Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11333408
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes an attachment flange including a refrigerant gas introduction port through which refrigerant gas is introduced into a recondensing chamber from an ambient temperature environment, and attachable to the recondensing chamber, and a cooling stage that is disposed inside the recondensing chamber when the attachment flange is attached to the recondensing chamber. The refrigerant gas introduction port is perpendicularly or obliquely oriented with respect to an axial direction of the cryocooler so that a refrigerant gas flow exiting the refrigerant gas introduction port deviates from the cooling stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirokazu Takayama, Xiaogang Lin, Mingyao Xu
  • Patent number: 11333409
    Abstract: There is provided a cryocooler including a cryocooler cylinder, a pressure switching valve that generates a periodic pressure fluctuation inside the cryocooler cylinder, and a sensor that measures a periodic deformation of the cryocooler cylinder, which is caused by the periodic pressure fluctuation inside the cryocooler cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Mizuno, Kohei Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11333407
    Abstract: A GM cryocooler includes a compressor having a compressor discharge port and a compressor suction port, a displacer capable of reciprocating in an axial direction, a displacer cylinder accommodating the displacer, a drive piston connected to the displacer so as to drive the displacer in the axial direction, a drive chamber in which the drive piston is driven, a main pressure switching valve configured to alternately connect the displacer cylinder to the compressor discharge port and the compressor suction port, an auxiliary pressure switching valve configured to alternately connect the drive chamber to the compressor discharge port and the compressor suction port, and a buffer volume connected between the auxiliary pressure switching valve and the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mingyao Xu
  • Patent number: 11333405
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes a compressor, an expander, a gas line that allows a working gas to be circulated between the compressor and the expander and includes a high pressure line through which the working gas is supplied from the compressor to the expander and a low pressure line through which the working gas is collected from the expander to the compressor, a bypass line that connects the high pressure line to the low pressure line such that the working gas bypasses the expander and returns from the high pressure line to the low pressure line, and a bypass flow rate control unit that controls a flow rate of the working gas flowing in the bypass line to provide pressure control of the gas line. The bypass line includes a variable flow rate bypass and a fixed flow rate bypass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuji Oyama
  • Publication number: 20220146166
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes an expander that includes a cooling stage, an exhaust temperature sensor that measures an exhaust temperature which is a temperature of a working gas exhausted from the expander and outputs an exhaust temperature signal indicating the measured exhaust temperature, and a controller that compares, during execution of initial cooling in which the cooling stage is cooled from an initial temperature to a cryogenic temperature, the measured exhaust temperature to a reference temperature based on the exhaust temperature signal and completes the initial cooling in a case where a temperature difference between the measured exhaust temperature and the reference temperature is within a reference range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki YOKODO, Shuji OYAMA
  • Patent number: 11326811
    Abstract: A cryogenic refrigerator includes a pulse tube cryocooler including a pulse tube, and a pulse tube cryocooler rotating mechanism that rotatably supports the pulse tube cryocooler allowing it to be changed from a cooling posture to a heating posture. When the pulse tube cryocooler is in the cooling posture, an inclination angle formed between a vertical line and a center axis of the pulse tube is a first angle, and when the pulse tube cryocooler is in the heating posture, the inclination angle is a second angle. In a case where the inclination angle formed when a cold end of the pulse tube faces vertically downward is defined as zero degrees and the inclination angle formed when the cold end of the pulse tube faces vertically upward is defined as 180 degrees, the second angle is larger than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Hirayama
  • Patent number: 11326984
    Abstract: There is provided a sensor including a sensor element, a substrate on which the sensor element is disposed, and a casing that accommodates the substrate. The casing has a doughnut shape, and has a connecting portion for externally connecting a wire. In a doughnut-shaped internal space of the casing, the substrate is disposed, and the wire is disposed in the connecting portion from a side of the substrate far from the connecting portion. A central cylinder portion is interposed between the substrate and the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Suzuki, Mikio Komatsu, Sotaro Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Murai
  • Patent number: 11320039
