Patents by Inventor Kazuo Uematsu

Kazuo Uematsu 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: 20220395881
    Abstract: This cooling device includes a first cooling mechanism and a second cooling mechanism. The first cooling mechanism includes a first nozzle disposed to be aligned with a heating coil on a downstream side and whose injection direction of a refrigerant is a first injection direction, a second nozzle disposed to be aligned with the first nozzle on a downstream side and whose injection direction of the refrigerant is a second injection direction intersecting the first injection direction, a first valve selectively switching a supply destination of the refrigerant between one and the other of the first nozzle and the second nozzle, and a first control unit controlling the first valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi TOMIZAWA, Kazuo UEMATSU
  • Patent number: 10626475
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus of one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a feed device that feeds a heat treatment workpiece downstream in a feed direction along a heat treatment workpiece pass-line; a heating device that includes a heating coil disposed downstream of the feed device in the feed direction and encircling the pass-line; a cooling device that is disposed adjacent to the heating coil, downstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, and encircling the pass-line; and a gas supply device that is disposed upstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, directly connected to the heating coil and encircling the pass-line, and that includes a plurality of gas compartments configured by internally partitioning the gas supply device in the feed direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Akihiro Sakamoto, Hiroaki Kubota
  • Patent number: 10370735
    Abstract: A steel product bent by heating to 600° C. or more, specifically a heat treated steel product having high strength and excellent chemical conversion coating ability which has scale with FeO content of 90% or more, having a thickness of 1 ?m or less on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Matsuda, Koji Akioka, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20190085424
    Abstract: A heat treatment apparatus of one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a feed device that feeds a heat treatment workpiece downstream in a feed direction along a heat treatment workpiece pass-line; a heating device that includes a heating coil disposed downstream of the feed device in the feed direction and encircling the pass-line; a cooling device that is disposed adjacent to the heating coil, downstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, and encircling the pass-line; and a gas supply device that is disposed upstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, directly connected to the heating coil and encircling the pass-line, and that includes a plurality of gas compartments configured by internally partitioning the gas supply device in the feed direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuo UEMATSU, Akihiro SAKAMOTO, Hiroaki KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 10071774
    Abstract: Not only a reduction in the load resistant performance of a structural member in a vehicle body having a quenched portion with a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater, but also a reduction in the shock absorbing performance associated with the HAZ softening by welding are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michitaka Yoshida, Atsushi Tomizawa, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Publication number: 20170292171
    Abstract: A steel product bent by heating to 600° C. or more, specifically a heat treated steel product having high strength and excellent chemical conversion coating ability which has scale with FeO content of 90% or more, having a thickness of 1 ?m or less on the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki MATSUDA, Koji AKIOKA, Kazuo UEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170197669
    Abstract: Not only a reduction in the load resistant performance of a structural member in a vehicle body having a quenched portion with a tensile strength of 1,470 MPa or greater, but also a reduction in the shock absorbing performance associated with the HAZ softening by welding are suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michitaka YOSHIDA, Atsushi TOMIZAWA, Kazuo UEMATSU
  • Publication number: 20170137062
    Abstract: A deformed part in a case in which the application of a collision load causes bending deformation in a structural member for an automobile body having a hardness distribution (strength distribution) composed of a quenched part, a base metal hardness part, and a transition part in a longitudinal direction is used as the base metal hardness part to avoid plastic strain concentration in the quenched part. This structural member for an automobile body has a hollow steel main body having a rectangular cross section. The main body includes a quenched part, a base metal hardness part, and a transition part in this order, in at least a part thereof in an axial direction. The length (L) of the transition part as related to the axial direction satisfies the relationship of 0.006 (mm?1)<LA/I?0.2 (mm?1) in a case in which the cross-sectional area of the main body is (A) and the moment of inertia of area is (I).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michitaka YOSHIDA, Atsushi TOMIZAWA, Kazuo UEMATSU
  • Patent number: 9090979
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing perchlorate, which comprises: an electrolytic step (S1) wherein an electrolysis vessel (2), in which a positive electrode side (4A) on which a positive electrode (4) is arranged and a negative electrode side (5A) on which a negative electrode (5) is arranged are divided by a cation-exchange membrane (6), is used and an aqueous solution of sodium chlorate is electrolytically oxidized on the positive electrode side (4A) of the electrolysis vessel (2); a neutralization reaction step (S2) wherein a substance an aqueous solution of which shows alkalinity is added to the aqueous perchloric acid solution that has been produced by the electrolytic oxidation on the positive electrode side, so that perchlorate is synthesized by a neutralization reaction; and a crystallization process wherein the perchlorate synthesized by the neutralization reaction is obtained as crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Kumiko Yoshihisa, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Muneo Ayabe
  • Publication number: 20130277202
