Patents by Inventor Katsuaki Tonomura

Katsuaki Tonomura 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: 6073700
    Abstract: The present invention is to discharge the fire extinguishing water by accurately opening the valve, using a shape-memory alloy at a predetermined temperature in a fire. When a shape-memory alloy in a first heat sensitive operation part is heated to a predetermined memory restoring temperature, a pilot valve is operated by the restoring force thereof so that a spool valve can be in a state capable of being opened by an actuator. When a second heat sensitive operation part reaches a predetermined water discharge starting temperature higher than the memory restoring temperature, a fusible alloy provided inside is thermally decomposed so that the first heat sensitive operation part maintained in the closed state is released so as to discharge the fire extinguishing water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Katsuaki Tonomura, Suguru Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 6044912
    Abstract: A sprinkler head connected with a fire extinguishing piping maintains a valve body in a closed state so as to contain compressed fire extinguishing water filled in a fire extinguishing piping when there is no fire, but opens and operates the valve body so as to discharge the compressed and supplied fire extinguishing water at the time of a fire. The fire extinguishing water is contained by closing the gap between the valve body and the peripheral part of the valve body by a sealing member mounted in the valve body, prepared by coating a rubber base material with a fluorine contained resin coating material. The rubber base material of the sealing member can have a round, oval, U-shaped, Y-shaped, or X-shaped cross-sectional shape. The rubber base material can be made from a fluorine rubber or a silicon rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihide Tsuji, Katsuaki Tonomura, Suguru Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 5392990
    Abstract: A double-nozzle deluge gun has a pair of nozzles arranged side by side rotatably on a rotatable table and an inter-nozzle control unit for adjusting the inter-nozzle angle measured between two lines obtained by projecting the radiation center lines of the nozzles onto a horizontal plane. Each nozzle has a deflector which is positioned in front of the nozzle during the very short range mode. Each deflector has a side cover which prevents water having passed through the deflector from excessively spreading sideways. The inter-nozzle angle and the water pressure are adjusted in accordance with desired water-reaching ranges, so as to achieve an optimal watering pattern in any range. Thus, the double-nozzle deluge gun can be controlled in accordance with desired water-reaching ranges, so as to achieve an optimal watering pattern having an appropriate width in any range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Hochiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Teruo Iwata, Toshihide Tsuji, Shuji Matsumoto, Katsuaki Tonomura