Patents by Inventor Masahisa Inagaki
Masahisa Inagaki 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).
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Publication number: 20030146498Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a composite material having low thermal expansivity, high thermal conductivity, and good plastic workability, which is applied to semiconductor devices and many other uses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2003Publication date: August 7, 2003Inventors: Yasuo Kondo, Junya Kaneda, Tasuhisa Aono, Teruyoshi Abe, Masahisa Inagaki, Ryuichi Saito, Yoshihiko Koike, Hideo Arakawa
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Publication number: 20030143074Abstract: In a joining method for manufacturing a rotor blade by joining a plurality of members, the members are pressed so as to exert a predetermined pressure on the bonding interface, a pulse voltage is applied to the members to pass electric current therethrough, and the joint portion is heated by resistance heating generated at the bonding interface and in the bulk of the members to cause diffusion bonding and thereby to join the members to each other. By this method, good joining can be achieved without substantially changing the crystal structure and mechanical properties of the base metals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Tsukamoto, Kunio Miyazaki, Masahisa Inagaki
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Publication number: 20030047584Abstract: The invention provides a friction stir welding apparatus and method and a processing apparatus and method, which are not easily affected by deformations of a work being processed. The friction stir welding apparatus inserts a rotating tool into the work and moves the rotating tool relative to the work to join members of the work. The friction stir welding apparatus and method and the processing apparatus and method of the invention, the latter cutting or grinding the work with a rotating cutter or grindstone, comprises controlling a relative distance between the tool, cutter or grindstone and the work under the joining or processing operation or an insertion depth so that the load factor or electric current of a spindle motor for rotating the tool, cutter or grindstone is within a predetermined range, and a controller therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Inventors: Kazutaka Okamoto, Satoshi Hirano, Masayuki Doi, Hisanori Okamura, Masahisa Inagaki, Tomio Odakura, Masaru Tomobe
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Publication number: 20030047590Abstract: The invention provides a friction stir welding apparatus and method and a processing apparatus and method, which are not easily affected by deformations of a work being processed. The friction stir welding apparatus inserts a rotating tool into the work and moves the rotating tool relative to the work to join members of the work. The friction stir welding apparatus and method and the processing apparatus and method of the invention, the latter cutting or grinding the work with a rotating cutter or grindstone, comprises controlling a relative distance between the tool, cutter or grindstone and the work under the joining or processing operation or an insertion depth so that the load factor or electric current of a spindle motor for rotating the tool, cutter or grindstone is within a predetermined range, and a controller therefor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2002Publication date: March 13, 2003Inventors: Kazutaka Okamoto, Satoshi Hirano, Masayuki Doi, Hisanori Okamura, Masahisa Inagaki, Tomio Odakura, Masaru Tomobe
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Patent number: 6146094Abstract: Reduction of air resistance which acts on the conventional motor-driven blower is limited because crushed protrusions are formed on the surface of the plate of the impeller of the conventional motor-driven blower, and this air resistance is a significant impediment to an increase of the operating speed of the motor-driven blower. Thus, an impeller is provided which comprises a front plate having a suction opening, a back plate disposed opposite to the front plate, and a plurality of blades disposed between the front plate and the back plate. At least either the front plate or the back plate is formed integrally with the blades.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1998Date of Patent: November 14, 2000Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Obana, Kiyomi Nakamura, Masahisa Inagaki, Yasuhisa Aono, Hisanori Okamura, Hisao Suka, Fumio Jyoraku
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Patent number: 5872826Abstract: A channel box for a nuclear-reactor fuel assembly (MOX fuel assembly) containing plutonium, capable of properly controlling the excess reactivity without mixing neutron absorber or burnable poison into a fuel rod, and a channel box for a nuclear-reactor fuel assembly which does not form any gap between the channel box and members containing burnable poison in the channel box and in which the burnable poison does not directly contact with reactor water.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1997Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Fujieda, Masahisa Inagaki, Iwao Takase, Yoshitaka Nishino, Junichi Yamashita, Akihiro Yamanaka, Kenichi Ito, Junjiro Nakajima, Takehiro Seto
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Patent number: 5862194Abstract: The present invention provides a zirconium based alloy member which has very small deformation of elongation and bow occurring due to irradiation growth, a method of manufacturing it, and particularly an channel box for an atomic reactor fuel assembly. A zirconium based alloy plate member having a width of not less than 100 mm and a long length, containing not more than 5 wt % Nb and/or not more 5 wt % Sn, the member having (0001) orientation (Fl value) of hexagonal Zr with respect to longitudinal direction ranging from 0.20 to 0.35, the difference in Fl between the middle and the end being not more than the value calculated from (0.0935.times.Fl-0.00585) and an amount of bow at neutron irradiation of 35 GWd/t which bow occurs in the channel box for a reactor being not more than 2.16 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 1997Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Fujieda, Masahisa Inagaki, Iwao Takase, Junjiro Nakajima, Rinichi Asano, Takehiro Seto
