Patents by Inventor Michio Nakayama

Michio Nakayama 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: 20090097126
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laser marking is disclosed. An interference fringe is formed on a subject to be marked using a laser beam to make a marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujihara, Michio Nakayama
  • Patent number: 7315421
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laser marking is disclosed. An interference fringe is formed on a subject to be marked using a laser beam to make a marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujihara, Michio Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20050233550
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for laser marking is disclosed. An interference fringe is formed on a subject to be marked using a laser beam to make a marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Atsushi Fujihara, Michio Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20050105668
    Abstract: A tie rod having a cruciform cross section is provided with steps for fixing sheaths at tips of cruciform arms of the tie rod; the tips of each of sheaths are fitted onto the steps of the tie rod, each of the sheaths having a U-shaped cross section; and each of the sheaths is fixed to the tie rod by performing a laser welding using a YAG laser beam or a CO2 laser beam with the sheath being fitted onto the tie rod to achieve a continuous weld of at least a part of the tie rod in a longitudinal direction thereof. An axial center position of the beam is shifted from an end face position of the step of the tie rod at least toward an axis center of the tie rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Noriaki Goto, Shouji Adachi
  • Patent number: 6882696
    Abstract: A tie rod having a cruciform cross section is provided with steps for fixing sheaths at tips of cruciform arms of the tie rod; the tips of each of sheaths are fitted onto the steps of the tie rod, each of the sheaths having a U-shaped cross section; and each of the sheaths is fixed to the tie rod by performing a laser welding using a YAG laser beam or a CO2 laser beam with the sheath being fitted onto the tie rod to achieve a continuous weld of at least a part of the tie rod in a longitudinal direction thereof. An axial center position of the beam is shifted from an end face position of the step of the tie rod at least toward an axis center of the tie rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Noriaki Goto, Shouji Adachi
  • Patent number: 6749425
    Abstract: An indirect heating furnace heats a substance in a reaction tube with a high-temperature combustion gas without contact between the substance and the combustion gas. The reaction tube is a stationary ceramic tube. A combustion device for supplying said heating high-temperature combustion gas into the furnace in comprised of at least one pair of regenerative burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignees: JP Steel Plantech Co., Yoshizawa Lime Industry Co., Ltd., Merichem Company
    Inventor: Michio Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20040091077
    Abstract: A tie rod having a cruciform cross section is provided with steps for fixing sheaths at tips of cruciform arms of the tie rod; the tips of each of sheaths are fitted onto the steps of the tie rod, each of the sheaths having a U-shaped cross section; and each of the sheaths is fixed to the tie rod by performing a laser welding using a YAG laser beam or a CO2 laser beam with the sheath being fitted onto the tie rod to achieve a continuous weld of at least a part of the tie rod in a longitudinal direction thereof. An axial center position of the beam is shifted from an end face position of the step of the tie rod at least toward an axis center of the tie rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Noriaki Goto, Shouji Adachi
  • Patent number: 6735266
    Abstract: A tie rod having a cruciform cross section is provided with steps for fixing sheaths at tips of cruciform arms of the tie rod; the tips of each of sheaths are fitted onto the steps of the tie rod, each of the sheaths having a U-shaped cross section; and each of the sheaths is fixed to the tie rod by performing a laser welding using a YAG (yttrium aluminum garnet) laser beam or a CO2 laser beam with the sheath being fitted onto the tie rod to achieve a continuous weld of at least a part of the tie rod in a longitudinal direction thereof. An axial center position of the beam is shifted from an end face position of the step of the tie rod at least toward an axis center of the tie rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Noriaki Goto, Shouji Adachi
  • Publication number: 20040076254
    Abstract: A tie rod having a cruciform cross section is provided with steps for fixing sheaths at tips of cruciform arms of the tie rod; the tips of each of sheaths are fitted onto the steps of the tie rod, each of the sheaths having a U-shaped cross section; and each of the sheaths is fixed to the tie rod by performing a laser welding using a YAG laser beam or a CO2 laser beam with the sheath being fitted onto the tie rod to achieve a continuous weld of at least a part of the tie rod in a longitudinal direction thereof. An axial center position of the beam is shifted from an end face position of the step of the tie rod at least toward an axis center of the tie rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Noriaki Goto, Shouji Adachi
  • Patent number: 6704386
    Abstract: A fuel channel box manufacturing method processes a fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy by a beta-quench treatment that heats the fuel channel box by a heating coil. The distance between the heating coil and the opposite walls of the fuel channel box is controlled so that temperature differences between the opposite walls of the fuel channel box are reduced. The fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy is heated at a temperature in a temperature range including &bgr;-phase temperatures so that temperature difference between the opposite walls is 50° C. or below. The fuel channel box manufacturing method is capable of manufacturing a fuel channel box that is not subject to significant irradiated bow even if a deflection is produced therein originally when the same is manufactured and of manufacturing the fuel channel box at a high production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Tatsuo Seki, Isao Kurihara
  • Patent number: 6574295
    Abstract: In order to provide a boiling water type nuclear reactor use control rod with a guide use roller which improves corrosive environment at a clearance in the guide use roller and suppresses a generation of stress corrosion cracking while maintaining sliding function of the control rod by the guide use roller, at least one of a handle 5, a lower portion supporting plate 2a and a dropping speed limiter 2 is provided with the guide use roller, and a space which causes water flow in a clearance between a pin 9 and a pin hole 12 in the guide use roller is provided adjacent the clearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Norio Kawashima, Shinobu Okido
