Patents by Inventor Shouichirou Kinoshita

Shouichirou Kinoshita 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: 6980621
    Abstract: A main steam system around a nuclear reactor which comprises two main steam nozzles in a reactor pressure vessel, each of the main nozzles being disposed at a symmetrical position with respect to a plane parallel to steam outlet faces of steam dryers provided inside the reactor pressure vessel and passing through a center of the reactor pressure vessel; and main steam pipes each connected to the main steam nozzles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Masaaki Tsubaki, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Masayoshi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20050135548
    Abstract: A main steam system around a nuclear reactor which comprises two main steam nozzles in a reactor pressure vessel, each of the main nozzles being disposed at a symmetrical position with respect to a plane parallel to steam outlet faces of steam dryers provided inside the reactor pressure vessel and passing through a center of the reactor pressure vessel; and main steam pipes each connected to the main steam nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Masaaki Tsubaki, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Masayoshi Matsuura
  • Publication number: 20040196950
    Abstract: A main steam system around a nuclear reactor which comprises two main steam nozzles in a reactor pressure vessel, each of the main nozzles being disposed at a symmetrical position with respect to a plane parallel to steam outlet faces of steam dryers provided inside the reactor pressure vessel and passing through a center of the reactor pressure vessel; and main steam pipes each connected to the main steam nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Koji Ando, Masaaki Tsubaki, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Masayoshi Matsuura
  • Patent number: 5217680
    Abstract: Disclosed is liquid filling apparatus for a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel. The apparatus comprises a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a closed liquid storage tank disposed at a level higher than that at which liquid is supplied to the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a liquid-filling flow passage for supplying liquid from the closed liquid storage tank into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a pressure-feed flow passage for supplying a pressure from the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel to the closed liquid storage tank, valves equipped on the liquid-filling flow passage and the pressure-feed flow passage respectively, and a liquid-filling liquid source adapted to communicate with the interior of the closed liquid storage tank via a valve, whereby the environmental surroundings of the closed liquid storage tank are lower in temperature than the interior of the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Koshiishi, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Minoru Akita, Isao Sumida
  • Patent number: 5120490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid filling apparatus for high-temperature and high-pressure vessel. The apparatus comprises a high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a closed liquid storage tank disposed at a level higher than that at which liquid is filled into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a liquid-filling flow passage for supplying liquid from the closed liquid storage tank into the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel, a pressure-feed flow passage for supplying pressure from the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel to the closed liquid storage tank, valves equipped on the liquid-filling flow passage and the pressure-feed flow passage respectively, and a liquid-filling liquid source adapted to communicate with the interior of the closed liquid storage tank via a valve, whereby the environmental surroundings of the closed liquid storage tank are lower in temperature than the interior of the high-temperature and high-pressure vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Koshiishi, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Minoru Akita, Isao Sumida
  • Patent number: 5087408
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor facility including a primary containment vessel, a reactor pressure vessel installed in the primary containment vessel and accommodating a reactor core in a lower part thereof, and a vertical cylindrical wall disposed in a lower part of the primary containment vessel around and spaced from the reactor pressure vessel so as to delimit an annular space therebetween. The vertical cylindrical wall has an upper end disposed at a position higher than an upper end of the reactor core and a diaphragm extends substantially horizontally between the upper end of the vertical cylindrical wall and an inner wall of the primary containment vessel for cooperating with the vertical cylindrical wall to separate a space in the primary containment vessel around the reactor pressure vessel into a pressure suppression chamber and a drywell which includes annular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1992
    Inventors: Kenji Tominaga, Minoru Miki, Tooru Takahashi, Tetsuo Horiuchi, Hideo Morishima, Takashi Nakayama, Kumiaki Moriya, Masaki Matsumoto, Minoru Akita, Tsuyoshi Niino, Kanehiro Ochiai, Akihiko Shiozawa, Yuichi Uchiyama, Toyoharu Yasuno, Kenji Moriya, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Kazuo Kage, Ryuji Kubota
  • Patent number: 5011652
    Abstract: A container-outer-periphery pool in which water is stored is provided between a primary containment vessel and a reactor building, and outside of a pressure suppression pool. Consequently, the natural heat transfer capabilities of reactor facilities is enhanced, and the inherent safety of the reactor facilities is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Tominaga, Minoru Miki, Tooru Takahashi, Tetsuo Horiuchi, Hideo Morishima, Takashi Nakayama, Kumiaki Moriya, Masaki Matsumoto, Minoru Akita, Tsuyoshi Niino, Kanehiro Ochiai, Akihiko Shiozawa, Yuichi Uchiyama, Toyoharu Yasuno, Kenji Moriya, Shouichirou Kinoshita, Kazuo Kage, Ryuji Kubota