Patents by Inventor Masayuki Nagahori

Masayuki Nagahori 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: 9126288
    Abstract: A laser cutting nozzle configured such that a laser beam is irradiated through a nozzle hole formed in a nozzle main body from an opening of the nozzle hole, and an assist gas surrounding the laser beam is emitted. The nozzle hole includes a first control flow path, a second control flow path, and a third control flow path formed in a coaxial cylindrical shape, in sequence from upstream toward downstream in a flow direction of the assist gas. If a diameter of the first control flow path is ?A, a diameter of the second control flow path is ?B, and a diameter of the third control flow path is ?C, an equation ?A<?C<?B is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: NISSAN TANAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Shinji Numata, Masafumi Itoyama
  • Patent number: 8574379
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for cutting with gas which uses a cutting tip including a preheating hole for forming a preheating flame with a fuel gas and an oxygen gas for preheating, and an oxygen gas hole for cutting a workpiece by injecting oxygen gas for cutting, and which can decrease an amount of hydrogen gas used by supply a fuel gas to the preheating hole, which is appropriate in both heating and cutting the workpiece, and an apparatus for cutting with gas, and the present invention provides an apparatus for cutting with gas (30) which supplies an oxygen gas, and a fuel gas to a cutting tip (20) including a preheating hole (23) and an oxygen gas hole for cutting (22), wherein the apparatus (30) includes a supply circuit for oxygen gas (50), a supply circuit for hydrogen gas (41), a supply circuit for hydrocarbon-based gas (45), and a gas supply control means (60), and the gas supply control means (60) can alter a ratio of the hydrogen gas and the hydrocarbon-based gas whi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Hirotaka Kamikihara, Takashi Takeda, Toyoyuki Sato, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Takashi Kato
  • Publication number: 20130032250
    Abstract: A gas cutting method is provided which includes: mixing hydrogen gas and hydrocarbon gas to acquire fuel gas; ejecting a preheating flame, which is formed by mixing and igniting the fuel gas and preheating oxygen gas, from an end of a cutting tip to heat a workpiece; and ejecting cutting hydrogen gas to the heated workpiece to cut the workpiece. Here, the content of the hydrocarbon gas in the fuel gas is more than 0 vol % and equal to or less than 4 vol %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toyoyuki Sato, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Takashi Kato, Masayuki Nagahori, Hirotaka Kamikihara, Takashi Takeda
  • Publication number: 20130015168
    Abstract: A laser cutting nozzle configured such that a laser beam is irradiated through a nozzle hole formed in a nozzle main body from an opening of the nozzle hole, and an assist gas surrounding the laser beam is emitted. The nozzle hole includes a first control flow path, a second control flow path, and a third control flow path formed in a coaxial cylindrical shape, in sequence from upstream toward downstream in a flow direction of the assist gas. If a diameter of the first control flow path is ?A, a diameter of the second control flow path is ?B, and a diameter of the third control flow path is ?C, an equation ?A<?C<?B is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Applicant: NISSAN TANAKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Shinji Numata, Masafumi Itoyama
  • Publication number: 20110146846
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a method for cutting with gas which uses a cutting tip including a preheating hole for forming a preheating flame with a fuel gas and an oxygen gas for preheating, and an oxygen gas hole for cutting a workpiece by injecting oxygen gas for cutting, and which can decrease an amount of hydrogen gas used by supply a fuel gas to the preheating hole, which is appropriate in both heating and cutting the workpiece, and an apparatus for cutting with gas, and the present invention provides an apparatus for cutting with gas (30) which supplies an oxygen gas, and a fuel gas to a cutting tip (20) including a preheating hole (23) and an oxygen gas hole for cutting (22), wherein the apparatus (30) includes a supply circuit for oxygen gas (50), a supply circuit for hydrogen gas (41), a supply circuit for hydrocarbon-based gas (45), and a gas supply control means (60), and the gas supply control means (60) can alter a ratio of the hydrogen gas and the hydrocarbon-based gas whi
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Hirotaka Kamikihara, Takashi Takeda, Toyoyuki Sato, Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Takashi Kato
  • Patent number: 6492617
    Abstract: The present invention stably supplies a side blow gas to a piercing site and prevents the adherence of spatter to a cutting nozzle. A hood, which is attached to a side blow gas nozzle, guides side blow gas jetted from a side blow gas nozzle to the piercing site and prevents spatter from adhering to the cutting nozzle as laser beam and assist gas are respectively radiated or jetted onto a cutting material through a communicating hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Assignee: Tanaka Engineering Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Shinji Numata, Masato Kawakita
  • Patent number: 6316743
    Abstract: In a piercing operation prior to the laser cutting of steel, etc., the development of a technology in which a piercing hole of the intended shape is obtained in a short time, even for a thick cut work. An oxygen gas coaxial to the laser beam applied towards the cut work and a low concentration gas with a low oxygen concentration and major components comprising nitrogen gas, air, or a mixture thereof discharged from an outer gas nozzle disposed so as to surround the outer side of the flow of this oxygen gas is supplied and disposed towards said cut work, and can realize shortening of the time, etc., of the piercing operation time by applying a laser beam to the cut work. In addition, a laser processing nozzle provided with an inner gas nozzle which discharges oxygen gas and an outer gas nozzle which discharges low concentration gas, and a laser cutting apparatus provided with this nozzle is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: Tanaka Engineering Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Shinji Numata, Masato Kawakita
  • Patent number: 6313432
    Abstract: A development of a laser cutting method and a laser cutter in which the adverse effects such as self burning to the cutting surface can be prevented, when the material is cut at a high speed, has been desired. In order to achieve the object, the present invention provides a laser cutting method and a laser cutter in which a cutting laser beam 22 is applied to a material 25 to be cut at a cutting point 26, while ejecting gases 23 and 24 to the cutting point 26 or its surrounding area from a plurality of nozzle openings 30 and 31 arranged in a ring or in a line, wherein the oxygen concentrations of the gases 23 and 24 ejecting from at least one of the nozzle opening 30 and 31 are changed to adjust the oxygen concentration distribution in an area within several millimeters of the cutting point 26; thereby the cutting quality can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Tanaka Engineering Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yozo Nagata, Masayuki Nagahori
  • Publication number: 20010029365
    Abstract: The present invention stably supplies a side blow gas to a piercing site and prevents the adherence of spatter to a cutting nozzle. A hood, which is attached to a side blow gas nozzle, guides side blow gas jetted from a side blow gas nozzle to the piercing site and prevents spatter from adhering to the cutting nozzle as laser beam and assist gas are respectively radiated or jetted onto a cutting material through a communicating hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Applicant: Tanaka Engineering Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Nagahori, Shinji Numata, Masato Kawakita