Patents by Inventor Eiichi Nagao

Eiichi Nagao 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).

  • Patent number: 9396835
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for preventing copper sulfide generation in oil-filled electrical equipment having an inhibitor of copper sulfide generation in insulating oil, and the method is characterized in monitoring characteristics of the insulating oil and performing re-addition of the inhibitor at an appropriate moment in accordance with a result of the monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Patent number: 9228992
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric insulating oil inspection method for determining whether or not an inhibitor-consuming substance is present in an electric insulating oil. The inhibitor-consuming substance is such a substance that causes to decrease over time a concentration of an inhibitor which is added to the electric insulating oil to inhibit copper sulfide from being generated on an insulating paper immersed in the electric insulating oil. The electric insulting oil inspection method includes steps of: preserving the electric insulating oil at a predetermined condition, measuring a concentration of the inhibitor, and determining that the inhibitor-consuming substance is present upon condition that a decrement of the concentration of the inhibitor relative to an initial concentration of the inhibitor becomes not less than a specified amount within a predetermined period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20140363893
    Abstract: The present invention is a diagnosing method for oil-filled electrical equipment for diagnosing a degree of risk with regard to occurrence of abnormality due to copper sulfide generation in oil-filled electrical equipment, and the method includes a first step of detecting specific compounds contained in insulating oil in said oil-filled electrical equipment, a second step of evaluating a possibility of copper sulfide generation at a dangerous part leading to dielectric breakdown in said oil-filled electrical equipment in accordance with a detection result obtained in said first step, and a third step of diagnosing a degree of risk with regard to occurrence of abnormality in said oil-filled electrical equipment in accordance with an evaluation result obtained in said second step. Said specific compounds include dibenzyldisulfide and 2,6-di-t-butyl-p-cresol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nishiura, Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao
  • Patent number: 8854068
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a diagnostic method for an oil-filled electrical device that considers a temperature distribution in the oil-filled electrical device and enables accurate diagnosis to be conducted even when the method is applied to diagnosis of an actually operating device, and further provide a method with which such diagnosis of an oil-filled electrical device can be conducted from a component analysis value of an insulating oil in the oil-filled electrical device. The invention is a diagnostic method for an oil-filled electrical device including in an insulating oil a metal part wrapped with insulating paper, and determines that a time when a surface resistivity of a maximum precipitation site where metal sulfide is most precipitated on the insulating paper reaches a preset surface resistivity management value is a time of occurrence of an abnormality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Kentaro Taninouchi, Noboru Hosokawa, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Kozo Tachibana, Hirotaka Muto, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20140231726
    Abstract: The present invention is a method for preventing copper sulfide generation in oil-filled electrical equipment having an inhibitor of copper sulfide generation in insulating oil, and the method is characterized in monitoring characteristics of said insulating oil and performing re-addition of said inhibitor at an appropriate moment in accordance with a result of said monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Patent number: 8728565
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inhibiting production of copper sulfide in an electrical insulating oil inside an oil-filled electrical apparatus, including adding a benzotriazole compound not having a long-chain alkyl group when the oil-filled electrical apparatus is an open-type oil-filled electrical apparatus, or adding a benzotriazole compound having a long-chain alkyl group when the oil-filled electrical apparatus is a closed-type oil-filled electrical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Yoshio Kimura, Noboru Hosokawa, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20130216698
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for inhibiting production of copper sulfide in an electrical insulating oil inside an oil-filled electrical apparatus, including adding a benzotriazole compound not having a long-chain alkyl group when the oil-filled electrical apparatus is an open-type oil-filled electrical apparatus, or adding a benzotriazole compound having a long-chain alkyl group when the oil-filled electrical apparatus is a closed-type oil-filled electrical apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Yoshio Kimura, Noboru Hosokawa, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20130134367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric insulating oil inspection method for determining whether or not an inhibitor-consuming substance is present in an electric insulating oil. The inhibitor-consuming substance is such a substance that causes to decrease over time a concentration of an inhibitor which is added to the electric insulating oil to inhibit copper sulfide from being generated on an insulating paper immersed in the electric insulating oil. The electric insulting oil inspection method includes steps of: preserving the electric insulating oil at a predetermined condition, measuring a concentration of the inhibitor, and determining that the inhibitor-consuming substance is present upon condition that a decrement of the concentration of the inhibitor relative to an initial concentration of the inhibitor becomes not less than a specified amount within a predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Patent number: 8423301
