Patents by Inventor Shuji Kawamura

Shuji Kawamura 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: 20230238561
    Abstract: A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack, and a container that has a frame structure in which a polyhedron is composed of a plurality of main beams, and houses the fuel cell stack. The container has a vertical length and a horizontal length different from each other in side view. At least one main beam among the main beams includes a plurality of fastening points that are arranged along a longitudinal direction of the at least one main beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Daisuke ISHIKAWA, Shuji KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 11401594
    Abstract: Provided are a hot-rolled steel sheet for coiled tubing and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a yield strength of 480 MPa or more, a tensile strength of 600 MPa or more, a yield-strength difference (?YS) of 100 MPa or more, where the yield-strength difference is defined as a difference in yield strength between before and after a prestrain-heat treatment performed for simulation of a tube-making process and a stress-relief annealing heat treatment which are currently implemented, and a yield strength of 620 MPa or more after the prestrain-heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Shuji Kawamura, Ichiro Sugimoto, Makoto Asai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 11313008
    Abstract: A steel member, a hot-rolled steel sheet to be used as a material thereof, and production methods therefor are provided. A steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is precipitated as a precipitate having a particle size of 20 nm or less in the microstructure. A hot-rolled steel sheet for the steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is present as dissolved Ti in the microstructure. A method for producing the steel member includes subjecting a hot-rolled steel sheet to forming processing and then performing heat treatment including heating to a temperature of higher than 550° C. and 1,050° C. or lower and then cooling at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more in the temperature range of 550° C. to 400° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Ichiro Sugimoto, Shuji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 11214847
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet for an electric resistance welded steel pipe has decreased variations in in-plane material properties, high strength, and excellent ductility. The high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.18%, Si: 0.1 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.8 to 2.0%, P: 0.001 to 0.020%, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.001 to 0.1%, Cr: 0.4 to 1.0%, Cu: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 0.01 to 0.4%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.07%, N: 0.008% or less, and further Mo: 0.5% or less and/or V: 0.1% or less so that Moeq defined as Moeq=Mo+0.36Cr+0.77Mn+0.07Ni is 1.4 to 2.2, and Mo and V are contained to satisfy 0.05?Mo+V?0.5; and has a microstructure containing, in volume fraction, 80% or more of a bainite phase as a primary phase and 4 to 20% of a martensite phase and a retained austenite phase in total as a secondary phase, where the bainite phase has an average grain size of 1 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakata, Motohiko Urabe, Shuji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10950876
    Abstract: A reactor unit includes a plurality of reactors and a cooler. An inside of the cooler serves as a flow passage of refrigerant, and the reactors are mounted on an outside surface of a bottom plate of the cooler. The bottom plate separates the flow passage from an outside. A plurality of fins is provided on a surface of the bottom plate on the flow passage side. A flat portion in which the fins are not erected is provided in a first region and a second region. The first region is a region of the surface of the bottom plate on the flow passage side and corresponds to a space between a pair of coils of the reactor. The second region corresponds to each of four corners of each of the reactors in a plan view of the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shuji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20210054487
    Abstract: Provided are a hot-rolled steel sheet for coiled tubing and a method for manufacturing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a yield strength of 480 MPa or more, a tensile strength of 600 MPa or more, a yield-strength difference (AYS) of 100 MPa or more, where the yield-strength difference is defined as a difference in yield strength between before and after a prestrain-heat treatment performed for simulation of a tube-making process and a stress-relief annealing heat treatment which are currently implemented, and a yield strength of 620 MPa or more after the prestrain-heat treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kimura, Shuji Kawamura, Ichiro Sugimoto, Makoto Asai, Takeshi Yokota
  • Patent number: 10876180
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet for a square column for building structural members includes a hot rolling step, a cooling step, and a coiling step performed on a steel to form a hot rolled steel sheet, wherein the steel has a composition containing, in terms of % by mass, C: 0.07 to 0.18%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.06%, N: 0.0006% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Chikara Kami, Yuta Tamura, Takato Tamai, Shuji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10870779
