Patents by Inventor Akaru Usui
Akaru Usui has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7198765Abstract: An ozone generator in which a discharge region may be enlarged without damaging ozone generating performance. In the ozonizer, an alternating current is applied between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a discharge is produced in a gap into which oxygen is injected. In the first electrode, an ozone gas passage for retrieving ozone gas generated in the discharge region is located between an electrode surface facing the discharge region and a side. The ozone gas passages are dispersed in the first electrode. The ozone gas passages collect ozone generated at discharge region locations inside the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems CorporationInventors: Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Yujiro Okihara, Tetsuya Saitsu, Norimitsu Esaki, Hajime Nakatani
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Patent number: 7108836Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode, flat plate-shaped first and second high voltage electrodes facing the low voltage electrode, a first dielectric, and a first spacer, located between the low voltage electrode and the first high voltage electrode, a second dielectric, and a second spacer between the electrode and the second high voltage electrode. The ozonizer also has a first electrode cooling sheet facing the first high voltage electrode at a side opposite a first discharge gap, a second electrode cooling sheet facing the second high voltage electrode, a first thermally conducting and electrically insulating sheet sandwiched between the first high voltage electrode and the first electrode cooling sheet, and a second thermally conducting and electrically insulating sheet sandwiched between the second high voltage electrode and the second electrode cooling sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2002Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems CorporationInventors: Yujiro Okihara, Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Patent number: 6905659Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode and a flat plate-shaped high voltage electrode facing a main surface of the low voltage electrode. The ozomzer also has a flat plate-shaped dielectric and a spacer forming a discharge gap in a laminating direction, located between the low voltage electrode and the high voltage electrode, a high voltage electrode cooling unit forming a cooling water passage insulated from the high voltage electrode inside the high voltage electrode. An alternating voltage is applied between the low voltage electrode and the high voltage electrode and a discharge is produced in the discharge gap, into which oxygen is injected, to produce ozone gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: June 14, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akaru Usui, Youichiro Tabata, Yujiro Okihara, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Patent number: 6869575Abstract: The ozonizer of this present invention is small in size, and capable of generating highly concentrated ozone with a high (generating) efficiency. A low voltage electrode includes a disc-shaped low voltage electrode main body facing a high voltage electrode and an extension at one side of the low voltage electrode main body, and the extensions are laminated in layers on a base via blocks, and a coolant inlet portion for supplying coolant to a coolant passage, a coolant outlet portion for exhausting coolant from the coolant passage, and an ozone gas outlet portion for exhausting ozone gas from the ozone gas passage pass through the extensions and the blocks, respectively, in a laminating direction of the discharge cells.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2002Date of Patent: March 22, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Youichiro Tabata, Yujiro Okihara, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Patent number: 6866829Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode 7, a flat plate-shaped high voltage electrode 3 facing a main surface of the low voltage electrode 7. The ozonizer also has a flat plate-shaped dielectric 5 and a spacer for forming a discharge gap 6 of a thin thickness in a laminating direction provided between the low voltage electrode 7 and the electrode 3, an electrode cooling sheet 1 provided facing a main surface of the electrode 3 at a side opposite the discharge gap 6 for cooling the electrode 3. The ozonizer also has a thermal conducting/electric insulating sheet 2 sandwiched between the electrode 3 and the electrode cooling sheet 1. An alternating voltage is applied between the low voltage electrode 7 and the electrode 3 and a discharge is produced in the discharge gap 6 injected with oxygen gas to produce ozone gas.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2002Date of Patent: March 15, 2005Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yujiro Okihara, Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Patent number: 6769962Abstract: A scraping apparatus in which a scraping process is performed on a surface of a work to be machined to form recesses thereon by converging a laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator by a converging lens and irradiating the converged laser beam onto the work relatively moving to the laser beam for removing some portions by being melted or evaporated from the surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1998Date of Patent: August 3, 2004Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshihide Kinbara, Hisao Tanaka, Akaru Usui
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Publication number: 20040076560Abstract: The present invention provides an ozonizer in which a discharge region may be increased without damaging ozone generating performance. In the ozonizer, electrode module(s) 102 an alternating current is applied between a first electrode 7 and a second electrode 3, and a discharge is brought about in a gap of the discharge region which is injected with a gas containing at least oxygen gas. In the first electrode 7, an ozone gas passage (8) for taking out ozone gas generated by the discharge region is formed between an electrode surface facing the discharge region and a side portion. A plurality of the ozone gas passages are dispersed in the first electrode. The plurality of ozone gas passages (8) collect and draw out ozone gas generated at a plurality of the discharge region locations inside the first electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2003Publication date: April 22, 2004Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Yujiro Okihara, Tetsuya Saitsu, Norimitsu Esaki, Hajime Nakatani