  • Publication number: 20030053582
    Abstract: A fuel channel box manufacturing method processes a fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy by a beta-quench treatment that heats the fuel channel box by a heating coil. The distance between the heating coil and the opposite walls of the fuel channel box is controlled so that temperature differences between the opposite walls of the fuel channel box are reduced. The fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy is heated at a temperature in a temperature range including &bgr;-phase temperatures so that temperature difference between the opposite walls is 50° C. or below. The fuel channel box manufacturing method is capable of manufacturing a fuel channel box that is not subject to significant irradiated bow even if a deflection is produced therein originally when the same is manufactured and of manufacturing the fuel channel box at a high production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Publication date: March 20, 2003
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Tatsuo Seki, Isao Kurihara
  • Publication number: 20020118788
    Abstract: In order to provide a boiling water type nuclear reactor use control rod with a guide use roller which improves corrosive environment at a clearance in the guide use roller and suppresses a generation of stress corrosion cracking while maintaining sliding function of the control rod by the guide use roller, at least one of a handle 5, a lower portion supporting plate 2a and a dropping speed limiter 2 is provided with the guide use roller, and a space which causes water flow in a clearance between a pin 9 and a pin hole 12 in the guide use roller is provided adjacent the clearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Norio Kawashima, Shinobu Okido
  • Patent number: 6385227
    Abstract: A solid-state laser apparatus of the laser diode excitation type includes a condenser mirror to input incident light to a solid laser rod. The condenser mirror has an elliptical shape. In this apparatus, one focus of the mirror is located in a laser beam incident side and the other focus is located in a central axis of a laser rod. In addition, beam axes of beams from laser diodes are fixed to a long axis of the oval condenser mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Teruichiro Fukasawa
  • Publication number: 20010050968
    Abstract: A fuel channel box manufacturing method processes a fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy by a beta-quench treatment that heats the fuel channel box by a heating coil. The distance between the heating coil and the opposite walls of the fuel channel box is controlled so that temperature differences between the opposite walls of the fuel channel box are reduced. The fuel channel box of a zirconium-base alloy is heated at a temperature in a temperature range including P-phase temperatures so that temperature difference between the opposite walls is 50° C. or below. The fuel channel box manufacturing method is capable of manufacturing a fuel channel box that is not subject to significant irradiated bow even if a deflection is produced therein originally when the same is manufactured and of manufacturing the fuel channel box at a high production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Michio Nakayama, Takehiro Seto, Tatsuo Seki, Isao Kurihara
  • Patent number: 5000679
    Abstract: A burner for directly flaming steel making materials to accomplish reduction without oxidation, wherein the burner comprises a plurality of combusion air outlets spaced circumferentially of the inner wall of a tubular burner tile, and fuel gas outlets disposed centrally of the burner tile, and wherein the combustion air outlets and fuel gas outlets are formed and disposed with specified jetting angles and distances to produce burning without oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Fukuda, Masahiro Abe, Shiro Fukunaka, Michio Nakayama, Koichiro Arima, Shunichi Sugiyama, Koji Matsui
  • Patent number: 4993939
    Abstract: A burner for directly flaming steel making materials to accomplish reduction without oxidation, wherein the burner comprises a plurality of combustion air outlets spaced circumferentially of the inner wall of a tubular burner tile, and fuel gas outlets disposed centrally of the burner tile, and wherein the combustion air outlets and fuel gas outlets are formed and disposed with specified jetting angles and distances to produce buring without oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Fukuda, Masahiro Abe, Shiro Fukunaka, Michio Nakayama, Koichiro Arima, Shunichi Sugiyama, Koji Matsui
  • Patent number: 4971552
    Abstract: A burner for directly flaming steel making materials to accomplish reduction without oxidation, wherein the burner comprises a plurality of combustion air outlets spaced circumferentially of the inner wall of a tubular burner tile, and fuel gas outlets disposed centrally of the burner tile, and wherein the combustion air outlets and fuel gas outlets are formed and disposed with specified jetting angles and distances to produce burning without oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Fukuda, Masahiro Abe, Shiro Fukunaka, Michio Nakayama, Koichiro Arima, Shunichi Sugiyama, Koji Matsui
  • Patent number: 4971551
    Abstract: A burner for directly flaming steel making materials to accomplish reduction without oxidation, wherein the burner comprises a plurality of combustion air outlets spaced circumferentially of the inner wall of a tubular burner tile, and fuel gas outlets disposed centrally of the burner tile, and wherein the combustion air outlets and fuel gas outlets are formed and disposed with specified jetting angles and distances to produce burning without oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Fukuda, Masahiro Abe, Shiro Fukunaka, Michio Nakayama, Koichiro Arima, Shunichi Sugiyama, Koji Matsui
  • Patent number: 4971553
    Abstract: A burner for directly flaming steel making materials to accomplish reduction without oxidation, wherein the burner comprises a plurality of combustion air outlets spaced circumferentially of the inner wall of a tubular burner tile, and fuel gas outlets disposed centrally of the burner tile, and wherein the combustion air outlets and fuel gas outlets are formed and disposed with specified jetting angles and distances to produce burning without oxidation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shuzo Fukuda, Masahiro Abe, Shiro Fukunaka, Michio Nakayama, Koichiro Arima, Shunichi Sugiyama, Koji Matsui