Patents by Inventor Masakazu Kamura

Masakazu Kamura 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: 11884869
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material that changes the phase within a prescribed temperature range, and a cold storage tool, a logistic packaging container, and a food cold storage tool each using the latent heat storage material, and a cooling method. The latent heat storage material includes a tetrabutylammonium ion and a bromide ion constituting tetrabutylammonium bromide, a potassium ion and a nitrate ion constituting potassium nitrate, and water. The molar ratio of potassium nitrate to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 0.3 or more and 1.3 or less, and the molar ratio of water to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 22 or more and 32 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Kamura, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
  • Patent number: 11884868
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material having a melting point within a prescribed temperature range; a latent heat. The latent heat storage material includes a compound (A) represented by a formula (A), an inorganic salt (B) represented by a formula (B) and composed of a cation of an alkali metal and an anion of the same element as the anion of the quaternary alkyl salt, and water. The compound (A) is a material that forms a clathrate hydrate together with the water, the composition ratio of the compound (A) and water is a composition ratio that gives a congruent melting point of the clathrate hydrate, and the molar ratio of the inorganic salt (B) to the compound (A) is 0.1 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masakazu Kamura, Hwisim Hwang, Kyohei Sezukuri, Yuka Utsumi
  • Publication number: 20240026200
    Abstract: Provided is a latent heat storage material capable of keeping an object to be refrigerated, such as frozen food or ice cream, cold at a temperature of ?20° C. or lower for a long period of time, and of reducing power consumption required at a time of solidification. The latent heat storage material contains 5 to 21 parts by weight of ammonium chloride, 2 to 13 parts by weight of potassium chloride, 5 to 23 parts by weight of urea, and 43 to 88 parts by weight of water. The total of the ammonium chloride, the potassium chloride, the urea, and the water is 100 parts by weight, and the latent heat storage material has a main melting point in a range from ?20° C. to ?23° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: KYOHEI SEZUKURI, KATSUYA KIDO, Yusuke IKEDA, MASAKAZU KAMURA, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20230174860
    Abstract: A method of treating an aqueous solution containing quantum dots, the method includes: a dissolution liquid preparation step of dissolving a quaternary ammonium salt and a potassium salt in an aqueous solution containing quantum dots to prepare a dissolution liquid; a phase separation step of heating the dissolution liquid to separate the dissolution liquid into two phases, which are a quaternary ammonium salt phase containing a large amount of the quaternary ammonium salt and a potassium salt phase containing a large amount of the potassium salt, and also to cause the quantum dots to be included in either one of the quaternary ammonium salt phase and the potassium salt phase; and a fractionation step of separating the quaternary ammonium salt phase and the potassium salt phase by fractionation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Yusuke IKEDA, MASAKAZU KAMURA, YUKA UTSUMI, YASUSHI ASAOKA, Takahiro ADACHI
  • Publication number: 20230131756
    Abstract: The present disclosure acquires information on a cold insulator. The cold insulator includes: at least one cold storage material; a packaging unit configured to package the at least one cold storage material; one or more first temperature sensors disposed on the packaging unit; and a transmission unit disposed on the packaging unit to transmit a result of measurement performed by the one or more first temperature sensors to an external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: KEI KASAHARA, SATOSHI SHIMIZU, MASATO SASAKI, MASAYUKI NAKANO, TOMOHISA YOSHIE, HWISIM HWANG, MASAKAZU KAMURA, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20210270514
    Abstract: A cold storage pack, a method of transporting an object at low temperature, and a method of manufacturing the cold storage pack are provided in a film pack of cold storage material. The film pack of cold storage material can be propped up with on a certain side thereof as a bottom, and even when it is propped up, the uniformity of the filling density of the latent heat cold storage material is higher. The cold storage pack includes: an encasing section composed of films facing each other and filled with a latent heat storage material therein; a linear external sealing section attached to a periphery of the encasing section to prevent the latent heat storage material from leaking out; and at least one linear internal sealing section extending inwards of the encasing section and adhering internal upper and lower faces of the encasing section together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KAMURA, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, HWISIM HWANG, SATORU MOTONAMI, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20210247122
