Patents Assigned to Central Japan Railway Company
  • Publication number: 20140216578
    Abstract: A compressed air supply apparatus includes a control unit configured to operate an air compressor when a measurement value of the pressure measurement unit reaches a first pressure or less, and configured to stop the air compressor when the measurement value reaches a second pressure higher than the first pressure, and a plurality of relief valve apparatuses installed in each of the connection flow path between the air compressor and each of a plurality of air tanks, wherein the relief valve apparatus configures to open the connection flow path to the atmosphere when the measurement value reaches a third pressure higher than the second pressure and close the connection flow path when the measurement value reaches a fourth pressure higher than the second pressure and lower than the third pressure after the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Takahisa INUI, Tomoki WATANABE, Gakuji KOBAYASHI, Noriyuki TANIYAMA, Shinichiro TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8763536
    Abstract: Disclosed is a truck lateral motion restricting device which can prevent a large impact from being applied to a stopper when the truck lateral motion restricting device is operated in the derailment. The device comprises a guard angle (52) which is provided along the inside of the rail (51) and a stopper (25) which projects downward from a more inward position than wheels (15) of the truck (11) and is in slidable contact with the inside surface (52a) of the guard angle, wherein the stopper comprises a slidable contact portion (28), which has a slidable contact surface slidable contact with the inside surface of the guard angle, and guide portions (31) which project at front and rear portions of the slidable contact portion and have a front end inclined in a direction separating from the inside surface of the guard angle and a base having a guide slope (31a) provided continuously to the slidable contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Yoshinori Minami, Masahito Adachi, Hironobu Sunami, Nobuhisa Takada, Toru Konokawa
  • Patent number: 8734626
    Abstract: An anode (3) and a cathode (5), interposing a solid polymer film (7), are disposed. While supplying purified water from a supply port (13a) of an anode chamber (13), wherein the anode (3) is disposed, and a supply port (15a) of a cathode chamber (15), wherein the cathode (5) is disposed, direct electric current is applied between the anode (3) and the cathode (5). As a result, ozone-water is discharged from an outlet port (13b) of the anode chamber (13). In such an electrolysis cell (1), a free-standing conductive diamond plate, formed by microwave plasma assisted CVD so as to have a thickness of 0.8 mm, is used as the anode (3). The diamond plate is provided with holes, having a diameter of 1 mm and disposed such that a center distance therebetween becomes 2 mm. Therefore, the electrolysis cell (1) can stably produce ozone without causing exfoliation of the anode (3), even when high voltage and large current are applied between the anode (3) and the cathode (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Kazuki Arihara, Akira Fujishima
  • Patent number: 8720792
    Abstract: A ballast retaining structure according to the present invention is a ballast retaining structure in which ballast laid on the roadbed is tamped to thereby retain a track bed extended in an extending direction of the roadbed from a transverse direction thereof, and includes a layered body formed by a plurality of bag-like objects, each being formed in a bag shape and containing the ballast, which are stacked from a toe of slope to a top of slope of the track bed such that each of the bag-like objects is tilted to decline from an outer end portion to an inner end portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Mikihito Kobayashi, Masaki Seki, Yasuhito Watanabe, Hironari Muramatsu, Junichi Koseki
  • Patent number: 8720346
    Abstract: In a bogie frame, a lateral beam disposed in the left-right direction which is the direction in which the rail ties extend is joined to left and right side beams arranged so as to extend in the front-rear direction which is the direction in which the rails extend. The lateral beam has a flat shape having a width in the front-rear direction greater than the thickness thereof in the top-bottom direction, and the lateral beam is provided with left and right joining sections joined to the side beams, and also with an intermediate section sandwiched between the left and right joining sections. The width of the intermediate section in the front-rear direction is greater than the width of the joining sections in the front-rear direction. A through-hole is formed in the intermediate section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Sharyo, Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shinmura, Daizo Kanaya, Yasuyuki Fukui, Yuki Kunimatsu, Shotaro Ozu, Yoshitomo Watanabe, Takehiro Tozawa, Koichi Yamada, Junichi Ishiyama
  • Publication number: 20140117738
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle seat which includes a seat frame, a seat cushion receiving member stretched across the seat frame, and a seat cushion placed on the seat cushion receiving member. In the vehicle seat, the seat cushion has such dimensions as to cover the seat frame as viewed in plan, and a lower surface of the seat cushion has a raised portion in a region covering the seat frame, and the raised portion is raised so as not to contact the seat frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: Tenryu Industries Co., Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Yukio TAKAHASHI, Hiroki Tsunoda, Soshi Kawakami, Yuya Futamura, Masaki Yamabe
  • Publication number: 20140117737
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle seat which includes a seat back including a seat back body and an upholstery that covers front, back, and upper surfaces and both side surfaces of the seat back body. In the vehicle seat, the seat back body includes a frame having a frame shape and serving as a framework, a front-side cover portion placed so as to cover a front side of an inner space of the frame and supporting a back of a seated occupant, and a back-side cover portion placed so as to cover a rear side of the inner space. The front-side cover portion and the back-side cover portion are covered by the upholstery. The back-side cover portion includes a flexible back-side sheet body stretched across the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicants: Tenryu Industries Co., Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Yukio TAKAHASHI, Hiroki Tsunoda, Soshi Kawakami, Yuya Futamura, Masaki Yamabe
  • Patent number: 8678408
