Patents by Inventor Shinobu Tsubota

Shinobu Tsubota 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: 8837663
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A resonance calculation program is configured to calculate an effective cross section including Step S4 of setting a calculation point in the gray range in the resonance region; Step S5 of calculating a neutron flux set at the calculation point and corresponding to a macroscopic cross section based on Method of Characteristics; Step S6 of fitting a fitting equation to the calculated macroscopic cross section and the calculated neutron flux, and calculating first and second rational coefficients; Step S7 of calculating a background cross section based on the first rational coefficient; Step S8 of interpolating the effective cross section, with the background cross section used as an argument; Step S9 of calculating the neutron flux based on the background cross section; and Step S10 of calculating the effective cross section based on the effective cross section, the neutron flux, and the second rational coefficient obtained at the coefficient calculation step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Koike, Kazuya Yamaji, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8583376
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a resonance calculation program capable of evaluating a physical quantity such as an effective cross section in a radial direction of a circular region of a fuel rod by making a resonance calculation based on the equivalence principle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Kazuya Yamaji, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota
  • Patent number: 8583409
    Abstract: A nuclear-characteristic calculating program for calculating a nuclear characteristic of a fuel rod that contains nuclear fuel and burnable poison includes a first scattering model that can represent a simple scattering of the neutron and a second scattering model that can represent a complicated scattering of the neutron. The nuclear-characteristic calculating program includes step of calculating, when a burnup of the fuel rod is before a set burnup at which the burnable poison is considered to lose neutron absorption capability, the nuclear characteristic of the fuel rod by using the second scattering model, step of switching, when the burnup of the fuel rod is the set burnup, the scattering model from the second scattering model to the first scattering model, and step of calculating, after performing step of switching, the nuclear characteristic of the fuel rod by using the first scattering model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamaji, Hiroki Koike, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120215444
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a resonance calculation program capable of evaluating a physical quantity such as an effective cross section in a radial direction of a circular region of a fuel rod by making a resonance calculation based on the equivalence principle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Koike, Hideki Matsumoto, Kazuya Yamaji, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota
  • Publication number: 20120209576
    Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a nuclear-characteristic calculating program that can suppress an increase of calculation time without degrading calculation accuracy when calculating a nuclear characteristic of a fuel rod that contains burnable poison. [Solution] A nuclear-characteristic calculating program for calculating a nuclear characteristic of a fuel rod that contains nuclear fuel and burnable poison includes a first scattering model that can represent a simple scattering of the neutron and a second scattering model that can represent a complicated scattering of the neutron.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Yamaji, Hiroki Koike, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota, Hideki Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20120057667
    Abstract: [Solving Means] A resonance calculation program is configured to calculate an effective cross section including Step S4 of setting a calculation point in the gray range in the resonance region; Step S5 of calculating a neutron flux set at the calculation point and corresponding to a macroscopic cross section based on Method of Characteristics; Step S6 of fitting a fitting equation to the calculated macroscopic cross section and the calculated neutron flux, and calculating first and second rational coefficients; Step S7 of calculating a background cross section based on the first rational coefficient; Step S8 of interpolating the effective cross section, with the background cross section used as an argument; Step S9 of calculating the neutron flux based on the background cross section; and Step S10 of calculating the effective cross section based on the effective cross section, the neutron flux, and the second rational coefficient obtained at the coefficient calculation step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Koike, Kazuya Yamaji, Daisuke Sato, Shinobu Tsubota, Hideki Matsumoto