    Abstract: There is provided a gear device including a motor having a motor shaft, a gear mechanism, a coupling that couples the motor shaft and an input shaft of the gear mechanism with each other, a first space accommodating the gear mechanism and holding a lubricant, a communication passage allowing the first space and a second space for accommodating the coupling to communicate with each other, and a blocking member disposed between the gear mechanism and the communication passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsushi Isozaki, Shigeo Watanabe, Aiko Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11298738
    Abstract: A forming device of forming a metal pipe having a pipe portion includes a first die and a second die constituting a first cavity portion configured to form the pipe portion and a second cavity portion configured to form a flange portion, a drive mechanism configured to move at least one of the first die and the second die, and a gas supply unit configured to supply a gas into a metal pipe material which is held between the first die and the second die and is heated, in which each of the first die and the second die has flange forming surfaces which face each other and constitute the second cavity portion, and a protrusion portion, which protrudes from one flange forming surface to the other flange forming surface, is formed on at least one of the flange forming surfaces of the first die and the second die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiro Nogiwa, Masayuki Ishizuka, Masayuki Saika, Norieda Ueno
  • Publication number: 20220107119
    Abstract: A cryocooler includes a compressor, an expander that includes a motor and is driven by the motor, an inverter that controls an operation frequency of the motor, a high pressure line that connects the compressor to the expander such that a working gas is supplied from the compressor to the expander, a low pressure line that connects the compressor to the expander such that a working gas is collected from the expander to the compressor, a pressure measurement unit that is configured to measure pressures of the high pressure line and the low pressure line or to measure a differential pressure between the high pressure line and the low pressure line, and a controller that compares the differential pressure to a target pressure and controls the inverter such that the operation frequency of the motor is increased when the differential pressure exceeds the target pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Changheng LIU
  • Patent number: 11288419
    Abstract: A processing apparatus analyzes behavior of a granular material including a plurality of particles having different sizes based on a simulation condition input from an input apparatus. The processing apparatus obtains behavior of a coarse grained granular material based on a value of a parameter defining a particle diameter distribution of a granular material to be simulated and a value of a coarse graining coefficient which is a reference for coarse graining of the particles, which are input from the input apparatus. Further, the processing apparatus associates the behavior of the particles obtained by the simulation with the input value of the coarse graining coefficient and outputs the result to the output apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Sadanori Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11280666
    Abstract: A diagnosis system includes a sensor that is provided in a diagnosis target device and detects diagnosis target information on the diagnosis target device, and a diagnosis processing unit that executes diagnosis processing of the diagnosis target device based on the diagnosis target information detected by the sensor. The diagnosis processing unit specifies a section of diagnosis target information suitable for the diagnosis processing based on section specifying information, and executes the diagnosis processing based on the diagnosis target information in the specified section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Suzuki, Mikio Komatsu
  • Patent number: 11278994
    Abstract: Provided is a method of disassembling a cold head provided with a displacer that extends in an axial direction, a cylinder that accommodates the displacer, and a displacer drive unit that is fastened to the cylinder and is connected to the displacer such that the displacer is driven in the axial direction, the method including mounting a lifting-up jig onto the displacer drive unit, unfastening the displacer drive unit and the cylinder from each other, and operating the lifting-up jig such that the displacer drive unit is lifted up from the cylinder together with the displacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsuki Nishio, Shuntaro Adachi
  • Patent number: 11273614
    Abstract: There is provided a press device including a reference operation setting unit that sets a reference transport motion of a transport device which corresponds to a predetermined reference press motion of the slide, a timing setting unit that sets a synchronous timing of the reference transport motion for the reference press motion, a press operation setting unit that sets a press motion of an actual operation by extending a time of a part of the reference press motion, and a transport operation setting unit that sets a transport motion of the actual operation which corresponds to the press motion by matching synchronous timings with each other between the press motion and the reference transport motion for the reference press motion, and by setting an operation pattern from the synchronous timing to be the same as that of the reference transport motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Seiki Onishi
