Patents Assigned to Miura Co., LTD.,
  • Patent number: 9732637
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system includes: a heater which evaporates a working medium by exchanging heat between supercharged air supplied to an engine and the working medium; an expander which expands the working medium which has flowed out from the heater; a power recovery device connected to the expander; a condenser which condenses the working medium which has flowed out from the expander; a cooling medium supply pipe for supplying a cooling medium to an air cooler which cools the supercharged air which has flowed out from the heater; a cooling medium pump which is provided in the cooling medium supply pipe and which sends the cooling medium to the air cooler; and a branch pipe which bifurcates a part of the cooling medium flowing in the cooling medium supply pipe, to the condenser, in such a manner that the working medium is cooled by the cooling medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignees: Kobe Steel, Ltd., MIURA Co., Ltd., ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Tanaka, Kazuo Takahashi, Ryo Fujisawa, Shigeto Adachi, Yutaka Narukawa
  • Patent number: 9696290
    Abstract: The interior of a fractionating tool for fractionating dioxins is packed with a purification layer and an adsorption layer. The adsorption layer includes a first adsorption layer including an activated carbon-containing silica gel layer and a graphite-containing silica gel layer, and a second adsorption layer including an alumina layer. When a solution of dioxins is injected into the purification layer and is supplied with an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, the solvent dissolves dioxins in the solution of dioxins and passes through the purification layer and the adsorption layer. In this process, non-ortho PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs among dioxins are adsorbed to the first adsorption layer, and mono-ortho PCBs among dioxins are adsorbed to the second adsorption layer. As a result, dioxins are fractionated into a group including non-ortho PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs, and mono-ortho PCBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fujita, Hirofumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170151513
    Abstract: Provided is a ballast water treatment device with which filter clogging can be effectively eliminated by backwash using a simple configuration. The ballast water treatment device is provided with: a filter 52; an introduction line L1; a line L11through which the ballast water W2 filtered by the filter 52 flows; a flow rate adjustment unit (valve V12) for adjusting the flow rate of the ballast water W2 that flows through the line L11; and a flow rate control unit (control unit 9) for controlling the flow rate adjustment unit V12. The flow rate control unit 9, in a situation where the filtering capability of the filter 52 is decreased, controls the flow rate adjustment unit V12 so as to increase the pressure on a secondary side of the filter 52 by decreasing the flow rate of the ballast water W2, and the filter 52 is then subjected to backwash with the pressure on the secondary side of the filter 52 having been increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki TANGE, Yoshinobu HIRAKI
  • Patent number: 9618197
    Abstract: The invention improves system efficiency with no waste of heat held by a stopped boiler. A boiler system includes a boiler group having a plurality of boilers and a controller for controlling a combustion state of the boiler group. The controller includes a heat release determiner for determining whether or not the plurality of boilers includes a boiler releasing heat, a boiler increase determiner for determining, when the heat releasing boiler starts combustion and the heat releasing boiler and the other combusting boilers are combusted at equal load factors, whether or not the load factor is higher than a predetermined load factor, and an output controller for combusting the heat releasing boiler when the load factor is determined to be higher than the predetermined load factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Miura Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Tetsuji Namoto, Hidetomo Saimi
  • Patent number: 9612230
    Abstract: A water quality measuring device comprises a measurement cell (10), a sample water supply unit (80), a reagent supply unit (30), an agitating unit (17), a measuring unit (20) and a control unit (90). The sample water supply unit (80) includes an inlet channel (12) configured to supply the measurement cell (10) with sample water and an outlet channel (13) configured to discharge sample water from the measurement cell (10). The inlet channel (12) is connected to a flow channel (2) configured to supply sample water, and includes a filter (13) and an electromagnetic valve (15). The control unit (90) opens the electromagnetic valve (15) for supplying sample water to allow sample water, from which foreign substances are removed by the filter (13), to flow into the measurement cell (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: MIURA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuaki Kano, Yusuke Hamada, Yasuyuki Arimitsu
  • Publication number: 20170089295
    Abstract: A heat energy recovery system includes an evaporator, a superheater, an expander, a power recovery device, a condenser, a pump, and a controller. The controller includes: an engine load calculation section; a maximum rotation speed determination section for determining a maximum rotation speed of the pump which is obtained when a pinch temperature reaches a target pinch temperature, based on a relational expression representing a relationship between the engine load and the maximum rotation speed, and an engine load; and a rotation speed regulation section for regulating the rotation speed of the pump in such a way as to allow the degree of superheat of the working medium flowing into the expander to be equal to or greater than a reference value, and to allow the rotation speed to be equal to or less than a maximum rotation speed determined by the maximum rotation speed determination section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd., MIURA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji TANAKA, Kazuo TAKAHASHI, Shigeto ADACHI, Yutaka NARUKAWA
  • Patent number: 9568187
