Patents by Inventor Toshihide Tsuji
Toshihide Tsuji 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: 11911785Abstract: An electrostatic atomizing apparatus includes: a liquid nozzle portion for releasing a liquid column into an open space; a liquid conduit portion for introducing pressurized liquid into the liquid nozzle portion; a liquid-side electrode disposed inside the liquid conduit portion for coming into contact with the pressurized liquid; a gas conduit portion made of an insulation material and having a gas nozzle portion disposed around the liquid nozzle portion for converting the liquid column into fine particles to generate an atomized stream by making a gas stream from the gas nozzle portion act at an atomization point of the liquid column released into the open space from the liquid nozzle portion; and a ring-shaped induction electrode disposed around the atomization point located in the open space and having an electrode conductor made of a conductive material and coated with an insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HOCHIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tetsuo Yoshida
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Publication number: 20210291207Abstract: An electrostatic atomizing apparatus includes: a liquid nozzle portion for releasing a liquid column into an open space; a liquid conduit portion for introducing pressurized liquid into the liquid nozzle portion; a liquid-side electrode disposed inside the liquid conduit portion for coming into contact with the pressurized liquid; a gas conduit portion made of an insulation material and having a gas nozzle portion disposed around the liquid nozzle portion for converting the liquid column into fine particles to generate an atomized stream by making a gas stream from the gas nozzle portion act at an atomization point of the liquid column released into the open space from the liquid nozzle portion; and a ring-shaped induction electrode disposed around the atomization point located in the open space and having an electrode conductor made of a conductive material and coated with an insulation material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Toshihide TSUJI, Tetsuo YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 11059059Abstract: An electrostatic atomizing apparatus includes: a liquid nozzle portion for releasing a liquid column into an open space; a liquid conduit portion for introducing pressurized liquid into the liquid nozzle portion; a liquid-side electrode disposed inside the liquid conduit portion for coming into contact with the pressurized liquid; a gas conduit portion made of an insulation material and having a gas nozzle portion disposed around the liquid nozzle portion for converting the liquid column into fine particles to generate an atomized stream by making a gas stream from the gas nozzle portion act at an atomization point of the liquid column released into the open space from the liquid nozzle portion; and a ring-shaped induction electrode disposed around the atomization point located in the open space and having an electrode conductor made of a conductive material and coated with an insulation material.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: HOCHIKI CORPORATIONInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tetsuo Yoshida
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Publication number: 20190176172Abstract: An electrostatic atomizing apparatus including: a liquid nozzle portion (20) for releasing a liquid column (38) into an open space; a liquid conduit portion (18) for introducing pressurized liquid into the liquid nozzle portion; a liquid-side electrode (16) disposed inside the liquid conduit portion for coming into contact with the liquid; a gas conduit portion (36) made of an insulation material and having a gas nozzle portion (24) disposed around the liquid nozzle portion for converting the liquid column into fine particles to generate an atomized stream by making a gas stream from the gas nozzle portion act at an atomization point P of the liquid column released into the open space from the liquid nozzle portion; and a ring-shaped induction electrode (26) disposed around the atomization point located in the open space and having an electrode conductor (28) made of a conductive material and coated with an insulation material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Toshihide TSUJI, Tetsuo YOSHIDA
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Patent number: 8776902Abstract: Fire-extinguishing agent supplying equipment pressurizes a water-based fire-extinguishing agent and supplies the agent via a pipe; and the water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied via the pipe to an electrification spray head installed in a protection area A, and the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head. A pulsed or alternating electrification voltage is applied to the electrification spray head from a voltage application unit 15, and an external electric field generated by applying the voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the fire-extinguishing agent in a jetting process to electrify the jetted particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Patent number: 8757522Abstract: Cooling water is pressurized and supplied via a pipe to an electrified atomization head installed in an atomization cooling area. The jetted particles of the cooling water from the electrified atomization head are electrified and atomized. An electrification voltage is applied from a voltage application unit to the electrified atomization head, and the external electric field generated by applying a voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the cooling water in a jetting process so as to electrify the atomization water and facilitate adsorption to people.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Patent number: 8505641Abstract: A wide protection range can be ensured by extending the flying distance of fire-extinguishing agent particles electrified and sprayed from a head. A water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied to an electrification spray head 10 installed in a protection area A via a pipe, the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head 10. The electrification spray head mixes and sprays the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively small particle size included in a range from 30 ?m to 200 ?m by a small-particle jetting nozzle 38a and the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively-large particle size of 200 ?m to 2000 ?m by a large-particle jetting nozzle 38b, thereby carrying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the small particle size by the air current caused by spraying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the large particle size.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi, Tetsuo Yoshida
