Patents Assigned to Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.
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Patent number: 6574295Abstract: In order to provide a boiling water type nuclear reactor use control rod with a guide use roller which improves corrosive environment at a clearance in the guide use roller and suppresses a generation of stress corrosion cracking while maintaining sliding function of the control rod by the guide use roller, at least one of a handle 5, a lower portion supporting plate 2a and a dropping speed limiter 2 is provided with the guide use roller, and a space which causes water flow in a clearance between a pin 9 and a pin hole 12 in the guide use roller is provided adjacent the clearance.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Norio Kawashima, Shinobu Okido
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Patent number: 6538653Abstract: A graphic processing system has a processor for managing a display area and a character font area both included within an address space. From coded information indicative of a character transferred through a data bus of the system, the processor generates an address at which a character font pattern of the corresponding character has been stored and transfers that character font pattern to a predetermined position on the display area. The graphic processing system realizes high speed development of fonts.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1996Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koyo Katsura, Shigeru Matsuo, Shigeaki Yoshida, Hiroshi Takeda, Hisashi Kaziwara
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Patent number: 6519991Abstract: A water jet peening apparatus which can carry out an efficient peening work on a large-diameter cylindrical structure by injecting a jet stream which contains air bubbles caused by cavitation at a low angle of incidence is provided. The apparatus is comprised of a nozzle which introduces a high pressure water and injects a water jet stream containing air bubbles caused by cavitation at the cylindrical structure disposed in water, wherein the angle of injection of the jet stream is smaller than 45 degrees relative to a tangent of the cylindrical structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2002Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Kiso Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ibaraki Business Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Hirano, Kunio Enomoto, Eisaku Hayashi, Sadato Shimizu, Ren Morinaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Shigeru Tanaka, Noboru Chiba
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Patent number: 6516043Abstract: A fuel assembly includes a plurality of fuel rods placed in a square lattice array of 9-rows/9-columns and at least one water rod. In this fuel assembly, the fuel rod pitch of the plurality of fuel rods is in a range of 14.15 mm to 14.65 mm, and means for offsetting and holding a fuel bundle composed of the fuel rods and the water rod is provided in such a manner that the center in a cross section of the fuel bundle is offset from the center in a cross section of the lower tie plate toward the channel fastener side. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a fuel assembly for a D-lattice core, which is capable of achieving the fuel economy comparable to that of a C-lattice core without reducing the thermal margin, and of using the existing fuel spacers.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1999Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masao Chaki, Koji Nishida, Motoo Aoyama, Junichi Koyama, Katsumasa Haikawa, Yasuhiro Aizawa
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Patent number: 6512413Abstract: A voltage boost circuit operates by applying a power supply voltage to both terminals of a booster capacitance in a discharge period; and, in a charging period which follows the discharge period, by turning on a switching circuit in response to application of one shot pulse thereto, a power supply voltage is applied to one terminal of said booster capacitance, a ground potential is applied to the other one terminal thereof, wherein, during the charging of said booster capacitance, a pulse width of the one shot pulse is adjusted in accordance with a magnitude of the power supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiko Okutsu, Shoji Sato
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Patent number: 6504587Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a pair of upper and lower substrates, an illuminating light source disposed behind the liquid crystal display panel, an upper case made of metal having a sidewall bent back from a periphery of a front portion thereof and a window approximately corresponding to a display area of the liquid crystal display panel, a lower case made of resin for housing the illuminating light source in a recess thereof, and an inner frame made of metal having an opening for allowing light from the illuminating light source to be directed toward the liquid crystal display panel and interposed between the liquid crystal display panel and the lower case, the upper case and the lower case being clamped together after stacking the liquid crystal display panel, the inner frame and the illuminating light source in the order named between the upper case and the lower case.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1999Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunsuke Morishita, Yasuyuki Mishima, Tatsuyuki Fumikura
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Patent number: 6492992Abstract: A data processing apparatus which processes data held in memory. The data processing apparatus includes an address operation unit which obtains an address to read one-word data from the memory, wherein the one-word data is a unit of data access to the memory, and a logical operation unit which determines a content of an operation on a field basis based on information which designates the number of bits per field to construct one-word data with a plurality of fields having a same number of bits. The logical operation unit, based on the content thus determined, performs the operation in parallel on the fields of the one-word data read from the memory by the address thus obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koyo Katsura, Hideo Maejima, Hisashi Kajiwara
