Patents by Inventor Takanori Shibata
Takanori Shibata 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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Publication number: 20050039436Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2004Publication date: February 24, 2005Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Patent number: 6772596Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2003Date of Patent: August 10, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Patent number: 6718750Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Publication number: 20040065074Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2003Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Hitachi, LimitedInventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Publication number: 20040060296Abstract: The invention provides a production process of a gas turbine capable of being applied to various cycles. A principal part of a gas turbine is set in advance based on roughly set conditions, and the number of stages of a compressor and the number of stages of a turbine, which can provide conditions suitable for a desired cycle, are set based on the set principal part. The compressor and the turbine each having the set number of stages and included in the principal part are combined with each other to construct the gas turbine. When the set number of stages of the compressor or the turbine differs among a plurality of desired cycles, a substantially disk-shaped member having an outer periphery, which forms an inner peripheral wall of a substantially annular flow passage of the compressor or the turbine, is assembled into the cycle having a smaller number of stages so that the bearing-to-bearing distance is kept constant in the gas turbine operated in the plurality of desired cycles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Inventors: Tomomi Koganezawa, Takanori Shibata, Nobuhiro Seiki, Shinya Marushima, Shinichi Higuchi, Nobuaki Kizuka, Ryou Akiyama, Masami Noda
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Publication number: 20030019214Abstract: A gas turbine installation which includes a compressor which compresses supplied air and discharges the same, a combustor which combusts the compressed air obtained from the compressor and fuel and produces combustion gas, a turbine which is driven by combustion gas provided from the combustor, a regenerative heat exchanger which heats all or a part of the compressed air being supplied from the compressor to the combustor by making use of the heat of the exhaust gas exhausted from the turbine and a plurality of water spraying devices which are provided at positions from an intake air chamber of the compressor to the outlet of low temperature side gas flow passage in the regenerative heat exchanger and is characterized in that the regenerative heat exchanger is constituted by connecting in series a plurality of heat exchangers having different heat transfer surface configurations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Takanori Shibata, Shigeo Hatamiya, Nobuhiro Seiki, Tomomi Koganezawa, Katsuhiko Sagae
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Patent number: 5438506Abstract: A collective wiring system for an automobile provides a central control unit which communicates with a plurality of terminal control units each connected to one or more input or output devices, such as switches, sensors, motors and the like. The control over output devices in response to the status of input devices is performed by the central control unit on the basis of tables of data stored in memory. A scan table controls the order in which data communications are made to the terminal control units to obtain their status and provide them with control commands. A monitor table stores the current status of the terminal control units and a control table stores the control data for the terminal control units. A connection table stores the relationship between the terminal control unit for an input device and the terminal control unit for the output device to be controlled thereby. Thus, connection control between input and output devices is effected by software.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 1994Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Oho, Takeshi Hirayama, Masahiro Matsumoto, Akira Hasegawa, Fumio Hamano, Takanori Shibata
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Patent number: 5409571Abstract: A scale deposit inhibitor and a method for continuously controlling scale deposition applicable to a digester and its peripheral equipment used in kraft pulp manufacture are disclosed, the scale deposit inhibitor comprising a maleic acid-acrylic acid-hypophosphorous acid terpolymer having a maleic acid unit to acrylic acid unit molar ratio of 1:4 to 4:1, a hypophosphorous acid unit content of 1 to 12 mol %, and a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 10000. The scale deposit inhibitor is added to a cooking liquor in a concentration of 0.01 to 10 ppm per ppm of a calcium ion in the cooking liquor.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1994Date of Patent: April 25, 1995Assignee: Hakuto Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Togo, Takanori Shibata
