Patents by Inventor Seiji Suga

Seiji Suga 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: 8809602
    Abstract: A method of the present invention, for producing an iodizing agent, includes the step of electrolyzing iodine molecules in a solution by using an acid as a supporting electrolyte. This realizes (i) a method of producing an iodine cation suitable for use as an iodizing agent that does not require a sophisticated separation operation after iodizing reaction is completed, and (ii) an electrolyte used in the method. Further, a method of the present invention, for producing an aromatic iodine compound, includes the step of causing an iodizing agent, and an aromatic compound whose nucleus has one or more substituent groups and two or more hydrogen atoms, to react with each other under the presence of a certain ether compound. This realizes such a method of producing an aromatic iodine compound that position selectivity in iodizing reaction of an aromatic compound is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nippoh Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga, Kazuhide Kataoka, Koji Midorikawa, Yuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8648223
    Abstract: A method of the present invention, for producing an iodizing agent, includes the step of electrolyzing iodine molecules in a solution by using an acid as a supporting electrolyte. This realizes (i) a method of producing an iodine cation suitable for use as an iodizing agent that does not require a sophisticated separation operation after iodizing reaction is completed, and (ii) an electrolyte used in the method. Further, a method of the present invention, for producing an aromatic iodine compound, includes the step of causing an iodizing agent, and an aromatic compound whose nucleus has one or more substituent groups and two or more hydrogen atoms, to react with each other under the presence of a certain ether compound. This realizes such a method of producing an aromatic iodine compound that position selectivity in iodizing reaction of an aromatic compound is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nippoh Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga, Kazuhide Kataoka, Koji Midorikawa, Yuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 8383868
    Abstract: A method of the present invention, for producing an iodizing agent, includes the step of electrolyzing iodine molecules in a solution by using an acid as a supporting electrolyte. This realizes (i) a method of producing an iodine cation suitable for use as an iodizing agent that does not require a sophisticated separation operation after iodizing reaction is completed, and (ii) an electrolyte used in the method. Further, a method of the present invention, for producing an aromatic iodine compound, includes the step of causing an iodizing agent, and an aromatic compound whose nucleus has one or more substituent groups and two or more hydrogen atoms, to react with each other under the presence of a certain ether compound. This realizes such a method of producing an aromatic iodine compound that position selectivity in iodizing reaction of an aromatic compound is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignees: Japan Science and Technology Agency, Nippoh Chemicals Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga, Kazuhide Kataoka, Koji Midorikawa, Yuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7827949
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus employs a five-blade vane member fixedly connected to a camshaft end and rotatably disposed in a phase-converter housing formed integral with a sprocket driven by an engine crankshaft. Five phase-retard chambers and five phase-advance chambers are defined by five blades of the vane member and the housing, for creating a phase change of the vane member relative to the housing. A circumferential width of each of a first pair of blades, located on both sides of a first blade having a maximum circumferential width, is dimensioned to be less than a circumferential width of each of a second pair of blades, circumferentially spaced apart from the first blade rather than the first pair. The circumferential width of each of the second pair of blades is dimensioned to be less than the maximum circumferential width of the first blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Suga, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20100105969
    Abstract: A method of the present invention, for producing an iodizing agent, includes the step of electrolyzing iodine molecules in a solution by using an acid as a supporting electrolyte. This realizes (i) a method of producing an iodine cation suitable for use as an iodizing agent that does not require a sophisticated separation operation after iodizing reaction is completed, and (ii) an electrolyte used in the method. Further, a method of the present invention, for producing an aromatic iodine compound, includes the step of causing an iodizing agent, and an aromatic compound whose nucleus has one or more substituent groups and two or more hydrogen atoms, to react with each other under the presence of a certain ether compound. This realizes such a method of producing an aromatic iodine compound that position selectivity in iodizing reaction of an aromatic compound is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Inventors: Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga, Kazuhide Kataoka, Koji Midorikawa, Yuji Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 7581519
    Abstract: A plurality of advanced angle chamber oil paths communicated to advanced angle hydraulic chambers and a plurality of retarded angle chamber oil paths communicated to retarded angle hydraulic chambers according to a change in rotating angle of a cam shaft are provided. The plurality of advanced angle chamber oil paths and the plurality of retarded angle chamber oil paths, respectively, are switched between communication and cut-off according to a rotating angle of the cam shaft. When torque in the direction of advanced angle acts in an advanced angle mode for phase shifting in the direction of advanced angle, the advanced angle hydraulic chambers are caused to communicate to a hydraulic power source and the retarded angle hydraulic chambers are caused to communicate to a drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Hayase, Seiji Suga, Yoshinori Ichinosawa, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7520260
