Patents by Inventor Itoh Takanori

Itoh Takanori 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: 5195059
    Abstract: An acoustic pipe length measuring apparatus for measuring the length of a pipe-like member in accordance with the time between the emission of a pulse-like sound wave from a speaker at one end thereof and the collection of sound waves reflected at the other end thereof, by a microphone, and a sonic velocity, in which data of a sonic velocity at a reference temperature of a gas present in the pipe-like member is stored in memory, and a sonic velocity value at a temperature of gas detected in the pipe-like member is computed with the use of the data of a sonic velocity value which is read from the memory in accordance with a kind of gas in the pipe-like member, thereby it is possible to calculate the length of the pipe-like member from the sonic velocity value obtained through the computation and the above-mentioned time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Assignee: Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nakamura Hiroshi, Itoh Takanori, Natori Masaki