Patents by Inventor Toshio Abe

Toshio Abe 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: 20220344980
    Abstract: The stator for a rotating electrical machine includes an annular first iron core part, which is a stacked body including electrical steel plates, and second iron core part, which is a stacked body including an amorphous soft magnetic metal or a nanocrystalline soft magnetic metal, wherein: the annular first iron core part includes a plurality of tooth parts which protrude toward the inner circumferential side and around which a coil is wound, and first groove parts formed within each tooth part from an outer circumferential surface; and the second iron core parts are disposed in the first groove parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Mamoru KIMURA, Hirohisa SANO, Kyohei AIMUTA, Toshio ABE, Motoki OHTA
  • Patent number: 11364989
    Abstract: A wing used for an aircraft includes a configuration member formed of a composite material. The configuration member is divided into a plurality of regions along a surface thereof. The plurality of regions include a first region formed of the composite material of a high strength type, and a second region formed of the composite material of a high elasticity type having higher rigidity than the high strength type. The first region includes any region closest to a wing end side out of the plurality of regions, and the second region includes a region closest to the wing end side and a trailing edge side out of the plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Nomura, Satoshi Kodama, Takaaki Yumitori, Kiyoka Takagi, Tooru Shitani, Toshio Abe
  • Patent number: 11292576
    Abstract: A composite material includes stacked reinforced fiber substrates and has a thickness-varying part whose thickness in a stacking direction changes from a large thickness to a small thickness. The reinforced fiber substrate that has the drop-off portion and is positioned between a base substrate and a cover substrate in the stacking direction is set as a cut substrate. Stress analysis is performed on the base substrate, the cut substrate, and the cover substrate to calculate an evaluation value concerning stress on the cut substrate. A reinforced fiber substrate in the thickness-varying part is set at the cut substrate, based on the calculated evaluation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota Kamo, Kiyoka Takagi, Tooru Shitani, Toshio Abe, Sae Obata, Kosuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11267549
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a resin sheet includes a coating step; a heating step; and a pressurizing step. In the coating step, linear metal nanomaterial is coated on a surface of a resin film having thermal plasticity. In the heating step, the resin film having the linear metal nanomaterial coated on the surface thereof is heated and softened. In the pressurizing step, the resin film having the linear metal nanomaterial coated on the surface thereof is pressurized to press the linear metal nanomaterial along a direction orthogonal to the surface on which the linear metal nanomaterial is coated. Thus, the coated linear metal nanomaterial penetrates the resin film to obtain the resin sheet containing the linear metal nanomaterial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Toshio Abe, Naomoto Ishikawa, Toshiyuki Takayanagi, Mikio Muraoka
  • Patent number: 11167509
    Abstract: A composite-material molding apparatus for molding a composite material, wherein the molding apparatus is provided with: a main body; a composite-material layer in which a molding face for molding a composite material is formed, the composite-material layer coating the surface of the main body; a filamentous fiber-optic temperature sensor embedded in the composite-material layer; a heating unit provided inside the main body; and a control device for controlling the heating unit on the basis of the temperature measured by the fiber-optic temperature sensor; the fiber-optic temperature sensor being disposed in planar fashion in a plane parallel to the molding face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Toshio Abe
  • Publication number: 20210276300
    Abstract: A composite material includes a web portion and a flange portion disposed at an end portion of the web portion. The flange portion is formed from fiber sheets laminated and has a surface on one side in a laminating direction of the flange portion serving as an inner surface to which the end portion of the web portion is connected and a surface on the other side in the laminating direction serving as an outer surface. The inner surface of the flange portion has a tapered surface having a thickness that is reduced from a base portion to which the end portion of the web portion is connected toward a front end portion in the laminating direction. The flange portion includes an outermost surface fiber sheet disposed on the tapered surface, the outermost surface fiber sheet serving as the fiber sheet on an outermost surface that covers the tapered surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Kiyoka TAKAGI, Sota KAMO, Toshio ABE, Jun ISHIDA, Katsuya YOSHINO, Toshiaki ENOKIDA, Tetsuya KATO, Toshiyuki YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11111348
    Abstract: A method is for treating a surface of a resin material layer. The method includes a first step of introducing as a substituent at least one selected from the group consisting of an acid halide and an alkyl halide into an aromatic polyether-based resin included in the resin material layer by Friedel-Crafts reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Koichi Hasegawa, Toshio Abe, Kiyoka Takagi, Takashi Nishino, Takuya Matsumoto, Akira Miyagaki
  • Patent number: 11065832
