Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Miyata

Hiroyuki Miyata 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: 10106007
    Abstract: In a vehicle height adjustment device, an operation amount of an actuator increases in accordance with supplied current, a detector detects a vehicle height, and a changer changes the vehicle height in accordance with the operation amount of the actuator. The changer shifts to a vehicle height increasing state or to a vehicle height decreasing state based on whether the operation amount is not higher than a predetermined amount. A controller controls the current supplied to the actuator to make the relative position have a target value. The controller determines a target current supplied to the actuator based on a control map that correlates a deviation between the target value of the relative position and a detection value to the target current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: SHOWA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke Murakami, Fumiaki Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 10036395
    Abstract: A compressor control device includes an inlet guide vane opening degree control unit configured to control an opening degree of an inlet guide vane. The inlet guide vane opening degree control unit includes an inlet guide vane opening degree command value calculation unit configured to calculate an inlet guide vane opening degree command value based on an outlet pressure detection value and a plurality of inlet guide vane opening degree correction units each configured to correct the inlet guide vane opening degree command value based on the post-merger pressure detection value and a corresponding inlet flow rate detection value for each of a plurality of upstream-most compressor bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Yosuke Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Miyata, Naoki Mori
  • Patent number: 9803654
    Abstract: The invention includes a disc-shaped disc section (30) that is attached to a rotating shaft (6), and blade sections (40) that are provided on a front surface (31) that is one side in an axial direction of the disc section (30). Balance holes (33) for attaching weight-adjusting weight members W thereto are provided at positions where the blade sections (40) are provided in a radial direction, in a rear surface (51) that is the other side in the axial direction of the disc section (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20170282994
    Abstract: A flow path control device according to one embodiment includes a first valve which transitions between a closed state where a first flow is closed and an open state where the first flow path is open by moving toward an space from the closed state. The first valve is formed with an axial through-hole that communicates with the first flow path and the space. A pressure-receiving area of the first valve against a jack chamber is smaller than that against the space. Further, a second valve is provided in the space on a second flow path so as to transition between a first state where the axial through-hole is closed and an inflow path oriented toward the space from the jack chamber is open and a second state where it is closed and the axial through-hole is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20170282995
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment apparatus according to one embodiment include a spring, a spring-length changing unit, a first valve, a control valve and a second valve. The spring-length changing unit changes a length of the spring in accordance with an amount of oil in a jack chamber that accommodates the oil. The first valve opens and closes a first communication path in which the oil supplied from a pump is oriented toward a reservoir chamber that stores the oil. The control valve opens and closes a discharge flow path oriented toward the reservoir chamber from a chamber that accommodates the oil to close the first valve. The second valve opens and closes a second communication path in which the oil supplied from the pump is oriented toward the jack chamber when the first valve is closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20170282996
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment apparatus includes a control device. The control device controls the opening degree of the solenoid valve to allow a movement amount of the support member to reach a movement amount target value that corresponds to the vehicle height set in advance, in accordance with the weight applied to the vehicle. The control device controls the opening degree of the solenoid valve to change the movement amount of the support member based on a difference between a value based on the information related to the vehicle height and a vehicle height-related target value, on condition that the movement amount of the support member reaches the movement amount target value and the value based on the information related to the vehicle height obtained by the information obtaining device does not reach the vehicle height-related target value that corresponds to the vehicle height set in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Hiroyuki MIYATA, Fumiaki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20170282993
    Abstract: A flow path control device according to one embodiment includes a first valve, a unit main body and a control valve. The unit main body has an accommodation portion, a first radial communication hole and a side recess portion. The accommodation portion is recessed from a chamber accommodating the oil to cause the first valve to close the first radial communication hole. The side recess portion is recessed from the chamber so as to be continuous to the accommodation portion and not to be continuous to the first radial communication hole. The control valve is movable in the accommodation portion of the unit main body between a position at which a groove of the control valve communicates with the side recess portion and the first radial communication hole and a position at which the groove does not communicate with them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYATA, Yosuke MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9714658
