Patents by Inventor Sho Yamamoto

Sho Yamamoto 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: 20240124964
    Abstract: Provided is a galvanized steel sheet having a TS of 980 MPa or more, high YS, excellent ductility, strain hardenability, and hole expansion formability. A base steel sheet has a defined chemical composition and a steel microstructure as follows: area ratio of ferrite: 65.0% or less (including 0%), area ratio of bainitic ferrite: 5.0% or more and 40.0% or less, area ratio of tempered martensite: 0.5% or more and 80.0% or less, area ratio of retained austenite: 3.0% or more, area ratio of fresh martensite: 20.0% or less (including 0%), SBF+STM+2×SMA: 65.0% or more, SMA1/SMA: 0.80 or less, and SMA2/SMA: 0.20 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho HIGUCHI, Yoshiyasu KAWASAKI, Tatsuya NAKAGAITO, Tomomi KANAZAWA, Shunsuke YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11929723
    Abstract: A phase-variable frequency multiplier includes: a 90-degree divider for dividing an input signal into an I-signal and a Q-signal; an amplitude setting circuit for distributing each of the I-signal and the Q-signal to two paths, setting amplitudes of two of four signals including the two distributed I-signals and the two distributed Q-signals depending on a phase shift amount of the input signal, and outputting as set signals, the four signals including the signals with the set amplitudes; a first mixer for multiplying one of the two I-signals included in the set signals by one of the two Q-signals included in the set signals to generate a first signal having a frequency being twice the frequency of the input signal; a second mixer for multiplying the other of the two I-signals included in the set signals by the other of the two Q-signals included in the set signals to generate a second signal with an amplitude ratio with respect to the first signal, being a tangent or a reciprocal of a tangent of the phase sh
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Yamamoto, Koji Tsutsumi, Sho Ikeda, Masaomi Tsuru
  • Patent number: 11850837
    Abstract: There is provided a functional layer including layered double hydroxide. The functional has an average porosity of 1 to 40% and an average pore diameter of 100 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Yamamoto, Megumi Fujisaki, Shohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20230231154
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH-like compound separator including a porous substrate made of a polymeric material; and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound with which pores of the porous substrate are plugged. A central region along the thickness of the LDH-like compound separator has a lower mean porosity than peripheral regions along the thickness of the LDH-like compound separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota OKOCHI, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI
  • Publication number: 20230231153
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH-like compound separator including a porous substrate made of a polymeric material and an LDH-like compound plugging pores in the porous substrate. The LDH-like compound separator has a plurality of remaining flattened pores, longitudinal directions of the pores being non-parallel to a thickness direction of the LDH-like compound separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota OKOCHI, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI
  • Publication number: 20230207796
    Abstract: There is provided a secondary zinc battery including: a unit cell including; a positive-electrode plate including a positive-electrode active material layer and a positive-electrode collector; a negative-electrode plate including a negative-electrode active material layer containing zinc and a negative-electrode collector; an LDH separator covering or wrapping around the entire negative-electrode active material layer; and an electrolytic solution. The positive-electrode collector has a positive-electrode collector tab extending from one edge of the positive-electrode active material layer, and the negative-electrode collector has a negative-electrode collector tab extending from the opposite edge of the negative-electrode active material layer and beyond a vertical edge of the LDH-like compound separator. The unit cell can thereby collects electricity from the positive-electrode collector tab and the negative-electrode collector tab that are disposed at opposite edges of the unit cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Junki MATSUYA, Yuichi GONDA, Takeshi YAGI, Kenshin KITOH, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Naoko INUKAI, Sho YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230207888
    Abstract: Provided is a battery including a positive electrode; a negative electrode; an electrolytic solution being an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution; and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound provided so as to be in contact with the electrolytic solution. A metal compound containing at least one metal element constituting the LDH-like compound is dissolved in the electrolytic solution such that erosion of the LDH-like compound by the electrolytic solution is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shohei YOKOYAMA, Sho YAMAMOTO, Naohito YAMADA, Naoko INUKAI
  • Publication number: 20230207965
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH-like compound separator for secondary zinc batteries that includes a porous substrate made of a polymer material; and an LDH-like compound plugging pores in the porous substrate. The LDH-like compound separator has a dendrite buffer layer therein, the dendrite buffer layer being at least one selected from the group consisting of: (i) a pore-rich internal porous layer in the porous substrate, the internal porous layer being free from the LDH-like compound or deficient in the LDH-like compound; (ii) a releasable interfacial layer, which is provided by two adjacent layers constituting part of the LDH-like compound separator being in releasable contact with each other; and (iii) an internal gap layer being free from the LDH-like compound and the porous substrate, which is provided by two adjacent layers constituting part of the LDH-like compound separator being formed apart from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota OKOCHI, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Naoko INUKAI, Sho YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230198095