    Abstract: A bladder bag is a mold for molding inside of a composite material structure. The composite material structure includes a narrow portion formed by narrowing a part of the inside and a space portion formed so as to be adjacent to the narrow portion. The bladder bag includes a bladder bag main body and a cord-like member. The bladder bag main body includes a narrow molding portion for molding the narrow portion of the composite material structure, a space molding portion for molding the space portion of the composite material structure, and an air intake for introducing air. The cord-like member is provided inside the bladder bag main body, passes through the narrow molding portion from the air intake, and is connected to an inner surface of the space molding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoka Takagi, Jun Ishida, Sota Kamo, Katsuya Yoshino, Toshio Abe, Koichi Hasegawa, Yoshihiro Sugiyama, Takashi Ishida
  • Patent number: 11065831
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method is for designing a composite material in which reinforcement fiber base materials are laminated. The composite material includes a hole extending in a lamination direction of the reinforcement fiber base materials and a reinforcement part provided around the hole. The method includes calculating a strain value generated in the composite material based on design factors and a predetermined load condition, the design factors including a shape of the hole, a shape of the reinforcement part, and an orientation angle of each of the reinforcement fiber base materials in respective layers of the reinforcement part; and optimizing the design factors based on a genetic algorithm such that the calculated strain value tends to decrease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sota Kamo, Kiyoka Takagi, Tooru Shitani, Toshio Abe, Shinya Honda
  • Publication number: 20210206126
    Abstract: A composite-material molding apparatus for molding a composite material, wherein the molding apparatus is provided with: a main body; a composite-material layer in which a molding face for molding a composite material is formed, the composite-material layer coating the surface of the main body; a filamentous fiber-optic temperature sensor embedded in the composite-material layer; a heating unit provided inside the main body; and a control device for controlling the heating unit on the basis of the temperature measured by the fiber-optic temperature sensor; the fiber-optic temperature sensor being disposed in planar fashion in a plane parallel to the molding face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki SHIMIZU, Toshio ABE
  • Patent number: 10994513
    Abstract: A composite structure includes a stepped portion formed by laminating a plurality of plies with end surfaces thereof being shifted from each other. The composite structure includes a body portion which includes a first structure portion where a first ply is laminated on a top layer of the first structure portion, a second structure portion where a second ply is laminated on a top layer of the second structure portion, and the stepped portion disposed between the first structure portion and the second structure portion, the second ply being positioned at a distance from the first ply in a lamination direction, and a first cover ply which includes a covering portion covering the stepped portion, one end portion, and the other end portion and is formed so as to cover only a part of a surface of the first ply or a part of a surface of the second ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kashiwagi, Yoshinori Nonaka, Kiyoka Takagi, Tooru Shitani, Toshio Abe
  • Publication number: 20210046678
    Abstract: A pressure head is provided facing a magnetic field coil via the composite material. The magnetic field coil is provided on one side of the composite material, and the pressure head is provided on another side of the composite material. The pressure head includes a pressure head body and a high thermal conductive material layer. The pressure head body is formed of a material transparent to a magnetic field applied by the magnetic field coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuyuki KAMIHARA, Kengo YAMAGUCHI, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Toshio ABE, Mikio MURAOKA
  • Publication number: 20210039339
    Abstract: A method for molding a composite material includes a conductive wire-shaped material arrangement step and a magnetic field application step. The conductive wire-shaped material arrangement step is a step for arranging, in a pre-reaction composite material including reinforcing fibers, a plurality of conductive wire-shaped materials along a direction intersecting the reinforcing fibers with intervals wider than intervals of the reinforcing fibers in a plane on which the reinforcing fibers are arranged. The magnetic field application step is a step for applying a magnetic field in a direction intersecting the plane on which the reinforcing fibers are arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Nobuyuki KAMIHARA, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Toshio ABE, Mikio MURAOKA, Toshiyuki TAKAYANAGI, Naomoto ISHIKAWA, Wataru NISHIMURA, Sota KAMO, Tomoharu DENGO, Takashi ISHIDA, Yukihiro YOSHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200317876
    Abstract: A method is for treating a surface of a resin material layer. The method includes a first step of introducing as a substituent at least one selected from the group consisting of an acid halide and an alkyl halide into an aromatic polyether-based resin included in the resin material layer by Friedel-Crafts reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., National University Corporation KOBE University