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor, the capacity of which can be increased with keeping the diameter of the impeller at minimum, is provided. The centrifugal compressor includes: a drive gear (11); a drive shaft (3) protruding from one side of the drive gear (11) in a central axis direction of the drive gear (11); a no. 1 driven pinion gear (12) configured for rotation of the drive gear (11) to be transmitted thereto; a no. 1 driven pinion shaft (5) protruding from both sides of the no. 1 driven pinion gear (12) in a central axis direction of the no. 1 driven pinion gear (12); and a couple of first stage compressor sections (7a, 7b), each of which is provided in each end of the no. 1 driven pinion shaft (5) and is configured to compress fluid by rotation of the no. 1 driven pinion shaft (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Naoto Yonemura
  • Publication number: 20170198705
    Abstract: A multi-stage compression system in which gases compressed by a pair of first-stage compressors are compressed by subsequent compressors connected to the first-stage compressors in series includes a valve control unit configured to output open/close signals for opening/closing valves for adjusting flow rates of gases flowing into the first-stage compressors provided at inlet sides of the first-stage compressors. The valve control unit outputs an open/close signal having a difference less than or equal to a predetermined value with respect to a degree of opening of the valve before malfunction determination as the open/close signal until a malfunction is eliminated after the determination of the malfunction in which one of the valves does not have a degree of opening according to the open/close signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKAGAWA, Naoto YONEMURA, Hiroyuki MIYATA, Naoki MORI
  • Publication number: 20170198704
    Abstract: A multi-stage compressor system is a system of a multi-stage compressor in which compressors are connected in series in a plurality of stages includes a control unit. The control unit determines whether a malfunction is present in the system by comparing a suction flow rate of a first-stage compressor measured by a first sensor with a downstream flow rate from an outlet of the multi-stage compressor measured by a second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke NAKAGAWA, Naoto YONEMURA, Hiroyuki MIYATA, Naoki MORI
  • Publication number: 20170036503
    Abstract: In a vehicle height adjustment device, an operation amount of an actuator increases in accordance with supplied current, a detector detects a vehicle height, and a changer changes the vehicle height in accordance with the operation amount of the actuator. The changer shifts to a vehicle height increasing state or to a vehicle height decreasing state based on whether the operation amount is not higher than a predetermined amount. A controller controls the current supplied to the actuator to make the relative position have a target value. The controller determines a target current supplied to the actuator based on a control map that correlates a deviation between the target value of the relative position and a detection value to the target current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Fumiaki ISHIKAWA, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20170021688
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment device includes an actuator, a detector, and a controller. The actuator is driven when supplied with a current and is configured to change a relative position of a body of a vehicle relative to an axle of a wheel of the vehicle. The detector is configured to detect the relative position. The controller is configured to control the current supplied to the actuator to make the relative position a target value so as to adjust a vehicle height of the body. When a detection value of the detector is smaller than the target value of the relative position, the controller is configured to alternately supply an increase current and a maintenance current to the actuator. The increase current increases the relative position to increase the vehicle height. The maintenance current maintains the relative position to maintain the vehicle height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Fumiaki ISHIKAWA, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20160368214
    Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication chamber, a liquid discharge device, a vibration applicator, and a controller. In the fabrication chamber, powder is layered to form a powder layer, the powder of the powder layer is bonded together in a desired shape to form a layered fabrication object, and another layered fabrication object is laminated on the layered fabrication object. The liquid discharge device discharges a fabrication liquid onto the powder in the fabrication chamber. The vibration applicator applies vibration to the powder layer onto which the fabrication liquid is discharged from the liquid discharge device. The controller controls and drives the vibration applicator to apply vibration to the powder layer when the liquid discharge device discharges the fabrication liquid onto the powder layer to form the layered fabrication object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi SASAKI, Soyoung PARK, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20160288865
    Abstract: A vehicle height adjustment device includes a spring having one end supported on a vehicle body side and another end supported on a wheel side. An adjustor includes an accommodation chamber accommodating fluid and adjusts a length of the spring in accordance with an amount of fluid in the accommodation chamber. A storage chamber stores fluid. A guide passage guides fluid from the accommodation chamber to the storage chamber. An actuator includes an operation rod to press a push rod. A valve body closes the guide passage when seated on a seat and opens the guide passage when pressed and detached from the seat by the push rod. A press member includes a contact portion and a shaft. The press member presses and seats the valve body on the seat. An accommodation member accommodates the valve body and the contact portion. A support member supports the shaft movably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Showa Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke MURAKAMI, Fumiaki ISHIKAWA, Hiroyuki MIYATA
  • Publication number: 20160131155
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a driving shaft (2) which is rotationally driven, a driving gear (11) which is connected to the driving shaft (2), a driven gear (12, 13) to which rotation of the driving gear (11) is transmitted, a driven shaft (3) which extends toward both end sides in a center axis direction of the driven gear (12, 13), a first compression portion (41) which is provided on a first end portion side in the center axis direction of the driven shaft (3), a second compression portion (42) which is provided on a second end portion side in the center axis direction of the driven shaft (3), and a pressure adjustment portion (7) which uniformly adjusts a pressure of a space of a discharge side of a fluid in the first compression portion (41) and a pressure of a space of a discharge side of a fluid in the second compression portion (42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYATA, Hideki NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20160123332
    Abstract: A rotary machine characterized by being equipped with: a rotary drive part; a drive shaft that is rotated about a horizontally extending axis by the rotary drive part; a large gear that is fixed to the drive shaft; a bearing part that rotatably supports the drive shaft, and to which a lubrication oil is supplied; multiple pinions that are driven by being engaged with the large gear; multiple compression parts that are arranged so as to correspond to the multiple pinions and are respectively rotated by the pinions; and a plate that is installed between the bearing part and the large gear and covers at least a portion of the bottom half of the large gear so as to separate the large gear and the bearing part from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki MIYATA, Shinichiro TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9127570
    Abstract: Provided is a machine unit layout system that simplifies the layout of a compressor unit and an expander unit and is extremely effective in terms of not only the reliability of the entire machine but also maintainability. Two separate compressors, a low-pressure-side compressor and a high-pressure-side compressor (11A, 11b), are disposed on either side of a steam turbine (10). Two separate expanders, a low-pressure-side expander and a high-pressure-side expander (12A, 12B), are disposed outside the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side compressors (11A, 11b). The steam turbine (10), the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side compressors (11A, 11b), and the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side expanders (12A, 12B) are coupled by rotor shafts comprising a single shaft. The torque distribution between rotator shafts is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Yasushi Mori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20150226233
    Abstract: The invention includes a disc-shaped disc section (30) that is attached to a rotating shaft (6), and blade sections (40) that are provided on a front surface (31) that is one side in an axial direction of the disc section (30). Balance holes (33) for attaching weight-adjusting weight members W thereto are provided at positions where the blade sections (40) are provided in a radial direction, in a rear surface (51) that is the other side in the axial direction of the disc section (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Patent number: 8985563
    Abstract: A seat damper attached between a vehicle body and a seat in a seat suspension structure. The seat damper capable of allowing misalignment of mounting positions of mounting parts between the vehicle body side and the seat side, and being configured with reduced rigidity. The seat damper includes: a resilient member interposed between a vehicle body and a seat, supporting a load applied thereto; a seat-side bearing plate and a vehicle body-side bearing plate sandwiching the resilient member; a rod including a joint for pivotably coupling the rod to the seat-side bearing plate and a locking portion at the other end locking the rod to a lower face of the vehicle body-side bearing plate, with this joint being received in and locked to the seat-side bearing plate; and a ring-like rod guide provided to the vehicle body-side bearing plate for the rod to pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Showa Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20140363269
    Abstract: A compressor control device includes an inlet guide vane opening degree control unit configured to control an opening degree of an inlet guide vane. The inlet guide vane opening degree control unit includes an inlet guide vane opening degree command value calculation unit configured to calculate an inlet guide vane opening degree command value based on an outlet pressure detection value and a plurality of inlet guide vane opening degree correction units each configured to correct the inlet guide vane opening degree command value based on the post-merger pressure detection value and a corresponding inlet flow rate detection value for each of a plurality of upstream-most compressor bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Yosuke Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Miyata, Naoki Mori