Patents by Inventor Takeshi Mende

Takeshi Mende 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: 9523302
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus. The apparatus has a noble metal component for oxidizing NOx in an exhaust gas discharged from a diesel engine, a reducing agent spraying means for supplying the reducing agent selected from a urea component or an ammonia component, and a selective reduction catalyst (SCR) not comprising a noble metal for removing by reduction NOx by contacting with the reducing agent, in this order from the upstream side of an exhaust gas passage. Activity of the selective reduction catalyst (SCR) is maintained by setting that the noble metal component of the oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprises platinum and palladium, and ratio of platinum particles existing alone is 20% or less, or average particle diameter of the noble metal is 4 nm or larger, and by suppressing volatilization of platinum from the oxidation catalyst (DOC), even when catalyst bed temperature increases up to 900° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mende, Toshinori Okajima, Yasuyuki Banno, Makoto Nagata
  • Publication number: 20140050627
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus. The apparatus has a noble metal component for oxidizing NOx in an exhaust gas discharged from a diesel engine, a reducing agent spraying means for supplying the reducing agent selected from a urea component or an ammonia component, and a selective reduction catalyst (SCR) not comprising a noble metal for removing by reduction NOx by contacting with the reducing agent, in this order from the upstream side of an exhaust gas passage. Activity of the selective reduction catalyst (SCR) is maintained by setting that the noble metal component of the oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprises platinum and palladium, and ratio of platinum particles existing alone is 20% or less, or average particle diameter of the noble metal is 4 nm or larger, and by suppressing volatilization of platinum from the oxidation catalyst (DOC), even when catalyst bed temperature increases up to 900° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: N.E. CHEMCAT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Mende, Toshinori Okajima, Yasuyuki Banno, Makoto Nagata
  • Patent number: 8161737
    Abstract: An exhaust gas pressure P, exhaust gas temperatures TU and TD on upstream and downstream of a DPF, a rotation speed Ne, a load Q, and an intake flow rate F as various operating conditions are read, and an amount of PM generated for short time ?t is obtained to be added to a PM deposited amount m, and thus, to obtain an initial deposited amount. Exhaust gas properties and a space velocity SV are obtained based on various operating conditions, and the PM deposited amount m after a lapse of the short time ?t is estimated from a PM deposited amount estimation equation “m=m·exp(?B·?t)” having been derived considering the exhaust gas properties and the space velocity SV. When the PM deposited amount m is equal to or more than a predetermined value, a forced regeneration processing in the DPF is executed, and thereafter, the PM deposited amount m is reset to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignees: UD Trucks Corporation, Waseda University, Tokyo Roki Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Kanaya, Takayuki Adachi, Nobuhiko Masaki, Kiminobu Hirata, Jin Kusaka, Keishi Takada, Takeshi Mende, Fumiyuki Tsurumi
  • Publication number: 20100269490
    Abstract: An exhaust gas pressure P, exhaust gas temperatures TU and TD on upstream and downstream of a DPF, a rotation speed Ne, a load Q, and an intake flow rate F as various operating conditions are read, and an amount of PM generated for short time ?t is obtained to be added to a PM deposited amount m, and thus, to obtain an initial deposited amount. Exhaust gas properties and a space velocity SV are obtained based on various operating conditions, and the PM deposited amount m after a lapse of the short time ?t is estimated from a PM deposited amount estimation equation “m=m·exp(?B·?t)” having been derived considering the exhaust gas properties and the space velocity SV. When the PM deposited amount m is equal to or more than a predetermined value, a forced regeneration processing in the DPF is executed, and thereafter, the PM deposited amount m is reset to 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Isamu KANAYA, Takayuki Adachi, Nobuhiko Masaki, Kiminobu Hirata, Jin Kusaka, Keishi Takada, Takeshi Mende, Fumiyuki Tsurumi