Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11666967
    Abstract: By melting a shaping material in which a metal powder and a binder are mixed and by carrying out injection molding (primary shaping) in an injection mold, an injection molded body, or an intermediate shaped body are produced. The injection molded body or the intermediate shaped body is placed by a transfer mold and is subjected to a gravity shaping (secondary shaping) with a transformation. A sintered body is manufactured by carrying out debindering and sintering to the injection molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Syuntaro Terauchi, Hisashi Kitagaki, Kazuki Hanami, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11608303
    Abstract: Provided are a coated member in which damage of a coating film can be suppressed in a high temperature environment and the coating may be performed at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. A coated member includes a bond coat and a top coat sequentially laminated on a substrate made of a Si-based ceramic or a SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix composite, wherein the top coat includes a layer composed of a mixed phase of a (Y1-aLn1a)2Si2O7 solid solution (here, Ln1 is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd) and Y2SiO5 or a (Y1-bLn1?b)2SiO5 solid solution (here, Ln1? is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd), or a mixed phase of a (Y1-cLn2c)2Si2O7 solid solution (here, Ln2 is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu) and Y2SiO5 or a (Y1-dLn2?d)2SiO5 solid solution (here, Ln2? is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Kosuke Nishikawa, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11583923
    Abstract: A hydrogenation-dehydrogenation method for a TiAl alloy includes performing hydrogenation treatment of the TiAl alloy in an environment of a set temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which phase transformation to a ? phase starts; and performing dehydrogenation treatment of the TiAl alloy which has been subjected to the hydrogenation treatment. The set temperature ranges from 1,100° C. to 1,600° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Sobu, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11566526
    Abstract: A vibration damping device according to an embodiment is a vibration damping device for a blade of a rotating machine, which includes at least one housing configured to be containable in a cavity formed under a platform of the blade, and to be detachable from the blade, and an attenuation material disposed in a vibration damping space formed inside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Kentaro Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11530168
    Abstract: A coating method includes depositing a slurry including a coarsely particulate ceramic and a finely particulate ceramic on a base material configured with an oxide-based ceramics matrix composite such that a proportion of coarse particles decreases towards a surface of the base material; forming a bond coating by performing a heat treatment on the base material on which the slurry has been deposited; and forming a top coating by thermally spraying a ceramic onto the bond coating. The oxide-based ceramics matrix composite is an alumina silica type oxide-based ceramics matrix composite. The coarsely particulate ceramic and the finely particulate ceramic are alumina-based powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Azusa Tamugi, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11511339
    Abstract: By melting a shaping material in which a metal powder and a binder are mixed and by carrying out injection molding (primary shaping) in an injection mold, an injection molded body, or an intermediate shaped body are produced. The injection molded body or the intermediate shaped body is placed by a transfer mold and is subjected to a gravity shaping (secondary shaping) with a transformation. A sintered body is manufactured by carrying out debindering and sintering to the injection molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Syuntaro Terauchi, Hisashi Kitagaki, Kazuki Hanami, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11506385
    Abstract: An aircraft component is used for an aircraft gas-turbine engine. The aircraft component includes an annular part, a flange, and a boss. The annular part has an outer circumferential surface. The flange is formed at one end portion of the annular part in an axial direction. The boss projects from the outer circumferential surface of the annular part to the radial direction. On a section cut along an axial direction of the annular part, the outer circumferential surface of the annular part between the flange and the boss has a taper part that is formed into a tapered shape in which plate thickness becomes thicker from the flange toward the boss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Onishi, Yasuyuki Uetsuki, Tadayuki Hanada, Yohei Fujimoto, Takafumi Ota
  • Patent number: 11466570
    Abstract: A rotor assembly includes: a rotor disc; a plurality of rotor blades fixed to the rotor disc and extending radially outward in a radial direction of the rotor disc; and at least one rolling element configured to roll on a curved surface facing inward in the radial direction of the rotor disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Tomii, Kentaro Akimoto
  • Patent number: 11447424
