Patents by Inventor Shinichi Ebata
Shinichi Ebata 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).
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Patent number: 8718358Abstract: The present invention is a filler metal installation position checking method and a filler metal installation position checking system for confirming difference between installation position and designed position of a filler metal embedded in a wall surface. A standard surface target 16 having known actual dimension and position to a wall surface 12 is provided to the wall surface 12 where a filler metal 14 is installed. The wall surface 12 is photographed together with the standard surface target 16 to create image data 18. Using actual position and dimension of the standard surface target 16 and position and dimension of the standard surface target 16 on an image displayed by the image data 18, the image data 18 is converted into corrected image data 20 displaying an image corrected in a manner that the image is photographed from front of the wall surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yokoyama, Yuichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Ebata
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Patent number: 8671625Abstract: The present invention provides a module structure and a plant construction method capable of easily attaching a facility device of a plant and shortening a plant construction period. The module structure of the present invention includes a support member which temporarily supports a facility device component to be arranged in a cell constituting a plant at a designed position and which constitutes scaffolding for attaching the facility device component and forming the cell, a box-shaped frame which is possible to be carried into inner space of the cell while fixing the support member, and joint means which is detachably attachable and which temporarily assembles the support member and the frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shizuo Imaoka, Shinichi Ebata, Masaomi Wada, Shigeru Fukushima, Masatoshi Yoshizaki, Nobuharu Satou
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Patent number: 8451267Abstract: A pipe installation support apparatus includes: a display control device for displaying images of pipes already installed and a pipe to be attached on a display device; an input device for inputting a movement instruction to move or rotate at least one of the image of the pipes; and a moving device for translating or rotating at least one of three-dimensional data of the pipes already installed and the three-dimensional data of the pipe to be attached based on the movement instruction when the movement instruction is input from the input device, wherein when the moving device translates or rotates the three-dimensional data, the display control device moves the images of the pipes already installed and the pipe to be attached displayed on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Yokoyama, Toshiyuki Yamagata, Shinichi Ebata, Kazuo Narita
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Patent number: 7926708Abstract: There is provided a method of recording an image by causing a subject to truly coincide with data relating to the subject. In a finished work recording method using image data by obtaining a product to be recorded and work contents to the product to be recorded as a work recording image, RFID tags 60 (RFID tags 60a, 60b) in each of which inherent tag data is recorded are attached to the product to be recorded and to the work recording worker. Thereafter, whether the tag data are true to the image data of a subject to be worked is determined by comparing a time difference between the time at which the tag data recorded in the RFID tag 60a is read and the time at which the image data of the product to be recorded is obtained with a preset specified time. When it is determined that the tag data are truly associated with the image data, the image data associated with the tag data is recorded as a finished work.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2007Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Hatori, Shinichi Ebata, Akira Komuro
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Patent number: 7880620Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an RFID tag has a long-distance communication RFID and a plurality of short-distance communication RFIDs. The RFID tag has tear-off lines for separating the short-distance communication RFID from the whole RFID tag, and when the short-distance communication RFID is separated, a loop-shaped antenna of the long-distance communication RFID is also cut up. And the RFID tag has an overall management identification code for identifying the whole tag before separation and a partial management identification code for identifying a partial tag after separation.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Hatori, Shinichi Ebata, Sumito Maezawa, Masayuki Hosokawa, Masashi Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20100300013Abstract: The present invention provides a module structure and a plant construction method capable of easily attaching a facility device of a plant and shortening a plant construction period. The module structure of the present invention includes a support member which temporarily supports a facility device component to be arranged in a cell constituting a plant at a designed position and which constitutes scaffolding for attaching the facility device component and forming the cell, a box-shaped frame which is possible to be carried into inner space of the cell while fixing the support member, and joint means which is detachably attachable and which temporarily assembles the support member and the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2010Publication date: December 2, 2010Inventors: Shizuo IMAOKA, Shinichi Ebata, Masaomi Wada, Shigeru Fukushima, Masatoshi Yoshizaki, Nobuharu Satou
