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).
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Publication number: 20090000574Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: January 1, 2009Inventors: Masatoshi Sugimasa, Akiyoshi Komura, Takao Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20080236247Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takeyuki Itabashi, Sunao Funakoshi, Hiroshi Arita, Yukinobu Maruyama, Youichi Horii, Takao Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20080202449Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Takao Ishikawa, Akiyoshi Komura, Masatoshi Sugimasa, Takeyuki Itabashi
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Patent number: 7294943Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 3, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
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Publication number: 20070068162Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Masahiro Watanabe
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Publication number: 20070068713Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: March 29, 2007Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Takao Ishikawa
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Patent number: 7071586Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2002Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
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Publication number: 20060055255Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2005Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
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Publication number: 20060028074Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2003Publication date: February 9, 2006Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Takashi Watanabe, Kenichi Hattori, Tomoya Tsunoda, Shinya Odajima, Hiroshi Aoyama
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Publication number: 20050284946Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2005Publication date: December 29, 2005Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Kazumasa Ide, Masahiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Kusumoto, Yusuke Kihara, Atsushi Shimada, Masatoshi Watanabe, Yoshifumi Kubo
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Patent number: 6936939Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Yoko Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara, Mitsunori Yamashina
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Publication number: 20050116542Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Yusuke Kihara, Akiyoshi Komura
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Patent number: 6853281Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 1, 1998Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignees: 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
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Publication number: 20040189110Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yoko Yamashina
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Patent number: 6737768Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara
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Publication number: 20040090134Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Mamoru Kimura, Shintaro Oku, Masayuki Tani
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Publication number: 20040090131Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Inventors: Kenichi Hattori, Kazumasa Ide, Akiyoshi Komura, Takashi Watanabe, Ryoichi Shiobara, Yasuomi Yagi, Kengo Iwashige, Keiji Kobashi
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Patent number: 6724107Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazumasa Ide, Kenichi Hattori, Akiyoshi Komura, Mitsunori Yamashina, Tadashi Sonobe, Akitomi Semba, Junji Sato, Ryoichi Shiobara
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Publication number: 20030141774Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2003Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: HITACHI LTD.Inventors: Akiyoshi Komura, Miyoshi Takahashi, Kazumasa Ide, Mamoru Kimura, Takanobu Mori, Kiyoshi Yamaguchi, Takashi Matsunobu
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Patent number: 6600318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 20, 2000Date of Patent: July 29, 2003Assignee: Hitachi Medical CorporationInventors: Shigeru Kakugawa, Shouji Kitamura, Nobuhiro Hara, Akiyoshi Komura, Noriaki Hino, Hajime Kawano, Takao Honmei, Hirotaka Takeshima, Takeshi Yatsuo, Hiroshi Tazaki