Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Inamitsu

Hiroshi Inamitsu 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: 7448825
    Abstract: A method for recycling in place an asphalt mixture layer of a paved road continuously, while moving a self-propelled vehicle system, which comprises a step of heating and softening the asphalt mixture layer, a step of scraping and breaking said hot and softened asphalt mixture layer and keeping the softened mixture at a temperature sufficient not to form an aggregate, to prepare an asphalt mixture having a single-grained structure, a sieving step of classifying said asphalt mixture having a single-grained structure into a plurality of grain size groups, a step of designing mix proportions for converting said asphalt mixture to a recycled asphalt mixture by the use of said plurality of grain size groups classified, a step of mixing uniformly said recycled asphalt mixtures having designed mix proportions, and a step of spreading and compacting said recycled asphalt mixtures having been mixed uniformly, to thereby form a recycled asphalt mixtures layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignees: Green Arm Co., Ltd., Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kasahara, Shunsuke Ushio, Kojiro Ogata, Hiroshi Inamitsu, Fumio Goto, Tomoyuki Abe, Hiroaki Irie, Isami Fujii, Kazuo Onoda, Hideo Ikeda, Eisuke Nagai, Atsuki Gomi, Masaki Tsunabuchi
  • Publication number: 20070122235
    Abstract: A method for recycling in place an asphalt mixture layer of a paved road continuously, while moving a self-propelled vehicle system, which comprises a step of heating and softening the asphalt mixture layer, a step of scraping and breaking said hot and softened asphalt mixture layer and keeping the softened mixture at a temperature sufficient not to form an aggregate, to prepare an asphalt mixture having a single-grained structure, a sieving step of classifying said asphalt mixture having a single-grained structure into a plurality of grain size groups, a step of designing mix proportions for converting said asphalt mixture to a recycled asphalt mixture by the use of said plurality of grain size groups classified, a step of mixing uniformly said recycled asphalt mixtures having designed mix proportions, and a step of spreading and compacting said recycled asphalt mixtures having been mixed uniformly, to thereby form a recycled asphalt mixtures layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicants: Green Arm Co., Ltd., Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Kasahara, Shunsuke Ushio, Kojiro Ogata, Hiroshi Inamitsu, Fumio Goto, Tomoyuki Abe, Hiroaki Irie, Isami Fujii, Kazuo Onoda, Hideo Ikeda, Eisuke Nagai, Atsuki Gomi, Masaki Tsunabuchi
  • Patent number: 5335547
    Abstract: The distance sensor means and the ultrasonic probe are integrally coupled to each other in such a manner that a preceding scanning line to a current scanning line which is scanned by the ultrasonic probe is scanned by the distance sensor means, and the shape-measurement scanning operation of the distance sensor means and the flaw-detection scanning operation of the ultrasonic probe are performed in parallel with each other. A flaw detection area is divided into plural sub-areas, and plural storing areas are arranged in a mesh form in one-to-one correspondence to the sub-areas, only one shape information of position storing area including the flaw detection area being stored in each of the storing areas. The position and orientation of the ultrasonic probe at each flaw detection point is controlled using the stored shape information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kichio Nakajima, Kazuo Honma, Yukio Sumiya, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Inamitsu, Eiji Minamiyama