Patents by Inventor Takaya OTA

Takaya OTA 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: 11918986
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification device that shows a high HC removal performance under a condition in which a rich air-fuel mixture is introduced. The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region including the upstream end of the substrate. The second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall in a downstream region including the downstream end of the substrate. The first catalyst layer contains a first metal catalyst and alumina-zirconia composite oxide. The second catalyst layer contains a second metal catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sugiura, Takeshi Hirabayashi, Akemi Satou, Keisuke Murawaki, Takaya Ota, Masatoshi Ikebe, Kohei Takasaki, Takeshi Morishima
  • Publication number: 20240018891
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust gas purification system that allows suppressing the emission of carbon monoxide (CO). An exhaust gas purification system includes a three-way catalyst and a particulate filter and a control device. The three-way catalyst and the particulate filter are arranged respectively on an upstream side and a downstream side of an exhaust channel connected to an internal combustion engine. The control device controls the internal combustion engine so as to execute fuel cut during a deceleration operation of the internal combustion engine. The particulate filter includes a honeycomb substrate and an outflow cell side catalyst layer. The honeycomb substrate includes a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells extending from an inflow side end surface to an outflow side end surface. The plurality of cells include an inflow cell and an outflow cell adjacent across the partition wall. The inflow cell has an open inflow side end and a sealed outflow side end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SUGIURA, Seiji NAKAHIGASHI, Masatoshi IKEBE, Takaya OTA, Takeshi MORISHIMA, Eiji HARADA
  • Publication number: 20230249159
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst showing resistance to peeling and high purification performance is provided. The present invention is an exhaust gas purification catalyst including a base material and a catalyst layer disposed on the base material. The catalyst layer includes a catalytic metal, a first metal oxide, and a second metal oxide having a higher heat resistance than that of the first metal oxide. When Dx is an area-based average particle diameter of the first metal oxide determined from an arbitrary cross section of the catalyst layer and Dy is an area-based particle diameter of the second metal oxide 22 measured from the cross section of the catalyst layer, a ratio of the Dy to the Dx (Dy/Dx) is 5 or more, and the Dy is 7 ?m or more. In the catalyst layer, pore volume of pores having pore diameters 30 nm or more measured by a nitrogen adsorption method is 0.28 cm3/g or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Ryosuke Takasu, Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota
  • Patent number: 11679379
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells extending between the upstream end and the downstream end. The plurality of cells include an inlet cell opening at the upstream end and sealed at the downstream end, and an outlet cell adjacent to the inlet cell sealed at the upstream end and opening at the downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region. In a downstream region, the second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall, and a second catalyst-containing wall including the partition wall and the second catalyst layer has a porosity of 35% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sugiura, Takeshi Hirabayashi, Akemi Satou, Keisuke Murawaki, Takaya Ota, Masatoshi Ikebe, Kohei Takasaki, Takeshi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11633724
    Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11607672
    Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20230078076
    Abstract: In accordance with the technology herein disclosed, an exhaust gas purification catalyst exhibiting a high exhaust gas purifying performance using a new rare earth-containing material is provided. The exhaust gas purification catalyst herein disclosed includes a base material and a catalyst layer formed on the surface of the base material. The catalyst layer of such an exhaust gas purification catalyst includes rare earth-carrying alumina 50 including a primary particle of a rare earth particle 40 including at least one rare earth element carried on the surface of an alumina carrier 30 including alumina, and the average particle diameter D50 based on TEM observation of the rare earth particle 40 in the rare earth-carrying alumina 50 is 10 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Taku Miura, Hiromi Togashi, Ryosuke Takasu
  • Patent number: 11524285
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes an upper layer which includes first carrier particles and rhodium, and a lower layer which includes second carrier particles, and the upper layer includes a rhodium enriched area in the range a, from the upstream end in the exhaust gas flow to 50% of the upper layer length, and a range b from the upper layer top surface to 18 ?m in the depth direction. The rhodium enriched area contains at least 50% and less than 100% of all the rhodium in the upper layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke Oishi, Takaya Ota, Isao Chinzei, Hiromasa Suzuki, Yoshinori Saito, Seiji Nakahigashi