    Abstract: Travel devices for a transport vehicle are arranged in a longitudinal direction and a width direction of a loading platform to allow traveling of the loading platform. In this travel device, an arm includes an upper end turnably supported at a lower portion of the loading platform. The arm includes a lower end where an axle box is supported swingably in up and down directions. A wheel has a mid-plane that intersects with a swing plane of an axle shaft disposed at the axle box, and is supported at the axle shaft. Accordingly, this ensures a small vehicle width L2 of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Nippon Sharyo, Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Kazunari Sakurai
  • Patent number: 8669877
    Abstract: A system for inspecting an oil level in each part of a railroad car truck includes: an imaging unit that obtains an image of an oil level gauge; an oil level inspection unit that inspects whether or not the oil level in each part of the railroad car truck is within a predetermined range based on the image of the oil level gauge obtained by the imaging unit; a voice input unit adapted for an inspector to input, via voice, an inspection result; a voice processing unit that determines whether or not the inspection result inputted via the voice input unit is good based on the inputted inspection result, and converts a determination result into displayable data; a display unit that displays an oil level inspection result and the determination result; and a storage unit that stores, as data, the oil level inspection result and the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Kyouichi Nishimura, Nozomu Nakamura, Kazuhiro Okada, Yoshitaka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 8612049
    Abstract: When the load factor of a loading/unloading apparatus reaches a second reference value that is smaller in load factor than the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus becomes a reduction state. It is possible to make load vibration difficult to be generated in a load. Further, fine adjustment of the manipulation becomes easy, such that it is possible to prevent the load factor from reaching the first reference value due to careless manipulation of the operator. Even if the load factor reaches the first reference value, the operation speed of the loading/unloading apparatus has been reduced, such that it is possible to prevent load vibration of the load W when stopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Ogita, Kazunari Sakurai, Ryou Maeda, Kazuki Kobayashi, Koshu Yamashita
  • Patent number: 8602678
    Abstract: A jointing structure comprising multiple steps provided face to face at the coaxially built traveling path ends with an expansion gap between, multiple elastic members respectively mounted inside the multiple steps, and a joint block mounted on the multiple elastic members across the expansion gap. Multiple supporting blocks and one or more than one intermediate joint block are mounted inside the multiple steps with the joint block between. The multiple supporting blocks, the joint block and the one or more than one intermediate joint block are of concrete. The elastic members are joined together across the expansion gap. The elastic member on one side is fixed to the inside of the step on one side and then subjected to deformation toward the bridge girder axis, and thereafter, the elastic member on the other side is fixed to the inside of the step on the other side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Abe Nikkokogyo Co., Ltd., JR Central Consultants Company, Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Kawamoto, Takafumi Matsuda, Masaaki Miyamoto, Hironori Sadakane, Katsunori Yokokawa, Minoru Tsukahara, Junichi Kawaura, Yuki Motoyama
  • Patent number: 8571616
    Abstract: An MgB2 compound sheath superconducting wire includes a high stable metal having a specific electric resistance 7 ??cm or below at a room temperature and a high strength metal having a Vickers hardness 50 or above at a room temperature, both of which are assembled therewith to realize a high strength and a lengthy superconductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Kazuhide Tanaka, Michiya Okada, Masazumi Hirakawa, Hideyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8485452
    Abstract: The first object of the present invention is to provide a derailment prevention guard which can be easily shunted outside the range of the ballast tamping work, the rail grinding work and the rail maintenance work, and has no problem on safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Yamato Trackwork System Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Seki, Takashi Kachi, Tomomi Funada, Takaaki Irie, Katsunari Konishi, Tetsuya Hanazaki
  • Patent number: 8445118
    Abstract: A coating liquid including one or more of metal complexes selected from a metal complex A represented by Chemical Formula 1, a metal complex B represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a metal complex C represented by Chemical Formula 3. M in Formula 1, 2 and 3 represents a metal ion. Each of X1-X4 in Formula 1, 2 and 3 is one of O, NH, CO2 and S. Each of Y1-Y8 in Formula 1 and Y1-Y4 in Formula 3 is either CH or N. Each of Z1-Z3 in Formula 2 and 3 and Z4-Z6 in Formula 2 is one selected from a group of O, NH and S, and two selected from a group of CH and N. L represents an axial ligand. k represents a valence of each of the metal complexes and is equal to a sum of electric charges of M, X1-X4 and L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Christopher Cordonier, Tetsuya Shichi, Takafumi Numata, Kenichi Katsumata, Akimasa Nakamura, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Teruo Komine, Kenichirou Amemiya, Akira Fujishima, Makoto Yamashita
  • Patent number: D701482
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Takahashi, Yuya Futamura, Koichi Hayashi, Hiroki Tanaka, Naoya Ozawa, Naoyuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: D701483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Takahashi, Yuya Futamura, Koichi Hayashi, Hiroki Tanaka, Naoya Ozawa, Naoyuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: D701817
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Takahashi, Yuya Futamura, Koichi Hayashi, Hiroki Tanaka, Naoya Ozawa, Naoyuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: D701818
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignees: Central Japan Railway Company, Nippon Sharyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yukio Takahashi, Yuya Futamura, Koichi Hayashi, Hiroki Tanaka, Naoya Ozawa, Naoyuki Maruyama
  • Patent number: D707998
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Yukio Takahashi, Hiroki Tsunoda, Yuya Futamura
  • Patent number: D707999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Yukio Takashi, Hiroki Tsunoda, Yuya Futamura