Patents by Inventor Hisamichi Inoue
Hisamichi Inoue 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).
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Patent number: 8903036Abstract: A nozzle apparatus of a jet pump includes a nozzle base member, and a plurality of nozzles installed to the nozzle base member and forming a plurality of narrowing portions, in which a fluid passage cross-sectional area of a driving fluid passage formed in the nozzle is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Patent number: 8712003Abstract: A jet pump has a plurality of nozzles installed to a nozzle base, a throat and a diffuser. A first nozzle straight-tube portion, a first nozzle narrowing portion, a second nozzle straight-tube portion, a second nozzle narrowing portion, and a nozzle lower end portion formed in those nozzles are disposed in this order from the nozzle base to a ejection outlet. A narrowing angle of the second nozzle narrowing portion is larger than of the first nozzle narrowing portion. The jet pump forms, in a lower end portion of the throat, a flow passage narrowing portion having a flow passage cross-sectional area that gradually diminishes. This flow passage narrowing portion is inserted into an upper end portion of the diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 29, 2014Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Patent number: 8467492Abstract: A nozzle apparatus of a jet pump includes a nozzle base member, and a plurality of nozzles installed to the nozzle base member and forming a plurality of narrowing portions, in which a fluid passage cross-sectional area of a driving fluid passage formed in the nozzle is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Patent number: 8345814Abstract: A jet pump comprising: a nozzle apparatus having a header portion including, inside, a first pipe member forming a suction fluid passage for introducing suction fluid and the header portion surrounding the first pipe member, for introducing driving fluid, and a nozzle portion connected to the header portion, surrounding the first pipe member and forming an annular ejection outlet for ejecting the driving fluid; a jet pump body for mixing the driving fluid and the suction fluid sucked by the ejection of the driving fluid, and discharging the mixed fluid; and a second pipe member having one end connected to the nozzle apparatus, for introducing the driving fluid to the header portion, wherein the first pipe member is disposed through the one end inside a driving fluid passage formed in the second pipe member, and forms an opening portion of the suction fluid passage opened to the outside of the second pipe member; and the driving fluid passage is formed so that the driving fluid flowing toward the one end hiType: GrantFiled: January 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20120156060Abstract: A nozzle apparatus of a jet pump includes a nozzle base member, and a plurality of nozzles installed to the nozzle base member and forming a plurality of narrowing portions, in which a fluid passage cross-sectional area of a driving fluid passage formed in the nozzle is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20110123360Abstract: A nozzle apparatus of a jet pump includes a nozzle base member, and a plurality of nozzles installed to the nozzle base member and forming a plurality of narrowing portions, in which a fluid passage cross-sectional area of a driving fluid passage formed in the nozzle is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20100183113Abstract: A jet pump has a plurality of nozzles installed to a nozzle base, a throat and a diffuser. A first nozzle straight-tube portion, a first nozzle narrowing portion, a second nozzle straight-tube portion, a second nozzle narrowing portion, and a nozzle lower end portion formed in those nozzles are disposed in this order from the nozzle base to a ejection outlet. A narrowing angle of the second nozzle narrowing portion is larger than of the first nozzle narrowing portion. The jet pump forms, in a lower end portion of the throat, a flow passage narrowing portion having a flow passage cross-sectional area that gradually diminishes. This flow passage narrowing portion is inserted into an upper end portion of the diffuser.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20090252276Abstract: A jet pump comprising: a nozzle apparatus having a header portion including, inside, a first pipe member forming a suction fluid passage for introducing suction fluid and the header portion surrounding the first pipe member, for introducing driving fluid, and a nozzle portion connected to the header portion, surrounding the first pipe member and forming an annular ejection outlet for ejecting the driving fluid; a jet pump body for mixing the driving fluid and the suction fluid sucked by the ejection of the driving fluid, and discharging the mixed fluid; and a second pipe member having one end connected to the nozzle apparatus, for introducing the driving fluid to the header portion, wherein the first pipe member is disposed through the one end inside a driving fluid passage formed in the second pipe member, and forms an opening portion of the suction fluid passage opened to the outside of the second pipe member; and the driving fluid passage is formed so that the driving fluid flowing toward the one end hiType: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2009Publication date: October 8, 2009Inventors: Naoyuki Ishida, Hisamichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20080216461Abstract: A micro gas turbine system is provided which increases power generation efficiency and output of power generation by means of water spray and which can exercise effective water spray control with simple control. The micro gas turbine system, according to the present invention, including a compressor, a combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger, a generator and a power transducer is provided with a plurality of spray water supply lines which include spray water nozzles and shutoff valves and which supply a prescribed amount of spray water by opening and closing the shutoff valves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: September 11, 2008Inventors: Susumu Nakano, Satoshi Dodo, Hisamichi Inoue, Hiroyuki Shiraiwa
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Patent number: 5085948Abstract: Disclosed is an alkali metal thermoelectric power generator comprising a plurality of thermoelectric converters, which are connected in electrical series to one another by an external electronic conductor device, each of the converters converting thermal energy into electrical energy by utilizing the phenomenon that an alkali metal, arranged on each side of a solid electrolyte, diffuses across the electrolyte if the density thereof on one side of the electrolyte differs from that on the other side of the same. The generator further comprises a piping consisting of a plurality of connection pipes for returning the alkali metal condensed in a second spatial region of each thermoelectric converter to a first spatial region thereof through a common pump. Further, the respective open ends of the connection pipes, which connect the respective first regions of the converters to one another, are positioned in those portions of the respective first regions where only the vapor phase alkali metal exists.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1991Date of Patent: February 4, 1992Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Moriaki Tsukamoto, Hisamichi Inoue
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Patent number: 4992231Abstract: An emergency core cooling system for spraying cooling water onto a nuclear reactor core of a nuclear reactor includes at least one header disposed in the nuclear reactor and arranged at an upper and outer circumferential position with respect to the reactor core. A plurality of spray nozzles are mounted on the at least one header for spraying cooling water onto the reactor core. The spray nozzles have a center axis and at least one of the plurality of spray nozzles is mounted on the at least one header so that the center axis thereof extends upwardly with respect to a horizontal axis whereas at least one of the remaining plurality of spray nozzles has the center axis thereof extending downwardly with respect to the horizontal axis. Cooling water is conducted to the at least one header for enabling spraying of the water in the emergency situation.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1984Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Masanori Naitoh, Takashi Ikeda, Hisamichi Inoue, Hiroaki Suzuki
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Patent number: 4859401Abstract: The emergency core cooling structure according to the present invention is provided with a water storage container which holds therein emergency cooling water to be supplied to a core region in a nuclear reactor in case of an emergency, for example, when the primary cooling water flows out from a reactor vessel, so as to maintain the temperature of the emergency cooling water in the upper portion of the water storage container in a level higher than the level of that of the emergency cooling water in the lower portion thereof, the lower portion of the water storage container, which is filled with the low-temperature cooling water, being communicated at all times with the core of the nuclear reactor by a means which has substantially no movable member.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1986Date of Patent: August 22, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Michio Murase, Yoshiyuki Kataoka, Hisamichi Inoue, Masanori Naioh, Toshihiko Sugisaki