Patents by Inventor Masahiro Uchida

Masahiro Uchida 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: 12044165
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor including a combustion chamber, which is connected to the ammonia tank; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst arranged in a bleed flow passage connected to the compressor, between the compressor and the combustor in the intake flow passage, or in a space in the combustor, which brings the combustion chamber and the intake flow passage into communication with each other, the ammonia cracking catalyst being connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Masahiro Uchida
  • Publication number: 20240243401
    Abstract: The manufacture method disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing an electrical storage device, including a step of preparing an outer case in which a peripheral part of an opening is a flat surface, and a lid assembly obtained by integral molding of a lid, a terminal member and an insulating member, a step of attaching the lid assembly to the opening of the outer case, and a step of irradiating the boundary of the peripheral part and an outer edge part with laser light. The lid assembly is placed so that an inclined part will become thinner from the outer surface toward the boundary with the outer case, and the outer surface of the lid is placed at a higher place than the peripheral part of the opening, and the inner surface of the lid is placed at a lower place than the peripheral part of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Yuki SATO, Yozo UCHIDA, Tsuyoshi EHARA, Syoichi TSUCHIYA, Masataka ASAI, Nozomi TATEYAMA, Tsuyoshi ASANO, Masahiro UCHIMURA, Shigeru MATSUMOTO, Daisuke SUZUKI, Yuki NAGAE
  • Publication number: 20240212888
    Abstract: A chip resistor module includes a wiring board, a plurality of chip resistors, and a pair of terminal electrodes. The wiring board includes an insulating substrate and an electrical wire provided on the insulating substrate. The plurality of chip resistors are bonded to the electrical wire. The pair of terminal electrodes is electrically connected to the electrical wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240117763
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes: a combustor; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; an ammonia tank; and a hydrogen generator-separator having an ammonia supply port connected to the ammonia tank and a hydrogen discharge port connected to the combustor, the hydrogen generator-separator being arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage or on a downstream side of the compressor in the intake flow passage, the hydrogen generator-separator including an ammonia cracking catalyst and a hydrogen separation membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Toshiro FUJIMORI, Wonyoung CHOI, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240035415
    Abstract: A combustion device includes: a liner including an opening at an end, the liner inside of which is formed with a combustion chamber; an air flow path communicating with the opening of the liner; an ammonia supply pipe inserted through the opening of the liner; and a starting fuel supply pipe disposed between the ammonia supply pipe and the air flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240026814
    Abstract: A combustion device includes: an ammonia tank; a combustor connected to the ammonia tank; an air supply source; and an ammonia autothermal cracking device having inlets connected to the ammonia tank and the air supply source and an outlet connected to the combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240019124
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor connected to the ammonia tank; an exhaust flow passage connected to the combustor; a turbine provided in the exhaust flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst, which is arranged on a downstream side of the turbine in the exhaust flow passage, and is connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240011435
    Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor including a combustion chamber, which is connected to the ammonia tank; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst arranged in a bleed flow passage connected to the compressor, between the compressor and the combustor in the intake flow passage, or in a space in the combustor, which brings the combustion chamber and the intake flow passage into communication with each other, the ammonia cracking catalyst being connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20230417414
    Abstract: A combustion device includes: a combustion chamber; a plurality of hydrogen injection holes facing inside of the combustion chamber; a first air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially outer side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes; a second air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially inner side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes, the first and second air injection holes being annular; first swirling blades provided in the first air injection hole and inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to a combustion-chamber-side axial direction; and second swirling blades provided in the second air injection hole and inclined to the same side as the first swirling blades in the circumferential direction with respect to the combustion-chamber-side axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro ITO, Masahiro UCHIDA
  • Patent number: 11309493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations comprising at least one organic semiconductor and at least one organic solvent, characterized in that the formulation contains less than 10,000 particles per liter formulation having an average size in the range from 0.1 to 20 ?m, to their use for the preparation of electronic devices, to methods for preparing electronic devices using the formulations of the present invention, and to electronic devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: MERCK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Edgar Boehm, Anja Gerhard, Dietmar Kunkel, Volker Hilarius, Masahiro Uchida, Takuya Sonoyama, Shuichi Takei, Koji Imamura
