Patents by Inventor Kazuo Hiramoto

Kazuo Hiramoto 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: 5436537
    Abstract: A circular accelerator for charged particles in which by accelerated damping of the betatron oscillation, that is, a rapid reduction in a beam size through enhancing the radiation damping after the beam injection, a short period of time injection can be accomplished, and also a large current is capable of being stored through repetition of such beam injections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1995
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hiramoto, Junichi Hirota, Masatsugu Nishi
  • Patent number: 5363008
    Abstract: A circular accelerator for extracting a charged-particle beam is arranged to increase displacement of the beam by the effect of the betatron oscillation resonance and increase the betatron oscillation amplitude of the particles, which have initially betatron oscillation within the stability limit for the resonance, to exceed the stability limit thereby extracting the particles exceeding the stability limit of the resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Hiramoto, Junichi Hirota, Masatsugu Nishi, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Kenji Miyata
  • Patent number: 5285166
    Abstract: A method of extracting a strong, charged particle beam, that is, a large current from an accelerator, and an accelerator capable of carrying out the method utilizes charged particles which are extracted from the accelerator. The equilibrium orbit of charged particles in one of a bending magnet and a magnet having multipole components greater than sextuple components, is shifted by a constituent element of the accelerator other than these magnets, to change the tune of charged particles. The adjustment of this tune based upon the shift of the equilibrium orbit in the above magnet for extracting charged particles, can keep the gradient of orbit of the extracted beam substantially constant. Accordingly, beam extraction is readily controlled, and a large current can be extracted from the accelerator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Director General of National Institute of Radiological Sciences
    Inventors: Kazuo Hiramoto, Masatsugu Nishi, Akifumi Itano
  • Patent number: 5081456
    Abstract: In visualizing an unknown object possessed by a person to be checked, a narrow pulsating radio wave beam is scanned over the whole surface of the person to observe the intensity of a reflected radio wave at each scan point. The frequency of the radio wave beam is set at a frequency easy to be transmitted by the human body to suppress the reflection from the human body and emphasize the unknown object to thereby discriminate between them. An image of the person to be checked is displayed and the portion having a strong reflection is color-displayed on the image to allow the check of the unknown object possessed by the person without contacting the person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Michiguchi, Masatsugu Nishi, Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 4706031
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for detecting an object by using a radio wave which is radiated by an antenna toward the object to be detected. An echo wave of the radio wave reflected from the object is received by the antenna. On the basis of phase difference between the transmitted waveform and the received waveform, material of the object is discriminatively identified. The object is displayed as an image on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1987
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Michiguchi, Fuminobu Takahashi, Kazuo Hiramoto, Masatsugu Nishi, Shinji Sonoda
  • Patent number: 4691204
    Abstract: A radar apparatus for detecting a distance from a radar antenna (13) to a buried object (1) underground.The radar apparatus calculates the distance based on Maxwell's equation relating to speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves using received signals of two or more different frequencies in the receiver (5) which were transmitted from the antenna (13), and thereafter reflected from the buried object (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuo Hiramoto
  • Patent number: 4677438
    Abstract: An object detecting method and apparatus is disclosed and which operates by transmitting a wave toward an object embedded in a medium having a reflective coefficient at its surface, receiving the resultant reflected wave from the object, applying the received signal to a signal processing unit, and displaying the results of signal processing by the signal processing unit on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Michiguchi, Kazuo Hiramoto, Masatsugu Nishi, Fuminobu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4587089
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel assembly for a boiling water reactor. The fuel assembly comprises fuel rod arranged in an 8-lines/8-columns square lattice, water rod and a channel box surrounding these fuel rods and water rods. A central portion corresponds to 80% of the fuel rod comprises fuel pellet having an outer diameter of 10.31 mm and inner diameter of 5.95 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Renzo Takeda, Kazuyoshi Miki, Yukiharu Ohga, Motomasa Fuse, Kazuo Hiramoto, Motoo Aoyama
  • Patent number: 4581196
    Abstract: A method of controlling the output power of a nuclear reactor core in which an output power distribution in the core is controlled with the use of an output power controlling means for controlling control rods, a flow of coolant or a concentration of neutron absorbing substance. Core data is calculated to include an output power distribution and a burn-up degree distribution in a fuel assembly, in accordance with detected data of the controlling means. Fuel rod data, which includes a temperature distribution, a stress distribution, a strain distribution and a concentration of fission products in a fuel rod, is calculated in accordance with the core data. Then, a failure event probability in the fuel rod is calculated in accordance with fuel rod data, the failure event probability being correlated with the history of the fuel rod concerning stress corrosion, strain and fatigue of the fuel rod. The soundness of the fuel rod is determined by comparing the failure event probability with a set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaharu Sakagami, Kazuo Hiramoto, Masahide Nakamura