Patents by Inventor Kenji Miyamoto

Kenji Miyamoto 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: 11605913
    Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of contacts. Each of the contacts includes a first engagement portion, a second engagement portion, a first bent portion, a second bent portion, and a coupling portion. A second angle formed by a reference straight line and a second straight line is smaller than a first angle formed by the reference straight line and a first straight line, where the first straight line is a straight line passing through an end of the first bent portion on the first engagement portion side and an end of the first bent portion on the coupling portion side, and the second straight line is a straight line passing through an end of the second bent portion on the coupling portion side and an end of the second bent portion on the second engagement portion side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Munenobu Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20230022725
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of bumers for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each fuel nozzle includes a fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. At least a portion of a first air passage for flowing the air is formed inside the protruding portion. The first air passage includes: an inlet formed on a surface of the protruding portion on an upstream side of the fuel injection hole in the flow direction of the air; and an outlet formed on a side surface of the protruding portion or a passage wall of the mixing passage. At least a portion of the outlet is formed downstream of the fuel injection hole in the flow direction of the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi FUKUBA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Keisuke MIURA, Tomohiro ASAI, Tomo KAWAKAMI, Kenta TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230014495
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: a fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; a mixing passage supplied with the fuel and the air; and a support portion connecting a passage wall of the mixing passage and the fuel nozzle to support the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichi FUKUBA, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Keisuke MIURA, Tomohiro ASAI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Tomo KAWAKAMI
  • Patent number: 11555457
    Abstract: A fuel control device includes a stem fuel valve opening degree determination unit, a branch line flow rate determination unit, and a correction value determination unit. The stem fuel valve opening degree determination unit is configured to determine an opening degree of a flow rate adjustment valve of a stem fuel supply line. The branch line flow rate determination unit is configured to determine an opening degree of a flow rate adjustment valve of at least one branch line. The correction value determination unit is configured to determine a correction value of the opening degree of the flow rate adjustment valve of the at least one branch line based on a value of a pressure difference between a fuel pressure upstream of a nozzle connected to the at least one branch line and a corrected fuel pressure for a fuel pressure at an outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Kotaro Miyauchi, Hisashi Nakahara, Kiyoshi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20230006369
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a crimp terminal in which a core wire is kept from coming loose. The crimp terminal 14 includes a plate-like crimp portion 15 that is to be crimped to a core wire of an electric wire by being deformed so as to wrap around the core wire, and a protruding portion 16 that protrudes from the inner surface of the crimp portion 15. A groove 21 that extends along a direction that intersects the extending direction of the core wire is provided in the protruding portion 16.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Naoya NISHIMURA, Taiji MOCHIZUKI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Kazuhiro WASHIO
  • Publication number: 20220381184
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes at least one fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. A top surface of the protruding portion includes a convex curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichi FUKUBA, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Keisuke MIURA, Tomohiro ASAI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Tomo KAWAKAMI, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Katsuyoshi TADA
  • Patent number: 11509357
    Abstract: A relay device for relaying communications between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communications with a terminal and a radio control apparatus that controls the plurality of radio devices, the relay device including a plurality of signal combiners that are each provided for one of functional splitting points between the plurality of radio devices and the radio control apparatus, and are each configured to convert signal data transmitted from one of the plurality of radio devices based on a signal format in accordance with the one of the functional splitting points, and transmit the converted signal data to the radio control apparatus, and a signal switcher configured to output the signal data transmitted from the one of the plurality of radio devices, to one of the plurality of signal combiners supporting one of the functional splitting points that corresponds to the one of the plurality of radio devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Keita Takahashi, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Noriyuki Ota, Jun Terada
  • Publication number: 20220367088
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a branched wire harness 1 includes a connection step of bundling and connecting core wires 11 of a plurality of electric wires 10 including the core wires 11; a waterproof material attachment step of attaching, to the plurality of electric wires 10, a spring-shaped waterproof material 20 constituted by a material that is softened or melted through heating; a covering step of covering, with a waterproof covering 14, the plurality of electric wires 10 to which the spring-shaped waterproof material 20 is attached; and a heating step of softening or melting the spring-shaped waterproof material 20 through heating, and filling in a gap between the waterproof covering 14 and the electric wires 10, or a gap between the adjacent electric wires 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yuji KAWATA, Kenji MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11490289
