Patents by Inventor Toshiro Hattori

Toshiro Hattori 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: 20150285546
    Abstract: This description relates to a heat pump and a method of using the heat pump. The heat pump includes a hydraulic compressor that compresses a heat medium, an oil separation and recovery device that separates oil from the heat medium discharged from the compressor and returns the separated oil to the compressor, a condenser that liquefies the heat medium compressed in the compressor, a decompression device that decompresses the heat medium liquefied in the condenser, and an evaporator that causes the heat medium to absorb heat. An intake temperature control, unit capable of controlling the temperature of the heat medium taken into the compressor is on the intake side of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Toshiro HATTORI, Yusuke ISHIZUKI
  • Publication number: 20130008194
    Abstract: This description relates to a heat pump and a method of using the heat pump. The heat pump includes a hydraulic compressor that compresses a heat medium, an oil separation and recovery device that separates oil from the heat medium discharged from the compressor and returns the separated oil to the compressor, a condenser that liquefies the heat medium compressed in the compressor, a decompression device that decompresses the heat medium liquefied in the condenser, and an evaporator that causes the heat medium to absorb heat. The aforementioned devices are connected in series and the heat medium is circulated in those devices. The heat medium can be compressed at a compression ratio, at which a discharge temperature from the compressor becomes 150 to 200° C. An intake temperature control unit which can control the temperature of the heat medium taken into the compressor is on the intake side of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: MAYEKAWA MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiro HATTORI, Yusuke ISHIZUKI
  • Patent number: 7165947
    Abstract: A screw compressor is equipped with a manually operated internal volume ratio adjusting slide valve and capacity adjusting slide valve. The compressor is simple in construction, can be produced with low cost, can accommodate decrease in suction pressure, for example, in an aged gas well, and can be operated without an electric power source for controlling the operation thereof. Also a combined screw compressor unit consisting of a plurality of screw compressors for producing high discharge pressure is provided which can accommodate high suction pressure in order not to overload the higher pressure compressor or compressors with the efficiency of the unit kept as high as possible by including at least a screw compressor according to the present invention in the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Akira Matsui, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Harumi Sato
  • Patent number: 6881040
    Abstract: A multi-stage screw compressor unit and method of operation thereof are provided, which enable operation with high efficiency always even when suction or discharge pressure fluctuates widely, the compressor unit comprising a combination of a compression stage provided with an unloader slide valve and that provided with an internal volume ratio control valve, or a combination of compression stage provided with an internal volume control valve and that of fixed internal volume ratio, or a combination of compression stages each provided with an internal volume control valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20040234381
    Abstract: A screw compressor is equipped with a manually operated internal volume ratio adjusting slide valve and capacity adjusting slide valve. The compressor is simple in construction, can be produced with low cost, can accommodate decrease in suction pressure, for example, in an aged gas well, and can be operated without an electric power source for controlling the operation thereof. Also a combined screw compressor unit consisting of a plurality of screw compressors for producing high discharge pressure is provided which can accommodate high suction pressure in order not to overload the higher pressure compressor or compressors with the efficiency of the unit kept as high as possible by including at least a screw compressor according to the present invention in the unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Applicant: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka, Akira Matsui, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi, Harumi Sato
  • Patent number: 6659729
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of operating a screw compressor equipment without reducing the efficiency, in which a screw compressor 1 of which the internal volume ratio is variable by means of an internal volume ratio control valve is driven by a driving machine 2, the discharge side of the compressor 1 is communicated with the suction side of the same by way of a bypass control valve 9 as needed, the internal volume ratio control valve 3 is always controlled to be located at a position calculated so that the internal volume ratio with which the polytropic efficiency is maximum is obtained, and gas flow rate is controlled by controlling the rotation speed under normal conditions and controlled by controlling the bypassing flow rate from the discharge side to the suction side under very low rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20030215336
