Patents Assigned to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
  • Publication number: 20170152399
    Abstract: Provided is a varnish including 1 to 500 parts by weight of an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid diester (A) represented by General Formula (1), 1 to 450 parts by weight of 2-phenyl-4,4?-diaminodiphenyl ether (B), 1 to 100 parts by weight of a 4-(2-phenylethynyl)phthalic acid monoester (C) represented by General Formula (2), and 100 parts by weight of an organic solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. or less at 1 atmosphere or a mixture of two or more of the organic solvents (D). The components (A), (B), and (C) are dissolved in the varnish. (In the formula, R1 is an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid diester residue; R2 and R3 are the same or different and are an aliphatic organic group or an aromatic organic group.) (In the formula, R4 and R5 are a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic organic group, or an aromatic organic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicants: Kaneka Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Masahiko Miyauchi, Yuichi Ishida, Toshio Ogasawara, Rikio Yokota
  • Patent number: 9664391
    Abstract: An annular type gas turbine combustor having a plurality of fuel nozzle assemblies (10) on a circumference includes a pilot nozzle unit (12) for spraying a fuel for diffusive combustion from a pilot outer peripheral nozzle (34) into a combustion chamber (8), a main nozzle unit (14) provided so as to surround the pilot nozzle unit (12) for spraying a fuel for premix combustion, and a flow guide (27) disposed on a downstream side of each of the fuel nozzle assemblies (10) and having a sectional area of a passage for air and air-fuel mixture from each of the fuel nozzle assemblies (10), which gradually increase in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takeo Oda, Ryusuke Matsuyama, Atsushi Horikawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20170101717
    Abstract: Provided are a water electrolysis method and a water electrolysis device in which mixing of the generated hydrogen and oxygen is greatly reduced and which have a high electrolysis efficiency, while being simplified in structure. In the water electrolysis method and water electrolysis device, water is electrolyzed by supplying water to the cathode side of an electrolytic membrane including a solid polymer membrane provided with a catalyst layer on a surface thereof and creating a potential difference between both surfaces of the electrolytic membrane. The temperature-controlled water is supplied only to the cathode side of the electrolytic membrane, while controlling the difference in pressure between both surfaces of the electrolytic membrane to 50 kPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicants: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, Hitachi Zosen Corporation, W.L. Gore & Associates, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Sone, Masato Sakurai, Naoki Sato, Hirohisa Umemoto, Tetsuya Yoshida, Wataru Ishida, Hiroyoshi Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20170073089
    Abstract: A vapor jet system to continuously jet vapors while suppressing cavitation. One vapor jet system includes a liquid storage part for separately storing two or more kinds of mutually insoluble liquids; a jet orifice; and a jet control part. Jetting the vapors is from a state where pressure in the space storing the vapors in the liquid storage part is higher than the saturated vapor pressure in any of the two or more kinds of liquids. Alternatively, a vapor jet system can include a fluid storage part storing one kind of liquid and at least one kind of inactive gas having a composition different from the liquid; a similar jet orifice; and a similar jet control part. Jetting the vapors and inactive gas(es) is (are) from a state where pressure in a vapor storing space in the fluid storage part is higher than the saturated vapor pressure in the liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Junichiro KAWAGUCHI, Osamu MORI, Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Norizumi MOTOOKA, Toshihiro CHUJO
  • Publication number: 20170036784
    Abstract: A vapor jet system includes a container for storing a sublimable solid, the container having a vapor discharge port for discharging vapor generated by sublimation of the sublimable solid; a member having an opening for jetting out the vapor to the outside of the vapor jet system; a vapor flow path between the vapor discharge port and the opening; and a filter for preventing passage of the sublimable solid and allowing the vapor to pass through, the filter being provided to the vapor flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Junichiro KAWAGUCHI, Osamu MORI, Takayuki YAMAMOTO, Toshihiro CHUJO, Norizumi MOTOOKA
  • Publication number: 20160376032
    Abstract: A torque generation system includes: a plurality of solar array panels and/or solar array panel divisions; and a torque controller configured to control an electricity generation ratio of each of the plurality of solar array panels and/or solar array panel divisions to generate torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Osamu MORI, Junichiro KAWAGUCHI, Yoji SHIRASAWA, Toshihiro CHUJO, Kosuke AKATSUKA
  • Publication number: 20160294189
    Abstract: [Problem] It is intended to provide a system, a related method and a minimum current detection and control system for, even when partial shading occurs in a string composed of a series connection of a plurality of solar cell modules, maintaining an output current of the whole. [Solution] By inputting an output voltage of the string into an inverter to convert the output voltage into an AC voltage and applying the AC voltage to the string via a multi-stage voltage multiplier rectification circuit, a compensation current is supplied to a shaded module on a priority basis to maintain an output current of the whole string while lowering an operating voltage of the shaded module by impedance generated on a pathway of the compensation current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Masatoshi UNO, Akio KUKITA
  • Patent number: 9428264
