Patents by Inventor Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi

Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi 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: 8177080
    Abstract: A girder block lifting method, which can solve a problem that steel beams are inclined or fallen inward by lifting a heavy material, and a jack-up stage used therefor are provided. The method includes a main beam which can be provided between steel beams being targets of connection with the girder to construct a rigid frame structure, a height adjustment means (gate-shaped base) mounted on a cross beam member being parallel to the main beam and connecting other steel frames for adjusting height to the main beam, a connection beam for alternately connecting the main beam and the height adjustment means (gate-shaped base), and an auxiliary beam for connecting the connection beams. On a frame stage formed by connecting these beams, a plurality of lifting jacks are provided and a lifting sling is hung from upper part of the steel beam to enable jack-up of the girder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Shinichiro Takeshita, Yoshimasa Kojima, Jiro Yano, Yuji Yokoi, Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Tetsuya Hamakawa, Hironobu Tazawa
  • Patent number: 8051569
    Abstract: New and useful method of building a boiler frame significantly reduces the use of high load-lifting height crane and improves the operation efficiency despite bad weather. Multiple levels of steel supporting posts, which are established beforehand, are linked together with their top portion by beams and the 9th floor unit is fixed to the posts at an intermediate floor position temporarily. Suspension rods, which are suspended from lifting jacks, are then connected to the 8th floor unit and jacked up, while floor units made for lower than the 8th floor are connected on the ground to form a multi-floor unit. After connecting the multi-floor unit to the 9th floor unit the temporary fixation is released, the multi-floor unit is lifted up, and each floor unit is permanently fixed to the designated floor position repeatedly and respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisya
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Motoshi Horinouchi, Shinichi Sagawa, Yoshitaka Masuda, Masakatsu Imamura, Minoru Sakino, Yasuaki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 7818942
    Abstract: The floor, which became a block, can easily be attached to the designated floor position, so that the reduction of both the construction cost and the construction period are achieved. It is a method of building the plural floors on the part of the boiler cage part, and one floor 13A is built on a lifting frame 18 put on the ground, and the floor 13A and the lifting frame 18 are both jacked up by jacks 14. Subsequently the lifting frame 18 which separated the floor 13A is jacking down and returned to the ground. Plural floors are built for lower floor from upper floor one after another by repeating such a series of steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisya
    Inventors: Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Shinichirou Takeshita, Yuusuke Yoshida, Yuuji Yokoi, Hiromi Itagaki, Shoji Shinohara, Kenshin Komatsu
  • Patent number: 7726264
    Abstract: New and useful method of installing furnace walls for a boiler that does not require dedicated temporary lifting mechanism and reduces the installation work period significantly is disclosed. The method of installing furnace walls for a boiler configured with an upper portion of boiler proper 30 and a lower portion of boiler proper 40, temporally suspending two left and right face furnace water wall panels 48 among four furnace water wall panels, the upper portion of boiler proper is assembled while it is hanged from a top girder module 28 positioned on the top portion of a center portion in a boiler frame, a furnace rear wall 44 and a furnace front wall 42 among the furnace water wall panels are hanged sequentially, the temporally suspended two left and right face furnace water wall panels 48 are moved to designated positions, and the upper ends of the furnace water wall panels 48, 44 and 42 are connected with the lower end of the upper portion of boiler proper 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignees: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisya
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Motoshi Horinouchi, Shinichi Sagawa, Yoshitaka Masuda, Masakatsu Imamura, Tadayoshi Mariyama, Yasuaki Kawashima
  • Patent number: 7726447
    Abstract: A scaffold assembling of a large component for a boiler requiring inspection is not performed by a high-place work but assembled safely and in a short time. The scaffold is assembled to the large component for the boiler supported by a component supporting beam at the ground side before it is attached to a steel frame main-beam 16. Scaffold lifting/supporting beams interposing coil spaces of a superheater 14 are suspended on wires 36 lifted down from spaces of a ceiling tube wall 34 being a horizontal member of the superheater 14. The scaffold lifting/supporting beams 32 are lifted to raise little by lithe within the superheater, and scaffold components are assembled sequentially toward downward. After a required number of steps of scaffolds are assembled, the scaffold lifting/supporting beams 32 are coupled to the ceiling tube wall 34 to be supported. Finally, the superheater 14 is raised by a lifting means to install to the main-beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Sinnichi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 7676925
