Patents by Inventor Kaoru Iwasaki

Kaoru Iwasaki 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: 8657578
    Abstract: In an object to provide a gear box for a wind turbine generator and a wind turbine generator in which the life of the planet bearings are further enhanced, a gear box of the present invention includes a casing, a carrier, planet pins held to the carrier, planet bearings supported to the planet pins, respectively, a plurality of planet gears supported to the planet pin via the planet bearings, respectively, and a ring gear and a sun gear meshed with the planet gears. In the gear box, the carrier has an inclined surface facing the planet bearing as a part of an outer cylinder part provided on both ends of the planet pins in axial direction of the planet pin and surrounding the outer circumference of the both ends of the planet pins and the incline surface inclines such that the farther from an axial center of the planet pin, the longer a distance between the inclined surface and the planet bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Nakashima, Kaoru Iwasaki, Takafumi Yoshida, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Katsuhiko Shoda
  • Patent number: 8341840
    Abstract: A method of repairing a bearing of a wind turbine generator is provided which is able to more permanently repair a gap which occurred between a constituent member of the wind turbine generator and a bearing ring of the bearing. For example, in the case of repairing the gap 13 between the main shaft outer cylinder 10 of the wind turbine generator 1 and the outer ring 12A of the main bearing 12, the plate 40 is inserted between the main shaft outer cylinder 10 and the outer ring 12A, and also the plate 40 is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the main shaft outer cylinder 10 by the adhesive agent 41. On the other hand, slip is permitted between the plate 40 and the outer ring 12A of the main bearing 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichirou Kawano, Kaoru Iwasaki, Yuji Matsunami, Shiro Takada, Yukio Akizuki, Hiroaki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20120208669
    Abstract: The present invention provides a gear box for a wind turbine generator which can reduce damage by flaking even when a self-aligning roller bearing is adopted as a planet bearing and a wind turbine generator. The gear box 14 comprises a casing 40; a carrier 52; a plurality of planet pins 54 supported to the carrier 52; self-aligning roller bearings 56 held on the planet pins 54, respectively; the planet gears 58 supported to the planet pins 54 via the self-aligning roller bearing 56, respectively; and a ring gear 60 and a sun gear 62 meshed with the planet gears 58. The planet gears 58 are fixed to the outer race 56B of the self-aligning bearing 56 with an interference fit, respectively, so that each end surface of the outer race 56B of the self-aligning bearing 56 is positioned inner side to an end surface of each planet gears 58.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Nakashima, Kaoru Iwasaki, Takafumi Yoshida, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Katsuhiko Shoda
  • Publication number: 20120203704
    Abstract: In a wind turbine generator system, a system managing device determines a servicing timing for replacing or repairing a main component included in the wind turbine generator due to a failure of the main component in accordance with a time point at which the main component may fail, which is predicted on the basis of a temporal change in a detection signal output from a status detector that detects the status of the main component. A servicing planning device selects a servicing timing for the main component on the basis of a servicing suspension rate at which an average wind speed at a location where the wind turbine generator is installed becomes higher than or equal to a predetermined threshold value at which servicing of the component is not possible, the timing being selected with reference to the determined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeaki NAKAMURA, Kaoru IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20120055024
    Abstract: A method of repairing a bearing of a wind turbine generator is provided which is able to more permanently repair a gap which occurred between a constituent member of the wind turbine generator and a bearing ring of the bearing. For example, in the case of repairing the gap 13 between the main shaft outer cylinder 10 of the wind turbine generator 1 and the outer ring 12A of the main bearing 12, the plate 40 is inserted between the main shaft outer cylinder 10 and the outer ring 12A, and also the plate 40 is fixed to an inner circumferential surface of the main shaft outer cylinder 10 by the adhesive agent 41. On the other hand, slip is permitted between the plate 40 and the outer ring 12A of the main bearing 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichirou Kawano, Kaoru Iwasaki, Yuji Matsunami, Shiro Takada, Yukio Akizuki, Hiroaki Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20120003096
