Patents by Inventor Kikuo Nakamura

Kikuo Nakamura 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: 8181469
    Abstract: A refrigerating method and a refrigerating system utilizing a large decomposition heat absorbed at the time of decomposition of the gas hydrate and building up, by a pump, the pressure of liquid components generated due to the decomposition of gas hydrate and compressing only gas components by a compressor, the refrigerating method comprising the steps of generating the gas hydrate (H) by a hydrate generating reactor (11), decomposing the gas hydrate (H) into the liquid components (L) and the gas components (G) after depressurization to absorb heat, separating the decomposed liquid components (L) and gas components (G) from each other, building up the pressure of the liquid components (L) by the pump (16) and transferring to the hydrate generating reactor (11), and pressurizing and compressing only the gas components (G) by the compressor (17) and transferring to the hydrate generating reactor (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsui Zosen Plant Engineering Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio Ichijo, Kikuo Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100000254
    Abstract: Provided is a method of producing gas hydrate at a low cost. An acid gas 3 is removed from a natural gas 1, and after dehydration 5 of accompanying water, part of heavy components which do not produce gas hydrate 10 are separated and removed under a relatively high temperature. Moreover, the rest of the heavy components are taken out in a gas hydrate production step 9 together with an excessive portion of light components not contributing to production of the gas hydrate 10, as a fuel gas 11 which is used as a cooling source or a power source for a cooling system in the gas hydrate production step 9.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Masataka Hiraide, Kae Serizawa, Kikuo Nakamura, Nakaoka Makoto
  • Publication number: 20050103027
    Abstract: A refrigerating method and a refrigerating system utilizing a large decomposition heat absorbed at the time of decomposition of the gas hydrate and building up, by a pump, the pressure of liquid components generated due to the decomposition of gas hydrate and compressing only gas components by a compressor, the refrigerating method comprising the steps of generating the gas hydrate (H) by a hydrate generating reactor (11), decomposing the gas hydrate (H) into the liquid components (L) and the gas components (G) after depressurization to absorb heat, separating the decomposed liquid components (L) and gas components (G) from each other, building up the pressure of the liquid components (L) by the pump (16) and transferring to the hydrate generating reactor (11), and pressurizing and compressing only the gas components (G) by the compressor (17) and transferring to the hydrate generating reactor (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Toshio Ichijo, Kikuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 5064033
    Abstract: A rotary damper is disclosed having a hollow casing and a power receiving shaft extending exteriorly of the casing. The power receiving shaft turns a movable vane within the casing to pressurize a working fluid. A stationary partition member including a dividing wall and a dividing vane is positioned within the casing and journals the movable vane for rotation within the casing. The movable vane is provided with a through hole equipped with a one-way valve and the dividing wall is provided with a plurality of arcuately spaced orifices. The orifices are positioned to be serially covered by the movable vane as it is rotated to thereby provide increased resistance to fluid flow as the movable vane is further rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Enidine Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Koike, Kikuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4928964
    Abstract: A reel driving device which comprises a drive disk having a drive shaft fixing boss for prohibiting the drive shaft from idling, and impact mitigating bosses for mitigating an impact force exerted by the motor, provided therein opposed to each other with respect to the drive shaft fixing boss; a reel having holes for receiving the drive shaft fixing boss and the impact mitigating bosses provided at corresponding positions thereof; and reel fixing means for prohibiting the reel from moving along the drive shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 29, 1990
    Assignee: Sigma Incorporated
    Inventor: Kikuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4874172
    Abstract: The reel tape fixing device according to this invention comprises reel tape fixing means for securing the reel tape wound on the reel frame, slide means having a flat surface which slides on a side surface of the circular reel frame, radial means for retaining a position in the radial direction, projected from the slide means, and engaged in a groove formed in the reel frame in the circumferential direction thereof, guide means for guiding the radially positioning means into the groove, projected in parallel with the slide means from a position opposed to the radial means, and circumferential means for retaining a position in the circumferential direction in mesh with a plurality of detents formed partially on the periphery of the reel frame on the opposite side of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1989
    Assignee: Sigma, Incorporated
    Inventor: Kikuo Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4840290
    Abstract: A coin exchanging machine has a coin case disposed at the bottom of a casing for accommodating a plurality of coin bundles, a coin pushing mechanism for pushing laterally a row of coin bundles piled up in the coin case, and a coin transferring mechanism for receiving a row of coin bundles from the coin case by pushing the coin bundles by the coin pushing mechanism and for feeding the coin bundles one by one into a coin accommodating space in response to the discharge of the coin bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Sigma
    Inventors: Shunichi Nakamura, Kouichi Iimura, Kikuo Nakamura, Susumu Ozawa