    Abstract: Provided is a control apparatus that controls any one or all of a plurality of slave station apparatuses communicating with a terminal apparatus, a plurality of master station apparatuses that control the slave station apparatuses, and a transfer apparatus that transfers data transmitted and received between the master station apparatuses and the slave station apparatuses, the control apparatus including an information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding traffic of the data transmitted and received between the master station apparatuses and the slave station apparatuses, and a switching control unit that performs, on the basis of the information regarding the traffic acquired by the information acquisition unit, switching-control of an assignment relationship between the master station apparatus and the slave station apparatus and switching-control of a transfer path of data between the master station apparatus and the slave station apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Keita Takahashi, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Noriyuki Ota, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 11462842
    Abstract: A harness is provided with one or more first wires each including a first core exposed portion, one or more second wires each including a second core exposed portion, and a bonded portion formed by welding the first and second core exposed portion(s). A total cross-sectional area of the second core(s) is equal to or less than ? of the sum of total cross-sectional areas of the first and second core(s). The bonded portion has two pairs of outer surfaces extending along an extending direction of the first and second wires and facing each other and a distance H between one pair of the outer surfaces (upper/lower surfaces), out of the two pairs of outer surfaces, is longer than a distance W between another pair of the outer surfaces (right/left side surfaces). The second core exposed portion(s) is/are arranged adjacent to the upper surface Up in the bonded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Kawata, Kenji Miyamoto, Daichi Shirai
  • Patent number: 11402098
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is equipped with a nozzle in which an air ejection passage extending along an axis and having an open distal end, and a fuel supply passage extending along the axis and having an open distal end are formed; swirling vanes provided around the nozzle so as to be twisted around the axis of the nozzle; an inner cylinder surrounding an outer periphery of the nozzle and the swirling vanes, and in which compressed air flows through an inside of the inner cylinder toward a downstream side; an outer cylinder which defines an inversion flow path, which inverts the compressed air on an outer periphery of the inner cylinder and introduces the compressed air to the inside of the inner cylinder, between the inner and outer cylinders; and an air introduction pipe having one end connected to a space on an upstream side of the compressed air from the inversion flow path, and the other end connected to the air ejection passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Inoue, Kenji Miyamoto, Kenta Taniguchi, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11274830
    Abstract: A combustor nozzle includes a nozzle main body extending along an axis. The nozzle main body includes a first fuel passage which extends along the axis and through which first fuel is configured to flow, a first fuel ejection passage which extends to an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle main body toward a distal end side thereof from the first fuel passage and is configured to eject the first fuel from the outer circumferential surface, an air flow passage which extends in an axial direction on a radial outer side of the first fuel passage with respect to the axis and through which purge air is configured to flow, and an air ejection passage which extends from the air flow passage toward a center of a distal end of the nozzle main body and is configured eject the purge air from the center of the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Kenta Taniguchi, Kei Inoue, Shohei Domen, Yuichi Ichikawa, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Patent number: 11262075
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor provided with: a plurality of swirler tubes that are disposed inside a combustor basket and impart a swirl to a premixed gas, the premixed gas being obtained by premixing a fuel and air for combustion; and an outer ring that is disposed between the plurality of swirler tubes and the combustor basket with a gap provided between the outer ring and the combustor basket, and generates film-shaped air inside a combustor transition piece connected to the combustor basket via injection through the gap into the combustor transition piece, and at a downstream end of the outer ring, the outer ring includes a tapered surface formed such that the outer ring gradually decreases in thickness from an upstream side toward a downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Kotaro Miyauchi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu
  • Patent number: 11215364
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a first cylindrical body which is configured to hold a fuel nozzle extending in an axial line direction and through which air flows toward a downstream side thereof; a second cylindrical body that is connected to a downstream side of the first cylindrical body; and an outer shell that has an inner peripheral surface configured to define an air introduction channel through which air is introduced such that the air reverses course at an upstream end of the first cylindrical body and flows toward the downstream side together with an outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical body. The inner peripheral surface has an outside narrowing surface that is formed to extend inward in a radial direction toward the upstream end of the first cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Satoshi Takiguchi, Koichi Nishida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Shohei Numata, Keita Yunoki, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Tomoki Uruno