    Abstract: Provided is a nose for a supersonic flying object, which has a natural laminar flow nose shape capable of suppressing laminar-turbulent transition and drastically reducing a frictional drag. The nose for a supersonic flying object has a low resistive body shape symmetrical about a central axis as a base shape, wherein the base shape is approximately a cone shape having a linear, simple convex curve, or simple concave curve generatrix and a deformation element having a wavy shape is added to the base shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Naoko Tokugawa, Taro Kawai, Ayako Tozuka, Yoshine Ueda, Hiroaki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9429324
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes: a pilot injector configured to spray fuel so as to form a first combustion region in a combustion chamber; and a main injector provided coaxially with the pilot injector so as to surround the pilot injector and configured to supply a fuel-air mixture that is a mixture of the fuel and air to form a second combustion region in the combustion chamber, wherein the main injector includes: a first inflow channel through which the air having a major flow component in an axial direction is taken; a second inflow channel through which the air having a major flow component in a radial direction is taken and which causes the air therein to meet the air from the first inflow channel; and a main fuel injecting portion configured to inject the fuel only to the second inflow channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsuyama, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takeo Oda, Atsushi Horikawa, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazuo Shimodaira, Kazuaki Matsuura, Hideshi Yamada, Youji Kurosawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20160226090
    Abstract: There are provided: a solid polymer power generation or electrolysis method that does not require injection of energy from the outside and maintenance of a high temperature, and is capable of converting carbon dioxide to a useful hydrocarbon while producing energy, controlling the production amounts of the hydrocarbons or the like and a ratio sorted by kind of the hydrocarbons, improving utilization efficiency of a product, and simplifying equipment for separation and recovery; and a system for implementing the solid polymer power generation or electrolysis method. Carbon dioxide is supplied to the side of one electrode 111 of a reactor 110 having a membrane electrode assembly 113, hydrogen is supplied to the side of the other electrode 112, and the amounts of the hydrocarbons produced per unit time and the ratio sorted by kind of the hydrocarbons are changed by controlling a power generation voltage of the reactor 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Yoshitsugu Sone, Masato Sakurai, Asuka Shima, Minoru Umeda, Tetsuya Nakabeppu, Ryota Shinozaki, Toru Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 9366442
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes: a pilot injector configured to spray fuel so as to form a first combustion region in a combustion chamber; and a main injector provided coaxially with the pilot injector so as to surround the pilot injector and configured to supply a fuel-air mixture that is a mixture of the fuel and air to form a second combustion region in the combustion chamber, wherein the pilot injector includes: a center nozzle configured to eject air jet flowing straight in an axial direction on a central axis of the pilot injector; an inside swirler provided on a radially outer side of the center nozzle and configured to cause inflow air to swirl around the central axis; and a pilot fuel injecting portion configured to inject the fuel from between the center nozzle and the inside swirler to air flow in the center nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignees: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsuyama, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Takeo Oda, Atsushi Horikawa, Shigeru Hayashi, Kazuo Shimodaira, Kazuaki Matsuura, Hideshi Yamada, Youji Kurosawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9347810
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring a pulsatingly fluctuating flow rate under a general condition, without needing electrical conductivity for a fluid, and without allowing a phase lag corresponding to a calculation time or attenuation, or resulting from a relation between pressure difference and flow rate, to occur. Ultrasonic waves are repeatedly transmitted with respect to a pulsatingly fluctuating fluid, while the ultrasonic wave is being received, and a signal indicative of the transmission and receipt, and a signal indicative of a timing of the transmission and receipt are recorded. Alternatively, the ultrasonic wave is transmitted and received based on a preliminarily set timing signal, and the signal indicative of the transmission and receipt is recorded. These signals are used to determine flow rates and transmission and receipt timings to plot a pulsating fluctuation. In one or more implementations, the timing signal may be phase-synchronized with a pulsation reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Hiroki Kannan, Shusuke Hori, Hideaki Nanri, Masaharu Uchiumi, Yoshiki Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20160118817
    Abstract: The disclosure describes a charge device capable of charging electricity storage cells while eliminating a voltage variation among the electricity storage cells without a need for at least a circuit section playing a role in voltage equalization among the electricity storage cells to be designed to have a large current capacity, and describes a charge-discharge device constructed by additionally equipping a discharging function with the charge device. Provided are a charge device and a charge-discharge device each of which comprises a convertor, an input circuit, and a multi-stage voltage doubler rectifier circuit. An element in the convertor configured to be applied with a rectangular waveform voltage is connected to the multi-stage voltage doubler rectifier circuit via the input circuit to thereby realize a voltage equalization function, and an output section of the convertor is connected to the multi-stage voltage doubler rectifier circuit to thereby realize a charging-discharging function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Masatoshi UNO, Akio KUKITA
  • Patent number: 9318779
