Patents by Inventor Toshikazu Shigetomi
Toshikazu Shigetomi 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: 11891976Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naota Watanabe, Masaaki Shibata, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Yuge
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Publication number: 20230003187Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Naota WATANABE, Masaaki SHIBATA, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Atsushi YUGE
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Patent number: 11493020Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naota Watanabe, Masaaki Shibata, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Yuge
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Patent number: 10940937Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
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Publication number: 20200158078Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Naota WATANABE, Masaaki SHIBATA, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Atsushi YUGE
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Patent number: 10343356Abstract: To reduce a time required for repairing a honeycomb core sandwich panel. A repair method according to the present invention is a repair method, in which a repair patch 20 is disposed on a repair target portion that exists on the side of a repair surface 1A of a honeycomb core sandwich panel 1, the honeycomb core sandwich panel 1 being formed by sandwiching a honeycomb structured core 10 with a plurality of cells between skins 11 and 12, the method including: a heating step of heating the repair patch 20; and a cooling step of cooling the honeycomb core sandwich panel 1 from the side of a second surface 1B opposing the repair surface 1A of the honeycomb core sandwich panel 1.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Hatano, Masayoshi Suhara, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Shuhei Muto
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Patent number: 10336020Abstract: The present invention provides a device which can uniformize heat distribution by using an existing heater mat for repairing or joining members. A heat dispersion device includes a bag with a fluid sealed inside, and is disposed on a second surface of a heater mat which has a first surface to be directed toward an object to be heated and the second surface opposite to the first surface. The fluid inside the bag is preferably heated with a heat source.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Shigetomi, Masayoshi Suhara, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Patent number: 10288584Abstract: The present invention provides a method for locating a machining position in a repair material that is arranged on a member including a machined portion formed by predetermined machining, the method including: a step of arranging a marker including a portion having a different propagation characteristic of an ultrasonic wave from that of a peripheral portion in the machined portion existing in the member before the repair material is arranged on the member; and a step of applying the ultrasonic wave to the member covered with the repair material and locating the machining position at a position of the marker captured by the ultrasonic wave after the repair material is arranged on the member.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Shigetomi, Masatsugu Shimizu, Ryuichi Nagase, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Patent number: 10202202Abstract: The present invention provides a method for repairing a lightning protection material that is made of a metal material and is provided along a surface of a member formed by using a fiber reinforced resin includes: bonding a repair material made of a metal material over a lost region of the member where the lightning protection material is lost by using a liquid adhesive and a sheet-shaped holder that contains and holds the adhesive and is arranged at the lost region.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Shigetomi, Masayoshi Suhara, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Patent number: 9996946Abstract: To provide a structure maintenance supporting system that can accurately and quickly associate any position on a structure with a position in the drawing of the structure that is referred to at the time of maintenance. A maintenance supporting system includes an image displaying device that displays an image of a structure to be referred to when any damaged position on the structure is maintained, and a processing unit that performs calculation to associate the damaged position with a position in the image. The processing unit includes a damaged position calculating section that calculates a target coordinate which is the coordinate of the damaged position using known coordinates given to a plurality of reference points, and a position specifying section that specifies a position in the image corresponding to the target coordinate with an indication on the image displaying device.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Suhara, Toshikazu Shigetomi
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Patent number: 9815546Abstract: A method for repairing a honeycomb core sandwich structural body according to the present invention is a method in which a damaged portion that is formed in a honeycomb core sandwich structural body where a honeycomb structured core is held between a first outer skin and a second outer skin and that reaches the core through the first outer skin is repaired, the method including: a repair material mounting step of mounting a repair material on the damaged portion, the repair material including a patch that covers an opening of the damaged portion, and one or a plurality of braces that support the patch; a patch bonding step of bonding the patch to the first outer skin; and a brace bonding step of bonding the brace to the second outer skin or the core.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kotoyo Mizuno, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hideaki Tanaka, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Patent number: 9809298Abstract: There is provided a drainage system of an aircraft which discharges moisture having entered inside horizontal tails, which are structures of an airframe of an aircraft, toward the rear end of a fuselage, the drainage system including: a drainage channel which includes an introduction end and a discharge end, and by a capillary action delivers moisture introduced from the introduction end toward the discharge end; and a heater which heats and dries the moisture delivered through the drainage channel. The drainage channel of the present invention is preferably composed of a paper drainage material. It is also preferable that the introduction end of the drainage channel is provided in a lowermost region in the vertical direction within an area in which moisture can accumulate inside the horizontal tails while the aircraft is parked.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
