Patents Assigned to The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
  • Publication number: 20200240627
    Abstract: A boiler tube reinforcement device reinforces a boiler tube including a first boiler tube, a second boiler tube, and a weld portion joining edges of the first boiler tube and the second boiler tube together. The boiler tube reinforcement device includes: a sheet-shaped first steel plate wrapped in a region including the weld portion of the boiler tube and reinforces the boiler tube, the first steel plate including a plurality of bending portions, the bending portions being formed along a longitudinal direction of the boiler tube at regular intervals along a circumferential direction of the boiler tube, wherein the first steel plate is wrapped in the region of the boiler tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hideo Matsumura, Hidetaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 10590320
    Abstract: To provide novel adhesive molecules. An adhesive molecule having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1, or an amino acid sequence including a conservative substitution, a deletion, an insertion and/or a modification in the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignees: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., SESSILE RESEARCH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsukasa Yoshizaki, Keiji Yamashita, Kyoko Kamiya, Kohichi Suzuki, Yoshio Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10550747
    Abstract: A combustion system for ships operated at low cost is provided. A combustion system 1 for ships includes an internal combustion engine 20 that burns fuel, an exhaust line L2 through which exhaust gas flows, the exhaust gas being generated through combustion of the fuel in the internal combustion engine 20, an exhaust heat recovery device 40 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that recovers exhaust heat from the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine 20, and a denitration device 50 that is disposed in the exhaust line L2 and that removes nitrogen oxide from the exhaust gas using a denitration catalyst. The denitration device 50 is disposed downstream from the exhaust heat recovery device 40 in the exhaust line L2. The denitration catalyst contains 43 wt % or more of vanadium pentoxide and has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Inventors: Eiji Kiyonaga, Kenji Hikino, Keiichiro Morita, Akihiro Nakamura, Masatake Haruta, Toru Murayama, Makoto Mino
  • Patent number: 10519837
    Abstract: A combustion system operated at low cost is provided. A combustion system 1 includes a combustion device 10 that burns fuel, an exhaust line L1 through which exhaust gas flows, the exhaust gas being generated through combustion of the fuel in the combustion device 10, a dust collector 50 that is disposed in the exhaust line L1 and that collects dust in the exhaust gas, and a denitration device 90 that is disposed in the exhaust line L1 and that removes nitrogen oxide from the exhaust gas using a denitration catalyst. The denitration device 90 is disposed downstream from the dust collector 50 in the exhaust line L1. The denitration catalyst contains 43 wt % or more of vanadium pentoxide and has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Eiji Kiyonaga, Kenji Hikino, Keiichiro Morita, Masatake Haruta, Toru Murayama, Makoto Mino
  • Patent number: 10385750
    Abstract: There is provided a catalyst that exhibits a high denitration efficiency at a relatively low temperature and does not cause oxidation of SO2 in a selective catalytic reduction reaction that uses ammonia as a reducing agent. A denitration catalyst molded in a block shape contains 43 wt % or more of vanadium pentoxide. The denitration catalyst has a BET specific surface area of 30 m2/g or more and is used for denitration at 200° C. or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Inventors: Eiji Kiyonaga, Kenji Hikino, Keiichiro Morita, Masatake Haruta, Toru Murayama, Makoto Mino
  • Patent number: 10335780
    Abstract: A method for regenerating an NOx removal catalyst, which includes connecting an upstream fixing member (10) to one end of a member to be ground, and connecting a downstream fixing member (20) to the other end; connecting a mixing part (40) for mixing an abrasive with a gas to an upstream portion of the upstream fixing member, and disposing a screen member in the expanded part, and connecting a classification part (70) and a dust-collecting part (80) to the downstream fixing member; and transferring the abrasive which has been mixed with the gas from the mixing part to the upstream fixing member, reducing the flow rate of the mixture in the expanded part, subsequently, causing the mixture to pass through the through-hole of the NOx removal catalyst and the downstream fixing member, and then collecting dust by means of the dust-collecting part via the classification part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hiroshi Shimada, Misao Nobori, Atsushi Ito, Fumihiro Miyake, Yuichiro Morizane, Hiroyuki Kagawa
  • Patent number: 10295456
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is to precisely define a constant value used in the Monkman-Grant analysis, when estimating remaining life of a high-chromium steel pipe through which high-temperature and high-pressure fluid is allowed to flow. A remaining life estimation method according to the present disclosure is particularly characterized in that a step of obtaining a constant on an accelerated creep test is performed in which a constant indicative of the product of a strain rate and a rupture time in the Monkman-Grant analysis is obtained by multiplying a first coefficient to transform uniaxial rupture ductility into multiaxial rupture ductility, the uniaxial rupture ductility being obtained from a specimen of the high-chromium steel pipe, a second coefficient to amend consumed life of the specimen, and a third coefficient to amend a measured pressure into an assessment pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 10275546
