Patents by Inventor Isamu Inamura

Isamu Inamura 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: 7490470
    Abstract: An exhaust turbocharger equipped with a nozzle throat area varying mechanism can be provided in which brazing welding is achieved with a small number of man-hour and at low cost, and which is stable in quality without danger of fracture of brazing-welded parts of constituent members. The variable-throat exhaust turbocharger equipped with a nozzle throat area varying mechanism for varying the blade angle of a plurality of nozzle vanes supported rotatably by members including turbine casing, is characterized in that members having at least one through-hole with at least one shaft member to be inserted into the through-hole(s) to be fixed therein among constituent members of the nozzle throat area varying mechanism are connected by means of brazing welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuaki Jinnai, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Isamu Inamura
  • Patent number: 7364401
    Abstract: The present invention provides a variable-throat exhaust turbocharger equipped with a variable-throat mechanism of which connection of constituent members can be achieved with a small number of man-hour and at low cost and which is stable in quality with firm connection of constituent members maintained under severe operating conditions. Among constituent members of the variable throat-area mechanism of the variable-throat exhaust turbocharger for varying the blade angle of a plurality of nozzle vanes supported rotatably by a members in a turbine casing, shaft members to be inserted and fixed in through-holes in a member with through-holes are produced by a method in which wear-resistant material is welded to form cladding of a certain thickness on the upper surface of a steel plate, said material being harder than the steel plate, and then crude shafts for forming drive pins are cut out from the clad plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yasuaki Jinnai, Isamu Inamura
  • Publication number: 20060179838
    Abstract: The present invention provides a variable-throat exhaust turbocharger equipped with a variable-throat mechanism of which connection of constituent members can be achieved with a small number of man-hour and at low cost and which is stable in quality with firm connection of constituent members maintained under severe operating conditions. Among constituent members of the variable throat-area mechanism of the variable-throat exhaust turbocharger for varying the blade angle of a plurality of nozzle vanes supported rotatably by a members in a turbine casing, shaft members to be inserted and fixed in through-holes in a member with through-holes are produced by a method in which wear-resistant material is welded to form cladding of a certain thickness on the upper surface of a steel plate, said material being harder than the steel plate, and then crude shafts for forming drive pins are cut out from the clad plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakagawa, Yasuaki Jinnai, Isamu Inamura
  • Publication number: 20060168959
    Abstract: An exhaust turbocharger equipped with a nozzle throat area varying mechanism can be provided in which brazing welding is achieved with a small number of man-hour and at low cost, and which is stable in quality without danger of fracture of brazing-welded parts of constituent members. The variable-throat exhaust turbocharger equipped with a nozzle throat area varying mechanism for varying the blade angle of a plurality of nozzle vanes supported rotatably by members including turbine casing, is characterized in that members having at least one through-hole with at least one shaft member to be inserted into the through-hole(s) to be fixed therein among constituent members of the nozzle throat area varying mechanism are connected by means of brazing welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Yasuaki Jinnai, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Isamu Inamura