  • Patent number: 11300047
    Abstract: A combustion device includes an ammonia supply unit supplying primary reduction ammonia as a nitrogen oxide reducing agent into a combustor and mixing secondary reduction ammonia with combustion exhaust gas discharged from the combustor to reduce nitrogen oxide contained in the combustion exhaust gas and a controller configured to control at least one of the amount of supply of the primary reduction ammonia and the amount of mixing of the secondary reduction ammonia with the combustion exhaust gas in accordance with concentrations of residual nitrogen oxide and residual ammonia contained in the combustion exhaust gas after being discharged from the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11231176
    Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia with combustion air in a combustion chamber, and includes: a combustor liner which forms the combustion chamber; a burner which is installed at one end of the combustor liner; a deflection member which is provided on a downstream side of the combustor liner in a flow direction of a combustion gas, and is configured to deflect the flow direction of the combustion gas; and at least one ammonia injection hole which is provided between the burner and an outlet of the deflection member and is configured to supply the fuel ammonia into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11162391
    Abstract: The heat cycle facility includes: a first vaporizer that vaporizes a first liquid heating medium by combusting fuel; a first motive power generator that generates motive power by using as a drive fluid a first gas heating medium obtained at the first vaporizer; a condenser that condenses the first gas heating medium discharged from the first motive power generator by heat-exchanging the first gas heating medium for a second liquid heating medium; a circulator that pressurizes the first liquid heating medium obtained at the condenser and supplies the pressurized first liquid heating medium to the first vaporizer; a second vaporizer that produces gaseous ammonia by heat-exchanging the second liquid heating medium for liquid ammonia; and a supplier that supplies the liquid ammonia to the second vaporizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shogo Onishi, Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Taku Mizutani, Masahiro Uchida, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori, Kazuo Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11156158
    Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustion chamber using compressed combustion air, and includes a combustion air cooling unit which is configured to cool the combustion air by heat exchange with the fuel ammonia during or before a compression process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11156157
    Abstract: The combustion device includes: a compressor that compresses combustion air; a combustor that combusts the compressed combustion air and fuel ammonia; and an ammonia injector that injects the fuel ammonia into the combustion air during or before compression of the combustion air by the compressor and cools the combustion air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11141695
    Abstract: A gas turbine denitrifies combustion gas by using a denitrification catalyst and ammonia as a reducing agent, the gas turbine includes: a turbine provided with turbine blades, the turbine blades being exposed to the combustion gas reaching a temperature higher than an average value in a temperature distribution of the combustion gas, and a compressor configured to supply the turbine blades with a cooling air and the ammonia, wherein the gas turbine is configured to lower the temperature of the turbine blades by supplying the turbine blades with the ammonia and the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 11104476
    Abstract: A package is formed of a die cut paperboard that includes a cutout that is covered by a polymer sheet. The sheet holds an item, such as by stretching, against the bottom side of the unpadded paperboard, which is chosen according to its ability to be transported on metal roller conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Zhang, Ryo Igarashi, Yuichi Kosaka, Masahiro Uchida, Susumu Yamasaki, Shigekazu Ishiguro, Sayaka Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 11053845
    Abstract: A combustion device burns fuel ammonia in a combustor using combustion air, and includes a catalyst reduction unit which is configured to reduce nitrogen oxides in a combustion exhaust gas supplied from the combustor, in which at least a part of the fuel ammonia is supplied to the catalyst reduction unit as a reducing agent for the nitrogen oxides in the combustion exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Patent number: 10995662
    Abstract: The combustion device includes: a combustion chamber in which fuel is combusted using combustion air; and a reducing agent injector that injects a reducing agent toward flames in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Ito, Soichiro Kato, Masahiro Uchida, Shogo Onishi, Taku Mizutani, Tsukasa Saitou, Toshiro Fujimori
  • Publication number: 20210119129
    Abstract: The present invention relates to formulations comprising at least one organic semiconductor and at least one organic solvent, characterized in that the formulation contains less than 10,000 particles per liter formulation having an average size in the range from 0.1 to 20 ?m, to their use for the preparation of electronic devices, to methods for preparing electronic devices using the formulations of the present invention, and to electronic devices prepared from such methods and formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Edgar BOEHM, Anja GERHARD, Dietmar KUNKEL, Volker HILARIUS, Masahiro UCHIDA, Takuya SONOYAMA, Shuichi TAKEI, Koji IMAMURA