Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
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Patent number: 10618229Abstract: In a molding method using a VaRTM process in which a workpiece is impregnated with resin in a vacuum, the flow channel resistance or the thickness of which is not constant, an air-permeable sheet only permeable to gas and not permeable to resin (liquid) is arranged at the bottom surface of the workpiece to cover the total length of the workpiece in a direction in which the flow channel resistance or the thickness of the workpiece varies, to impregnate the resin.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi Yui, Hiroshi Tokutomi
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Patent number: 10611461Abstract: A flap of an aircraft includes a flap body that is provided deployably with respect to a main wing, an inclined portion that protrudes from an upper surface of a tip part on at least an outboard side in a span direction of the flap body and is inclined with respect to an aircraft axis direction, and a protruding portion that smoothly protrudes from a lower surface of the tip part on at least the outboard side. A rear end of the inclined portion is located closer to a side end edge of the tip part in the span direction of the flap body than a virtual line that passes through a front end of the inclined portion and is parallel to the aircraft axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignees: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyInventors: Kensuke Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Murayama, Kazuomi Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10604269Abstract: A structure for anti-adhesion of high-temperature air according to the present invention includes: a high-temperature air duct that is provided in an accessory of an aircraft and allows high-temperature air likely to be higher than a specified temperature to flow through the high-temperature air duct; an exhaust port that discharges a flow of the high-temperature air led through the high-temperature air duct, to an outside of the airframe; and a low-temperature air supplying part that supplies a flow of low-temperature air lower in temperature than the high-temperature air discharged to the outside of the airframe, to an airframe surface. The low-temperature air supplying part is configured to form an air layer made of a flow of low-temperature air between the high-temperature air that is bent toward the airframe surface in flight of the aircraft, and the an airframe surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhide Hara, Osamu Yamada
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Patent number: 10591529Abstract: A wiring safety evaluation system that makes it possible to easily determine whether a plurality of electrical wires secured in redundancy belong to the same harness to evaluate wiring safety is provided. The wiring safety evaluation system according to the present invention includes a processing section that identifies, after an event ID is specified, whether a gate type of a parent ID corresponding to the event ID is an OR gate or an AND gate, and when the gate type is the OR gate, repeats a process procedure of identifying whether a gate type of a parent ID that is a parent in next generation of the parent ID is an OR gate or an AND gate to determine whether the specified event causes a top event.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Toyama, Susumu Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 10589866Abstract: An anti-icing system according to the present invention includes: a piccolo tube that includes a flow path through which heated gas flows in the longitudinal direction from a rear end to a front end, and a plurality of ejection holes provided along the longitudinal direction to make the flow path communicate with an outside; and an engine serving as a supply source that supplies the heated gas toward the piccolo tube. The piccolo tube is decreased in an area of the flow path in a stepwise manner or in a continuous manner in the longitudinal direction, and has a continuous side surface provided with the ejection holes.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Masatoshi Morishita, Masanori Tsujita, Satoshi Watanabe, Yoichi Uefuji, Kazuhiro Kawai, Toshiyuki Ishida, Gento Ichikawa, Go Fujita
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Patent number: 10583934Abstract: To provide a fuel pipe of an aircraft that makes it possible to maintain temperature of fuel in the fuel pipe at appropriate temperature while giving consideration to reliability that is constantly required for the aircraft. A fuel pipe provided in an airframe of the aircraft includes: an inner pipe defining a flow path through which fuel flows; and an outer pipe surrounding an outer periphery of the inner pipe. A gap is provided between the outer periphery of the inner pipe and an inner periphery of the outer pipe. The inner pipe is made of a rubber material, and the outer pipe is made of a metal material.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuhide Hara, Ushio Komoda