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a ceramic matrix composite, having a woven fabric that has multiple fiber bundles and having a matrix that is disposed in the gaps between the fiber bundles, includes: a green body formation step for forming a green body by sintering the woven fabric infiltrated with a polymer that is a precursor to the matrix; and a densification step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer and sintering same. The densification step includes: a second infiltration step for further infiltrating the green body with a polymer so as to form an infiltrated green body; a drying step for drying the infiltrated green body so as to form a dried green body; a steam treatment step for leaving the dried green body under saturation water vapor pressure so as to form a treated green body; and a sintering step for sintering the treated green body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Nishikawa, Akira Fukushima, Ryoma Nogami, Azusa Tamugi
  • Patent number: 11365159
    Abstract: Provided are a coated member in which damage of a coating film can be suppressed in a high temperature environment and the coating may be performed at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. A coated member includes a bond coat and a top coat sequentially laminated on a substrate made of a Si-based ceramic or a SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix composite, wherein the top coat includes a layer composed of a mixed phase of a (Y1-aLn1a)2Si2O7 solid solution (here, Ln1 is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd) and Y2SiO5 or a (Y1-bLn1?b)2SiO5 solid solution (here, Ln1? is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd), or a mixed phase of a (Y1-cLn2c)2Si2O7 solid solution (here, Ln2 is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu) and Y2SiO5 or a (Y1-dLn2?d)2SiO5 solid solution (here, Ln2? is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Kosuke Nishikawa, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11339676
    Abstract: This aircraft gas turbine is provided with a rotor, a rotor blade (24), a casing, a stationary blade (26), and a guide member (53). The rotor blade (24) has fins (43) projecting from the outer peripheral surface (42a) of a rotor blade shroud (42). A stationary blade shroud (51) of the stationary blade (26) forms a cavity (Ct) with at least the rotor blade shroud (42) and the fins (43). The guide member (53) is provided inside the cavity (Ct) and extends inward from the radial outer side, and an inner-side end part (53a) on the radial inner side faces the outer peripheral surface (42a) of the rotor blade shroud (42) with a gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Fujimura, Takaaki Hase, Hirokazu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11168586
    Abstract: The present invention enables machining to be easily performed and reduces stress concentration on a machined hole that is formed in a cylindrical member. Recesses (2) recessed in the depth direction of a machined hole (1) are formed on circumferential side-portions of the machined hole 1 formed in a cylindrical member (10). In each of the recesses (2), a part of the opening edge is formed to be a circular arc portion (2a) that has a circular arc shape, the bottom is formed to be gradually shallowed by an inclined surface (2c) toward an opened portion (2b) in which the circular arc shape is opened, from a part along the circular arc portion (2a), and the circular arc portion (2a) is disposed toward the machined hole (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Uetsuki, Tadayuki Hanada, Yohei Fujimoto, Takafumi Ota, Yusuke Ichihashi
  • Patent number: 11118476
    Abstract: Provided is a transition duct that forms an annular gas flow channel through which a main flow gas flows from a high-pressure turbine to a low-pressure turbine, wherein the gas flow channel has an inner peripheral flow channel surface and an outer peripheral flow channel surface, the inner peripheral flow channel surface and the outer peripheral flow channel surface extend radially outward while angles of inclination relative to an axial direction of a rotating shaft change from the high-pressure turbine (first turbine) toward the low-pressure turbine (second turbine), and an inner peripheral maximum inclined part is provided in a range A2 that extends in the axial direction from a position of alignment with an outer peripheral maximum inclined part to a position advanced toward the low-pressure turbine by a length no more than 20% of the duct length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaaki Hase, Daigo Fujimura, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11111820
    Abstract: A gas turbine for an aircraft includes: blades each including a blade body extending outward from a rotor rotating about an axis in a radial direction of the rotor and a fin protruding from an outer peripheral surface of a blade shroud formed on a distal end of the blade body; a casing installed to form gaps between the casing and the fins; and vanes each including a vane shroud formed such that at least a leading end portion of the vane shroud formed upstream in an axial direction is located outside with respect to an extended line of an inner peripheral surface of the casing in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Fujimura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Tadayuki Hanada, Takaaki Hase
  • Patent number: 11085397
