Patents by Inventor Chikako Kato

Chikako Kato 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).

  • Patent number: 10895226
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a gripping unit gripping a turbine-housing side flange portion and a bearing-housing side flange portion to couple a turbine housing and a bearing housing. In a state where the turbine housing and the bearing housing are coupled by the gripping unit, an elastic force in a direction to separate the turbine-housing side flange portion and the bearing-housing side flange portion from each other is applied to each of the turbine housing and the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Takao Yokoyama, Takashi Yoshimoto, Chikako Kato, Keigo Sakamoto, Yosuke Dammoto
  • Publication number: 20190136804
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes a gripping unit gripping a turbine-housing side flange portion and a bearing-housing side flange portion to couple a turbine housing and a bearing housing. In a state where the turbine housing and the bearing housing are coupled by the gripping unit, an elastic force in a direction to separate the turbine-housing side flange portion and the bearing-housing side flange portion from each other is applied to each of the turbine housing and the bearing housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo WATANABE, Takao YOKOYAMA, Takashi YOSHIMOTO, Chikako KATO, Keigo SAKAMOTO, Yosuke DAMMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190056052
    Abstract: In a cooling device for a high temperature pipe, a high temperature pipe is efficiently cooled, and cooling performance is improved. A cooling device (10) for a high temperature pipe that cools a surface to be cooled (104) of a pipe (100) as a high temperature pipe includes: a cooling medium supply header (11) that is disposed so as not to shield heat dissipation by radiation from the surface to be cooled (104) to the periphery, and allows a cooling medium to flow out toward the surface to be cooled (104); and a cooling medium supply device (12) that supplies the cooling medium to the cooling medium supply header (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi MATSUO, Fumitoshi SAKATA, Yuichi KANEMAKI, Haruki MUKUMOTO, Daigo WATANABE, Chikako KATO, Junichi OZAWA, Junki JOYAMA, Masahiro KUROSE, Takahiro FUJIMORI, Hiroyuki OHYAMA
  • Patent number: 7315358
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus of optical parts has a holder having a frame which can hold a lens fixedly and another lens movably, a chart having a first transmission hole group and a second transmission hole group arranged on circumferences of concentric circles, a light source which irradiates the chart with a luminous flux, a CCD camera for picking up an image of the luminous flux transmitted through the first and second transmission hole groups, a processor, and a driving unit. By using a result picked up by the CCD camera, the processor computes coordinates of a center of each circle, on a circumference of which the luminous flux is imaged, and then it calculates an amount movement for the movably held lens by computing a distance between the respective centers of the circles. The driving unit moves the lens on the basis of this calculated amount of movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Olympus Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Hashimoto, Chikako Kato, Kazuya Nishimura, Toshio Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060002244
    Abstract: An evaluation apparatus of optical parts has a holding means having a frame which can hold a lens to be held in a fixed state and a lens to be held movably, a chart which has a first transparent hole, and a second transparent hole arranged at a concentric circle shape, a light source which irradiates a luminous flux to the chart, a CCD camera which pick up an image of the luminous flux which transmitted the first and second transparent holes, an operation processing section and a moving means. By using a result Imaged by the CCD camera, the operation processing section computes the main coordinate of a circumference of each luminous flux, and then it calculates an amount of movement of the lens by computing a distance between the main coordinate. Based on this amount of movement, the moving means moves the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Yasushi Hashimoto, Chikako Kato, Kazuya Nishimura, Toshio Takahashi