    Abstract: A storage medium stores a control program including program code for, in the case of increasing a quantity of combustion in the boiler group, after a high-efficiency combustion shift signal that makes the shift to the high-efficiency combustion position is output to all of the boilers subject to high-efficiency control by which control is conducted on the basis of combustion at the high-efficiency combustion position, outputting a control signal that makes the shift to a higher combustion position than the high-efficiency combustion positions for any one of the high-efficiency control subject boilers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 9533902
    Abstract: A salt water supply unit includes a salt water plate that divides the interior of a salt water tank into a salt container and a salt water reservoir, and a salt water well that stands and penetrates the salt water plate. The salt water well accommodates a salt water valve device and a concentration detector. The salt water valve device includes a valve box having a valve hole that allows makeup water or salt water to flow therethrough, a float rod penetrating the valve hole, a valve element coupled to a first end of the float rod, and a water level detecting float coupled to a second end of the float rod. The concentration detector includes a switch that is incorporated in a stem holding a concentration detecting float. The switch outputs different detection signals in accordance with the position of the concentration detecting float.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20160340014
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a ballast water treatment line (4) having a treatment target water suction pump (1), a filter (2) that filters treatment target water, and a ballast tank (3) that stores filtered treatment water; a treatment target water overboard discharge line (6) having a treatment target water overboard discharge unit (5) that discharges treatment target water overboard; and a treatment water overboard discharge line (10) having a treatment water suction pump (7) that sucks treatment water in the ballast tank (3), an ultraviolet reactor (8) that treats treatment water with ultraviolet radiation, and a treatment water overboard discharge unit (9) that discharges treatment water treated with ultraviolet radiation overboard. When treatment water is sucked, treatment water in the ballast tank (3) is sucked, passes through the ultraviolet reactor (8) to be treated with ultraviolet radiation, and is discharged overboard from the treatment water overboard discharge line (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki TANGE, Akinori KAWAKAMI, Yasuhiko SAITO
  • Patent number: 9500360
    Abstract: To achieve a downsized drain tank without reducing an effective drain recovery rate. A closed drain recovery system includes: a steam boiler (2); a closed-type drain tank (4); an air-open-type makeup water tank (7); a steam introduction line (10) for introducing a first flush steam within the drain tank (4) to the makeup water tank (7); a surplus drain introduction line (8) for introducing surplus drain to the makeup water tank (7) from the drain tank (4); and condensing units (33) and (39) provided for the makeup water tank (7), and configured to condense one or both of the first flush steam and a second flush steam by bringing the one or both of the first flush steam and the second flush steam into contact with the makeup water within the makeup water tank (7), the second flush steam being generated from the surplus drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sohei Akinaga, Tomohiro Ookubo, Tatsuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 9475566
    Abstract: A ballast water treatment device includes a ballast water treatment line, a pump for drawing and pressure feeding treatment target water, a filter, an ultraviolet reactor for irradiating filtrated treatment target water with ultraviolet, a ballast tank for storing treated water having been treated with ultraviolet, and an outboard discharger, and the pump, the filter, the ultraviolet reactor, the ballast tank, and the outboard discharger are provided on the ballast water treatment line. Treatment target water drawn for a predetermined period from start of drawing treatment target water is not caused to pass through the filter and the ultraviolet reactor but is discharged outboard by the outboard discharger, and discharging outboard by the outboard discharger is stopped at elapse of the predetermined period and treated water having been filtrated by the filter and having been treated with ultraviolet by the ultraviolet reactor is poured into the ballast tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Tange, Akinori Kawakami
  • Publication number: 20160298497
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heat energy recovery system including: a heat energy recovery circuit that causes a working medium to circulate by means of a circulation pump to exchange heat with supercharged air from a supercharger via a first heater and exchange heat with steam from an exhaust-gas economizer via a second heater, in order to integrally drive a turbine and a generator; and a controller that performs stop control to stop the circulation pump based on the flow state of the steam in a first steam flow path that causes the steam to flow from the exhaust-gas economizer to a soot blower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.), ASAHI SHIPPING CO., LTD., TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd., MIURA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeto ADACHI, Yutaka NARUKAWA, Tetsuro FUJII, Kazuya ARAHIRA, Masakazu YAMAMOTO, Yutaka KOBAYASHI, Toshio SAGESHIMA
  • Publication number: 20160236122
    Abstract: A ballast water treatment device including a cylindrical filter (2) that is disposed in a casing (1) and filters and externally discharges ballast water having flowed inside, comprising: a filter rotating unit (3) that rotates the filter (2) around a shaft center of the filter (2); a suction nozzle (4) that is disposed on the primary side of the filter (2) and opens toward the inner circumferential surface of the filter (2); a waste rinsing water discharging unit (5) that externally discharges waste rinsing water sucked by the suction nozzle (4) from the casing (1); a high-pressure fluid jet nozzle (40) that is disposed on the secondary side of the filter (2), opens toward the outer circumferential surface of the filter (2), and jets high-pressure fluid toward the filter (2); and a high-pressure fluid supplying unit (41) that supplies high-pressure fluid to the high-pressure fluid jet nozzle (40).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki TANGE, Akinori KAWAKAMI, Hitoshi SHIRAISHI, Yasutomo ZENMAN, Yasuhiko SAITO, Takamichi IDE