    Abstract: The present application provides a re-releasable aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing: as a main component, an emulsion [A] of a (meth)acrylic acid-based ester copolymer, an emulsion [B] of a (meth)acrylic acid-based ester copolymer, and a crosslinker [C]. The emulsion [A] contains a constituent unit that has a carboxy group or a hydroxy group and reacts with a crosslinker. The emulsion [B] is included in the composition in an amount of 0.6 parts by mass or more in terms of a solid content based on 100 parts by mass of a solid content of the emulsion [A] and functions as a crosslinking assistant. The emulsion [B] has a peculiar structure dissolving in water upon neutralization and is unmeasurable in a particle diameter distribution analysis at pH from 6.5 to 7.5. The crosslinker [C] is a hydrazide-based compound that is soluble or dispersible in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: SAIDEN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Miyazawa, Shuji Kawamura, Hirokazu Umemiya
  • Patent number: 10828992
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit includes a fuel cell stack, a reactor, and a case housing the fuel cell stack and the reactor. The case is provided with an intermediate plate that partitions a space inside the case into an upper space and a lower space. The fuel cell stack is housed in the lower space, with a predetermined clearance provided between the intermediate plate and the fuel cell stack. The reactor is housed in the upper space above the fuel cell stack, with an upper portion of the reactor fixed to the case. A through-hole that is provided in the intermediate plate at a position below the reactor. The lower portion of the reactor faces the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuhiro Nakamura, Shuji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20200190615
    Abstract: A steel member, a hot-rolled steel sheet to be used as a material thereof, and production methods therefor are provided. A steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is precipitated as a precipitate having a particle size of 20 nm or less in the microstructure. A hot-rolled steel sheet for the steel member contains 0.010% to 0.120% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is present as dissolved Ti in the microstructure. A method for producing the steel member includes subjecting a hot-rolled steel sheet to forming processing and then performing heat treatment including heating to a temperature of higher than 550° C. and 1,050° C. or lower and then cooling at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more in the temperature range of 550° C. to 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Ichiro Sugimoto, Shuji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20200190618
    Abstract: A steel member, a hot-rolled steel sheet to be used as a material thereof, and production methods therefor are provided. A steel member contains 0.031% to 0.200% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is precipitated as a precipitate having a particle size of 20 nm or less in the microstructure. A hot-rolled steel sheet contains 0.031% to 0.200% Ti, in which 0.005% or more of Ti is present as dissolved Ti in the microstructure. A method for producing the steel member includes subjecting a hot-rolled steel sheet to forming processing and then performing heat treatment including heating to a temperature of higher than 550° C. and 1,050° C. or lower and then cooling at an average cooling rate of 10° C./s or more in the temperature range of 550° C. to 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Toyoda, Ichiro Sugimoto, Shuji Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10368470
    Abstract: A reactor unit includes reactors; and a cooler. The reactors are disposed in at least one line on a reactor cooling surface that is one of outer surfaces of the cooler. The cooler has a cooling medium flow passage that is in contact with an inner surface on a reverse side of the reactor cooling surface. The cooling medium flows linearly from an inlet portion to an outlet portion of the cooling medium flow passage. A direction in which the cooling medium flows inside the cooling medium flow passage is same as a direction in which the reactors are disposed in the at least one line. Cooling fins are provided on the inner surface on the reverse side of the reactor cooling surface. A longitudinal direction of each cooling fin is same as the direction in which the cooling medium flows inside the cooling medium flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ikuhiro Nakamura, Shuji Kawamura, Kozo Matsuura, Koji Katano, Hiroyuki Sekine
  • Publication number: 20190190039
    Abstract: A reactor unit includes a plurality of reactors and a cooler. An inside of the cooler serves as a flow passage of refrigerant, and the reactors are mounted on an outside surface of a bottom plate of the cooler. The bottom plate separates the flow passage from an outside. A plurality of fins is provided on a surface of the bottom plate on the flow passage side. A flat portion in which the fins are not erected is provided in a first region and a second region. The first region is a region of the surface of the bottom plate on the flow passage side and corresponds to a space between a pair of coils of the reactor. The second region corresponds to each of four corners of each of the reactors in a plan view of the bottom plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20190119530
    Abstract: The present invention provides an aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive composition that has excellent environmental friendliness, that needs no aging, that can be made into a one-pack type which is highly convenient, and that is capable of forming a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which has no problem not only in initial pressure-sensitive adhesive force but also in pressure-sensitive adhesive force with time and which exhibits satisfactory re-releasability. The present invention is a re-releasable aqueous pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing: as a main component, an emulsion [A] of a (meth) acrylic acid-based ester copolymer, the emulsion [A] containing a constituent unit that has a carboxy group or a hydroxy group and that reacts with a crosslinker; an emulsion [B] of a (meth) acrylic acid-based ester copolymer in an amount of 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kentaro MIYAZAWA, Shuji KAWAMURA, Hirokazu UMEMIYA
