Patents by Inventor Makoto Yasuoka

Makoto Yasuoka 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: 6109037
    Abstract: A feed water heating system for heating a feed water for a power-generating plant having a steam turbine, a condenser and a steam generator, comprises: a steam injector unit for receiving a plurality of bled steams having different pressures extracted from the steam turbine and an effluent water discharged from the condenser to mix the effluent water with the plurality of bled steams to raise the temperature and pressure of a mixture of the effluent water with the plurality of bled steams to deaerate and discharge the temperature and pressure raised mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
    Inventors: Kenji Kumagai, Tadashi Narabayashi, Mikihide Nakamaru, Yutaka Asanuma, Makoto Yasuoka, Michitsugu Mori, Shuichi Ohmori
  • Patent number: 5963611
    Abstract: A separator/injector having an outlet pressure higher than an inlet pressure thereof is introduced instead of the dynamic equipment for a reactor recirculation system that is necessary in the prior art, to achieve both liquid-vapor separation and forced circulation. A jet pump and a recirculation flow-rate control valve are provided in a lower portion of a downcomer portion of a reactor pressure vessel. A shroud head has a double-walled structure, a two-phase liquid-vapor flow that is flowing from a lower portion of the lower shroud head is accelerated by an accelerator nozzle of the separator/injector, and a liquid component of the thus-separated flow is increased in pressure and guided into a jet pump through a space formed between the double shroud heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Narabayashi, Miyuki Akiba, Shinichi Morooka, Mikihide Nakamaru, Makoto Yasuoka
  • Patent number: 5473644
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the power of a nuclear reactor having a sensor assembly disposed in a core section inside the nuclear reactor. The sensor assembly includes a cover tube made of metal and press-fitted on the outer surface of a rod-shaped core tube made of metal, a plurality of annular gaps defined between the cover tube and the core tube at different positions spaced from each other in the axial direction of the core tube, a plurality of axial grooves formed in the core tube while opening on the outer surface of the core tube and extending in the axial direction of the core tube, and a plurality of temperature sensors individually guided in the axial grooves and disposed on the core tube. The temperature sensors of the sensor assembly detect temperature distribution in portions of the core tube which face the annular gaps so as to measure the power of the nuclear reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Makoto Yasuoka, Naotaka Oda