Patents by Inventor Akira Nishimizu
Akira Nishimizu 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: 11494888Abstract: Provided is an oil leakage detection apparatus by which oil leakage detection is performed even for colorless oil with high detection accuracy and without complicating the apparatus. The oil leakage detection apparatus of the invention includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the oil-input machine, an ultraviolet light source configured to irradiate the oil-input machine with ultraviolet light, a color imaging unit configured to capture an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, an image processing unit configured to diagnose oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the distance measured by the distance measurement unit and the captured image of the color imaging unit, and a display unit configured to display a processed image processed by the image processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Li Lu, Akira Nishimizu, Toshiaki Rokunohe, Akira Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20220057291Abstract: The present invention is directed to a leakage oil detection device for detecting leakage oil in an oil filled apparatus including: a light source configured to irradiate the apparatus; an imaging device configured to capture an image of the apparatus; a control device configured to control operations of the light source and the imaging device; a storage device configured to store a captured image; an image processing device configured to process the stored image; and a display device configured to display a processing result. The light source and the imaging device are arranged to capture specular reflection light from a surface of the apparatus as a target object. The image processing device recognizes a brightest portion and an adjacent dark portion on the image as leakage oil adhesion portions when a three-layer structure of luminance having bright portions having different luminances and a dark portion is observed in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2019Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Li Lu, Satoshi Ichimura, Akira Nishimizu, Akira Yamagishi
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Patent number: 11107617Abstract: The present invention is to improve a performance of a transformer having wound iron cores.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yu Yamada, Takashi Ishigami, Akira Nishimizu, Kouji Sasaki
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Publication number: 20210192710Abstract: Provided is an oil leakage detection apparatus by which oil leakage detection is performed even for colorless oil with high detection accuracy and without complicating the apparatus. The oil leakage detection apparatus of the invention includes a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance to the oil-input machine, an ultraviolet light source configured to irradiate the oil-input machine with ultraviolet light, a color imaging unit configured to capture an image of the oil-input machine irradiated with ultraviolet light, an image processing unit configured to diagnose oil leakage of the oil-input machine based on the distance measured by the distance measurement unit and the captured image of the color imaging unit, and a display unit configured to display a processed image processed by the image processing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Li LU, Akira NISHIMIZU, Toshiaki ROKUNOHE, Akira YAMAGISHI
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Patent number: 10978237Abstract: The invention provides a core for a stationary induction apparatus including an amorphous core formed of an amorphous thin magnetic strip arranged inside the core, a silicon steel sheet core formed of a silicon steel sheet arranged on a side surface of the amorphous core, a wear plate arranged on the outermost peripheral surface of the silicon steel sheet core, an amorphous core frame arranged around the amorphous core including a space between the amorphous core and the silicon steel sheet core, and a support frame which supports and fixes the amorphous core and the silicon steel sheet core via the wear plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Chie Kobayashi, Akira Nishimizu, Naoyuki Kurita, Akira Yamagishi
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Patent number: 10861634Abstract: The invention is directed to a stationary induction electric device that can reduce loss. To this end, the stationary induction electric device is provided with a first iron core block erected and formed in an annular shape, a second iron core block configured to surround the outer periphery of the first iron core block, a winding wound around the first and the second iron core blocks, a first support plate supporting the upper portion of the first iron core block from below, and a second support plate supporting the upper portion of the second iron core block from below, and a curvature radius of a curved portion appearing on the outer periphery of the lower portion of the second iron core block is made larger than a curvature radius of a curved portion appearing on the outer periphery of the upper portion of the second iron core block.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Miyamoto, Yu Yamada, Takashi Ishigami, Naoyuki Kurita, Akira Nishimizu
