Patents Assigned to IHI Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220206489
    Abstract: A remote operation device (2) for remotely operating a transport vehicle (1) includes: a first operation unit (2a); and a control unit (24) configured to wirelessly transmit a command signal for causing the transport vehicle (1) to travel a prescribed distance to the transport vehicle (1) every time the first operation unit (2a) is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mai EMOTO
  • Publication number: 20220209539
    Abstract: An electric power management system includes a solar radiation amount measurement device that measures a solar radiation amount received by the solar power generation device, and a control device that outputs a control command including a command for the load facility. The control device includes a pre-processing unit that outputs information used to generate the control command, and a command generation unit that outputs the control command, on the basis of the information output by the pre-processing unit. The pre-processing unit includes a prediction unit that outputs electric power expected to be output by the electric power generation facility as estimated generation electric power, on the basis of the solar radiation amount. The command generation unit includes a load command unit that outputs the control command including a command for increasing and decreasing the load electric power to the load facility, on the basis of the estimated generation electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Norihiro TAKAI, Akira TAKAMI, Masato KOTAKE, Seiichi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220205075
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a TiAl alloy includes a casting step of melting and casting a TiAl alloy raw material which contains 42 at % or more and 45 at % or less of Al, 3 at % or more and 6 at % or less of Nb, 3 at % or more and 6 at % or less of V, 0.1 at % or more and 0.3 at % or less of B, and the balance being Ti and inevitable impurities, a hot forging step of hot forging the cast TiAl alloy by heating the cast TiAl alloy to a temperature range between 1200° C. or higher and 1350° C. or lower, and a thermal treatment step of holding the hot-forged TiAl alloy at a temperature range between 1220° C. or higher and 1300° C. or lower for a hour range between 1 hour or longer and 5 hours or shorter, applying a first thermal treatment to the hot-forged TiAl alloy, cooling the TiAl alloy subjected to the first thermal treatment to a temperature range between 1000° C. or higher and 1100° C. or lower at a cooling rate of 400° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Keiji KUBUSHIRO
  • Patent number: 11375643
    Abstract: An inverter unit includes a circuit board that has a power device and a capacitor configuring an inverter circuit and provided on a front surface and an exposure region provided on a rear surface, a lower case that is provided with an exposure opening for exposing the exposure region and supports a surrounding area of the exposure region, and an upper case that is provided with a rib structure pressed against the front surface of the circuit board and pressurizing the circuit board toward the lower case and has the lower case attached thereto. The circuit board is sandwiched between the lower case and the upper case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Sasaki, Hirofumi Horiuchi, Jun Takizawa, Eiji Takamura, Teruyuki Wada
  • Patent number: 11365683
    Abstract: A fuel supply control device is provided in which a parallel flow path of an orifice and a pressurizing valve is used as a complex pressurizing valve for a fuel supply amount, and which controls a fuel supply pump on the basis of a pressure difference before and after the complex pressurizing valve that has been detected by a pressure difference meter. When the rotational speed of the fuel supply pump is below a predetermined threshold value, the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a first fuel measurement amount, and the fuel supply pump is controlled on the basis of a second fuel measurement amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Seki, Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Akihiro Shimamura
  • Patent number: 11365525
    Abstract: A remote control device includes an electric drive unit controlling a control member, a position detection unit detecting a position of the control member, a control unit controlling operation of the electric drive unit, a reference position storage unit storing information related to a reference position of the control member, and an operation range setting unit setting an operation range of the control member from the reference position based on an output of the electric drive unit when the control member is displaced by the electric drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunichi Yamazaki, Hiroaki Hanawa
  • Patent number: 11358488
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichiro Fujiwara, Kenichi Takahashi, Shinya Kono, Jun Araki
  • Publication number: 20220176959
    Abstract: Provided is a weight estimation system (S) including: a change amount calculation device (2) which acquires a height of a loading platform (N) before loading a vehicle and a height of the loading platform (N) after loading the vehicle and calculates an amount of change between the heights of the loading platform (N) between before and after the loading; and a loaded weight estimation device (4) which estimates a loaded weight on the basis of a correlation between the amount of change and a loaded weight stored in advance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshio KATSUKI
  • Publication number: 20220176339
    Abstract: A jig for inserting a packing into a flow passage of a reactor extending in one direction or for removing the packing from the flow passage, includes: a pair of strip portions extending in parallel with each other, having a length longer than the flow passage; and link portions arranged in an extending direction of the pair of strip portions, linking the pair of strip portions and having lengths with which the pair of strip portions sandwich the packing therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke TAKEUCHI, Akihisa YANO, Shunji MIYAJIMA, Shigeki SAKAKURA, Taiga YAMAMOTO, Takuya YOSHINOYA, Hiroyuki KAMATA, Daisuke TSUNODA, Nobuyuki HONMA
  • Patent number: 11352959
    Abstract: A fuel supply control device controls a fuel supply pump based on a front-rear differential pressure across a metering valve for a fuel supply amount, which is detected by a differential pressure gauge, using parallel flow passages of an orifice and a pressurizing valve as the metering valve, in which the fuel supply control device includes a first control amount generation unit generating a first control amount based on the front-rear differential pressure, a second control amount generation unit generating a second control amount based on the rotation speed of the fuel supply pump, a control amount selection unit, a subtractor, and a control calculation unit, in which the control amount selection unit selects the first control amount in a case where the rotation speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold and select the second control amount in a case where the rotation speed exceeds the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Naoki Seki
  • Patent number: 11352944