  • Publication number: 20190062862
    Abstract: A high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet for an electric resistance welded steel pipe has decreased variations in in-plane material properties, high strength, and excellent ductility. The high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet has a composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.10 to 0.18%, Si: 0.1 to 0.5%, Mn: 0.8 to 2.0%, P: 0.001 to 0.020%, S: 0.005% or less, Al: 0.001 to 0.1%, Cr: 0.4 to 1.0%, Cu: 0.1 to 0.5%, Ni: 0.01 to 0.4%, Nb: 0.01 to 0.07%, N: 0.008% or less, and further Mo: 0.5% or less and/or V: 0.1% or less so that Moeq defined as Moeq=Mo+0.36Cr+0.77Mn+0.07Ni is 1.4 to 2.2, and Mo and V are contained to satisfy 0.05?Mo+V?0.5; and has a microstructure containing, in volume fraction, 80% or more of a bainite phase as a primary phase and 4 to 20% of a martensite phase and a retained austenite phase in total as a secondary phase, where the bainite phase has an average grain size of 1 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakata, Motohiko Urabe, Shuji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20180272889
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit includes a fuel cell stack, a reactor, and a case housing the fuel cell stack and the reactor. The case is provided with an intermediate plate that partitions a space inside the case into an upper space and a lower space. The fuel cell stack is housed in the lower space, with a predetermined clearance provided between the intermediate plate and the fuel cell stack. The reactor is housed in the upper space above the fuel cell stack, with an upper portion of the reactor fixed to the case. A through-hole that is provided in the intermediate plate at a position below the reactor. The lower portion of the reactor faces the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuhiro NAKAMURA, Shuji KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170275720
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hot rolled steel sheet for a square column for building structural members includes a hot rolling step, a cooling step, and a coiling step performed on a steel to form a hot rolled steel sheet, wherein the steel has a composition containing, in terms of % by mass, C: 0.07 to 0.18%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.015% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.06%, N: 0.0006% or less, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Chikara Kami, Yuta Tamura, Takato Tamai, Shuji Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20170246964
    Abstract: A device unit is provided with a first heating element, a second heating element configured to generate a heat in an amount smaller than that generated by the first heating element, and a cooler located between the first heating element and the second heating element. The cooler has a coolant flow passage through which a coolant flows, and cooling fins disposed on a first heating element side in the coolant flow passage in a manner as to be substantially in parallel with a flow direction of the coolant, and a fluid resistance of the coolant in the coolant flow passage is smaller on a second heating element side than on the first heating element side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shuji KAWAMURA, Ikuhiro NAKAMURA, Kozo MATSUURA, Koji KATANO, Tsutomu SHIRAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170251575
    Abstract: A reactor unit includes reactors; and a cooler. The reactors are disposed in at least one line on a reactor cooling surface that is one of outer surfaces of the cooler. The cooler has a cooling medium flow passage that is in contact with an inner surface on a reverse side of the reactor cooling surface. The cooling medium flows linearly from an inlet portion to an outlet portion of the cooling medium flow passage. A direction in which the cooling medium flows inside the cooling medium flow passage is same as a direction in which the reactors are disposed in the at least one line. Cooling fins are provided on the inner surface on the reverse side of the reactor cooling surface. A longitudinal direction of each cooling fin is same as the direction in which the cooling medium flows inside the cooling medium flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ikuhiro NAKAMURA, Shuji KAWAMURA, Kozo MATSUURA, Koji KATANO, Hiroyuki SEKINE
  • Patent number: 9708680
    Abstract: A hot rolled steel sheet for a square column for building structural members, the hot rolled steel sheet having a composition of, in terms of % by mass, C: 0.07 to 0.18%, Mn: 0.3 to 1.5%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.015% or less, N: 0.006% or less, Al: 0.01 to 0.06%, and the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, and having a microstructure that includes a primary phase constituted of ferrite and a second phase constituted of pearlite or pearlite and bainite, wherein a second phase frequency defined by equation (1) below is 0.20 to 0.42 and a mean crystal grain diameter of the primary phase and the second phase together is 7 to 15 ?m Second phase frequency=(Number of second phase grains intersecting line segments of particular length)/(Number of primary phase grains and second phase grains intersecting line segments of particular length)??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Chikara Kami, Yuta Tamura, Takato Tamai, Shuji Kawamura