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Patent number: 5311173Abstract: In a navigation system which has sensors for detecting a running distance, an azimuth, etc. of a vehicle, and a memory for storing map data; a probability density of a position of the vehicle is calculated on the basis of the sensor outputs and the map data for each of quantization units with which a probability computation determined by detection accuracies of the sensors and quantization of the map data can be executed. In addition, a final stage calculation of DP matching between trajectory data obtained from the on-board sensor data from a start point of the vehicle until a current time and a candidate route estimated from the road map data is iteratively executed, whereby a plurality of estimative vehicular positions and uncertainties (costs) corresponding to the respective estimative positions are iteratively evaluated, and a correct vehicular position is estimated by selecting at least one estimative vehicular position of low uncertainty (cost).Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1991Date of Patent: May 10, 1994Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Fuminobu Komura, Yoshikazu Hirayama, Koichi Homma, Makoto Kato, Takanori Shibata, Yoji Matsuoka, Akira Kagami, Michitaka Kosaka
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Patent number: 5244470Abstract: A method for tinting a water-absorptive contact lens to have a mark tinted thereon, which comprises superimposing on a water-absorptive contact lens in the dry state a screen provided with a tinting pattern corresponding to the mark to be tinted on the contact lens, applying to the contact lens through the tinting pattern of the screen a dye solution containing a vat dye and an alkaline reducing agent, followed by insolubilizing the vat dye.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1992Date of Patent: September 14, 1993Assignees: Menicon Co., Ltd., Tomei Sangyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Koji Onda, Toshihisa Sakai, Yasuhiro Yokoyama, Takanori Shibata, Yasuyuki Kato
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Patent number: 4983951Abstract: An automotive information display device has a CPU unit capable of performing the processing of various informations, an electronic display unit including a liquid crystal panel and a plurality of switches for selecting the information to be displayed on the liquid crystal panel, and an information-reading actuating device capable of reading, in accordance with the instructions given by the CPU, information from a storage device and for enabling the read information to be displayed on the liquid crystal panel. The electronic display unit is extractable to the outside of the instrument panel. After the extraction of the electronic display unit, the display surface can be stationary at any desired angles both in the vertical direction and horizontal direction so that display surface correctly faces the driver or the assistant seat personnel, whereby the driver or the assistant seat personnel can look at the display surface in the front direction thereof for easy recognition of the display image.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1989Date of Patent: January 8, 1991Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co.Inventors: Osamu Igarashi, Takanori Shibata, Yoji Matuoka, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kunio Terashima
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Patent number: 4969082Abstract: A collective wiring system for an automobile provides a central control unit which communicates with a plurality of terminal control units each connected to one or more input or output devices, such as switches, sensors, motors and the like. The control over output devices in response to the status of input devices is performed by the central control unit on the basis of tables of data stored in memory. A scan table controls the order in which data communications are made to the terminal control units to obtain their status and provide them with control commands. A monitor table stores the current status of the terminal control units and a control table stores the control data for the terminal control units. A connection table stores the relationship between the terminal control unit for an input device and the terminal control unit for the output device to be controlled thereby. Thus, connection control between input and output devices is effected by software.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1989Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Oho, Takeshi Hirayama, Masahiro Matsumoto, Akira Hasegawa, Fumio Hamano, Takanori Shibata
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Patent number: 4954586Abstract: A soft ocular lens material is formed of a copolymer consisting essentially of:(A) from 5 to 70 parts by weight of a fluorine containing (meth)acrylate;(B) from 5 to 60 parts by weight of an alkyl (meth)acrylate;(C) from 3 to 45 parts by weight of a polysiloxane macromonomer having pllymerizable groups at both terminals; and(D) from 3 to 40 parts by weight of a polysiloxane macromonomer having polymerizable groups bonded via one or two urethane bonds to the siloxane main chain.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 1990Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignees: Menicon Co., Ltd, Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Toyoshima, Takanori Shibata, Atsushi Hirashima, Ichiro Ando, Noriko Iwata, Hiroshi Yoshioka, Akinari Itagaki, Toshio Yamazaki
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Patent number: 4920180Abstract: A highly water-absorptive ocular lens material obtained by saponification for hydrophilic treatment of a copolymer composed essentially of:(A) from 2 to 30 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate polymer having at least one polymerizable group per molecule on an average obtained by copolymerizing (a) an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer and (b) a monomer having at least two polymerizable groups per molecule, as the main components;(B) from 70 to 98% by weight of a fatty acid vinyl ester; and(C) from 0.02 to 3.0 parts by weight of a cross linking agent,provided that the total amount of polymer (A) and monomer (B) is 100 parts by weight.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1989Date of Patent: April 24, 1990Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Toyoshima, Takanori Shibata, Atsushi Hirashima
