Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Fukui

Toshihiro Fukui 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: 20240123513
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is 0.400 or more and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c is 0.200 or more and 0.990 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240123514
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternative layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is more than 0.500 and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.10 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of a>c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240100603
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is between greater than or equal to 0.350 and equal to or less than 0.650, b is between greater than or equal to 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.100, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c is between greater than or equal to 0.20 and equal to or less than 0.99.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240100606
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is 0.350 or more and 0.650 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.40 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of c>a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Publication number: 20240102173
    Abstract: A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is 0.350 or more and 0.650 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcCr1-cN, c is 0.40 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of c>a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Haruyo FUKUI, Nozomi TSUKIHARA, Anongsack PASEUTH, Toshihiro TABATA
  • Patent number: 11919128
    Abstract: A method for processing a ceramic honeycomb structure, the method comprising subjecting an outer peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure to centerless grinding in an in-feed mode by bringing a rotationally driving grinding wheel into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure rotationally supported by an adjusting wheel, a blade, and a press roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukui, Yasunobu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11801564
    Abstract: A perforating apparatus for a cylindrical workpiece, including: a cradle having a groove extending in one direction horizontally from one end to another end; a stopper provided at the one end of the groove; a drill disposed vertically above the groove and movable at least in vertical direction, having a drill bit that extends vertically; and a chuck having a pair of opposing grippers movable toward each other in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction in which the groove extends, and symmetrically with respect to a rotation axis of the drill bit, each of the grippers further having a pair of vertically symmetric inclined surfaces expanding upwards and downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukui, Hideaki Ito
  • Patent number: 11542205
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a honeycomb structure including: a dry mixing step of dry-mixing raw materials to form the honeycomb structure by a batch treatment, a wet mixing step of adding a liquid including at least one selected from the group consisting of water, a surfactant, a lubricant and a plasticizer to a dry mixture obtained in the dry mixing step, to perform wet mixing, a kneading step of kneading a wet mixture obtained in the wet mixing step, and a forming step of extruding a forming material prepared in the kneading step, wherein in the dry mixing step, a used forming material passed through the forming step is added as a part of the raw material, to perform dry mixing, and the kneading step includes a liquid re-adding step of further adding the liquid in a process of kneading the wet mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Nakajo, Toshihiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20200306843
    Abstract: A perforating apparatus for a cylindrical workpiece, including: a cradle having a groove extending in one direction horizontally from one end to another end; a stopper provided at the one end of the groove; a drill disposed vertically above the groove and movable at least in vertical direction, having a drill bit that extends vertically; and a chuck having a pair of opposing grippers movable toward each other in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction in which the groove extends, and symmetrically with respect to a rotation axis of the drill bit, each of the grippers further having a pair of vertically symmetric inclined surfaces expanding upwards and downwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro FUKUI, Hideaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20200238470
    Abstract: A method for processing a ceramic honeycomb structure, the method comprising subjecting an outer peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure to centerless grinding in an in-feed mode by bringing a rotationally driving grinding wheel into contact with the outer peripheral surface of the ceramic honeycomb structure rotationally supported by an adjusting wheel, a blade, and a press roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro FUKUI, Yasunobu TANAKA
  • Patent number: 10677702
    Abstract: The method of predicting a formed body density includes: a correlation calculating step of obtaining the correlation between the formed body density of the formed body and the porosity of the fired body; and a formed body density predicting step including: in a case of preparing a kneaded material A from a ceramic raw material having substantially the same composition as a ceramic raw material used for preparing a kneaded material, preparing a formed body B by forming the kneaded material A, preparing a dried body C by drying the formed body B, and preparing a fired body D having a desired porosity by firing the dried body C, calculating a predicted value of the formed body density of the formed body B corresponding to the desired porosity of the fired body D using the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Fukui
  • Patent number: 10576609
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure uses a grinding wheel having a coarse abrasive grain layer and a pair of fine abrasive grain layers sintered and secured to be formed on both sides of the coarse abrasive grain layer, and has a grinding wheel rotating step of rotating the pair of grinding wheels disposed via a predetermined space in a state where fine abrasive grain layers of the grinding wheels face each other; a conveying step of conveying a honeycomb formed body formed by extrusion and the like; an end face grinding step of grinding end faces of the conveyed honeycomb formed body with the rotating grinding wheels; and a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Umetsu, Toshihiro Fukui, Nobuchika Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10265881