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Publication number: 20040052701Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode and a flat plate-shaped high voltage electrode facing a main surface of the low voltage electrode. The ozonizer also has a flat plate-shaped dielectric and a spacer for forming a discharge gap having a thickness in a laminating direction, provided between the low voltage electrode and the electrode, an electrode cooling sheet facing a main surface of the electrode at a side opposite the discharge gap for cooling the electrode. The ozonizer also has a thermally conducting and electrically insulating sheet sandwiched between the electrode and the electrode cooling sheet. An alternating voltage is applied between the low voltage electrode and the electrode and a discharge is produced in the discharge gap so that, when filled with oxygen, ozone gas is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: March 18, 2004Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yujiro Okihara, Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Publication number: 20030133854Abstract: The present invention provides a system for supplying a gas capable of supplying a gas at a proper flow rate and forming a gas at a proper rate from a gas-forming unit. The invention provides a system for supplying a gas including a gas-forming unit, a gas supply passage for supplying a gas produced from the gas-forming unit, a gas flow rate controller provided in the gas supply passage, a gas discharge passage provided in parallel with the gas supply passage to discharge the gas produced from the gas-forming unit, and a pressure controller provided in the gas discharge passage to control the pressure of the gas flowing through the gas discharge passage. In the above system for supplying a gas, it is possible to optimize the flow rate of the gas that is supplied and the amount of the gas generated by the gas-forming unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui
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Publication number: 20030095900Abstract: The ozonizer of this present invention is small in size, and capable of generating highly concentrated ozone with a high (generating) efficiency. A low voltage electrode 29 includes a disc-shaped low voltage electrode main body 29a facing a high voltage electrode 8 and an extension 29b equipped at one side of the low voltage electrode main body 29a, and the extensions are laminated in a plurality of layers on a base 1 via blocks 30, and a coolant inlet portion 42 for supplying coolant to a coolant passage 34, a coolant outlet portion 35 for exhausting coolant from the coolant passage 34 and an ozone gas outlet portion 33 for exhausting ozone gas from the ozone gas passage 36 are formed passing through the extensions 29b and the blocks 30, respectively, in a laminating direction of the discharge cells 28.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Youichiro Tabata, Yujiro Okihara, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Publication number: 20030095899Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode 7, a first and second high voltage electrode 3-1, 3-2 provided facing the low voltage electrode 7, a first dielectric 5-1 and first spacer provided between the low voltage electrode 7 and the electrode 3-1, a second dielectric 5-2 and a second spacer provided between the electrode 7 and the electrode 3-2. The ozonizer also has a first electrode cooling sheet 1-1 provided facing the electrode 3-1 at a side opposite a first discharge gap 6-1, a second electrode cooling sheet 1-2 provided facing the electrode 3-2 at a side opposite a second discharge gap 6-2, a first thermal conducting/electric insulating sheet 2-1 sandwiched between the first high voltage electrode 3-1 and the first electrode cooling sheet 1-1 and a second thermal conducting/electric insulating sheet 2-2 sandwiched between the second high voltage electrode 3-2 and the second electrode cooling sheet 1-2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yujiro Okihara, Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Publication number: 20030095898Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode 7, a flat plate-shaped high voltage electrode 3 facing a main surface of the low voltage electrode 7. The ozonizer also has a flat plate-shaped dielectric 5 and a spacer for forming a discharge gap 6 of a thin thickness in a laminating direction provided between the low voltage electrode 7 and the high voltage electrode 3, a high voltage electrode cooling unit 2 for forming a cooling water passage 2c insulated from the high voltage electrode 3 inside the high voltage electrode 3. An alternating voltage is applied between the low voltage electrode 7 and the high voltage electrode 3 and a discharge is produced in the discharge gap 6 injected with oxygen gas to produce ozone gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akaru Usui, Youichiro Tabata, Yujiro Okihara, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae
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Patent number: 6314121Abstract: A sub-mount, an LD bar and a light guide duct are mounted on an LD package main body of a semiconductor laser, and an outgoing section of the LD bar is inserted into the light guide duct. A gold metallized insulating plate is fused on one side of the LD package main body, and the LD bar and the gold metallizing are wire-bonded. The light guide duct transmits the excitation light directly up to a laser medium, and a reflector surrounds the periphery of the laser medium. Upon flowing of a current from the LD package main body to the cathode electrode, the LD excitation light is emitted and the laser medium is excited, to thereby make laser oscillation possible. With the above structure, there is provided an LD excitation solid-state laser device which is easy in assembling, low in the costs, high in efficiency and high in reliability.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2000Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akaru Usui, Shinji Sato, Kyouko Fukumura
