Patents by Inventor Shuichi Masuda

Shuichi Masuda 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: 12116920
    Abstract: A catalyst support for induction heating includes: a honeycomb structure including a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from an end face on an inlet side to an end face on an outlet side in a gas flow direction to form a flow path; a catalyst supported onto an interior of the partition wall; and at least one magnetic body provided within the honeycomb structure, wherein the catalyst support has a region A where the catalyst is not supported, at least on the end face side of the catalyst support on the inlet side in the gas flow direction, and wherein the magnetic body is arranged at least in the region A in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Shuichi Ichikawa, Takuya Ishihara, Kai Matsumoto, Norihisa Fujie, Yoichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 12104519
    Abstract: A catalyst support for induction heating includes: a honeycomb structure including a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from an end face on an inlet side to an end face on an outlet side in a gas flow direction to form a flow path; a catalyst supported onto an interior of the partition wall; and at least one magnetic body provided within the honeycomb structure, wherein the catalyst support has a region A where the catalyst is not supported, at least on the end face side of the catalyst support on the inlet side in the gas flow direction, and wherein the magnetic body is arranged at least in the region A in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Shuichi Ichikawa, Takuya Ishihara, Kai Matsumoto, Norihisa Fujie, Yoichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 12078092
    Abstract: A catalyst support for induction heating includes: a honeycomb structure including a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from an end face on an inlet side to an end face on an outlet side in a gas flow direction to form a flow path; a catalyst supported onto an interior of the partition wall; and at least one magnetic body provided within the honeycomb structure, wherein the catalyst support has a region A where the catalyst is not supported, at least on the end face side of the catalyst support on the inlet side in the gas flow direction, and wherein the magnetic body is arranged at least in the region A in the gas flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Shuichi Ichikawa, Takuya Ishihara, Kai Matsumoto, Norihisa Fujie, Yoichi Aoki
  • Patent number: 12065957
    Abstract: A cylindrical can body capable of housing a honeycomb structure therein, the cylindrical can body including: a coil for induction-heating the honeycomb structure; a cylindrical member made of an insulating material; and a cylindrical metal member capable of housing the coil and the cylindrical member therein, wherein, in a cross section parallel to an axial direction of the cylindrical member, (i) the coil is provided radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical member, and at least a part of the coil is embedded in the cross section of the cylindrical member; or (ii) the coil is provided on an outer circumferential portion of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Miyairi, Masaaki Masuda, Shuichi Ichikawa, Takuya Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10549558
    Abstract: A cutter unit is attached to a carriage in a predetermined direction, the carriage moving in a cutting direction of a sheet. A first set of first fitting sections and a second set of second fitting sections are provided as groups of fitting sections provided at positions, which face each other, on the carriage and the cutter unit. The first fitting sections and the second fitting sections each of which are fitted to each other in a predetermined direction. When the cutter unit is attached to the carriage, the fitting of the first fitting sections starts before the fitting of the second fitting sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Masuda, Naoki Wakayama, Masakazu Nagashima, Daiki Anayama, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Takakazu Ohashi
  • Patent number: 10427431
    Abstract: A sheet supplying apparatus, in which a user can select either automatic sheet feeding or manual sheet feeding, includes a driving unit configured to cause a roll including a wound consecutive sheet to rotate in a first direction for feeding the sheet or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first sensor that detects a leading end portion of the sheet separated from an outer circumferential surface of the roll, a second sensor that detects the leading end portion which is manually set in a conveyance path by the user, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not automatic sheet feeding is performed on the basis of a detection result of the second sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Masuda, Masashi Kamada, Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10150637
    Abstract: There is provided a stacking apparatus capable of stably conveying and stacking sheets without occurrence of damage or buckling of the sheets in the structure of discharging the curled sheets one by one. In regard to each of a plurality of clamp guides which project toward stacking trays from a conveyor to guide sheets S, the projecting position varies in accordance with a size and an amount of stacked sheets on the stack trays. The stacking tray comprises an inclined surface and a curved surface. An upper guide is located to face the inclined surface by a predetermined interval, and the upper guide is located not to face the curved surface or is located to face it by an interval larger than a predetermined interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Wakayama, Shuichi Masuda, Takakazu Ohashi, Ryohei Maruyama
  • Patent number: 10124609
    Abstract: In order to reliably cut a sheet even when the width of the sheet is changed while shortening cutting time, the position of an end portion of the sheet is sensed and a cutting range is set according to the sensed position of the end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Naoki Wakayama, Shuichi Masuda, Masakazu Nagashima, Daiki Anayama, Takakazu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20180257405
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a sheet supplying apparatus in which the user can select either automatic sheet feeding or manual sheet feeding. A sheet supplying apparatus of the present invention includes a driving unit configured to cause a roll including a wound consecutive sheet to rotate in a first direction for feeding the sheet or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a first sensor that detects a leading end portion of the sheet separated from an outer circumferential surface of the roll, a second sensor that detects the leading end portion which is manually set in a conveyance path by a user, and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not automatic sheet feeding is performed on the basis of a detection result of the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Shuichi Masuda, Masashi Kamada, Masato Eiyama, Yuki Igarashi, Masashi Negishi, Ryoya Shinjo, Ryo Kobayashi, Tomohiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170275124
    Abstract: There is provided a stacking apparatus capable of stably conveying and stacking sheets without occurrence of damage or buckling of the sheets in the structure of discharging the curled sheets one by one. In regard to each of a plurality of clamp guides which project toward stacking trays from conveyance means to guide sheets S, the projecting position varies in accordance with a size and an amount of stacked sheets Sa on the stack trays. The stacking tray comprises an inclined surface and a curved surface. An upper guide is located to face the inclined surface by a predetermined interval, and the upper guide is located not to face the curved surface or is located to face it by an interval larger than a predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Naoki Wakayama, Shuichi Masuda, Takakazu Ohashi, Ryohei Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20170087889