    Inventors: Koichi HASEGAWA, Toshio ABE, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Takashi NISHINO, Takuyua MATSUMOTO, Akira MIYAGAKI
  • Publication number: 20200298955
    Abstract: A wing used for an aircraft includes a configuration member formed of a composite material. The configuration member is divided into a plurality of regions along a surface thereof. The plurality of regions include a first region formed of the composite material of a high strength type, and a second region formed of the composite material of a high elasticity type having higher rigidity than the high strength type. The first region includes any region closest to a wing end side out of the plurality of regions, and the second region includes a region closest to the wing end side and a trailing edge side out of the plurality of regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Takayuki NOMURA, Satoshi KODAMA, Takaaki YUMITORI, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Tooru SHITANI, Toshio ABE
  • Publication number: 20200262177
    Abstract: A laminated board includes a difficult-to-cut layer formed of a composite material including fibers and a resin material; and a pair of hard layers laminated on both top and bottom surfaces of the difficult-to-cut layer and formed of a hard material harder than the composite material of the difficult-to-cut layer. Each hard layer is formed of a composite material made of carbon fibers and a resin. The difficult-to-cut layer and the pair of hard layers are integrally molded. Furthermore, the resin included in the difficult-to-cut layer 11 and the resin included in the hard layers 12 are resins of the same type, and an epoxy-based resin is used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Sota KAMO, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Jun ISHIDA, Toshio ABE, Akira KONO, Takayuki SHIMIZU, Naoto AZUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20200189214
    Abstract: A bladder bag is a mold for molding inside of a composite material structure. The composite material structure includes a narrow portion formed by narrowing a part of the inside and a space portion formed so as to be adjacent to the narrow portion. The bladder bag includes a bladder bag main body and a cord-like member. The bladder bag main body includes a narrow molding portion for molding the narrow portion of the composite material structure, a space molding portion for molding the space portion of the composite material structure, and an air intake for introducing air. The cord-like member is provided inside the bladder bag main body, passes through the narrow molding portion from the air intake, and is connected to an inner surface of the space molding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Kiyoka TAKAGI, Jun ISHIDA, Sota KAMO, Katsuya YOSHINO, Toshio ABE, Koichi HASEGAWA, Yoshihiro SUGIYAMA, Takashi ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20200139668
    Abstract: A composite structure includes a stepped portion formed by laminating a plurality of plies with end surfaces thereof being shifted from each other. The composite structure includes a body portion which includes a first structure portion where a first ply is laminated on a top layer of the first structure portion, a second structure portion where a second ply is laminated on a top layer of the second structure portion, and the stepped portion disposed between the first structure portion and the second structure portion, the second ply being positioned at a distance from the first ply in a lamination direction, and a first cover ply which includes a covering portion covering the stepped portion, one end portion, and the other end portion and is formed so as to cover only a part of a surface of the first ply or a part of a surface of the second ply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Masahiro KASHIWAGI, Yoshinori NONAKA, Kiyoka TAKAGI, Tooru SHITANI, Toshio ABE
  • Patent number: 10596779
    Abstract: This composite material structure is provided with: a first composite member arranged facing a heating element , the first composite member including PAN-based carbon fibers; a second composite member arranged between the heating element and the first composite member, the second composite member including pitch-based carbon fibers; and a cushioning element provided between the first composite member and the second composite member, the cushioning element being joined to each of the first composite member and the second composite member, and having lower rigidity than those of the first composite member and the second composite member. The first composite member is provided so as to be linked to an adjacent structure, while the second composite member and the cushioning element are provided so as to be separated from the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takushi Sugiyama, Takayuki Shimizu, Toshio Abe
  • Patent number: 10578576
    Abstract: A joint evaluation method of evaluating a joint state of a joint portion in a composite including the joint portion in which a first adherend and a second adherend are joined to each other through an adhesive is provided. The joint evaluation method includes applying an alternating-current signal to the joint portion; changing frequency to measure current and voltage; calculating an evaluation value related to a given electrical characteristic from a current value and a voltage value obtained by the measurement; comparing the evaluation value with a preset criterion related to the given electrical characteristic; and evaluating the joint state of the joint portion according to an amount of deviation of the evaluation value from the preset criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Toshio Abe