    Abstract: A multi-stage screw compressor unit and method of operation thereof are provided, which enable operation with high efficiency always even when suction or discharge pressure fluctuates widely, the compressor unit comprising a combination of a compression stage provided with an unloader slide valve and that provided with an internal volume ratio control valve, or a combination of compression stage provided with an internal volume control valve and that of fixed internal volume ratio, or a combination of compression stages each provided with an internal volume control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Applicant: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6585801
    Abstract: The operating system of a gas engine accommodating to sour gas comprises a sour gas compressing and feeding part including a compressor 11 and a gas engine 12, a pre-membrane-treatment 13 for obtaining a compressed gas of proper temperature 13a removed of oil, solid mixture, etc. from the high pressure, high temperature sour gas 11a discharged from the compressor, a preceding step filter 18 for removing a minute amount of oil and water contained in the branched off gas 13b of the compressed gas of proper temperature 13a, a membrane separator for separating the gas from the filter 18 into sweet gas 21 and the hydrogen sulfide gas, and an adsorptive separator 20 through which sweet gas is obtained only at the time of starting of the compressor 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Yujiro Shinoda, Kazue Yamada
  • Publication number: 20030084787
    Abstract: The present invention provides an operating method of a gas engine accommodating to sour gas containing hydrogen sulfide and the system thereof, which enables the continuous and automatic operation of the system without causing environmental pollution by creating a high grade sweet gas through removing hydrogen and water from the sour gas to be supplied to a gas engine to drive a compressor for pressure feeding natural gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Yujiro Shinoda, Kazue Yamada
  • Patent number: 6560058
    Abstract: A positioning control device is provided which is capable of avoiding the limit cycle in which the head moves back and forth between two dead zones on both sizes of the center of the target track. When a magnetic head is in the dead zone and the head position is separated from the center of the target track, the center position of the dead zone is set as the head position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 6510016
    Abstract: A positioning control system for a disk drive can reduce static friction of the sliding type actuator to be a cause of degradation of low order spindle rotation synchronization run-out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Publication number: 20030007873
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of operating a screw compressor equipment without reducing the efficiency, in which a screw compressor 1 of which the internal volume ratio is variable by means of an internal volume ratio control valve is driven by a driving machine 2, the discharge side of the compressor 1 is communicated with the suction side of the same by way of a bypass control valve 9 as needed, the internal volume ratio control valve 3 is always controlled to be located at a position calculated so that the internal volume ratio with which the polytropic efficiency is maximum is obtained, and gas flow rate is controlled by controlling the rotation speed under normal conditions and controlled by controlling the bypassing flow rate from the discharge side to the suction side under very low rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Katsuyuki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 6414812
    Abstract: The frequency rectification filter, in principle, measures an amplitude and phase of a particular frequency and compresses the frequency. Accordingly, if no initial value is present, it is necessary to take a time more than one turning cycle. Consequently, no effect can be seen immediately after the rise of an apparatus, and head positioning takes much time. The object of the present invention is to reduce this time. According to the present invention, a state amount of the frequency rectification filter is stored in memory before unloading the head from the disc, so that at apparatus rise, the spindle rotation angle is matched so as to operate the filter, thus increasing the speed of the rise of the effect of the frequency rectification filter. Thus, the risa of the frequency entire apparatus can be performed rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 6342987
    Abstract: In a head positioning mechanism has a micro tracking actuator which is between a carriage and a supporting spring for making the supporting spring be rotated relative to the carriage to adjust a position of a magnetic head, the micro tracking actuator has a pair of coils held to one of said carriage and said supporting spring. Each of the coils generates magnetic flux in response to a flow of electric current therein. The micro tracking actuator further has a magnet arrangement held to another of the carriage and the supporting spring to face the coil means in a predetermined direction. The magnet arrangement traverses the magnetic flux to have a particular size which varies in accordance with a predetermined relation in response to a relative movement between the coils and the magnet arrangement. The carriage is movably mounted to a magnetic disk device to which the head positioning mechanism applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Hiroshi Kajitani, Masatomo Mizuta, Yoshiho Yanagita
  • Patent number: 6320720
