Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Tokunaga

Naoyuki Tokunaga 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: 8430226
    Abstract: A work transfer apparatus includes a holding unit (100) that rotates together with a rotation table (20) as a transferring mechanism intermittently driven to be fed, a lifting and lowering unit (200) for lowering the holding unit in order to transfer a workpiece held by the holding unit onto a processing table (30) as well as lifting the holding unit in order to transfer the workpiece held on the processing table onto the holding unit, and a fixing unit (300) that fixes the workpiece held on the holding unit and releases the workpiece when transferring the workpiece onto the processing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Hirata Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Araki, Hitoshi Tsugawa
  • Publication number: 20110024264
    Abstract: A work transfer apparatus comprising a retaining unit (100) which can rotate unitary with a rotation table (20) which constitutes a transferring mechanism that is intermittently driven, a lifting and lowering unit (200) for lowering the retaining unit in order to transfer a work held by the retaining unit onto a processing table (30) as well as lifting the retaining unit in order to transfer the work held on the processing table onto the retaining unit, and a fixing unit (300) which can fix the work held on the retaining unit and release its fixation to transfer the work onto the processing table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyuki Tokunaga, Yoshiaki Araki, Hitoshi Tsugawa
  • Patent number: 7730796
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to realize high-accuracy analysis of a flue gas in terms of a trace amount of ammonia so as to control the level of ammonia gas to be added to a flue gas NOx removal apparatus. Since the ammonia gas to be determined is a highly absorbable, the gas component is considerably adsorbed on a surface of the flue gas sampling tube during sampling of flue gas. When a conventional sampling method including heating a gas sampling tube is employed, the amount of sampled gas is reduced through adsorption during gas sampling, failing to obtain concentration values at high accuracy. Thus, a high-accuracy gas sampling method replacing a conventional, heating-based method includes completely washing out, with an absorption liquid therefor serving as a washing liquid, a target ammonia gas deposited on the inner wall of a flue gas sampling tube (2), whereby the gas component is thoroughly collected. Through analysis of the thus-obtained washing liquid, high-accuracy analysis can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Shinya Tamura, Naoyuki Tokunaga, Megumi Kikkawa
  • Publication number: 20070193374
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to realize high-accuracy analysis of a flue gas in terms of a trace amount of ammonia so as to control the level of ammonia gas to be added to a flue gas NOx removal apparatus. Since the ammonia gas to be determined is a highly adsorbable, the gas component is considerably adsorbed on a surface of the flue gas sampling tube during sampling of flue gas. When a conventional sampling method including heating a gas sampling tube is employed, the amount of sampled gas is reduced through adsorption during gas sampling, failing to obtain concentration values at high accuracy. Thus, a high-accuracy gas sampling method replacing a conventional, heating-based method includes completely washing out, with an absorption liquid therefor serving as a washing liquid, a target ammonia gas deposited on the inner wall of a flue gas sampling tube (2), whereby the gas component is thoroughly collected. Through analysis of the thus-obtained washing liquid, high-accuracy analysis can be attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Publication date: August 23, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimada, Shinya Tamura, Naoyuki Tokunaga, Megumi Kikkawa