Patents by Inventor Norio Fukuhara

Norio Fukuhara 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: 8613209
    Abstract: In an optical fiber drawing device of the present invention, as an operational parameters corresponding to the real drawing speed in the duration from the moment of starting the operation of the optical fiber drawing device till the moment of reaching the target drawing speed are extracted from operational parameters stored in a operational parameter storage unit and applied to the optical fiber drawing device. The operational parameters include a base preform feeding speed, a target variation of real drawing speed, a gain multiplied by the speed element related with the variation of the real drawing speed, an operation cycle, a drawing furnace temperature, a coating resin pressure to coat the optical fiber, and flow of cooling gaseous helium, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyamoto, Norio Fukuhara, Keiichi Sakamoto, Takao Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20080016917
    Abstract: In an optical fiber drawing device of the present invention, as an operational parameters corresponding to the real drawing speed in the duration from the moment of starting the operation of the optical fiber drawing device till the moment of reaching the target drawing speed are extracted from operational parameters stored in a operational parameter storage unit and applied to the optical fiber drawing device. The operational parameters include a base preform feeding speed, a target variation of real drawing speed, a gain multiplied by the speed element related with the variation of the real drawing speed, an operation cycle, a drawing furnace temperature, a coating resin pressure to coat the optical fiber, and flow of cooling gaseous helium, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Miyamoto, Norio Fukuhara, Keiichi Sakamoto, Takao Kaneko
  • Patent number: 5519298
    Abstract: The value of a variable reflecting the operating condition of mechanical equipment is continuously detected as operation condition data. A long period average value of the operating condition data detected in long reference period, and a short period average value of data detected in a short analysis period ending in the present time are calculated. Just how much the short period average value differs from the long period average value is adopted as an index of abnormality and using this index, it is possible to ascertain abnormal operating conditions regardless of the absolute value of the variable detected. The above short period average value, long period average value and standard deviation thereof are applied to a first fuzzy membership function for calculating the degree of stability of the mechanical equipment therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Norio Fukuhara, Toshiyuki Ueda, Masaki Hamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5386945
    Abstract: The present invention provides a roller mill control method capable of automatically controlling a roller mill which is comparatively difficult to operate for operation in an optimum operating condition, and a roller mill controller for carrying out the roller mill control method. The roller mill controller stores beforehand a roller mill characteristic model representing the relation between changes in the values of the operating condition variables detected by a detecting unit (2) and operating parameters, restrictions on the values of the operating condition variables and the operating parameters, an index of performance for evaluating the values of the operating condition variables and the operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho
    Inventors: Kazuo Nose, Masaki Hamaguchi, Toshiyuki Ueda, Norio Fukuhara