Patents by Inventor Noboru Kurokawa

Noboru Kurokawa 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: 20190074097
    Abstract: A container accommodation condition determination method of determining an accommodation condition for accommodating a plurality of waste pieces, obtained by at least cutting radioactive waste, into at least one storage container, for obtaining at least one waste body by accommodating the plurality of waste pieces into the at least one storage container, includes: a step of, assuming, for each of a plurality of arrangement condition candidates specifying the storage container in which each of the waste pieces is to be stored and an accommodation position inside the storage container, that the waste pieces are arranged inside the storage container in accordance with the arrangement condition candidate, selecting at least one of the arrangement condition candidates which satisfy a limiting condition required for the waste body in each of the storage containers; a step of calculating a necessary storage container number which is the number of the storage container required to accommodate the plurality of waste p
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Okamoto, Noboru Kurokawa, Toshiya Komuro, Toshimitsu Umakoshi, Naotaka Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20180190400
    Abstract: A method for decommission of a nuclear power plant includes: a step of removing fuel from a reactor vessel and storing the fuel in a fuel storage pool; a step of carrying the fuel out from the fuel storage pool; a step of, after removing the fuel from the reactor vessel, taking a reactor internal structure inside the reactor vessel out to a work pool storing water and being positioned above the reactor vessel, and decommissioning the reactor internal structure under the water stored in the work pool; a step of carrying the decommissioned reactor internal structure out from the work pool; and a step of, after carrying the reactor internal structure out from the work pool, draining the water from the work pool. The step of taking out and decommissioning the reactor internal structure is started before completion of carrying out of the fuel from the fuel storage pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Okamoto, Toshiya Komuro, Noboru Kurokawa, Toshimitsu Umakoshi
  • Patent number: 5602727
    Abstract: An image processor comprising a plurality of processor elements each having a product sum calculating function. Input switching means are incorporated for selection of image data so that the desired data in an arbitrary processing step of any one processor element can be transferred to an arbitrary processing step of the other processor element. Each processor element includes a data writing line memory, a multiplier for multiplying the output data of the line memory, a register file for storing the multiplied output therein, and an accumulator for calculating the output of the register file. Pipeline processing of the data can be executed in such constitution, and due to the provision of the input switching means in the preceding stage of each processing circuit, the image data can be transferred between the processor elements to consequently realize enhanced general ability for the image processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Kurokawa, Tatsunobu Ando