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Patent number: 8413735Abstract: Fire-extinguishing agent supplying equipment pressurizes a water-based fire-extinguishing agent and supplies the agent via a pipe; and the water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied via the pipe to an electrification spray head installed in a protection area A, and the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head. A pulsed or alternating electrification voltage is applied to the electrification spray head from a voltage application unit 15, and an external electric field generated by applying the voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the fire-extinguishing agent in a jetting process to electrify the jetted particles.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Patent number: 8365836Abstract: A wide protection range can be ensured by extending the flying distance of fire-extinguishing agent particles electrified and sprayed from a head. A water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied to an electrification spray head 10 installed in a protection area A via a pipe, the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head 10. The electrification spray head mixes and sprays the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively small particle size included in a range from 30 ?M to 200 ?m by a small-particle jetting nozzle 38a and the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively-large particle size of 200 ?m to 2000 ?m by a large-particle jetting nozzle 38b, thereby carrying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the small particle size by the air current caused by spraying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the large particle size.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi, Tetsuo Yoshida
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Patent number: 8181710Abstract: A tube-end device for fire extinguishment jets and sprays pressurized and fed water, seawater, or aqueous fire-extinguishing agent from a tube end. The tube-end device for fire extinguishment is provided with: an induction electrode unit disposed in an emission space side of a nozzle unit positioned inside the tube end; a water-side electrode unit disposed at a position of the interior of a tube main body in contact with fire-extinguishing water; a voltage applying device which applies an external electric field, which is generated by applying a voltage between the induction electrode unit and the water-side electrode unit, to the water, seawater, or fire-extinguishing agent in the process of jetting from the nozzle unit, electrically charges jetted particles, and emit the particles; and a battery which supplies power to the voltage applying device.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Hochiki CorporationInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20120000677Abstract: A wide protection range can be ensured by extending the flying distance of fire-extinguishing agent particles electrified and sprayed from a head. A water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied to an electrification spray head 10 installed in a protection area A via a pipe, the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head 10. The electrification spray head mixes and sprays the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively small particle size included in a range from 30 ?M to 200 ?m by a small-particle jetting nozzle 38a and the fire-extinguishing agent having a comparatively-large particle size of 200 ?m to 2000 ?m by a large-particle jetting nozzle 38b, thereby carrying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the small particle size by the air current caused by spraying the group of the fire-extinguishing-agent particles having the large particle size.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Inventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi, Tetsuo Yoshida
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Publication number: 20110186646Abstract: Cooling water is pressurized and supplied via a pipe to an electrified atomization head installed in an atomization cooling area A, the jetted particles of the cooling water from the electrified atomization head are electrified and atomized. An electrification voltage is applied from a voltage application unit to the electrified atomization head, and the external electric field generated by applying a voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the cooling water in a jetting process so as to electrify the atomization water and facilitate adsorption to people.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Inventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20110186311Abstract: Fire-extinguishing agent supplying equipment pressurizes a water-based fire-extinguishing agent and supplies the agent via a pipe; and the water-based fire-extinguishing agent is pressurized and supplied via the pipe to an electrification spray head installed in a protection area A, and the jetted particles of the fire-extinguishing agent are electrified and sprayed from the electrification spray head. A pulsed or alternating electrification voltage is applied to the electrification spray head from a voltage application unit 15, and an external electric field generated by applying the voltage between a water-side electrode unit and an induction electrode unit is applied to the fire-extinguishing agent in a jetting process to electrify the jetted particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2011Publication date: August 4, 2011Inventors: Toshihide TSUJI, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Publication number: 20100213291Abstract: A tube-end device for fire extinguishment jets and sprays pressurized and fed water, seawater, or aqueous fire-extinguishing agent from a tube end. The tube-end device for fire extinguishment is provided with: an induction electrode unit disposed in an emission space side of a nozzle unit positioned inside the tube end; a water-side electrode unit disposed at a position of the interior of a tube main body in contact with fire-extinguishing water; a voltage applying device which applies an external electric field, which is generated by applying a voltage between the induction electrode unit and the water-side electrode unit, to the water, seawater, or fire-extinguishing agent in the process of jetting from the nozzle unit, electrically charges jetted particles, and emit the particles; and a battery which supplies power to the voltage applying device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Tatsuya Hayashi
