Patents by Inventor Kouichi Yamane

Kouichi Yamane 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: 5892805
    Abstract: A reactor water clean-up system is provided with a first filter demineralizer having a filter resin containing an alkali substance and a second filter demineralizer with a filter resin not containing an alkali substance. The reactor water is supplied to the first filter demineralizer during the term from the starting operation of the preoperating test of the nuclear reactor and of each fuel cycle to 2000 EFPH. The alkali substance contained in the filter resin is guided into the nuclear reactor to change the pH of the reactor water in the nuclear reactor to the weak alkali side. The Cr quantity which is taken in the oxide film of the fuel cladding tube surface is reduced. After 2000 EFPH from the starting operation, the supply of the reactor water to the first filter demineralizer is stopped, and then, the reactor water is supplied to the second filter demineralizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Yamane, Yamato Asakura, Katsumi Ohsumi, Kenichi Ito, Noriyuki Ohnaka, Naohito Uetake, Motohiro Aizawa, Akira Ichimura
  • Patent number: 5715290
    Abstract: In reactor water control for a BWR power plant during an operation cycle after loading new fuel rods in the BWR power plant, an operation is performed which accelerates deposition of crud on the fuel rods until the deposition amount of the crud on the fuel rods reaches a predetermined target value within the operation cycle concerned. After the deposition amount of the crud has reached the predetermined target value, the crud deposition accelerating operation is terminated, whereby even when loading new fuel rods such as Zr liner type fuel rods having a surface on which metal ion deposition has been difficult, radioactivity in the reactor water is efficiently reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohito Uetake, Masayoshi Kondoh, Makoto Nagase, Hideyuki Hosokawa, Teruo Hara, Yamato Asakura, Katsumi Ohsumi, Kazuhiko Akamine, Kouichi Yamane
  • Patent number: 5123392
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present invention, fuel is injected through the injector into the internal combustion engine in non-synchronism with a predetermined crank angle or a predetermined ignition timing each time when the intake air pipe pressure traverses a predetermined set value from the smaller value side to the larger value side. In another aspect of the present invention, the fuel injection is effected in non-synchronism with the predetermined crank angle or the predetermined ignition timing when the intake air pipe pressure traverses a second predetermined value which is selected among a plurality of predetermined set values (the second predetermined value being larger in the absolute value than a first set value, and being close to the first set value) in a case that a time of traversing the first and second set values of the intake air pipe pressure is shorter than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1992
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanobu Uchinami, Kouichi Yamane, Koji Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 5044342
    Abstract: An automotive fuel injection system for detecting as quickly as possible the occurrence of acceleration without employing a throttle sensor to thereby perform an asynchronous fuel injection for the purpose of maintaining the air-to-fuel ratio of the combustible air-fuel mixture at an optimum value during the acceleration of the automotive engine. The automotive fuel injection system comprises a device for comparing the pressure inside the fuel intake system with an average value of the pressures inside the fuel intake system. When the pressure prevailing in the fuel intake system deviates by a predetermined quantity from the average pressure inside the fuel intake system, acceleration is deemed as actually occurring in the automotive engine and, hence, asynchronous fuel injection is effected substantially simultaneously with the detection of the occurrence of engine acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kouichi Yamane, Koji Nishimoto, Masanobu Uchinami
  • Patent number: 5040506
    Abstract: An air intake quantity controller for an engine having a control unit for effecting control such that the quantity of auxiliary air is increased to cope with a decelerating condition that occurs when a throttle valve is changed from an open state to a closed state. The control unit inhibits the control operation of increasing the quantity of auxiliary air if either an engine parameter which is proportional to the load on the engine or the engine load is not greater than a predetermined quantity when the throttle valve is in an open state. Thus, when the change in the engine load is relatively small at the time when the throttle valve shifts from an open state to a closed state, the control unit inhibits the control operation of increasing the quantity of auxiliary air, thereby preventing an unnecessary rise in the engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki K.K.
    Inventor: Kouichi Yamane
  • Patent number: 4984552
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for an automotive internal combustion engine is disclosed, which comprises two distinct acceleration state determining means, i.e., a rapid and a slow acceleration state judgement means, for determining the amount of the asynchronous augmentation of fuel. The rapid acceleration state judgement detects the rapid acceleration state by comparing with a first threshold level the increment of the throttle opening degree over each period of an A/D conversion timing signal; the slow acceleration judgement means, on the other hand, detects the slow acceleration state by comparing with a second threshold level the increment of, for example, the throttle opening degree signal over, for example, two successive periods of the same A/D conversion time signal. When the rapid acceleration state is detected, an asynchronous augmentation of fuel for the rapid acceleration is effected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Ka bushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Kimito Kashiwabara, Osamu Nako, Mitsuaki Ishii, Kouichi Yamane, Masaaki Miyazaki, Ryoji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 4962742
    Abstract: A fuel injection device for an automotive spark ignition internal combustion engine provided with a supercharger is disclosed, wherein the amount of fuel injected in synchrony with the crank angle signal is determined on the basis of the intake air pressure. The increment of the air pressure data over each fuel injection period is compared with a first threshold level to determine the first augmentation. The pressure data is averaged over each fuel injection period, and the increment of the averaged pressure data over a predetermined interval of time is compared with a second threshold level to determine the second augmentation. The fundamental amount is calculated on the basis of either the instantaneous or the averaged pressure data, in dependency on the value of the first augmentation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 16, 1990
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Kimito Kashiwabara, Osamu Nako, Mitsuaki Ishii, Kouichi Yamane, Masaaki Miyazaki, Ryoji Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 4951634
    Abstract: A fuel injector for a spark ignition internal combustion engine is disclosed, wherein the amount of injected fuel is increased by an extra amount when the engine is in a transient accelerating state. The air pressure within the air inlet passage to the engine is detected by an air pressure sensor, and the load condition is judged by comparing the detected pressure with a reference level. Further, the variation or increment of the detected pressure over each fuel injection period is calculated and compared with a high or a low threshold level selected in accordance with the load condition of the engine. Preferably, the high threshold level is selected when the high load condition continues over a predetermined length of time, the low threshold level being otherwise selected. The amount of transient extra increase is determined in accordance with the result of the comparison of the pressure variation with the selectd threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Kimito Kashiwabara, Osamu Nako, Mitsuaki Ishii, Kouichi Yamane, Masaaki Miyazaki, Ryoji Nishiyama