    Abstract: In order to reliably cut a sheet even when the width of the sheet is changed while shortening cutting time, the position of an end portion of the sheet is sensed and a cutting range is set according to the sensed position of the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kikuchi, Naoki Wakayama, Shuichi Masuda, Masakazu Nagashima, Daiki Anayama, Takakazu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20170087890
    Abstract: A cutter unit is attached to a carriage in a predetermined direction, the carriage moving in a cutting direction of a sheet. A first set of first fitting sections and a second set of second fitting sections are provided as groups of fitting sections provided at positions, which face each other, on the carriage and the cutter unit. The first fitting sections and the second fitting sections each of which are fitted to each other in a predetermined direction. When the cutter unit is attached to the carriage, the fitting of the first fitting sections starts before the fitting of the second fitting sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Shuichi Masuda, Naoki Wakayama, Masakazu Nagashima, Daiki Anayama, Tetsuo Kikuchi, Takakazu Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20160090262
    Abstract: There is provided a stacking apparatus capable of stably conveying and stacking sheets without occurrence of damage or buckling of the sheets in the structure of discharging the curled sheets one by one. In regard to each of a plurality of clamp guides which project toward stacking trays from conveyance means to guide sheets S, the projecting position varies in accordance with a size and an amount of stacked sheets Sa on the stack trays. The stacking tray comprises an inclined surface and a curved surface. An upper guide is located to face the inclined surface by a predetermined interval, and the upper guide is located not to face the curved surface or is located to face it by an interval larger than a predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Naoki WAKAYAMA, Shuichi Masuda, Takakazu Ohashi, Ryohei Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8757790
    Abstract: There is provided a printing apparatus capable of improving total throughput of color measurement and preventing damage to a printed image. Therefore a colorimetric housing 180 including a drying unit 140 or a discharge guide 16 is structured to be movable upwards and downwards, and a distance between the drying unit 140 and the discharge guide 16 is changed corresponding to an operational mode or a kind of a sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuichi Masuda, Hideyuki Nozawa
  • Patent number: 8740345
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided that can appropriately suction and hold a print medium on a platen by employing suction in accordance with the properties of different types of print media. In the printing apparatus, grooves are formed in the support face of the platen on which the print medium is held, and are extended in a conveying direction in which the print medium is to be conveyed. Groove suction holes are formed inside the grooves to apply suction. Rib suction holes are formed in the support face of the platen. The printing apparatus employs at least either the stiffness of the print medium or the print duty to control a ratio between the amount of suction applied via the groove suction holes and the amount of suction applied via the rib suction holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shuichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20130002749
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is provided that can appropriately suction and hold a print medium on a platen by employing suction in accordance with the properties of different types of print media. In the printing apparatus, grooves are formed in the support face of the platen on which the print medium is held, and are extended in a conveying direction in which the print medium is to be conveyed. Groove suction holes are formed inside the grooves to apply suction. Rib suction holes are formed in the support face of the platen. The printing apparatus employs at least either the stiffness of the print medium or the print duty to control a ratio between the amount of suction applied via the groove suction holes and the amount of suction applied via the rib suction holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 6825128
    Abstract: A provided method for manufacturing the semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a trench in a silicon substrate on which a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film are sequentially stacked; oxidizing the silicon substrate by an oxidation method of not forming nearly at all a silicon oxide film on a surface of the silicon nitride film, to form a silicon oxide film on the surface of the trench and perform pullback etching on the silicon nitride film; and performing rounding oxidation by using radical oxidation to round an edge of the surface of the trench. Therefore, it is possible to perform pullback etching on the nitride film, even in case of performing rounding oxidation by using radical oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Masuda
  • Publication number: 20030232503
    Abstract: A provided method for manufacturing the semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a trench in a silicon substrate on which a silicon oxide film and a silicon nitride film are sequentially stacked; oxidizing the silicon substrate by an oxidation method of not forming nearly at all a silicon oxide film on a surface of the silicon nitride film, to form a silicon oxide film on the surface of the trench and perform pullback etching on the silicon nitride film; and performing rounding oxidation by using radical oxidation to round an edge of the surface of the trench. Therefore, it is possible to perform pullback etching on the nitride film, even in case of performing rounding oxidation by using radical oxidation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Applicant: NEC Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 5785762
    Abstract: An external combustion oxidation apparatus includes a furnace core tube, a mixing chamber, a heater, a gas inlet tube, a temperature detector, and a temperature controller. In the furnace core tube, a semiconductor wafer is accommodated in a gas mixture atmosphere of water vapor and a dilute gas. The furnace core tube is heated to a predetermined temperature to form an oxide film on the semiconductor wafer. The mixing chamber mixes water vapor and the dilute gas and supplies a gas mixture into the furnace core tube. The heater heats the mixing chamber. The gas inlet tube connects the mixing chamber and the furnace core tube to each other. The temperature detector detects a temperature in the furnace core tube. The temperature controller controls a heating operation of the heater based on the temperature in the furnace core tube which is detected by the temperature detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Shuichi Masuda
  • Patent number: 4671114
    Abstract: The sound created by moving and chewing of insect larvae infested inside an agricultural commodity is acoustically detected and amplified, and thereafter transduced into an electrical signal which is electrically amplified for observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1987
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture
    Inventors: Carl A. Litzkow, J. C. Webb, Shuichi Masuda