Patents Assigned to Koatsu Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11369978
    Abstract: An injection head for liquid fire extinguishing agent that has an injection head including an injection head body connecting with a pipe providing the liquid fire extinguishing agent, an orifice plate arranged in the injection head body and formed with an orifice through which flowing the liquid fire extinguishing agent and, a porous member having a block shape arranged in an exiting part of the orifice and, a baffle plate arranged contacting with an end surface of the porous member opposite side of the exiting part of the orifice; and the baffle plate covers at least a projected area of a circumscribed circle of the orifice of the end surface of the porous member and, the liquid fire extinguishing agent is released via a gap formed between the injection head body and the baffle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Masahiro Yabushita, Mitsunori Kamo, Keiichiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11324979
    Abstract: In order to provide a portable fire extinguisher suitable for first-aid fire extinguishing, the fire extinguisher, using as the fire-extinguishing agent inert gas, etc. not limited in the object to be extinguished and the method of use due to toxicity to human body and making easy to maintain the necessary concentration of the fire-extinguishing agent, thus securing the effective fire-extinguishing effect, has the fire-extinguishing agent storage container to which the nozzle portion to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent is connected and made portable so as to be able to discharge the fire-extinguishing agent toward the object to be extinguished, and the nitrogen gas is stored in the fire-extinguishing agent storage container and at the outlet portion of the flow route of the fire-extinguishing agent formed in the nozzle portion, a metallic porous member in installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Mitsunori Kamo
  • Patent number: 11130010
    Abstract: An injection head is configured to discharge a liquefied fire-extinguishing agent. The injection head includes an injection head body configured to be connected to piping for supplying the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent; an orifice plate positioned in the injection head body, the orifice plate including orifices defined therein; a block-shaped porous member positioned at an outlet of the orifice plate; and a deflector positioned across from the block-shaped porous member such that a discharging clearance for the liquefied fire-extinguishing agent is defined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasufumi Inoue, Masahiro Yabushita, Mitsunori Kamo
  • Publication number: 20200353300
    Abstract: By making it to provide an injection head having silencing function for gas-type fire extinguisher and method for storing and assembling thereof capable of eliminating the problems of limitations of place of storage and the cost increase, by making it easy to storage the injection head as stock, the injection head is comprising an injection head main body forming a connecting part for connecting a pipe, an orifice plate forming orifice disposed in the injection head main body for passing the fire extinguishing gas, and a silencing member of block shapes formed on porous material capable of passing the fire extinguishing gas disposed at the outlet side of the orifice plate for releasing the fire extinguishing gas, wherein the orifice plate is disposed detachably in the injection head main body through an opening in the side of a connecting part connected to a piping of the injection head main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasufumi INOUE, Masahiro YABUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10258816
    Abstract: An injection head includes a silencing unit installed for releasing a fire-extinguishing gas in a fire-extinguishing area in the gas type fire extinguisher using a fire-extinguishing gas. The silencing unit includes silencing members of block shapes made of a porous material capable of passing a gas disposed at an outlet of an orifice. A first end face of the silencing member is disposed in contact with the injector head main body, while a peripheral face and a second end face of the silencing member are opened to the atmosphere except for the portion contacting a ring member for fixing the silencing member to the injection head main body by a bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yabushita, Yasufumi Inoue
  • Patent number: 9597537
    Abstract: To present an injection head having silencing function for gas type fire extinguisher capable of reducing the noise generated upon release of fire extinguishing gas. In a gas type fire extinguisher using a fire extinguishing gas, a silencer 3A is disposed in an injection head 1A installed for releasing a fire extinguishing gas into a fire extinguishing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inoue, Masahiro Yabushita
  • Publication number: 20170074592
    Abstract: A double tube and the like includes: a cylindrical outer tube; a cylindrical inner tube including a helical protrusion in an outer circumferential surface, the inner tube being provided inside the outer tube; and a helical flow passage forming member that forms a helical flow passage inside the inner tube, the helical flow passage forming member being provided inside the inner tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, TOYO KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka WADA, Haruhito KUBOTA, Yukimasa YAMAMURA, Ichiro UCHIYAMA, Keiji OYAMA, Toshiki YAMASAKI, Yukihiko MATSUMURA, Yoshifumi KAWAI, Takashi NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170073594
    Abstract: A gasification system includes a countercurrent type heat exchanger that includes a low-temperature side flow channel through which a gasification feedstock flows, and a high-temperature side flow channel to which treated water in a supercritical state is introduced. The treated water raises a temperature of the gasification feedstock by exchanging heat with the gasification feedstock. The system further includes a reactor that gasifies the gasification feedstock, whose temperature has been raised by the countercurrent type heat exchanger, by heating and pressurizing the gasification feedstock to be in a supercritical state. The reactor discharges the gasification feedstock as treated water in the supercritical state. The system further includes a treated water flow channel that introduces, to the countercurrent type heat exchanger, the treated water that has been discharged from the reactor, and a feedstock introduction port that introduces the feedstock to the low-temperature side flow channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, TOYO KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Wada, Haruhito Kubota, Yukimasa Yamamura, Ichiro Uchiyama, Keiji Oyama, Toshiki Yamasaki, Yukihiko Matsumura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Takashi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170066982
