Patents Assigned to The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
  • Patent number: 6810748
    Abstract: A part where a creep void is recognized is observed at an arbitrary magnification by a scanning electron microscope, an optical microscope, and a laser microscope, and the maximum value of creep void crystal grain boundary occupancy is measured in the field of view. The maximum value is applied to a a master curve corrected from the results of a test of simulating an actual machine and a test piece of actual machine size, taking account of internal damage of the machine. Thus the creep lifetime consumption rate of a member is estimated easily with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Nishida, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Nobuaki Kosako
  • Publication number: 20040152063
    Abstract: A customer support system for improving the technique of a person engaged in business is intended to reduce the cost for a technical training support and to enhance the training effect. The customer support system is constructed to comprise: a computer system for introducing training contents from a service providing side to a customer side through a computer network; an instructor training facility for training an instructor on the basis of the training contents; and a remote technique training support device for the instructor, for supporting the technical training of the customer side from the service providing side through the computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Mitsuo Katagiri, Isao Shiromaru, Noriaki Suginohara
  • Patent number: 6699819
    Abstract: A superconductor having at least one Hg—M—Cu—O (M=Ba, Sr and/or Ca) superconducting film provided on a substrate and having a thickness of between 300 Å to 950 Å. The superconductor may be prepared by forming, on a substrate, a precursor laminate composed of a first, M—Cu—O film and a second, Hg—O film. The precursor laminate film-bearing substrate is placed in a closed vacuum chamber together with a first pellet of HgO, MO and CuO and a second pellet of MO and CuO. The contents in the chamber are heated to form, on the substrate, a superconducting Hg—M—Cu—O film. The thickness of the first M—Cu—O film of the precursor is controlled so that the thickness of the superconducting Hg—M—Cu—O film is in the range of between 300 Å to 950 Å.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Inoue, Tsuyoshi Sugano, Seiji Adachi, Keiichi Tanabe
  • Publication number: 20030225664
    Abstract: A production plan and a planning work to run resources for productions are so independent as to make it difficult to make an optimum administration plan as the entire enterprise activities. In a system for making an administration plan by a computer, an administration planning system comprises an inputting function, a risk calculating function, an optimizing function and an outputting function. The optimizing function makes the administration plan by optimizing and adjusting the distribution between the investment levels to plural investment item and the risk levels for a planning term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Kenji Hirai, Isao Shiromaru
  • Patent number: 6606780
    Abstract: A superconductor having at least one Hg—M—Cu—O (M=Ba, Sr and/or Ca) superconducting film provided on a substrate and having a thickness of between 300 Å to 950 Å. The superconductor may be prepared by forming, on a substrate, a precursor laminate composed of a first, M—Cu—O film and a second, Hg—O film. The precursor laminate film-bearing substrate is placed in a closed vacuum chamber together with a first pellet of HgO, MO and CuO and a second pellet of MO and CuO. The contents in the chamber are heated to form, on the substrate, a superconducting Hg—M—Cu—O film. The thickness of the first M—Cu—O film of the precursor is controlled so that the thickness of the superconducting Hg—M—Cu—O film is in the range of between 300 Å to 950 Å.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2003
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Inoue, Tsuyoshi Sugano, Seiji Adachi, Keiichi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 5934101
    Abstract: The condensed water, as condensed by applying the VRC to a regeneration process, and the strong solution, as fed out of a regenerator, are employed as a heat source to preheat a weak solution so that the preheating amount of the weak solution is increased to improve the performance coefficient of a heat pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Takaki, Mitsuaki Kanetsuki, Akira Ochikubo, Hajime Endou, Yoshinori Nagashima
  • Patent number: 5225393
    Abstract: A process for forming a thin oxide film on an underlying surface adapted for film formation thereon according to a radio frequency magnetron sputtering method using an oxide target(s). The excitation frequency is a frequency which is higher than 13.56 MHz and which provides a negative target self-bias voltage permitting of film formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., The Hokkaido Electric Power Company Inc., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Homma, Hiromi Takahashi, Shinji Kawamoto, Hideyuki Kondo, Tadataka Morishita
  • Patent number: 5106821
    Abstract: A process for forming a thin oxide film on an underlying surface adapted for film formation thereon according to a radio frequency magnetron sputtering method using an oxide target(s). The excitation frequency is higher than 13.56 MHz and provides a lower negative target self-bias voltage permitting improved film formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1992
    Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd., The Hokkaido Electric Power Company Inc., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Mitsubishi Metal Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Homma, Hiromi Takahashi, Shinji Kawamoto, Hideyuki Kondo, Tadataka Horishita
  • Patent number: 4675773
    Abstract: A transmission line protection system arranged such that a leakage current detector is provided at an end of an insulating device such as an insulator connected at one end to a corresponding one of arms of a steel tower and connected at the other end to a transmission line of each phase, thereby detecting an arrester leakage current flowing in the transmission line of each phase, an output signal of the leakage current detector being led to a repeater through an optical fiber cable, an output of the repeater being transferred to a control/supervisory board in a substation through an optical fiber cable. In the control/supervisory board, preferably, a received digital signal which was converted from an analog signal at said leakage current detector is displayed on a cathode ray tube. In such an arrangement, it is possible to smoothly perform supervision of the status of the transmission lines without causing maloperations due to influences from the transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Shingo Shirakawa, Seiichi Maruyama, Seizo Nakano, Eichi Okamoto, Kenji Kohara
  • Patent number: 4352167
    Abstract: A number of sound detectors are provided on an external enclosure of a pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor. Output signals produced from the individual detectors are combined into a pattern in terms of time difference of the detector output signals relative to the time point at which the detected signal is first produced in response to the sound signal and relative peak values of the detector output signals relative to the magnitude of the output signal produced by the detector which detects the sound signal with the highest sensitivity. The pattern thus obtained is then compared with patterns which have been previously prepared by intentionally producing the sound signals at locations in interest within the pressure vessel, to thereby estimate the location within the pressure vessel at which the sound is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1982
    Assignees: The Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc., Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Hashimoto, Izumi Kobayashi, Mitsuo Suzuki, Kimio Yamada, Shigeru Izumi, Yoshihiro Michiguchi
  • Patent number: 4331034
    Abstract: An annular guide rail is detachably mounted in enclosing relation around a tubular member of piping to be probed for any flaws that might be present therein, and a flaw detecting unit, a circumferentially driving unit and an axially driving unit are movably arranged on the annular guide rail and interconnected by connecting means. The flaw detecting means includes an arm movable axially of the tubular member and supporting ultrasonic flaw detecting means. The circumferentially driving unit includes first driving means for moving the flaw detecting unit, circumferentially driving unit and axially driving unit circumferentially along the guide rail. The axially driving unit includes second driving means for moving the arm axially of the tubular member. A transmission mechanism is provided for transmitting the operation of the second driving means to the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1982
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc., The Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Takeda, Ichio Iseki, Katsumi Kawai, Hiroyuki Okajima, Sigeru Kajiyama, Sakae Sugiyama, Kimio Kanda