  • Patent number: 9416882
    Abstract: A split valve includes: an upper valve body having a spherical surface abutting on a seat surface of a discharge port to block the discharge port and a hollow on a lower surface; a lower valve body that blocks a receiving port by causing a spherical surface to abut on a seat surface of a receiving port and has a protrusion fitted to the hollow of the upper valve body on its upper surface, a shaft that rotates the lower valve body, an air supply/discharge mechanism that supplies/discharges an air pressure into/from a chamber defined by the protrusion and the hollow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD
    Inventor: Takao Miura
  • Patent number: 9388977
    Abstract: A boiler group includes a plurality of boilers. Each of the boilers has a unit amount of steam and a maximum variable amount of steam. A controller includes a deviation calculator for calculating a deviation amount between a necessary amount of steam and an output amount of steam, a boiler selector for selecting the plurality of boilers in order of load factors, and an output controller for varying an amount of steam of a boiler selected first by the boiler selector by the maximum variable amount of steam—when the deviation amount is at least the—maximum variable amount of steam, and varying the amount of steam of the first selected boiler by the unit amount of steam for the deviation amount when the deviation amount is less than the maximum variable amount of steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamada, Koji Miura
  • Patent number: 9370746
    Abstract: A reverse osmosis membrane separation device includes: a reverse osmosis membrane module; a flow rate detecting unit configured to detect a flow rate of permeate water to output a detected flow rate value corresponding to the flow rate; a pressure pump configured to be driven at a rotation speed corresponding to an input drive frequency and to feed supply water to the reverse osmosis membrane module; an inverter configured to output a drive frequency corresponding to an input current value signal to the pressure pump; and a control unit configured to calculate a drive frequency of the pressure pump by a velocity type digital PID algorithm, such that a detected flow rate value output from the flow rate detecting unit becomes a target flow rate value that is set in advance to output a current value signal corresponding to a calculation value of the drive frequency to the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuyuki Manabe, Hayato Watanabe, Yukio Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9352993
    Abstract: Boiler water is heated in a steam boiler while feed water, which has a hardness of 5 mg CaCO3/L or less and is used as the boiler water, is supplied to the steam boiler. A part of the boiler water is appropriately disposed of. A chemical aqueous solution containing an alkaline metal silicate, an alkaline metal hydroxide and at least one kind of scale preventive agents of ethylenediamine tetraacetate, and its alkaline metal salt, is supplied to the feed water so that a concentration of the scale preventive agent is at least 1.5 mol equivalent times relative to the hardness of the feed water. In the steam boiler, a condensation rate of the boiler water is set so that the concentration of the scale preventive agent in the boiler water is 40 mg EDTA/L or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Nakajima, Junichi Kato, Hiroyuki Mitsumoto, Yoshiro Kaminokado, Takashi Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 9327908
    Abstract: Hydraulic cylinders of a conveying apparatus includes piston rods that extend in parallel, pistons, and cylinder tubes that have an internal pressure chamber partitioned into first and second pressure chambers. A pair of the hydraulic cylinders are arranged in parallel with an interval in a width direction of a conveyance path. The cylinder tube slidingly moves to the first pressure chamber side by supplying a hydraulic pressure to the first pressure chamber and discharging a hydraulic pressure from the second pressure chamber, and the cylinder tubes slidingly move to the second pressure chamber side by supplying a hydraulic pressure to the second pressure chamber and discharging a hydraulic pressure from the first pressure chamber. The workpiece is supported by a pair of the cylinder tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takao Miura
  • Patent number: 9260324
    Abstract: There is provided a flow passage control valve provided with a plurality of valves in a valve housing formed with set flow passages. A camshaft for operating each of the valves is provided along a right and left direction at the upper part of the valve housing. The respective valves are arranged so as to be divided front and rear into a first valve group and a second valve group with the camshaft as a border therebetween. The first valve group includes a first water passage valve, a second water passage valve, and a bypass valve. The second valve group includes the remaining valves that are not included in the first valve group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Yamaoka, Hajime Abe
  • Publication number: 20160011163
    Abstract: The interior of a fractionating tool for fractionating dioxins is packed with a purification layer and an adsorption layer. The adsorption layer includes a first adsorption layer including an activated carbon-containing silica gel layer and a graphite-containing silica gel layer, and a second adsorption layer including an alumina layer. When a solution of dioxins is injected into the purification layer and is supplied with an aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, the solvent dissolves dioxins in the solution of dioxins and passes through the purification layer and the adsorption layer. In this process, non-ortho PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs among dioxins are adsorbed to the first adsorption layer, and mono-ortho PCBs among dioxins are adsorbed to the second adsorption layer. As a result, dioxins are fractionated into a group including non-ortho PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs, and mono-ortho PCBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: MIURA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUJITA, Hirofumi NAKAMURA