Patents by Inventor Nobuhiko Inai

Nobuhiko Inai 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).

  • Power plant
    Patent number: 5754613
    Abstract: The disclosed power plant can attain an extremely high thermal efficiency, as compared with that of the conventional power plant. The power plant comprises a steam system and a mixed medium system. The steam system comprises a heat source (1) for generating steam; a steam turbine (3) driven by the steam generated by the heat source; a steam condenser (81) for forming condensed water by condensing exhaust of the steam turbine; and a condensed water feeding pump (9) for feeding the water condensed by the steam condenser to the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koh Hashiguchi, Nobuhiko Inai, Hiromichi Nei
  • Apparatus for immersion-cooling superconductor
    Patent number: 4209657
    Abstract: An apparatus for an immersion cooled superconductor including a cryostat which comprises an envelope provided with a heat insulating member; a first low temperature liquid received in the envelope; an interior vessel made of good heat conducting material and received in the envelope in a state immersed in the low temperature liquid; a second low temperature liquid received in the interior vessel with a slightly higher temperature than the first low temperature liquid; and a superconductor wire immersed in the second low temperature liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1980
    Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Inai, Akihiko Miura