Patents by Inventor Michitaka Ono

Michitaka Ono 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: 10706978
    Abstract: There is provided a core of a boiling water reactor that can be operated without loading a new fuel assembly at an operation cycle before decommissioning. The core of the boiling water reactor includes multiple fuel assemblies loaded in a square lattice shape. The multiple fuel assemblies are arranged in the core based on the number of residence cycles of fuel assemblies laterally adjacent and longitudinally adjacent to a fuel assembly having the shortest loading period in core cross section. The arrangement of fuel assemblies is also based on the number of residence cycles of fuel assemblies diagonally adjacent to the fuel assembly having the shortest loading period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd.
    Inventors: Michitaka Ono, Motoo Aoyama, Takeshi Mitsuyasu
  • Publication number: 20180122522
    Abstract: There is provided a core of a boiling water reactor that can be operated without loading a new fuel assembly at an operation cycle before decommissioning. In the core of the boiling water reactor in which multiple fuel assemblies are loaded in a square lattice shape, during the fuel exchange, dispositions of the multiple fuel assemblies loaded into the core are changed without loading a new fuel assembly in the core, based on the number of residence cycles, in the core, of fuel assemblies laterally adjacent and longitudinally adjacent to a fuel assembly having the shortest loading period in core cross section and the number of residence cycles, in the core, of fuel assemblies diagonally adjacent thereto, among fuel assemblies loaded into the core after the fuel exchange without loading a fuel assembly having a shorter loading period than a fuel assembly having the shortest loading period loaded into the core before the fuel exchange in the core after the fuel exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Michitaka ONO, Motoo AOYAMA, Takeshi MITSUYASU
  • Patent number: 9234692
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a superconducting magnetic apparatus that conductively cools a superconducting coil contained in a vacuum container with a cryogenic refrigerator. The superconducting magnetic apparatus includes a thermal conductor thermally connecting a cooling stage of the cryogenic refrigerator to the superconducting coil, a radiation blocking layer provided around the superconducting coil, and a coil supporting body supporting the superconducting coil by partial or entire contact with a surface of the superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kei Koyanagi, Taizo Tosaka, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Michitaka Ono, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Patent number: 8655423
    Abstract: A superconducting coil is provided with a superconducting coil portion having a plurality of concentric coil layer portions. The superconducting coil portion is formed by winding a thin-film superconducting wire and an insulating material with a multilayer structure, wherein the concentric coil layer portions are adjacent to each other at boundary portions having adhesive force that are set to be less than that of other portions. The concentric coil layer portions each has a non-circular shape or circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyazaki, Sadanori Iwai, Kel Koyanagi, Taizo Tosaka, Kenji Tasaki, Masami Urata, Shigeru Ioka, Yusuke Ishii, Michitaka Ono
  • Publication number: 20120122697
    Abstract: A superconducting coil is provided with a super-conducting coil portion having a plurality of concentric coil layer portions. The superconducting coil portion is formed by winding a thin-film superconducting wire and an insulating material with a multilayer structure, wherein the concentric coil layer portions are adjacent to each other at boundary portions having adhesive force that are set to be less than that of other portions. The concentric coil layer portions each has a non-circular shape or circular shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hiroshi Miyazaki, Sadanori Iwai, Kei Koyanagi, Taizo Tosaka, Kenji Tasaki, Masami Urata, Shigeru Ioka, Yusuke Ishii, Michitaka Ono
  • Patent number: 7898778
    Abstract: A superconducting coil quench detection method and device capable of detecting a quench detection voltage even in a superconducting coil where a plurality of element coils are connected with a plurality of current sources and operated with repetitive pulses or AC and a voltage of several kV is applied continuously as an induction voltage. A super conducting power storage unit is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kurusu, Michitaka Ono, Taizo Tosaka, Yusuke Ishii, Yasuhiro Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20100313574
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a superconducting magnetic apparatus that conductively cools a superconducting coil contained in a vacuum container with a cryogenic refrigerator. The superconducting magnetic apparatus includes a thermal conductor thermally connecting a cooling stage of the cryogenic refrigerator to the superconducting coil, a radiation blocking layer provided around the superconducting coil, and a coil supporting body supporting the superconducting coil by partial or entire contact with a surface of the superconducting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Kei KOYANAGI, Taizo Tosaka, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Michitaka Ono, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Publication number: 20090046399
    Abstract: A superconducting coil quench detection method and device capable of detecting a quench detection voltage even in a superconducting coil where a plurality of element coils are connected with a plurality of current sources and operated with repetitive pulses or AC and a voltage of several kV is applied continuously as an induction voltage. A super conducting power storage unit is also provided. The quench detection device comprises a pickup coil (2) provided in a superconducting coil (1) or in the vicinity thereof, an overvoltage protection circuit (4) a voltage signal below a predetermined level by receiving the difference between a voltage induced in the superconducting coil (1) at the time of quenching of the superconducting coil (1) and a voltage induced in the pickup coil (2), and a quench detector (3) for detecting quench of the superconducting coil (1) by receiving the voltage signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Tsutomu Kurusu, Michitaka Ono, Taizo Tosaka, Yusuke Ishii, Yasuhiro Yamashita
  • Patent number: 6935870
    Abstract: A connector comprises a plurality of contact arrays parallel to one another. Each of the contact arrays includes two signal contacts (S) adjacent to each other and a ground contact (G) aligned with the signal contacts. In each contact array, the ground contact is located at a position corresponding to an intermediate position between two signal contacts in a next contact array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Nobukazu Kato, Koji Hayashi, Kazushi Kamata, Michitaka Ono
  • Publication number: 20020123254
    Abstract: A connector comprises a plurality of contact arrays parallel to one another. Each of the contact arrays includes two signal contacts (S) adjacent to each other and a ground contact (G) aligned with the signal contacts. In each contact array, the ground contact is located at a position corresponding to an intermediate position between two signal contacts in a next contact array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Nobukazu Kato, Koji Hayashi, Kazushi Kamata, Michitaka Ono
  • Patent number: 6107905
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet apparatus including a superconducting coil for generating a magnetic field, a radiation shield surrounding the superconducting coil, a refrigerator for cooling the superconducting coil, and a cryostat provided inside the radiation shield to store a coolant cooled by the refrigerator, wherein the cryostat is thermally connected to the superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Itoh, Michitaka Ono, Toru Kuriyama, Yasutsugu Morii
  • Patent number: 5795190
    Abstract: In a PC card connector which comprises a connector housing having a receiving space for receiving the PC card and holding a plurality of contact elements disposed in the receiving space for mating with a plurality of contacts of the PC card received in the receiving space, and an ejecting mechanism mounted on the connector housing for ejecting the PC card from the connector, the ejecting mechanism having an ejecting plate slidably mounted on an outer surface of the connector housing so as to engage an edge of the PC card and push out the PC card, a ground plate is fixed onto the connector housing and disposed between the ejecting plate and the outer surface of the connector housing. The ground plate has elastic tabs which are for engaging with ground pads on the PC card and fixing portions for fixing the ground plate onto the connector housing. The fixing portion is also used for connection with a ground pattern on a circuit board on which the connector is mounted in actual use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventor: Michitaka Ono