Patents by Inventor Shigeharu Ochi

Shigeharu Ochi 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: 11783957
    Abstract: A liquid target device includes a liquid accommodation portion in which a target liquid is accommodated, a beam passage through which a charged particle beam emitted from a particle accelerator passes to reach the liquid accommodation portion, a target foil that separates the beam passage and the liquid accommodation portion from each other, and a vacuum foil that separates a vacuum region provided upstream of the beam passage and the beam passage from each other. The beam passage is provided with a first gas chamber into which a cooling gas is supplied at a position on the vacuum foil side and a second gas chamber into which a cooling gas is supplied at a position closer to the target foil side than the first gas chamber and the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are separated from each other by an intermediate foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uno, Shigeharu Ochi, Francisco Guerra Gomez
  • Publication number: 20200305268
    Abstract: A liquid target device includes a liquid accommodation portion in which a target liquid is accommodated, a beam passage through which a charged particle beam emitted from a particle accelerator passes to reach the liquid accommodation portion, a target foil that separates the beam passage and the liquid accommodation portion from each other, and a vacuum foil that separates a vacuum region provided upstream of the beam passage and the beam passage from each other. The beam passage is provided with a first gas chamber into which a cooling gas is supplied at a position on the vacuum foil side and a second gas chamber into which a cooling gas is supplied at a position closer to the target foil side than the first gas chamber and the first gas chamber and the second gas chamber are separated from each other by an intermediate foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Uno, Shigeharu Ochi, Francisco Guerra Gomez
  • Patent number: 7154563
    Abstract: A brightness limitation system is employed in a television circuit to prevent the black reference voltage level and the video signal from entering a minimum signal clipping zone, to provide precise correction signal, limiting the brightness, to maintain a constant black reference voltage level, and maintain a video signal with dynamic amplitude. The brightness limitation circuit detects a minimum signal level amongst the black reference signals from each color channel and compares the minimum signal with a fixed voltage level to generate a brightness feedback signal. The brightness feedback signal is then used to modify the black reference signal level for each color channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Takeda, Shigeharu Ochi, Takeshi Tange, Takao Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6505491
    Abstract: This invention provides a rolling mill and a rolling-mill train which are compact. Reducers to be coupled with them can be made compact. The inner surfaces of pipes to be rolled with the rolling mill and the rolling-mill train can be prevented from becoming squarish. The rolling mill comprises a plurality of rolls disposed symmetrically around the pathline of the rolling mill, an annular driving bevel gear of a large diameter for driving and rotating the rolls, an input-shaft mechanism for rotating the driving bevel gear, a plurality of transmission mechanisms disposed at regular intervals along the driving bevel gear, and a housing for holding them. The input-shaft mechanism (i) has an input shaft inserted in the housing from its outside and an input bevel gear of a small diameter mounted on the input shaft and engaging with the driving bevel gear and (ii) is disposed between two adjacent transmission mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ochi, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Sho Inui, Takaaki Toyooka, Motoaki Itadani, Akira Yorifuji, Toshio Onishi, Koji Sugano, Yasuo Nishida, Nobuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6405573
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wire rod rolling line in which a finishing mill group rear stage is composed of a combination of a plurality of 4-roll mills. An object of the present invention is to provide a wire rod rolling line having a very high operating ratio capable of expanding a size free rolling range and at the same time capable of arranging pass schedules in which the pass schedule of an upstream pass is simplified in order to shorten a line stop time for adjusting mills. To achieve the object, the wire rod rolling line of the present invention is arranged such that three mills from the end of the finishing mill group are 4-roll mills, these three mills are installed in series with the reducing directions thereof dislocated by 45°, the two mills from the end are driven by a common motor and the third 4-roll mill from the end is separately driven.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Takeda, Shigeharu Ochi, Takeshi Tange, Takao Ogawa
  • Patent number: 6397650
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a roll stand for bar and wire rod rolling mill, capable of being applied to various sizes of bars and wire rods by a small number of housing block sets, permitting maintenance work therefor to be carried out easily, and having characteristics in the housing thereof. The roll stand for bar and wire rod rolling mill according to the present invention is characterized in that the housing is divided into two, i.e. a roll block and a driving block by a plane including a position in which a driving gear and a driven gear are meshed with each other or a position in the vicinity of this position, whereby the number of housing block sets to be prepared is reduced. This enables the housing manufacturing cost to be lowered, and the replacement of a roll to be carried out efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Sakurai, Takao Ogawa, Ryo Takeda, Yoshihiro Shinkai, Shigeharu Ochi, Takeshi Tange
  • Publication number: 20010027673
    Abstract: This invention provides a rolling mill and a rolling-mill train which are compact. Reducers to be coupled with them can be made compact. The inner surfaces of pipes to be rolled with the rolling mill and the rolling-mill train can be prevented from becoming squarish. The rolling mill comprises a plurality of rolls disposed symmetrically around the pathline of the rolling mill, an annular driving bevel gear of a large diameter for driving and rotating the rolls, an input-shaft mechanism for rotating the driving bevel gear, a plurality of transmission mechanisms disposed at regular intervals along the driving bevel gear, and a housing for holding them. The input-shaft mechanism (i) has an input shaft inserted in the housing from its outside and an input bevel gear of a small diameter mounted on the input shaft and engaging with the driving bevel gear and (ii) is disposed between two adjacent transmission mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: October 11, 2001
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ochi, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Sho Inui, Takaaki Toyooka, Motoaki Itadani, Akira Yorifuji, Toshio Onishi, Koji Sugano, Yasuo Nishida, Nobuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6216520
