distance between the inner peripheral surface of the opposing-member side wall part and the outer peripheral surface of the substrate holder. This prevents or suppresses the possibility that, when a second processing liquid dispersed from a substrate is received by a second cup, the second processing liquid may be pushed downward by a downward airflow. Accordingly, a plurality of types of processing liquids will be separately received by a plurality of cups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Noriyuki KIKUMOTO, Masahiro KIMURA, Shuichi YASUDA, Kazuhiro FUJITA
  • Patent number: 9764291
    Abstract: A spiral separation membrane element including a plurality of separation membrane pairs wound around the outer peripheral surface of a water collection pipe, wherein the plurality of separation membranes include at least two sets of separation membrane pairs in which two adjacent separation membranes are stacked such that the water supply sides of the separation membranes form opposing surfaces, and the water supply-side surfaces at the ends of separation membranes close to the water collection pipe and parallel to the lengthwise direction of the water collection pipe are sealed by a sealing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroho Hirozawa, Hiroshi Umetani, Masakazu Koiwa, Kentarou Takagi, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9754754
    Abstract: The invention in this application aims to provide a multipolar fusible link in which its lateral width can decrease while its entire height does not increase. A multipolar fusible link (100) includes: an input terminal (110); a bus bar (120) through which an electric current input from the input terminal (110) flows; and a plurality of terminals (140) connected to the bus bar (120) via fusible sections (130). By changing a shape of a lower edge (122) of the bus bar (120) to which the fusible sections (130) are connected, a width between the lower edge (122) and an upper edge (121) positioned opposite the lower edge (122) is changed in accordance with the fusible sections (130) connected to the lower edge (122). In addition, shapes of the fusible sections (130) connected to the lower edge (122) are changed so that their lateral widths decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Kawase, Masahiro Kimura, Tatsunori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9728365
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fuse, a fuse box, and a fuse device capable of preventing insertion of wrong products into the box or device and persistent electric arc. In certain aspects, the fuse includes a pair of electro-conductive terminals, a fuse element having a fusion portion provided between the electro-conductive terminals, and an insulating housing mounted so as to cover at least a part of the fusion portion and the electro-conductive terminals, wherein a notch is provided on a lower-end side of the insulating housing, the notch is located between the pair of electro-conductive terminals and at a position that does not interfere with the shape of the fusion portion provided between the pair of electro-conductive terminals, and the notch is formed in a manner that a protrusion provided in a fuse box for housing the fuse can be fitted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Pacific Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Daiji Kondo, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9724646
    Abstract: A separation membrane element includes a water collecting pipe, a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face, a feed-side channel material and permeate-side channel materials. The separation membrane main body, the feed-side channel material and the permeate-side channel materials are spirally wound around the water collecting tube. A plurality of the permeate-side channel materials are discontinuously provided on the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, along a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of the water collecting pipe. The feed-side channel material has a thickness of from 0.15 to 0.5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Masakazu Koiwa, Hiroyuki Yamada, Kentaro Takagi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170216781
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane that is usable at a high temperature and a high pressure. The solvent-resistant separation membrane of the present invention has an average pore diameter of the separation membrane surface of 0.005 to 1 ?m and includes a portion where a degree of cyclization (I1600/I2240) as measured by the total reflection infrared absorption spectroscopy is 0.5 to 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jun Okabe, Masahiro Kimura, Koji Nakatsuji, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Ryomo Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20170203262
    Abstract: Provided is a composite semipermeable membrane, comprising: a microporous support membrane which comprises a substrate and a porous support, and a polyamide separation functional layer formed on the microporous support membrane, wherein the polyamide has an irreversible heat absorption, which is measured using temperature modulated DSC, of 275 J/g or more at a temperature in the range of ?20 to 150° C. in the first heating process. Provided is a high-performance composite semipermeable membrane having high chemical durability, high water permeation and high rejection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Koji NAKATSUJI, Masahiro KIMURA, Takao SASAKI, Kiyohiko TAKAYA, Harutoki SHIMURA
  • Patent number: 9667537
    Abstract: A transport system comprises a transport apparatus, which is used to construct a transport network using MPLS-TP; and a control apparatus for establishing a path in the transport network. The transport apparatus is coupled to a transfer apparatus, which is used to construct a transfer network using a network protocol different from an MPLS-TP protocol and uses the network protocol to establish a path in the transfer network in an autonomous distributed manner. The control apparatus and the transfer apparatus use the network protocol of the transfer network to transmit/receive, via the transport apparatus, control messages for controlling the transfer network. The transport apparatus avoids notifying the transfer apparatus of the fact that the control apparatus is not in a normal state, in a case where the path established in the transport network is determined as the normal state, even the control apparatus is determined as the abnormal state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Kiyotaka Takahashi, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170144110
    Abstract: To provide a composite semipermeable membrane capable of maintaining high removal performance even after its supporting membrane has come into contact with an aqueous solution high in salt concentration. A composite semipermeable membrane including: a supporting membrane which includes a substrate and a porous supporting layer; and a separation functional layer provided on the porous supporting layer, in which a strength to peel the porous supporting layer away from the substrate is 1.1 N/25 mm or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Harutoki SHIMURA, Jun OKABE, Kiyohiko TAKAYA, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170136422