    Abstract: An interference with existing structures is prevented at a time of a lifting construction of a boiler module. When the boiler module is lifted from the ground by lifting jacks provided on a steel frame main-beam and made an install construction to the main-beam, lifting jacks enabled to move laterally on the main-beam are disposed at forward and backward thereof to suspend the boiler module. The suspended module is lifted up to the main-beam and installed while changing a suspending position between an interference preventing position with existing modules and a prescribed suspending position by alternately moving the forward and backward lifting jacks laterally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Yuuichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100000955
    Abstract: A girder block lifting method, which can solve a problem that steel beams are inclined or fallen inward by lifting a heavy material, and a jack-up stage used therefor are provided. The method includes a main beam which can be provided between steel beams being targets of connection with the girder to construct a rigid frame structure, a height adjustment means (gate-shaped base) mounted on a cross beam member being parallel to the main beam and connecting other steel frames for adjusting height to the main beam, a connection beam for alternately connecting the main beam and the height adjustment means (gate-shaped base), and an auxiliary beam for connecting the connection beams. On a frame stage formed by connecting these beams, a plurality of lifting jacks are provided and a lifting sling is hung from upper part of the steel beam to enable jack-up of the girder block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Shinichiro Takeshita, Yoshimasa Kojima, Jiro Yano, Yuji Yokoi, Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Tetsuya Hamakawa, Hironobu Tazawa
  • Patent number: 7503251
    Abstract: A load balance is adjusted to be appropriate even if shared loads of lifting jacks are fluctuated from an initial setting state caused by cumulative errors of suspending rods. It is a load balance adjusting method of the lifting jack when a lifting module is jacked up by the plural lifting jacks via the suspending rods. The shared loads of the lifting jacks jacking up the respective suspending rods coupled to the lifting module are detected. A height of the lifting jack is adjusted when a fluctuation relative to a setting shared load stored in advance exceeds a prescribed range, to thereby adjust to be the setting shared load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Yuuji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20080028722
    Abstract: New and useful method of building a boiler frame that significantly reduces the use of high load-lifting height crane and improves the operation efficiency despite of bad weather is disclosed. Multiple levels of steel supporting posts 20 that are established beforehand are linked together with their top portion by beams; and the 9th floor unit F9 is fixed to the posts at an intermediate floor position temporarily. Then suspension rods 42 suspended from lifting jacks 38 are connected to the 8th floor unit F8 and jack it up, while floor units made for lower than the 8th floor are connected on the ground to form a multi-floor unit. After connecting the multi-floor unit to the 9th floor unit F9, the temporally fixation is released, the multi-floor unit is lifted up, and each floor unit is permanently fixed to the designated floor position repeatedly and respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Motoshi Horinouchi, Shinichi Sagawa, Yoshitaka Masuda, Masakatsu Imamura, Minoru Sakino, Yasuaki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20080028723
    Abstract: The floor, which became a block, can easily be attached to the designated floor position, so that the reduction of both the construction cost and the construction period are achieved. It is a method of building the plural floors on the part of the boiler cage part, and one floor 13A is built on a lifting frame 18 put on the ground, and the floor 13A and the lifting frame 18 are both jacked up by jacks 14. Subsequently the lifting frame 18 which separated the floor 13A is jacking down and returned to the ground. Plural floors are built for lower floor from upper floor one after another by repeating such a series of steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicants: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., BABCOCK-HITACHI KABUSHIKI KAISYA
    Inventors: Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Shinichirou Takeshita, Yuusuke Yoshida, Yuuji Yokoi, Hiromi Itagaki, Shoji Shinohara, Kenshin Komatsu