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Publication number: 20100149178Abstract: A pipe installation support apparatus includes: a display control device for displaying images of pipes already installed and a pipe to be attached on a display device; an input device for inputting a movement instruction to move or rotate at least one of the image of the pipes; and a moving device for translating or rotating at least one of three-dimensional data of the pipes already installed and the three-dimensional data of the pipe to be attached based on the movement instruction when the movement instruction is input from the input device, wherein when the moving device translates or rotates the three-dimensional data, the display control device moves the images of the pipes already installed and the pipe to be attached displayed on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Hiroshi YOKOYAMA, Toshiyuki Yamagata, Shinichi Ebata, Kazuo Narita
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Publication number: 20090144008Abstract: The present invention is a filler metal installation position checking method and a filler metal installation position checking system for confirming difference between installation position and designed position of a filler metal embedded in a wall surface. A standard surface target 16 having known actual dimension and position to a wall surface 12 is provided to the wall surface 12 where a filler metal 14 is installed. The wall surface 12 is photographed together with the standard surface target 16 to create image data 18. Using actual position and dimension of the standard surface target 16 and position and dimension of the standard surface target 16 on an image displayed by the image data 18, the image data 18 is converted into corrected image data 20 displaying an image corrected in a manner that the image is photographed from front of the wall surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2008Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Yokoyama, Yuichi Yamamoto, Shinichi Ebata
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Publication number: 20090014514Abstract: There is provided a method of recording an image by causing a subject to truly coincide with data relating to the subject. In a finished work recording method using image data by obtaining a product to be recorded and work contents to the product to be recorded as a work recording image, RFID tags 60 (RFID tags 60a, 60b) in each of which inherent tag data is recorded are attached to the product to be recorded and to the work recording worker. Thereafter, whether the tag data are true to the image data of a subject to be worked is determined by comparing a time difference between the time at which the tag data recorded in the RFID tag 60a is read and the time at which the image data of the product to be recorded is obtained with a preset specified time. When it is determined that the tag data are truly associated with the image data, the image data associated with the tag data is recorded as a finished work.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2007Publication date: January 15, 2009Applicant: HITACHI PLANT TECHNOLOGIES, LTDInventors: Fumio Hatori, Shinichi Ebata, Akira Komuro
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Publication number: 20080150727Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention, an RFID tag has a long-distance communication RFID and a plurality of short-distance communication RFIDs. The RFID tag has tear-off lines for separating the short-distance communication RFID from the whole RFID tag, and when the short-distance communication RFID is separated, a loop-shaped antenna of the long-distance communication RFID is also cut up. And the RFID tag has an overall management identification code for identifying the whole tag before separation and a partial management identification code for identifying a partial tag after separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio HATORI, Shinichi EBATA, Sumito MAEZAWA, Masayuki HOSOKAWA, Masashi HASHIMOTO
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Patent number: 7389922Abstract: The system for managing materials comprises: a material yard which has a material carry-in port and a material carry-out port, the material yard being divided into a plurality of yard sections which store materials; a plurality of first tags which record data of the materials to be read in a non-contact manner, the first tags being attached to the materials managed in the material yard; a second tag which stores and sends data of an identification ID issued for each of lots into which the materials are classified to check a current position of each of the lots via a position sensing signal transmitted to the material yard, the second tag being attached to each of the lots; a reading device which reads the data recorded in the first tags, the reading device being provided in at least one of the material carry-in port and the material carry-out port within the material yard; a plurality of receiving devices which receive a data signal of the identification ID transmitted from the second tag, the receiving devicType: GrantFiled: October 28, 2005Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Yoshimura, Tetsuya Tsubokura, Gou Yoshimura, Shinichi Ebata
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Publication number: 20060136698Abstract: The system for managing materials comprises: a material yard which has a material carry-in port and a material carry-out port, the material yard being divided into a plurality of yard sections which store materials; a plurality of first tags which record data of the materials to be read in a non-contact manner, the first tags being attached to the materials managed in the material yard; a second tag which stores and sends data of an identification ID issued for each of lots into which the materials are classified to check a current position of each of the lots via a position sensing signal transmitted to the material yard, the second tag being attached to each of the lots; a reading device which reads the data recorded in the first tags, the reading device being provided in at least one of the material carry-in port and the material carry-out port within the material yard; a plurality of receiving devices which receive a data signal of the identification ID transmitted from the second tag, the receiving devicType: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Inventors: Yasushi Yoshimura, Tetsuya Tsubokura, Gou Yoshimura, Shinichi Ebata