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane which has practical water permeability and removing properties and has a high boron removal ratio even after contact with chlorine. A composite semipermeable membrane of the present invention is a composite semipermeable membrane including a substrate, a porous supporting layer and a separation functional layer, which are superposed in this order, in which the separation functional layer includes a crosslinked fully aromatic polyamide, and the crosslinked fully aromatic polyamide has a molar ratio (amide group content) between a total molar proportion of a polyfunctional amine and a polyfunctional aromatic acid halide and a molar proportion of an amide group of 0.86-1.20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Takafumi OGAWA, Harutoki SHIMURA, Shuji FURUNO, Kiyohiko TAKAYA, Takao SASAKI, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20170120201
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a composite semipermeable membrane which has practical water permeability and high alkali resistance. The composite semipermeable membrane of the present invention includes: a supporting membrane including a substrate and a porous supporting layer; and a separation functional layer disposed on the porous supporting layer of the supporting membrane, in which the separation functional layer includes a crosslinked fully aromatic polyamide, and when a carboxyl group/amide group molar ratio of the separation functional layer measured by a 13C solid NMR spectroscopy is expressed by x, x is 0.54 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Harutoki SHIMURA, Takafumi OGAWA, Shuji FURUNO, Kiyohiko TAKAYA, Takao SASAKI, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9616390
    Abstract: A separation membrane includes a separation membrane main body having at least a substrate and a separation function layer; and a channel material having a composition different from that of the separation membrane main body and affixed to a substrate-side surface of the separation membrane main body, wherein the channel material is discontinuous in a first direction and continuous in a second direction from one end to another end of the separation membrane main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroho Hirozawa, Masakazu Koiwa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, Yasuo Seike, Tsuyoshi Hamada, Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9604170
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device including: a tube-shaped casing; a pipe that is disposed at the downstream side of the casing, is inserted into the casing so as to extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axial direction of the casing, and is provided with a through-hole communicating with the casing; a guide member that guides the exhaust gas inside the casing to the through-hole; and an injection device that injects a reduction agent from an upstream end of the pipe into the pipe. Then, the guide member includes a turning guide member that guides the exhaust gas to the through-hole from the tangential direction of the pipe so as to generate a swirl flow inside the pipe and a protecting guide member that covers the upstream side of an injection area of the reduction agent in the axial direction of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hino Motors, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Patent number: 9597640
    Abstract: A spiral separation membrane element includes a water collection tube; a separation membrane wound around the water collection tube, having a feed-side surface and a permeate-side surface, and including a band-shaped region on at least one end of the feed-side surface in an axial direction of the water collection tube; and a channel material fused to the band-shaped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Koiwa, Kentaro Takagi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Yoshiki Okamoto, Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20170001154
    Abstract: The present invention provides a separation membrane and a separation membrane element capable of exhibiting a good water production performance even at a high temperature and also excellent handleability and quality. The separation membrane of the present invention includes a separation membrane main body having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face; and a permeate-side channel member fixed onto the permeate-side face of the separation membrane main body, and the permeate-side channel member includes polypropylene as a main component and satisfies the following requirements (a) to (c): (a) a softening point temperature is 60° C. or higher; (b) a tensile elongation in a standard state is 10% or more; and (c) a yield point stress under a wet condition at 50° C. is 2 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshie MARUTANI, Hiroyuki YAMADA, Hiroho HIROZAWA, Kentaro TAKAGI, Yoshiki OKAMOTO, Shunsuke TABAYASHI, Hiroshi UMETANI, Akira KATAYAMA, Takao SASAKI, Masahiro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9527042
    Abstract: A separation membrane for water treatment, comprising a porous layer that is obtained by a phase separation method using a solution containing a resin and at least one of either an N,N-disubstituted isobutylamide or an N-monosubstituted isobutylamide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Takagi, Masakazu Koiwa, Masahiro Kimura, Yutaro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20160327857
    Abstract: An imprint apparatus which transfers a pattern of a mold onto a substrate is provided. The imprint apparatus includes a plurality of gas supply units each supplying a gas for substituting for air in the space between an original and the substrate. A control unit of the imprint apparatus controls the gas flow rate from each gas supply unit in accordance with the area of a portion where the original and the substrate overlap in a plan view after relatively moving the original and the substrate such that a target shot region on the substrate is positioned immediately under the pattern surface of the original.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Masahiro Kimura
  • Publication number: 20160303514
    Abstract: A separation membrane element of the present invention includes: a water collection tube; and a plurality of separation membrane leaves stacked on each other and wound around the water collection tube, each of the separation membrane leaves includes one or more separation membranes each having a feed-side face and a permeate-side face and is configured so that the feed-side faces face each other, and a sheet having a plurality of projections fixed thereto is provided between the permeate-side faces of the separation membrane leaves stacked on each other. Regarding a height of the projections, a ratio of the maximum height to the minimum height is from 1.10 to 1.50, and a variation coefficient of the height is from 0.02 to 0.15, and an impregnation ratio of the projections into the sheet is from 10% to 100%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicant: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Tabayashi, Hiroho Hirozawa, Kentaro Takagi, Yoshie Marutani, Yoshiki Okamoto, Hiroyuki Yamada, Shuji Furuno, Takao Sasaki, Masahiro Kimura