    Abstract: In a multi-stage fuel-injection internal combustion engine employing a fuel injection system and a variable valve actuation system, engine valve timings are variably controlled depending on engine operating conditions. An electronic engine control unit is configured to execute cooperative control of the timing of sub-injection, injected before main injection, responsively to intake valve closure timing, and also to execute cooperative control of the timing of sub-injection, injected after the-main injection, responsively to exhaust valve open timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Tomio Hokari, Seinosuke Hara, Seiji Suga, Masahiko Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7514589
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a means, which enables production of a product superior in color tone in high yield by using an easy-to-handle and highly safe technique, in a method for producing an aromatic iodide. The present invention relates to a method for producing an aromatic iodide, characterized in that an aromatic compound and an active iodinating agent are fed into a flow reactor equipped with a high-speed mixer and hydrogen atom on the aromatic ring of said aromatic compound is continuously substituted by iodine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignees: Nippoh Chemicals Co., Ltd., Kyoto University
    Inventors: Koji Midorikawa, Hiroshi Takahoso, Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga
  • Publication number: 20090034362
    Abstract: There is provided a microdevice which supplies two or more kinds of fluids flowed into itself independently toward a joining region respectively, and which discharges those fluids from the joining region. The microdevice is constituted by a supply channel which supplies each fluid flowed into the microdevice toward the joining region and a discharge channel which discharges the joined fluid from the joining region toward outside of the microdevice, in a manner that a supply channel which supplies at least one kind of the fluid has a plurality of subchannels which supply the fluid supplied into the microdevice toward the joining region, and those subchannels and supply channels are formed so that at least one central axis of the plurality of subchannels and at least one central axis of the supply channel which supplies at least one kind of fluid other than the kind that the subchannel supplies or of the subchannel intersect at one point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Mae, Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga, Tatsuya Kawaguchi, Jun Tanabe, Noboru Daito, Hideharu Nagasawa, Hideyuki Nomura, Shigeki Hikage, Kunio Yube
  • Patent number: 7478614
    Abstract: In a variably operated valve system for a compression ignition engine, an adjustment mechanism is controlled by means of a control section to detach an intake valve closure timing from a bottom dead center in accordance with an engine driving condition, and an engine start securing section guarantees an engine start even at least one of cases during a failure in the control section, during a stop of the engine, and during a start of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakamura, Seinosuke Hara, Seiji Suga, Masahiko Watanabe, Tomio Hokari
  • Patent number: 7444971
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus is adapted to an exhaust valve side of an internal combustion engine. A vane member is arranged to rotate with a camshaft relative to a timing sprocket member. The vane member is rotated at low speed engine operation dominantly by a camshaft-torque actuation mechanism and at high speed engine operation dominantly by a hydraulic actuation mechanism. The camshaft-torque actuation mechanism is actuated by an alternating torque of the camshaft, whereas the hydraulic actuation mechanism is actuated by a fluid pump. The camshaft-torque actuation mechanism and hydraulic actuation mechanism are controlled independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Inventors: Seiji Suga, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20080264367
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus employs a five-blade vane member fixedly connected to a camshaft end and rotatably disposed in a phase-converter housing formed integral with a sprocket driven by an engine crankshaft. Five phase-retard chambers and five phase-advance chambers are defined by five blades of the vane member and the housing, for creating a phase change of the vane member relative to the housing. A circumferential width of each of a first pair of blades, located on both sides of a first blade having a maximum circumferential width, is dimensioned to be less than a circumferential width of each of a second pair of blades, circumferentially spaced apart from the first blade rather than the first pair. The circumferential width of each of the second pair of blades is dimensioned to be less than the maximum circumferential width of the first blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Seiji Suga, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Patent number: 7444254
    Abstract: A valve timing control apparatus is adapted to an exhaust valve side of an internal combustion engine. A vane member is arranged to rotate with a camshaft relative to a timing sprocket member. The vane member is rotated at low speed engine operation dominantly by a camshaft-torque actuation mechanism and at high speed engine operation dominantly by a hydraulic actuation mechanism. The camshaft-torque actuation mechanism is actuated by an alternating torque of the camshaft, whereas the hydraulic actuation mechanism is actuated by a fluid pump. The vane member includes a first vane arranged to operate in the camshaft-torque actuation mechanism and a second vane arranged to operate in the hydraulic actuation mechanism. The first vane has a shorter radial length and a smaller pressure-receiving area than the second vane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Tsukada, Seiji Suga, Hideaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080251042
