Patents by Inventor Yunie IZUMI

Yunie IZUMI 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: 20160271908
    Abstract: A composite body of the present invention includes a base and an oxide layer arranged on the base, the oxide layer containing more than 45% by volume of a perovskite-type oxide phase. The composite body may include a first member, a second member, and a joining portion that joins the first member and the second member, at least one of the first member and the second member serving as the base, and the joining portion serving as the oxide layer. The composite body may include the base and a covering portion that covers the whole or part of a surface of the base, the covering portion being formed of the oxide layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9358529
    Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material containing aggregates; and a composite binding material which binds the aggregates to one another in a state where pores are formed and in which mullite particles that are reinforcing particles are dispersed in cordierite that is a binding material, and a content of metal silicon is smaller than 15 mass %. Preferably, to a total mass of the aggregates, the composite binding material and the metal silicon, a lower limit value of a content of the composite binding material is 12 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the composite binding material is 50 mass %. Preferably, to the total mass, a lower limit value of a content of the mullite particles is 0.5 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the mullite particles is 15 mass %. A porous material having a high thermal shock resistance is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9346714
    Abstract: There are disclosed a porous material having a high thermal shock resistance and a honeycomb structure. The porous material contains main aggregates and auxiliary aggregates as aggregates, the main aggregates are silicon carbide particles, the auxiliary aggregates are at least either of mullite particles or alumina particles, the aggregates are bound to one another via a binding phase, so as to form pores, and the binding phase is at least one of an amorphous phase and a cordierite phase, and a porosity is from 40 to 90%. Furthermore, the honeycomb structure is constituted of such a porous material, and includes partition walls defining and forming a plurality of cells extending from one end face to the other end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160096775
    Abstract: A heat-resistant member 10 includes a member 12 that is a target to be protected and a protective layer 14 arranged on the whole or part of a surface of the member 12. The protective layer 14 includes an oxide ceramic containing an Fe3O4 phase in which a solute component capable of forming a spinel-type oxide with Fe is solid-dissolved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160096777
    Abstract: A honeycomb structural body 40 includes: a partition wall 48 formed of a porous ceramic which forms and defines a plurality of cells 47 each functioning as a flow path of a fluid and extending from one end surface to the other end surface; and an outer circumference wall 49 formed along the outermost circumference, where an oxide ceramic containing a Fe3O4 phase in which a solute component capable of forming a spinel-type oxide with Fe is solid-dissolved is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160096342
    Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a first member 21, a second member 22, and a joint portion 30 which is formed from an oxide ceramic containing a Fe3O4 phase in which a solute component capable of forming a spinel-type oxide with Fe is solid-dissolved and which joins the first member 21 and the second member 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160096341
    Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a first member 21 which is a ceramic containing Si, a second member 22, and a joining portion 30 which is formed of an electrically conductive oxide containing a Fe3O4 phase and which joins the first member 21 and the second member 22. In the joined body 20, no reaction layer is preferably formed at a joining interface between the electrically conductive oxide and the first member 21. The joining portion 30 is preferably formed to have a multilayer structure in which from the first matter 21 to the second member 22, a first layer containing a first oxide of a transition metal, a second layer containing an electrically conductive oxide of a transition metal having a low valence as compared to that of the first oxide, and a mixed layer containing a transition metal and an oxide thereof are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20160099089
    Abstract: A joined body 20 includes comprises a first member 21, a second center 22 having a high coefficient of thermal expansion as compared to that of the first member 21, and a joint portion 30 which at least partially includes a mixed layer 33 containing metal of a transition metal and an oxide of the transition metal and which joins the first member 21 and the second member 22. In this joint portion 30, a first layer 31 containing a first oxide of a transition metal, a second layer 32 containing a second oxide of a transition metal having a low valence as compared to that of the first oxide, and the mixed layer 33 metal of a transition metal and an oxide thereof preferably are formed so as to form a multilayer structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9289707
    Abstract: There are disclosed a porous material having excellent heat resisting properties and an excellent resistance to heat shock. A porous material contains aggregates and an amorphous binding agent to bind the aggregates to one another in a state where pores are formed among the aggregates, the binding agent contains a rare earth element, the amorphous binding agent preferably contains magnesium, aluminum, silicon, the rare earth element and oxygen, and the amorphous binding agent preferably contains 8.0 to 15.0 mass % of MgO, 30.0 to 60.0 mass % of Al2O3, 30.0 to 55.0 mass % of SiO2, and 1.5 to 10.0 mass % of the rare earth oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9273575
    Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material which has an improved thermal shock resistance. The porous material contains aggregates and a composite binder. The composite binder includes glass as a binder and mullite particles as reinforcing particles, and the mullite particles are dispersed in the glass. The aggregates are connected to each other by the composite binder in a state where pores are formed in the porous material. Preferably, a lower limit of a percentage of a content of the composite binder to a total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 12 mass %, and an upper limit of the percentage of the content of the composite binder to the total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 50 mass %. Preferably, the glass contains MgO, Al2O3 and SiO2 and further contains at least one selected from a group consisting of Na2O, K2O and CaO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20160046531
    Abstract: A joined body 20 includes a porous ceramic 22 made of porous ceramic, a metal member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic that penetrates into pores 23 of the porous ceramic 22 and joins the porous ceramic 22 to the metal member 24. The penetration depth of the oxide ceramic into the pores of the porous ceramic is preferably 10 ?m or more, and more preferably 15 to 50 ?m. The joined body 20 may be produced through a joining step of forming a joint by placing a metal raw material between a porous ceramic and a metal member and firing the metal raw material in the air at a temperature in the range of 400° C. to 900° C., where an oxide ceramic produced by oxidation of the metal raw material penetrates into the pores of the porous ceramic in the joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160002110