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Patent number: 10658106Abstract: To provide a safe stationary induction electrical apparatus that prevents a fragment coming off a magnetic shield, wound around an iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus, due to vibrations from being released in a tank accommodating the stationary induction electrical apparatus and thus prevents a trouble such as dielectric breakdown. Moreover, to provide a stationary induction electrical apparatus that does not need to be changed in the dimensions of an iron core for securing an insulation distance due to the placement of a magnetic shield and can reduce a compressive force generated in a winding. A magnetic material is provided in the interiors of insulating members whose interiors are hollow and which are provided in the vicinities of upper and lower ends of the winding wound around the iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Youichirou Yamada, Akira Nishimizu, Yoshio Hamadate, Akira Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20190122805Abstract: The invention is directed to a stationary induction electric device that can reduce loss. To this end, the stationary induction electric device is provided with a first iron core block erected and formed in an annular shape, a second iron core block configured to surround the outer periphery of the first iron core block, a winding wound around the first and the second iron core blocks, a first support plate supporting the upper portion of the first iron core block from below, and a second support plate supporting the upper portion of the second iron core block from below, and a curvature radius of a curved portion appearing on the outer periphery of the lower portion of the second iron core block is made larger than a curvature radius of a curved portion appearing on the outer periphery of the upper portion of the second iron core block.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Naoya MIYAMOTO, Yu YAMADA, Takashi ISHIGAMI, Naoyuki KURITA, Akira NISHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20190096562Abstract: The present invention is to improve a performance of a transformer having wound iron cores.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Yu YAMADA, Takashi ISHIGAMI, Akira NISHIMIZU, Kouji SASAKI
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Publication number: 20180350492Abstract: Generation of broken pieces of thin magnetic ribbons is reduced with respect to a joint part of an iron core, which is formed by laminating the thin magnetic ribbons, of a stationary induction apparatus. There is provided an iron core joint structure of the stationary induction apparatus characterized such that in a butt joint part of the iron core, which is configured with the laminated thin magnetic ribbons, of the stationary induction apparatus, a first resin penetrated into the laminated magnetic ribbons is applied to each of butt joint surfaces facing each other, and a second resin is further applied to an outer side of the first resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2015Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Akira NISHIMIZU, Naoyuki KURITA, Chie KOBAYASHI, Hisashi MOROOKA
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Publication number: 20180246065Abstract: An eddy-current testing method comprises liftoff signal measuring step of giving liftoff to an eddy-current testing probe including one or more coils and measuring a liftoff signal of a reference specimen, phase recording step of recording a phase of a Lissajous figure obtained from the liftoff signal of the reference specimen, eddy-current testing signal measuring step of measuring an eddy-current testing signal of an object using the eddy-current testing probe, and decision step of deciding that the eddy-current testing signal detected in the eddy-current testing signal measuring step is a liftoff signal if the eddy-current testing probe detects the eddy-current testing signal in all the coils in the eddy-current testing signal measuring step and a phase of a Lissajous figure obtained from the eddy-current testing signal detected in the eddy-current testing signal measuring step coincides with the phase recorded in the phase recording step for all the coils.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Shigeru KAKUGAWA, Akira NISHIMIZU, Yutaka SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180233267Abstract: The invention provides a core for a stationary induction apparatus including an amorphous core formed of an amorphous thin magnetic strip arranged inside the core, a silicon steel sheet core formed of a silicon steel sheet arranged on a side surface of the amorphous core, a wear plate arranged on the outermost peripheral surface of the silicon steel sheet core, an amorphous core frame arranged around the amorphous core including a space between the amorphous core and the silicon steel sheet core, and a support frame which supports and fixes the amorphous core and the silicon steel sheet core via the wear plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Chie KOBAYASHI, Akira NISHIMIZU, Naoyuki KURITA, Akira YAMAGISHI
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Publication number: 20180204668Abstract: There is provided a stationary induction apparatus having a tank accommodating a transformer main body therein, in which a vibration suppression steel material is provided in at least a portion in the vicinity of an edge portion on a tank bottom surface. In addition, a portion of the vibration suppression steel material is made attachable and detachable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: July 19, 2018Inventors: Yasuhiro MATSUDA, Akira YAMAGISHI, Akira NISHIMIZU
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Patent number: 9947453Abstract: A stationary induction electric apparatus includes an iron core having legs of core and yokes of core; windings wound around the legs of core; coolant for cooling the windings; a cylindrical insulation structure that forms a flow of the coolant around the windings; baffle members alternately provided on the inner wall side and the outer wall side of the cylindrical insulation structure; and adjustment members for constricting the flow of the coolant. The adjustment members are provided on the same side of the respective baffle members and on the respective baffle members.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yasunori Ono, Akira Nishimizu, Naoya Miyamoto, Kohei Yamaguchi, Akira Yamagishi