    Abstract: An aircraft component is used in a gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The aircraft component includes an annular part having an outer peripheral surface, and a boss part protruding from the outer peripheral surface of the annular part in a radial direction. In the boss part, at least two through-holes are formed to penetrate the boss part in the radial direction at predetermined intervals. In the boss part around the two through-holes, a cut-out part where a part of the boss part is cut out is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Fujisawa, Tomoyuki Onishi, Yasuyuki Uetsuki, Tadayuki Hanada, Yohei Fujimoto, Takafumi Ota
  • Patent number: 11059751
    Abstract: A coated member includes a heat-shielding coating layer made of a zirconia-dispersed silicate in which ytterbia-stabilized zirconia is precipitated as a dispersed phase in a matrix phase which is any one of a rare earth disilicate, a rare earth monosilicate, and a mixed phase of the rare earth disilicate and the rare earth monosilicate. The rare earth disilicate is a (Y1-a[Ln1]a)2Si2O7 solid solution wherein Ln1 is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu, or a (Y1-c[Ln2]c)2Si2O7 solid solution wherein Ln2 is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd. The rare earth monosilicate is Y2SiO5, [Ln1?]2SiO5, a (Y1-b[Ln1?]b)2SiO5 solid solution wherein Ln1? is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu, or a (Y1-d[Ln2?]d)2SiO5 solid solution wherein Ln2? is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineaki Matsumoto, Takayuki Kurimura, Kosuke Nishikawa, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 11040396
    Abstract: A method for metal powder injection molding includes injecting a first metal powder of a TiAl-based intermetallic compound into a mold, and molding the first metal powder through use of an injection molding machine; injecting a second metal powder of a TiAl-based intermetallic compound having a same constituent as the first metal powder and having a different average particle diameter from the first metal powder into a mold, and molding the second metal powder through use of the injection molding machine; and sintering molded articles obtained by molding the first metal powder and the second metal powder, and producing a mixed sintered compact in which a first sintered compact of the molded article obtained by molding the first metal powder and a second sintered compact of the molded article obtained by molding the second metal powder are integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignees: OSAKA YAKIN KOGYO CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadayuki Hanada, Kenji Suzuki, Shuntaro Terauchi, Hisashi Kitagaki, Kazuki Hanami
  • Patent number: 11021999
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The compressor, the combustor, and the turbine are arranged along an extending direction of a rotating shaft. The gas turbine also includes a combustor casing housing the combustor and a turbine casing housing the turbine. The combustor casing and the turbine casing are joined to each other via respective flanges thereof projecting toward the outside. The gas turbine further includes a projection part on an inner face of the combustor casing. The projection part projects toward the inside in a radial direction in at least part of a range in the extending direction of the rotating shaft between the flanges and an end of a combustion chamber on the compressor side in the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Okabe, Shigenari Horie, Tadayuki Hanada
  • Patent number: 10994301
    Abstract: A method for constructing an abradable coating comprises: a slurry layer formation step S2 in which a slurry layer 31 is formed on the surface of a base material 30 using a slurry containing ceramic particles and a solvent; a calcination step S3 in which the slurry layer 31 formed on the surface of the base material 30 is sintered and a sintered layer 35 to be a portion of an abradable coating layer 22 is formed; and a slurry removal step S5 in which extraneous slurry is removed after the abradable coating layer 22 has been formed on the surface of the base material 30, a plurality of the sintered layers 35 having been laminated in the abradable coating layer 22 through a plurality of repeated cycles of the slurry layer formation step S2 and the calcination step S3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kurimura, Mineaki Matsumoto, Tadayuki Hanada, Azusa Tamugi
  • Patent number: 10981229
    Abstract: A method is for producing a TiAl-based intermetallic sintered compact. The method includes mixing Ti powder, Al powder, and a binder to yield a mixture; molding the mixture into a molded product having a predetermined shape with a metal injection molder; placing the molded product in a preliminary sintering die having a storage space inside; performing sintering at a predetermined preliminary sintering temperature to produce a preliminary sintered compact; releasing the preliminary sintered compact from the preliminary sintering die; and performing sintering at a sintering temperature higher than the preliminary sintering temperature to form the TiAl-based intermetallic sintered compact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AERO ENGINES, LTD., OSAKA YAKIN KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Suzuki, Kentaro Shindo, Shuntaro Terauchi, Hisashi Kitagaki, Kazuki Hanami, Tadayuki Hanada