    Abstract: A cold storage pack includes: heat exchange sections arranged in a first direction and in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; and a connecting section connecting the heat exchange sections that are adjacent, wherein the heat exchange sections each include: a latent heat storage material having a melting point lower than room temperature; and a container section having an internal space containing the latent heat storage material in a liquid-tight manner, the connecting section includes: an easy cutting section that is cuttable between the heat exchange sections; a frame-shaped section surrounding the heat exchange sections; a first connecting section extending between the heat exchange sections in the first direction; and a second connecting section extending between the heat exchange sections in the second direction, and the easy cutting section is continuous at least from an outer periphery of the frame-shaped section partway through the first connecting section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: KYOHEI SEZUKURI, YUKA UTSUMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, DAISUKE SHINOZAKI
  • Publication number: 20210214599
    Abstract: There is provided a latent heat storage material that retains the cold insulation capability thereof and is still restrained from supercooling. The latent heat storage material includes: quaternary ammonium ions and first anions that together form a quaternary ammonium salt; water; and calcium carbonate, wherein the quaternary ammonium salt and the water can form a clathrate hydrate, the quaternary ammonium salt and the water have a composition ratio in which the quaternary ammonium salt and the water can at least form the clathrate hydrate, and the calcium carbonate has an addition ratio relative to a mass of an aqueous solution that is the latent heat storage material excluding the calcium carbonate, the addition ratio being higher than a solubility of the calcium carbonate in the aqueous solution at an onset temperature of melting of the aqueous solution that is the latent heat storage material excluding the calcium carbonate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: SATORU MOTONAMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, YUKA UTSUMI, KYOHEI SEZUKURI
  • Publication number: 20210130671
    Abstract: A cold storage material and a cold storage pack are provided where a single cooling medium (cold insulation pack) containing a cold storage material having a plurality of melting points can keep an object at a low temperature that is suited to a situation. The cold storage material changes phase at a prescribed temperature and contains: water; a base compound containing a quaternary ammonium salt that forms a semi-clathrate hydrate; and a supercooling inhibitor that suppresses supercooling, wherein the cold storage material has one or more melting points depending on a temperature range in which the cold storage material has been frozen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: DAISUKE SHINOZAKI, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, SATORU MOTONAMI, YUKA UTSUMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210107720
    Abstract: A heat or cold storage pack is provided that contains a latent thermal storage material that can be restored during transport to prolong a heat or cold storage function thereof and that exhibits a reduced temperature change in a phase transition thereof to reliably maintain the temperature of an object to be kept warm or cold in a temperature range in which the object should be kept. The heat storage pack is for use in a logistic packaging container to adjust the temperature of an object to be kept warm and includes: a latent thermal storage material having a difference of less than 1° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KAMURA, HWISIM HWANG, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20210062058
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material having a melting point within a prescribed temperature range; a latent heat. The latent heat storage material includes a compound (A) represented by a formula (A), an inorganic salt (B) represented by a formula (B) and composed of a cation of an alkali metal and an anion of the same element as the anion of the quaternary alkyl salt, and water. The compound (A) is a material that forms a clathrate hydrate together with the water, the composition ratio of the compound (A) and water is a composition ratio that gives a congruent melting point of the clathrate hydrate, and the molar ratio of the inorganic salt (B) to the compound (A) is 0.1 or more and 10 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KAMURA, HWISIM HWANG, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20210047549
    Abstract: Provided are a latent heat storage material that changes the phase within a prescribed temperature range, and a cold storage tool, a logistic packaging container, and a food cold storage tool each using the latent heat storage material, and a cooling method. The latent heat storage material includes a tetrabutylammonium ion and a bromide ion constituting tetrabutylammonium bromide, a potassium ion and a nitrate ion constituting potassium nitrate, and water. The molar ratio of potassium nitrate to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 0.3 or more and 1.3 or less, and the molar ratio of water to tetrabutylammonium bromide is 22 or more and 32 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KAMURA, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20210009333
    Abstract: Provided is a cold insulation tool capable of easily producing ice slurry. The cold insulation tool includes an outer casing that is provided to accommodate a tubular storage container filled with a beverage, a heat exchange unit that is detachably provided in the outer casing, and a stimulating unit that increases a surface area of at least a part of a gas-liquid interface of the beverage, in which the heat exchange unit includes a heat-storage material having a predetermined melting point, and a filling portion that has an internal space for filling with the heat-storage material liquid-tightly, and the melting point of the heat-storage material is lower than ?0.2° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: HWISIM HWANG, DAISUKE SHINOZAKI, YUKA UTSUMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, TOMOKO KASE, SATORU MOTONAMI, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, KATSUYA KIDO