    Abstract: A method of predicting growth of a crack in a member includes memorizing, for each portion on the member, stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction obtained in the case that no crack is present, a relationship between depth of growing cracks and creep contribution, and a relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and m of the Paris's law, receiving from a user an indication of a certain portion on the member, acquiring the stress distribution ??(a) in the depth direction for the certain portion, acquiring a creep contribution at the depth of a growing crack for the certain portion, from the relationship between depth of cracks and creep contribution memorized for the certain portion, and acquiring parameters C and m corresponding to the acquired creep contribution, from the relationship between creep contribution and parameters C and m of the Paris's law memorized for the certain portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Publication number: 20180252406
    Abstract: A boiler tube reinforcement device reinforces a boiler tube including a weld portion. The reinforcement device includes: a strip-shaped first steel plate that is wound and fixed by welding in a region including the weld portion of the boiler tube; a first reinforcement member in surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to one semi-circumference of the boiler tube in an outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate wound around the boiler tube; a second reinforcement member in surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to another semi-circumference of the boiler tube in the outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate wound around the boiler tube, wherein the second reinforcement member covers the outer peripheral surface of the first steel plate together with the first reinforcement member; and a coupling member that couples the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member together around the boiler tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hideo Matsumura, Hidetaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 10048062
    Abstract: A distance measuring apparatus includes a reference member that is installed on a surface of a first metal member; a range finder that measures a distance to the reference member; and a mounting member to which the range finder is placed. The mounting member is installed on a surface of a second metal member coupled to the first metal member via a weld. One of the mounting member and the range finder includes first and second protruding parts. The other thereof includes first and second fitting holes into which the first and the second protruding parts are fit, respectively, such that the range finder is mounted to the mounting member, and first and second pressing members that press the first and second protruding parts from first and second directions toward inner side surfaces of the first and second fitting holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Publication number: 20180209577
    Abstract: A reinforcement device for a cylindrical pipe through which steam passes, the steam being obtained by heating water using combustion heat of a boiler, includes: a first reinforcement member that makes surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to one semi-circumference of the pipe, the first reinforcement member having a thickness that decreases toward both ends in a longitudinal direction of the pipe; a second reinforcement member that makes surface contact with an outer peripheral surface corresponding to another semi-circumference of the pipe, the second reinforcement member having a thickness that decreases toward both the ends in the longitudinal direction of the pipe; and a coupling member that couples the first reinforcement member and the second reinforcement member together around the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka NISHIDA, Hideo MATSUMURA, Keiji MORISHITA, Daisuke ARAKAWA
  • Patent number: 9963794
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, a hydrogen-containing water generating electrode includes a positive electrode that is a tubular conductor and includes a plurality of openings in a side portion, an insulator that is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the positive electrode and includes a plurality of openings, and a negative electrode that is a tubular conductor provided on an outer peripheral portion of the insulator and includes a plurality of openings in a side portion. The openings of the positive electrode and the openings of the negative electrode are larger than the openings of the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Keisou Iwai, Masayuki Shimokatu, Suehiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 9962797
    Abstract: A repair method for repairing a crack generated to a cast steel member due to a thermal stress includes removing a part of the cast steel member including the crack at a surface of the cast steel member to form a recess, fitting into the recess a first repair member that is made of a metal that is more flexible than the cast steel member and that is weldable to the cast steel member, and spot welding the first repair member to the cast steel member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 9912196