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Patent number: 6073700Abstract: The present invention is to discharge the fire extinguishing water by accurately opening the valve, using a shape-memory alloy at a predetermined temperature in a fire. When a shape-memory alloy in a first heat sensitive operation part is heated to a predetermined memory restoring temperature, a pilot valve is operated by the restoring force thereof so that a spool valve can be in a state capable of being opened by an actuator. When a second heat sensitive operation part reaches a predetermined water discharge starting temperature higher than the memory restoring temperature, a fusible alloy provided inside is thermally decomposed so that the first heat sensitive operation part maintained in the closed state is released so as to discharge the fire extinguishing water.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1998Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Katsuaki Tonomura, Suguru Shimokawa
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Patent number: 6044912Abstract: A sprinkler head connected with a fire extinguishing piping maintains a valve body in a closed state so as to contain compressed fire extinguishing water filled in a fire extinguishing piping when there is no fire, but opens and operates the valve body so as to discharge the compressed and supplied fire extinguishing water at the time of a fire. The fire extinguishing water is contained by closing the gap between the valve body and the peripheral part of the valve body by a sealing member mounted in the valve body, prepared by coating a rubber base material with a fluorine contained resin coating material. The rubber base material of the sealing member can have a round, oval, U-shaped, Y-shaped, or X-shaped cross-sectional shape. The rubber base material can be made from a fluorine rubber or a silicon rubber.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1999Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Katsuaki Tonomura, Suguru Shimokawa
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Patent number: 5392990Abstract: A double-nozzle deluge gun has a pair of nozzles arranged side by side rotatably on a rotatable table and an inter-nozzle control unit for adjusting the inter-nozzle angle measured between two lines obtained by projecting the radiation center lines of the nozzles onto a horizontal plane. Each nozzle has a deflector which is positioned in front of the nozzle during the very short range mode. Each deflector has a side cover which prevents water having passed through the deflector from excessively spreading sideways. The inter-nozzle angle and the water pressure are adjusted in accordance with desired water-reaching ranges, so as to achieve an optimal watering pattern in any range. Thus, the double-nozzle deluge gun can be controlled in accordance with desired water-reaching ranges, so as to achieve an optimal watering pattern having an appropriate width in any range.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1994Date of Patent: February 28, 1995Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Teruo Iwata, Toshihide Tsuji, Shuji Matsumoto, Katsuaki Tonomura
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Patent number: 4909329Abstract: This invention relates to a fire supervising system and a fire extinguishing target determining method in the water discharging and fire extinguishing operation. The system and method of the present invention is characterized by dividing a fire supervisory region into a matrix pattern to set a pluraity of sections; identifying the section corresponding to a position of a fire from the positional information of the fire starting within the supervisory region which has been output from a fire sensor; and selecting a water discharging target for a water discharging nozzle based on a priority order which has been preliminarily set for the respective sections or selecting the water discharging nozzle in charge, optimum for the fire extinguishing operation which has been set preliminarily for the respective sections.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1987Date of Patent: March 20, 1990Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Kockiki Corp., Takenaka Komuten Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Kazutaka Onozuka, Yoshihiko Ohashi, Toshihide Tsuji, Kensuke Miyazaki
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Patent number: 4801090Abstract: A water jet discharge pipe which produces a wide effective spray area and long water reach at low pressure and water volume. Compressed air is injected around the periphery of the pressurized water stream produced through an inner cylindrical member and which is throttled by a nozzle extending into such inner cylindrical member. The injected air prevents reduction of the flow velocity of the water by contact with the inner wall of the cylindrical member. In addition, external air is introduced through air inlets in an outer cylindrical member extending from the inner cylindrical member so as to straighten the air layer accompanying the water jet exiting from the inner cylindrical member and suppress premature dispersal of the water stream prior to ejection from the outer cylindrical member. After such ejection, expansion of the injected air atomizes the water stream to provide large area coverage thereof.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1986Date of Patent: January 31, 1989Assignees: Hochiki Corp., Kabushiki Kaisha Takenata KomutenInventors: Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Kazutaka Onozuka, Yoshihiko Ohashi, Toshihide Tsuji, Kensuke Miyazaki, Yoshio Koyama
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Patent number: 4749862Abstract: A scanning fire-monitoring system comprising a fire source detecting apparatus including a detecting head having a small field of vision and adapted to detect heat radiant energy from a monitoring area, a vertical scanning drive means for letting the detecting head scan within a detection range of small width on the monitoring area, and a horizontal scanning drive means for mounting said detecting head and said vertical scanning drive means thereon and rotatable in a horizontal direction and an arithmetic unit for carrying out a required signal processing and decision on the basis of a detection signal from the detecting head said detecting head being driven in vertical and horizontal directions to scan over the entire monitoring area.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1986Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha, Hochiki Corp.Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yoshida, Kazutaka Onozuka, Yoshihiko Ohashi, Toshihide Tsuji