    Abstract: To provide head-positioning system which can control tracking movement of the magnetic head reliably and smoothly with a high speed, enlarging the controllable frequency band of a fine tracking actuator by suppressing interference between the fine tracking actuator and a main actuator (27), a head-position control circuit of the head-positioning system comprises: a phase compensating controller (31) for obtaining deviation information of the read/write head relative to a designated position from the positional information (S12) detected by the read/write head, and generating a positioning correcting signal (S31) for feedback-controlling the fine tracking actuator to drive the slider supporting spring (22) with a torque value to make the read/write head follow the designated position, according to the deviation information (S12); and a vibration suppressing controller (32) for forward-controlling the main actuator to maintain an angular position of carriages (25) to be fixed by controlling the main actuator (2
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 6202424
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a compression system to effectively compress contaminated gas containing water and other corrosive substances (natural gas) without suffering any adverse effects caused by toxic substances, including impurities, and which includes a path which heats the compressor using gas with a low dew-point temperature, such as water free gas or purified gas from outside the system, that is substantially free of water, or discharged gas after having been compressed by the compressor, a separator provided upstream of the suction section of the compressor, which separates water and the like from natural gas by cooling and condensation, and a dew-point maintaining arrangement for maintaining the discharged temperature of gas from the compressor above the dew-point temperature of the compressed gas when compressing natural gas from which water has been separated by the separator and characterized in that, when direct compression of the actual gas (contaminated gas) is necessar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Fumihiko Kaneko
  • Patent number: 6061208
    Abstract: A head positioning mechanism for a magnetic disc device includes a support spring having one end portion that supports a magnetic head, and the other end portion at which a rotating shaft is disposed. A carriage has one end portion that pivotally supports the rotating shaft of the support spring, and another end portion that is connected to a rotary actuator, to position the magnetic head to a predetermined position on the magnetic disc in cooperation with the carriage and the support spring. A stopper is provided on the carriage, and restricts a rotatable range of the support spring on the carriage. A positioning control at a head precision seek is facilitated as a result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 6043957
    Abstract: In a head positioning mechanism has a micro tracking actuator which is between a carriage and a supporting spring for making the supporting spring be rotated relative to the carriage to adjust a position of a magnetic head, the micro tracking actuator has a pair of coils held to one of said carriage and said supporting spring. Each of the coils generates magnetic flux in response to a flow of electric current therein. The micro tracking actuator further has a magnet arrangement held to another of the carriage and the supporting spring to face the coil means in a predetermined direction. The magnet arrangement traverses the magnetic flux to have a particular size which varies in accordance with a predetermined relation in response to a relative movement between the coils and the magnet arrangement. The carriage is movably mounted to a magnetic disk device to which the head positioning mechanism applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiro Hattori, Hiroshi Kajitani, Masatomo Mizuta, Yoshiho Yanagita
  • Patent number: 5867342
    Abstract: A state variable estimator is operative, in a change-over of a magnetic head, to determine a predicted value of a state variable of a frequency-shaped filter in a follow-up to a track after the change-over based on a current head position of thereof before the change-over, by using a set of calculated coefficients representative of an amplitude and a phase difference relative to the current head position of a sine wave to be calculated by a discrete Fourrier series, as the sine wave represents the state variable of the frequency-shaped filter when the track is followed up, so that a state variable re-setting of control system is achieved to minimize a square error integration of the predicted value and a state variable of a phase compensating filter, as the change-over is a step response of a closed loop control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 5465183
    Abstract: A control system rotates disks as information storage media to position a head in a disk drive that records or reproduces data. An actuator swings the head in the radial direction of the disk. Positioning of the head is performed by a servo control system adjusting a drive current supplied to the actuator based on the value of the drive current and head position information. Parameters for the actuator are estimated based on the head position information and the value of the drive current obtained when the head is vibrated at one or more frequencies in a plurality of positions. The estimated parameters are used to adjust input/output signals for the servo control system to correct the preset parameters for the control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 7, 1995
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Toshiro Hattori