Patents by Inventor Takeki Nogami

Takeki Nogami 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: 7836784
    Abstract: To provide a motor-operated valve diagnosing device capable of making a highly accurate diagnosis at a low cost. In a motor-operated valve diagnosing device for diagnosing a motor-operated valve having a motor-operated valve having a valve element driving part for opening and closing a valve element, and a spring cartridge which expands and contracts in proportion to a reaction force exerted thereon from the valve element driving part, a spring compression mechanism or a worm displacement measuring means is configured to be attached to the valve element driving part via an adapter. With this configuration, the spring compression mechanism and so on can be easily attached to and removed from the valve element driving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7769563
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for diagnosis of a motor-operated valve for determining the degree of abnormality of the motor-operated valve in which rotational driving force of a driving motor 1 is mechanically transmitted to drive a valve disc 8 to an open or close position. The on-off timing of driving energy to the driving motor 1 is determined based on signal information from a plurality of magnetisms sensors 16 attached to a power cable tube 15 housing a power cable 14 or control line for driving the driving motor 1. The timing when the driving energy to the driving motor 1 is turned on and off when the valve disc 8 is shifted to an open or close position can be determined precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7739923
    Abstract: A torque measuring method and apparatus for a motor-operated valve including a valve driving mechanism operable to open and close the valve, a worm displacable by driving of the motor to operate the valve driving mechanism, and a spring cartridge having a plurality of belleville springs and disposed coaxially with the worm for compression by the worm. The method comprises obtaining basic data representing a relationship between the amounts of compression of the belleville springs and the torques exerted, measuring a displacement of the worm or the spring cartridge and acquiring, from the thus obtained displacement of the worm or the spring cartridge, a real amount of compression of the belleville springs in which an influence of a play of the spring cartridge has been removed, and substituting the real amount of compression for the amount of compression of the basic data to acquire a real torque corresponding to the real amount of compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7596457
    Abstract: The invention diagnoses an electrically operated valve, which is provided with a spring cartridge expanding and contracting in response to a reaction force acting on an axial direction of a worm in a valve element driving section, at both the opening and closing operations of the valve. A correlation between a driving force output signal from the valve element driving section and a driving force from a compression state of the spring cartridge is provided in a database. Then, a correlation between a driving force input signal to the valve element driving section and the driving force output signal is acquired in order to monitor a change in transmission efficiency of the driving force. Then, a driving force corresponding to a measured yoke stress is read out from the database for use in diagnosing the driving force of the electrically operated valve is diagnosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Shikoku Research Institute
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090126511
    Abstract: A torque measuring method and apparatus for a motor-operated valve including a valve driving mechanism operable to open and close the valve, a worm displacable by driving of the motor to operate the valve driving mechanism, and a spring cartridge having a plurality of belleville springs and disposed coaxially with the worm for compression by the worm. The method comprises obtaining basic data representing a relationship between the amounts of compression of the belleville springs and the torques exerted, measuring a displacement of the worm or the spring cartridge and acquiring, from the thus obtained displacement of the worm or the spring cartridge, a real amount of compression of the belleville springs in which an influence of a play of the spring cartridge has been removed, and substituting the real amount of compression for the amount of compression of the basic data to acquire a real torque corresponding to the real amount of compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7516656
    Abstract: A diagnostic method and apparatus for diagnosing a motor-operated valve capable of continuously measuring a preload of a spring cartridge at low costs, with high accuracy, and with ease, so that the elastic characteristics of the spring cartridge may be easily calibrated in a simple manner. The method and apparatus is for diagnosing a motor-operated valve including a valve disc 25, a worm 12 rotatably driven by motor power, a link mechanism which opens and closes the valve disc 25 with the rotational driving force transmitted from the worm 12, and a spring cartridge 13 containing disc springs 15 which expand or compress in response to reaction force acting on the worm 12 in its axial direction from the link mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090056479
    Abstract: To provide a motor-operated valve diagnosing device capable of making a highly accurate diagnosis at a low cost. In a motor-operated valve diagnosing device for diagnosing a motor-operated valve having a motor-operated valve having a valve element driving part for opening and closing a valve element, and a spring cartridge which expands and contracts in proportion to a reaction force exerted thereon from the valve element driving part, a spring compression mechanism or a worm displacement measuring means is configured to be attached to the valve element driving part via an adapter. With this configuration, the spring compression mechanism and so on can be easily attached to and removed from the valve element driving part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090048806
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for diagnosis of a motor-operated valve for determining the degree of abnormality of the motor-operated valve in which rotational driving force of a driving motor 1 is mechanically transmitted to drive a valve disc 8 to an open or close position. The on-off timing of driving energy to the driving motor 1 is determined based on signal information from a plurality of magnetisms sensors 16 attached to a power cable tube 15 housing a power cable 14 or control line for driving the driving motor 1. The timing when the driving energy to the driving motor 1 is turned on and off when the valve disc 8 is shifted to an open or close position can be determined precisely.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2005
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090013752
    Abstract: A diagnostic method and apparatus for diagnosing a motor-operated valve capable of continuously measuring a preload of a spring cartridge at low costs, with high accuracy, and with ease, so that the elastic characteristics of the spring cartridge may be easily calibrated in a simple manner. The method and apparatus is for diagnosing a motor-operated valve including a valve disc 25, a worm 12 rotatably driven by motor power, a link mechanism which opens and closes the valve disc 25 with the rotational driving force transmitted from the worm 12, and a spring cartridge 13 containing disc springs 15 which expand or compress in response to reaction force acting on the worm 12 in its axial direction from the link mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SHIKOKU RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20080006101
    Abstract: A diagnostic method and apparatus for diagnosing a motor-operated valve capable of continuously measuring a preload of a spring cartridge at low costs, with high accuracy, and with ease, so that the elastic characteristics of the spring cartridge may be easily calibrated in a simple manner. The method and apparatus is for diagnosing a motor-operated valve including a valve disc 25, a worm 12 rotatably driven by motor power, a link mechanism which opens and closes the valve disc 25 with the rotational driving force transmitted from the worm 12, and a spring cartridge 13 containing disc springs 15 which expand or compress in response to reaction force acting on the worm 12 in its axial direction from the link mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20070246669
    Abstract: An electrically operated valve diagnosing method is provided that diagnoses an electrically operated valve with precision. A diagnosing apparatus suitable for implementing this diagnosing method is also provided. In the means, in the electrically operated valve diagnosing method for diagnosing a driving force of an electrically operated valve provided with a spring cartridge expanded and contracted in response to a reaction force acting on an axial direction of a worm in a valve element driving section, at both of open operation and close operation of the electrically operated valve, correlation between a driving force output signal from the valve element driving section and a driving force obtained from a compression state of the spring cartridge is possessed as a first correlation database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Applicant: Shikoku Research Institute Incorporated
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Shigeya Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 5224512
    Abstract: A valve stem driving apparatus comprises a valve stem which has first and second ends, the second end being connected to a valve body. The valve stem is engaged with a stem nut. A distance measuring device is provided in an upper cover for the valve stem and measures a distance between the upper cover and the first end of the valve stem, so that wear rate of the valve stem and/or the stem nut is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignees: Shikoku Research Institute Inc., Shikoku Electric Power Company, Inc., Nippon Gear Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeki Nogami, Kunio Matsushita, Susumu Watanabe, Yuzo Hashimoto