    Abstract: A rolling mill comprising a roll unit and a drive unit for driving the roll unit. The drive unit comprises an outer housing, a pair of large-diameter ring-like driving bevel gears disposed concentric with the pass line, an input shaft mechanism for rotating the driving bevel gears, and transmission mechanisms for transmitting the torque of the driving bevel bears to the rolls. Each transmission mechanism comprises a small-diameter transmission bevel gear caught between and engaging with the driving bevel gears and first and second transmission shafts for transmitting the torque of the transmission bevel gear to a roll. The drive and roll units are coupled and uncoupled by couplings. Four positioning parts are formed on the outer periphery of the inner housing of the roll unit. The outer housing of the drive unit is generally in the shape of a ring, and four positioning parts are formed on the inner periphery of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignees: Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, LTD
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ochi, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Sho Inui, Takaaki Toyooka, Motoaki Itadani, Akira Yorifuji, Toshio Onishi, Koji Sugano, Mikio Kodaka, Nobuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6016679
    Abstract: A rolling mill having a plurality of roll units, a rolling-reduction adjusting device of an eccentric-cartridge type, and a roll-alignment adjusting device, all mounted on its housing. The housing is split into freely separable and joinable first and second housing segments. The housing segments have semicircular bearing-holder segments formed in their joint surfaces. The shafts of the roll units are held between the first and second housing segments by being journaled in eccentric cartridges which are fitted in the bearing holders consisting of the semicircular bearing-holder segments. The roll-alignment adjusting device includes adjusting mechanisms and chucks to connect the shaft ends of the roll units to the adjusting rods of the adjusting mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ochi, Shou Inui, Mitsuru Watanabe, Ryo Takeda
  • Patent number: 5673584
    Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for rolling a rod as a starting material and producing a wire of 5 mm or smaller diameter, the method and apparatus using a continuous rolling mill comprising a plurality of round-grooved four-roll stands arranged in tandem, wherein the grooved four-roll is displaced between adjacent rolling stands by 45 degrees relative to each other around the pass line and the center-to-center distance between adjacent rolling stands measured in the pass line direction is not greater than 50 times the diameter of the rod. The front end portion of the rod is fed at slow speed into the continuous rolling mill, the front end portion being guided by a front pipe to the center of the round groove, and the front end portion is wound on a coiler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Kuroda, Kazuyuki Nakasuji, Itsushi Iio, Shigeharu Ochi
  • Patent number: 4644390
    Abstract: A photoelectric sensor array support package for use in a multiple sensor solid state color television camera, supports two soild state photoelectric sensors. The support package is L-shaped with one sensor array mounted in the package base, the other in the package leg. The sensor arrays are aligned to each other in the package before it is incorporated into the television camera. The camera lens system and thus the object image beam is aligned to the prealigned sensors in the support package after the package is placed in the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1987
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Ochi
  • Patent number: 4580160
    Abstract: A solid-state color image sensor and a method for operating such an image sensor in which high resolution is provided by delaying outputs from the various pixels in the sensor array by delay times determined in accordance with the actual positions of the pixels in the row direction of the array. Pixels are read out simultaneously in groups of three, one for each of white, cyan and yellow. The delays are imposed upon two of these. The delayed and undelayed outputs are combined with sum/difference circuits to produce chrominance and luminance signals. Preferably, the pixels have hexagonally shaped light sensitive areas to maximize the light sensitivity of each pixel and hence the resolution of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeharu Ochi, Jun Inada
  • Patent number: 4558365
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging sensor, which may be a color imaging sensor, having simultaneously a high resolution and high sensitivity. The horizontally extending electrodes, which are connected to be driven by outputs of a vertical shift register, are formed in a flattened zig-zag pattern with alternate ones of the horizontally extending electrodes being offset in phase from one another. Source diffusions are formed in the octagonally shaped areas thereby produced. FET switching devices are provided for each of the source diffusions for selectively coupling the source diffusions to corresponding ones of vertically extending electrodes. The source diffusions form active layers of light-sensing photodiodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Ochi
  • Patent number: 4542409
    Abstract: A solid-state color imager which can be scanned by sequentially activating only single ones of vertical lines. Each pixel of the sensor array includes a light sensing element and a switching element composed of two parallel-connected FET devices. The light sensing element is connected through the conductive channel of the parallel-connected FET devices to an associated horizontal line, with connections in the columnar direction of the array being made to alternate ones of the horizontal lines which define the particular column. The gates of the two FET devices are connected to respective adjacent vertical lines of the array, with one of the gates being activated for scanning for a first field and the other for scanning for a second field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Ochi
  • Patent number: 4441123
    Abstract: A solid-state color imager which eliminates moire fringes is disclosed. The imager includes, a base comprised of an array of solid-state switching elements, and a photosensitive layer, separate from and superimposed over the base, comprised of a top transparent electrode, an array of back mosaic electrodes and a light-sensitive material layer positioned therebetween. An array of multi-color filters are superimposed over the photosensitive layer. The filters, photosensitive layer and solid-state elements make up an array of pixels which are arranged in columns and rows to form the imager. The back electrodes have the same size, hexagonal shape and positioning as the filters. By arranging the pixels in overlapping columns and rows moire fringes can be eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeharu Ochi