Patents by Inventor Toshimi Tobimatsu

Toshimi Tobimatsu 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: 20130170598
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a nuclear reactor containment vessel is provided with a device for holding a molten material of the reactor core and with spacers. The device is installed on the pedestal floor. A holding container which is open upward and a water supply container which is provided below the holding container are provided inside the outer peripheral surface. A water supply flow path extends to the water supply container from the gap between the inner surface of the pedestal side wall and the outer peripheral surface of the device for holding a molten material of the reactor core. The spacers are engaged with the upper end of an outer riser extend between the outside of the outer riser and the inner surface of the pedestal side wall, and prevent the eccentricity of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Mitsuo KOMURO, Noriyuki Katagiri, Masashi Tanabe, Toshimi Tobimatsu, Yuka Shibasaki
  • Publication number: 20120328067
    Abstract: An embodiment of a nuclear power plant has: a reactor vessel containing a core; a reactor containment vessel containing the reactor vessel; and a radiation heat reflecting member disposed at a portion below the reactor vessel inside the reactor containment vessel. The radiation heat reflecting member may block radiation heat, which is emitted toward a side wall surface of the reactor containment vessel from the core that has been put in a molten state by an accident and flowed downward from the reactor vessel to be accumulated at a lower portion of the reactor containment vessel. The radiation heat reflecting member may block radiation heat, which is emitted toward a supporting structure supporting devices disposed inside the reactor containment vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Tomohisa KURITA, Mika Tahara, Mitsuo Komuro, Toshimi Tobimatsu, Ryo Suzuki, Ryoichi Hamazaki, Noriyuki Katagiri, Masashi Tanabe
  • Patent number: 7813465
    Abstract: A pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus for a reactor container which is provided with a reactor pressure vessel containing nuclear core fuel and forms a dry well space including, a dry well cooling unit for cooling a gas in the dry well space and for producing a condensate of the gas, a circulation device for leading the gas in the dry well space to the dry well cooling unit, and a sprinkling device for sprinkling the condensate in the dry well space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshimi Tobimatsu, Seiichi Yokobori, Makoto Akinaga
  • Publication number: 20100239061
    Abstract: A water leak detection floor transversally suspended by a pedestal side wall is installed between a reactor pressure vessel and a molten core holding apparatus. If a water leak occurs at the reactor pressure vessel, the water leak detection floor receives and detects the leak water. In a core meltdown accident, corium melts and penetrates the water leak detection floor and deposits on the molten core holding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Aoki, Tomohisa Kurita, Toshimi Tobimatsu, Shinji Kubo, Mika Tahara, Ryoichi Hamazaki, Makoto Akinaga
  • Publication number: 20070076835
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor containment vessel cooling equipment has: a dry well cooler casing in a containment vessel, having an opening at its top and a shutter at its lower part; a heat transfer tube arranged at an upper part in the dry well cooler casing; a forced cooling water circulation system for feeding cooling water from outside of the containment vessel into the heat transfer tube by a pump; a blower for mobilizing gas around the heat transfer tube; an external pool container arranged outside the containment vessel and above the heat transfer tube and containing cooling water; and a gravity-driven cooling system to supply cooling water in the external pool container into the heat transfer tube, utilizing gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Inventors: Toshimi Tobimatsu, Chikako Iwaki, Kazuyoshi Aoki, Seiichi Yokobori, Yoshihiro Kojima, Makoto Akinaga, Tadashi Narabayashi
  • Publication number: 20050265511
    Abstract: A pressure suppression and decontamination apparatus for a reactor container which is provided with a reactor pressure vessel containing nuclear core fuel and forms a dry well space including, a dry well cooling unit for cooling a gas in the dry well space and for producing a condensate of the gas, a circulation device for leading the gas in the dry well space to the dry well cooling unit, and a sprinkling device for sprinkling the condensate in the dry well space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Toshimi Tobimatsu, Seiichi Yokobori, Makoto Akinaga