Patents Assigned to Incorporated Administrative Agency Public Works Research Institute
  • Publication number: 20120183205
    Abstract: Measurement of 3D displacement based on successively captured images of an object becomes difficult to be performed due to a load imposed on an operator along with an increase of the number of target portions defined on the object and that of time steps for displacement measurement. A device for displacement measurement executes stereo measurement relative to a stereo image to generate 3D shape information and orthographically projected image of an object for each time, and tracks the 2D image of the target portion through pattern matching between orthographically projected images at successive times to obtain a 2D displacement vector. The device for displacement measurement converts the start point and the end point of the 2D displacement vector into 3D coordinates, using the 3D shape information, to obtain a 3D displacement vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicants: INCORPORATED ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, PASCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Shimamura, Hiroyuki Shimomura, Kikuo Tachibana, Lin Zhu, Kazunori Fujisawa
  • Patent number: 7743444
    Abstract: A cable-stayed suspension bridge having characteristics of a cable stayed bridge and those of a suspension bridge at the same and time and using one-box and two-box girders in combination is disclosed. The bridge grinder of the cable-stayed suspension bridge includes one-box girders that each extend to both sides through the respective one tower and a two-box girder set in a central portion of the center span between towers in the length direction of the bridge girder. The cable-stayed suspension bridge includes cable-stayed structures in which a respective one of the one-box girders is supported by the tower with plural cables and a suspension structure in which the two-box girder is supported by the plural towers with two main cables and plural hanger ropes. The two-box girder has a central ventilation opening in the central portion as viewed in a transverse direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignees: Incorporated Administrative Agency Public Works Research Institute, Honshu-Shikoku Bridge Expressway Company Limited, Incorporated Foundation Public Works Research Center, Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kawada Industries, Inc., Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., JFE Engineering Corporation, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Murakoshi, Koichiro Fumoto, Hideki Shimodoi, Masao Miyazaki, Syuji Shirai, Masato Suzawa
  • Patent number: 7571899
    Abstract: A gas-liquid dissolving apparatus includes an intake unit that takes in to-be-treated water from an oxygen-deficient water area, an oxygen-containing gas supply unit, a bottomed gas-liquid dissolving chamber that has at least one hole formed in a lower portion and a top plate provided in an upper portion, a nozzle that ejects the gas supplied by the supplying unit and the water supplied by the intake unit, a gas-liquid separating chamber that has a gas-vent hole formed in an upper portion and a takeout port provided in a lower portion thereof, and a water supplying unit that returns the water taken out from the takeout port to the oxygen-deficient water area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignees: Matsuedoken Co., Ltd., Incorporated Administrative Agency Public Works Research Institute
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kitasako, Masao Katsube, Katsuhiro Sakamoto, Junzo Sago, Hiroaki Tanaka, Jun Tsumori