Patents by Inventor Makoto Hirose

Makoto Hirose 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).

  • Publication number: 20180277323
    Abstract: To provide a gas circuit breaker designed to achieve further improvement in interruption performance for a small to medium current. The gas circuit breaker according to the present invention includes: an operation mechanism 1; a heat puffer chamber 19; a machine puffer chamber 32; a release valve 34; a movable main contact 5 and movable arc contact 11; a stationary main contact 6 and stationary arc contact 12; a movable-side leading conductor 14; and a stationary-side leading conductor 15, and features: a separation cylinder 21 for radially partitioning the heat puffer chamber 19; an inner circumferential flow path 24 formed on an inner circumferential side of the separation cylinder 21; and a check valve 22 for opening or closing a communication hole 23.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Toshiaki SAKUYAMA, Ryoichi SHIOBARA, Hajime URAI, Makoto HIROSE, Masanao TERADA, Takahiro NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180226214
    Abstract: There is provided a gas circuit breaker that includes: a puffer shaft connected to one of a pair of arcing contacts, a puffer cylinder that is coaxially provided on an outer circumference of the puffer shaft, an insulating nozzle that is fixed to the puffer cylinder on a breaker side, an insulating rod that connects the puffer shaft and an operating device to each other, a shaft guide that is provided on an outer circumference of the puffer shaft and the insulating rod, and an exhaust guide that is provided on an outer circumference of the shaft guide, in which hot gas is discharged into a gas tank through a shaft exhaust hole of the puffer shaft, between the puffer shaft and the shaft guide, and a conductor exhaust hole of a movable side exhaust conductor in the middle of interrupting operation, the shaft exhaust hole of the puffer shaft communicates with a shaft guide exhaust hole of the shaft guide in a region near a current zero point before the termination of the interrupting operation, and thus an exhau
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Hideyuki KOTSUJI, Hajime URAI, Masanao TERADA, Makoto HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20180182578
    Abstract: Realized is a shape of a grooved cam that maximizes break performance by appropriately setting an electrode operation, with a minimum weight increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Masanao TERADA, Taichiro YAMASHITA, Hiroaki HASHIMOTO, Hajime URAI, Makoto HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20180062382
    Abstract: A symptom of malfunction regarding operating characteristics of a switch should be detected exactly. A switch operating characteristic monitoring device is comprised of a current sensor that measures a close command current of a switch, an auxiliary switch that outputs signals from at least two or more auxiliary contacts with reference to positions of a contactor, a measurement unit that measures signals from the current sensor and the auxiliary switch, a diagnosis unit that judges whether or not a malfunction occurs, and a display unit that displays a malfunction when a malfunction has been determined. A threshold is obtained in advance from multiple results of an opening/closing test performed beforehand. A calculation is made for characteristic times which are obtained from the close command current and signals from the auxiliary switch during actual operation of a circuit breaker. If a deviation is found by comparison with a threshold, a malfunction is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Masaru TATEMI, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Makoto HIROSE, Hideaki UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170349854
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricant for a gas insulated switchgear, with which properties of a base oil such as heat resistance, evaporation loss, fluidity under a low temperature, and chemical stability (oxidation resistance and HF resistance) are balanced at a level higher than the conventional level, and long service life and high reliability of the gas insulated switchgear are achieved. A lubricant for a gas insulated switchgear according to the present invention, contains: a base oil containing a polyalphaolefin having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 50 mm2/s or more; and a thickener containing bisamides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki NAKAKAWAJI, Hiroyuki AKATA, Tomohiro MORIYAMA, Kazuhiro SATOU, Makoto HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20170271113
    Abstract: Disclosed is an abrasion resistant material having low cost and excellent abrasion resistance, a puffer cylinder, and a puffer type gas circuit breaker. The abrasion resistant material includes: a base material which is formed of pure aluminum or aluminum alloy and has an unevenness structure formed on its surface; and an aluminum hydrated oxide film which is formed on the surface of the base material, wherein a surface of the aluminum hydrated oxide film is provided with an unevenness structure which is finer than the unevenness structure of the base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko ONO, Makoto HIROSE, Daisuke EBISAWA, Hisashi URASAKI
  • Patent number: 9704679
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker including a pair of main contacts is openable inside an insulating tank. A pair of arc contacts is arranged on the inner side of the main contacts, and a puffer cylinder has the main contacts and the arc contacts at an end. A puffer chamber is formed inside the puffer cylinder, and a puffer piston is provided on the inner periphery of the puffer cylinder. An insulating nozzle part is mounted on an end of the puffer cylinder to surround the arc contact. The insulating nozzle part includes a split nozzle base part and a split nozzle end part, and the split nozzle base part has a throat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Nomura, Noriyuki Yaginuma, Yuuji Kaneko, Makoto Hirose
