Patents by Inventor Masanori Masumoto
Masanori Masumoto 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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Patent number: 9220919Abstract: A radiotherapy apparatus control method includes: collecting a planning-stage position where a patient is arranged during a planning stage; collecting a position-adjusting-stage position where the patient is arranged during a position-adjusting stage; calculating a treatment-stage position, a gantry-angle offset value and a ring-angle offset value such that an orientation in which an irradiation head is arranged with respect to the treatment-stage position, when a ring is arranged while deviating from a ring angle by the ring-angle offset value and a gantry is arranged while deviating from a gantry angle by the gantry-angle offset value, coincides with an orientation in which the irradiation head is arranged with respect to the planning-stage position, when the ring is arranged at the ring angle and the gantry is arranged at the gantry angle. After that, the patient is arranged at a patient position.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masanori Masumoto, Hiroyuki Shibata, Shuji Kaneko
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Publication number: 20130178690Abstract: A radiotherapy apparatus control method includes: collecting a planning-stage position where a patient is arranged during a planning stage; collecting a position-adjusting-stage position where the patient is arranged during a position-adjusting stage; calculating a treatment-stage position, a gantry-angle offset value and a ring-angle offset value such that an orientation in which an irradiation head is arranged with respect to the treatment-stage position, when a ring is arranged while deviating from a ring angle by the ring-angle offset value and a gantry is arranged while deviating from a gantry angle by the gantry-angle offset value, coincides with an orientation in which the irradiation head is arranged with respect to the planning-stage position, when the ring is arranged at the ring angle and the gantry is arranged at the gantry angle. After that, the patient is arranged at a patient position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: July 11, 2013Inventors: Masanori Masumoto, Hiroyuki Shibata, Shuji Kaneko
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Patent number: 8435005Abstract: A manufacturing method of an impeller includes forming a plurality of blades integrally on a blade attachment surface of one of a disc and a cover, placing the cover on a floor so as to face up the blade attachment surface of the cover, disposing the disc on the cover so as to face down the blade attachment surface of the disc, and bonding the plurality of blades to the blade attachment surface of the other of the disc and the cover which is not formed integrally with the plurality of blades by using a bonding material.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yujiro Watanabe, Hideaki Takatani, Kazuyoshi Miyagawa, Masanori Masumoto
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Publication number: 20100189568Abstract: A manufacturing method of an impeller includes: forming a plurality of blades integrally on a blade attachment surface of one of a disc and a cover; placing the cover on a floor so as to face up the blade attachment surface of the cover; disposing the disc on the cover so as to face down the blade attachment surface of the disc; and bonding the plurality of blades to the blade attachment surface of the other of the disc and the cover which is not formed integrally with the plurality of blades by using a bonding material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: July 29, 2010Inventors: Yujiro WATANABE, Hideaki Takatani, Kazuyoshi Miyagawa, Masanori Masumoto
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Patent number: 7420174Abstract: An object is to provide a nondestructive inspection device of a low equipment cost, and a crane equipped with the nondestructive inspection device. The nondestructive inspection device is provided for a quay crane, on a transporting route of the container. The nondestructive inspection device irradiates radiation from radiation sources to a container which has entered into an inspection area, and detects radiation that has transmitted through the container using the same detector, and nondestructively inspects the entire inside of the container based on information of intensity of the radiation and information of detection position of the radiation.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: September 2, 2008Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Toshiyuki Kusano, Koji Uchida
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Patent number: 7216806Abstract: A container handling apparatus, a container management system, and a method of container handling are provided in which information of a container to be handled is accurately recognized automatically, in order to improve the efficiency of a container handling operation. An RF-ID reader/writer (wireless communication device) is provided in a container crane, on a beam of a spreader holding the container, facing a lengthwise end face of the container. An RF-ID tag (wireless tag) that stores container information is installed on a lengthwise end part of the container. The construction is such that the RF-ID tag reader/writer performs wireless communication with the RF-ID tag when the spreader is located on the transporting route of the container. The container information includes output of sensors provided on the container that detect security information of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Takashi Chikura, Masato Kobayashi
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Patent number: 7216548Abstract: The invention aims at providing a crane equipped with an inspection device that can maintain excellent inspection conditions without decreasing cargo transporting efficiency. On a container transporting route of a quay crane, a truck (position adjustment device), is provided moveably in a direction across this transporting route. An inspection device, which inspects the container, is provided on this truck. An upper part frame, which projects above the inspection device, and a lower part frame, which projects under the inspection device, are provided on the truck. An upside position detector, which detects the relative position of the container and the inspection device in the direction of movement of the truck, is provided in a position higher than that of the inspection device of the upper frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Toshiyuki Kusano, Koji Uchida
