Patents by Inventor Shusuke Okada

Shusuke Okada 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: 11798739
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes, in a samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder, a main phase containing samarium and iron, and a sub-phase containing samarium, iron, and at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, and titanium, wherein an atomic ratio of a rare earth element to an iron group element is greater than an atomic ratio of the rare earth element to the iron group element of the main phase, wherein at least a part of a surface of the main phase is coated with the sub-phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji Hashimoto, Yasushi Enokido, Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi
  • Publication number: 20230144902
    Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet, wherein a samarium oxide phase is formed on at least a part of a surface of a crystal grain, and wherein an atomic ratio of calcium to a total amount of iron group elements, rare earth elements, and calcium is 0.4% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji HASHIMOTO, Yasushi ENOKIDO, Shusuke OKADA, Kenta TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20230039058
    Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N magnet includes Sm—Fe—N particles, wherein an inter-particle metal phase is present between at least two of the Sm—Fe—N particles, an average particle diameter of the Sm—Fe—N particles is less than 2.0 ?m, and a percentage of the Sm—Fe—N particles having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or more is 10% or less, the inter-particle metal phase includes a Fe3Zn10 phase and an ?-Fe phase in a particle form, and in the inter-particle metal phase, an area ratio of the Fe3Zn10 phase is 80% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hirotaka YOKOTA, Eiichiro Fukuchi, Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi
  • Publication number: 20230043317
    Abstract: A Sm—Fe—N magnet includes Sm—Fe—N particles each having a surface, a coating layer being provided on at least a portion of the surface or on at least a portion of an interface between at least two of the Sm—Fe—N particles, or being provided on both, wherein the coating layer includes a first layer and a second layer, the first layer being situated closer to the surface or the interface than is the second layer, he first layer includes ?-Fe, the second layer includes a Sm—Fe—Zn alloy, and a Zn content contained in the second layer is 1 at % or more and 20 at % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Hirotaka YOKOTA, Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi
  • Patent number: 11453057
    Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder according to one embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a value obtained by dividing the hydrogen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 400 ppm/(m2/g), and a value obtained by dividing the oxygen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 11,000 ppm/(m2/g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shusuke Okada, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Kenta Takagi, Kimihiro Ozaki, Yasushi Enokido
  • Publication number: 20220189669
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes single-crystal particles of a TbCu7 type samarium-iron-nitrogen based alloy in an anisotropic magnet powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Suguru SATOH, Yasushi ENOKIDO, Shusuke OKADA, Kenta TAKAGI
  • Patent number: 11361888
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is that in samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder, a non-magnetic phase is formed on a surface of the samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet phase, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface is 3.5 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignees: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi, Yasushi Enokido, Yoshinori Fujikawa, Ryuji Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210082605
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes, in a samarium-iron-nitrogen based magnet powder, a main phase containing samarium and iron, and a sub-phase containing samarium, iron, and at least one or more elements selected from the group consisting of zirconium, molybdenum, vanadium, tungsten, and titanium, wherein an atomic ratio of a rare earth element to an iron group element is greater than an atomic ratio of the rare earth element to the iron group element of the main phase, wherein at least a part of a surface of the main phase is coated with the sub-phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ryuji HASHIMOTO, Yasushi ENOKIDO, Shusuke OKADA, Kenta TAKAGI
  • Publication number: 20200118722
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is that in samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet powder, a non-magnetic phase is formed on a surface of the samarium-iron-nitrogen magnet phase, and an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the surface is 3.5 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shusuke OKADA, Kenta TAKAGI, Yasushi ENOKIDO, Yoshinori FUJIKAWA, Ryuji HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200105446
    Abstract: A samarium-iron-bismuth-nitrogen-based magnet powder includes: a main phase including samarium, iron, and bismuth, wherein a ratio of bismuth to a total amount of samarium, iron, and bismuth is less than or equal to 3.0 at %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicants: TDK Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Ryuji HASHIMOTO, Yasushi Enokido, Shusuke Okada, Kenta Takagi
  • Publication number: 20200016663
    Abstract: A samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder according to one embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a value obtained by dividing the hydrogen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 400 ppm/(m2/g), and a value obtained by dividing the oxygen content of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder by the BET specific surface area of the samarium-iron-nitrogen alloy powder is less than or equal to 11,000 ppm/(m2/g).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicants: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Shusuke OKADA, Kazuyuki SUZUKI, Kenta TAKAGI, Kimihiro OZAKI, Yasushi ENOKIDO