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Patent number: 10571025Abstract: A fire seal structure prevents flame from coming out of a fire-prevention region of an aircraft including a panel and a duct. The fire seal structure includes: a first member provided on the duct at a connection portion between the panel and the duct; and a second member that faces the first member around the opening and is provided on the panel. The panel defines the fire-prevention region. The duct communicates with an opening provided in the panel. The duct defines, together with the panel, the fire-prevention region. The first and the second members each contain refractory material, and the first and the second members form a labyrinth-shaped gap between the duct and the panel.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Mitsubishi Aircraft CorporationInventor: Akira Takeuchi
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Patent number: 10532522Abstract: A method for molding a fiber-reinforced plastic member involves disposing a reinforced-fiber base material 2 inside a molding space S, which is created between a mold 1 and a bag film 6, and then depressurizing the inside of the molding space S and curing a resin composition R contained in the reinforced-fiber base material 2, wherein a flat pressure plate 5 made of spring steel is disposed between the reinforced-fiber base material 2 and the bag film 6. The pressure plate 5 elastically deforms along the shape of the reinforced-fiber base material 2 while the inside of the molding space S is being depressurized, and returns to its original flat shape when depressurization is stopped and the bag film 6 is removed after curing of the resin composition R.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Murai
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Publication number: 20200002021Abstract: High-temperature gas exhausted to outside of an aircraft including exhaust air from an air conditioner is prevented from thermally influencing an airframe. An aircraft includes, in an airframe, an exhaust port configured to exhaust, to outside of the aircraft, high-temperature gas that flows through an exhaust duct provided in an air conditioner and has temperature higher than allowable temperature of GFRP used as a material of a fairing, and a partition as a turning reduction portion configured to reduce a turning component contained in flow of the high-temperature gas before the high-temperature gas is exhausted to the outside of the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Aircraft CorporationInventor: Nobuhide Hara
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Patent number: 10479516Abstract: To surely grasp an unlocked state of a cowl member while suppressing cost and time necessary for measures against forgetting of locking of an engine nacelle. An aircraft according to the present invention includes: an engine (3) that includes an engine main body (4, 5) outputting thrust force and an engine nacelle (7) surrounding the engine main body (4, 5); an engine pylon (2) that supports the engine main body (4, 5) to a main wing (1) and axially supports a cowl member (8) to be openable, the cowl member (8) configuring the engine nacelle (7); a locking part (30) that locks the cowl member (8) of the engine nacelle (7) in a closed state; and one or more light emitting sections (15) that are disposed inside the cowl member (8) and show an unlocked state of the cowl member (8).Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tetsuya Oonishi, Masahiro Shimojo, Takanori Suzuki
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Patent number: 10436371Abstract: The present invention provides a pipe structure including: a pipe through which a gaseous body having a higher temperature than a temperature of a surrounding atmosphere flows; a cover that covers an outer peripheral portion of the pipe, and defines a plurality of vents from which the gaseous body leaking from the pipe flows out; and a line-shaped sensor that passes a position corresponding to each of the plurality of vents, and is sensitive to a temperature or a concentration of the gaseous body outside the cover, wherein the sensor includes a range in which the sensor rises upward from the position corresponding to the vent.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Tadahiko Suzuta, Kei Takao, Ichiro Maeda
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Patent number: 10435171Abstract: To provide a nitrogen enriched air (NEA) supply system which easily maintains low the concentration of oxygen within a tank before fueling. In the present invention, a subsidiary pipe 20b that directly supplies NEA to a spill-back pipe 23 is provided. In a descent phase of an aircraft, the NEA is supplied to a second fuel tank 17 from the subsidiary pipe 20b. When the second fuel tank 17 is fueled after landing, the stored NEA is pushed out into a first fuel tank 15 through the spill-back pipe 23 by fuel F. Thus, the concentration of oxygen within the first fuel tank 15 can be also maintained low. Accordingly, it is possible to cut out the need for supplying the NEA before fueling, and thereby fuel the fuel tank while avoiding fuel explosion.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Koki Fukuda
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Patent number: 10377497Abstract: There is provided an anti-icing system that has a simple structure and makes it possible to exert anti-icing performance by dealing with displacement of a stagnation point without increasing air resistance. The anti-icing system according to the present invention blows heated gas to an inner surface of a wing of an aircraft, and includes: a piccolo tube that includes a flow path through which the heated gas flows in a longitudinal direction from a rear end to a front end, and a plurality of ejection holes provided along the longitudinal direction to make the flow path communicate with an outside; and a supply source that supplies the heated gas toward the piccolo tube. The piccolo tube is held to cause positions of the respective ejection holes to be fixed in a gravity direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshiyuki Ishida, Gento Ichikawa, Yoichi Uefuji, Masatoshi Morishita, Kazuhiro Kawai, Satoshi Watanabe, Go Fujita
