Patents by Inventor Akiyoshi Komura

Akiyoshi Komura 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: 20090000574
    Abstract: An organic hydride reactor generates hydrogen by electrolyzing electrolyte to manufacture the organic hydride from the generated hydrogen. The system has a anode and cathode opposed to each other, the electrolyte supplied between the anode and cathode, a hydrogenation catalyst performing hydrogenation reaction between the hydrogen supplied from the anode by electrolysis and organic compound. The anode cathode has gas-fluid separation function and the electrolyte is supplied to only one surface of the anode and cathode, and a gas caused by electrolysis is discharged from a surface not being in contact with the electrolyte of the anode and cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sugimasa, Akiyoshi Komura, Takao Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080236247
    Abstract: The object of the present invention provides an evaluation system for evaluating accurately emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in a fuel supply facility for supplying stored fuel to a consumer. An evaluation system evaluates the emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in which the environmental properties (greenhouse gas emissions) accumulated in the process of drilling a first energy, transporting and storing, producing fuel, and supplying the fuel are taken into account. The evaluation system enables to present the environmental properties of the sold fuel to the fuel consumer and allows the fuel consumer to select, thereby promoting the reduction of emission amount of the greenhouse gas of the fuel supplier and the fuel consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takeyuki Itabashi, Sunao Funakoshi, Hiroshi Arita, Yukinobu Maruyama, Youichi Horii, Takao Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080202449
    Abstract: An engine system comprises a detection means for detecting a supply quantity or supply pressure of hydrogen rich gas which is disposed in a hydrogen rich gas supply pipe for supplying hydrogen rich gas to a combustion chamber of the engine, a hydrogen rich gas supply valve control means for controlling the supply of hydrogen rich gas by controlling the open/close timing and the amount of open/close lift of the hydrogen rich gas supply valve disposed in the combustion chamber of the engine based on the supply quantity or supply pressure detected by the detection means, an inlet valve for supplying air to the combustion chamber of the engine separately from the hydrogen rich gas supply valve, and an inlet valve control means for controlling the volume of air taken into the combustion chamber of the engine by the inlet valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Takao Ishikawa, Akiyoshi Komura, Masatoshi Sugimasa, Takeyuki Itabashi
  • Patent number: 7294943
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine capable of lowering the temperature of a rotor disposed, wherein at least one of closed ventilation loops for cooling is formed, one of the loops constituting a ventilation passage communicating with an exhaust side through a heat source of the end of the generator to a cooler, thereby to supply cooling wind to the rotor after it passes through the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
  • Publication number: 20070068162
    Abstract: A control system for cogeneration system provides operation combination calculating means which calculates the combination of operations capable of keeping the voltage of the distribution line within a predetermined tolerance within voltage tolerance based on following (1)-(3). (1) the predicted value of the electric power demand of each customer calculated by electric power demand predicted value calculating means; (2) the impedance of the distribution line recorded by distribution line information recording means; and (3) the combination of cogeneration systems to be operated, as calculated by operation combination calculating means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Masahiro Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20070068713
    Abstract: A highly-efficient and small-sized driving system which is suitable for use in an automobile using hydrogen as fuel, e.g., a hydrogen-engine hybrid vehicle or a fuel cell vehicle. In a hybrid automobile comprising a high-pressure hydrogen tank, a hydrogen engine using hydrogen as fuel, and a rotating device for generating or regenerating automobile driving energy, at least a part of hydrogen gas supplied from the high-pressure hydrogen tank is supplied to the hydrogen engine after being utilized to cool the rotating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Takao Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 7071586
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine capable of lowering the temperature of a rotor disposed, wherein at least one of closed ventilation loops for cooling is formed, one of the loops constituting a ventilation passage communicating with an exhaust side through a heat source of the end of the generator to a cooler, thereby to supply cooling wind to the rotor after it passes through the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
  • Publication number: 20060055255
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine capable of lowering the temperature of a rotor disposed, wherein at least one of closed ventilation loops for cooling is formed, one of the loops constituting a ventilation passage communicating with an exhaust side through a heat source of the end of the generator to a cooler, thereby to supply cooling wind to the rotor after it passes through the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
  • Publication number: 20060028074
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine comprises a rotor core, and a plurality of rotor conductors wound on the rotor core. At least one of the rotor conductors is provided with a cooling groove, and edges of at least one of the cooling grooves are rounded by a radius process to reduce peak stresses that may be induced around the edges of the cooling groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Publication date: February 9, 2006
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Takashi Watanabe, Kenichi Hattori, Tomoya Tsunoda, Shinya Odajima, Hiroshi Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20050284946
    Abstract: The present invention provides a household cogeneration system which is adapted to a consumption power amount and a consumption heat amount of each consumer in an ordinary house and can easily handle a failure. The cogeneration system has an energy generating device constructed by: a plurality of electric/heat energy generating modules each having a jacket for sending electric energy and heat energy; a plurality of heat energy generating modules each having a jacket for sending heat energy and constructed by a mechanical power generating device and a heat pump device; and a base having a jacket for receiving the electric energy and the heat energy from the plurality of energy generating modules and supplying the energy from the modules in a lump to a consumer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Masahiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Yusuke Kihara, Atsushi Shimada, Masatoshi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Kubo
  • Patent number: 6936939
