Patents by Inventor Masafumi Nojima

Masafumi Nojima 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: 20150071702
    Abstract: The present invention provides a structural body comprising a welded portion of a duplex stainless steel inclusive of an ? phase and a ? phase and an unwelded portion of the duplex stainless steel, wherein an X-ray diffraction intensity for the ? phase is higher in a heat affected zone including the welded portion than in the unwelded portion and becomes a local maximum within the heat affected zone. The present invention provides aA production method for a structural body of a duplex stainless steel, wherein a heat affected zone including a welded portion of the structural body is heat-treated between 600° C. and 800° C. while a magnetic field of 1˜10 T is applied to the heat affected zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Matahiro KOMURO, Naoya OKIZAKI, Masafumi NOJIMA
  • Patent number: 8197752
    Abstract: Managing system for emissions environmental pollutants comprising: a measuring device for measuring a flow rate of a fuel supplied to a customer; an unit emission quantity storage device of environmentally influential substance for storing a unit emission quantity of an environmentally influential substance emitted when an unit flow rate of fuel is manufactured or processed; and an emission quantity computing device of environmentally influential substance for calculating, based on the fuel flow rate measured by the measuring device, and the unit emission quantity of the environmentally influential substance stored by the unit emission quantity storage device, an environmental emission quantity of the environmentally influential substance emitted when the fuel supplied to the customer is manufactured or processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Takeyuki Itabashi, Takao Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kanemoto
  • Patent number: 8142626
    Abstract: An the electrode for electrolysis of an electrolytic solution comprises an electrode core serving as a base and a plurality of prominences formed on a surface of the electrode core, the prominences have each a leaf-shaped form and rises from the electrode core surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sugimasa, Akiyoshi Komura, Masafumi Nojima
  • Patent number: 8109286
    Abstract: In a fuel tank for containing a hydrogen storing material and a product generated by dehydrogenation reaction of the hydrogen storing material, comprising, a fuel chamber for containing the hydrogen storing material, a waste chamber for containing the product, and a tank envelope for containing the fuel chamber and the waste chamber, the fuel tank further comprises a partition wall fluidly separating the fuel chamber and the waste chamber from each other and being movable to change a ratio in volume between the fuel chamber and the waste chamber, and each of the fuel chamber and the waste chamber has a valve to be hermetically closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Takao Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kanemoto, Takeyuki Itabashi
  • Patent number: 7824625
    Abstract: A dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system for preventing the theft of dehydrogenation organic fuel containing hydrogen is provided. The dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system is for systems including a reformer for dehydrogenating organic fuel containing at least hydrogen and a dehydrogenation fuel recovery tank for storing dehydrogenation fuel produced when organic fuel is dehydrogenated in the reformer. The theft prevention system is provided with a means for mixing an odorant as a component with a pungent odor other than the fuel components or a agent for coagulating the fuel components. The odorant or the coagulating agent is mixed when fuel is manufactured, distributed, utilized, recovered, or stored or fuel is about to be stolen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takao Ishikawa, Kenichi Souma, Masatoshi Sugimasa, Naoki Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 7805271
    Abstract: The object of the present invention provides an evaluation system for evaluating accurately emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in a fuel supply facility for supplying stored fuel to a consumer. An evaluation system evaluates the emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in which the environmental properties (greenhouse gas emissions) accumulated in the process of drilling a first energy, transporting and storing, producing fuel, and supplying the fuel are taken into account. The evaluation system enables to present the environmental properties of the sold fuel to the fuel consumer and allows the fuel consumer to select, thereby promoting the reduction of emission amount of the greenhouse gas of the fuel supplier and the fuel consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takeyuki Itabashi, Sunao Funakoshi, Hiroshi Arita, Yukinobu Maruyama, Youichi Horii, Takao Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20090246088
    Abstract: A dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system for preventing the theft of dehydrogenation organic fuel containing hydrogen is provided. The dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system is for systems including a reformer for dehydrogenating organic fuel containing at least hydrogen and a dehydrogenation fuel recovery tank for storing dehydrogenation fuel produced when organic fuel is dehydrogenated in the reformer. The theft prevention system is provided with a means for mixing an odorant as a component with a pungent odor other than the fuel components or a agent for coagulating the fuel components. The odorant or the coagulating agent is mixed when fuel is manufactured, distributed, utilized, recovered, or stored or fuel is about to be stolen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takao Ishikawa, Kenichi Souma, Masatoshi Sugimasa, Naoki Yoshimoto
  • Publication number: 20090152118
    Abstract: An the electrode for electrolysis of an electrolytic solution comprises an electrode core serving as a base and a plurality of prominences formed on a surface of the electrode core, the prominences have each a leaf-shaped form and rises from the electrode core surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Masatoshi Sugimasa, Akiyoshi Komura, Masafumi Nojima
  • Publication number: 20080236247
    Abstract: The object of the present invention provides an evaluation system for evaluating accurately emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in a fuel supply facility for supplying stored fuel to a consumer. An evaluation system evaluates the emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in which the environmental properties (greenhouse gas emissions) accumulated in the process of drilling a first energy, transporting and storing, producing fuel, and supplying the fuel are taken into account. The evaluation system enables to present the environmental properties of the sold fuel to the fuel consumer and allows the fuel consumer to select, thereby promoting the reduction of emission amount of the greenhouse gas of the fuel supplier and the fuel consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Akiyoshi Komura, Takeyuki Itabashi, Sunao Funakoshi, Hiroshi Arita, Yukinobu Maruyama, Youichi Horii, Takao Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20080052994
    Abstract: In a fuel tank for containing a hydrogen storing material and a product generated by dehydrogenation reaction of the hydrogen storing material, comprising, a fuel chamber for containing the hydrogen storing material, a waste chamber for containing the product, and a tank envelope for containing the fuel chamber and the waste chamber, the fuel tank further comprises a partition wall fluidly separating the fuel chamber and the waste chamber from each other and being movable to change a ratio in volume between the fuel chamber and the waste chamber, and each of the fuel chamber and the waste chamber has a valve to be hermetically closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Takao Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kanemoto, Takeyuki Itabashi
  • Publication number: 20070038388
    Abstract: Managing system for emissions environmental pollutants comprising: a measuring device for measuring a flow rate of a fuel supplied to a customer; an unit emission quantity storage device of environmentally influential substance for storing a unit emission quantity of an environmentally influential substance emitted when an unit flow rate of fuel is manufactured or processed; and an emission quantity computing device of environmentally influential substance for calculating, based on the fuel flow rate measured by the measuring device, and the unit emission quantity of the environmentally influential substance stored by the unit emission quantity storage device, an environmental emission quantity of the environmentally influential substance emitted when the fuel supplied to the customer is manufactured or processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Masafumi Nojima, Takeyuki Itabashi, Takao Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kanemoto