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH-like compound separator that includes a porous substrate made of a polymer material and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound plugging pores in the porous substrate, and has a linear transmittance of 1% or more at a wavelength of 1000 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota OKOCHI, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Naoko INUKAI, Sho YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230160700
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle locating system and a vehicle locating device capable of reducing a risk that, when it is attempted to identify a location of a vehicle as a detection target by using a device on the outside of the vehicle, the vehicle cannot be detected due to overlap of the vehicle and another vehicle or an obstacle located in front when seen from a detector. A vehicle locating system (1) includes: a portion (21) to be detected that is provided to a vehicle (20) and extends upward to a height at least exceeding a roof top; a detector (5) that detects the portion (21) to be detected; and a vehicle locating device (50) that identifies a location of the vehicle (20) on map data on the basis of detection information on the detected portion (21) to be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Masaya Aso, Nobuhiro Machida, Sho Yamamoto, Sunao Hano, Taro Segawa
  • Publication number: 20230135365
    Abstract: There is provided an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a hydroxide ion-conductive layered compound that is a layered double hydroxide (LDH) and/or a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound, filling up pores of the porous substrate. The proportion of the hydroxide ion-conductive layered compound in the LDH separator is 25 to 85% by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shumpei ONO, Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI, Shohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230069319
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a mixture of a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound and In(OH)3, which fills up pores of the porous substrate. The LDH-like compound is a hydroxide and/or an oxide with a layered crystal structure containing Mg, Ti, Y, and optionally Al and/or In.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI, Shohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230045074
    Abstract: There is provided an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound that fills up pores of the porous substrate. The LDH-like compound is a hydroxide and/or an oxide with a layered crystal structure, containing (i) Ti, Y, and optionally Al and/or Mg, and (ii) at least one additive element M selected from the group consisting of In, Bi, Ca, Sr, and Ba.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI, Shohei YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 11532855
    Abstract: Provided is a layered double hydroxide (LDH) separator including a porous substrate made of a polymeric material; and a hydroxide-ion conductive layered compound being a LDH and/or a LDH-like compound with which pores of the porous substrate are plugged. The LDH separator has a mean porosity of 0.03% to less than 1.0%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota Okochi, Shohei Yokoyama, Naoko Inukai, Sho Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11431034
    Abstract: Provided is a hydroxide ion-conductive separator including a porous substrate and a layered double hydroxide (LDH)-like compound filling pores of the porous substrate, wherein the LDH-like compound is a hydroxide and/or an oxide with a layered crystal structure, containing: Mg; and one or more elements, which include at least Ti, selected from the group consisting of Ti, Y, and Al.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Yamamoto, Naoko Inukai, Shohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 11211672
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a layered double hydroxide (LDH) that fills up pores of the porous substrate. The LDH is composed of a plurality of hydroxide base layers containing Mg, Al, Ti, and OH group; and interlayers which are interposed between the plurality of hydroxide base layers and composed of anions and H2O.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Yamamoto, Naoko Inukai, Shohei Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20210384588
    Abstract: Provided is a layered double hydroxide (LDH) separator including a porous substrate made of a polymeric material; and a hydroxide-ion conductive layered compound being a LDH and/or a LDH-like compound with which pores of the porous substrate are plugged. The LDH separator has a mean porosity of 0.03% to less than 1.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota OKOCHI, Shohei YOKOYAMA, Naoko INUKAI, Sho YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11152668
    Abstract: Provided is a layered-double-hydroxide-(LDH) containing composite material including a porous substrate and a high density LDH-containing functional layer on and/or in the porous substrate. The LDH-containing composite material of the present invention includes the porous substrate and the functional layer formed on and/or in the porous substrate. The functional layer contains a layered double hydroxide represented by the general formula M2+1?xM3+x(OH)2An?x/n.mH2O (where M2+ represents a divalent cation, M3+ represents a trivalent cation, An? represents an n-valent anion, n represents an integer not less than 1, x represents a value of 0.1 to 0.4, and m represents a value not less than 0) and has water impermeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Megumi Fujisaki, Naomi Saito, Naohito Yamada, Sho Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20210218112
    Abstract: Provided is an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a layered double hydroxide (LDH) that fills up pores of the porous substrate. The LDH is composed of a plurality of hydroxide base layers containing Mg, Al, Ti, and OH group; and interlayers which are interposed between the plurality of hydroxide base layers and composed of anions and H2O.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho YAMAMOTO, Naoko INUKAI, Shohei YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: D1021148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moyuru Okajima, Kouhei Yamaguchi, Koji Kido, Masaki Yamamoto, Sho Fujioka