    Abstract: In an object to provide a gear box for a wind turbine generator and a wind turbine generator in which the life of the planet bearings are further enhanced, a gear box of the present invention includes a casing, a carrier, planet pins held to the carrier, planet bearings supported to the planet pins, respectively, a plurality of planet gears supported to the planet pin via the planet bearings, respectively, and a ring gear and a sun gear meshed with the planet gears. In the gear box, the carrier has an inclined surface facing the planet bearing as a part of an outer cylinder part provided on both ends of the planet pins in axial direction of the planet pin and surrounding the outer circumference of the both ends of the planet pins and the incline surface inclines such that the farther from an axial center of the planet pin, the longer a distance between the inclined surface and the planet bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Nakashima, Kaoru Iwasaki, Takafumi Yoshida, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Katsuhiko Shoda
  • Patent number: 6521721
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a production process that enables to keep foaming state within a constant level and to obtain a polymer with good productivity and reproducibility with a practical plant by defining an appropriate vapor velocity from a weight-average molecular weight of the polymer that is finally intended to obtain; and a polymerization apparatus therefor. A production apparatus for producing a polymer, which comprises a reactor 1 in order to produce the polymer, a stirrer 2 in order to stir a reaction solution in the reactor 1, and a condenser 3 so that a vaporized reaction solution can be cooled and returned to the reactor 1, and further comprises a vapor velocity measuring means of monitoring a vapor velocity in the condenser, and an vapor velocity adjusting means of adjusting the vapor velocity, is used. Then, the vapor velocity is adjusted in the range of 0.001 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Maeda, Shigeru Yamaguchi, Shorbu Shioji, Kaoru Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 6417392
    Abstract: In the operation of producing an alkylamino(meth)acrylate by the reaction of transesterification of an alkyl(meth)acrylate with an alkylamino alcohol, the alkyl alcohol by-produced during the transesterification is distilled in the form of an azeotropic mixture with the alkyl(meth)acrylate, the resultant distillate is purified with an ion-exchange resin and handled, on the other hand, the reaction solution is distilled to allow separation of the catalyst wherein is provided a method and apparatus for effecting, in the production of the alkylamino(meth)acrylate, the distillation under such a condition as represses the amount of in crease of the Michael adduct below 2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2002
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Nagano, Tadayoshi Kawashima, Tetsuya Kajihara, Kaoru Iwasaki, Sumio Nakashima
  • Patent number: 5073612
    Abstract: A hydrophilic polymer having the water absorption capacity thereof 1 to 30 times to its own weight by a process of manufacture which comprises preparing a monomer component comprising (a) 2 to 25 mol % of a hydroxyl group-containing alpha,beta-ethylenically unsaturated monomer, (b) 5 to 30 mol % of a carboxyl group-containing alpha,beta-ethylenically unsaturated monomer, and (c) 93 to 45 mol % of a carboxylate group-containing alpha,beta-ethylenically unsaturated monomer, providing that the total of (b) and (c) is in the range of 98 to 75 mol %, radically polymerizing said monomer component, and heat-treating the resultant polymer thereby causing the hydroxyl group and carboxyl group possessed by the polymer to react with each other and form a crosslinked structure, a method for the production thereof, and uses found therefor including a cation sequestrating resin, a coolant and a coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Shigeyasu Morihiro, Teruaki Fujiwara, Masazumi Sasabe, Kaoru Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 4920202
    Abstract: A method for the production of a hydrophilic polymer having a small residual monomer content from a hydrated gel polymer, which method comprises drying said hydrated gel polymer by contact thereof with a gas containing at least steam and having a dew point in the range of 50.degree. to 100.degree. C. at a temperature in the range of 80.degree. C. to 250.degree. C., and a hydrophilic polymer obtained therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Shokubai Kagaku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Irie, Kaoru Iwasaki, Takumi Hatsuda, Kazumasa Kimura, Nobuyuki Harada, Kunihiko Ishizaki, Tadao Shimomura, Teruaki Fujiwara