  • Publication number: 20200363119
    Abstract: Provided is a cooling device capable of appropriately cooling a cold insulator and keeping the cold insulator at an appropriate temperature. The cooling device includes a cooling portion that has an inner space storing an object, a measurement means of measuring a temperature corresponding to a temperature of the object stored in the inner space, and a control means of controlling a temperature of the inner space based on a measurement result by the measurement means, in which, based on the measurement result, the control means performs control to change the temperature of the inner space from a first setting temperature that is lower than a temperature at which the object in a liquid phase starts to be solidified to a second setting temperature that is higher than the first setting temperature and lower than a melting temperature of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: DAISUKE SHINOZAKI, YUKA UTSUMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, HWISIM HWANG, TOMOKO KASE, KYOHEI SEZUKURI
  • Publication number: 20200248057
    Abstract: The present invention, in an embodiment thereof, provides a latent heat storage material containing a supercooling inhibitor that, if added to an aqueous solution of an inorganic salt including sodium chloride, restrains supercooling by unfailingly precipitating as crystals upon cooling and therefore only marginally lowers the melting point and reduces latent heat. The latent heat storage material contains: an aqueous solution of sodium chloride; and a eutectic aqueous solution of sodium chloride and disodium hydrogen phosphate in an amount that, in comparison with the eutectic aqueous solution of sodium chloride, is greater than or equal to an amount that gives a saturation concentration at 0° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: KYOHEI SEZUKURI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, SATORU MOTONAMI, YUKA UTSUMI, KATSUYA KIDO
  • Publication number: 20200231856
    Abstract: A thermal storage material changes phase at a prescribed temperature. The thermal storage material includes water, a base compound including a quaternary ammonium salt that forms a semi-clathrate hydrate; and potassium hydrogen carbonate. The potassium hydrogen carbonate is saturated at an onset temperature of solidification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: SATORU MOTONAMI, YUKA UTSUMI, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, HWISIM HWANG
  • Patent number: 10656466
    Abstract: A wavelength conversion substrate according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a first substrate having an optical transparency; and a light modulation unit provided on one surface of the first substrate and configured to modulate a spectrum of incident light in accordance with a polarization state of the incident light. The light modulation unit includes: a plurality of metallic structures periodically provided at intervals from one another on one surface of the first substrate and configured to exhibit plasmon resonance due to incident light; and a plurality of wavelength conversion units provided so that at least some wavelength conversion units are adjacent to the plurality of metallic structures and comprising a wavelength converting material configured to emit light in a wavelength band different from a wavelength band of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Murata, Masakazu Kamura, Takashi Katayama, Mitsuru Chida, Takuya Ootani, Emi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20190390921
    Abstract: Provided is a cooling device in which a latent heat storage material is at least made dormant during physical distribution to thereby cause the cooling function to last longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: MASAKAZU KAMURA, HWISIM HWANG, KYOHEI SEZUKURI, YUKA UTSUMI
  • Publication number: 20190367790
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a heat storage medium capable of maintaining the latent heat capacity even if a supercooling inhibitor is added. A heat storage medium according to an aspect of the present invention is a heat storage medium which undergoes a phase change at a predetermined temperature and contains water, a main agent made of a quaternary ammonium salt forming a semi-clathrate hydrate, a pH adjustor maintaining alkalinity, and a nucleating agent generating cations exhibiting positive hydration. The heat storage medium separates into a first liquid layer containing the main agent and a second liquid layer containing the nucleating agent in an environment with a temperature exceeding the phase change temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: SATORU MOTONAMI, YUKA UTSUMI, HWISIM HWANG, DAISUKE SHINOZAKI, MASAKAZU KAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190313818
    Abstract: There are provided a cooler container, cold tray, and red wine server in which it is possible to adjust the temperature of an outer surface on the buffer layer side of the container to a temperature that differs from the melting point of a freezing material. The cooler container adjusts temperature of an object to be cooled that includes a beverage or food product, the cooler container having at least a region with a hollow structure, the cooler container including: a thermal storage layer in the region, the thermal storage layer containing a freezing material that changes phase at a specific temperature; and at least one buffer layer in the region, the at least one buffer layer being separated from the thermal storage layer in the region and containing an antifreeze material that is a fluid at a phase transition temperature of the freezing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: HISANORI BESSHO, YUKA UTSUMI, MASAKAZU KAMURA, DAISUKE SHINOZAKI