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Patent number: 6462580Abstract: The object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor integrated circuit device wherein the input signal is made to have a low amplitude to shorten transition time of the input signal, said integrated circuit device operating at a low power consumption, without flowing of breakthrough current, despite entry of the input signal featuring low-amplitude operations, and said integrated circuit device comprising a gate circuit, memory and processor.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2000Date of Patent: October 8, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoji Nishio, Kosaku Hirose, Hideo Hara, Katsunori Koike, Kayoko Nemoto, Tatsumi Yamauchi, Fumio Murabayashi, Hiromichi Yamada
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Patent number: 6438050Abstract: A transmission circuit for transmitting a data signal between circuit units through a signal wire. The data signal is transmitted for precharging the signal wire to high potential during a precharge period and discharging it to low potential according to data transmitted during an evaluation period or keeping the signal wire as it is. Latch type Source-Coupled-Logic is configured so that a first node and a second node used as an output terminal to the next stage are respectively charged together to high potential during the precharge period. The second node is discharged according to a potential at the first node during the evaluation period, and the first node is discharged according to a potential on the signal wire. Thus, the operation of discharging the signal wire by the driver circuit can be sped up.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Kanetani, Hiroaki Nambu, Kaname Yamasaki, Takeshi Kusunoki, Fumihiko Arakawa
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Patent number: 6433623Abstract: A voltage boost circuit operates by: applying a power supply voltage to both terminals of a booster capacitance in a discharge period; and in a charging period which follows the discharge period, by turning on a switching circuit in response to application of one shot pulse thereto, a power supply voltage is applied to one terminal of said booster capacitance, a ground potential is applied to the other one terminal thereof, wherein, during the charging of the booster capacitance, a pulse width of said one shot pulse is adjusted in accordance with a magnitude of the power supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1999Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiko Okutsu, Shoji Sato
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Patent number: 6429871Abstract: A graphic processing method and system which is capable of displaying a combination of images from, for example, an external source such as TV signals and graphic data generated by a graphic processor, whereby the graphic processor fetches horizontal synchronizing signals and vertical synchronizing signals, via respective terminals, from a source external of the system, and reads out the data from a frame buffer in accordance with the fetched signals to display the data.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koyo Katsura, Shigeru Matsuo, Jun Sato, Takashi Sone, Yoshikazu Yokota, Masahiko Kikuchi
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Patent number: 6425276Abstract: A water jet peening apparatus which can carry out an efficient peening work on a large-diameter cylindrical structure by injecting a jet stream which contains air bubbles caused by cavitation at a low angle of incidence is provided. The apparatus is comprised of a nozzle which introduces a high pressure water and injects a water jet stream containing air bubbles caused by cavitation at the cylindrical structure disposed in water, wherein the angle of injection of the jet stream is smaller than 45 degrees relative to a tangent of the cylindrical structure.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Kiso Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ibaraki Business Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhiko Hirano, Kunio Enomoto, Eisaku Hayashi, Sadato Shimizu, Ren Morinaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Shigeru Tanaka, Noboru Chiba
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Patent number: 6400788Abstract: A fuel assembly, particularly, a fuel assembly including short-length fuel rods and fuel spacers, is used for a boiling water reactor, which is capable of sufficiently reducing the pressure loss of at least one of the fuel spacers positioned above the upper ends of the short-length fuel rods, irrespective of the arrangement of the short-length fuel rods, and also ensuring the structural strength of the fuel spacer. The fuel assembly includes fuel rods located in a square lattice array, two water rods arranged in a region in which seven of the fuel rods are arrangeable, two fuel spacers for holding the fuel rods and the water rods with mutual intervals kept immovable. Each of the fuel spacers includes cells which are connected to each other and in which the fuel rods are to be inserted, respectively, and a band for surrounding the outermost peripheries of the cells. The short-length fuel rods include four first short-length fuel rods arranged in the outermost peripheral region of the square lattice array.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1999Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuya Hirano, Satoshi Kanno, Makoto Irube, Hideki Kurosaki, Yasuhiro Aizawa, Takashi Fukumoto
