Patents Assigned to Ihi Aerospace Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 10294961
    Abstract: A cylindrical case main body, and a connecting ring body fitted and fixed to a first end of the case main body and having an annular groove open in the centrifugal direction, are provided. The connecting ring body has a notch open to a side opposite to a second end of the case main body. Into the notch of the connecting ring body, a reinforcement body is fitted, and the reinforcement body has an arc-shaped groove continuing to the annular groove of the connecting ring body in a state where the reinforcement body is fitted into the notch of the connecting ring body. In addition to attaining high rigidity, reduction in weight and reduction in manufacturing cost can also be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Agamu Tanaka, Yuji Mori, Takashi Harada, Ikuo Okumura, Kenji Ishimoto
  • Publication number: 20190143305
    Abstract: There are provided a stable HAN-based propellant decomposition catalyst in which the heat resistance is sufficient and the change in HAN-based propellant decomposition activity over time is also small so that a HAN-based propellant having low toxicity can be used for a thruster, and a method for producing the same, and a one-component thruster including a HAN-based propellant decomposition catalyst. A HAN-based propellant decomposition catalyst containing a hexaaluminate type oxide containing a platinum group element, and a method for producing the same, and a one-component thruster including a HAN-based propellant decomposition catalyst are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki KAMATA, Shinji IGARASHI, Kengo YAMAMOTO, Aporo FUKUCHI
  • Patent number: 10280866
    Abstract: A fuel supply device according to the present invention comprises a first fuel pump for forcing fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel passage, a first electric motor for driving the first fuel pump, a second fuel pump for forcing fuel from the fuel tank to the fuel passage, a second electric motor for driving the second fuel pump, a supply flow rate sensor for detecting flow rate in the supply passage, and a control device for controlling the flow rate in the supply passage to follow a desired value thereof, by regulating rotational speeds of the first and second electric motors depending on a difference between the desired value and a detected value of flow rate in the supply passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oyori, Noriko Morioka
  • Patent number: 10280939
    Abstract: A cylindrical case body made of a composite material; a linking ring made of aluminum, fitted and fixed to a rear end portion of the case body and having an annular groove which receives a reverse thrust load from a reverse thrust transmission body; and ring constituent bodies made of titanium alloy, each of which is placed in the rear end portion of the case body and has an arcuate groove which undertakes a reverse thrust load larger than that received by the linking ring, are provided in a fan case. The ring constituent bodies are fitted in notches of the linking ring and are brought into contact with outward receiving walls of the linking ring. The ring constituent bodies are positioned relative to the case body in the axis direction and in the radial direction, and the annular groove and the arcuate grooves continue to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Agamu Tanaka, Yuji Mori, Takashi Harada, Ikuo Okumura, Kenji Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 10273829
    Abstract: A cylindrical case includes a case main body made of a composite material of reinforcing fibers impregnated with a thermosetting resin, and an outward flange on the case main body. The outward flange includes: a bonding layer; a foundation layer disposed on the bonding layer; one flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from one slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the one slope surface; and the other flange constituting layer having a leg layer which is laminated from the other slope surface of the foundation layer to the bonding layer and a wall layer which rises from the other slope surface. The foundation layer is formed by laminating roving layers, while the flange constituting layers are formed by laminating a plurality of biaxial fabric layers including a biaxial fabric of a non-crimp structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI Aerospace Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Murakami, Ikuo Okumura, Yuu Shigenari, Takashi Harada, Yusuke Dan
  • Patent number: 10265908
    Abstract: A blank sheet including a plurality of main fibers arranged in parallel with each other, auxiliary fibers and a resin that consolidates the fibers is heated to a temperature at which the resin softens, and then pressed against a fan blade mold with the direction of the main fibers aligned with the longitudinal direction of the fan blade mold. The fan blade mold is shaped so that the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of a center part thereof in the width direction is shorter than the length thereof in the longitudinal direction along the surface of end parts thereof in the width direction. When the blank sheet is pressed against the fan blade mold, a center part in the width direction of the blank sheet at an end part in the longitudinal direction is pulled with a greater force than end parts in the width direction of the blank sheet at the end part in the longitudinal direction, thereby preventing occurrence of wrinkling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takaomi Inada, Hideo Morita, Hiroyuki Yagi, Tsutomu Murakami, Shinichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10029807