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine having a plurality of ventilating passages formed between a stator frame and a stator iron core and coolers which cool a coolant being provided in the plurality of the ventilating passages. A ventilating circuit in which at least a portion of the coolant which is cooled by one of the coolers is further cooled by another of the coolers, and is allowed to flow to a central portion in an axial direction of the stator iron core in a direction from an outer peripheral side to an inner peripheral side of the stator iron core at least via one ventilating passage of the plurality of ventilating passage which communicates with the central portion in the axial direction of the stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Yoko Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara, Mitsunori Yamashina
  • Publication number: 20050116542
    Abstract: In an in-home dispersed power source system designed to supply electric power to a plurality of home electric appliances with using a dispersed power source in combination with a commercial power source, a control means, which is connected to the dispersed power source and the plurality of the home electric appliances via a network and which control means performs ON/OFF control of each of the home electric appliances, is provided, wherein the control means makes each of the home electric appliances follow a response delay of power generation operation of the dispersed power source by selective ON/OFF control of the plurality of the home electric appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Yusuke Kihara, Akiyoshi Komura
  • Patent number: 6853281
    Abstract: A magnet device includes two sets of static magnetic field generation sources spaced from each other in the vertical direction such that the uniform magnetic field region (patient space) is between then. Each set has concentric current carrying coils to generate a uniform magnetic field in a first direction (the vertical direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2005
    Assignees: Hitachi Medical Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kakugawa, Shouji Kitamura, Nobuhiro Hara, Akiyoshi Komura, Noriaki Hino, Hajime Kawano, Takao Honmei, Hirotaka Takeshima, Takeshi Yatsuo, Hiroshi Tazaki
  • Publication number: 20040189110
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine having a plurality of ventilating passages formed between a stator frame and a stator iron core and coolers which cool a coolant being provided in the plurality of the ventilating passages. A ventilating circuit in which at least a portion of the coolant which is cooled by one of the coolers is further cooled by another of the coolers, and is allowed to flow to a central portion in an axial direction of the stator iron core in a direction from an outer peripheral side to an inner peripheral side of the stator iron core at least via one ventilating passage of the plurality of ventilating passage which communicates with the central portion in the axial direction of the stator iron core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yoko Yamashina
  • Patent number: 6737768
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine having a plurality of ventilating passages formed between a stator frame and a stator iron core, a cooler which cools a coolant is provided at least in one ventilating passage, communicating with a central portion of the stator iron core, of the plurality of ventilating passages, and a ventilating circuit in which the coolant cooled by the cooler is allowed to flow to the central portion of the stator iron core in a direction from an outer peripheral side to an inner peripheral side of the stator iron core via the at least one ventilating passage which communicates with the central portion of the stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20040090134
    Abstract: A generator comprising a generator main section having a stator provided with a winding and a rotor provided with a winding and opposed to the stator with an air gap therebetween, the rotor being rotatably supported by a rotating shaft, and an excitor having a stator provided with a winding and a rotor provided with a winding and opposed to the stator with an air gap therebetween, the rotor being rotatably supported by the rotating shaft of the generator main section, and wherein the winding provided on the rotor of the generator main section and the winding provided on the rotor of the excitor are electrically connected to each other through electronic parts, and the stator and the rotor of the excitor are opposed to each other with an air gap therebetween in a direction along the rotating shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Mamoru Kimura, Shintaro Oku, Masayuki Tani
  • Publication number: 20040090131
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine capable of lowering the temperature of a rotor disposed, wherein at least one of closed ventilation loops for cooling is formed, one of the loops constituting a ventilation passage communicating with an exhaust side through a heat source of the end of the generator to a cooler, thereby to supply cooling wind to the rotor after it passes through the cooler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
  • Patent number: 6724107
    Abstract: A rotating electric machine exhibits a substantially level axial temperature rise distribution by supplying a coolant which is sufficiently cooled to a central portion of an iron core which is most distant from each of the axial ends of the iron core. A plurality of ventilating passages, which continuously extend in the peripheral direction, are provided in the axial direction between a stator frame and a stator iron core, and coolers are provided in the ventilating passages. A coolant boosted by a booster is cooled by the coolers and is allowed to flow to a central portion of the stator iron core in the direction from the outer peripheral side to the inner peripheral side of the stator iron core via ventilating passages which communicate with the central portion of the stator iron core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara
  • Publication number: 20030141774
    Abstract: A rotor for a rotating electric machine comprises a shaft, a cylindrical permanent magnet put on the shaft, and a holding ring fixedly put on the permanent magnet. The permanent magnet is magnetized by Halbach magnetization, and the holding ring is formed by circumferentially alternately arranging nonmagnetic segments of a nonmagnetic material and magnetic segments of a magnetic material. Another rotor for a rotating electric machine comprises a solid, cylindrical permanent magnet, and a cylindrical holding ring put on the permanent magnet, wherein the permanent magnet is magnetized by Halbach magnetization, and the holding ring is formed by circumferentially alternately arranging nonmagnetic segments of a nonmagnetic material and magnetic segments of a magnetic material. A rotating electric machine is provided with one of the foregoing rotors, and a gas turbine power plant is equipped with a rotating electric machine including one of the foregoing rotors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Miyoshi Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura, Takanobu Mori, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Matsunobu
  • Patent number: 6600318
    Abstract: A magnet device is provided with two static magnetic field generating sources 14a and 14b disposed so as to oppose each other while placing a person to be inspected therebetween, a vessel 15 containing the static magnetic field generating source 14a and a vessel 16 containing the static magnetic field generating source 14b, and the vessels 15 and 16 are disposed at positions asymmetric with respect to the person to be inspected. Thereby, a magnet device and an MRI device using the same which can extend a space above the person to be inspected on a bed while avoiding introduction of a large scale device which causes to increase the manufacturing cost thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeru Kakugawa, Shouji Kitamura, Nobuhiro Hara, Akiyoshi Komura, Noriaki Hino, Hajime Kawano, Takao Honmei, Hirotaka Takeshima, Takeshi Yatsuo, Hiroshi Tazaki