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Patent number: 6384832Abstract: An image processing apparatus is composed of a plurality of function processing units for performing image processing, a high priority function selection part for selecting functions, execution of each of which is required by a corresponding one of the function processing units, based on the predetermined priority for each of the functions; and a data control unit including a data transfer part for preferentially accessing the shared memory which the function selected by the high priority function selection part requires, and a plurality of data holding parts, each of the data holding parts holding a predetermined amount of data transmitted with each of the plurality of function processing units, wherein the data transfer part controls the bus connecting the CPU and the shared memory based on requirement sent from each of the function processing units, and each of the plurality of function processing units transmits data with the data control unit separately from the others of the plurality of function procesType: GrantFiled: March 1, 1999Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Muramatsu, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Kenji Hirose, Shigetoshi Sakimura
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Patent number: 6356269Abstract: In a device and system which perform processing (displaying and outputting) of image data, the amount of data transferred between a memory holding the image data and a processor processing the image data is limited, thereby a great amount of data can be processed at high speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Nakatsuka, Keisuke Nakashima, Shigeru Matsuo, Masahisa Narita, Koyo Katsura, Hidehito Takewa, Tomoaki Aoki
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Patent number: 6356493Abstract: A transmission circuit for transmitting a data signal between circuit units through a signal wire. The data signal is transmitted for precharging the signal wire to high potential during a precharge period and discharging it to low potential according to data transmitted during an evaluation period or keeping the signal wire as it is. Latch type Source-Coupled-Logic as configured so that a first node and a second node used as an output terminal to the next stage are respectively charged together to high potential during the precharge period. The second node is discharged according to potential at the first node during the evaluation period, and the first node is discharged according to a potential on the signal wire. Thus, the operation of discharging the signal wire by the driver circuit can be sped up.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: March 12, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuo Kanetani, Hiroaki Nambu, Kaname Yamasaki, Takeshi Kusunoki, Fumihiko Arakawa
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Patent number: 6345083Abstract: A preventive maintenance method and apparatus for a structural member in a reactor pressure vessel according to the present invention reduce a tensile residual stress on a surface of the structural member by impinging a water jet from a nozzle onto a plane surface of a deflector to thereby change direction of flow of the water jet, and impinging the water jet after being deflected onto the surface of the structural member. This method and apparatus are applicable to a narrow space portion, and can improve a residual stress on the surface of the structural member and can also prevent damage such as stress corrosion cracking.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1999Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ibaraki Business Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Enomoto, Katsuhiko Hirano, Eisaku Hayashi, Ren Morinaka, Sadato Shimizu, Satoshi Kanno, Shigeru Tanaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6341151Abstract: A preventive maintenance method and apparatus for a structural member in a reactor pressure vessel according to the present invention reduce a tensile residual stress on a surface of the structural member by impinging a water jet from a nozzle onto a plane surface of a deflector to thereby change direction of flow of the water jet, and impinging the water jet after being deflected onto the surface of the structural member. This method and apparatus are applicable to a narrow space portion, and can improve a residual stress on the surface of the structural member and can also prevent damage such as stress corrosion cracking.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd., Hitachi Ibaraki Business Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kunio Enomoto, Katsuhiko Hirano, Eisaku Hayashi, Ren Morinaka, Sadato Shimizu, Satoshi Kanno, Shigeru Tanaka, Tetsuya Ishikawa
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Patent number: 6339926Abstract: A combined power plant, which has, as one of lines for supplying gas turbine cooling duty steam for cooling hot parts of a gas turbine, a line branching off from a steam line for leading high pressure steam from a high pressure superheater of a multi-pressure heat recovery steam generator to a high pressure steam turbine and leading a part of the high pressure steam to a supply line of the gas turbine cooling duty steam. The combined power plant is provided with a temperature lower limit value setting means for setting a lower limit value of an allowable temperature range for each gas turbine load and supplies a part of hot high temperature steam to the hot part of the gas turbine when the gas turbine cooling duty steam temperature is lower than the lower limit value of the allowable temperature range, thereby to raise the gas turbine cooling duty steam temperature.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi, Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiraga Ichiro, Yuichi Iwamoto, Youichi Hattori, Shinichi Hoizumi
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Patent number: 6337534Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen, a three-beam in-line electron gun, a beam deflection device, and a convergence correction device disposed on a phosphor screen side of the electron gun. The convergence correction device includes a first pair of magnetic pieces positioned on a tube-neck wall side of side electron beams and a second pair of magnetic pieces positioned on opposite sides of a center electron beam, in the in-line direction. The first pair of magnetic pieces each have a first pair of protruding portions extending toward an adjacent one of the second pair of magnetic pieces, and the first pair of protruding portions are arranged on opposite sides of a corresponding one of the side electron beams in a direction perpendicular to the in-line direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayoshi Misono, Hiroyuki Tamura, Tsutomu Tojyo