  • Publication number: 20210399443
    Abstract: A harness 1 includes copper wires 10A and aluminum wires 10B. The copper wire 10A includes a copper core 11A. The aluminum wire 10B includes an aluminum core 11B made of a material different from that of the copper core 11A and having lower conductor strength than the copper core 11A. The copper cores 11A are multiply folded, and parts on tip sides serve as a bulky portion 11AE. The harness 1 includes a joined portion 20 formed by welding the copper cores 11A including the joined portion 11AE and the aluminum cores 11B. The joined portion 20 includes a first layer 21 constituted by the copper cores 11A including the bulky portion 11AE and a second layer 22 constituted by the aluminum cores 11B and overlaid on the first layer 21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yuji KAWATA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Tatsuo TAMAGAWA, Daichi SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 11203985
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a nozzle main body having a shaft body and a swirl vane; a first fuel flow path configured to supply fuel to a first fuel injection hole defined in the nozzle main body; a second fuel flow path configured to supply fuel to a second fuel injection hole defined in the nozzle main body on a radial outer side of the first fuel injection hole; a first regulating valve provided in the first fuel flow path and configured to regulate a flow rate of the fuel in the first fuel flow path; a temperature sensor-configured to detect a temperature on a downstream side of the swirl vane; and a control device configured to control the first regulating valve so that the flow rate of the fuel in the first fuel flow path is lowered when the temperature detected by the temperature sensor satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Tsunoda, Keijiro Saito, Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20210384663
    Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of contacts. Each of the contacts includes a first engagement portion, a second engagement portion, a first bent portion, a second bent portion, and a coupling portion. A second angle formed by a reference straight line and a second straight line is smaller than a first angle formed by the reference straight line and a first straight line, where the first straight line is a straight line passing through an end of the first bent portion on the first engagement portion side and an end of the first bent portion on the coupling portion side, and the second straight line is a straight line passing through an end of the second bent portion on the coupling portion side and an end of the second bent portion on the second engagement portion side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Munenobu YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210344381
    Abstract: A relay device for relaying communications between a plurality of radio devices that perform radio communications with a terminal and a radio control apparatus that controls the plurality of radio devices, the relay device including a plurality of signal combination units that are each provided for one of functional splitting points between the plurality of radio devices and the radio control apparatus, and are each configured to convert signal data transmitted from one of the plurality of radio devices based on a signal format in accordance with the one of the functional splitting points, and transmit the converted signal data to the radio control apparatus, and a signal switching unit configured to output the signal data transmitted from the one of the plurality of radio devices, to one of the plurality of signal combination units supporting one of the functional splitting points that corresponds to the one of the plurality of radio devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Keita Takahashi, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Noriyuki Ota, Jun TERADA
  • Publication number: 20210339339
    Abstract: A metal member-welded structure includes: a Cu member; an Al member; and a welded portion formed by melting and solidifying each of materials of the Cu member and the Al member. The Cu member includes a Cu-based material containing Cu as a main component. The Al member includes an Al-based material containing Al as a main component and a plating layer that covers a side of the Al-based material, the side being close to a surface of the Cu member. The welded portion includes a sea-island structure in a vicinity of the surface of the Cu member. The sea-island structure includes: a plurality of island portions containing pure Al, and a sea portion interposed among the island portions. The sea portion has a eutectic structure having: a phase of an intermetallic compound of Cu and Al; and a phase of pure Al.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicants: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd, Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koki SUGIMURA, Tetsuya KUWABARA, Kazuhiro GOTO, Hiroki HIRAI, Tetsuji TANAKA, Junichi ONO, Takuji OTSUKA, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Osamu NAKAYAMA, Kazuaki HAMADA, Kazuhiro WASHIO
  • Patent number: 11143404
    Abstract: There is provided a combustor including a nozzle main body (16) that includes a shaft body (24) which extends along an axis and has, inside the shaft body (24), a purge air flow path (29), which extends along the axis to a tip portion of the shaft body (24) and into which compressed air is introduced, and an air spraying hole (39), which is formed in the tip portion of the shaft body (24) and connects the purge air flow path (29) to an outer surface of the shaft body (24), a swirling blade (26), which overhangs from an outer circumferential surface of the shaft body (24) in a diameter direction of the axis and swirls a fluid flowing to a downstream side of an axial direction around the axis, and a fuel spraying hole (38), and a sealing member (40) that seals the air spraying hole (39) and is formed of a metal having a melting point lower than a melting point of a metal forming the nozzle main body (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Taehwan Kim, Keijiro Saito, Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Miyamoto