  • Patent number: 8627653
    Abstract: An exhaust purification apparatus which comprises: a first processing unit for removing particulate matter; a second processing unit for reducing nitrogen oxide; a communication pipe for guiding exhaust from an exhaust outlet of the first processing unit to an exhaust inlet of the second processing unit; and a reducing agent supply unit on the communication pipe. The first and second processing units are arranged in parallel such that the exhaust outlet and the exhaust inlet are on the sides facing each other. The communication pipe is arranged between the first and second processing units where the processing units are closest to each other such that the upstream part of the communication pipe extends from the exhaust outlet along the outer circumferential surface of the first processing unit and the downstream part of the communication pipe extends along the outer circumferential surface of the second processing unit to the exhaust inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Omote, Shusuke Okada, Yuuji Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8494752
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine having a revision means which regulates rotation speed of each of cylinders while reflecting specific unevenness of rotation of each of the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 8122708
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device having a DPF provided in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. The device has one or more sound pressure measurement means for measuring exhaust sound pressure and calculation means for calculating the amount of PM accumulation based on the exhaust sound pressure measured. On the upstream side of the DPF are arranged exhaust gas temperature measurement means and exhaust gas temperature raising means. The exhaust gas temperature raising means is activated when the amount of PM accumulation calculated by the calculation means is higher than a preset default and at the same time when the exhaust gas temperature measured by the exhaust temperature measurement means is lower than a lower limit of a temperature region in which the DPF can be regenerated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shusuke Okada, Masato Kitazaki, Hiroshi Uehara, Osamu Kawatate
  • Patent number: 8126638
    Abstract: In an engine which may show a behavior where an engine speed is not always minimized after compression top dead center of a cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred, the cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Publication number: 20120023914
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust purification apparatus which comprises: a first processing unit (10) for removing particulate matter; a second processing unit (20) for mainly reducing nitrogen oxide from the exhaust that has passed through the first processing unit (10); a communication pipe (30) for guiding the exhaust from an exhaust outlet of the first processing unit (10) to an exhaust inlet of the second processing unit (20); and a reducing agent supply unit (40) for supplying a reducing agent to the exhaust. The first processing unit (10) and the second processing unit (20) are arranged in parallel to each other in such a manner that the exhaust outlet of the first processing unit (10) and the exhaust inlet of the second processing unit (20) are on the sides facing each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Omote, Shusuke Okada, Yuuji Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8091347
    Abstract: In an embodiment of an exhaust gas purification apparatus, when an accumulation amount of particulate matter in a DPF (33) exceeds a predetermined amount and an exhaust gas temperature of an engine is lower than a restoration operable temperature, an intake air amount reducing operation is executed by an air intake throttling device (24) provided for an air intake pipe (21) of the engine, and a heating operation is executed by an electric heater (34) provided upstream from the DPF (33), thereby increasing the exhaust gas temperature to the restoration operable temperature to start a restoration operation of the DPF (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michihiko Hara, Akihiro Nishimura, Shusuke Okada, Masato Kitazaki
  • Patent number: 7954846
    Abstract: A door trim covers a door body of a side door. An article storage portion is provided at a lower portion of the door trim. A seat is provided beside the side door so that the seat and the side door are overlapped when viewed from a vehicle side. A side airbag device includes an airbag which inflates beside the seat with gas supplied from an inflator at a vehicle side crash and protects chest and waist portions of a passenger. A recess is provided at the door trim. The recess is concaved toward a vehicle outside at an upper portion of the door trim above the article storage portion. A covering member which restrains the airbag from coming into the recess is provided at the door trim so as to cover almost half of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Yukio Iwayama, Shusuke Okada, Masafumi Sakakida, Masaki Motoki
  • Publication number: 20100201108
    Abstract: A door trim covers a door body of a side door. An article storage portion is provided at a lower portion of the door trim. A seat is provided beside the side door so that the seat and the side door are overlapped when viewed from a vehicle side. A side airbag device includes an airbag which inflates beside the seat with gas supplied from an inflator at a vehicle side crash and protects chest and waist portions of a passenger. A recess is provided at the door trim. The recess is concaved toward a vehicle outside at an upper portion of the door trim above the article storage portion. A covering member which restrains the airbag from coming into the recess is provided at the door trim so as to cover almost half of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio IWAYAMA, Shusuke OKADA, Masafumi SAKAKIDA, Masaki MOTOKI
  • Publication number: 20100198483
    Abstract: In an engine which may show a behavior where an engine speed is not always minimized after compression top dead center of a cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred, the cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani