Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Ninomiya

Hiroyuki Ninomiya 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).

  • Publication number: 20240085544
    Abstract: An ultrasonic device is provided for transmitting ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic device comprises an electrostatic drive device and an impedance matching layer. The electrostatic drive device includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is a drive membrane and is disposed with tension applied at a position facing the second electrode. The second electrode has a through hole. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is a laminated membrane in which a plurality of materials with different conductivities are laminated. The impedance matching layer includes a matching membrane and gas. The matching membrane has a resonance loss equal to or less than transmitted acoustic power, and is disposed with tension applied at a position facing the first electrode. The gas is sealed between the matching membrane and the first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SHINODA, Takaaki KAMIGAKI, Yuki NINOMIYA
  • Patent number: 9683471
    Abstract: An exhaust emission control device including a selective reduction catalyst; urea water as reducing agent being added in the pipe upstream of the reduction catalyst depurate NOx through reduction; an oxidation catalyst arranged in the pipe upstream of an added position of the urea water, the oxidation catalyst physically adsorbing NOx in the exhaust gas at a temperature lower than a lower active limit temperature of the reduction catalyst and discharging the adsorbed NOx at a temperature higher than a lower active limit temperature of the oxidation catalyst; and a fuel injection device for adding fuel into the exhaust gas upstream of the oxidation catalyst is disclosed. The start of the fuel addition by the fuel injection device is refrained until exhaust temperature on an inlet side of the reduction catalyst is increased to a preset temperature comparable with the lower active limit temperature of the oxidation catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignees: HINO MOTORS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Yabe, Haruyuki Yokota, Takaharu Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Shinya Sato, Takahiko Hayashi, Shunsuke Toshioka, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomihisa Oda, Yutaka Tanai
  • Patent number: 8511097
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor burns a fuel mixture at a high combustion efficiency and a low NOx emission, is simple in construction and exercises improved ignition performance, and an ignition method can efficiently igniting a fuel mixture in the gas turbine combustor. A gas turbine combustor provided with fuel nozzles each having a pilot fuel injection nozzle and a main fuel injection nozzle, and fuel nozzles each having a pilot fuel injection nozzle and a main fuel injection nozzle. The fuel nozzle disposed close to an igniter is provided with a local fuel injection port through which fuel is jetted out from a predetermined position in an air passage in the main fuel injection nozzle to create a combustible fuel mixture zone in the vicinity of the igniter at least while the igniter is in an ignition operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 8225612
    Abstract: A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is disposed so as to surround the first fuel spraying section. The apparatus further includes an air curtain generating section disposed between the first fuel spraying section and the second fuel spraying section. The air curtain generating section is configured to generate an air curtain which defines an outer edge of a diffusion combustion area in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hideki Ogata
  • Patent number: 7921650
    Abstract: A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is disposed so as to surround the first fuel spraying section. The apparatus further includes an air curtain generating section disposed between the first fuel spraying section and the second fuel spraying section. The air curtain generating section is configured to generate an air curtain which defines an outer edge of a diffusion combustion area in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20110016868
    Abstract: A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is disposed so as to surround the first fuel spraying section. The apparatus further includes an air curtain generating section disposed between the first fuel spraying section and the second fuel spraying section. The air curtain generating section is configured to generate an air curtain which defines an outer edge of a diffusion combustion area in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo ODA, Hiroyuki NINOMIYA, Hideki OGATA
  • Publication number: 20100192547
    Abstract: The invention has an object of exerting favorable NOx reducing effects even at an exhaust temperature lower than in the prior art without trouble, e.g., at startup after long-term engine rest and is directed to an exhaust emission control device wherein a selective reduction catalyst 5 capable of selectively reacting NOx with ammonia even in the presence of oxygen is incorporated in an exhaust pipe 4, urea water 6 as reducing agent being added in the pipe 4 upstream of the reduction catalyst 5 to depurate NOx through reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicants: HINO MOTORS, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiko Yabe, Haruyuki Yokota, Takaharu Shimizu, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Shinya Sato, Takahiko Hayashi, Shunsuke Toshioka, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomihisa Oda, Yutaka Tanai
  • Publication number: 20080173019
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor burns a fuel mixture at a high combustion efficiency and a low NOx emission, is simple in construction and exercises improved ignition performance, and an ignition method can efficiently igniting a fuel mixture in the gas turbine combustor. A gas turbine combustor provided with fuel nozzles each having a pilot fuel injection nozzle and a main fuel injection nozzle, and fuel nozzles each having a pilot fuel injection nozzle and a main fuel injection nozzle. The fuel nozzle disposed close to an igniter is provided with a local fuel injection port through which fuel is jetted out from a predetermined position in an air passage in the main fuel injection nozzle to create a combustible fuel mixture zone in the vicinity of the igniter at least while the igniter is in an ignition operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Takeo Oda
  • Publication number: 20070289305
    Abstract: A fuel spraying apparatus of a gas turbine engine includes a first fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for diffusion combustion and a second fuel spraying section configured to spray fuel for premixed combustion. The second fuel spraying section is disposed so as to surround the first fuel spraying section. The apparatus further includes an air curtain generating section disposed between the first fuel spraying section and the second fuel spraying section. The air curtain generating section configured to generate an air curtain which defines an outer edge of a diffusion combustion area in a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hideki Ogata
  • Patent number: 7225996
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes a fuel injection unit provided with a plurality of fuel injection members. The fuel injection unit is held by a holding-and-supplying unit. The fuel injection members are connected to the holding-and-supplying unit by a connecting-and-supplying unit. A fuel is supplied to the fuel injection members through fuel supply passages formed in the holding-and-supplying unit and the connecting-and-supplying unit so as to extend from the holding-and-supplying unit through the connecting-and-supplying unit to the fuel injection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 7104464
    Abstract: A fuel supply method for a fuel injection device including a fuel injection unit, comprising: supplying fuel to a first fuel injection member of the fuel injection unit through a first fuel supply passage internally formed in a holding-and-supplying unit holding the fuel injection unit; and supplying fuel to a second fuel injection member of the fuel injection unit through a second fuel supply passage internally formed in the holding-and-supplying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 7090205
    Abstract: A premixed air-fuel mixture supply device, combined with a combustor liner included in a combustor, includes a prevaporizing, premixing unit having inner and outer walls defining a prevaporizing, premixing chamber, and a wall surrounding an end part of the outer wall so as to define a secondary combustion air passage together with the end part of the outer wall around the prevaporizing, premixing chamber. A tail part of the outer wall is shaped in an atomization lip. The extremity of the tail part of the atomization lip is formed in a sharp edge or is cut perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the flowing direction of the combustion air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050139695
    Abstract: The present invention is a fuel supply method for a fuel injection device including a fuel injection unit provided with a plurality of fuel injection members. The fuel injection unit is held by a holding-and-supplying unit. The fuel injection members are connected to the holding-and-supplying unit by a connecting-and-supplying unit. A fuel is supplied to the fuel injection members through fuel supply passages formed in the holding-and-supplying unit and the connecting-and-supplying unit so as to extend from the holding-and-supplying unit through the connecting-and-supplying unit to the fuel injection members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
  • Publication number: 20050139694
    Abstract: A fuel supply method for a fuel injection device including a fuel injection unit, comprising: supplying fuel to a first fuel injection member of the fuel injection unit through a first fuel supply passage internally formed in a holding-and-supplying unit holding the fuel injection unit; and supplying fuel to a second fuel injection member of the fuel injection unit through a second fuel supply passage internally formed in the holding-and-supplying unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Takeo Oda
  • Patent number: 6908303
    Abstract: A premixed air-fuel mixture supply device is joined to a combustor liner included in a combustor for a gas turbine or an aircraft engine. The premixed air-fuel mixture supply device has a pilot fuel injection unit having an inner wall, and a prevaporizing, premixing main fuel injection unit having an outer wall surrounding the inner wall. A combustion air passage is defined by the inner and the outer wall. An intermediate wall is disposed in the combustion air passage so as to divide an upstream part of the combustion air passage into a secondary combustion air passage surrounding the inner wall, and an outer combustion air passage surrounding the intermediate wall. Fuel inject holes are formed in the intermediate wall to inject fuel radially outward into the outer combustion air passage. A swirling device is disposed in the secondary combustion air passage to swirl combustion air flowing through the secondary combustion air passage. An atomization lip is formed in a tail part of the intermediate wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2005
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050127537
    Abstract: A premixed air-fuel mixture supply device combined with a combustor liner included in a combustor comprises a prevaporizing, premixing unit having inner and outer walls defining a prevaporizing, premixing chamber, and a wall surrounding an end part of the outer wall so as to define a secondary combustion air passage together with the end part of the outer wall around the prevaporizing, premixing chamber. A tail part of the outer wall is shaped in an atomization lip. The extremity of the tail part of the atomization lip is formed in a sharp edge or is cut perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly to the flowing direction of the combustion air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20050130089
    Abstract: A premixed air-fuel mixture supply device is joined to a combustor liner included in a combustor for a gas turbine or an aircraft engine. The premixed air-fuel mixture supply device has a pilot fuel injection unit having an inner wall, and a prevaporizing, premixing main fuel injection unit having an outer wall surrounding the inner wall. A combustion air passage is defined by the inner and the outer wall. An intermediate wall is disposed in the combustion air passage so as to divide an upstream part of the combustion air passage into a secondary combustion air passage surrounding the inner wall, and an outer combustion air passage surrounding the intermediate wall. Fuel inject holes are formed in the intermediate wall to inject fuel radially outward into the outer combustion air passage. A swirling device is disposed in the secondary combustion air passage to swirl combustion air flowing through the secondary combustion air passage. An atomization lip is formed in a tail part of the intermediate wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Masayoshi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5094391
    Abstract: A pneumatic classifier having a dispersion chamber with crushing function disposed between a material supply port and a classifying chamber so that the material is sufficiently crushed and dispersed before entering the classifying chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: Onoda Cement Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takamiki Tamashige, Mitsuhiro Ito, Hiroaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Ninomiya, Takeshi Furukawa, Ryosuke Narishima, Satoru Fujii
  • Patent number: 4611765
    Abstract: A roller mill in which raw material fed between the upper surface of a pulverizing table and a pulverizing roller is pulverized by compression therebetween, wherein at least one annular recess coaxial with a roller shaft being formed on the pulverizing roller, thereby attaining reduction of self-excited vibrations of the roller mill and improvement of the pulverization efficiency. Further, in order to enhance these effects, the depth of the recess is set larger than the average grain size of the raw material. Moreover, the gap between the pulverizing table and the pulverizing roller has a wedge-like sectional shape which becomes narrower toward the outside of the pulverizing table, whereby the raw material which has been pulverized by compression between the table and the roller is prevented from escaping in the axial direction of the roller shaft, thereby attaining reduction of the self-excited vibration and improvement of the pulverization efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignees: Onoda Cement Co., Ltd., Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seikosho
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shimojima, Masaki Hamaguchi, Hiroshi Obana, Takemi Aizawa, Hiroyuki Ninomiya