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Patent number: 9701073Abstract: There is provided a method for repairing a member comprising a fiber-reinforced plastic, which method can repair a through hole easily at a low cost. When a through hole 20 is repaired, a temporary hole 11 is formed, a fabric sheet 30 comprising reinforcing fibers is rolled into a cylindrical shape and inserted into the temporary hole 11, the fabric sheet 30 is impregnated with a resin, the resin is cured, and a new through hole 20? is formed.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Shigetomi, Atsumi Tanaka, Kaoru Onohara, Koichi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9475238Abstract: The present invention relates to a repair method using a pre-cured repairing patch, and a repaired product obtained from repairing using the repairing patch, and the present invention securely bonds a repairing patch, where an out-of-plane stiffness is required, to a repair target. In order to cover a repair target portion 23 formed in an outer panel 2 with a repairing patch 30, and bond the repairing patch 30 to a repair target, repairing plates 31, 32 that are formed of fibers and thermosetting resin, and pre-cured before repairing are used as the repairing patch 30, and a laminating step S4 of laminating the repairing plates 31, 32, and a bonding step S7 of bonding the repairing plates 31, 32 to each other are performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Masayoshi Suhara, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hideaki Tanaka, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Publication number: 20160236768Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2016Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
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Publication number: 20160236769Abstract: There is provided a drainage system of an aircraft which discharges moisture having entered inside horizontal tails, which are structures of an airframe of an aircraft, toward the rear end of a fuselage, the drainage system including: a drainage channel which includes an introduction end and a discharge end, and by a capillary action delivers moisture introduced from the introduction end toward the discharge end; and a heater which heats and dries the moisture delivered through the drainage channel. The drainage channel of the present invention is preferably composed of a paper drainage material. It is also preferable that the introduction end of the drainage channel is provided in a lowermost region in the vertical direction within an area in which moisture can accumulate inside the horizontal tails while the aircraft is parked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Hiromu OKAMOTO, Masayoshi SUHARA, Ryuichi NAGASE, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Morimasa ISHIDA
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Patent number: 9365282Abstract: A method of repairing a composite material is provided in which a frustum-shaped portion of a composite material is removed, and the composite material and a repair material are bonded with each other while evacuating. The repair method includes step S2 of removing a damaged part 11 from the front side so as to pass through in the thickness direction while leaving a support wall protruding inward in the radial direction from the periphery of the top face of the frustum-shaped portion; step S3 of sealing the back side by placing a sealing plate, which is inserted from the front side into a through hole formed by the removing step, on the support wall; step S5 of placing the repair material through an adhesive on the composite material where the frustum-shaped portion has been removed; and step S6 of evacuating in a state in which the front side is sealed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Shigetomi, Masayoshi Suhara, Morimasa Ishida, Shuhei Muto
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Publication number: 20160137316Abstract: The present invention provides a method for locating a machining position in a repair material that is arranged on a member including a machined portion formed by predetermined machining, the method including: a step of arranging a marker including a portion having a different propagation characteristic of an ultrasonic wave from that of a peripheral portion in the machined portion existing in the member before the repair material is arranged on the member; and a step of applying the ultrasonic wave to the member covered with the repair material and locating the machining position at a position of the marker captured by the ultrasonic wave after the repair material is arranged on the member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Masatsugu SHIMIZU, Ryuichi NAGASE, Morimasa ISHIDA, Shuhei MUTO
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Publication number: 20160137310Abstract: The present invention provides a method for repairing a lightning protection material that is made of a metal material and is provided along a surface of a member formed by using a fiber reinforced resin includes: bonding a repair material made of a metal material over a lost region of the member where the lightning protection material is lost by using a liquid adhesive and a sheet-shaped holder that contains and holds the adhesive and is arranged at the lost region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2015Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Masayoshi SUHARA, Morimasa ISHIDA, Shuhei MUTO
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Patent number: 9186756Abstract: A repair method includes the steps of: (A) forming a repair cavity 14 by removing a honeycomb core 11 including a damaged portion with a front-side skin 12; (B) inserting, into the repair cavity 14, a repair honeycomb core 21 whose end surface 30 on a side to which a repair patch 22 is bonded is subjected to flattening treatment; (C) disposing the repair patch on the flattened end surface 30 of the repair honeycomb core 21 via a film-like adhesive 24; and (D) bonding the repair honeycomb core 21 to an existing portion of the honeycomb sandwich structural body 10 and to the repair patch 22, and curing the repair patch 22 under a reduced-pressure atmosphere associated with heating.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Toshikazu Shigetomi