Patents Assigned to Nuclear Fuel Industries, Limited
  • Patent number: 11187681
    Abstract: Provided is a member state evaluation method that makes more highly accurate instantaneous understanding of various states of a member to be tested possible without reliance on the shape of the member, the testing environment, or the skill level of the tester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Matsunaga, Ryota Ogawa, Mitsuyuki Sagisaka, Yoshihiro Isobe
  • Patent number: 10345274
    Abstract: Provided is a material diagnostic method capable measuring and diagnosing in a nondestructive manner the type, quantity of occurrence, depth distribution, and the like of even very small microstructures of about several tens of ?m or less with sufficiently good precision. A material diagnostic method for using ultrasonic waves in a nondestructive manner to diagnose microstructures generated in a material, wherein changes in the scattering of ultrasonic waves by crystal grains are captured from bottom face waves and backscattered waves to thereby quantify the amount of change in microstructures, using the fact that changes in the properties of crystal grains produced by microstructures affect the scattering of ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Junji Etoh, Mitsuyuki Sagisaka, Yoshihiro Isobe, Taira Okita
  • Patent number: 10215733
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nondestructive inspection method and nondestructive inspection device for an anchor bolt capable of quantitatively inspecting the health of an anchor bolt fixed to a foundation by a metallic anchor. Provided is a nondestructive anchor-bolt inspection method for inspecting the health of an anchor bolt fixed to a foundation by a metallic anchor, wherein a striking sound is produced through the striking of a portion of the anchor bolt exposed from the surface of the foundation, frequency information is obtained through the reception and frequency analysis of the signal waveform of the striking sound, and the health of the anchor bolt is nondestructively and quantitatively inspected on the basis of the frequency information for the signal waveform. Also provided is a nondestructive inspection device for an anchor bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junji Etoh, Takashi Matsunaga, Ryota Ogawa, Yoshihiro Isobe, Mitsuyuki Sagisaka
  • Patent number: 10197537
    Abstract: This invention provides a method and device for nondestructive testing of an anchor bolt. Said method and device make it possible to quantitatively test the soundness of an anchor bolt affixed to a foundation via an adhesive anchor. In this method for nondestructive testing of an anchor bolt, in which the soundness of an anchor bolt affixed to a foundation via an adhesive anchor is tested, a section of the anchor bolt that is exposed from the surface of the foundation is hit so as to produce an impact noise, a signal waveform corresponding to said impact noise is received and subjected to frequency analysis so as to obtain frequency information for said signal waveform, and the soundness of the anchor bolt is nondestructively, quantitatively tested on the basis of said frequency information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Matsunaga, Junji Etoh, Yoshihiro Isobe
  • Publication number: 20170343516
    Abstract: Provided is a member state evaluation method that makes more highly accurate instantaneous understanding of various states of a member to be tested possible without reliance on the shape of the member, the testing environment, or the skill level of the tester.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUNAGA, Ryota OGAWA, Mitsuyuki SAGISAKA, Yoshihiro ISOBE
  • Publication number: 20170227501
    Abstract: This invention provides a method and device for nondestructive testing of an anchor bolt. Said method and device make it possible to quantitatively test the soundness of an anchor bolt affixed to a foundation via an adhesive anchor. In this method for nondestructive testing of an anchor bolt, in which the soundness of an anchor bolt affixed to a foundation via an adhesive anchor is tested, a section of the anchor bolt that is exposed from the surface of the foundation is hit so as to produce an impact noise, a signal waveform corresponding to said impact noise is received and subjected to frequency analysis so as to obtain frequency information for said signal waveform, and the soundness of the anchor bolt is nondestructively, quantitatively tested on the basis of said frequency information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi MATSUNAGA, Junji ETOH, Yoshihiro ISOBE
  • Publication number: 20170160238
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a nondestructive inspection method and nondestructive inspection device for an anchor bolt capable of quantitatively inspecting the health of an anchor bolt fixed to a foundation by a metallic anchor. Provided is a nondestructive anchor-bolt inspection method for inspecting the health of an anchor bolt fixed to a foundation by a metallic anchor, wherein a striking sound is produced through the striking of a portion of the anchor bolt exposed from the surface of the foundation, frequency information is obtained through the reception and frequency analysis of the signal waveform of the striking sound, and the health of the anchor bolt is nondestructively and quantitatively inspected on the basis of the frequency information for the signal waveform. Also provided is a nondestructive inspection device for an anchor bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junji ETOH, Takashi MATSUNAGA, Ryota OGAWA, Yoshihiro ISOBE, Mitsuyuki SAGISAKA
  • Publication number: 20150168356
    Abstract: Provided is a material diagnostic method capable measuring and diagnosing in a nondestructive manner the type, quantity of occurrence, depth distribution, and the like of even very small microstructures of about several tens of ?m or less with sufficiently good precision. A material diagnostic method for using ultrasonic waves in a nondestructive manner to diagnose microstructures generated in a material, wherein changes in the scattering of ultrasonic waves by crystal grains are captured from bottom face waves and backscattered waves to thereby quantify the amount of change in microstructures, using the fact that changes in the properties of crystal grains produced by microstructures affect the scattering of ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NUCLEAR FUEL INDUSTRIES, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junji Etoh, Mitsuyuki Sagisaka, Yoshihiro Isobe, Taira Okita
  • Patent number: 8462909
    Abstract: The output of a nuclear reactor is increased by a predetermined magnitude, and the neutron beam is measured as time-series data. The temperature of the moderator in the reactor is acquired as time-series data. Time-series data on the reactivity is acquired from the time-series data on the neutron beam by the reverse dynamic characteristic method with respect to a one-point reactor kinetics equation. Time-series data on the fuel temperature of a predetermined average acquired by using the time-series data on the reactor output and a predetermined dynamic characteristic model is acquired. The reactivity feedback contribution component is determined by using the time-series data on the reactivity and the applied reactivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Nuclear Fuel Industries, Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi Yamasaki, Yasushi Hanayama, Yasunori Ohoka, Masashi Tsuji, Yoichiro Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20100128832
    Abstract: The output of a nuclear reactor is increased by a predetermined magnitude, and the neutron beam is measured as time-series data. The temperature of the moderator in the reactor is acquired as time-series data. Time-series data on the reactivity is acquired from the time-series data on the neutron beam by the reverse dynamic characteristic method with respect to a one-point reactor kinetics equation. Time-series data on the fuel temperature of a predetermined average acquired by using the time-series data on the reactor output and a predetermined dynamic characteristic model is acquired. The reactivity feedback contribution component is determined by using the time-series data on the reactivity and the applied reactivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Nuclear Fuel Industries, Limited
    Inventors: Masatoshi YAMASAKI, Yasushi Hanayama, Yasunori Ohoka, Masashi Tsuji, Yoichiro Shimazu