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Publication number: 20060113384Abstract: A container handling apparatus, a container management system, and a method of container handling are provided in which information of a container to be handled is accurately recognized automatically, in order to improve the efficiency of a container handling operation. An RF-ID reader/writer (wireless communication device) is provided in a container crane, on a beam of a spreader holding the container, facing a lengthwise end face of the container. An RF-ID tag (wireless tag) that stores container information is installed on a lengthwise end part of the container. The construction is such that the RF-ID tag reader/writer performs wireless communication with the RF-ID tag when the spreader is located on the transporting route of the container. The container information includes output of sensors provided on the container that detect security information of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Takashi Chikura, Masato Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20060042397Abstract: The invention aims at providing a crane equipped with an inspection device that can maintain excellent inspection conditions without decreasing cargo transporting efficiency. On a container transporting route of a quay crane, a truck (position adjustment device), is provided moveably in a direction across this transporting route. An inspection device, which inspects the container, is provided on this truck. An upper part frame, which projects above the inspection device, and a lower part frame, which projects under the inspection device, are provided on the truck. An upside position detector, which detects the relative position of the container and the inspection device in the direction of movement of the truck, is provided in a position higher than that of the inspection device of the upper frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2005Publication date: March 2, 2006Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Toshiyuki Kusano, Koji Uchida
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Publication number: 20060027751Abstract: An object is to provide a nondestructive inspection device of a low equipment cost, and a crane equipped with the nondestructive inspection device. The nondestructive inspection device is provided for a quay crane, on a transporting route of the container. The nondestructive inspection device irradiates radiation from radiation sources to a container which has entered into an inspection area, and detects radiation that has transmitted through the container using the same detector, and nondestructively inspects the entire inside of the container based on information of intensity of the radiation and information of detection position of the radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2005Publication date: February 9, 2006Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTDInventors: Koichi Kurita, Masanori Masumoto, Toshiyuki Kusano, Koji Uchida
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Patent number: 6382437Abstract: A crane system for carrying a load while suspending it from a portal-shaped body frame via wire ropes includes first and second wire ropes on both sides, in a right-and-left direction, of an upper portion of the body frame for fixing the suspended load, and means for taking up and paying out the first and second wire ropes. The system also includes means for winding the first and second wire ropes in opposite directions, or winding them in the same direction. The first and second wire ropes may be looped together with the means of taking up and paying out the wire ropes. Connection points or sheaves may be provided on the suspended load. It is also permissible to route the first and second wire ropes parallel to each other. Further, the above takeup and payout means may be in a tapered drum form.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1999Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takashi Okada, Takashi Chikura, Hisanori Abiru, Tetsuo Ichikizaki, Masanori Masumoto, Shinichi Masumoto, Ikko Yasunaga, Tatsuya Hirano
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Patent number: 6345724Abstract: A crane apparatus is disclosed. A hoisting accessory is traversed by rotating rotating drums by driving of a traversing motor to take up or pay out wire ropes. Continuously variable transmissions are provided for changing rotational speeds of the rotating drums. A control device controls the continuously variable transmissions in a gear changing manner so that forces imposed on the drums by the wire ropes will be balanced. Thus, torques acting on the pair of drums are canceled out in all areas in which the hoisting accessory moves, whereby the capacity of the drive motor can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Masumoto, Hisanori Abiru, Tetsuo Ichikizaki, Takashi Chikura, Tatsuya Hirano, Shinichi Masumoto, Ikko Yasunaga, Takashi Okada
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Patent number: 6343702Abstract: A crane apparatus is disclosed. First traverser wire ropes are connected to a right connecting portion of a traverser, while second traverser wire ropes are connected to a left connecting portion of the traverser. First hoisting accessory wire ropes are passed over a right rope pulley via the traverser, and then connected to the traverser, while second hoisting accessory wire ropes are passed over a left rope pulley via the traverser, and then connected to the traverser. A hoisting accessory is suspended from the right and left rope pulleys. The crane apparatus enlarges the traversing range of the hoisting accessory, and increases work efficiency, without becoming upsized.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Masanori Masumoto, Hisanori Abiru, Tetsuo Ichikizaki, Takashi Chikura, Tatsuya Hirano, Shinichi Masumoto, Ikko Yasunaga, Takashi Okada
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Patent number: 5924582Abstract: A lowering collision avoidance device includes a container detector, a rope winding speed detector, a rangefinder for detecting the distance to an adjacent container, a rope length detector, and a controller which controls a hoisting/lowering drive motor, thereby controlling the lowering speed, in such a manner that when the container detector becomes ON, a lowering stop action is performed to start decreasing the lowering speed at a predetermined rate; even during this period, the remaining lowering distance and a normal stopping distance are computed; and when the container detector becomes OFF for one period of swing computed from the rope length detected by the rope length detector, and after a judgment is made that the risk of collision of a lowered container with the adjacent container has vanished, lowering is resumed if the remaining lowering distance is larger than the normal stopping distance, or an emergency stop action is performed if the remaining lowering distance is not larger than the normal sType: GrantFiled: December 3, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Noriaki Miyata, Toshio Taguchi, Masanori Masumoto
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Patent number: 4722211Abstract: A method of roll forming hollow parts comprises introducing a workpiece into the space between a plurality of rolls rotatably arranged in spaced and parallel relationship, in parallel with the axes of the rolls, imparting rotation to the workpiece from drives through either the rolls or flanges disposed at both ends of the workpiece, at the same time forcing mandrels, slidably fitted at ends in the central openings of the flanges, through the openings into the workpiece, longitudinally from the both ends thereof, toward each other, and removing the excess metal left in the midportion of the workpiece between the mandrels by slightly moving the rolls toward each other for added compression, thereby producing spaces between the mandrels and the workpiece, and by moving the mandrels axially together with the excess metal to separate the latter from the rest of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1981Date of Patent: February 2, 1988Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hidehiko Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu Taura, Hiroshi Shiota, Masanori Masumoto, Kotaro Yagishita