    Abstract: A spacecraft 10 includes wings 11 or an airframe 12 which generates lift in an atmosphere 2, a thruster 14 which accelerates or decelerates rotating speed in an orbit, an attitude controller 16 which controls an attitude of the airframe 12, and an orbital plane controller 18 which controls the orbital plane change. The orbital plane controller causes the spacecraft 10 to enter the earth's atmosphere 2 within a pre-change orbital plane Fb (A?B?C), changes the orbital plane by using the lift of the wings 11 or airframe 12 in the earth's atmosphere 2 (C?D?E), and then lifts the spacecraft 10 up to the post-change orbital altitude (E?F).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masanobu Fujimura, Fumitaka Sugimura, Junichi Amimoto, Tetsuya Takada, Hirotake Morisaki
  • Patent number: 9950784
    Abstract: Provided is a wheel drive system for aircraft RS including a motor 2 that is connected to a wheel 12, and provided with two voltage supply lines L1 and L2 for supplying the voltages Vta and Vpr with varying the length of a winding 21 to be energized; a voltage supply unit for supplying the voltage Vta and Vpr to the two voltage supply lines L1 and L2; and a control unit 8 for controlling the voltage supply unit, wherein the control unit 8 is configured to select one of the two voltage supply lines L1 and L2, and supply the voltage Vta or Vpr, by controlling the voltage supply unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignees: SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD., SUMITOMO PRECISION PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Saito, Nobuyuki Nakanishi, Hitoshi Oyori, Masayuki Takada
  • Patent number: 9896963
    Abstract: A coupling support member including a pair of divided pieces is placed in a coupling part between a vane proximal end portion of a guide vane and an attachment flange, and the pair of divided pieces are joined to the vane proximal end portion from both the sides in the vane thickness direction. A groove is formed in one end portion joint surface of the coupling support member, a linear protrusion is formed on the other end portion joint surface, the vane proximal end portion is formed into a concavo-convex shape, a linear protrusion that is engaged with the groove which is formed in the end portion joint surface is formed on a joint surface to the one end portion joint surface, a groove that is engaged with the linear protrusion formed on the end portion joint surface is formed in the joint surface to the other end portion joint surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Takaomi Inada, Shinichi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9868515
    Abstract: An aircraft electric actuator drive apparatus has an electric actuator and a secondary power supply device. The electric actuator is driven using electric power from a main power unit provided in an aircraft. The secondary power supply device can temporarily supply electric power to the electric actuator while electric power from the main power unit is applied to the electric actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignees: NABTESCO CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shingo Nakagawa, Yoichi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Oyori
  • Patent number: 9837857
    Abstract: A rectenna includes an antenna configured to receive a radio wave, a rectifier circuit configured to rectify the radio wave received by the antenna, a transmission line connected to the antenna and the rectifier circuit, and a modulation input circuit including a variable capacitance element. The variable capacitance element is connected at one end to a portion of the transmission line between an antenna connecting portion at which the antenna is connected to the transmission line and a rectifier circuit connecting portion at which the rectifier circuit is connected to the transmission line, and is configured such that the capacitance thereof varies in accordance with the voltage of a modulated signal wave input to the other end of the variable capacitance element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Masaru Aoki
  • Patent number: 9819179
    Abstract: An aircraft electric power system provided in an aircraft includes a predetermined DC power supply bus for supplying electric power to a load. The DC power supply bus is configured to always be connected to two or more types of power supply devices having different forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: NABTESCO CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Nakagawa, Yoichi Yamamoto, Hitoshi Oyori
  • Patent number: 9739175
    Abstract: An additional pad 27 is additionally and integrally arranged from an outer surface of a flange 17 opposite to a contacting side of the flange 17 to a small-diameter curved surface of a bend 19 and from there to an end of an outer surface of a part body 13. On an outer surface side of the additional pad 27, a fastening seat 27f is formed by machining. An area end PAe of a processed area PA formed by machining is positioned on the part body 13 beyond the bend 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Harada, Yu Shigenari, Koichi Inagaki, Agamu Tanaka, Tadahiro Ishigure
  • Publication number: 20170218875
