Patents by Inventor Hiromi Kihara

Hiromi Kihara 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: 5882609
    Abstract: An ozone production apparatus for increasing ozone generation efficiency by improving ceramic plate cooling efficiency. An ozonizer of this invention has a steel plate shaped body for use as a discharge electrode through which gas is permeable from one surface to another. This discharge electrode is faced on both sides by two ceramic plates, with a material gas flow inlet provided on one side and an ozone flow outlet on the other side. The ozonizer unit is provided with an insulated waterproof cable for applying a high voltage to the discharge electrode. This ozonizer unit is submerged inside a cooling water tank, and a high voltage, high frequency power supply unit is connected between the discharge electrode and the cooling water, with the cooling water tank as the grounded side. In this manner, since the ozonizer unit is submerged inside the cooling water tank, the cooling efficiency is improved and the ozone generation increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Hirokazu Shiota, Mitsuo Terada, Hiromi Kihara, Yoshiyuki Nishimura, Takashi Tanioka
  • Patent number: 5773042
    Abstract: An injection molding process for forming high strength, long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin, and for holding damage to the pellet-shaped thermoplastic resin to a minimum even when being plasticized, and maintaining the fiber length of pellet-shaped fiber bundles while unwinding the fibers and melting the resin. After the long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin has been heated and melted, pressure is applied to unwind the long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin while melted, and injection molding then performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Itaru Amano, Tatsuya Tanaka, Koji Kuroda, Hiroaki Kondo, Tsutomu Nagaoka, Seiji Yasui, Hiromi Kihara
  • Patent number: 5324107
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control method for a kneader suitable for controlling the kneader so as to uniformly disperse a compounding agent in a high-molecular material, enabling energy saving. In controlling the kneader for charging the high-molecular material and the compounding agent into a kneading chamber and kneading the mixture of the high-molecular material and the compounding agent so as to uniformly disperse the compounding agent in the high-molecular material, the control method includes the steps of measuring a sound wave generating from the kneading chamber during kneading, detecting whether or not a waveform of the sound wave has become a waveform generating when the compounding agent is uniformly dispersed, and deciding that the kneading is ended if the waveform of the sound wave has become the waveform generating when the compounding agent is uniformly dispersed. It is preferable to perform envelope detection of the sound wave in controlling the kneader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tanaka, Hiromi Kihara, Norifumi Yamada, Takeshi Hatanaka