Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Koizumi
Tsutomu Koizumi 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).
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Patent number: 8965469Abstract: Disclosed are an oxide superconductor tape and a method of manufacturing the oxide superconductor tape capable of improving the length and characteristics of superconductor tape and obtaining stabilized characteristics across the entire length thereof. A Y-class superconductor tape (10), as an oxide superconductor tape, comprises a tape (13) further comprising a tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11), and a first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) that is formed by IBAD upon the tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11); and a second buffer layer (gap layer) (14), further comprising a lateral face portion (14a) that is extended to the lateral faces of the first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) upon the tape (13) by RTR RF-magnetron sputtering.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: SWCC Show Cable Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuhisa Nakanishi, Yuji Aoki, Tsutomu Koizumi, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8833810Abstract: A vehicle handle apparatus is provided with: a handle base fixed to a door of a vehicle; an operation handle rotatably connected to the handle base; and a relay lever which is rotatably connected to the handle base, and which is driven to rotate around a pivot by operating the operation handle. The relay lever is provided with: a sub-lever member including a connecting portion connected to an operating force transmitting member coupled to a door lock device in the door; and a main lever member which is driven to rotate by operating the operation handle. The sub-lever member and the main lever member are pivotally supported around the pivot so as to relatively rotate with respect to each other. The main lever member is connected with the sub-lever member by a connecting element when the connecting element is in a connecting position.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Alpha CorporationInventors: Tsutomu Koizumi, Satoshi Kubota
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Patent number: 8476199Abstract: This invention provides a rare earth-type tape-shaped oxide superconductor having excellent mechanical strength and superconducting properties and a composite substrate using for the same. Non-oriented and non-magnetic Ni-9 at % W alloy tapes (11, 21) were bonded onto both sides of a non-oriented and non-magnetic hastelloy tape (100) by a normal temperature bonding process, and an Ni-3 at % W alloy tape (12) having a cubic texture was bonded onto the surface of the tape (11) by a normal temperature bonding process. Thereafter, the heat-treatment was given in a reducing atmosphere and a bonding layer (50a) etc. was formed on the adhesive interface of each layer. Next, a (Ce, Gd)O2 intermediate layer (13) and a Ce2Zr2O7 intermediate layer (14) by an MOD process, a CeO2 intermediate layer (15), a YBCO superconducting film (16) by a TFA-MOD method, and a silver stabilization layer (17) were stacked sequentially on the surface of the tape (12). A critical current value (Ic) of this superconductor showed 150 A.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, The Juridicial Foundation, SWCC Showa Cable Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Aoki, Tsutomu Koizumi, Yasuo Takahashi, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 8431515Abstract: A tape-shaped oxide superconductor includes a 15 to 100 nm-thick Ce—Gd—O-based oxide layer (Ce:Gd=40:60 to 70:30 molar ratio) and a 100 nm-thick Ce—Zr—O-based oxide layer (Ce:Zr=50:50 molar ratio) as first and second intermediate layers are formed by MOD on an Ni-base alloy substrate having a half value width (FWHM:??) of 6.5 degrees. A 150 nm-thick CeO2 oxide layer as a third intermediate layer is formed on the second intermediate layer by RF sputtering. A 1 ?m-thick YBCO superconducting layer is formed by TFA-MOD on the three-layer structure. In the tape-shaped oxide superconductor, the ?? values of the first to third intermediate layers are (6.0 to 6.5) degrees, (6.0 to 6.6) degrees, and (6.0 to 6.6) degrees, respectively, and the Jc value of the YBCO superconducting layer in liquid nitrogen is 1.8 to 2.2 MA/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2008Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignees: International Superconductivity Technology Center, The Juridical Foundation, SWCC Showa Cable Systems Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Yuji Aoki, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20130085071Abstract: Disclosed are an oxide superconductor tape and a method of manufacturing the oxide superconductor tape capable of improving the length and characteristics of superconductor tape and obtaining stabilized characteristics across the entire length thereof. A Y-class superconductor tape (10), as an oxide superconductor tape, comprises a tape (13) further comprising a tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11), and a first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) that is formed by IBAD upon the tape-shaped non-oriented metallic substrate (11); and a second buffer layer (gap layer) (14), further comprising a lateral face portion (14a) that is extended to the lateral faces of the first buffer layer (sheet layer) (12) upon the tape (13) by RTR RF-magnetron sputtering.