    Abstract: An initial concentration of the residual concentration of a causative substance contained in an insulating oil is compared with a reference value. The causative substance reacts with a conductor forming a winding of an oil-filled electrical device to generate an electrically conductive compound. The reference value is defined as a value for determining whether a main determinant that determines the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is generation of the electrically conductive compound or degradation of insulating paper. Based on the initial concentration of the causative substance and the reference value, the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is assessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20130034909
    Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis method for an oil-filled electrical apparatus, which is for evaluating the degree of danger of copper sulfide being generated within the oil-filled electrical apparatus, comprising: a first step for detecting a specific compound contained within insulating oil inside the oil-filled electrical apparatus; a second step for evaluating the possibility of copper sulfide being generated inside the oil-filled electrical apparatus, on the basis of the result detected by the first step; and a third step for diagnosing the degree of danger of a malfunction occurring in the oil-filled electrical apparatus, on the basis of the evaluation result obtained in the second step. The specific compound contains dibenzyl disulfide and/or a reaction product of a radical resulting from dibenzyl disulfide, and di-tert-butyl-p-cresol and/or a reaction product of a radical resulting from di-tert-butyl-p-cresol, or, di-tert-butyl-phenol and/or a reaction product of a radical resulting from di-tert-butyl-phenol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoru Toyama, Junji Tanimura, Fukutaro Kato, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Eiichi Nagao, Takeshi Kawashima, Noboru Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8314355
    Abstract: In a gas insulated breaking device which accommodates open/close elements including a puffer cylinder which compresses an insulation gas and extinguishes an arc and a contact finger which has a slide contact portion which is brought into slide contact with a slide contact portion of the puffer cylinder in the inside of a vessel in which the insulation gas is sealed, a relatively soft plating film is formed on the slide contact portion of the puffer cylinder, and a relatively hard plating film is formed on the slide contact portion of the contact finger, and the silver plating film of each slide contact portion has an inner layer thereof formed of a soft film and an outer layer thereof which constitutes a surface portion formed of a hard film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Makiko Kawada, Tadao Minagawa, Ei Tsuchie, Kyoichi Ohtsuka
  • Patent number: 8305179
    Abstract: An oil immersed electrical apparatus such as an oil immersed transformer that can detect copper sulfide precipitated on coil insulating paper is provided. In the oil immersed transformer in which a coil with its surface covered by insulating paper is arranged in a container filled with insulating oil, a detection member is prepared by providing two electrodes on a surface of a plate-like pressboard formed of cellulose, which is a same material as that of the insulating paper, this detection member is arranged in contact with the insulating oil, and generation of copper sulfide is detected from reduction in a surface resistance between the electrodes. The temperature of the detection member is set higher than the temperature of the coil so that copper sulfide is generated thereon prior to generation of copper sulfide on a coil unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Kentaro Taninouchi, Noboru Hosokawa, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Kozo Tachibana, Takanori Sone, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20120197559
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of predicting the probability of abnormality occurrence in an oil-filled electrical device, including the steps of: measuring a residual dibenzyl disulfide concentration in an insulating oil sampled from an oil-filled electrical device in operation; determining an estimated decrease of the residual dibenzyl disulfide concentration, relative to an initial dibenzyl disulfide concentration at the start of operation of the oil-filled electrical device; calculating the initial dibenzyl disulfide concentration from the residual dibenzyl disulfide concentration and the estimated decrease; and comparing the initial dibenzyl disulfide concentration with a specific management value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Fukutaro Kato, Noboru Hosokawa, Kota Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20120012558
    Abstract: In a gas insulated breaking device which accommodates open/close elements including a puffer cylinder which compresses an insulation gas and extinguishes an arc and a contact finger which has a slide contact portion which is brought into slide contact with a slide contact portion of the puffer cylinder in the inside of a vessel in which the insulation gas is sealed, a relatively soft plating film is formed on the slide contact portion of the puffer cylinder, and a relatively hard plating film is formed on the slide contact portion of the contact finger, and the silver plating film of each slide contact portion has an inner layer thereof formed of a soft film and an outer layer thereof which constitutes a surface portion formed of a hard film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiichi NAGAO, Makiko Kawada, Tadao Minagawa, Ei Tsuchie, Kyoichi Ohtsuka
