Patents by Inventor Toshihiko Nasu

Toshihiko Nasu 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: 7112311
    Abstract: A cooling method of a hydrotreating plant having a desulfurization section (1) including a furnace (12) for heating liquid to be processed, reactors (14, 15) for hydrotreating sulfur to generate hydrogen sulfide, a hydrogen sulfide absorber (19) for absorbing the hydrogen sulfide generated in the reactors (14, 15), and a compressor (21) for compressing and transferring fluid from the hydrogen sulfide absorber (19) toward the reactors (14, 15), the cooling method comprising the steps of gradually depressurizing the hydrotreating plant at the desulfurization section (1) to a pressure level at which reactor material does not embrittle and gas does not leak due to difference of mechanical thermal expansion in the plant after stopping supply of the liquid to be processed, operating the compressor (21) approximately at the maximum rotation number, and completely extinguishing burners (12A, 12B) in the furnace (12) during plant shutdown operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignees: Nippon Petroleum Refining Co., Ltd., Softard Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Yoshizumi, Hidekatsu Honda, Masayuki Shoji, Toshihiko Nasu, Katsuhiko Kawakami, Junichi Takano
  • Publication number: 20020106315
    Abstract: A cooling method of a hydrotreating plant having a desulfurization section (1) including a furnace (12) for heating liquid to be processed, reactors (14, 15) for hydrotreating sulfur to generate hydrogen sulfide, a hydrogen sulfide absorber (19) for absorbing the hydrogen sulfide generated in the reactors (14, 15), and a compressor (21) for compressing and transferring fluid from the hydrogen sulfide absorber (19) toward the reactors (14, 15), the cooling method comprising the steps of gradually depressurizing the hydrotreating plant at the desulfurization section (1) to a pressure level at which reactor material does not embrittle and gas does not leak due to difference of mechanical thermal expansion in the plant after stopping supply of the liquid to be processed, operating the compressor (21) approximately at the maximum rotation number, and completely extinguishing burners (12A, 12B) in the furnace (12) during plant shutdown operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2001
    Publication date: August 8, 2002
    Applicant: TOHOKU OIL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yoshizumi, Hidekatsu Honda, Masayuki Shoji, Toshihiko Nasu, Katsuhiko Kawakami, Junichi Takano
  • Patent number: 5842354
    Abstract: A climate controller for an automobile, comprising a compressor and a receiver arranged in an engine compartment of the automobile, a condenser located at an outside-air inlet of the engine compartment, an expansion member and an evaporator disposed in a passenger compartment of the automobile, and a closed-loop refrigerant passage connecting the compressor, the condenser, the receiver, the expansion member and the evaporator in sequence for circulating a refrigerant through these components to establish a refrigerating cycle. The climate controller further includes a valve arranged in a part of the closed-loop refrigerant passage extending from the evaporator through the compressor to the condenser. The valve is actuated to intersect a communication of the refrigerant through the part of the passage when an operation affecting temperature of both the compressor and the condenser becomes ineffective, and to allow the communication when the operation becomes effective.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Kazuhito Kawasumi, Shinichi Sato, Hideo Mori, Toshihiko Nasu, Motonobu Kawakami, Akio Morishita
  • Patent number: 4717313
    Abstract: A swash plate type compressor having combined cylinder blocks closed, at both axial ends thereof, by front and rear housings, each having a radially inner suction chamber and an outer exhaust chamber isolated from the suction chamber, valve plates and disks interposed between the axial ends of the combined cylinder blocks and each of the front and rear housings, a plurality of long screw bolts axially and hermetically combining the cylinder blocks, the front and rear housings, and the valve plates and disks, and an internal sealing unit arranged in the radially inner suction chambers of the front and rear housings for rigidly holding the valve plates and disks against a high pressure of a refrigerant after compression, to reinforce the hermetic seal between the axial ends of the cylinder blocks and the valve plates and disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho
    Inventors: Makoto Ohno, Hideo Mori, Toshihiko Nasu, Hideki Watanabe