Patents by Inventor Kensuke Nishiura

Kensuke Nishiura 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: 20230264934
    Abstract: A forklift includes a vehicle and a cargo handling device. The cargo handling device includes a mast, a lift bracket, and a pair of forks that includes claw portions, the forks being separated from each other in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle includes a vehicle main body, and a pair of straddle legs that is provided such that the straddle legs extend to the front side from a lower portion of the vehicle main body and the cargo handling device is interposed between the straddle legs in the vehicle width direction and that supports the mast such that the cargo handling device is movable forward and backward between an advance position and a retreat position, and front ends of the claw portions are positioned behind front ends of the straddle legs when the cargo handling device is at the retreat position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoya Okuda, Megumu Tsuruta, Tatsuya Sato, Naoto Kawauchi, Mitsuhisa Kawabe, Masayuki Ishikawa, Noriyuki Hasegawa, Keitaro Kamata, Yusuke Otaki, Yu Shibata, Sho Onodera, Kensuke Nishiura, Ei Onogawa
  • Publication number: 20230047365
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including: a heat exchanger main body forming a flow path through which a fluid circulates; heat transfer tubes arranged side by side so as to extend in an extending direction of the flow path; and a baffle plate group having a plurality of baffle plates provided with gaps therebetween in the extending direction of the flow path while supporting the heat transfer tubes. The baffle plates are provided so as to each occupy only a portion of the flow path cross section when viewed from the extending direction of the flow path, and the baffle plates of the baffle plate group are provided such that at least a portion of mutually occupied areas do not overlap, and that the entire area of the flow path cross section is occupied by combining the mutually occupied areas, as seen from the extending direction of the flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuhide HARA, Shimpei OKAYASU, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Kenji KIRIHARA, Masahiko NAGAI, Kensuke NISHIURA, Tatsuo ISHIGURO
  • Patent number: 11529864
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric vehicle includes: a motor configured to be in a drive wheel of the electric wheel; and a reduction gear configured to reduce rotational speed of the motor and transmit resultant rotation to the drive wheel; the reduction gear including a sun gear configured to be driven by the motor, a first planetary gear that is configured to mesh with the sun gear and has a first number of teeth, a fixed ring gear that is meshed with the first planetary gear and arranged non-rotatably, a second planetary gear that is coupled to the first planetary gear and has a second number of teeth that is smaller than the first number of teeth, a movable ring gear that is meshed with the second planetary gear and arranged rotatably, and a transmission member configured to transmit rotation of the movable ring gear to the drive wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shoda, Kensuke Nishiura, Kazuma Otaka
  • Patent number: 11273478
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a first power transmission path for transmitting a driving force of a motor to one driven shaft, and a second power transmission path for transmitting the driving force of the motor to another driven shaft. At least one of the first power transmission path or the second power transmission path includes a first intermediate rotor fixed to an output shaft of the motor, a second intermediate rotor rotated by the first intermediate rotor and moving arcuately along an outer circumference of the first intermediate rotor, a driving shaft rotated by the second intermediate rotor and transmitting the driving force to the one driven shaft or the another driven shaft. The driving shaft is configured to move in a direction perpendicular to an axial center direction of the driving shaft in accordance with movement of the second intermediate rotor around the first intermediate rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Umeda, Katsuhiko Shoda, Kensuke Nishiura, Kazuma Otaka
  • Publication number: 20210374303
    Abstract: A tooth surface shape design support device for supporting design of a tooth surface shape of a gear includes a principal component shape data acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of principal component shape data obtained by performing principal component analysis on a tooth surface shape sample data group including a plurality of tooth surface shape sample data indicating samples of the tooth surface shape, and a tooth surface shape evaluation unit configured to evaluate a tooth surface shape defined by using the plurality of principal component shape data acquired by the principal component shape data acquisition unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kensuke NISHIURA, Katsuhiko SHODA, Kazuma OTAKA
  • Publication number: 20210162856
    Abstract: A drive device for an electric vehicle includes: an in-wheel motor; and a reduction gear that reduces rotational speed of the in-wheel motor and transmits resultant rotation to a drive wheel of the electric vehicle; the reduction gear including a sun gear driven by the in-wheel motor, a first planetary gear that is arranged to be meshed with the sun gear and has a first number of teeth, a fixed ring gear that is meshed with the first planetary gear and arranged non-rotatably, a second planetary gear that is coupled to the first planetary gear and has a second number of teeth that is smaller than the first number of teeth, a movable ring gear that is meshed with the second planetary gear and arranged rotatably, and a transmission member that transmits rotation of the movable ring gear to the drive wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuhiko SHODA, Kensuke NISHIURA, Kazuma OTAKA
  • Publication number: 20200238352