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Inventors: Tatsuhisa Nakanishi, Yuji Aoki, Tsutomu Koizumi, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8062028Abstract: This invention provides a heat treatment apparatus for an oxide superconducting wire that is easy to control atmosphere during baking and can realize a high manufacturing speed. A heat treatment apparatus (1) comprises a heat treating furnace (4) and a cylindrical rotator (5), rotatable about a horizontal rotating axis, provided within the heat treating furnace (4). The rotator (5) in its cylindrical body (5a) have a number of through-holes (5b) formed evenly over the whole surface of the cylindrical body (5a). One end of the cylindrical body (5a) is hermetically sealed by a lid. On the other end, a gas discharge pipe (7) for discharging gas within the cylindrical body to the outside of the heat treating furnace (4) is connected to the lid. A plurality of gas supply pipes (8) are symmetrically provided separately from each other on the outer surface of the cylindrical body (5a).Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: International Superconductivity Technology Center, The Jurdical FoundationInventors: Takayo Hasegawa, Tsutomu Koizumi
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Publication number: 20110233945Abstract: A vehicle handle apparatus is provided with: a handle base fixed to a door of a vehicle; an operation handle rotatably connected to the handle base; and a relay lever which is rotatably connected to the handle base, and which is driven to rotate around a pivot by operating the operation handle. The relay lever is provided with: a sub-lever member including a connecting portion connected to an operating force transmitting member coupled to a door lock device in the door; and a main lever member which is driven to rotate by operating the operation handle. The sub-lever member and the main lever member are pivotally supported around the pivot so as to relatively rotate with respect to each other. The main lever member is connected with the sub-lever member by a connecting element when the connecting element is in a connecting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2009Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: ALPHA CORPORATIONInventors: Tsutomu Koizumi, Satoshi Kubota
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Patent number: 7976059Abstract: An air bag device includes a retainer to which an inflator and a folded air bag are attached. The retainer is fixed to a steering wheel armature and has a plurality of hooks formed in a side wall portion thereof. A module cover covers the air bag and each hook of the plurality of hooks is engaged with an opening of a leg piece portion projected from a rear side. The module cover can be vertically moved with respect to the retainer. A horn plate has a plurality of contacts attached along a circumferential edge of the module cover and moved integrally with the module cover at a horn operating time. A contact plate is attached to the retainer. A horn spring is arranged between the horn plate and the retainer. The contact plate includes a clip portion fastened to the retainer and a leaf spring portion abutting against one of the contacts of the horn plate at the horn operating time.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Keiichiro Fujita, Tsutomu Koizumi, Takayuki Hisajima
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Publication number: 20100282244Abstract: This invention provides a heat treatment apparatus for an oxide superconducting wire that is easy to control atmosphere during baking and can realize a high manufacturing speed. A heat treatment apparatus (1) comprises a heat treating furnace (4) and a cylindrical rotator (5), rotatable about a horizontal rotating axis, provided within the heat treating furnace (4). The rotator (5) in its cylindrical body (5a) have a number of through-holes (5b) formed evenly over the whole surface of the cylindrical body (5a). One end of the cylindrical body (5a) is hermetically sealed by a lid. On the other end, a gas discharge pipe (7) for discharging gas within the cylindrical body to the outside of the heat treating furnace (4) is connected to the lid. A plurality of gas supply pipes (8) are symmetrically provided separately from each other on the outer surface of the cylindrical body (5a).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2007Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicants: SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., INTERNATIONAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER, THE JURIDICAL FOUNDATIONInventors: Takayo Hasegawa, Tsutomu Koizumi