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Patent number: 10369753Abstract: The present invention aims to sufficiently impregnate each layer of a fiber substrate group composed of fiber substrates, which are used for fiber-reinforced resin molding by a resin injection method, with a resin. To successively stack a plurality of fiber substrates, each of which has arrayed fiber bundles and is a material composing a fiber-reinforced resin along with a resin, with their fiber bundles oriented in the same direction, the plurality of fiber substrates are integrated in a state where border zones between the fiber bundles adjacent to each other in an array direction are aligned with one another among the fiber substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Hiromichi Akiyama, Hideki Horizono, Kazuaki Kishimoto, Masahiro Shinya, Shinya Suzukake
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Patent number: 10354021Abstract: A bundle diameter calculation device calculates the number of electrical wires belonging to an electrical wire bundle constituting a part of a wire harness of which each of the plurality of electrical wires is connected via relay points with connectors, the device including: a storage unit which stores electrical wire-connector connection information in which each of the plurality of electrical wires and the connectors are associated with each other, and bundle connection information which shows a state of connection with the connectors and relay elements by the unit of the electrical wire bundle of the wire harness; and a processing unit which, when the wire harness is specified, checks the electrical wire-connector connection information and the bundle connection information against each other and calculates the bundle diameter of the electrical wire bundle.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Koji Toyama, Yoshihiro Nakayama
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Patent number: 10343790Abstract: An insulative ring protects a burst disc of an aircraft from the shock of lightning strikes. The burst disc device includes: a burst disc which is installed inside a main wing to prevent over-pressurization of the main wing; a pressure release passage partially constituted by a support tube and is blocked with the burst disc and leads to the outside of the main wing; an insulative ring which is disposed along the inner peripheral edge at a terminal end of the pressure release passage and exposed to the outside of the main wing, and an insulation layer which is disposed between a flange of the support tube and an inner surface of a panel of the main wing.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyuki Kamihara, Yuichiro Kamino, Mitsuo Naruse
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Patent number: 10343761Abstract: The present invention sufficiently heats a repairing material while preventing change in quality of a base material provided with the repairing material so as to securely bond the repairing material to a repair target portion. The repair method of the present invention, in order to repair a repair target portion 14 existing in an outer panel 1, includes: a repairing material disposing step of disposing a repairing patch 21 including a resistance heating element 23 and a carbon fiber reinforced resin, and an adhesive 22A including a thermosetting resin before being hardened for bonding the repairing patch 21 on the repair target portion 14; and a heating-hardening step of heating and hardening the thermosetting resin of the adhesive 22A by causing the resistance heating element 23 to generate heat through supply of electricity thereto.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventors: Kiwamu Arikawa, Masayoshi Suhara, Hiroyuki Iseki, Shuhei Muto
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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: 10337236Abstract: An aircraft window includes: a window body including window panels, and an electromagnetic shield layer laminated on the window panels; a window frame that is made of a conductive material, and that surrounds the window body; a rubber-based gasket provided with conductivity, the gasket being at least partially held between the window body and the window frame; and a conductive layer that is located between the window body and the gasket, and that brings the electromagnetic shield layer and the gasket into conduction with each other. The window frame includes a holding section that holds the window body. At least a part of the conductive layer extends to a portion of the window body facing an extending part of the holding section. Moreover, the conductive layer extends about an entire perimeter of the window body, and extends only partially along an interface between the window body and interposition member.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Yokoi
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Patent number: D870616Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATIONInventor: Hiroyasu Aruga