  • Patent number: 11274736
    Abstract: A bending meshing type gear device includes a wave generator, an external gear which is bent and deformed by the wave generator, and internal gears which meshes with the external gear. One of the external gear and the internal gears is formed of a resin, and the other of the external gear and the internal gears is formed of a high thermal conductivity material having thermal conductivity higher than that of the resin. The gear device further include an abutment member which is connected to the internal gear and abuts the external gear, the internal gear is formed of the resin, the external gear is formed of the high thermal conductivity material, and the abutment member is formed of a high thermal conductivity material having thermal conductivity higher than that of the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Tamura, Akira Yamamoto, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20220074629
    Abstract: A cryogenic device includes: a hermetic container; a cryocooler including a mounting portion mounted on the container, a connecting part extending from the mounting portion into the container in an axial direction of the cryocooler, and a cooling stage attached to the connecting part and disposed in the container; and a member to be cooled that is disposed in the container with a gap, which is configured to allow heat to be exchanged, between the cooling stage and the member. The cooling stage includes a cold fin extending in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction. A fin receiving groove recessed in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction is formed in the member to be cooled and extends in the axial direction, and the member to be cooled receives the cold fin in the fin receiving groove with the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mingyao XU
  • Patent number: 11268604
    Abstract: A gear device includes an internal gear and an external gear that meshes with the internal gear, in which the internal gear is made of a resin, the external gear is made of a material having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than the resin, and PCDs of the internal gear and the external gear before use of the gear device are set such that lost motion becomes 0 min or more and 15 min or less due to a difference in a thermal expansion amount between the internal gear and the external gear at a time of use of the gear device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 11267034
    Abstract: The controller controls the gas supply of the gas supply unit so as to maintain a pressure in a metal pipe material at a first pressure when a gas is supplied into the metal pipe material which is formed into a pipe portion in a main cavity portion in a state where an upper die and a lower die are joined to each other. It is possible to prevent pressure drop in the pipe portion caused by cooling of the pipe portion due to a contact between the dies, and the pipe portion. Thus, it is possible to suppress a decrease in a force for pressing the pipe portion against the dies. It is possible to suppress a decrease in adhesion between the pipe portion and the dies when the metal pipe is formed, and it is possible to suppress occurrence of variations in hardenability in the pipe portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Ishizuka, Kimihiro Nogiwa, Norieda Ueno, Masayuki Saika
  • Patent number: 11262105
    Abstract: There is provided a cryocooler including a first compressor, a second compressor, a cold head that has a high pressure port and a low pressure port, a high pressure line that is configured such that a refrigerant gas is able to flow from the first compressor and the second compressor to the high pressure port of the cold head via a merging portion, the high pressure line including a first high pressure sub-line and a second high pressure sub-line, and a low pressure line that is configured such that the refrigerant gas is able to flow from the low pressure port of the cold head to the first compressor and the second compressor via a diverting portion, the low pressure line including a first low pressure sub-line and a second low pressure sub-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11262119
    Abstract: There is provided a mounting structure for mounting a cryocooler cold head on a vacuum vessel. The cold head includes a cold head-side cooling stage and a cold head-side flange. The mounting structure includes a cold head accommodation sleeve installed in the vacuum vessel and including a sleeve-side cooling stage which comes into thermal contact with the cold head-side cooling stage by coming into physical contact with the cold head-side cooling stage, and a sleeve-side flange to be coupled to the cold head-side flange, an inter-flange distance adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a distance between the sleeve-side flange and the cold head-side flange so that the cold head-side cooling stage and the sleeve-side cooling stage are physically brought into contact with each other or brought into a contactless state therebetween, and a flange fastening mechanism configured to fasten the cold head-side flange to the sleeve-side flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shuntaro Adachi