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Patent number: 5770333Abstract: A non-aqueous secondary battery having a long life-time and a high capacity density is provided by increasing the discharging capacity of the negative electrode and extending the life-time of the negative electrode. The nonaqueous secondary battery has a positive electrode and a negative electrode reversibly absorbing and discharging an alkaline metal and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the negative electrode is made of an inter-metallic compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of 4A group elements, P and Sb, the inter-metallic compound has any one of CaF.sub.2 type, ZnS type and AlLiSi type crystal structures, and the CaF.sub.2 type structure is any one an inverse-fluorite structure and a fluorite structure having a lattice constant larger than 6.36 .ANG..Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1996Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Saito, Yasuhisa Aono, Tatsuo Horiba, Hideyo Kodama, Toshinori Dozono, Masahisa Inagaki
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Patent number: 5640435Abstract: The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1994Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kurosaki, Junjiro Nakajima, Hajime Umehara, Shozo Nakamura, Satoshi Kanno, Koji Nishida, Yasunori Bessho, Masahisa Inagaki, Osamu Yokomizo, Yuichiro Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 5617456Abstract: The lower end of each of a plurality of fuel rods is supported by a fuel supporting portion of a lower tie plate. The fuel supporting portion includes a plurality of second coolant paths for supplying a coolant from below the fuel supporting portion to a first coolant path defined above the fuel supporting portion and between the fuel rods. The total cross-sectional area of all the second coolant paths is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the first coolant path.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: April 1, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideki Kurosaki, Junjiro Nakajima, Hajime Umehara, Shozo Nakamura, Satoshi Kanno, Koji Nishida, Yasunori Bessho, Masahisa Inagaki, Osamu Yokomizo, Yuichiro Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 5596615Abstract: A fuel assembly avoiding the generation of irradiation damage, a Zr alloy used for the same, and a manufacturing method thereof. According to one embodiment, a super-saturated solid-solution Zr alloy powder having a crystal grain size in the range of 1000 nm or less and containing Fe, Ni and Cr is prepared by mechanical alloying, and the alloy powder is subjected to HIP, hot-working, cold-working and final heat-treatment.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1995Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyomi Nakamura, Masahisa Inagaki, Syouko Tanikoshi, Hideo Maki, Tsuneyuki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 5490192Abstract: A fuel assembly comprises a plurality of fuel rods, tie plates for holding both ends of these fuel rods, and spacers which support these fuel rods. The spacer comprises a plurality of cells into which the fuel rods are inserted respectively, the adjacent cells being joined to each other at axial ends thereof, whereby a space between these cells being held or retained, and a plurality of loop springs held respectively on the cells. Each of the loop springs has a pair of resilient members which are located within the pair of adjacent cells and which urge the fuel rods in a radial direction, and a pair of connections which connect axial ends of the resilient members to each other. Each of the connections have a passage through which coolant flows axially and which is defined by a closed peripheral wall. The closed peripheral wall is not uniform in thickness. The pair of adjacent cells have at axial end portions of peripheral walls openings for accommodating or receiving the connections of the loop spring.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1994Date of Patent: February 6, 1996Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd., Toshiba CorporationInventors: Junjiro Nakajima, Koji Nishida, Satoshi Kanno, Tadashi Mizuno, Yasunori Bessho, Masahisa Inagaki, Yasuhiro Aizawa
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Patent number: 5349903Abstract: A printing head provided in a wire-dot printer includes a plurality of first wire pins arranged in accordance with a predetermined rule, ends of the first wire pins facing a printing plane, a first driving mechanism for reciprocating the first wire pins in directions approximately perpendicular to the printing plane, a plurality of second wire pins longer than the first wire pins, ends of the second wire pins facing the printing plane, and a second driving mechanism for reciprocating the second wire pins in the same directions as the first wire pins, wherein the first and second driving mechanisms are arranged along a direction approximately perpendicular to the printing plane under a condition in which the first driving mechanism is positioned nearer the printing plane than the second driving mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 1992Date of Patent: September 27, 1994Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Hitoshi Moriyama, Kiyoshi Itoh, Minoru Hara, Masahisa Inagaki
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Patent number: 5304261Abstract: In a method of fabricating a channel box for use in a nuclear reactor, Zr-alloy sheet material is formed into a tubular channel box. The method includes solution heat treatment of the Zr-alloy sheet material including quenching from a temperature at which .beta.-phase is present. After the solution heat treatment, portions of the Zr-alloy sheet are thinned relative to other portions by a non-stressing thinning process, such as chemical etching in a bath. The corrosion resistance imparted by heat treatment is retained, and the heat treatment itself is easily performed on material of uniform thickness.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1992Date of Patent: April 19, 1994Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Nobukazu Yamamoto, Kouichi Matsumoto, Junjiro Nakajima, Hideo Maki, Hiromasa Hirakawa, Masahisa Inagaki, Iwao Takase, Nobuhiro Okazaki, Hideaki Ishizaki, Toraki Sakuma