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Publication number: 20100197506Abstract: This invention provides a tape-shaped oxide superconductor which can prevent the diffusion of elements constituting a metallic substrate into a superconducting layer and cracking of an intermediate layer and improve the orientation of the superconducting layer. A 15 to 100 nm-thick Ce—Gd—O-based oxide layer (2) (Ce:Gd=40:60 to 70:30 molar ratio) as a first intermediate layer and a 100 nm-thick Ce—Zr—O-based oxide layer (3) (Ce:Zr=50:50 molar ratio) as a second intermediate layer are formed by an MOD method on an Ni-base alloy substrate (1) having a half value width (FMHW: ??) of 6.5 degrees. A 150 nm-thick CeO2 oxide layer (4) as a third intermediate layer is further formed on the second intermediate layer by an RF sputtering method. A 1 ?m-thick YBCO superconducting layer (5) is formed by a TFA-MOD method on the intermediate layer having a three-layer structure. In the tape-shaped oxide superconductor, the ?? values of the first to third intermediate layers are (6.0 to 6.5) degrees, (6.0 to 6.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2008Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicants: SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD, INTERNATIONAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY CENTER, THE JURIDICAL FOUNDATIONInventors: Yasuo Takahashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Yuji Aoki, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20100099573Abstract: This invention provides a rare earth-type tape-shaped oxide superconductor having excellent mechanical strength and superconducting properties and a composite substrate using for the same. Non-oriented and non-magnetic Ni-9 at % W alloy tapes (11, 21) were bonded onto both sides of a non-oriented and non-magnetic hastelloy tape (100) by a normal temperature bonding process, and an Ni-3 at % W alloy tape (12) having a cubic texture was bonded onto the surface of the tape (11) by a normal temperature bonding process. Thereafter, the heat-treatment was given in a reducing atmosphere and a bonding layer (50a) etc. was formed on the adhesive interface of each layer. Next, a (Ce, Gd) O2 intermediate layer (13) and a Ce2Zr2O7 intermediate layer (14) by an MOD process, a CeO2 intermediate layer (15), a YBCO superconducting film (16) by a TFA-MOD method, and a silver stabilization layer (17) were stacked sequentially on the surface of the tape (12). A critical current value (Ic) of this superconductor showed 150 A.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: Yuji Aoki, Tsutomu Koizumi, Yasuo Takahashi, Atsushi Kaneko, Takayo Hasegawa, Hiroshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 7690678Abstract: A floating type air bag device able to prevent backlash of a module cover and easily position the module cover with respect to a steering wheel without dispersion and a sacrifice of an operation feeling of horn sounding is provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2006Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Autoliv Development ABInventors: Keiichiro Fujita, Tsutomu Koizumi, Takayuki Hisajima
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Publication number: 20090121463Abstract: A floating type air bag device able to prevent backlash of a module cover and easily position the module cover with respect to a steering wheel without dispersion and a sacrifice of an operation feeling of horn sounding is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Keiichiro Fujita, Tsutomu Koizumi, Takayuki Hisajima
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Patent number: 7323032Abstract: This invention is provided for improvement of corrosion-resistant property of a crucible and for promotion of safety in a pyrochemical reprocessing method for the spent nuclear fuel. The spent nuclear fuel is dissolved in a molten salt placed in the crucible. In a pyrochemical reprocessing method, the nuclear fuel is deposited, and the crucible (2) is heated by induction heating. Cooling media (5, 6) are supplied to cool down, and a molten salt layer (7) is maintained by keeping balance between the heating and the cooling, and a solidified salt layer (8) is formed on inner wall surface of the crucible.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2004Date of Patent: January 29, 2008Assignee: Japan Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Tadahiro Washiya, Kenji Koizumi
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Publication number: 20070163386Abstract: This invention is provided for improvement of corrosion-resistant property of a crucible and for promotion of safety in a pyrochemical reprocessing method for the spent nuclear fuel. The spent nuclear fuel is dissolved in a molten salt placed in the crucible. In a pyrochemical reprocessing method, the nuclear fuel is deposited, and the crucible (2) is heated by induction heating. Cooling media (5, 6) are supplied to cool down, and a molten salt layer (7) is maintained by keeping balance between the heating and the cooling, and a solidified salt layer (8) is formed on inner wall surface of the crucible.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2004Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: JAPAN NUCLEAR CYCLE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEInventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Tadahiro Washiya, Kenji Koizumi