    Abstract: A device for controlling a phase of a cam shaft in an internal combustion engine has a structure which can return a phase of a cam shaft to an intermediate position on the basis of its own power by utilizing a variable torque applied to a cam shaft at a time of starting an engine so as to lock, and has a high practicability and mass production performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao HAYASE, Seiji Suga, Yoshinori Ichinosawa, Toshiyuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7424875
    Abstract: A parallel guide portion as an integral structure of a sprocket and a vane, as well as a slant guide portion, are arranged alternately on the same circumference, with circumferential gaps being formed between said guide portion and the parallel guide portion, said guide portion having a shape such that the circumferential gaps become smaller in one axial direction of a cam shaft. Wedge members are disposed in the circumferential gaps respectively and are moved in one axial direction to fill up the circumferential gaps, thereby fixing the phase between the sprocket and the vane into a locked state. The wedge angle of each wedge member is set sufficiently small and, by utilizing varying torques acting on the cam shaft, said members are each moved and locked in one axial direction with a spring. Said members are actuated in an opposite axial direction with oil pressure to release the locked state, thereby permitting a phase angle control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Hayase, Atsushi Watanabe, Seiji Suga, Masahiko Watanabe, Yoshinori Ichinosawa, Takanori Sawada
  • Patent number: 7409937
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system for an internal combustion engine, includes a driven mechanism driven by hydraulic pressure fed through a flowing passage change-over valve. The flowing passage change-over valve includes a valve body formed with a plurality of ports which are respectively communicated with the supply passage and the oil passage, and a spool valve body slidably disposed in the valve body to open and close the plurality of ports, the ports including a supplying port communicated with the supplying passage. The maximum cross-sectional area of the supplying port is larger than a minimum cross-sectional area of the supplying passage. The flowing passage change-over valve is supplied with electric current to heat hydraulic fluid kept in the flowing passage change-over valve so as to lower a viscosity of the hydraulic fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Hisahara, Toshiro Ichikawa, Seiji Suga, Osamu Fujita, Takanori Sawada
  • Patent number: 7406935
    Abstract: A variable valve timing control apparatus employs a five-blade vane member fixedly connected to a camshaft end and rotatably disposed in a phase-converter housing formed integral with a sprocket driven by an engine crankshaft. Five phase-retard chambers and five phase-advance chambers are defined by five blades of the vane member and the housing, for creating a phase change of the vane member relative to the housing. A circumferential width of each of a first pair of blades, located on both sides of a first blade having a maximum circumferential width, is dimensioned to be less than a circumferential width of each of a second pair of blades, circumferentially spaced apart from the first blade rather than the first pair. The circumferential width of each of the second pair of blades is dimensioned to be less than the maximum circumferential width of the first blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Suga, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20080146853
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a means, which enables production of a product superior in color tone in high yield by using an easy-to-handle and highly safe technique, in a method for producing an aromatic iodide. The present invention relates to a method for producing an aromatic iodide, characterized in that an aromatic compound and an active iodinating agent are fed into a flow reactor equipped with a high-speed mixer and hydrogen atom on the aromatic ring of said aromatic compound is continuously substituted by iodine atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicants: NIPPOH CHEMICALS CO., LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koji Midorikawa, Hiroshi Takahoso, Junichi Yoshida, Seiji Suga
  • Publication number: 20080047516
    Abstract: A plurality of advanced angle chamber oil paths communicated to advanced angle hydraulic chambers and a plurality of retarded angle chamber oil paths communicated to retarded angle hydraulic chambers according to a change in rotating angle of a cam shaft are provided. The plurality of advanced angle chamber oil paths and the plurality of retarded angle chamber oil paths, respectively, are switched between communication and cut-off according to a rotating angle of the cam shaft. When torque in the direction of advanced angle acts in an advanced angle mode for phase shifting in the direction of advanced angle, the advanced angle hydraulic chambers are caused to communicate to a hydraulic power source and the retarded angle hydraulic chambers are caused to communicate to a drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao HAYASE, Seiji Suga, Yoshinori Ichinosawa, Tomoya Tsukada
  • Publication number: 20080022952
    Abstract: In valve control apparatus for an internal combustion engine and its assembling method, a positioning section is interposed between a predetermined position of a housing member at which a shoe is positioned so as to be opposed against a side surface of a vane in which a lock piston is arranged and one of a front cover and a rear plate on which a lock hole is formed, to perform a housing circumferential directional positioning of the lock piston and the lock hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Publication date: January 31, 2008
    Inventors: Seiji Suga, Tomoya Tsukada