    Abstract: A power receiving device that receives electric power output from a power transmission device includes a primary side coil and supplies electric power to a load according to the electric power. The power receiving device includes: an adjusting device that adjusts a value of a third current to be a predetermined value, the third current is generated from the second current and supplied to the load; a detecting device that detects the third current; and a variable capacitor coupled between the secondary side coil and the load. The variable capacitor ensures a changeable capacitance value. The adjusting device performs an adjustment based on a detection result by the detecting device. The variable capacitor is coupled in series with the secondary side coil and the load. The adjusting device includes a first adjusting device that increases the capacitance value and a second adjusting device that decreases the capacitance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Kazuma Okidan
  • Patent number: 9903030
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a hydrogen-containing water generating electrode includes: a positive electrode that is a tubular conductor and includes a plurality of openings in a side portion; an insulator that is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the positive electrode and is in contact with the positive electrode; and a negative electrode that is provided on an outer peripheral portion of the insulator, is a tubular conductor in contact with the insulator, and includes a plurality of openings in a side portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Keisou Iwai, Masayuki Shimokatu, Suehiro Sakai
  • Patent number: 9880087
    Abstract: A remaining service life evaluation method for evaluating a remaining service life of a metal pipe suffering from creep damage on a basis of a master curve that is prepared in advance that includes wrapping a steel strip around an outer peripheral face of the metal pipe under same conditions as those during an internal pressure creep test and evaluating a remaining service life of the metal pipe on a basis of a degree of deterioration of the steel strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Publication number: 20180009069
    Abstract: A repair method of a cast steel member having a crack formed on a surface of the cast steel member includes: forming a recess having a wedge-shaped cross section that widens in a depth direction of the cast steel member by cutting the cast steel member from the surface of the cast steel member to a predetermined depth so as to include the crack; pushing and embedding a repair member made of a metal material more flexible than the cast steel member into the recess formed in the recess forming; and diffusion-bonding the repair member to the cast steel member by heating a boundary between an exposed surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nishida, Hideo Matsumura, Keiji Morishita, Daisuke Arakawa
  • Patent number: 9829144
    Abstract: A pipe-reinforcing implement with excellent workability during attachment to the piping is provided. The reinforcing implement 1 is to be arranged along an outer circumferential face Xb of a metal piping X, in a state surrounding the piping in a circumferential direction, in which creep may occur due to a high temperature and pressure fluid inside, and configured to reinforce creep strength of the piping, the reinforcing implement including a plurality of reinforcing members 11 arranged in the circumferential direction to be joined and a plurality of laminate members 12, 13, 14 overlaid in a radial direction of the piping to configure each of the reinforcing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Nishida
  • Patent number: 9802212
    Abstract: A plasma spraying apparatus includes a main torch and an auxiliary torch. The main torch includes a first electrode including a spraying material discharge hole, a first mantle, and a first insulator including a first plasma gas introducing port. The auxiliary torch includes a second electrode, a second mantle, and a second insulator including a second plasma gas introducing port. A spraying material supplied from the spraying material discharge hole is melted at the axial center of plasma that is formed on the central axis of the first electrode by the first electrode and the second electrode, and a gas introducing part that introduces gas is provided on an inlet side of an opening part and/or in a tapered part provided between the opening part and the first insulator in the first mantle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., Yamaguchi University
    Inventors: Tomoaki Kitamura, Makoto Tanaka, Hideo Ishimaru, Satoshi Sakiyama
  • Publication number: 20170292906
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is to precisely define a constant value used in the Monkman-Grant analysis, when estimating remaining life of a high-chromium steel pipe through which high-temperature and high-pressure fluid is allowed to flow. A remaining life estimation method according to the present disclosure is particularly characterized in that a step of obtaining a constant on an accelerated creep test is performed in which a constant indicative of the product of a strain rate and a rupture time in the Monkman-Grant analysis is obtained by multiplying a first coefficient to transform uniaxial rupture ductility into multiaxial rupture ductility, the uniaxial rupture ductility being obtained from a specimen of the high-chromium steel pipe, a second coefficient to amend consumed life of the specimen, and a third coefficient to amend a measured pressure into an assessment pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
    Inventor: Hidetaka NISHIDA