    Abstract: A joined body 20 according to the present invention includes a first member 22 made of a porous ceramic, a second member 24 made of a metal, and a joint 30 formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint 30 joining the first member 22 to the second member 24. Alternatively, a joined body may include a first member made of a dense material, a second member made of a dense material, and a joint formed of an oxide ceramic of a transition metal, the joint joining the first member to the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Kenji MORIMOTO, Shinji KAWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20150270026
    Abstract: A composite body of the present invention includes a substrate and a forming portion which is composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide and which is formed on the substrate. This composite body may be a composite body manufactured by a manufacturing method including a forming step of firing in an oxidizing atmosphere, a laminated body in which an inorganic raw material powder containing a compound powder and a metal powder is disposed on a substrate so as to form a forming portion composed of a composite phase containing a perovskite oxide and a metal oxide different from the perovskite oxide on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20150266273
    Abstract: A heat-resistant member 10 according to the present invention includes a member to be protected 12 and a metal oxide ceramic protective layer 14 which is disposed on part of or all surfaces of the member to be protected 12 and which has a porosity of 0 percent by volume or more and 5 percent by volume or less. This heat-resistant member 10 is produced through the step of forming a protective layer by firing a member to be protected 12 provided with a metal raw material in the air in a temperature range lower than the melting point of an oxide of the metal raw material to form a metal oxide ceramic protective layer 14 having a porosity of 0 percent by volume or more and 5 percent by volume or less on part of or all surfaces of the member to be protected 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9101865
    Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb structure which has an excellent collecting performance of a particulate matter and in which a pressure loss during flowing of a fluid through the honeycomb structure is low. The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb base material having porous partition walls with which a plurality of cells are formed to become through channels of a fluid, a value of a ratio of an average open frontal area diameter of pores which are open in the surfaces of the partition walls to an average pore diameter of the pores formed in the partition walls is from 0.05 to 0.45, the partition walls have a single layer structure, and preferably, an open frontal area diameter of each of the pores which are open in the surfaces of the partition walls is from 0.5 to 10 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9073789
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sintered ceramic body mixes barium silicate with aluminum oxide, a glass material, and an additive oxide to prepare a material mixture, molds the material mixture and fires the molded object. The barium silicate is monoclinic and has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.3 ?m to 1 ?m and a specific surface area in a range of 5 m2/g to 20 m2/g. The aluminum oxide has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.4 ?m to 10 ?m, a specific surface area in a range of 0.8 m2/g to 8 m2/g. A volume ratio of the aluminum oxide to the barium silicate is in a range of 10% by volume to 25% by volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie Izumi, Yoshimasa Kobayashi, Yuji Katsuda
  • Publication number: 20140370232
    Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material containing aggregates; and a composite binding material which binds the aggregates to one another in a state where pores are formed and in which mullite particles that are reinforcing particles are dispersed in cordierite that is a binding material, and a content of metal silicon is smaller than 15 mass %. Preferably, to a total mass of the aggregates, the composite binding material and the metal silicon, a lower limit value of a content of the composite binding material is 12 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the composite binding material is 50 mass %. Preferably, to the total mass, a lower limit value of a content of the mullite particles is 0.5 mass %, and an upper limit value of the content of the mullite particles is 15 mass %. A porous material having a high thermal shock resistance is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140370233
    Abstract: There are disclosed a porous material having a high thermal shock resistance and a honeycomb structure. The porous material contains main aggregates and auxiliary aggregates as aggregates, the main aggregates are silicon carbide particles, the auxiliary aggregates are at least either of mullite particles or alumina particles, the aggregates are bound to one another via a binding phase, so as to form pores, and the binding phase is at least one of an amorphous phase and a cordierite phase, and a porosity is from 40 to 90%. Furthermore, the honeycomb structure is constituted of such a porous material, and includes partition walls defining and forming a plurality of cells extending from one end face to the other end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140290195
    Abstract: There is disclosed a porous material which has an improved thermal shock resistance. The porous material contains aggregates and a composite binder. The composite binder includes glass as a binder and mullite particles as reinforcing particles, and the mullite particles are dispersed in the glass. The aggregates are connected to each other by the composite binder in a state where pores are formed in the porous material. Preferably, a lower limit of a percentage of a content of the composite binder to a total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 12 mass %, and an upper limit of the percentage of the content of the composite binder to the total mass of the aggregates and composite binder is 50 mass %. Preferably, the glass contains MgO, Al2O3 and SiO2 and further contains at least one selected from a group consisting of Na2O, K2O and CaO.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20140021662
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a sintered ceramic body mixes barium silicate with aluminum oxide, a glass material, and an additive oxide to prepare a material mixture, molds the material mixture and fires the molded object. The barium silicate is monoclinic and has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.3 ?m to 1 ?m and a specific surface area in a range of 5 m2/g to 20 m2/g. The aluminum oxide has an average particle diameter in a range of 0.4 ?m to 10 ?m, a specific surface area in a range of 0.8 m2/g to 8 m2/g. A volume ratio of the aluminum oxide to the barium silicate is in a range of 10% by volume to 25% by volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yunie IZUMI, Yoshimasa KOBAYASHI, Yuji KATSUDA