Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Hosoe

Toshiaki Hosoe 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: 4742298
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a surface flaw of each pipe constituting a pipeline, including a pig capable of travelling along pipeline and being provided with the following elements: a cylindrical primary coil coaxial with the pipe, the density of a magnetic flux of an AC magnetic field of the primary coil varying in response to an inner surface flaw of the pipe; a plurality of cylindrical secondary coils arranged at prescribed intervals in the circumferential direction of the pipe between a peripheral surface of the primary coil and a confronting peripheral surface of the pipe, each secondary coil having an axis parallel to the axis of the primary coil, and producing an AC voltage proportional to the density of a component parallel to the axis of each secondary coil, of the magnetic flux of the AC magnetic field of the primary coil; and a signal processing circuit for processing the AC voltage signals from the secondary coils to detect the presence and the depth of a surface flaw of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seigo Ando, Toshiaki Hosoe
  • Patent number: 4716366
    Abstract: Eddy current distance measuring apparatus includes a multiplier connected to one secondary coil of a pair of secondary coils in an eddy current sensor. The secondary coil outputs are inputted to a differential amplifier, and the resulting difference is adjusted to be zero when an object the distance to which is to be measured is not present. Thereafter, the sensor is located within measuring distance of, e.g., a steel plate, and the output of the differential amplifier is combined by an amplifier circuit with an oscillator output supplying a current to the primary coil of the sensor. An eddy current distance signal output is thus obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1987
    Assignee: Nippon Kokan K.K.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Hosoe, Seigo Ando, Yoshihiro Kawase