    Abstract: A fuel supply device according to the present invention comprises a first fuel pump for forcing fuel from a fuel tank to a fuel passage, a first electric motor for driving the first fuel pump, a second fuel pump for forcing fuel from the fuel tank to the fuel passage, a second electric motor for driving the second fuel pump, a supply flow rate sensor for detecting flow rate in the supply passage, and a control device for controlling the flow rate in the supply passage to follow a desired value thereof, by regulating rotational speeds of the first and second electric motors depending on a difference between the desired value and a detected value of flow rate in the supply passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oyori, Noriko Morioka
  • Patent number: 9695712
    Abstract: A boss for attachment of an auxiliary device to a fan case of an engine includes a pedestal including a plurality of accumulated layers of reinforcement fibers and a matrix combining the reinforcement fibers together, the pedestal including a bottom face in a shape capable of being in close contact with an outer periphery of the fan case; and an embedded body embedded in the pedestal and including a combining structure combinable with the auxiliary device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Otsu, Yu Shigenari, Takashi Harada, Tsutomu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20170082118
    Abstract: A cylindrical case main body, and a connecting ring body fitted and fixed to a first end of the case main body and having an annular groove open in the centrifugal direction, are provided. The connecting ring body has a notch open to a side opposite to a second end of the case main body. Into the notch of the connecting ring body, a reinforcement body is fitted, and the reinforcement body has an arc-shaped groove continuing to the annular groove of the connecting ring body in a state where the reinforcement body is fitted into the notch of the connecting ring body. In addition to attaining high rigidity, reduction in weight and reduction in manufacturing cost can also be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Agamu TANAKA, Yuji MORI, Takashi HARADA, lkuo OKUMURA, Kenji ISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160290360
    Abstract: A cylindrical case body made of a composite material; a linking ring made of Al, which is fitted and fixed to a rear end portion of the case body and has an annular groove which receives a reverse thrust load from a reverse thrust transmission body; and ring constituent bodies made of Ti alloy, each of which is placed in the rear end portion of the case body and has an arcuate groove which undertakes a reverse thrust load larger than that received by the linking ring, are included. The ring constituent bodies are fitted in notches of the linking ring and are brought into contact with, and are fixed to, outward receiving walls of the linking ring, whereby the ring constituent bodies are positioned relative to the case body in the axis direction and in the radial direction respectively, and the annular groove and the arcuate grooves are allowed to continue to each other. The ring constituent bodies made of Ti alloy, which receive a large reverse thrust load, can be placed with high positioning accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicants: IHI Corporation, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Agamu TANAKA, Yuji MORI, Takashi HARADA, lkuo OKUMURA, Kenji ISHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9427934
    Abstract: Each sheet material is formed by arraying carbon fiber lines, each having a predetermined width, in parallel with one another. Meanwhile, an array direction of the carbon fiber lines of each sheet material is set to form an angle in a range from ±30° to ±60° to a weaving advancing direction of a stitching yarn. Moreover, a stretch ratio of the stitched base material in its lengthwise direction in a case where a load per inch width of the stitched base material is applied in the weaving advancing direction of the stitching yarn is equal to or below 4% when the load is 5 N, and is equal to or above 10% when the load is 25 N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Tsuchiya, Hidetoshi Kasakawa, Masahiko Murata, Yu Shigenari, Hiroyuki Satoh
  • Patent number: 9376987
    Abstract: A thruster designed to produce thrust by introducing a propellant to a catalyst layer from a propellant valve via a propellant introduction member and spurting out a gas resulting from decomposition of the propellant occurring on the catalyst layer, wherein the thruster comprises a chamber of an Ni alloy for holding the catalyst layer inside, the propellant introduction member is made of an Ni alloy and connects the propellant valve and the chamber, and a propellant valve flange of a Ti alloy with a plurality of columns of a Ti alloy is arranged between the chamber and the propellant valve to support the chamber by the columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Nagao, Naoki Morita
  • Patent number: 9369068
    Abstract: Multipliers 21a and 21b output values, which are obtained by multiplying a total drive command value Es by first and second gains G1 and G2, respectively, as first and second drive command values E1 and E2. Controllers 23a and 23b control first and second actuators (motors) 5 and 7, respectively, on the basis of the first and second drive command values. The detection values of the drive amounts of the actuators are denoted by Ef1 and Ef2, respectively, and the detection value of the drive amount of a driven body is denoted by Ef. A gain calculator 27 calculates the gains G1 and G2 on the basis of Ef1, Ef and Ef2. An upper limit value of Ef, which denotes the drive amount of the driven body, is denoted by Lmax. When Ef1, Ef2 or Ef approaches zero, the first gain G1 is brought close to (Ef1?Lmax/2)/(Ef?Lmax).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: IHI AEROSPACE CO., LTD., SINFONIA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Oyori, Yoshito Ohta, Keisuke Onishi