Patents by Inventor Haruhiko Hirata
Haruhiko Hirata 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: 9689173Abstract: A construction component provided with a vibration damper includes a quadrangular frame in a front elevational view including four structural members, and the vibration damper includes: a vibration damping tool provided inside the frame; and four braces radially extending from the vibration damping tool and connected to the frame. The vibration energy deforming the frame is transmitted via the braces to the vibration damping tool to plastically deform the vibration damping tool, thereby absorbing the vibration energy in the vibration damping tool to damp vibration. The construction component further includes a bridging member configured to bridge a gap between two facing members of the four structural members. A part of the bridging member configured to overlap with the vibration damping tool in the front elevational view is defined as an interference avoidance portion in which interference between the part and the vibration damping tool is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: HORY CORPORATIONInventors: DongHang Wu, Akiyoshi Takamiya, Takashi Nagumo, Haruhiko Hirata
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Publication number: 20170058514Abstract: A construction component provided with a vibration damper includes a quadrangular frame in a front elevational view including four structural members, and the vibration damper includes: a vibration damping tool provided inside the frame; and four braces radially extending from the vibration damping tool and connected to the frame. The vibration energy deforming the frame is transmitted via the braces to the vibration damping tool to plastically deform the vibration damping tool, thereby absorbing the vibration energy in the vibration damping tool to damp vibration. The construction component further includes a bridging member configured to bridge a gap between two facing members of the four structural members. A part of the bridging member configured to overlap with the vibration damping tool in the front elevational view is defined as an interference avoidance portion in which interference between the part and the vibration damping tool is avoided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: DongHang Wu, Akiyoshi Takamiya, Takashi Nagumo, Haruhiko Hirata
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Patent number: 8983791Abstract: According to one embodiment, a carbon dioxide separation recovery system includes an absorption tower that allows carbon dioxide to be absorbed to an absorption liquid, a regeneration tower that regenerates the absorption liquid, a reboiler that heats the absorption liquid of the regeneration tower, using a heating medium, and a measuring device that measures an amount of heat supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium. The measuring device includes a cooler that cools the heating medium discharged from the reboiler, and obtains the amount of heat that is supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium by subtracting an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium cooled by the cooler and an amount of heat, which is removed from the heating medium in the cooler, from an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium supplied to the reboiler.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2011Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukio Ohashi, Takashi Ogawa, Hideo Kitamura, Haruhiko Hirata
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Patent number: 8806870Abstract: According to one embodiment, a carbon-dioxide-recovery-type thermal power generation system includes an absorption column allows carbon dioxide contained in exhaust gas from a boiler to be absorbed in an absorption liquid, a regeneration column that discharges a carbon dioxide gas from the absorption liquid supplied from the absorption column, a reboiler that heats the absorption liquid discharged from the regeneration column and supplies steam generated, to the regeneration column, a condenser that generates condensate by cooling the steam exhausted from a turbine, a heater that heats the condensate, a water supply pump that supplies the condensate to the boiler, a line through the steam extracted from the turbine is supplied to the reboiler and the heater, and a steam flow rate adjusting unit. The steam flow rate adjusting unit maintains an amount of steam, which is extracted from the turbine through the line, to be constant.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Haruhiko Hirata, Hideo Kitamura, Takashi Ogawa, Yukio Ohashi
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Patent number: 8567196Abstract: A steam turbine power plant 10 includes a steam turbine facility 20 in which power is generated by driving steam turbines with steam from a boiler 21 generating steam using combustion heat and steam from a heat collecting steam generator 31 generating steam using sunlight, and a carbon dioxide collecting facility 60 in which carbon dioxide contained in combustion gas from the boiler 21 and the like is collected. Further, steam from the heat collecting steam generator 31 is delivered to a solar heat steam turbine 32 and performs expansion work, and thereafter part of the steam is delivered to the carbon dioxide collecting facility 60 via a pipe 51 and heats the absorbing liquid 100 in the recovery tower 80.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Nobuo Okita, Takeo Suga, Haruhiko Hirata
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Publication number: 20120240579Abstract: According to one embodiment, a carbon-dioxide-recovery-type thermal power generation system includes an absorption column allows carbon dioxide contained in exhaust gas from a boiler to be absorbed in an absorption liquid, a regeneration column that discharges a carbon dioxide gas from the absorption liquid supplied from the absorption column, a reboiler that heats the absorption liquid discharged from the regeneration column and supplies steam generated, to the regeneration column, a condenser that generates condensate by cooling the steam exhausted from a turbine, a heater that heats the condensate, a water supply pump that supplies the condensate to the boiler, a line through the steam extracted from the turbine is supplied to the reboiler and the heater, and a steam flow rate adjusting unit. The steam flow rate adjusting unit maintains an amount of steam, which is extracted from the turbine through the line, to be constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2011Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Haruhiko Hirata, Hideo Kitamura, Takashi Ogawa, Yukio Ohashi