    Abstract: The manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure includes a mounting step of mounting an extruded honeycomb formed body on a firing setter disposed on a shelf plate, and a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed body mounted on the firing setter to form the honeycomb structure, and in the mounting step, the firing setter is used in which a value obtained by dividing an area of a formed body end face of the honeycomb formed body by an area of a honeycomb mounting surface of the firing setter which faces the formed body end face and at least a part of which comes in contact with the formed body end face is in a range of 2.5 to 20.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Yukichi Kitaguchi, Toshihiro Fukui
  • Publication number: 20180273433
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a honeycomb structure including: a dry mixing step of dry-mixing raw materials to form the honeycomb structure by a batch treatment, a wet mixing step of adding a liquid including at least one selected from the group consisting of water, a surfactant, a lubricant and a plasticizer to a dry mixture obtained in the dry mixing step, to perform wet mixing, a kneading step of kneading a wet mixture obtained in the wet mixing step, and a forming step of extruding a forming material prepared in the kneading step, wherein in the dry mixing step, a used forming material passed through the forming step is added as a part of the raw material, to perform dry mixing, and the kneading step includes a liquid re-adding step of further adding the liquid in a process of kneading the wet mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto NAKAJO, Toshihiro FUKUI
  • Patent number: 10046430
    Abstract: The end face grinding method includes a structure rotating step of rotating a honeycomb structure based on a rotation axis in a direction orthogonal to the end face of the honeycomb structure, a grinding wheel reverse rotating step of using a grinding wheel disposed so that a grinding surface faces the end face and rotating the grinding wheel in a reverse rotating direction to a rotating direction of the honeycomb structure based on a rotation axis in the direction orthogonal to the end face; and a dry type grinding step of bringing the grinding wheel rotating in the reverse direction close to the rotating honeycomb structure to perform the dry type grinding of the end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukui, Nobuyuki Umetsu, Nobuchika Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170284917
    Abstract: The method of predicting a formed body density includes: a correlation calculating step of obtaining the correlation between the formed body density of the formed body and the porosity of the fired body; and a formed body density predicting step including: in a case of preparing a kneaded material A from a ceramic raw material having substantially the same composition as a ceramic raw material used for preparing a kneaded material, preparing a formed body B by forming the kneaded material A, preparing a dried body C by drying the formed body B, and preparing a fired body D having a desired porosity by firing the dried body C, calculating a predicted value of the formed body density of the formed body B corresponding to the desired porosity of the fired body D using the correlation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihiro FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20170274365
    Abstract: The manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure includes a mounting step of mounting an extruded honeycomb formed body on a firing setter disposed on a shelf plate, and a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed body mounted on the firing setter to form the honeycomb structure, and in the mounting step, the firing setter is used in which a value obtained by dividing an area of a formed body end face of the honeycomb formed body by an area of a honeycomb mounting surface of the firing setter which faces the formed body end face and at least a part of which comes in contact with the formed body end face is in a range of 2.5 to 20.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Yukichi KITAGUCHI, Toshihiro FUKUI
  • Publication number: 20160263728
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of the honeycomb structure uses a grinding wheel having a coarse abrasive grain layer and a pair of fine abrasive grain layers sintered and secured to be formed on both sides of the coarse abrasive grain layer, and has a grinding wheel rotating step of rotating the pair of grinding wheels disposed via a predetermined space in a state where fine abrasive grain layers of the grinding wheels face each other; a conveying step of conveying a honeycomb formed body formed by extrusion and the like; an end face grinding step of grinding end faces of the conveyed honeycomb formed body with the rotating grinding wheels; and a firing step of firing the honeycomb formed body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Nobuyuki UMETSU, Toshihiro FUKUI, Nobuchika NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160207158
    Abstract: The end face grinding method includes a structure rotating step of rotating a honeycomb structure based on a rotation axis in a direction orthogonal to the end face of the honeycomb structure, a grinding wheel reverse rotating step of using a grinding wheel disposed so that a grinding surface faces the end face and rotating the grinding wheel in a reverse rotating direction to a rotating direction of the honeycomb structure based on a rotation axis in the direction orthogonal to the end face; and a dry type grinding step of bringing the grinding wheel rotating in the reverse direction close to the rotating honeycomb structure to perform the dry type grinding of the end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Toshihiro FUKUI, Nobuyuki UMETSU, Nobuchika NOGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9387621
    Abstract: A conveyance receiver for a honeycomb formed body is a conveyance receiver where a pillar, clayey honeycomb formed body extruded from a die is placed with its central axis set horizontally and moves on a conveyance path to convey the honeycomb formed body to a next process, and the conveyance receiver includes a concaved surface concaved to both end faces parallel to a surface perpendicular to the central axis of the honeycomb formed body to be placed, and that is a surface in contact with a side surface of the honeycomb formed body to be conveyed; and a receiver main body constituted of a plurality of members, and coupling means that couples the members to one another, and the receiver main body at least has a first member at the one end face side and a second member at the other end face side as the members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fukui, Daiki Kato