Patents by Inventor Kaoru Nomichi

Kaoru Nomichi 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).

  • Publication number: 20080276992
    Abstract: Under emergency, a valve body (26) displaced from a closed position (42) to an open position (43) in association with melting of a fuse member (28) receives resultant of pressing forces of a primary pressure (P1) of gas guided through a primary port (56) in an opening direction (X1) in a state where the valve body (26) is disposed at the position closer to the open position (43) including a fluid driving start position between the closed position (42) and the open position (43). The valve body 26 receives smaller resultant of the pressing forces of the primary pressure in the opening direction (X1) in a state where the valve body (26) is disposed at the position closer to the closed position (42) than to the fluid driving start position than the resultant of the pressing forces received by the valve body (26) in the state where the valve body (26) is disposed at the position closer to the open position (43) including the fluid driving start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Makoto Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20080185543
    Abstract: A guide body for an electromagnetic valve device is provided. The device includes a coil assembly surrounding the guide body, a plunger driven by magnetic force and slidably disposed inside the guide body. The guide body slidably guides the plunger in an open/close direction of the valve body along a guide face thereof. The guide body includes a first nonmagnetic section that supports a pole body and a part of the plunger at which the pole body and the plunger oppose each other, a second nonmagnetic section that supports the valve body, and extends at least throughout a sliding range of the valve body, and a magnetic section intermediate the first and second sections so that a portion of the lines of magnetic force passes therethrough. The guide face is formed so as to coaxially support the plunger and the valve body displaceable in the open/close direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Makoto Ninomiya, Yutaka Suzuki, Yuko Funakubo
  • Publication number: 20070273106
    Abstract: A resin sub-seal member (11) provided with a concave groove (16) is disposed at a region closer to a higher-pressure side region than a rubber main seal member (10) and pressure variation in a gas on a higher-pressure side is inhibited from being transmitted to the main seal member (10). Further, a variation reducing space (13) is formed between the seal members (10) and (11) to be able to reduce the pressure variation when gas leakage in the sub-seal member (11) occurs or the sub-seal member (11) responds with a delay with respect to the pressure variation. Thus, rapid change in the pressure of the gas surrounding the main seal member (10) is inhibited, occurrence of the blistering phenomenon is inhibited, and a high seal ability is achieved. The seal structure is formed by a simple structure including the seal members (10) and (11), and the variation reducing space (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Makoto Ninomiya, Yasuji Kanou, Hiroshi Aoshiba, Masaki Kawahigashi, Takeo Kozuki
  • Publication number: 20070261746
    Abstract: A plunger (45) and a piston (46) are displaceably held in a housing (104) for opening and closing a valve path (107) defined in the housing (104), and a single common seat block (44) provided for the plunger (45) and the piston (46) is fixed to the housing (104) and has seat portions (47) each formed from a soft material for respective of the plunger (45) and the piston (46) to be pressed thereon. This arrangement provides a valve device which is simplified in structure and can be manufactured with reduced man-hour.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kawasaki Precision Machinery
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Yutaka Suzuki, Makoto Ninomiya, Yuko Funakubo
  • Publication number: 20070172330
    Abstract: A screw loosening prevention structure and a gas-pressure device are provided. The structure includes a first member that is formed with a container space filled with gas, and includes a first threaded portion, a second member that includes a second threaded portion, wherein the second member is threadedly coupled with the first member by threadedly engaging the second threaded portion with the first threaded portion, and receives a pressure from the gas in the container space of the first member, and a spring member provided between the first and second members in a deformed state in which the displacement of the spring member is greater than a relative displacement of the first and second members due to a loosening factor including the gas pressure that is received by this second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2007
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Makoto Ninomiya, Yutaka Suzuki, Hiroshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20040231727
    Abstract: A pressure reducing valve 20 is constructed such that a piston 22 is provided within a housing 21 provided with a primary port 28 and a secondary port 30 to form a primary pressure chamber 64 of a primary pressure P1 and a secondary pressure chamber 70 of a secondary pressure P2 which are connected to each other through an orifice 63. The piston 22 is subjected to the primary pressure P1 applied in one direction X1 in the axial direction and the secondary pressure P2 applied in the opposite direction X2 in the axial direction. A spring 23 exerts a force to the piston 22 in the direction X1. A back pressure chamber 55 is kept at the primary pressure P1 to cause the primary pressure P1 to be applied to the piston 22 in the opposite direction X2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KAWASAKI PRECISION MACHINERY
    Inventors: Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Makoto Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 6675831
    Abstract: To downsize a high-pressure tank apparatus comprising: a high-pressure tank in which high-pressure gas is charged; and a valve mechanism including a regulator valve for reducing the gas pressure in the tank, to prevent damage to the valve mechanism, and to facilitate the handling of the valve mechanism and the like, the valve mechanism is provided at a gas outlet of the high-pressure tank to locate inside of the tank. The valve mechanism includes a capsule fixedly attached to the gas outlet in a gas-tight manner to face the inside of the high-pressure tank. Within the capsule, a shut-off valve for providing and interrupting communication between the inside and outside of the tank by its opening and closing, respectively, and a regulator valve for reducing the pressure of the high-pressure gas in the tank are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignees: SamTech Corporation, SamTech International, Inc., Hypercomp Engineering Inc., Kabushiki Kaisha Kawasaki Precision Machinery
    Inventors: Teppei Sakaguchi, Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Shaun C. Hogan, Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Takehiko Saeki
  • Publication number: 20030066836
    Abstract: To downsize a high-pressure tank apparatus comprising: a high-pressure tank in which high-pressure gas is charged; and a valve mechanism including a regulator valve for reducing the gas pressure in the tank, to prevent damage to the valve mechanism, and to facilitate the handling of the valve mechanism and the like, the valve mechanism is provided at a gas outlet of the high-pressure tank to locate inside of the tank. The valve mechanism includes a capsule fixedly attached to the gas outlet in a gas-tight manner to face the inside of the high-pressure tank. Within the capsule, a shut-off valve for providing and interrupting communication between the inside and outside of the tank by its opening and closing, respectively, and a regulator valve for reducing the pressure of the high-pressure gas in the tank are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Applicant: Samtech Corporation
    Inventors: Teppei Sakaguchi, Yoshiki Sakaguchi, Shaun C. Hogan, Kaoru Nomichi, Seiji Ishii, Takehiko Saeki
  • Patent number: 5040639
    Abstract: An elevator valve apparatus for controlling the hydraulic supply flow to the hydraulic actuator and the hydraulic discharge flow from the actuator, comprises a solenoid proportional control valve device for ascending, a solenoid proportional control valve device for descending, and a valve control unit for controlling both of the control valve devices with a predetermined acceleration characteristic and a predetermined deceleration characteristic by an open loop control system.Furthermore, if preferable, the valve control unit carries out oil temperature compensating control, pressure compensating control, pre-start pressure raising compensation control, and feedback control of the supply flow in the low speed ascending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Watanabe, Hironori Sasaki, Kaoru Nomichi, Yasushi Sotani