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing ozone ice that is improved for its storage stability is provided. In the method, ice 11 including oxygen gas g2 as gas bubbles b is produced and the produced ice 11 is irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, then the oxygen gas g2 in the ice 11 is ozonized to manufacture ozone ice 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Yuka Yoshida, Hajime Kuwabara, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Kouichiro Wazumi
  • Patent number: 8535489
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing ozone ice that is improved for its storage stability is provided. In the method, ice 11 including oxygen gas g2 as gas bubbles b is produced and the produced ice 11 is irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, then the oxygen gas g2 in the ice 11 is ozonized to manufacture ozone ice 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Yuka Yoshida, Hajime Kuwabara, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Kouichiro Wazumi
  • Publication number: 20120020871
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a perchlorate including an electrolysis process (S1) in which, using an electrolysis tank (2) in which an anode section (4A) provided with an anode (4) and a cathode section (5A) provided a cathode (5) are divided by a cation exchange membrane (6), an aqueous solution of sodium chlorate is electrolytically oxidized in the anode section, a neutralization reaction process (S2) in which a substance that becomes alkaline when dissolved in water is added to the aqueous solution of perchloric acid in the anode section, which has been generated by the electrolytic oxidation, so as to synthesize a perchlorate by a neutralization reaction, and a crystallization method in which the perchlorate synthesized by the neutralization reaction process is formed into crystals, in which the crystallization method includes a crystallization method composed of three processes of an evaporation and crystallization process (S3) or an evaporation and concentration process (S21), a co
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Kumiko Yoshihisa, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Muneo Ayabe
  • Publication number: 20110198209
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing ozone ice that is improved for its storage stability is provided. In the method, ice 11 including oxygen gas g2 as gas bubbles b is produced and the produced ice 11 is irradiated with ultraviolet radiation, then the oxygen gas g2 in the ice 11 is ozonized to manufacture ozone ice 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Okuyama, Yasunori Hamano, Takahiro Matsuo, Yuka Yoshida, Hajime Kuwabara, Nobuhiko Kubota, Kazuo Uematsu, Kouichiro Wazumi
  • Publication number: 20070234703
    Abstract: A first stage rotor disk (50a) and a connecting member (30) on the compressor side are fixed by a spindle bolt (20). The spindle bolt (20) is covered with a tubular member (100), between the first stage rotor disk (50a) and the connecting member (30) on the compressor side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Kazuharu Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 7114915
    Abstract: A refrigerant supplied from a refrigerant supply pipe flows into a first space, being a passage of the refrigerant, from a space between first stage and second stage rotor disks. The refrigerant supplied to the first space is guided to second, third and forth spaces through a gap between a spindle bolt and a bolt hole, during which the rotor disks are warmed up or cooled. In the second stage rotor disk, a refrigerant through hole axially penetrating this rotor disk is provided near the center thereof. The refrigerant flowing into the first space passes through the refrigerant through hole to flow into the second space, to thereby promote the convection in the first, second, third and fourth spaces and equalization of temperatures in the rotor disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Kazuharu Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 6991429
    Abstract: A first stage rotor disk (50a) and a connecting member (30) on the compressor side are fixed by a spindle bolt (20). The spindle bolt (20) is covered with a tubular member (100), between the first stage rotor disk (50a) and the connecting member (30) on the compressor side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Kazuharu Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 6966171
    Abstract: A combined cycle gas turbine system is improved to enhance a gas turbine efficiency and a combined efficiency by effecting steam-cooling of a combustor transition piece and a turbine blade. The combined cycle system has a gas turbine (8) having a generator (1), a compressor (2), a combustor (3), a blade cooling air cooler (4) and a turbine (6), a steam turbine (29) having a high pressure turbine (21), an intermediate pressure turbine (22) and a low pressure turbine (23), and a waste heat recovery boiler (9). Saturated water of a high pressure pump (27) is partially led into a demineralizer (118) and a water sprayer (116) for cooling steam to be supplied into a moving blade (52). The steam, after being used for cooling, is recovered into a reheater (20). Outlet steam of the high pressure turbine (21) is led into a stationary blade (53) for cooling thereof and the steam is then recovered into an inlet of the intermediate pressure turbine (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Yoshinori Hyakutake, Hideaki Sugishita
  • Patent number: 6799948
    Abstract: The blade has such a shape that the diameters of circles inscribing the belly and back sides at different positions of adjacent blades decreases as one goes from the front edge to the rear edge. Since the blade has such a shape, even if the influent angle and effluent angle of gases are increased, a deceleration passage is not formed in the passage between the adjacent moving blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisaku Ito, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Patent number: 6779973
    Abstract: The pressure ratio &Dgr;P4S of a final stage moving blade is reduced. As a result, the Mach number in the final stage moving blade can be suppressed, and in the gas turbine operating at a pressure ratio of 20 or more, therefore, decline of turbine efficiency due to shock wave loss can be prevented securely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eisaku Ito, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Patent number: 6769867
    Abstract: A tube seal is fitted with a spherical spring, being an elastic member, at one end of a tubular barrel. The end where the spring is fitted to the tubular barrel is inserted into a steam supply pipe outlet, which is a coolant passage provided in a rotor disk. The other end of the barrel is formed into a spherical shape, and this end is inserted into a steam supply port in a dynamic blade, being another coolant passage port, and abuts against the internal surface of the steam supply port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Uematsu, Takeaki Ohya