Patents by Inventor Shogo Hirose

Shogo Hirose 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: 9844768
    Abstract: The honeycomb catalyst body is equipped with a honeycomb structure body having partition walls that define a plurality of cells extending from a first end face as one of the end faces to a second end face as the other end face and serving as through channels of a fluid. The partition walls each have a base layer containing from 50 to 90 mass % of zeolite and a coat layer with which the surface of the base layer 11 is coated with a thickness of from 1 to 50 ?m. The coat layer is either a coat layer (A) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and titania or a coat layer (B) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and a composite oxide of titania and tungsten oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Suenobu, Shogo Hirose
  • Publication number: 20170274326
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure comprising: a honeycomb structure body that includes a plurality of porous partition walls and intersection parts, and a catalyst layer, wherein the porosity of the partition wall is 20 to 70%, the average pore diameter of the pores in the partition wall is 1 to 60 ?m, a plurality of the partition walls includes a notched partition wall having a recessed part in which at least one end is notched, the ratio of the notched partition wall in the partition walls is 1 to 100%, the recessed part of the notched partition wall has a depth of 10 to 200% of the standard length, and the recessed part of the notched partition wall is a part having a width of 33 to 100% of the standard width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yudai KURIMOTO, Shogo HIROSE, Takahiro KONDO
  • Publication number: 20170276049
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure has partition walls defining a plurality of polygonal cells which become through channels for a fluid, a structure end face vertical to an axial direction has at least two cell regions possessing mutually different cell structures and surrounded by circumferential portions, and in the cell regions adjacent to each other, to first partition walls of a first cell structure of one first cell region, second partition walls of a second cell structure of the other or second cell region are tilted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Shiori NAKAO
  • Publication number: 20170274618
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure body that includes a porous partition wall which defines a plurality of cells serving as through channels of fluid and extending from an inflow end face as one end face to an outflow end face as the other end face, and a circumferential wall arranged on a circumferential surface of the honeycomb structure body. The circumferential wall has a thickness of 0.5 to 4.0 mm, a gap path is formed along a surface of the circumferential wall inside the circumferential wall, the gap path has a width of 0.4 to 4.0 mm, and has a height of 50 to 99% of the thickness of the circumferential wall, and a total length of the gap path is 1000% or more of a length in the cell extending direction of the honeycomb structure body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yudai KURIMOTO, Hirotaka YAMAMOTO, Shogo HIROSE
  • Patent number: 9464551
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb catalyst body including porous partition walls in which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are defined and formed, and a plurality of pores are formed, wherein a cell density is from 93 to 186 cells/cm2, and onto the partition walls, a catalyst containing the zeolite is loaded in an amount of 100 to 300 g/L, a porosity (A) of the partition walls before the catalyst is loaded thereonto is 50% or more, and a porosity (B) of the partition walls in a state where the catalyst is loaded thereonto is from 0.3 to 0.6 times as much as the porosity (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Kazuto Miura, Hirotaka Yamamoto, Fumio Katsube
  • Publication number: 20160288095
    Abstract: The honeycomb catalyst body is equipped with a honeycomb structure body having partition walls that define a plurality of cells extending from a first end face as one of the end faces to a second end face as the other end face and serving as through channels of a fluid. The partition walls each have a base layer containing from 50 to 90 mass % of zeolite and a coat layer with which the surface of the base layer 11 is coated with a thickness of from 1 to 50 ?m. The coat layer is either a coat layer (A) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and titania or a coat layer (B) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and a composite oxide of titania and tungsten oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SUENOBU, Shogo HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20160288113
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body 20 comprises a porous partition portion 22 which forms a plurality of cells each functioning as a flow path of a fluid, and in the partition portion 22, the average pore diameter is 10 to 20 ?m, and a wet area rate R (=S/V) which is the rate of a wet area S of pores to a volume V of the partition portion 22 is 0.000239 ?m?1 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Hirotaka YAMAMOTO, Shiori NAKAO, Shuji UEDA, Mitsuharu ONO, Satoshi SAKASHITA, Hiroyuki NAGAOKA
  • Patent number: 9364818
    Abstract: A zeolite structure is provided which has partition walls composed of a zeolite ion-exchanged with a metal ion and forming a plurality of cells extending from one end face of the zeolite structure to its other end face and functioning as a passage of fluid and which has a honeycomb shape. The content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the surface portion of the partition wall is larger than the content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the inner portion of the partition wall and is preferably 1.1 to 5.0 times the content per unit zeolite amount of the metal ion in the inner portion of the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Takahashi, Shogo Hirose, Eriko Kodama
  • Patent number: 9346043
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure usable as a support of a honeycomb catalyst onto which a large amount of catalyst can be loaded and which has a good purification efficiency, and the honeycomb structure includes porous partition walls 5 defining a plurality of cells to form through channels of a fluid and having a plurality of pores 10 therein, wherein a porosity of the partition walls 5 is from 45 to 70%, and in a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a total area of macro pores 12 having the largest pore diameter of larger than 10 ?m is 50% or more with respect to a total area of the pores 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Yukio Miyairi
  • Patent number: 9248440
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including porous partition walls, a porosity of the partition walls is from 45 to 70%, and when pores having the maximum width in excess of 10 ?m in a cross section of each of the partition walls are large pores and the partition wall is equally divided into three regions of a center region and surface layer regions present on both sides of the center region, a total area of cross sections of the large pores which appear in the surface layer regions is from 60 to 100% of a total area of cross sections of all the pores which appear in the surface layer regions, and a total area of cross sections of the large pores which appear in the center region is from 0 to 40% of the total area of cross sections of all the pores which appear in the center region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Yukio Miyairi
  • Patent number: 9174880
