Patents by Inventor Akira Komuro

Akira Komuro 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).

  • Publication number: 20230280112
    Abstract: In a header plate structure of heat exchangers having a core divided in plurality, a flat tube is inserted into each of the tube insertion holes having a burring, which is formed in a header plate; the flat tube is joined at an inner surface in the vicinity of a top portion of the burring; a burring with height H1 is formed to a long side portion of a dummy tube insertion hole; and a burring with height H2 is formed to a long side portion of an end portion tube insertion hole adjacent to the dummy tube insertion hole, in which height H2 of the burring of the end portion tube insertion hole has been formed higher than the height H1 of the burring of the dummy tube insertion hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Akira KOMURO, Taiji SAKAI, Atsushi OKUBO, Hiro KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20220333873
    Abstract: The present invention reduces and mitigates thermal stress generated at joint portions between a header plate and a flat tube of a heat exchanger. In a direction of a vertical center axis passing the center of the inside of a flat tube, positions of first brazing parts are set to be closer to the center of the flat tube in the direction of the vertical center axis than positions of edge brazing parts. Accordingly, the thermal stress concentrated at the joint portions between short sides of the flat tube and the header plate is dispersed to other portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Akira KOMURO, Taiji SAKAI, Atsushi OKUBO
  • Publication number: 20220282938
    Abstract: In a tank structure of a heat exchanger having a narrow width header plate, to reduce thermal stress generated in a tube on the outermost side of the header plate in a lengthwise direction. Insertion holes, except for end-portion tube insertion holes at least located at end portions of a header plate in the lengthwise direction, are linked with deformation prevention beads formed along the lengthwise direction of the header plate, and the end-portion tube insertion holes are not linked with the deformation prevention beads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Akira KOMURO, Atsushi OKUBO
  • Patent number: 7926708
    Abstract: There is provided a method of recording an image by causing a subject to truly coincide with data relating to the subject. In a finished work recording method using image data by obtaining a product to be recorded and work contents to the product to be recorded as a work recording image, RFID tags 60 (RFID tags 60a, 60b) in each of which inherent tag data is recorded are attached to the product to be recorded and to the work recording worker. Thereafter, whether the tag data are true to the image data of a subject to be worked is determined by comparing a time difference between the time at which the tag data recorded in the RFID tag 60a is read and the time at which the image data of the product to be recorded is obtained with a preset specified time. When it is determined that the tag data are truly associated with the image data, the image data associated with the tag data is recorded as a finished work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Hatori, Shinichi Ebata, Akira Komuro
  • Publication number: 20090014514
    Abstract: There is provided a method of recording an image by causing a subject to truly coincide with data relating to the subject. In a finished work recording method using image data by obtaining a product to be recorded and work contents to the product to be recorded as a work recording image, RFID tags 60 (RFID tags 60a, 60b) in each of which inherent tag data is recorded are attached to the product to be recorded and to the work recording worker. Thereafter, whether the tag data are true to the image data of a subject to be worked is determined by comparing a time difference between the time at which the tag data recorded in the RFID tag 60a is read and the time at which the image data of the product to be recorded is obtained with a preset specified time. When it is determined that the tag data are truly associated with the image data, the image data associated with the tag data is recorded as a finished work.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD
    Inventors: Fumio Hatori, Shinichi Ebata, Akira Komuro