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Publication number: 20120101767Abstract: According to one embodiment, a carbon dioxide separation recovery system includes an absorption tower that allows carbon dioxide to be absorbed to an absorption liquid, a regeneration tower that regenerates the absorption liquid, a reboiler that heats the absorption liquid of the regeneration tower, using a heating medium, and a measuring device that measures an amount of heat supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium. The measuring device includes a cooler that cools the heating medium discharged from the reboiler, and obtains the amount of heat that is supplied to the absorption liquid from the heating medium by subtracting an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium cooled by the cooler and an amount of heat, which is removed from the heating medium in the cooler, from an amount of heat that is retained by the heating medium supplied to the reboiler.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2011Publication date: April 26, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Yukio OHASHI, Takashi OGAWA, Hideo KITAMURA, Haruhiko HIRATA
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Publication number: 20120067219Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement device with which it is possible to quickly measure the carbon dioxide content of an absorbent solution circulating through a carbon dioxide recovery system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takashi Ogawa, Masatoshi Hodotsuka, Yukio Oohashi, Manabu Sakurai, Susumu Yamanaka, Naomi Tsuchiya, Haruhiko Hirata
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Publication number: 20110048011Abstract: A steam turbine power plant 10 includes a steam turbine facility 20 in which power is generated by driving steam turbines with steam from a boiler 21 generating steam using combustion heat and steam from a heat collecting steam generator 31 generating steam using sunlight, and a carbon dioxide collecting facility 60 in which carbon dioxide contained in combustion gas from the boiler 21 and the like is collected. Further, steam from the heat collecting steam generator 31 is delivered to a solar heat steam turbine 32 and performs expansion work, and thereafter part of the steam is delivered to the carbon dioxide collecting facility 60 via a pipe 51 and heats the absorbing liquid 100 in the recovery tower 80.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Inventors: NOBUO OKITA, Takeo Suga, Haruhiko Hirata
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Patent number: 6338239Abstract: A turbine system and method for power generation has an electric generator, a reformer, a cooler, a fuel compressor, an air compressor, a combustor, a turbine, an evaporator. The reformer reforms fuel containing a mixture of hydrocarbon gas and steam to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide. To enhance reformation, the reformation is carried out under pressure at 7 ata or less. To aid compression, the cooler cools the reformed fuel before the compressor compresses the reformed fuel. The combustor burns air compressed by the air compressor, which is driven by the turbine, and the reformed fuel received from the fuel compressor to generate hot gas. The turbine receives the hot gas from the combustor and drives the generator to generate electricity. The reformer receives the hot gas discharged from the turbine as a heat source to heat the fuel and chemically reform the fuel.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Haruhiko Hirata, Yukio Ohashi, Masafumi Fukuda, Koichi Kawamoto
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Patent number: 5532073Abstract: A fuel cell having a plurality of unit cells stacked in layers, each of the unit cells including an electrolyte and a pair of electrodes, each of the unit cells having a first primary surface and a second primary surface; a plurality of separator elements interposed between the adjacent unit cells, a fuel gas channel being formed on a side of the first primary surface of each of the unit cells and an oxidant gas channel being formed on a side of the second primary surface of each of the unit cells; and manifold portions each of which penetrates the separator elements in a thickness direction and gas-tightly communicates with each of the fuel gas channel and the oxidant gas channel through holes formed in the separator elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 1994Date of Patent: July 2, 1996Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Haruhiko Hirata, Michio Hori, Toru Umiji
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Patent number: 5299924Abstract: A fluid compressor comprises a hollow cylinder closed at the axially opposite ends, a cylindrical turning body disposed within the cylinder and provided with a helical groove formed on the outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, the axis of the turning body being eccentrically displaced from the axis of the cylinder by a given distance, and a blade held and vertically movable in the groove in the direction of the depth of the groove as a compressing element, the compressor drawing operating fluid into the cylinder through a suction port disposed at an end of the cylinder, transferring the drawn-in fluid toward a discharge port disposed at the other end of the cylinder and eventually discharging the fluid through the discharge port by the rotary movement of the turning body as the object of compression, wherein, when the given formula is expressed in terms of the circumferential coordinate and the axial coordinate of the turning body, the values obtained as a result of "differentiation of second order" of thType: GrantFiled: March 8, 1993Date of Patent: April 5, 1994Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Haruhiko Hirata, Masayuki Okuda
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Patent number: 4954781Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus capable of considerably reducing the disturbing acoustic noises originating from the vibration of the gradient coil. The apparatus includes a sandwich structure which is located between the body to be examined and the main magnet, comprising a viscoelastic layer sandwiched by a first and a second sandwiching members.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventor: Haruhiko Hirata