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Patent number: 5297177Abstract: A fuel assembly, where crystallographic orientations of a channel box are brought into a random distribution; and cladding tubes, spacers and a channel box are made from highly corrosion-resistant, Fe--Ni, zirconium-based alloy, hardened in the (.alpha.+.beta.) phase or .beta.-phase temperature region, has an average discharge burnup level of 50 to 550 GWd/t.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1992Date of Patent: March 22, 1994Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahisa Inagaki, Masayoshi Kanno, Hiromasa Hirakawa, Hideaki Ishizaki, Nobukazu Yamamoto, Hideo Maki, Junjiro Nakajima, Shozo Nakamura, Satoshi Kanno
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Fuel assembly for nuclear reactor, method for producing the same and structural members for the same
Patent number: 5225154Abstract: A fuel assembly for a nuclear reactor comprising a fuel cladding tube of three-layer structure having an outer surface in contact with reactor water of the nuclear reactor, an inner surface layer in contact with the nuclear fuel, and an intermediate layer interposed between the outer surface layer and the inner surface layer. the outer surface layer is made of a Zr-based alloy containing Nb, Sn and Mo. The inner surface layer is made of pure zirconium. The intermediate layer is made of a high ductility alloy which is higher in ductility than the outer surface layer and is higher in strength than the inner surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1989Date of Patent: July 6, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Kanno, Masahisa Inagaki, Iwao Takase, Jiro Kuniya, Akira Maru, Tetsuro Yasuda, Hideo Maki -
Patent number: 5223211Abstract: A zirconium based alloy plate of low irradiation growth, containing not more than 5 wt % Sn and/or not more 5 wt % Nb, and the balance Zr of not less than 90 wt %. The alloy plate has a texture that <0001> orientation (Fr value) with respect to direction perpendicular to the surface of the plate ranges from 0.20 to 0.50. This alloy plate is effective in being used to form a fuel channel box. Also a fuel assembly using this channel box is provided in which the crystal orientation of the zirconium alloy is made random by a heat treatment. Specifically, by the heat treatment, the Fr, Ft, and Fl values thereof are set to 0.25 to 0.50, 0.25 to 0.36, and 0.25 to 0.36, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 1991Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahisa Inagaki, Masayoshi Kanno, Iwao Takase, Toshitaka Kida, Noriyuki Ohnaka
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Patent number: 5203984Abstract: A plant operational status monitoring supervisory system comprising; means for extracting information directly relating to water quality of an objective portion consecutively for a period of time by means of an electrochemical water quality sensor installed in an objective portion to monitor in-situ in a plant; means for evaluating water quality based on thus extracted information; means for comparing an obtained water quality evaluation result with a reference value for a predetermined plant operation procedure; and means for displaying or storing necessary portion out of said comparison results; is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1990Date of Patent: April 20, 1993Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Sakai, Katsumi Mabuchi, Toshiaki Arato, Takuya Takahashi, Masakiyo Izumiya, Isao Masaoka, Yoshitaka Kojima, Masahisa Inagaki, Katsumi Ohsumi, Makoto Hayashi, Fumio Sato, Masateru Suwa, Kimihiko Akahori
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Patent number: 4842814Abstract: A channel box and/or a spacer of a fuel assembly is a welded construction and made of a Zr-Nb-Sn alloy comprising 0.5-2.2 wt % Nb, 0.5-1.5 wt % Sn contained so as to satisfy the relation of Sn(wt %) 22.times.Nb(wt %)--3.0, and balance Zr or a Zr-Nb-Sn-Mo alloy comprising 0.5-2.2 wt % Nb, 0.5-1.5 wt % Sn contained so as to satisfy the relation of Sn(wt %).gtoreq.2.times.Nb(wt %)--0.3, 0.1-0.8 wt % Mo, and balance Zr. The welded portion, its heat affected zone and the unwelded portion of the channel box and/or the spacer have substantially the whole equilibrium phase structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1987Date of Patent: June 27, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Iwao Takase, Masahisa Inagaki, Masayoshi Kanno, Toshimi Yoshida, Jiro Kuniya, Isao Masaoka, Tetsuo Yasuda, Hajime Umehara, Hideo Maki
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Patent number: 4834565Abstract: A printer head is connected to its counterbalance by a counter drive in a manner to reduce shock and noise when the printer head is reciprocated by a linear motor. The counter drive comprises a pulley and a pair of belts or wires which are wound approximately half way around the pulley in respective opposite directions on opposite sides of the pulley, with one end of each belt being connected to the counterbalance, and the other end of each belt being connected to the printer head. Thus, the counterbalance moves in the opposite direction of the printer head. A movable element of the linear motor is connected coaxially to the counterbalance, in a manner such that the weight of the movable element is included in the total weight of the counterbalance. The printer head is mounted on a carriage which the carriage has a roller spaced laterally from the shaft. slides along a shaft.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1988Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Makoto Takekoshi, Masahisa Inagaki, Haruhiko Tokunaga