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Publication number: 20180068785Abstract: To provide a safe stationary induction electrical apparatus that prevents a fragment coming off a magnetic shield, wound around an iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus, due to vibrations from being released in a tank accommodating the stationary induction electrical apparatus and thus prevents a trouble such as dielectric breakdown. Moreover, to provide a stationary induction electrical apparatus that does not need to be changed in the dimensions of an iron core for securing an insulation distance due to the placement of a magnetic shield and can reduce a compressive force generated in a winding. A magnetic material is provided in the interiors of insulating members whose interiors are hollow and which are provided in the vicinities of upper and lower ends of the winding wound around the iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Youichirou YAMADA, Akira NISHIMIZU, Yoshio HAMADATE, Akira YAMAGISHI
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Patent number: 9689660Abstract: An object of this invention is to sense a transient displacement of the blade position to thereby detect abnormalities early. The invention includes: one or more first sensors mounted so as to be removable from an outer surface of a casing opposed to blade tips; a second sensor for acquiring a signal from a fixed point on a rotor shaft of the blades; a section configured to extract data groups from an output signal of the first sensor on the basis of information acquired by the second sensor; a section configured to average the data groups; a section configured to determine thresholds from averaged data obtained under a healthy condition; and an assessing section configured to compare magnitude of the thresholds and sensor signals obtained during blade status monitoring. Since a transient displacement of blade position can be sensed, abnormalities can be detected early in this invention. This early detection, in turn, enables a rotation to be stopped during an initial phase of blade damage.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Nishimizu, Toshiyuki Hiraoka, Masahiro Tooma, Soushi Narishige, Tetsuya Matsui
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Publication number: 20160268037Abstract: There is provided a stationary induction electric apparatus including a core; a disk winding wound around the core; and a tank having the core and the disk winding inside. The disk winding is configured by stacking a plurality of pancake windings wound to pile in the radius direction of the core and connecting ends of the plurality of pancake windings to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Akira NISHIMIZU, Naoya MIYAMOTO, Akira YAMAGISHI, Kazuhiro KAMIMURA
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Publication number: 20160247621Abstract: A stationary induction electric apparatus includes an iron core having legs of core and yokes of core; windings wound around the legs of core; coolant for cooling the windings; a cylindrical insulation structure that forms a flow of the coolant around the windings; baffle members alternately provided on the inner wall side and the outer wall side of the cylindrical insulation structure; and adjustment members for constricting the flow of the coolant. The adjustment members are provided on the same side of the respective baffle members and on the respective baffle members.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 25, 2016Inventors: Yasunori ONO, Akira NISHIMIZU, Naoya MIYAMOTO, Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Akira YAMAGISHI
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Patent number: 9274085Abstract: Provided is an eddy current inspection device, an eddy current inspection probe and an eddy current inspection method that make it possible to detect defects existing in deeper parts of test objects. Three or more odd number of excitation coils are arranged at even intervals in a circumferential direction on a postulated circumference. Excitation currents applied to the excitation coils are controlled so that the phase difference between excitation currents applied to adjacent ones of the excitation coils arranged in the circumferential direction on the postulated circumference equals one cycle divided by the number of excitation coils. A magnetic field generated according to an eddy current occurring in the test object due to a magnetic field caused by the application of the excitation currents to the excitation coils is detected by use of a detector arranged on a postulated plane containing the postulated circumference but inside the postulated circumference.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Endo, Akira Nishimizu, Noriyuki Sadaoka
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Patent number: 9222915Abstract: An eddy current flaw detection system includes an eddy current flaw detection probe having a substrate facing an inspection surface, and at least one exciting coil and at least two detecting coils provided on the substrate, a scanning device which scans the probe on the inspection surface, a scan control device which drives and controls the scanning device, an eddy current flaw detection device which acquires results of detection of a plurality of detection points corresponding to combinations of the exciting and detecting coils for each scan position of the probe, and a data processing/display device which processes data from the scan control device and the eddy current flaw detection device and thereby displays a result of flaw detection. The data processing/display device acquires three-dimensional coordinates of the detection points for each scan position of the probe and thereby creates three-dimensional flaw detection data.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Nishimizu, So Kitazawa, Naoyuki Kono, Hisashi Endo, Kenichi Otani, Taiichiro Yamada, Hirofumi Ouchi, Isao Yoshida, Yoshio Nonaka, Masafumi Imai