    Abstract: An electric energy storage system is designed to equally utilize electric energy storage banks during charging/discharging, and keep fluctuation of an input voltage from a charger or an output voltage to a load, within an arbitrary range, while equally utilizing the electric energy storage banks during charging/discharging. The electric energy storage system comprises an electric energy storage module, a charger, a balancing circuit, a voltage detection section, taps led out, respectively, from one of opposite terminals of the electric energy storage module and/or the other terminal of the electric energy storage module and/or one or more of series-connection points between the electric energy storage units, through respective switches, and a switch control section for switching the switches such that one of the taps is connected to one of opposite terminals of the charger. The switch control section is operable to sequentially switch the switches according to progress of the charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignees: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan Capacitor Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Uno, Akio Kukita, Kazushige Ito, Tsutomu Sekido
  • Publication number: 20160083618
    Abstract: An imide resin composition including a terminal-modified imide oligomer of General Formula (1) and a thermoplastic aromatic polyimide of General Formula (2). (In Formula (1), either R1 or R2 shows a phenyl group and the other shows a hydrogen atom; R3 and R4 show a divalent residue of aromatic diamine; R5 and R6 show a tetravalent residue of aromatic tetracarboxylic acid; m and n satisfy relationships of m?1, n?0, 1?m+n?20, and 0.05?m/(m+n)?1; and an arrangement of repeating units may be either a block or random.) (In Formula (2), R1 and R2 show a divalent residue of aromatic diamine; R3 shows a tetravalent residue of aromatic tetracarboxylic acid; m and n satisfy relationships of m?1 and n?0, and an arrangement of repeating units may be either a block or random.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicants: Kaneka Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Masahiko Miyauchi, Yuichi Ishida, Toshio Ogasawara, Rikio Yokota
  • Patent number: 9180976
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electric propulsion system control apparatus that uses electric means alone so that effects pertaining to weight and cost are suppressed, is capable of accurate detection even when an airspeed has a binary relationship with a torque and a rotation speed of a propeller, and thereby exhibits improved detection precision and responsiveness. The electric propulsion system control apparatus drives a propulsion propeller to rotate, and is configured to estimate the airspeed from a data set stored in advance in relation to the airspeed and a propeller characteristic, and a plurality of torque and rotation speed estimation values detected under different driving conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Akira Nishizawa
  • Patent number: 9133717
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a turbine airfoil cools a turbine airfoil (10) exposed to hot gas (1), using cooling air (2) of a temperature lower than that of the hot gas. The turbine airfoil (10) includes an external surface (11), an internal surface (12) opposite to the external surface, a plurality of film-cooling holes (13) blowing the cooling air from the internal surface toward the external surface to film-cool the external surface, and a plurality of heat-transfer promoting projections (14) integrally formed with the internal surface and protruding inwardly from the internal surface. The turbine airfoil further includes a hollow cylindrical insert (20) which is positioned inside the internal surface of the turbine airfoil and to which the cooling air is supplied. The insert has a plurality of impingement holes (21) for impingement-cooling the internal surface (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Chiyuki Nakamata, Takashi Yamane, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Takahiro Bamba
  • Patent number: 9108267
    Abstract: A pressure surface of a first metal material for receiving a pressure therethrough is fabricated to have a directional component parallel to a pressure-application direction and a directional component perpendicular to the pressure-application direction, and an electrically-conductive core is fabricated to have a surface along the pressure surface and a surface perpendicular to the pressure-application direction. An assembly comprising the first metal material, the second metal material and the core is set in a pulse electric-current bonding unit to perform a pulse electric-current bonding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Tadashi Masuoka, Akinaga Kumakawa, Shin-ichi Moriya, Tomohiro Sato, Shinichi Takei
  • Patent number: 9109553
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a pilot fuel injector, configured to inject the fuel into a combustion chamber, and a main fuel injector provided coaxially with the pilot fuel injector so as to surround the pilot fuel injector and configured to have a main flow path to generate a premixed air-fuel mixture. The main flow path includes an outer main air passage located radially outwardly and configured to supply a compressed air in an axial direction into an annular premixed air-fuel mixture passage, an inner main air passage located radially inwardly and configured to supply the compressed air into the premixed air-fuel mixture passage from a radially inner side. The injector further includes a main fuel injection port to inject the fuel from an axially upstream side into the inner main air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Ryusuke Matsuyama, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Atsushi Horikawa, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 9097799
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for preventing turbulence-induced accidents that can expand a detection range to about 20 km without increasing the size of a device or increasing the energy consumption, can perform planar distribution monitoring of turbulence when the turbulence is detected in the flight direction and also can output a signal for autopilot steering input that decreases the fuselage shaking when the turbulence is difficult to avoid, as well as to provide a device having those functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventor: Hamaki Inokuchi