Patents by Inventor Takatsugu Kitano

Takatsugu Kitano 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: 11818825
    Abstract: An induction heated roll apparatus includes a roller main body, an induction heating mechanism, and a cooling mechanism. The induction heating mechanism heats the roller main body, while the cooling mechanism cools the roller main body and/or the induction heating mechanism using a cavity portion between the roller main body and the induction heating mechanism. The cooling mechanism has intake apertures and discharge apertures that are formed in a journal flange portion and communicate with the cavity portion, a suction mechanism that suctions a gas in the cavity portion through the discharge apertures, and a mist supply mechanism that supplies mist to the intake apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kitano, Kozo Okamoto
  • Patent number: 11812537
    Abstract: In order to supply sufficient electric power to an induction heating mechanism even with a small-diameter roller, an induction heated roll apparatus includes a roller body having a hollow cylindrical shape, a drive shaft provided at each of both ends of the roller body and rotatably supported, an induction heating mechanism that is provided inside the roller body and allows the roller body to inductively generate heat, and a support shaft that extends from both ends of the induction heating mechanism and supports the induction heating mechanism. The support shaft is rotatably supported on an inner peripheral surface at both ends of the roller body via a bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takatsugu Kitano
  • Publication number: 20230247735
    Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to supply sufficient electric power to an induction heating mechanism even with a small-diameter roller, and includes a roller body having a hollow cylindrical shape, a drive shaft provided at each of both ends of the roller body and rotatably supported, an induction heating mechanism that is provided inside the roller body and allows the roller body to inductively generate heat, and a support shaft that extends from both ends of the induction heating mechanism and supports the induction heating mechanism, in which the support shaft is rotatably supported on an inner peripheral surface at both ends of the roller body via a bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Takatsugu KITANO
  • Publication number: 20220272799
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to adjust an amount of thermal expansion at a desired position in an axial direction of a roller body of an induction heated roll apparatus, regardless of an amount of load heat extracted from the roller body by a heating target object. The induction heated roll apparatus includes the roller body that is cylindrical and has a hollow space, a plurality of induction coils provided in an inside along the axial direction of the roller body, a power supply circuit that controls power supplied to each of the plurality of induction coils individually, and a cooling mechanism that cools the roller body by supplying a refrigerant to the roller body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Takatsugu KITANO
  • Publication number: 20220232674
    Abstract: The present disclosure is intended to supply sufficient electric power to an induction heating mechanism even with a small-diameter roller, and includes a roller body having a hollow cylindrical shape, a drive shaft provided at each of both ends of the roller body and rotatably supported, an induction heating mechanism that is provided inside the roller body and allows the roller body to inductively generate heat, and a support shaft that extends from both ends of the induction heating mechanism and supports the induction heating mechanism, in which the support shaft is rotatably supported on an inner peripheral surface at both ends of the roller body via a bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Takatsugu KITANO
  • Publication number: 20210195704
    Abstract: An induction heated roll apparatus includes a roller main body, an induction heating mechanism, and a cooling mechanism. The induction heating mechanism performs induction heating on the roller main body, and the cooling mechanism cools the roller main body and/or the induction heating mechanism using a cavity portion between the roller main body and the induction heating mechanism. The cooling mechanism has intake apertures that are formed in a journal flange portion on a first end side in an axial direction of the roller main body and communicate with the cavity portion, discharge apertures that are formed in a journal flange portion on a second end side in the axial direction of the roller main body and communicate with the cavity portion, a suction mechanism that suctions a gas in the cavity portion through the discharge apertures, and a mist supply mechanism that supplies mist to the intake apertures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Takatsugu KITANO, Kozo OKAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10779364
    Abstract: The present invention uniformly cools a roll body and/or an induction heating mechanism by gas without complicating the configuration around the roll body. An induction heated roll apparatus includes a roll body having a hollow part, an induction heating mechanism disposed in the hollow part to subject the roll body to induction heating, and a cooling mechanism to cool the roll body and/or the induction heating mechanism by generating a gas flow in a clearance between the roll body and the induction heating mechanism. The cooling mechanism includes a suction port disposed on one axial end side of the roll body that communicates with the clearance, an exhaust port disposed on an opposite axial end side of the roll body that communicates with the clearance, and a suction mechanism coupled to the exhaust port that sucks the gas in the clearance from the exhaust port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190195531
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to inform a user of a maintenance timing for a superheated steam generator. The present invention includes an induction heating type or electrically heating type superheated steam generation section and an informing section. The superheated steam generation section generates superheated steam by heating steam. The informing section transmits maintenance information by employing, as a parameter, an operating temperature of the superheated steam generation section and an operating time at the operating temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Takatsugu Kitano, Masayoshi Kimura
  • Patent number: 10194491
    Abstract: The present disclosure, for the prevention of a possible degradation of an induction coil in insulating performance by preventing condensate formation on an induction coil, provides a device that is configured to include a roller main body, an induction heat generator provided in the roller main body and having the induction coil for heating the roller main body inductively, a cooling mechanism configured to introduce a coolant mist into a clearance portion between the roller main body and the induction heat generator for cooling the roller main body, an AC voltage application part configured to apply AC voltage to the induction coil, and a DC voltage application part configured to apply DC voltage to the induction coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kozo Okamoto, Takatsugu Kitano
  • Publication number: 20180235036
    Abstract: The present invention uniformly cools a roll body and/or an induction heating mechanism by gas without complicating the configuration around the roll body. An induction heated roll apparatus includes a roll body having a hollow part, an induction heating mechanism disposed in the hollow part to subject the roll body to induction heating, and a cooling mechanism to cool the roll body and/or the induction heating mechanism by generating a gas flow in a clearance between the roll body and the induction heating mechanism. The cooling mechanism includes a suction port disposed on one axial end side of the roll body that communicates with the clearance, an exhaust port disposed on an opposite axial end side of the roll body that communicates with the clearance, and a suction mechanism coupled to the exhaust port that sucks the gas in the clearance from the exhaust port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Takatsugu Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Mamoru Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160021706
    Abstract: The present disclosure, for the prevention of a possible degradation of an induction coil in insulating performance by preventing condensate formation on an induction coil, provides a device that is configured to include a roller main body, an induction heat generator provided in the roller main body and having the induction coil for heating the roller main body inductively, a cooling mechanism configured to introduce a coolant mist into a clearance portion between the roller main body and the induction heat generator for cooling the roller main body, an AC voltage application part configured to apply AC voltage to the induction coil, and a DC voltage application part configured to apply DC voltage to the induction coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Kozo Okamoto, Takatsugu Kitano