Patents by Inventor Kazuto Okada
Kazuto Okada 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).
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Patent number: 9713802Abstract: The present invention provides microsphere manufacturing method and apparatus capable of stable obtaining microspheres of a desired size and reducing facility cost. According to the method and the apparatus, to manufacture microspheres made of a second liquid in a first liquid, the first liquid is supplied into a first channel to flow therein and the second liquid is supplied to an intermediate part of the first channel through a second channel. The supply velocities of the first and second liquids are set such that the second liquid closes the first channel and the closing part of the second liquid is cut off due to a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side to form microspheres.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2009Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ban, Koji Noishiki, Kazuto Okada, Seiichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9242223Abstract: A fluid path structure in which the flow rate of fluid flowing in each flow path is equal to each other and in which each flow path has an increased flexibility in shape. The flow path structure has flow paths into which fluid is introduced. The flow paths include flow paths having different flow path lengths. The equivalent diameter of each part of each fluid path is set according to the flow path length of the fluid path so that the entire pressure loss of each flow path is equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Koji Noishiki, Tatsuo Yoshida, Seiichi Yamamoto, Kazuto Okada
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Patent number: 8941036Abstract: The present invention provides a heating unit capable of easily and inexpensively adjusting total impedance based on tire mold size so that a power source can be used at a high power factor, and a tire heating apparatus using the same. A ferromagnetic metallic member 10a heats a tire mold M1 by heat conduction. An induction heating coil C1 is disposed on the side of the ferromagnetic metallic member 10a opposite the tire mold M1 to induction-heat the ferromagnetic metallic member 10a by generating magnetic field lines. A nonmagnetic conductor 30a is disposed on the side of the induction heating coil C1 opposite the ferromagnetic metallic member 10a to shield the magnetic field lines generated by the induction heating coil C1. A heating unit 100a including these elements heats the tire mold M1 storing a tire.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Okada, Hideaki Kuwabara, Hisashi Mitamura, Tomomichi Murata, Masatake Toshima, Yasuhiko Fujieda
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Patent number: 8621882Abstract: A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided. The compressor which is used in a refrigerating machine including an evaporator and a condenser and adapted for compressing refrigerant gas evaporated in the evaporator to convey the compressed refrigerant gas to the condenser, includes: a motor; a housing having a compression chamber inside; a rotary member which has a rotating shaft and is rotated by a driving force of the motor so as to compress water vapor serving as the refrigerant gas in the compression chamber; a bearing for supporting the rotating shaft of the rotary member in the housing; and a lubricant supplier for supplying water serving as a lubricant to the bearing.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignees: Danish Technological Institute, Johnson Controls Denmark APSInventors: Koichiro Iizuka, Satoshi Ide, Toshikatsu Kanemura, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Masatake Toshima, Kazuto Okada, Kunihiko Suto, Kazutaka Kurashige, Ichirou Sakuraba, Daisuke Hayashi, Masaki Ikeuchi, Shinji Shato, Lars Bay Moller, Finn Jensen, Ziad Al-Janabi, Svend Rasmussen, Hans Madsboll, Christian Svarregaard-Jensen
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Patent number: 8414278Abstract: A tire vulcanizer used for vulcanizing a raw tire and includes a mold for removably housing the raw tire; a medium path which is connected to the inner space of the raw tire housed in the mold and through which a heating and pressurizing medium for vulcanizing the raw tire flows; and a heating unit, provided to the medium path, for controlling the temperature of the heating and pressurizing medium flowing through the medium path. The heating unit includes a heated body internally provided with a flow channel through which the heating and pressurizing medium flows, and an induction heating unit for heating the heated body through electromagnetic induction so as to heat the heating and pressurizing medium flowing through the flow channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Okada, Masatake Toshima, Tomomichi Murata, Yasuhiko Fujieda
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Patent number: 8333086Abstract: In the condenser provided with two of the degassing chambers separated by a cooling fluid, communication between the degassing chambers is prevented even if a pressure difference is increased between the degassing chambers.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignees: The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc., Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., Kobe Steel, Ltd., Danish Technological Institute, Johnson Controls Denmark APSInventors: Ryo Fujisawa, Kazuto Okada, Masatake Toshima, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Koichiro Iizuka, Satoshi Ide, Kunihiko Suto, Kazutaka Kurashige, Ichirou Sakuraba, Daisuke Hayashi, Shinji Shato, Masaki Ikeuchi, Hans Madsboll, Christian Svarregaard-Jensen
