Patents by Inventor Hirohumi Horino

Hirohumi Horino 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: 5827046
    Abstract: A transverse fan includes a pair of end plates each having an annular shape, a plurality of blades annularly disposed between the end plates and a plurality of partition plates each having an annular shape and disposed at intermediate portions of the blades. Each of the partition plates has one side surface to which base ends of the blades are integrally secured to extend forward with a predetermined inclination and form a multi-blade impeller. A plurality of the multi-blade impeller are stacked axially so that each of the partition plates has another one side surface to which leading ends of the blades of adjacent multi-blade impeller are connected, and one of the end plate has one surface to which the leading ends of the blades of a leading end side one of the stacked multi-blade impellers are connected and another one of the end plates has one surface to which the base ends of the blades of a base end side one of the stacked multi-blade impellers is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Satoru Konno, Akira Nagamori, Hirohumi Horino, Tsutomu Hirose, Yoshio Ikeda, Yoichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 5611667
    Abstract: A transverse fan in which a plurality of blades are disposed between disk- or ring-shaped end plates in a circumferential arrangement at fixed mounting pitches in a ring-shaped configuration. Partitions plates are disposed at intermediate portions in the longitudinal direction of the blades such that each of the blades is inclined at fixed angles with respect to a fan axis and mounted at unequal pitches. The transverse fan includes a plurality of multi-bladed impeller units disposed between the disk-shaped end plates. Each of the multi-bladed impeller units has one disk-shaped partition plate having one surface on which a plurality of blades are integrally disposed along a circumferential direction thereof at unequal pitches and inclined at predetermined angles so as to extend along the axial direction of the transverse fan. A plurality of the multi-bladed impeller units are integrally stacked coaxially with each other to form the transverse-fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1997
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akira Nagamori, Satoru Konno, Hirohumi Horino, Yoichiro Kobayashi