Patents by Inventor Takahiro Shinoda

Takahiro Shinoda 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: 20200115778
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material and a heat exchanger having excellent moldability, strength, resistance to brazing erosion and durability are provided. The aluminum alloy fin material has a composition comprising, in % by mass, Zr: 0.05 to 0.3%, Mn: 1.8 to 2.5%, Si: 0.7 to 1.3%, Fe: 0.05 to 0.5%, Cu: 0.25 to 0.7%, Zn: 2.0 to 5.0%, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein a ratio of Mn/Si in terms of content is in a range of 1.5 to 2.9, and the aluminum alloy fin material has a tensile strength before brazing of 210 to 280 MPa, a tensile strength after brazing of 175 MPa or more, an electrical conductivity after brazing of 37% IACS or more, and a solidus temperature of 605° C. or more, and has a crystal grain structure before brazing of a non-recrystallized grain structure, and has an average crystal grain size in a rolled surface after brazing of 300 ?m to 2,000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ALUMINUM CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michihide YOSHINO, Shohei IWAO, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SHINODA, Koichi NAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200116444
    Abstract: Mg and Bi are contained in each of a first fillet in a first braze joining portion in which a tube and a fin join, a second fillet in a second braze joining portion in which the tube and a header plate join, and a third fillet in a third braze joining portion in which the header plate and a tank body join. A concentration of Mg of each of the first to third fillets is from 0.2% or more to 2.0% or less by mass. When the tube includes a brazing material layer, a concentration of Mg of the tube at its plate thickness center is from 0.1% or more to 1.0% or less by mass. When the fin includes a brazing material layer, a concentration of Mg of the fin at its plate thickness center is from 0.2% or more to 1.0% or less by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Takahiro SHINODA, Shogo YAMADA, Nobuhiro HONMA, Naoki SUGIMOTO, Taketoshi TOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200115779
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy fin material and a heat exchanger having excellent moldability, strength, resistance to brazing erosion and durability are provided. The aluminum alloy fin material has a composition comprising Mn: 1.8 to 2.5%, Si: 0.7 to 1.3%, Fe: 0.05 to 0.3%, Cu: 0.14 to 0.30%, Zn: 1.3 to 3.0%, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein a ratio Mn/Si in terms of content is in a range of 1.5 to 2.9, and the aluminum alloy fin material has a solidus temperature of 610° C. or more, a tensile strength before brazing of 220 to 270 MPa, has a crystal grain structure before brazing of a non-recrystallized grain structure, and has a tensile strength after brazing of 160 MPa or more, an electrical conductivity after brazing of 40% IACS or more and an average crystal grain size in a rolled surface after brazing of 300 ?m to 2,000 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI ALUMINUM CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michihide YOSHINO, Shohei IWAO, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Takahiro SHINODA, Koichi NAKASHITA
  • Publication number: 20200086430
    Abstract: Provided is a brazing method for an aluminum alloy brazing sheet provided with a core material and a brazing material in which the Si content of the brazing material is denoted by CSi, the Bi content of the brazing material is denoted by CBi, the Mg content of the brazing material is denoted by CMg-b, the Mg content of the core material is denoted by CMg-c, CMg=CMg-b+CMg-c/2, and an aluminum alloy brazing sheet satisfying 3?CSi?13, 0.13CMg?0.3?CBi?0.58CMg0.45, CMg-b?0.1, and 0.2?CMg?1.1 is brazed in an inert gas atmosphere at a heating temperature of 560-620° C. without using flux.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (KOBE STEEL, LTD.), DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro IZUMI, Akihiro TSURUNO, Shimpei KIMURA, Yuji SHIBUYA, Takahiro SHINODA, Shogo YAMADA, Shingo OONO
  • Publication number: 20180251874
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers with no fin buckling deformation and having excellent buckling resistance in a temperature range of 400° C. to 580° C. before a filler alloy melts at the time of brazing. [Solution] The fin material made of an aluminum alloy for heat exchangers contains 1.0 to 2.0 mass % of Mn, 0.7 to 1.4 mass % of Si, and 0.05 to 0.3 mass % of Fe, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, in which a number density of intermetallic compounds having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.025 to 0.4 ?m is 3.0×106 particles/mm2 or more, and an amount of solid solution of Mn is 0.3 mass % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicants: UACJ Corporation, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Ohashi, Atsushi Fukumoto, Shogo Yamada, Shinichiro Takise, Takahiro Shinoda
  • Patent number: 8118344
    Abstract: There is provided a slide door structure of a vehicle which has a slide door to slide in a vehicle longitudinal direction at a side of a vehicle body, comprising a center rail which extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction at the side of the vehicle body so as to guide a roller provided at the slide door, and an expansion preventing bracket which is provided at a front end portion of the center rail so as to connect a pair of guide-face portions which face to each other for preventing an expansion of a center-rail end. Accordingly, the expansion of guide-rail end can be prevented in case the outward load acts on the slide door when the slide door is in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Takaya, Motoki Yoshida, Katsunori Monden, Takahiro Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20100078961
    Abstract: There is provided a slide door structure of a vehicle which has a slide door to slide in a vehicle longitudinal direction at a side of a vehicle body, comprising a center rail which extends in the vehicle longitudinal direction at the side of the vehicle body so as to guide a roller provided at the slide door, and an expansion preventing bracket which is provided at a front end portion of the center rail so as to connect a pair of guide-face portions which face to each other for preventing an expansion of a center-rail end. Accordingly, the expansion of guide-rail end can be prevented in case the outward load acts on the slide door when the slide door is in the closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirotaka TAKAYA, Motoki YOSHIDA, Katsunori MONDEN, Takahiro SHINODA