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Patent number: 8192703Abstract: To improve reaction efficiency by increasing a contact area of first and second reactants per unit volume, without reducing dimensions of the inlet paths for the first and second reactants in a layer-thickness direction, a channel includes a first inlet path having the first reactant, a parallel second inlet path separated from the first inlet path and having the second reactant, a junction channel for causing the first and second reactants to join as separate laminar flows, and a parallel reaction channel connected with a downstream side of the junction channel for permitting the laminar flows of the first and second reactants to react at a contact interface thereof. A dimension of the reaction channel in the layer-thickness direction perpendicular to the contact interface is set to be smaller than the sum of the dimensions of the first inlet path and the second inlet path in the layer-thickness direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Ban, Koji Noishiki, Kazuto Okada, Seiichi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8151002Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an information conversion apparatus provided to a relay device for relaying between a server to which a first network address is allocated and a client terminal to which a second network address is allocated, the information conversion apparatus including: an analyzer which analyzes a message corresponding to Layer 7 of an OSI basic reference model of a received packet and determines whether a URL expressed as a literal network address is included; and an address converter which mutually converts, when a URL expressed as a literal network address is included, the literal network address in the URL between the first network address and the second network address.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Oki Networks Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyasu Suzuki, Kazuto Okada
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Patent number: 8100678Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent or suppress the occurrence of a temperature difference between upper and lower portions of a green tire in a vulcanizing process carried out by a tire vulcanizing machine 1 and thereby stabilize the tire quality. The tire vulcanizing machine 1 comprises a tire vulcanizing bladder 20 disposed inside a green tire 4, a jet section 90 for jetting a heating/pressurizing medium to the interior of the bladder 20, a medium supply path for supplying the heating/pressurizing medium to the jet section 90, and a holding section 14 for holding an edge portion of the bladder 20, the edge portion being located on the side close to the medium supply path. Further, there are disposed heat insulators 7, 11, 8 and 6 so as to suppress the transfer of heat from the heating/pressurizing medium jetted from the jet section 90, to a lower edge portion of the green tire 4.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Kuwabara, Kazuto Okada, Hisashi Mitamura, Tomomichi Murata, Masatake Toshima, Yasuhiko Fujieda
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Publication number: 20110266498Abstract: A fluid path structure in which the flow rate of fluid flowing in each flow path is equal to each other and in which each flow path has an increased flexibility in shape. The flow path structure has flow paths into which fluid is introduced. The flow paths include flow paths having different flow path lengths. The equivalent diameter of each part of each fluid path is set according to the flow path length of the fluid path so that the entire pressure loss of each flow path is equal to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2009Publication date: November 3, 2011Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Koji Noishiki, Tatsuo Yoshida, Seiichi Yamamoto, Kazuto Okada
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Patent number: 8000086Abstract: A capacitor element having an upper surface, a lower surface, a first end surface and a second end surface is coated with a cathode layer, except for the first end surface. Anode lead extends out from the first end surface. An anode terminal has a first portion located close to and beneath the lower surface of the capacitor element and has a second portion connected to the anode lead via an arcuate connector. A cathode terminal is disposed under the lower surface of the capacitor element, being spaced from the first portion of the anode terminal. A packaging resin covers the capacitor element, the anode terminal and the cathode terminal. A depression is formed in the anode terminal, which extends from a portion of the anode terminal facing the lower surface of the capacitor element to the inner edge of the anode terminal facing the cathode terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Matsuo Electric Company, LimitedInventors: Kazuto Okada, Hiroaki Kotera, Yasunori Kinugawa, Kiyoharu Tsunetoshi, Masatoshi Niki
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Patent number: 7985359Abstract: A tire vulcanizing apparatus and a tire vulcanizing method, by which the pressure and temperature of a heating and pressurizing medium to be supplied to the internal space of a raw tire can be controlled without the condition of pressure being affected by the condition of temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2007Date of Patent: July 26, 2011Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Mitamura, Kazuto Okada, Hideaki Kuwabara, Tomomichi Murata, Masatake Toshima, Yasuhiko Fujieda
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Publication number: 20110174009Abstract: A compressor and a refrigerating machine which enable an easy disposal of a lubricant, are friendly to the natural environment, and have simple configurations, are provided. The compressor which is used in a refrigerating machine including an evaporator and a condenser and adapted for compressing refrigerant gas evaporated in the evaporator to convey the compressed refrigerant gas to the condenser, includes: a motor; a housing having a compression chamber inside; a rotary member which has a rotating shaft and is rotated by a driving force of the motor so as to compress water vapor serving as the refrigerant gas in the compression chamber; a bearing for supporting the rotating shaft of the rotary member in the housing; and a lubricant supplier for supplying water serving as a lubricant to the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Koichiro Iizuka, Satoshi Ide, Toshikatsu Kanemura, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Masatake Toshima, Kazuto Okada, Kunihiko Suto, Kazutaka Kurashige, Ichirou Sakuraba, Daisuke Hayashi, Masaki Ikeuchi, Shinji Shato, Lars Bay Moller, Finn Jensen, Ziad Al-Janabi, Svend Rasmussen, Hans Madsboll, Christian Svarregaard-Jensen
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Publication number: 20110008477Abstract: Provided is a tire vulcanizer capable of accelerating the rise in the temperature of a heating and pressurizing medium and reducing heat loss. The tire vulcanizer is used for vulcanizing a raw tire and includes: a mold for removably housing the raw tire; a medium path which is connected to the inner space of the raw tire housed in the mold and through which a heating and pressurizing medium for vulcanizing the raw tire flows; and a heating unit, provided to the medium path, for controlling the temperature of the heating and pressurizing medium flowing through the medium path. The heating unit includes a heated body internally provided with a flow channel through which the heating and pressurizing medium flows, and an induction heating unit for heating the heated body through electromagnetic induction so as to heat the heating and pressurizing medium flowing through the flow channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: January 13, 2011Inventors: Kazuto Okada, Masatake Toshima, Tomomichi Murata, Yasuhiko Fujieda
