Patents by Inventor Azusa TAMUGI

Azusa TAMUGI 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: 20230082214
    Abstract: A coating method includes depositing a slurry including a coarsely particulate ceramic and a finely particulate ceramic on a base material configured with an oxide-based ceramics matrix composite such that a proportion of coarse particles decreases towards a surface of the base material; forming a bond coating by performing a heat treatment on the base material on which the slurry has been deposited; and forming a top coating by thermally spraying a ceramic onto the bond coating. The oxide-based ceramics matrix composite is an alumina silica type oxide-based ceramics matrix composite. The coarsely particulate ceramic and the finely particulate ceramic are alumina-based powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Mineaki MATSUMOTO, Takayuki KURIMURA, Azusa TAMUGI, Tadayuki HANADA
  • Patent number: 11530168
    Abstract: A coating method includes depositing a slurry including a coarsely particulate ceramic and a finely particulate ceramic on a base material configured with an oxide-based ceramics matrix composite such that a proportion of coarse particles decreases towards a surface of the base material; forming a bond coating by performing a heat treatment on the base material on which the slurry has been deposited; and forming a top coating by thermally spraying a ceramic onto the bond coating. The oxide-based ceramics matrix composite is an alumina silica type oxide-based ceramics matrix composite. The coarsely particulate ceramic and the finely particulate ceramic are alumina-based powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Azusa Tamugi, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11447424
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a ceramic matrix composite, having a woven fabric that has multiple fiber bundles and having a matrix that is disposed in the gaps between the fiber bundles, includes: a green body formation step for forming a green body by sintering the woven fabric infiltrated with a polymer that is a precursor to the matrix; and a densification step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer and sintering same. The densification step includes: a second infiltration step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer so as to form an infiltrated green body; a drying step for drying the infiltrated green body so as to form a dried green body; a steam treatment step for leaving the dried green body under saturation water vapor pressure so as to form a treated green body; and a sintering step for sintering the treated green body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishikawa, Akira Fukushima, Ryoma Nogami, Azusa Tamugi
  • Publication number: 20220185741
    Abstract: A ceramic matrix composite manufacturing method includes: forming a zirconia-sol containing layer that contains zirconia sol, on fabric having an interface layer formed on a periphery of each of a plurality of ceramic-made fibers; impregnating the fabric having the zirconia-sol containing layer formed, with a polymer as a precursor, to form a body; supplying oxygen to the polymer included in the body; heating the body in an inert gas atmosphere to cause a reaction of the polymer to form a matrix; and heating the body in an oxygen atmosphere to remove the interface layer, after supplying the oxygen and heating the body in the inert gas atmosphere, to generate a ceramic matrix composite in which the matrix is interposed between the fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Kosuke NISHIKAWA, Akira FUKUSHIMA, Ryoma NOGAMI, Azusa TAMUGI
  • Patent number: 10994301
    Abstract: A method for constructing an abradable coating comprises: a slurry layer formation step S2 in which a slurry layer 31 is formed on the surface of a base material 30 using a slurry containing ceramic particles and a solvent; a calcination step S3 in which the slurry layer 31 formed on the surface of the base material 30 is sintered and a sintered layer 35 to be a portion of an abradable coating layer 22 is formed; and a slurry removal step S5 in which extraneous slurry is removed after the abradable coating layer 22 has been formed on the surface of the base material 30, a plurality of the sintered layers 35 having been laminated in the abradable coating layer 22 through a plurality of repeated cycles of the slurry layer formation step S2 and the calcination step S3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kurimura, Mineaki Matsumoto, Tadayuki Hanada, Azusa Tamugi
  • Publication number: 20200283346
    Abstract: A coating method includes depositing a slurry including a coarsely particulate ceramic and a finely particulate ceramic on a base material configured with an oxide-based ceramics matrix composite such that a proportion of coarse particles decreases towards a surface of the base material; forming a bond coating by performing a heat treatment on the base material on which the slurry has been deposited; and forming a top coating by thermally spraying a ceramic onto the bond coating. The oxide-based ceramics matrix composite is an alumina silica type oxide-based ceramics matrix composite. The coarsely particulate ceramic and the finely particulate ceramic are alumina-based powder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Mineaki MATSUMOTO, Takayuki KURIMURA, Azusa TAMUGI, Tadayuki HANADA
  • Patent number: 10465548
    Abstract: A method for implementing an abradable coating comprising: a pattern-forming step in which, using a slurry containing ceramic particles and solvent, a slurry pattern is formed on the surface of a thermal barrier coating layer; and a firing step in which the slurry pattern formed on the surface of the thermal barrier coating layer is fired to form an abradable coating layer. A ceramic material included in the thermal barrier coating layer and ceramic particles included in the abradable coating layer are of the same type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kurimura, Mineaki Matsumoto, Tadayuki Hanada, Azusa Tamugi
  • Publication number: 20190225551
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a ceramic matrix composite, having a woven fabric that has multiple fiber bundles and having a matrix that is disposed in the gaps between the fiber bundles, includes: a green body formation step for forming a green body by sintering the woven fabric infiltrated with a polymer that is a precursor to the matrix; and a densification step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer and sintering same. The densification step includes: a second infiltration step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer so as to form an infiltrated green body; a drying step for drying the infiltrated green body so as to form a dried green body; a steam treatment step for leaving the dried green body under saturation water vapor pressure so as to form a treated green body; and a sintering step for sintering the treated green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Kosuke NISHIKAWA, Akira FUKUSHIMA, Ryoma NOGAMI, Azusa TAMUGI
  • Publication number: 20190143368
    Abstract: A method for constructing an abradable coating comprises: a slurry layer formation step S2 in which a slurry layer 31 is formed on the surface of a base material 30 using a slurry containing ceramic particles and a solvent; a calcination step S3 in which the slurry layer 31 formed on the surface of the base material 30 is sintered and a sintered layer 35 to be a portion of an abradable coating layer 22 is formed; and a slurry removal step S5 in which extraneous slurry is removed after the abradable coating layer 22 has been formed on the surface of the base material 30, a plurality of the sintered layers 35 having been laminated in the abradable coating layer 22 through a plurality of repeated cycles of the slurry layer formation step S2 and the calcination step S3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Takayuki KURIMURA, Mineaki MATSUMOTO, Tadayuki HANADA, Azusa TAMUGI
  • Publication number: 20180363487
    Abstract: A method for implementing an abradable coating comprising: a pattern-forming step in which, using a slurry containing ceramic particles and solvent, a slurry pattern is formed on the surface of a thermal barrier coating layer; and a firing step in which the slurry pattern formed on the surface of the thermal barrier coating layer is fired to form an abradable coating layer. A ceramic material included in the thermal barrier coating layer and ceramic particles included in the abradable coating layer are of the same type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Takayuki KURIMURA, Mineaki MATSUMOTO, Tadayuki HANADA, Azusa TAMUGI