Patents by Inventor Hideki Nagao

Hideki Nagao 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: 20120107108
    Abstract: Provided is a uni-axial multi-stage radial gas expander which has a high degree of reliability and which can sufficiently cope with the conditions of a high pressure and a high pressure ratio. Two or more radial gas expander sections (11A, 11B) formed of two-or-more-stage impeller vanes (14a to 14h) arranged between bearings (21a, 21b) on a rotor shaft (13) consisting of a single shaft are housed in a signal casing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Yasushi Mori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Katsuya Yamashita, Hirotaka Higashimori, Katsuki Yagi
  • Publication number: 20120087778
    Abstract: Provided is a machine unit layout system that simplifies the layout of a compressor unit and an expander unit and is extremely effective in terms of not only the reliability of the entire machine but also maintainability. Two separate compressors, a low-pressure-side compressor and a high-pressure-side compressor (11A, 11b), are disposed on either side of a steam turbine (10). Two separate expanders, a low-pressure-side expander and a high-pressure-side expander (12A, 12B), are disposed outside the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side compressors (11A, 11b). The steam turbine (10), the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side compressors (11A, 11b), and the low-pressure-side and high-pressure-side expanders (12A, 12B) are coupled by rotor shafts comprising a single shaft. The torque distribution between rotator shafts is optimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Yasushi Mori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20100319356
    Abstract: A control apparatus for controlling a compressor driven by a driving unit generating driving power by a gas turbine and an electric motor includes: a temperature detection section for detecting an exhaust gas temperature of the gas turbine; and a control section for generating a motor torque instruction value for the electric motor based on the detected exhaust gas temperature. Such a control apparatus can realize a control so as not to distribute a load on the electric motor when the exhaust gas temperature of the gas turbine is low and a driving power is low. As a result, the operation efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Takeda, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hideki Nagao, Yoshiyuki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7697918
    Abstract: When a tunnel has no problem therein, a reception wave of a broadcast is retransmitted into the tunnel. At this moment, terminal registers prevent a retransmission signal from leaking from the tunnel and do not influence an adverse effect to a broadcast wave outside the tunnel. When an accident occurs in the tunnel, sensors sense this fact, and a monitoring center issues an emergency operation instruction to broadcast equipment for an emergency. At this moment, the broadcast equipment stops the retransmission of the reception wave to broadcast emergency alarm information into the tunnel and also controls transmitting antennas to emit broadcast signals to broadcast the alarm information also nearby tunnel mouths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masaru Mitsuhashi, Hideki Nagao
  • Publication number: 20070182585
    Abstract: When a tunnel has no problem therein, a reception wave of a broadcast is retransmitted into the tunnel. At this moment, terminal registers prevent a retransmission signal from leaking from the tunnel and do not influence an adverse effect to a broadcast wave outside the tunnel. When an accident occurs in the tunnel, sensors sense this fact, and a monitoring center issues an emergency operation instruction to broadcast equipment for an emergency. At this moment, the broadcast equipment stops the retransmission of the reception wave to broadcast emergency alarm information into the tunnel and also controls transmitting antennas to emit broadcast signals to broadcast the alarm information also nearby tunnel mouths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventors: Masaru Mitsuhashi, Hideki Nagao