Patents by Inventor Isao Shiromaru

Isao Shiromaru 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: 7813906
    Abstract: A method that utilizes signals from an accelerometer in resonant frequency bands or high frequency bands to, in a cost-effective manner, measure wear particle penetration of lubricant and lubricant degradation, both of which greatly affect prediction of residual service life; and, using as a basis these measurements of wear particle penetration and lubricant degradation, enables accurate estimation of residual service life for rolling bearings in the early stages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignees: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Shiromaru, Makoto Tanaka, Yoshinobu Akamatsu, Yoji Nagayasu, Shingo Boda, Takuzo Iwatsubo
  • Patent number: 7559240
    Abstract: Degradation of the lubricant due to contamination of the lubricant with wear particles or moisture, which greatly affects the service life of rolling bearings, can be detected in a cost-effective manner through the use of a resonance frequency band signal or high-frequency signal of an accelerometer, and the service life of a rolling bearing can be estimated with high precision at an early stage on the basis of the detected state of the wear particles and lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignees: Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Takuzo Iwatsubo, Isao Shiromaru, Makoto Tanaka, Yoshibobu Akamatsu, Hideko Nagayasu, legal representative, Shingo Boda, Yoji Nagayasu
  • Publication number: 20070277613
    Abstract: Degradation of the lubricant due to contamination of the lubricant with wear particles or moisture, which greatly affects the service life of rolling bearings, can be detected in a cost-effective manner through the use of a resonance frequency band signal or high-frequency signal of an accelerometer, and the service life of a rolling bearing can be estimated with high precision at an early stage on the basis of the detected state of the wear particles and lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Takuzo Iwatsubo, Isao Shiromaru, Makoto Tanaka, Yoshinobu Akamatsu, Yoji Nagayasu, Hideko Nagayasu, Shingo Boda
  • Patent number: 7221899
    Abstract: A customer support system for improving the skill of a person engaged in a business with reduced cost for technical training support and enhancing practical training. The customer support system includes a computer system for introducing training contents from a service providing side to a customer side through a computer network; an instructor training facility for training an instructor based on training contents; and a remote technique training support device for the instructor, for supporting technical training on the customer side, from the service providing side, through the computer network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Mitsuo Katagiri, Isao Shiromaru, Noriaki Suginohara
  • Patent number: 7139735
    Abstract: A system for preparing an administration plan using a computer, includes an inputting function, a risk calculating function, an optimizing function, and an outputting function. The optimizing function prepares the administration plan by optimizing and adjusting distribution between investment levels in investment items and the risk levels for a planning term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2006
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Kenji Hirai, Isao Shiromaru
  • Publication number: 20050246150
    Abstract: An invention that utilizes signals from an accelerometer in resonant frequency bands or high frequency bands to, in a cost-effective manner, measure wear particle penetration of lubricant and lubricant degradation, both of which greatly affect prediction of residual service life; and, using as a basis these measurements of wear particle penetration and lubricant degradation, enables accurate estimation of residual service life for rolling bearings in the early stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Applicant: THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD
    Inventors: Isao Shiromaru, Makoto Tanaka, Yoshinobu Akamatsu, Yoji Nagayasu, Shingo Boda, Takuzo Iwatsubo
  • Publication number: 20040152063
    Abstract: A customer support system for improving the technique of a person engaged in business is intended to reduce the cost for a technical training support and to enhance the training effect. The customer support system is constructed to comprise: a computer system for introducing training contents from a service providing side to a customer side through a computer network; an instructor training facility for training an instructor on the basis of the training contents; and a remote technique training support device for the instructor, for supporting the technical training of the customer side from the service providing side through the computer network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Mitsuo Katagiri, Isao Shiromaru, Noriaki Suginohara
  • Publication number: 20030225664
    Abstract: A production plan and a planning work to run resources for productions are so independent as to make it difficult to make an optimum administration plan as the entire enterprise activities. In a system for making an administration plan by a computer, an administration planning system comprises an inputting function, a risk calculating function, an optimizing function and an outputting function. The optimizing function makes the administration plan by optimizing and adjusting the distribution between the investment levels to plural investment item and the risk levels for a planning term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicants: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohno, Kenji Hirai, Isao Shiromaru
  • Patent number: 3966865
    Abstract: Synthetic fibrous structures having a soft feel, an excellent luster and a silky feel are produced by forming composite filaments composed of a polyamide and a component having poor affinity to the polyamide selected from the group consisting of a polyester, polyolefin and polyacrylonitrile into a fibrous structure and treating the fibrous structure with an aqueous emulsion of 1.5-50% by weight of at least one of benzyl alcohol and phenylethyl alcohol and having a percent transmittancy of less than 20%, which is obtained by adding a surfactant to the emulsion, whereby to fibrillate the composite filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Kanebo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishida, Isao Shiromaru, Tsutomu Teshima