Patents by Inventor Toru Tonomura

Toru Tonomura 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: 20150217484
    Abstract: For heating a mold efficiently and uniformly and for protecting an induction coil from corrosive gases, an upper plate that contacts an upper end face of a mold, and a lower plate that contacts a lower end face of the mold are provided, and an induction coil, provided to each plate, has a voltage applied by a commercial power supply. Each plate has a metal plate body in which a recessed housing portion that houses the induction coil is formed, and a cover that closes the recessed housing portion in a state where the induction coil is housed therein. A cover placement portion having a step that is greater than or equal to the thickness of the metal cover is formed in the metal plate body, and a plurality of jacket chambers in which a gas-liquid two phase heating medium is enclosed are formed in the metal plate body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Yoshihiko Yamamura, Hideyuki Osamura, Akihiko Hajikano
  • Publication number: 20150198487
    Abstract: The present invention intends to eliminate the need for a temperature detecting element adapted to measure the temperature of a roll main body in an induction-heated roller apparatus, and includes an impedance calculation part that calculates the impedance of a winding, a relational data storage part that stores relational data indicating the relationship between the impedance of the winding and the temperature of the roll main body, and a roll temperature calculation part that calculates the temperature of the roll main body from the impedance obtained by the impedance calculation part and the relational data stored in the relational data storage part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Masayoshi Kimura
  • Publication number: 20150180361
    Abstract: The present invention allows individual control of an output voltage of a main transformer and an output voltage of a teaser transformer while utilizing output characteristics of the respective transformer when a Scott connected transformer has control equipment arranged on the input side thereof, including first control equipment arranged in one of two phases of the main transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current and second control equipment arranged in one end of a primary coil of the teaser transformer on the input side in order to control a voltage or a current, the control equipment controlling an output voltage of the main transformer and an output voltage of the teaser transformer individually.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Sachio Tamaki
  • Publication number: 20140093599
    Abstract: The present invention is one that heats the inside of the spinning pack in a short period of time while keeping temperature of an outer circumferential part of a spinning pack less than a maximum allowable temperature, and provided with: a magnetic path forming member that forms a magnetic path with a spinning pack arrangement space where the spinning pack is arranged to occupy the space and be positioned intermediate respective ends of the magnetic path forming member that border the space; and a magnetic flux generating winding that is provided so as to be wound to surround the spinning pack arrangement space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20140042151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an induction heating apparatus capable of heating a conductive plate member throughout in a widthwise direction. Specifically, the present invention is configured to have flat-shaped coils, each forming a magnetic path in a center portion thereof, provided on upper and lower sides of the conductive plate member so as to heat the conductive plate member and to have circumferential coils provided on right and left end sides of magnetic metal casings through which the circumferential magnetic paths of the flat-shaped coils pass, whereby magnetic paths of the circumferential coils pass through both end portions of the conductive plate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: TOKUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Yasuhiro Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 7420141
    Abstract: A thermal processing roller includes a heat transfer medium flowing path therein and heats a member to be processed abutting against a surface of the roller or absorbs heat therefrom by heat transfer fluid flowing through the heat transfer medium flowing path, wherein a sealed chamber extending in a longitudinal direction of the roller and in which heat transfer medium of vapor-liquid two phases is sealed is formed within a thick portion of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Tokuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Kozo Okamoto, Shigeyuki Hirota, Masanobu Heguri, Toshiki Hanafusa
  • Publication number: 20070138162
    Abstract: In a heating fluid medium passing roller device for heat-treating a object to be processed in contact with the surface of a roller 1, heat exchanger devices 5a, 5b are arranged on a circulating heating fluid medium path, and the heating fluid medium heat-exchanged in the heat exchanger device is passed through the roller 1 having a jacked chamber 1b sealed with a gas-liquid two phase heating medium within its wall to keep the roller 1 at a predetermined temperature. Further, the heating fluid medium passing roller device includes a temperature sensor 13 for detecting the temperature of the heating fluid medium to be supplied into the roller 1 and a temperature sensor 14 for detecting the temperature of the heating fluid medium exhausted from the roller 1. The flow rate of the heating fluid medium to be supplied into the roller is adjusted so that the difference between the temperatures detected by the temperature sensors 13 and 14 is constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Toru Tonomura, Kozo Okamoto, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Motomasa Hirao
  • Publication number: 20070102421
    Abstract: A fluid heating device is arranged on a fluid circulating path in e.g. a heating medium passing roller device and heats fluid flowing through the fluid circulating path. In this fluid heating device, a secondary coil 3 of a transformer configuration having a primary coil 2 and the secondary coil 3 which are wound around a closed magnetic circuit iron core 1 is formed by winding a conductor made of e.g. SUS having a through-hole for passing circulating fluid. Both ends of the secondary coil 3 are electrically short-circuited to each other. The heat of the secondary coil 3 generated owing to the short-circuiting is conducted to the fluid flowing through the through-hole of the secondary coil 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Inventor: Toru Tonomura
  • Patent number: 6992272
    Abstract: A thermal processing roller includes a heat transfer medium flowing path therein and heats a member to be processed abutting against a surface of the roller or absorbs heat therefrom by heat transfer fluid flowing through the heat transfer medium flowing path, wherein a sealed chamber extending in a longitudinal direction of the roller and in which heat transfer medium of vapor-liquid two phases is sealed is formed within a thick portion of the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Tokuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Kozo Okamoto, Shigeyuki Hirota, Masanobu Heguri, Toshiki Hanafusa
  • Publication number: 20050255396
    Abstract: A thermal processing roller includes a heat transfer medium flowing path therein and heats a member to be processed abutting against a surface of the roller or absorbs heat therefrom by heat transfer fluid flowing through the heat transfer medium flowing path, wherein a sealed chamber extending in a longitudinal direction of the roller and in which heat transfer medium of vapor-liquid two phases is sealed is formed within a thick portion of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Kozo Okamoto, Shigeyuki Hirota, Masanobu Heguri, Toshiki Hanafusa
  • Publication number: 20040089654
    Abstract: A thermal processing roller includes a heat transfer medium flowing path therein and heats a member to be processed abutting against a surface of the roller or absorbs heat therefrom by heat transfer fluid flowing through the heat transfer medium flowing path, wherein a sealed chamber extending in a longitudinal direction of the roller and in which heat transfer medium of vapor-liquid two phases is sealed is formed within a thick portion of the roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Tokuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Kitano, Toru Tonomura, Kozo Okamoto, Shigeyuki Hirota, Masanobu Heguri, Toshiki Hanafusa
  • Patent number: 6340811
    Abstract: Twelve induction coils axially arrayed on a roller are arranged into: a first group of induction coils delta connected induction coils excited by a three-phase voltage; a second group of star-connected induction coils being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the first group of induction coils; a third group of delta-connected induction coils being excited by a phase-shifted voltage formed by phase-shifting a three-phase voltage by 180° and being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the second group of induction coils; and a fourth group of star-connected induction coils being excited by a phase-shifted voltage and being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the third group of induction coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2002
    Assignee: Tokuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Tonomura
  • Publication number: 20020003138
    Abstract: Twelve induction coils axially arrayed on a roller are arranged into: a first group of induction coils delta connected induction coils excited by a three-phase voltage; a second group of star-connected induction coils being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the first group of induction coils; a third group of delta-connected induction coils being excited by a phase-shifted voltage formed by phase-shifting a three-phase voltage by 180 ° and being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the second group of induction coils; and a fourth group of star-connected induction coils being excited by a phase-shifted voltage and being successively disposed while being spaced apart in the phase rotation direction of the third group of induction coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Applicant: Tokuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Toru Tonomura