    Abstract: A clearance ? between an inner peripheral surface of an attachment hole of an attachment tongue and an outer peripheral surface of a valve shaft is set to be smaller than an allowable displacement amount ? in an axial direction of a valve with respect to the attachment tongue. When a condition is satisfied in which the outer peripheral surface of the valve shaft comes into contact with a front-side periphery and a back-side periphery of the attachment hole of the attachment tongue, and in which a top surface of a valve body comes into contact with a back surface of the attachment tongue, a waste gate valve is constituted so that a metal washer becomes non-contact with a front surface of the attachment tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Jinhee Byon
  • Publication number: 20220168973
    Abstract: A method for producing a fiber-reinforced plastic combined body from a prepreg, includes: heating the prepreg in an atmosphere above a room temperature and lower than a curing temperature of the prepreg; provisionally combining pre-products obtained by the heating together or with another component; and retaining and curing the combined pre-products at the curing temperature or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Mikio HIRAMATSU, Tadashi JYUNISHO
  • Patent number: 11346046
    Abstract: A carbon fiber complex material for a carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite material includes a carbon fiber material formed from a continuous carbon fiber, and carbon nanowalls formed on a surface of the continuous carbon fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Akihiko Yoshimura, Hirotsugu Chishina, Kensuke Hirata
  • Publication number: 20220162099
    Abstract: A wastewater treatment device has: an ozone generator which supplies ozone; a mixer which mixes ozone supplied from the ozone generator with wastewater and supplies ozone mixed wastewater; an ozone oxidation unit which progresses ozone oxidation in the ozone mixed wastewater while passing the ozone mixed wastewater therethrough and discharges wastewater in which the ozone has been consumed; a biological treatment unit which performs biological treatment on the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit using microorganisms; and an adjusting device which adjusts the amount of ozone to be mixed with the wastewater by the mixer so that ozone in an amount that inhibits the microorganisms of the biological treatment unit does not remain in the wastewater discharged from the ozone oxidation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuhiko KUBOTA, Yuka YOSHIDA, Xia HUANG, Chun LIU, Jing ZHANG, Hong Zheng ZHOU, Xiao Xuan CHEN, Lei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220163434
    Abstract: A strength evaluation method is a strength evaluation method for a composite material in which a plurality of fiber layers are laminated and includes a meandering state measuring process of measuring a meandering state of fibers of the plurality of fiber layers in a direction along the fiber layers, a meandering thickness measuring process of measuring a meandering thickness that is a thickness in a lamination direction of a part in which meanderings of fibers of the plurality of fiber layers occur, and a strength evaluation process of evaluating a strength of the composite material based on the meandering state and the meandering thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Sayo YAMAHA, Takahiro FUKUMARU, Yuichi YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220161331
    Abstract: A three-dimensional manufacturing apparatus includes a rotary drive unit that rotates a table around a rotation axis, a region setting unit that sets a plurality of divided regions obtained by dividing an irradiation region, a beam source that irradiates a powder material with an electron beam for each of the divided regions, and a rotation speed adjusting unit that adjusts a rotation speed of the table. An area per unit central angle of a first divided region is smaller than an area per unit central angle of a second divided region. The rotation speed adjusting unit performs adjustment so that a rotation speed of the table during a period of irradiating the first divided region with the energy beam becomes faster than a rotation speed of the table during a period of irradiating the second divided region with the energy beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku SHIMIZU, Yuichiro NAKAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11339794
    Abstract: A turbocharger includes ball bearings each including an inner ring and an inner ring mounted to a shaft, and an outer ring and an outer ring provided so as to be relatively rotatable in a bearing hole, and damper portions formed in at least one of outer peripheral surfaces of the outer ring and the outer ring and opposed surfaces of inner peripheral surface of the bearing hole opposed to the outer peripheral surfaces of the outer ring and the outer ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Uneura, Hideyuki Kojima, Takahiro Tanaka, Shunsuke Nishii, Hiroki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 11333167
    Abstract: To provide a method of designing a blade of an axial flow fluid machine that has a blade surface whose radius of curvature is continuous at a leading edge thereof and has a high aerodynamic performance. The method includes a step of determining a pressure surface curve and a suction surface curve as curves capable of first to third order differentiations at respective connection points to a leading edge curve, that is, a pressure surface connection point and a suction surface connection point, and a step of forming the leading edge curve as a fifth order Bezier curve that is defined by a first control point, a second control point, a third control point, a fourth control point, a fifth control point and a sixth control point. The first control point is the suction surface connection point. The sixth control point is the pressure surface connection point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Okada, Tomonori Enoki, Takeshi Murooka, Dai Kato
  • Patent number: 11328852
    Abstract: A coil device is installed on an installation object. The coil device includes a housing accommodating at least a coil portion and a heat radiation member coming into thermal contact with the installation object. The heat radiation member includes a main body portion interposed in at least a part of a space between the housing and the installation object and a protrusion protruding from the main body portion toward the installation object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taewon Kim, Kenji Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11326615
    Abstract: A seal structure includes a cylindrical outlet wall portion which forms an outlet passage at a downstream side of a turbine wheel and an annular shroud portion which is provided in a second nozzle ring and faces a blade portion. A proximal end portion of the outlet wall portion and a distal end portion of the shroud portion face each other with a gap interposed therebetween in an axial direction. An annular seal member is disposed at an inner peripheral portion of the gap in a radial direction. The seal member comes into contact with the proximal end portion of the outlet wall portion and the distal end portion of the shroud portion to block the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichi Segawa