Patents by Inventor Kenji Annou

Kenji Annou 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: 20020149904
    Abstract: Bushing leader circuits 3, 4 are connected to end portions of two main buses 1, 2 on the side of a leading-in steel tower 110, and cable head units 85, 95 of cable leader circuits 6, 7 connected to the main buses 1, 2 are arranged in a space formed between the main buses 1 and 2. Thereby it is possible to achive both of simplification of a cable channel and the economy of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Masaki Hachida, Hirohiko Yatsuzuka, Kenji Annou, Tadasuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6252763
    Abstract: A gas-insulated electrical apparatus includes tanks into each of which insulation gas is sealed, including bus-bars, bus-bar disconnectors connected to the bus-bars, circuit breakers connected to the bus-bar disconnectors, and line disconnectors connected to the circuit breakers, each line disconnector being further connected to a transmission or a transformer; wherein each bus-bar disconnector and each line disconnector include a respective pair of a fixed-contact and a moving-contact, the fixed-contact and the moving-contact being concave and convex, respectively, and each of the moving-contacts in the bus-bar disconnector and the line disconnector is located at the side of a corresponding circuit breaker between the bus-bar disconnector and the line disconnector, a contact-parting speed in the line connector being lower than that in the bus-bar disconnector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu Enokida, Tokio Yamagiwa, Kenji Annou, Manabu Takamoto, Hirohiko Yatsuzuka, Masahiro Shimokawa
  • Patent number: 5638254
    Abstract: A gas circuit breaker 40 automatically interrupts a fault current such as ground fault current flowing through a conductor 61 of a bus line 60. A high speed grounding switch 10 performs a higher grounding and its releasing operation than the open and close operation of the gas circuit breaker 40 during the open and close operation thereof and guarantees the current interrupting performance and the inter-electrode insulation performance of the gas circuit breaker 40. In association with the electrode arrangement of a disconnecting switch 20, bus lines 60A and 60B are disposed in horizontal direction, a stationary electrode 13 of the high speed grounding switch 10 is provided at the constitutional unit 21 of the disconnecting switch 20 so as to locate on the same straight line as the central axis of the bus line and the movable electrode 11 at the ground side is closed along the same straight line as the central axis of the bus line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Annou, Masatomo Ohno, Kyuji Yaginuma