Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Nagafuchi

Naoyuki Nagafuchi 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: 20040184203
    Abstract: Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between said power generating facilities and an operation control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Yasushi Iwai, Hiraku Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6772051
    Abstract: Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnosis such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between said power generating facilities and an operation control system. The operation control system transfers information on operating status and secular characteristic changes of apparatus from power generating facilities or information from operators of selected power generating facilities. The level of a failure of a power generating facility which has a failure is evaluated and repairing information (e.g. recovery procedures, processes, required parts, inventory of the parts, possible failure causes, etc.) is automatically created from repairing information prepared in advance for each evaluation condition. The repairing information is then sent to the operation supporting section of the power generating facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Yasushi Iwai, Hiraku Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20030105613
    Abstract: When an abnormality or a sign of abnormality occurs in an electric power generating facility, an appropriate operating support can be made in a short time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Masao Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20030000199
    Abstract: Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between said power generating facilities and an operation control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Yasushi Iwai, Hiraku Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20020111905
    Abstract: A power consumption-demand/supply adjustment apparatus comprises: a monitor for a consumption amount of supplied power and the quality of supplied power; a contract-adjustment means for supporting establishing of contract for a power demand/supply by adjusting power demand conditions of a customer and power supply conditions of a power supplier; and banking means for requesting a charge of the consumption amount of supplied power and the quality of supplied power, and a charge to be paid from an accumulated deposit based on the contract; wherein the banking means requests the charge of supplied power and the charge to be paid from an accumulated deposit based on monitoring information sent from the monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Tooru Horie, Jin?apos;ichiro Gotoh, Takeshi Ishida, Hiroshi Haruyama
  • Publication number: 20010056315
    Abstract: Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between said power generating facilities and an operation control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Publication date: December 27, 2001
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Yasushi Iwai, Hiraku Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6145297
    Abstract: A gas-turbine combustor (1) provided with a plurality of premix burners (2-a, 2-b) and a diffusion burner (8) and capable of varying the number of the operating premix burners according to the variation of load thereon comprises fuel pipes (3-a, 3-b, 9) connected to the burners, flow control valves (4-a, 4-b, 10) placed respectively in the fuel pipes, a pressure control valves (6, 12) placed in fuel pipes (5, 11), a fuel distribution setting device (14) for controlling the respective openings of the flow control valves according to load, and a pressure ratio setting device (15) for controlling the respective openings of the pressure control valves when the condition of the flow control valves is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Kazuyuki Ito, Yotaro Kimura
  • Patent number: 6092362
    Abstract: A gas-turbine combustor (1) provided with a plurality of premix burners (2-a, 2-b) and a diffusion burner (8) and capable of varying the number of the operating premix burners according to the variation of load thereon comprises fuel pipes (3-a, 3-b, 9) connected to the burners, flow control valves (4-a, 4-b, 10) placed respectively in the fuel pipes, a pressure control valves (6, 12) placed in fuel pipes (5, 11), a fuel distribution setting device (14) for controlling the respective openings of the flow control valves according to load, and a pressure ratio setting device (15) for controlling the respective openings of the pressure control valves when the condition of the flow control valves is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Kazuyuki Ito, Yotaro Kimura
  • Patent number: 5563803
    Abstract: A bed height of a fluidized bed is detected which influences reaction of a fluidized-bed equipment. In the fluidized-bed equipment in which a fluidized particle is put into the vessel, physical properties at a plurality of points within the vessel are measured in a height direction thereof. An interior of the vessel is divided into upper and lower two regions. Physical property distribution curves of the respective regions are found, to find an intersection between the two curves as a bed height. Thus, it is possible to find the bed height of the fluidized bed which influences the reaction of the fluidized-bed equipment. An operating quantity which influences the reaction can be adjusted or regulated accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Morihara, Naoyuki Nagafuchi, Jinichi Tomuro