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Publication number: 20010023163Abstract: A scraping apparatus in which a scraping process is performed on a surface of a work to be machined to form recesses thereon by converging a laser beam outputted from a laser oscillator by a converging lens and irradiating the converged laser beam onto the work relatively moving to the laser beam for removing some portions by being melted or evaporated from the surface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 1998Publication date: September 20, 2001Applicant: KINBARA, ET ALInventors: YOSHIHIDE KINBARA, HISAO TANAKA, AKARU USUI
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Patent number: 6038244Abstract: A semiconductor excitation solid-state laser apparatus, in which a cross-sectional area of an optical guide plate leading an excited beam emitted from a semiconductor laser element to a solid-state laser medium is made larger in the side of the semiconductor laser element thereof, while a cross-sectional area thereof is made smaller in the side of the solid-state laser medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1998Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akaru Usui, Shinji Sato, Hisao Tanaka
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Patent number: 5948292Abstract: The laser machining apparatus according to the present invention holds a plate-formed work W giving tension thereto, and comprises a driver base/a work base driving the work in the axial direction, a converging lens for a laser beam L, a laser machining head moving in a direction in which the laser beam L is focused onto the work, an upper work holding member having a nozzle for laser beam irradiation integrated thereto, a bellows for relatively and displaceably connecting the laser machining head and the upper work holding member in the focusing direction, and a lower fixed base/a highly slippery plate located and fixed at a position corresponding to a center of the nozzle, and the work is held between the upper work holding member and the lower fixed base/a highly slippery plate at a position adjacent to the laser beam machining position.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1998Date of Patent: September 7, 1999Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisao Tanaka, Akaru Usui, Shinji Sato, Hirokazu Miyagawa
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Patent number: 5660748Abstract: A laser beam machine comprises an optical fiber cable for transmitting laser light, a beam output optical assembly for converging and emitting a laser beam and flexible protective conduits arranged along the X- and Y-axes accommodating the optical fiber cable as well as power and control cables for X-and Z-axis drive motors and an assist gas tube. While the beam output optical assembly can be moved along the X-, Y- and Z-axes, the flexible protective conduits do not bend in excess of the permissible bending radius of the optical fiber cable. The laser beam machine thus constructed provides improved reliability, safety and maintainability of the optical fiber cable as well as high laser beam converging performance and an enlarged machining area. In another embodiment a nozzle centering device is provided between an optical fiber cable and a nozzle housing holding a collimator lens and a condensor lens to align the optical axis of the optical fiber cable with the nozzle housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1996Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisao Tanaka, Akaru Usui, Takeshi Irino, Shigehiro Yoshiyasu, Akira Ishimori
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Patent number: 5221823Abstract: A laser machining apparatus having a laser oscillator connected to a laser robot by a beam transmitting apparatus made of beam ducts, in which the beam ducts are hermetically sealed between the outlet of the laser oscillator and the laser beam outlet of laser robot, and a working gas supplying inlet is mounted at an upper portion of the beam ducts for transmitting of the gas through the beam ducts and outputting of the gas at a nozzle in the laser robot head. According to the above construction, the present invention is able to prevent an occurrence of the heat lens phenomenon, and also able to prevent fumes and dust from entering into the beam duct.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 1992Date of Patent: June 22, 1993Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.Inventor: Akaru Usui
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Patent number: 4931616Abstract: An insulating coating of a desired portion of an electric cable is removed by selectively irradiating the desired portion with a pulse laser beam having a pulse width of 5.mu. sec or less and a peak output of 1 MW or more.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Akaru Usui, Hiroshi Tsukahara
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Patent number: RE40746Abstract: An ozonizer has a flat plate-shaped low voltage electrode 7, a flat plate-shaped high voltage electrode 3 facing a main surface of the low voltage electrode 7. The ozonizer also has a flat plate-shaped dielectric 5 and a spacer for forming a discharge gap 6 of a thin thickness in a laminating direction provided between the low voltage electrode 7 and the electrode 3, an electrode cooling sheet 1 provided facing a main surface of the electrode 3 at a side opposite the discharge gap 6 for cooling the electrode 3. The ozonizer also has a thermal conducting/electric insulating sheet 2 sandwiched between the electrode 3 and the electrode cooling sheet 1. An alternating voltage is applied between the low voltage electrode 7 and the electrode 3 and a discharge is produced in the discharge gap 6 injected with oxygen gas to produce ozone gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial System CorporationInventors: Yujiro Okihara, Youichiro Tabata, Akaru Usui, Hiromichi Komiya, Yuji Ganryu, Masaki Kuzumoto, Noboru Wada, Koji Ohta, Shigenori Yagi, Hirozoh Kanegae