  • Publication number: 20220387983
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification device that shows a high HC removal performance under a condition in which a rich air-fuel mixture is introduced. The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end and a downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region including the upstream end of the substrate. The second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall in a downstream region including the downstream end of the substrate. The first catalyst layer contains a first metal catalyst and alumina-zirconia composite oxide. The second catalyst layer contains a second metal catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SUGIURA, Takeshi HIRABAYASHI, Akemi SATOU, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Takaya OTA, Masatoshi IKEBE, Kohei TAKASAKI, Takeshi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220370997
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification device includes a substrate, a first catalyst layer, and a second catalyst layer. The substrate includes an upstream end, a downstream end, and a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells extending between the upstream end and the downstream end. The plurality of cells include an inlet cell opening at the upstream end and sealed at the downstream end, and an outlet cell adjacent to the inlet cell sealed at the upstream end and opening at the downstream end. The first catalyst layer is disposed on a surface of the partition wall in an upstream region. In a downstream region, the second catalyst layer is disposed inside the partition wall, and a second catalyst-containing wall including the partition wall and the second catalyst layer has a porosity of 35% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SUGIURA, Takeshi HIRABAYASHI, Akemi SATOU, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Takaya OTA, Masatoshi IKEBE, Kohei TAKASAKI, Takeshi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220347626
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device suppresses a pressure loss increase and includes a honeycomb substrate and inflow cell side catalyst layer. The substrate includes a porous partition wall defining several cells extending from an inflow side end surface to an outflow side end surface. The cells include an inflow and outflow cell adjacent across the wall. The inflow cell has an open inflow side end and sealed outflow side end. The outflow cell has a sealed inflow side end and open outflow side end. The catalyst layer is on an inflow cell side surface in an region extending from the inflow side end positioned 10% or more of the partition wall length. At this position, a filled portion of the inflow cell side catalyst layer pores are 40% or less. The pores are present to a depth of 50% of a thickness of the partition wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akemi SATO, Takeshi HIRABAYASHI, Koji SUGIURA, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Takaya OTA, Masatoshi IKEBE, Kohei TAKASAKI, Takeshi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220339606
    Abstract: Methods for exhaust gas purification, including the steps of: attaching an exhaust gas purification catalyst to an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and supplying an exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification catalyst, where the exhaust gas purification catalyst includes an upper layer containing first carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide and rhodium, and a lower layer containing second carrier particles which are particles of an inorganic oxide, the upper layer includes a rhodium-rich portion near the surface of the upper layer on the upstream side of the exhaust gas flow, and the existence range of the rhodium-rich portion is in a range of greater than 50% to 80% of the length of the upper layer from a downstream side end of an exhaust gas flow and of less than 20 ?m in the depth direction from an outermost surface of the upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke OISHI, Takaya OTA, Yoshinori SAITO, Seiji NAKAHIGASHI, Isao CHINZEI, Hiromasa SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11473472
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a honeycomb substrate and an inlet cell-side catalyst layer. The honeycomb substrate includes a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inlet-side end face to an outlet-side end face. The cells include an inlet cell and an outlet cell that are adjacent to each other with the partition wall therebetween. The inlet cell is open at its inlet-side end and is sealed at its outlet-side end. The outlet cell is sealed at its inlet-side end and is open at its outlet-side end. The inlet cell-side catalyst layer is provided on a surface on the inlet cell side of the partition wall and extends from an inlet-side end of the partition wall. Porosity of the inlet cell-side catalyst layer is in a specific range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Sugiura, Hiromasa Nishioka, Naoto Miyoshi, Akemi Satou, Keisuke Murawaki, Masatoshi Ikebe, Takaya Ota, Ryota Nakashima, Hirotaka Ori
  • Publication number: 20220297094