  • Publication number: 20110202288
    Abstract: An initial concentration of the residual concentration of a causative substance contained in an insulating oil is compared with a reference value. The causative substance reacts with a conductor forming a winding of an oil-filled electrical device to generate an electrically conductive compound. The reference value is defined as a value for determining whether a main determinant that determines the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is generation of the electrically conductive compound or degradation of insulating paper. Based on the initial concentration of the causative substance and the reference value, the lifetime of the oil-filled electrical device is assessed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Fukutaro Kato, Eiichi Nagao, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Satoru Toyama, Kota Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20110090034
    Abstract: An oil immersed electrical apparatus such as an oil immersed transformer that can detect copper sulfide precipitated on coil insulating paper is provided. In the oil immersed transformer in which a coil with its surface covered by insulating paper is arranged in a container filled with insulating oil, a detection member is prepared by providing two electrodes on a surface of a plate-like pressboard formed of cellulose, which is a same material as that of the insulating paper, this detection member is arranged in contact with the insulating oil, and generation of copper sulfide is detected from reduction in a surface resistance between the electrodes. The temperature of the detection member is set higher than the temperature of the coil so that copper sulfide is generated thereon prior to generation of copper sulfide on a coil unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Kentaro Taninouchi, Noboru Hosokawa, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Kozo Tachibana, Takanori Sone, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Publication number: 20110084716
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a diagnostic method for an oil-filled electrical device that considers a temperature distribution in the oil-filled electrical device and enables accurate diagnosis to be conducted even when the method is applied to diagnosis of an actually operating device, and further provide a method with which such diagnosis of an oil-filled electrical device can be conducted from a component analysis value of an insulating oil in the oil-filled electrical device. The invention is a diagnostic method for an oil-filled electrical device including in an insulating oil a metal part wrapped with insulating paper, and determines that a time when a surface resistivity of a maximum precipitation site where metal sulfide is most precipitated on the insulating paper reaches a preset surface resistivity management value is a time of occurrence of an abnormality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Nagao, Kentaro Taninouchi, Noboru Hosokawa, Tsuyoshi Amimoto, Kozo Tachibana, Hirotaka Muto, Junji Tanimura, Satoru Toyama
  • Patent number: 7848084
    Abstract: A gas-insulated equipment such as a gas-insulated switchgear provided according to the invention can efficiently improve dielectric strength of an entire electrode system considering electric field distribution of the electrodes and conductors and improving insulation coordination so that miniaturization of the entire device can be achieved. The gas-insulated switchgear includes insulating gas sealed within an earth metal container and an insulating spacer insulating and supporting high-voltage receiving portions. Surfaces of shielding electrodes having a larger diameter than that of high-voltage conductors are covered with thick dielectric coatings, and surfaces of the high-voltage conductors are covered with thin dielectric coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hama, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Takuya Otsuka, Kiyoshi Inami, Eiichi Nagao
  • Publication number: 20100165549
    Abstract: A gas-insulated equipment such as a gas-insulated switchgear provided according to the invention can efficiently improve dielectric strength of an entire electrode system considering electric field distribution of the electrodes and conductors and improving insulation coordination so that miniaturization of the entire device can be achieved. The gas-insulated switchgear includes insulating gas sealed within an earth metal container and an insulating spacer insulating and supporting high-voltage receiving portions. Surfaces of shielding electrodes having a larger diameter than that of high-voltage conductors are covered with thick dielectric coatings, and surfaces of the high-voltage conductors are covered with thin dielectric coatings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hama, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Takuya Otsuka, Kiyoshi Inami, Eiichi Nagao
  • Patent number: 7742283
    Abstract: A gas-insulated equipment such as a gas-insulated switchgear provided according to the invention can efficiently improve dielectric strength of an entire electrode system considering electric field distribution of the electrodes and conductors and improving insulation coordination so that miniaturization of the entire device can be achieved. The gas-insulated switchgear includes insulating gas sealed within an earth metal container and an insulating spacer insulating and supporting high-voltage receiving portions. Surfaces of shielding electrodes having a larger diameter than that of high-voltage conductors are covered with thick dielectric coatings, and surfaces of the high-voltage conductors are covered with thin dielectric coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hama, Hitoshi Sadakuni, Takuya Otsuka, Kiyoshi Inami, Eiichi Nagao