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Publication number: 20100293992Abstract: In the condenser provided with two of the degassing chambers separated by a cooling fluid, communication between the degassing chambers is prevented even if a pressure difference is increased between the degassing chambers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Inventors: Ryo Fujisawa, Kazuto Okada, Masatake Toshima, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Koichiro Iizuka, Satoshi Ide, Kunihiko Suto, Kazutaka Kurashige, Ichirou Sakuraba, Daisuke Hayashi, Shinji Shato, Masaki Ikeuchi, Hans Madsboll, Christian Svarregaard-Jensen
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Publication number: 20100281903Abstract: Service life of the compressor is extended. The evaporator is provided with the housing having the suction port connectable to the suction portion of the compressor in order to evaporate at least part of a droplet or misty working fluid in the housing by a suction effect of the compressor through the suction port, comprising a filter installed in the housing, the filter dividing a space in the housing into the first space for generating the droplet or misty working fluid and the second space for communicating with the suction port, the filter being inclined away from the suction port as advancing upward, and the filter transmitting therethrough vapor resulting from evaporation of the droplet or misty working fluid while capturing the droplet or misty working fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: November 11, 2010Inventors: Kazuto Okada, Ryo Fujisawa, Masatake Toshima, Yoshihiro Nakayama, Satoshi Ide, Koichiro Iizuka, Kunihiko Suto, Kazutaka Kurashige, Ichirou Sakuraba, Daisuke Hayashi, Shinji Shato, Masaki Ikeuchi, Marcin Blazniak Andreasen, Hans Madsboll, Christian Svarregaard-Jensen
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Publication number: 20100228813Abstract: There is provided an apparatus including an information conversion apparatus provided to a relay device for relaying between a server to which a first network address is allocated and a client terminal to which a second network address is allocated, the information conversion apparatus including: an analyzer which analyzes a message corresponding to Layer 7 of an OSI basic reference model of a received packet and determines whether a URL expressed as a literal network address is included; and an address converter which mutually converts, when a URL expressed as a literal network address is included, the literal network address in the URL between the first network address and the second network address.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: OKI Networks Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyasu Suzuki, Kazuto Okada
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Publication number: 20100179230Abstract: The present invention provides microsphere manufacturing method and apparatus capable of stable obtaining microspheres of a desired size and reducing facility cost. According to the method and the apparatus, to manufacture microspheres made of a second liquid in a first liquid, the first liquid is supplied into a first channel to flow therein and the second liquid is supplied to an intermediate part of the first channel through a second channel. The supply velocities of the first and second liquids are set such that the second liquid closes the first channel and the closing part of the second liquid is cut off due to a pressure difference between an upstream side and a downstream side to form microspheres.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2009Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel,Ltd.)Inventors: Hiroyuki BAN, Koji NOISHIKI, Kazuto OKADA, Seiichi YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20100178213Abstract: It is aimed to improve reaction efficiency by increasing a contact area of first and second reactants per unit volume without reducing dimensions of an inlet path for the first reactant and an inlet path for the second reactant in a layer-thickness direction. In a reactor, a channel includes a first inlet path having the first reactant introduced thereinto, a second inlet path arranged while being separated from the first inlet path and having the second reactant introduced thereinto, a junction channel for causing the first reactant flowing via the first inlet path and the second reactant flowing via the second inlet path to join in the form of the laminar flows separated from each other, and a reaction channel connected with a downstream side of the junction channel for permitting the laminar flow of the first reactant and that of the second reactant held in contact with each other and reacting the two reactants at a contact interface thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2009Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd)Inventors: Hiroyuki Ban, Koji Noishiki, Kazuto Okada, Seiichi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20100068320Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to prevent or suppress the occurrence of a temperature difference between upper and lower portions of a green tire in a vulcanizing process carried out by a tire vulcanizing machine 1 and thereby stabilize the tire quality. The tire vulcanizing machine 1 comprises a tire vulcanizing bladder 20 disposed inside a green tire 4, a jet section 90 for jetting a heating/pressurizing medium to the interior of the bladder 20, a medium supply path for supplying the heating/pressurizing medium to the jet section 90, and a holding section 14 for holding an edge portion of the bladder 20, the edge portion being located on the side close to the medium supply path. Further, there are disposed heat insulators 7, 11, 8 and 6 so as to suppress the transfer of heat from the heating/pressurizing medium jetted from the jet section 90, to a lower edge portion of the green tire 4.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Hideaki Kuwabara, Kazuto Okada, Hisashi Mitamura, Tomomichi Murata, Masatake Toshima, Yasuhiko Fujieda