Patents by Inventor Hirotsugu Fujiwara

Hirotsugu Fujiwara 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: 5774515
    Abstract: A neutron particle measuring apparatus includes a neutron converter to generate alpha rays in response to incidence of neutron, a scintillator to receive as input the alpha rays generated from the neutron converter so as to emit and transmit scintillation, two photoreceptive portions to receive the scintillation through different transmitting paths, and a signal processing portion to measure a neutron distribution depending upon times at which the scintillation can reach the photoreceptive portions according to a time-of-flight method. The single particle measuring apparatus can be used to measure the neutron distribution in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor in a nuclear power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirotsugu Fujiwara, Kazunori Ikegami, Hiroshi Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 4990302
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring nuclear reactor power distribution comprises a Fourier coefficient calculation means and a transformation means, whereby Fourier coefficients of neutron detector outputs are transformed into Fourier coefficients of integrated values of the reactor power on each interval, and hence conditions required of data for initial calibration are made less severe and the initial calibration is enabled to be performed much easier. The apparatus further comprises an abnormal data deletion means, whereby detection and deletion of abnormal data are made easy so that the apparatus performs a stable operation with high accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minoru Oda, Kunio Ooba, Hirotsugu Fujiwara