  • Patent number: 9673005
    Abstract: The invention provides a switchgear that is capable of increasing a degree of freedom of a position of a moving arcing contact in a circuit breaker, does not require dimension management of components and a mechanism for adjusting a position of the moving arcing contact, and is capable of simplifying fabrication of components and assembly of devices and reducing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi Urasaki, Makoto Hirose, Masataka Sasaki, Yoichi Oshita, Yasuaki Aoyama
  • Patent number: 9653239
    Abstract: The present invention includes a wear-resistant material including: a base material formed of pure aluminum or an aluminum alloy having a projection, and a depression in a pit-like shape on a surface thereof; and a coat including a dehydrate of a hydrated oxide of aluminum, the coat being formed on a surface of the base material. Further, the present invention including a method for producing a wear-resistant material including the steps of: forming a hydrated oxide coat of aluminum on a surface of the base material by a chemical conversion coating; and heating the hydrated oxide coat. Further, the present invention also includes a puffer cylinder and a puffer-type gas circuit breaker applied to the above wear-resistant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Ono, Makoto Hirose, Daisuke Ebisawa, Hisashi Urasaki
  • Patent number: 9604881
    Abstract: The present invention includes a wear-resistant material including: a base material formed of pure aluminum or an aluminum alloy having a finely asperity structure on a surface thereof; and a coat including a hydrated oxide coat of aluminum, the coat being formed on the surface of the base material. Further, the present invention including a puffer cylinder including: a finely asperity structure on an inner-wall surface thereof; and a coat including a hydrated oxide coat of aluminum, the coat being formed on the inner-wall surface of the puffer cylinder. The present invention also includes a puffer-type gas circuit breaker includes the above puffer cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiko Ono, Makoto Hirose, Daisuke Ebisawa, Hisashi Urasaki
  • Publication number: 20170030799
    Abstract: A gas leak detection device includes a learning section, which has a correlation between a gas temperature inside gas pressure containers and a surface temperature of the gas pressure containers in a learning period corresponding to a current value flowing in the conductor, to make database, and a diagnosis section, which extracts a gas temperature corresponding to the measured current value and the surface temperature from the learning section in a diagnosis period, corrects a gas pressure value corresponding to an arbitrary surface temperature to a gas pressure value of a reference temperature using the extracted gas temperature, and detects a leak of the insulating gas based on the corrected gas pressure value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Hisao INAMI, Makoto HIROSE, Hiroyuki NAKAMICHI, Masaru TATEMI, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE
  • Patent number: 9543095
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker is configured by comprising a tank filled with arc extinguishing gas, a pair of fixed side arc contact and moving side arc contact in the tank, a puffer chamber formed with a puffer cylinder including the moving side arc contact at its end and a fixed piston, and an insulating nozzle, attached to the end of the puffer cylinder, surrounding the moving side arc contact, that forms a flow channel to guide arc extinguishing gas from the puffer chamber to the contacts. A puffer cylinder 104 has a cylindrical member 104a at a breaker side end, an end of the insulating nozzle 101 is provided in the cylindrical member 104a. And the gas circuit breaker is configured by further comprising a hollow moving side main contact 102 at a breaker side end of the cylindrical member 104a, a pressing metal fitting 103 to engage an insulating nozzle 101 in the hollow part of the moving side main contact 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Kaneko, Noriyuki Yaginuma, Daisuke Nomura, Makoto Hirose
  • Publication number: 20160268076
    Abstract: The invention provides a switchgear that is capable of increasing a degree of freedom of a position of a moving arcing contact in a circuit breaker, does not require dimension management of components and a mechanism for adjusting a position of the moving arcing contact, and is capable of simplifying fabrication of components and assembly of devices and reducing cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisashi URASAKI, Makoto HIROSE, Masataka SASAKI, Yoichi OSHITA, Yasuaki AOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9425589
    Abstract: A circuit breaker (33) formed with a sealed tank (4) having a breaker section and an operating mechanism (2) is laterally arranged in a lengthwise direction and is fixed to a frame (1), and above the circuit breaker, main bus containers (11, 12) are provided, substantially orthogonally to an axial direction of the circuit breaker (33). Operating mechanism-side working space (B) and breaker section-side working space (C) are provided respectively above the operating mechanism (2) and the sealed tank (4), and a hand hole (5) is provided on an upper surface of the sealed tank (4). A connecting pin (24) is provided in a link mechanism connecting the operating mechanism (2) and the movable contact (7), and an operating mechanism-side working hole for accessibility to the connecting pin (24) from the operating mechanism-side working space (B) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hashimoto, Kenichi Okubo, Daisuke Ebisawa, Makoto Hirose