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure onto which a large amount of catalyst can be carried while suppressing an increase in pressure drop. In a honeycomb structure comprising porous partition walls by which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are partitioned and in which a plurality of pores are formed. In each of the partition walls, pores having pore diameters larger than a thickness of the partition wall in a section thereof which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells are formed so as to occupy 4 to 11% of the total volume of the pores formed in the partition walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sendo, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Shogo Hirose
  • Publication number: 20150240679
    Abstract: Provided is a honeycomb structure including a honeycomb substrate having partition walls defining cells extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face, and plugging portions. The cells include at least one cell group consisting of a both-end plugged cell, an inlet cell adjacent to the both-end plugged cell, and an outlet cell adjacent to the both-end plugged cell. The partition walls defining the both-end plugged cell have a first common partition wall defining both of the inlet cell and the both-end plugged cell, and a second common partition wall defining both of the outlet cell and the both-end plugged cell. A first flow-through hole is formed in an end portion of the first common partition wall on the outflow end face side, and a second flow-through hole is formed in an end portion of the second common partition wall on the inflow end face side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Toshio YAMADA, Shogo HIROSE, Toshihiro HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9091197
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body includes porous partition walls arranged to form a plurality of cells which become through channels of a fluid, porosities of the partition walls are from 45 to 70%, a pore diameter distribution of the partition walls is measured by mercury porosimetry, the pore diameter distribution indicates a bimodal distribution, in the bimodal distribution, a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a small pore side distribution is from 1 to 10 ?m, and a pore diameter at the maximum peak value of a large pore side distribution exceeds 10 ?m, and a ratio between a pore volume of the small pores and a pore volume of the large pores is in a range of 1:7 to 1:1 in the honeycomb structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Yukio Miyairi, Eriko Kodama, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Koichi Sendo, Yusuke Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20140296059
    Abstract: The honeycomb catalyst body is equipped with a honeycomb structure body having partition walls that define a plurality of cells extending from a first end face as one of the end faces to a second end face as the other end face and serving as through channels of a fluid. The partition walls each have a base layer containing from 50 to 90 mass % of zeolite and a coat layer with which the surface of the base layer 11 is coated with a thickness of from 1 to 50 ?m. The coat layer is either a coat layer (A) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and titania or a coat layer (B) containing from 1 to 5 mass % vanadia and a composite oxide of titania and tungsten oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SUENOBU, Shogo HIROSE
  • Patent number: 8778825
    Abstract: Partition walls are provided with small pores and large pores, a porosity of the partition walls is from 50 to 70%, a porosity of the large pores of the partition walls is 30% or larger, a ratio of a total volume of the small pores to a total volume of the large pores is 20% or larger, and in a graph showing a pore diameter distribution of the partition walls, the pore diameter at a maximum peak value of the large pores is from 20 to 200 ?m, and the pore diameter at a maximum peak value of the small pores is from 0.1 to 8 ?m. Furthermore, a value obtained by dividing a porosity value (%) of the large pores by a thickness value (?m) of the partition walls is 0.2 or larger in a honeycomb structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shogo Hirose, Yukio Miyairi
  • Publication number: 20140167304
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure onto which a large amount of catalyst can be carried while suppressing an increase in pressure drop. In a honeycomb structure comprising porous partition walls by which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are partitioned and in which a plurality of pores are formed. In each of the partition walls, pores having pore diameters larger than a thickness of the partition wall in a section thereof which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells are formed so as to occupy 4 to 11% of the total volume of the pores formed in the partition walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi SENDO, Hiroyuki SUENOBU, Shogo HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20140147342
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb catalyst body including porous partition walls in which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are defined and formed, and a plurality of pores are formed, wherein a cell density is from 93 to 186 cells/cm2, and onto the partition walls, a catalyst containing the zeolite is loaded in an amount of 100 to 300 g/L, a porosity (A) of the partition walls before the catalyst is loaded thereonto is 50% or more, and a porosity (B) of the partition walls in a state where the catalyst is loaded thereonto is from 0.3 to 0.6 times as much as the porosity (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Kazuto MIURA, Hirotaka YAMAMOTO, Fumio KATSUBE
  • Patent number: 8722172
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure onto which a large amount of catalyst can be carried while suppressing an increase in pressure drop. In a honeycomb structure comprising porous partition walls by which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are partitioned and in which a plurality of pores are formed. In each of the partition walls, pores having pore diameters larger than a thickness of the partition wall in a section thereof which is perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells are formed so as to occupy 4 to 11% of the total volume of the pores formed in the partition walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Sendo, Hiroyuki Suenobu, Shogo Hirose
  • Publication number: 20130243999
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure including porous partition walls, a porosity of the partition walls is from 45 to 70%, and when pores having the maximum width in excess of 10 ?m in a cross section of each of the partition walls are large pores and the partition wall is equally divided into three regions of a center region and surface layer regions present on both sides of the center region, a total area of cross sections of the large pores which appear in the surface layer regions is from 60 to 100% of a total area of cross sections of all the pores which appear in the surface layer regions, and a total area of cross sections of the large pores which appear in the center region is from 0 to 40% of the total area of cross sections of all the pores which appear in the center region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Yukio MIYAIRI
  • Publication number: 20130236687
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure usable as a support of a honeycomb catalyst onto which a large amount of catalyst can be loaded and which has a good purification efficiency, and the honeycomb structure includes porous partition walls 5 defining a plurality of cells to form through channels of a fluid and having a plurality of pores 10 therein, wherein a porosity of the partition walls 5 is from 45 to 70%, and in a cross section perpendicular to an extending direction of the cells, a total area of macro pores 12 having the largest pore diameter of larger than 10 ?m is 50% or more with respect to a total area of the pores 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo HIROSE, Yukio MIYAIRI