Patents by Inventor Shoji Morinaga
Shoji Morinaga 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: 11511245Abstract: There is provided a stirring device including a stirring tank including an inner peripheral wall which is circular in cross section, at least one circulating impeller and at least one dispersion blade which are located inside the stirring tank and rotatable around a vertical axis independently of each other, and a guide ring disposed radially outward near the dispersion blade. The circulating impeller is disposed along the inner peripheral wall of the stirring tank, and rotates around the vertical axis to form at least a downward flow in a stirring object existing inside the stirring tank. The dispersion blade rotates to apply a shear force to the stirring object, and is disposed at a radially inner position of the stirring tank from the circulating impeller, and at a position in contact with a flow of the stirring object, which is formed by the circulating impeller.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES PROCESS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Tetsuya Miyata, Katsuhide Takenaka
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Publication number: 20200238234Abstract: There is provided a stirring device including a stirring tank including an inner peripheral wall which is circular in cross section, at least one circulating impeller and at least one dispersion blade which are located inside the stirring tank and rotatable around a vertical axis independently of each other, and a guide ring disposed radially outward near the dispersion blade. The circulating impeller is disposed along the inner peripheral wall of the stirring tank, and rotates around the vertical axis to form at least a downward flow in a stirring object existing inside the stirring tank. The dispersion blade rotates to apply a shear force to the stirring object, and is disposed at a radially inner position of the stirring tank from the circulating impeller, and at a position in contact with a flow of the stirring object, which is formed by the circulating impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Tetsuya Miyata, Katsuhide Takenaka
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Patent number: 10478791Abstract: Provided is a stirring device including: a stirred tank, of which an inner peripheral wall has a circular shape in cross section; and at least one flow impeller and at least one shearing impeller that are located inside the stirred tank and configured to be rotatable independently of each other, in which rotational centers of the flow impeller and the shearing impeller are coaxially provided, the flow impeller rotates around a vertical axis along the inner peripheral wall of the stirred tank to form at least a flow directed toward a lower side in the stirring object existing in the stirred tank, and the shearing impeller imparts a shearing force to the stirring object and is provided on a radially inward side of the flow impeller in the stirred tank and at a position contacting the flow of the stirring object formed by the flow impeller.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd., IZUMI FOOD MACHINERY Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Katsuhide Takenaka, Keiji Esaki, Tetsuya Miyata, Soushi Murakami, Daisuke Sugifune
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Publication number: 20180178176Abstract: Provided is a stirring device including: a stirred tank, of which an inner peripheral wall has a circular shape in cross section; and at least one flow impeller and at least one shearing impeller that are located inside the stirred tank and configured to be rotatable independently of each other, in which rotational centers of the flow impeller and the shearing impeller are coaxially provided, the flow impeller rotates around a vertical axis along the inner peripheral wall of the stirred tank to form at least a flow directed toward a lower side in the stirring object existing in the stirred tank, and the shearing impeller imparts a shearing force to the stirring object and is provided on a radially inward side of the flow impeller in the stirred tank and at a position contacting the flow of the stirring object formed by the flow impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Katsuhide Takenaka, Keiji Esaki, Tetsuya Miyata, Soushi Murakami, Daisuke Sugifune
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Patent number: 7934867Abstract: A mixer capable of developing suitable stirring characteristics by forming a sufficient vertical circulation flow over the entire part of the inside of a tank, wherein an opening is formed in a stirring blade under the following conditions: (i) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the upper half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the upper part of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade) is 45 to 80%, (ii) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the lower half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the lower half of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade) is 18 to 50%, and (iii) the ratio of the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade to the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade is 31 to 71%.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries Process Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ryuichi Yatomi, Shoji Morinaga
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Publication number: 20100181324Abstract: There is provided a seal structure which surely maintains sealing performance of a pressure vessel including a bottomed tubular vessel body with an opening end and a lid closing the opening end. In this seal structure of the pressure vessel, annular grooves 11a, 11b and ridges 21a, 21b fitted to each other are formed on both of the inner and outer sides at the joining faces of opening end 11 of the vessel body 10 and the lid 20, and an annular vent hole 30 is formed between the inner ridge 21a and the outer ridge 21b. An air supply hole 31 for supplying an inert gas to the vent hole 30 is formed in the lid 20. The joining faces on the inside of the inner groove 11a and inner ridge 21a are in metal-to-metal contact. Furthermore, gaskets 51a, 51b are held between the ridges 21a, 21b and the grooves 11a, 11b.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2006Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: SHI MECHANICAL & EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Koji Ito, Haruyuki Nishimi, Yoriyuki Kanemori, Yuji Mori, Kiichiro Yamaji
