Patents by Inventor Mitsunobu Yano

Mitsunobu Yano 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: 9903517
    Abstract: A flange coupling part reinforcing jig includes a pair of clamping members having pressing parts capable of coming into contact respectively with outer faces of two flange parts which are bolt-connected and a fastening means for fixedly fastening the two clamping members by drawing them to each other in a flange coupling direction, with the pressing parts of the clamping members being placed in abutment with the outer faces of the flange parts. At portions of the two clamping members opposed to each other in the flange coupling direction, there are formed an inner fitting part and an outer fitting part which are fitted to each other in the flange coupling direction at positions of the two flange parts more radially outward than outer circumferential faces of the two flange parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Okayama City, Taisei Kiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Munetomo, Mitsunobu Yano, Shinobu Yasui, Hironori Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9759333
    Abstract: A bonnet is pressed and fixed to a valve body using a pressing means of an attachment fixed to the valve body, and also a coupling means is released from coupling, and a work housing is attached to the attachment, the pressing means is released from pressing and fixing, the bonnet is taken out to an inside of a storage space of the work housing and is removed, and thereafter a short pipe that has an inner plug is attached to the valve body, the short pipe is pressed and fixed to the valve body using the pressing means of the attachment, the work housing is removed from the attachment, the short pipe and the valve body are coupled and fixed to each other in a sealed state using a second coupling means, and the attachment is removed from the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Okayama City, Taisei Kiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Munetomo, Mitsunobu Yano, Shinobu Yasui, Mitsuhiro Mori
  • Publication number: 20160230897
    Abstract: A bonnet is pressed and fixed to a valve body using a pressing means of an attachment fixed to the valve body, and also a coupling means is released from coupling, and a work housing is attached to the attachment, the pressing means is released from pressing and fixing, the bonnet is taken out to an inside of a storage space of the work housing and is removed, and thereafter a short pipe that has an inner plug is attached to the valve body, the short pipe is pressed and fixed to the valve body using the pressing means of the attachment, the work housing is removed from the attachment, the short pipe and the valve body are coupled and fixed to each other in a sealed state using a second coupling means, and the attachment is removed from the valve body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Nobuo Munetomo, Mitsunobu Yano, Shinobu Yasui, Mitsuhiro Mori