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus heats and pressurizes a gasification feedstock to bring the gasification feedstock into a supercritical state, and performs decomposition-treatment on the gasification feedstock to obtain fuel gas. The gasification apparatus includes a heat exchanger, a gas-liquid separator, and a turbine. The heat exchanger introduces the gasification feedstock into a low-temperature-side flow channel and introduces treated fluid in a supercritical state into a high-temperature-side flow channel, so that heat exchange is performed between the gasification feedstock and the treated fluid. The gas-liquid separator extracts, from the high-temperature-side flow channel, the treated fluid that has been in a subcritical state due to heat exchange, performs gas-liquid separation on the treated fluid, and returns a separated liquid to the high-temperature-side flow channel. The turbine is powered by fuel gas separated by the gas-liquid separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicants: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, TOYO KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Wada, Haruhito Kubota, Yukimasa Yamamura, Ichiro Uchiyama, Keiji Oyama, Toshiki Yamasaki, Yukihiko Matsumura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Takashi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170067691
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: a flow passage unit arranged with a plurality of planar flow passage bodies each arranged with two flow passages adjacent to each other in a same plane. The plurality of the planar flow passage bodies are layered in an intersecting direction that intersects with the plane. In two of the planar flow passage bodies adjacent in the intersecting direction of the plurality of the layered planar flow passage bodies, each one of two flow passage ports in both ends of each of the flow passages of one of the planar flow passage bodies is connected to each one of two flow passage ports in both ends of each of the flow passages of another of the planar flow passage bodies. A high-pressure pipe covers an outside of the flow passage unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicants: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, TOYO KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Wada, Haruhito Kubota, Yukimasa Yamamura, Ichiro Uchiyama, Keiji Oyama, Toshiki Yamasaki, Yukihiko Matsumura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Takashi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20170066981
    Abstract: A gasification apparatus heats and pressurizes a gasification feedstock to bring the gasification feedstock into a supercritical state, and performs decomposition-treatment on the gasification feedstock to obtain fuel gas. The gasification apparatus includes a heat exchanger, a gas-liquid separator, and a synthesizer. The heat exchanger introduces the gasification feedstock into a low-temperature-side flow channel and introduces treated fluid in a supercritical state into a high-temperature-side flow channel, so that heat exchange is performed between the gasification feedstock and the treated fluid. The gas-liquid separator extracts, from the high-temperature-side flow channel, the treated fluid that has been in a subcritical state due to heat exchange, performs gas-liquid separation on the treated fluid, and returns a separated liquid to the high-temperature-side flow channel. The synthesizer synthesizes a liquid fuel from fuel gas separated by the gas-liquid separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicants: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, TOYO KOATSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasutaka Wada, Haruhito Kubota, Yukimasa Yamamura, Ichiro Uchiyama, Keiji Oyama, Toshiki Yamasaki, Yukihiko Matsumura, Yoshifumi Kawai, Takashi Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20140069663
    Abstract: [Problem] To present an injection head for gas-type fire exchanger using an injection head of a small size, capable of enhancing the noise reduction rate, and lowering the injection reaction of the fire-extinguishing gas applied to the injection head at the time of release of the fire-extinguishing gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yabushita, Yasufumi Inoue
  • Patent number: 5983935
    Abstract: An LP gas container valve to be mounted on a propane gas container is provided for preventing a fire, explosion or other accident at the time of a disaster. The LP gas container valve comprises a valve body having a valve outlet and a gas passage leading from an inlet connection to a propane gas container to the valve outlet, a closing valve (attached to the valve body) for opening and closing the gas passage, a safety valve (attached to the valve body) actuated in response to an excessive elevation in gas pressure, a branching point in the gas passage leading to the safety valve, and a ball located in the gas passage between the branching point and the closing valve. The ball is movable between its stationary position in normal operation and its gas cutting off position in response to an excessive elevation in gas pressure, both of which are located between the closing valve and the branching point in the gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Aichi Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tamiaki Inayoshi
  • Patent number: 5899275
    Abstract: An inert gas fire fighting system is designed to extinguish fire by discharging inert gas fire extinguisher stored in a gaseous state in a fire extinguisher storage vessel into an object fire fighting section while maintaining the concentration of the inert gas fire extinguisher in the object fire fighting section at no less than the fire extinguishing concentration. A vessel valve of the fire extinguisher storage vessel is a pressure control valve which controls the gas pressure P of the inert gas fire extinguisher on the discharge side to no more than the reference gas pressure P0 determined by a gas pressure P1 of a constant-pressure gas source. This makes it possible to increase the charging pressure of the inert gas fire extinguisher without increasing the pressure resistance grade of the secondary side equipment units of the fire fighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito Okamoto, Kyojyun Taiencho
  • Patent number: 5857525
    Abstract: An inert gas fire fighting system is designed to extinguish fire by discharging inert gas fire extinguisher stored in a gaseous state in a fire extinguisher storage vessel into an object fire fighting section while maintaining the concentration of the inert gas fire extinguisher in the object fire fighting section at no less than the fire extinguishing concentration. A vessel valve of the fire extinguisher storage vessel is a pressure control valve which controls the gas pressure P of the inert gas fire extinguisher on the discharge side to no more than the reference gas pressure P0 determined by a gas pressure P1 of a constant-pressure gas source. This makes it possible to increase the charging pressure of the inert gas fire extinguisher without increasing the pressure resistance grade of the secondary side equipment units of the fire fighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Koatsu Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akito Okamoto, Kyojyun Taiencho