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Patent number: 7143969Abstract: A decladding device of spent nuclear fuel easily and efficiently removes fuel pins from the spent nuclear fuel. Spent nuclear fuel pins P, made of austenitic stainless steel, and in which the spent nuclear fuel is filled, are fed by a feeder 7 one by one or by a unit of several pins and finely sheared into fragments by a shredder 1 having plural rotating blades 4, 5 so that fragments are of a size of 1 to 2 mm or less. The sheared fragments are separated into a fuel pin portion and a nuclear fuel portion by a magnetic separator 20. The magnetic separator 20 comprises a vibration feeder 27 feeding the sheared fragments and is arranged below the shredder 1. Without using a dissolving liquid of nitric acid, decladding is done and the spent nuclear fuel can be efficiently obtained.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Japn Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Seiya Yamada, Masayuki Takeuchi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Kazumasa Suyama, Kazuo Takami, Teruo Hara
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Publication number: 20050028324Abstract: A method for treatment of uranium-containing wastes, which realizes the decontamination of steel-based metallic wastes such as carbon steel or stainless steel containing nuclear fuel materials such as uranium or plutonium, produced from nuclear facilities, simultaneously with the reduction of volume thereof. Spent nuclear fuel (uranium) 6, which is mixed with hull 5 as stainless-based metal, is separated from the stainless-based metal, through the separation of uranium that constitutes the spent nuclear fuel 6 as oxides by melting the stainless-based metal wastes.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: February 10, 2005Applicants: MITSUBISHI MATERIAL CORPORATION, Japan Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Seiya Yamada, Masayuki Takeuchi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Kazuo Kusaba, Minoru Murata
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Publication number: 20050018804Abstract: Decladding method and device of spent nuclear fuel are provided by which fuel pins can be easily and efficiently removed from the spent nuclear fuel. Spent nuclear fuel pins P, made of austenitic stainless steel, in which the spent nuclear fuel is filled are fed by a feeder 7 one by one or by a unit of several pins and finely sheared into fragments by a shredder 1 comprising plural rotating blades 4, 5 so that the fragments are of a size of 1 to 2 mm or less. The sheared fragments are separated into a fuel pin portion and a nuclear fuel portion by a magnetic separator 20. The magnetic separator 20 comprises a vibration feeder 27 feeding the sheared fragments and is arranged below the shredder 1. Without using a dissolving liquid of nitric acid or the like, decladding is done and the spent nuclear fuel can be efficiently obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2004Publication date: January 27, 2005Inventors: Seiya Yamada, Masayuki Takeuchi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Kazumasa Suyama, Kazuo Takami, Teruo Hara
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Patent number: 6793894Abstract: This invention is provided for improvement of corrosion-resistant property of a crucible and for promotion of safety in a pyrochemical reprocessing method for the spent nuclear fuel. The spent nuclear fuel is dissolved in a molten salt placed in the crucible. In a pyrochemical reprocessing method, the nuclear fuel is deposited, and the crucible (2) is heated by induction heating. Cooling media (5, 6) are supplied to cool down, and a molten salt layer (7) is maintained by keeping balance between the heating and the cooling, and a solidified salt layer (8) is formed on inner wall surface of the crucible.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Japan Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Tadahiro Washiya, Kenji Koizumi
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Publication number: 20020192134Abstract: This invention is provided for improvement of corrosion-resistant property of a crucible and for promotion of safety in a pyrochemical reprocessing method for the spent nuclear fuel. The spent nuclear fuel is dissolved in a molten salt placed in the crucible. In a pyrochemical reprocessing method, the nuclear fuel is deposited, and the crucible (2) is heated by induction heating. Cooling media (5, 6) are supplied to cool down, and a molten salt layer (7) is maintained by keeping balance between the heating and the cooling, and a solidified salt layer (8) is formed on inner wall surface of the crucible.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: December 19, 2002Applicant: Japan Nuclear Cycle Development InstituteInventors: Hiroshi Hayashi, Tsutomu Koizumi, Tadahiro Washiya, Kenji Koizumi