    Abstract: The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst including a base material 11 and a catalyst layer 20 provided on the base material 11. The catalyst layer 20 includes: a catalyst metal; and a carrying material 21 carrying the catalyst metal. The carrying material 21 includes: an OSC material 22 having an oxygen storage capacity; and a carrier 23 other than the OSC material. The OSC material 22 has a mean particle diameter Dx of 1.5 ?m or more which is larger than the mean particle diameter Dy of the carrier 23 other than the OSC material 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Takaya Ota, Shunsuke Oishi, Ryosuke Takasu
  • Publication number: 20220016601
    Abstract: An exhaust-gas purification apparatus includes: a honeycomb base material including a plurality of exhaust-gas flow paths partitioned by a porous wall; and one or more catalyst noble metals carried by the honeycomb base material. The catalyst noble metals are selected from the group consisting of platinum, palladium, and rhodium. The honeycomb base material has a noble metal concentrated surface section in which a 50%-by-mass noble metal carry depth for a specific noble metal that is one type among one or two catalyst noble metals is less than 50% of the distance from the surface to the center of the inside of the porous wall. The 50%-by-mass noble metal carry depth is the depth at which, when the amount of the specific noble metal carried between the surface and the center of the inside of porous wall is used as a reference, 50% by mass of specific noble metal is carried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke OHISHI, Takaya OTA, Ryosuke TAKASU, Mitsuyoshi OKADA, Minoru ITOU, Kana IWATA, Takumi TOJO, Takeru YOSHIDA, Masaru KAKINOHANA, Hiromasa SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20210324777
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus includes a honeycomb substrate and an inlet cell-side catalyst layer. The honeycomb substrate includes a porous partition wall that defines a plurality of cells extending from an inlet-side end face to an outlet-side end face. The cells include an inlet cell and an outlet cell that are adjacent to each other with the partition wall therebetween. The inlet cell is open at its inlet-side end and is sealed at its outlet-side end. The outlet cell is sealed at its inlet-side end and is open at its outlet-side end. The inlet cell-side catalyst layer is provided on a surface on the inlet cell side of the partition wall and extends from an inlet-side end of the partition wall. Porosity of the inlet cell-side catalyst layer is in a specific range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji SUGIURA, Hiromasa NISHIOKA, Naoto MIYOSHI, Akemi SATOU, Keisuke MURAWAKI, Masatoshi IKEBE, Takaya OTA, Ryota NAKASHIMA, Hirotaka ORI
  • Publication number: 20210094027
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes an upper layer which includes first carrier particles and rhodium, and a lower layer which includes second carrier particles, and the upper layer includes a rhodium enriched area in the range a, from the upstream end in the exhaust gas flow to 50% of the upper layer length, and a range b from the upper layer top surface to 18 ?m in the depth direction. The rhodium enriched area contains at least 50% and less than 100% of all the rhodium in the upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke OISHI, Takaya OTA, Isao CHINZEI, Hiromasa SUZUKI, Yoshinori SAITO, Seiji NAKAHIGASHI
  • Publication number: 20200376467
    Abstract: This exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes an upper layer which includes first carrier particles and rhodium, and a lower layer which includes second carrier particles, and the upper layer includes a rhodium enriched area in the range a, from the downstream end in the exhaust gas flow to greater than 50% and up to 80% of the upper layer length, and a range b from the upper layer top surface less than 20 ?m in the depth direction. The rhodium enriched area contains at least 50% and less than 100% of all the rhodium in the upper layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicants: CATALER CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunsuke OISHI, Takaya OTA, Yoshinori SAITO, Seiji NAKAHIGASHI, Isao CHINZEI, Hiromasa SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 10814311
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purifying catalyst includes a catalyst layer formed inside a partition wall of a base material having a wall flow structure, and has an upstream-side and a downstream-side catalyst layer. The upstream-side catalyst layer includes Rh and a Ce-containing oxide, and the downstream-side catalyst layer includes Pd and a Ce-containing oxide. The mass of the catalyst layer per unit volume of the base material is from 105 g/L to 210 g/L, the mass of the upstream-side catalyst layer per unit volume in an upstream-side portion is from 50 g/L to 100 g/L, the mass of the downstream-side catalyst layer per unit volume in a downstream-side portion is from 100 g/L to 150 g/L, the Ce amount per unit volume of the base material is from 14 g/L to 35 g/L, and the Ce amount per unit volume in the upstream-side portion is from 5 g/L to 20 g/L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sho Hoshino, Yuki Takesue, Ryota Onoe, Taku Miura, Takaya Ota
  • Patent number: 10413885
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments relate to an exhaust gas purification catalyst that is excellent in terms of HC purification capacity and warm-up performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, CATALER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromasa Suzuki, Yoshinori Saito, Tatsuya Ohashi, Shunsuke Ohishi, Takaya Ota