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Publication number: 20090039606Abstract: There is provided a bellows for a pressure vessel that would not rupture due to thermal expansion and contraction, avoiding stagnation of a raw material. The bellows 40 for a pressure vessel is adapted to realize ring-shaped sealing between an open end 11 of a bottomed tubular vessel body 10 into which a raw material is caused to flow, and an outer peripheral portion of a dispersion board 30 closing the open end 11 so as to permit downflow of the raw material toward the bottom of the vessel body 10. The bellows 40 is provided with a flexure portion 41 flexing radially so as to permit thermal expansion and contraction without being depressed for avoiding of stagnation of the raw material. The flexure portion 41 has a concave curved surface 42 and a convex curved surface 43 which are continuously formed to have a wave shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2006Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: SHI MECHANICAL & EQUIPMENT INC.Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Koji Ito, Haruyuki Nishimi, Yoriyuki Kanemori, Yuji Mori, Kiichiro Yamaji
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Publication number: 20080101156Abstract: A mixer capable of developing suitable stirring characteristics by forming a sufficient vertical circulation flow over the entire part of the inside of a tank, wherein an opening is formed in a stirring blade under the following conditions: (i) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the upper half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the upper part of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade) is 45 to 80%, (ii) the ratio of the opening area of the opening in the lower half of the stirring blade to the overall area of the lower half of the stirring blade (the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade) is 18 to 50%, and (iii) the ratio of the opening rate in the lower half of the stirring blade to the opening rate in the upper half of the stirring blade is 31 to 71%.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2005Publication date: May 1, 2008Applicant: SHI MECHANICAL & equipment inc.Inventors: Ryuichi Yatomi, Shoji Morinaga
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Patent number: 7166909Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a?) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portion (21;Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Patent number: 7015573Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a?) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portion (21;Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2005Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Patent number: 6940159Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a?) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portion (21;Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Publication number: 20050167813Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a?) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portion (21;Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2005Publication date: August 4, 2005Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Publication number: 20050116332Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a?) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portion (21;Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2005Publication date: June 2, 2005Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Publication number: 20040032018Abstract: In a method for molding module electronic devices, an outer edge portion (24a′) of each of plural terminals (24) arranged on a base board (23) is subjected to press-deformation processing by a curved portion (30R) of an upper mold (30) to be shaped into a curved outer end portion (24a) when the upper mold (30) is caused to be in contact with a lower mold (31) for forming a molding space between the upper and lower molds (30:31) in which the base board (23) is positioned, then the molding space is filled with dissolved resin under a condition in which the curved portion (30R) of the upper mold (30) is in tight contact with the curved outer end portion (24a) of each of plural terminals (24), and finally the upper and lower molds (30;31) are separated from each other after the dissolved resin (36) in the molding space has solidified so that a module electronic device provided with the base board (23) on which the plural terminals (24) each having the curved outer end portion (24a) and a resin-molded portioType: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2003Publication date: February 19, 2004Inventors: Shoji Morinaga, Mitsuru Adachi, Yuji Himeno
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Patent number: 5230562Abstract: A viscous liquid processor includes a low-speed shaft and a high-speed shaft extending in parallel within a casing, and a plurality of agitator blades fixed on each of the shafts and spaced along its axial direction so that the blades on one shaft enter the spaces between the blades on the other shaft. Each of the agitator blades is generally formed in a thick disk-like configuration having a plurality of thick blade members, such a thick blade member having a parallelogrammic cross section. With this simple arrangement, delivery and shearing of highly viscous liquid can be performed to improve the agitation and stirring effects.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Haruyuki Nishimi, Mamoru Mishima, Shoji Morinaga