  • Publication number: 20160133407
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker including a pair of main contacts is openable inside an insulating tank. A pair of arc contacts is arranged on the inner side of the main contacts, and a puffer cylinder has the main contacts and the arc contacts at an end. A puffer chamber is formed inside the puffer cylinder, and a puffer piston is provided on the inner periphery of the puffer cylinder. An insulating nozzle part is mounted on an end of the puffer cylinder to surround the arc contact. The insulating nozzle part includes a split nozzle base part and a split nozzle end part, and the split nozzle base part has a throat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke NOMURA, Noriyuki YAGINUMA, Yuuji KANEKO, Makoto HIROSE
  • Patent number: 9336974
    Abstract: A pair of arcing contacts 3 and 5 facing each other are placed in a tank 1 to perform opening and closing operation, and a puffer cylinder 7 is coaxially provided on the circumference of one arcing contact 5. A puffer chamber 9 is comprised of the puffer cylinder 7, a fixed piston 6, and a hollow rod 8. An insulating nozzle 4 forming a space communicating with the puffer chamber 9 is provided. An exhaust tube 2 for exhausting and cooling hot gas discharged from an arc produced in the insulating nozzle 4 is provided on the circumference of the other arcing contact 3. A structure 11 for temporarily reducing the flow path area is provided on the inner circumferential surface at short of the end portion of the exhaust tube 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kotsuji, Hajime Urai, Makoto Koizumi, Makoto Hirose
  • Publication number: 20160005559
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker is configured by comprising a tank filled with arc extinguishing gas, a pair of fixed side arc contact and moving side arc contact in the tank, a puffer chamber formed with a puffer cylinder including the moving side arc contact at its end and a fixed piston, and an insulating nozzle, attached to the end of the puffer cylinder, surrounding the moving side arc contact, that forms a flow channel to guide arc extinguishing gas from the puffer chamber to the contacts. A puffer cylinder 104 has a cylindrical member 104a at a breaker side end, an end of the insulating nozzle 101 is provided in the cylindrical member 104a. And the gas circuit breaker is configured by further comprising a hollow moving side main contact 102 at a breaker side end of the cylindrical member 104a, a pressing metal fitting 103 to engage an insulating nozzle 101 in the hollow part of the moving side main contact 102.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Yuji KANEKO, Noriyuki YAGINUMA, Daisuke NOMURA, Makoto HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20150236485
    Abstract: A circuit breaker (33) formed with a sealed tank (4) having a breaker section and an operating mechanism (2) is laterally arranged in a lengthwise direction and is fixed to a frame (1), and above the circuit breaker, main bus containers (11, 12) are provided, substantially orthogonally to an axial direction of the circuit breaker (33). Operating mechanism-side working space (B) and breaker section-side working space (C) are provided respectively above the operating mechanism (2) and the sealed tank (4), and a hand hole (5) is provided on an upper surface of the sealed tank (4). A connecting pin (24) is provided in a link mechanism connecting the operating mechanism (2) and the movable contact (7), and an operating mechanism-side working hole for accessibility to the connecting pin (24) from the operating mechanism-side working space (B) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroaki Hashimoto, Kenichi Okubo, Daisuke Ebisawa, Makoto Hirose
  • Publication number: 20150170858
    Abstract: A pair of arcing contacts 3 and 5 facing each other are placed in a tank 1 to perform opening and closing operation, and a puffer cylinder 7 is coaxially provided on the circumference of one arcing contact 5. A puffer chamber 9 is comprised of the puffer cylinder 7, a fixed piston 6, and a hollow rod 8. An insulating nozzle 4 forming a space communicating with the puffer chamber 9 is provided. An exhaust tube 2 for exhausting and cooling hot gas discharged from an arc produced in the insulating nozzle 4 is provided on the circumference of the other arcing contact 3. A structure 11 for temporarily reducing the flow path area is provided on the inner circumferential surface at short of the end portion of the exhaust tube 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Kotsuji, Hajime Urai, Makoto Koizumi, Makoto Hirose
  • Patent number: 9058947
    Abstract: A puffer-type gas circuit-breaker having improved interruption performance and dielectric performance, comprising: a partition wall provided in a stationary cylinder on the moving side of the circuit-breaker to form an intra-stationary cylinder space, a mechanical puffer chamber provided adjacent to one flange of the partition wall and a hot gas exhaust chamber provided on the same side as another flange of the partition wall, wherein the stationary cylinder has gas inlet holes communicated with the intra-stationary cylinder space and formed on one side relative to a virtual plane that bisects the stationary cylinder in a radial direction, gas outlet holes communicated with the intra-stationary cylinder space, and hot gas exhaust openings communicated with the hot gas exhaust chamber, further communicated with the puffer shaft flow hole after an arc is generated and formed in radial directions of the stationary cylinder and on the other side relative to the virtual plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Yaginuma, Masanori Tsukushi, Makoto Hirose