  • Publication number: 20070272172
    Abstract: New and useful method of installing furnace walls for a boiler that does not require dedicated temporary lifting mechanism and reduces the installation work period significantly is disclosed. The method of installing furnace walls for a boiler configured with an upper portion of boiler proper 30 and a lower portion of boiler proper 40, temporally suspending two left and right face furnace water wall panels 48 among four furnace water wall panels, the upper portion of boiler proper is assembled while it is hanged from a top girder module 28 positioned on the top portion of a center portion in a boiler frame, a furnace rear wall 44 and a furnace front wall 42 among the furnace water wall panels are hanged sequentially, the temporally suspended two left and right face furnace water wall panels 48 are moved to designated positions, and the upper ends of the furnace water wall panels 48, 44 and 42 are connected with the lower end of the upper portion of boiler proper 30.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Motoshi Horinouchi, Shinichi Sagawa, Yoshitaka Masuda, Masakatsu Imamura, Tadayoshi Mariyama, Yasuaki Kawashima
  • Publication number: 20070074627
    Abstract: A load balance is adjusted to be appropriate even if shared loads of lifting jacks are fluctuated from an initial setting state caused by cumulative errors of suspending rods. It is a load balance adjusting method of the lifting jack when a lifting module is jacked up by the plural lifting jacks via the suspending rods. The shared loads of the lifting jacks jacking up the respective suspending rods coupled to the lifting module are detected. A height of the lifting jack is adjusted when a fluctuation relative to a setting shared load stored in advance exceeds a prescribed range, to thereby adjust to be the setting shared load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Yuuji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070074397
    Abstract: An interference with existing structures is prevented at a time of a lifting construction of a boiler module. When the boiler module is lifted from the ground by lifting jacks provided on a steel frame main-beam and made an install construction to the main-beam, lifting jacks enabled to move laterally on the main-beam are disposed at forward and backward thereof to suspend the boiler module. The suspended module is lifted up to the main-beam and installed while changing a suspending position between an interference preventing position with existing modules and a prescribed suspending position by alternately moving the forward and backward lifting jacks laterally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Yuuichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20070074934
    Abstract: A scaffold assembling of a large component for a boiler requiring inspection is not performed by a high-place work but assembled safely and in a short time. The scaffold is assembled to the large component for the boiler supported by a component supporting beam at the ground side before it is attached to a steel frame main-beam 16. Scaffold lifting/supporting beams interposing coil spaces of a superheater 14 are suspended on wires 36 lifted down from spaces of a ceiling tube wall 34 being a horizontal member of the superheater 14. The scaffold lifting/supporting beams 32 are lifted to raise little by lithe within the superheater, and scaffold components are assembled sequentially toward downward. After a required number of steps of scaffolds are assembled, the scaffold lifting/supporting beams 32 are coupled to the ceiling tube wall 34 to be supported. Finally, the superheater 14 is raised by a lifting means to install to the main-beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI PLANT ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Kazuhito Nakamitsu, Sinnichi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 6041491
    Abstract: A rod constituting a suspending rod is automatically connected or detached, and a rod is easily conveyed between a position where the rod is delivered to rod attaching/detaching means and a position where the rod is contained. A plurality of jacks are operated in synchronism. In the upper part of a boiler-side steel structure (58) is provided a boiler jack (60) for moving a boiler module (56) up and down via a suspending rod (52). Above the boiler jack is provided a device (68) for automatically attaching/detaching a rod. The device (68) is movable horizontally. The rod attaching/detaching device (68) grips a rod (52S) at the end of the suspending rod pushed up by the boiler jack, rotates it to remove, and transfer it to a rod conveyor device (70). Upon receiving the rod from the rod attaching/detaching device, the rod conveyor device conveys it ro a rod container (54) provided on a working floor (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: Hitachi Plant Engineering Construction Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke Ishikawa, Shigeyoshi Kawaguchi, Shigeru Fukushima, Hideo Koide