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Patent number: 4855896Abstract: A collective wiring system for an automobile provides a central control unit which communicates with a plurality of terminal control units each connected to one or more input or output devices, such as switches, sensors, motors and the like. The control over output devices in response to the status of input devices is performed by the central control unit on the basis of tables of data stored in memory. A scan table controls the order in which data communications are made to the terminal control units to obtain their status and provide them with control commands. A monitor table stores the current status of the terminal control units and a control table stores the control data for the terminal control units. A connection table stores the relationship between the terminal control unit for an input device and the terminal control unit for the output device to be controlled thereby. Thus, connection control between input and output devices is effected by software.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 1988Date of Patent: August 8, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeru Oho, Takeshi Hirayama, Masahiro Matsumoto, Akira Hasegawa, Fumio Hamano, Takanori Shibata
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Patent number: 4708480Abstract: In a solid-state optical interferometer having a light path composed of a loop-shaped optical fiber and a solid-state light wave guide optically coupled to said optical fiber, electrodes for producing a surface acoustic wave (SAW) are formed as a pair on a surface of a substrate on which said solid-state light wave guide is formed, and said surface acoustic wave is used to apply optical modulation to a light beam passing through said solid-state light wave guide.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1984Date of Patent: November 24, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Sasayama, Shigeru Oho, Atsushi Kanke, Takanori Shibata, Akira Endo
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Patent number: 4679147Abstract: A navigation system for displaying, on a display screen, road map information and running traces of a car superimposed thereon comprises a cathode ray tube for displaying the road map information and information regarding the car running traces and the like, bearing sensors for detecting a running direction of the car, a detector for detecting a running distance of the car by detecting a revolution of the car wheel, and a controller receiving outputs from the bearing sensors and the running distance detector, for computing a current position of the car and selecting road map information corresponding to the current position for display thereof on the cathode ray tube.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 1985Date of Patent: July 7, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Fumio Tsujii, Yoji Matsuoka, Takanori Shibata, Akira Endo, Hiroshi Shirai
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Patent number: 4654890Abstract: A multiplex communication system comprises a central control unit, a plurality of local control units, an optical loop transmission path interconnecting the central control unit and the plurality of local control units by optical fibers in a loop-like configuration to thereby cause data transmission to be effected among the control units through the optical fibers, and an electrical loop transmission path for interconnecting the central control unit and the plurality of local control units by electrical signal conductors in a loop-like configuration to thereby cause data transmission to be effected among the control units through the electrical signal conductors, wherein the central control unit selects at least one of the optical loop transmission path and the electrical loop transmission path to be connected to the signal transmitter means in dependence on predetermined conditions, so that data transmission is conducted between the central control unit and the local control units through the selected loop tType: GrantFiled: September 4, 1985Date of Patent: March 31, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akira Hasegawa, Takanori Shibata, Fumio Hamano
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Patent number: 4649184Abstract: An oxygen permeable soft contact lens material having an improved oxygen permeability, improved softness and transparency prepared by copolymerizing a mixture comprising(a) a polyorganoxiloxane having polymerizable groups containing an unsaturated bond and hydrophilic groups containing a hydroxyl group in the molecular side chains, each of said side chains having a polymerizable group and a hydrogroup, and(b) a monomer having silylated hydroxyl groups as main components, and subjecting the resulting copolymer to desilylation.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1985Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Assignee: Toyo Contact Lens Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiharu Yoshikawa, Takanori Shibata
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Patent number: D479567Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2002Date of Patent: September 9, 2003Assignees: Microjenics, Inc., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyInventors: Hiroaki Matsumoto, Takanori Shibata