Patents by Inventor Keijiro Yamaoka

Keijiro Yamaoka 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: 4576006
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for transporting geothermal hot water taken up at an underground bottom portion of a geothermal production well up to the ground surface, efficiently with a loss suppressed to minimum of the energy possessed by the geothermal hot water, which comprises a downhole pump disposed at an underground bottom portion of the geothermal production well for taking up and pressurizing the geothermal hot water and a rotary separation two-phase flow turbine adapted to be driven by the transported geothermal hot water, the downhole pump being adapted to be driven by the rotary separation two-phase flow turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keijiro Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 4479352
    Abstract: A hot-water storage type power generating unit includes a first tank coupled to a power generating system having a generator, a hot water producting unit for heating medium-temperature water from the first tank with exhaust heat from external equipment to produce high-temperature water, and a second tank for storing the high-temperature water from the hot water producing unit. The high-temperature water is supplied from the second tank to the power generating system for generating electric power to meet peak load demands. The power generating system includes a rotary separator turbine rotatable by the high-temperature water from the second tank for separating steam from the high-temperature water, and a steam turbine rotatable by the steam from the rotary separator turbine, the generator being operatively coupled with the steam turbine for being rotated thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1984
    Assignee: Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keijiro Yamaoka, Hajime Endo