Patents by Inventor Takayoshi Furusawa

Takayoshi Furusawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20140185727
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a power monitoring system for a nuclear reactor comprises at least a first system and second system. The first system and the second system respectively comprise a plurality of APRM units, a plurality of FLOW units, and a plurality of OPRM units. The APRM units respectively generate an LPRM signal that indicates the local output of neutrons by the reactor core, and generate an APRM signal indicating the average output of the reactor core, based on the LPRM signal. The FLOW units respectively generate a FLOW signal indicating the flow rate of reactor coolant. The OPRM units respectively are supplied with the LPRM signal and the APRM signal from at least two aforementioned APRM units and are supplied with the FLOW signal from at least one aforementioned FLOW unit; and, based on the supplied LPRM signals, APRM signals and FLOW signals, generate a trip signal for shutting down the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Teruji TARUMI, Takayoshi FURUSAWA, Tadashi MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20130016802
    Abstract: An oscillation power range monitor has: an averaging section that assigns a plurality of LPRM readings input filtered to remove noise thereof from local power range monitors to calculate cell average value of the LPRM readings assigned to each cell; a time average processing section that calculates a cell time average value from the average value of each cell; a normalized cell value computing section that computes the normalized cell value for each cell from the cell time average value and the cell average value; a trip determining section that receives the normalized cell value, monitors oscillations of each cell output and outputs a scram trip when the normalized cell value exceeds a predetermined value; and an abnormality determining section that assigns a plurality of LPRM readings input and determines abnormality of each LPRM reading assigned to each cell based on the oscillations of the LPRM reading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Takayoshi FURUSAWA, Norihiro Umemura, Tadashi Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7407797
    Abstract: An apparatus of monitoring the bioluminescence of organism samples comprises a culture part including a plurality of plates for putting plural organism samples and capable of cultivating said plural organism samples, a monitoring part for monitoring bioluminescences of said plural organism samples, a convey means for conveying said plural plates to said monitoring part, a control part for controlling a movement of said convey means and controlling a monitoring condition of the bioluminescence of said organism sample, and a computer for record and analysis, wherein said monitoring part, control part and computer are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: National University Corporation Nagoya University
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishiura, Kazuhisa Okamoto, Kiyoshi Onai, Takayoshi Furusawa
  • Publication number: 20060057710
    Abstract: An apparatus of monitoring the bioluminescence of organism samples comprises a culture part including a plurality of plates for putting plural organism samples and capable of cultivating said plural organism samples, a monitoring part for monitoring bioluminescences of said plural organism samples, a convey means for conveying said plural plates to said monitoring part, a control part for controlling a movement of said convey means and controlling a monitoring condition of the bioluminescence of said organism sample, and a computer for record and analysis, wherein said monitoring part, control part and computer are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: March 16, 2006
    Applicant: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Masahiro Ishiura, Kazuhisa Okamoto, Kiyoshi Onai, Takayoshi Furusawa