Patents by Inventor Susumu Enomoto

Susumu Enomoto 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: 8372562
    Abstract: A conductive carbon carrier for a fuel cell having at least a surface layer graphitized, characterized in that the dimension (La) in a six-membered ring face (carbon plane) direction of a crystallite measured by X-ray diffraction is 4.5 nm or more. This carbon carrier improves the durability in a fuel cell and enables operation for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignees: Cataler Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshiharu Tabata, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Susumu Enomoto, Yosuke Horiuchi, Hiroaki Takahashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Hideyasu Kawai
  • Patent number: 8178260
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of catalytic metal such as Pt in a fuel cell. The present invention provides a fuel cell electrode catalyst comprising a conductive carrier and catalytic metal particles, wherein the CO adsorption amount of the electrode catalyst is at least 30mL/g·Pt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignees: Cataler Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Toshiharu Tabata, Susumu Enomoto, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20120040270
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of catalytic metal such as Pt in a fuel cell. The present invention provides a fuel cell electrode catalyst comprising a conductive carrier and catalytic metal particles, wherein the CO adsorption amount of the electrode catalyst is at least 30 mL/g·Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Yosuke HORIUCHI, Tomoaki TERADA, Takahiro NAGATA, Toshiharu TABATA, Susumu ENOMOTO, Hiroaki TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 7910512
    Abstract: To provide a production process of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell whose initial voltage is high and whose endurance characteristics, especially, whose voltage drop being caused by high-potential application is less. A production process according to the present invention of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell is characterized in that: it includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a conductive support in a solution; a loading step of dropping a platinum-salt solution, a base-metal-salt solution and an iridium-salt solution to the resulting dispersion liquid, thereby loading respective metallic salts on the conductive support as hydroxides under an alkaline condition; and an alloying step of heating the conductive support with metallic hydroxides loaded in a reducing atmosphere to reduce them, thereby alloying them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Cataler Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Sozaburo Ohashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Yousuke Horiuchi, Toshiharu Tabata, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Susumu Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20100234210
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a fuel cell electrode catalyst which offers an improved durability while inhibiting the degradation of an initial catalytic activity to exhibit a stably high catalytic activity over a long period. The present invention provides a fuel cell electrode catalyst having an alloy carried by carbon, the alloy consisting of platinum and a platinum-family metal other tha platinum, characterized in that a composition ratio of platinum to platinum-family metal other than platinum to carbon is 1:(0.03 to 1.5):(0.46 to 2.2) (wt ratio).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2007
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Tetsuo Kawamura, Hiroaki Takahashi, Susumu Enomoto, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata
  • Publication number: 20090233135
    Abstract: A fuel cell catalyst in which catalyst particles are supported on a carrier is provided, wherein the value of the average catalyst carrier pore diameter/the catalyst metal (PGM) particle diameter is 0.5 to 1.8. Such fuel cell catalyst is less likely to cause voltage drops even after being used for a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2006
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Toshiharu Tabata, Susumu Enomoto, Hiroaki Takahashi, Katsushi Saito
  • Publication number: 20090169974
    Abstract: A conductive carbon carrier for a fuel cell having at least a surface layer graphitized, characterized in that the dimension (La) in a six-membered ring face (carbon plane) direction of a crystallite measured by X-ray diffraction is 4.5 nm or more. This carbon carrier improves the durability in a fuel cell and enables operation for a long period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshiharu Tabata, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Susumu Enomoto, Yosuke Horiuchi, Hiroaki Takahashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Hideyasu Kawai
  • Publication number: 20090117448
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce the amount of catalytic metal such as Pt in a fuel cell. The present invention provides a fuel cell electrode catalyst comprising a conductive carrier and catalytic metal particles, wherein the CO adsorption amount of the electrode catalyst is at least 30 mL/g·Pt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Toshiharu Tabata, Susumu Enomoto, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090099009
    Abstract: To provide a production process of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell whose initial voltage is high and whose endurance characteristics, especially, whose voltage drop being caused by high-potential application is less. A production process according to the present invention of an electrode catalyst for fuel cell is characterized in that: it includes: a dispersing step of dispersing a conductive support in a solution; a loading step of dropping a platinum-salt solution, a base-metal-salt solution and an iridium-salt solution to the resulting dispersion liquid, thereby loading respective metallic salts on the conductive support as hydroxides under an alkaline condition; and an alloying step of heating the conductive support with metallic hydroxides loaded in a reducing atmosphere to reduce them, thereby alloying them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Sozaburo Ohashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Yousuke Horiuchi, Toshiharu Tabata, Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Susumu Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20090092888
    Abstract: To enhance the activation of a catalyst comprising an alloy of platinum and cobalt, thereby providing an electrode catalyst for fuel cell whose battery output and fuel efficiency are high, and thereby providing a production process of the same. An electrode catalyst according to the present invention for fuel cell is an electrode catalyst for fuel cell in which catalytic particles comprising platinum and cobalt are loaded on a conductive support, and is characterized in that a compositional (molar) ratio of said catalytic particles is platinum:cobalt=3:1-5:1: In the range of platinum:cobalt=3:1-5:1, a high battery voltage is obtainable. When the proportion of platinum is less than platinum: cobalt=3:1, the elution of cobalt from out of catalyst increases. On the contrarily, when the proportion of platinum is more than platinum: cobalt=5:1, the catalytic activities become low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Hiroaki Takahashi, Sozaburo Ohashi, Tetsuo Kawamura, Yousuke Horiuchi, Takahiro Nagata, Tomoaki Terada, Toshiharu Tabata, Susumu Enomoto
  • Publication number: 20090047559
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to further increase the rate of Pt particles (Pt utilization rate) for three-phase interfaces in order to reduce the amount of catalytic metal such as Pt used for fuel cells. The present invention provides a fuel cell electrode catalyst comprising a conductive carrier and catalytic metal particles, wherein an average particle size of the carried catalytic metal particles is larger than an average pore size of micropores in the conductive carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Tomoaki Terada, Takahiro Nagata, Toshiharu Tabata, Susumu Enomoto, Hideyasu Kawai, Hiroaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 5434961
    Abstract: A method and system for laying out and typesetting in a computerized publishing system comprises the steps of: grouping materials to be laid out on a type area of a page according to theme of articles to define a plurality of theme families, classifying the plurality of articles into a variable article type and fixed article type by adding an identifier, giving a rank to each of the theme families and to the articles, adding information to each of the materials for specifying the size of the materials that are to be laid out on the type area and further for specifying the rank of the theme family and the article, storing the materials into a file together with the information, laying out the materials based upon the information by reading the content of the file to determine a page layout while referencing to a knowledge base, and typesetting a page based upon the page layout to create a typeset, wherein the step of laying out the materials including a step of modifying said page layout based upon a result of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Horiuchi, Yoshio Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Kubo, Susumu Enomoto, Masashi Ishii
  • Patent number: 4604418
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for isocyanurating hexamethylene-diisocyanate containing polyol adduct thereof using a novel catalyst and to a paint composition formed from of the product of the above mentioned process and polyol, and to the composition yielding a paint film showing an excellent light resistance and weather resistance, especially high yellowing resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1986
    Assignee: Nippon Polyurethane Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Shindo, Yusuke Aoki, Yosizumi Kataoka, Susumu Enomoto, Minoru Nakamura