    Abstract: A power transmission device includes a first power transmission path for transmitting a driving force of a motor to one driven shaft, and a second power transmission path for transmitting the driving force of the motor to another driven shaft. At least one of the first power transmission path or the second power transmission path includes a first intermediate rotor fixed to an output shaft of the motor, a second intermediate rotor rotated by the first intermediate rotor and moving arcuately along an outer circumference of the first intermediate rotor, a driving shaft rotated by the second intermediate rotor and transmitting the driving force to the one driven shaft or the another driven shaft. The driving shaft is configured to move in a direction perpendicular to an axial center direction of the driving shaft in accordance with movement of the second intermediate rotor around the first intermediate rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiko UMEDA, Katsuhiko SHODA, Kensuke NISHIURA, Kazuma OTAKA
  • Publication number: 20190068108
    Abstract: A thermophotovoltaic conversion member able to selectively absorb and emit light of a short wavelength, provided with a multilayer structure of a metal region on which at least one silicide layer and a dielectric layer are alternately formed, a total number of the silicide layers and the dielectric layers being three layers to 12 layers, the multilayer structure having, in order on the metal region 1, a silicide layer B2, a dielectric layer M3, and a silicide layer M4 and the silicide layer B2 having a thickness of 5 nm to 25 nm, the dielectric layer M3 having a thickness of 10 nm to 45 nm, and the silicide layer M4 having a thickness of 2 nm to 15 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro UNO, Shinji TOKUMARU, Motofumi SUZUKI, Kensuke NISHIURA
  • Patent number: 9638469
    Abstract: This low-pressure condenser is provided with: a pressure bulkhead which partitions the inside of the container into an upper space and a lower space; a heat transfer tube which is arranged in the upper space; and a reheater which is arranged in the lower space and which, by means of high-temperature steam flowing from the outside into the lower space, heats water which condenses in the upper space and flows into the lower space. The reheater includes multiple partition members, a receiving plate which receives water flowing downward via the partition members, and a dam which is connected to the outer peripheral edge of the receiving plate. The lower ends of the multiple partition members are below the upper end of the dam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Issaku Fujita, Satoshi Hiraoka, Kenji Kirihara, Akira Fukui, Kensuke Nishiura, Taichi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20160010923
    Abstract: This low-pressure condenser is provided with: a pressure bulkhead which partitions the inside of the container into an upper space and a lower space; a heat transfer tube which is arranged in the upper space; and a reheater which is arranged in the lower space and which, by means of high-temperature steam flowing from the outside into the lower space, heats water which condenses in the upper space and flows into the lower space. The reheater comprises multiple partition members, a receiving plate which receives water flowing downward via the partition members, and a dam which is connected to the outer peripheral edge of the receiving plate. The lower ends of the multiple partition members are below the upper end of the dam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Issaku FUJITA, Satoshi HIRAOKA, Kenji KIRIHARA, Akira FUKUI, Kensuke NISHIURA, Taichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8790433
    Abstract: A moisture separator where a corrugated plate 43 is provided with a collecting plate 49 formed to cover a flat portion 74 and an upstream end of a slope portion disposed on a downstream side of the flat portion 74. The collecting plate 74 has an opening which opens to an upstream side in the direction of the wet steam flow S1. The collecting plate 49 is fixed to the slope portion at a base end. Between the collecting plate 49 and a body portion of the corrugated plate, a pocket section 47 and a drain duct section 48 are formed. The moisture contained in the wet steam S1 turns into droplets and enters the pocket section 47 and the drain duct section 48 from the opening of the collecting plate 49 and falls down the pocket section 47 and the drain duct section 48 respectively by gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Nishiura, Issaku Fujita, Jiro Kasahara
  • Publication number: 20130202234
    Abstract: There is provided a slewing bearing structure capable of maintaining favorable bearing performance by adjusting and changing rigidity thereof while minimizing the increase in the weight thereof for preventing distortion of a pressure pattern caused by structural deformation from unfavorably affecting the bearing performance. A slewing bearing of a rolling bearing, in which a rolling element is put between bearing rings and formed on an inner ring and an outer ring, has a slewing bearing structure in which a rigidity strengthening portion, at which rigidity of the inner ring and/or the outer ring is increased more than that at peripheral portions, is formed at a circumferential area where a bearing contact pressure is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitomo NODA, Kensuke NISHIURA, Tomohiro NUMAJIRI
  • Publication number: 20120131891
    Abstract: A moisture separator where a corrugated plate 43 is provided with a collecting plate 49 formed to cover a flat portion 74 and an upstream end of a slope portion disposed on a downstream side of the flat portion 74. The collecting plate 74 has an opening which opens to an upstream side in the direction of the wet steam flow S1. The collecting plate 49 is fixed to the slope portion at a base end. Between the collecting plate 49 and a body portion of the corrugated plate, a pocket section 47 and a drain duct section 48 are formed. The moisture contained in the wet steam S1 turns into droplets and enters the pocket section 47 and the drain duct section 48 from the opening of the collecting plate 49 and falls down the pocket section 47 and the drain duct section 48 respectively by gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Nishiura, Issaku Fujita, Jiro Kasahara