Patents by Inventor Daigo Watanabe
Daigo Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240131707Abstract: A device includes an input reception unit that receives input of a parameter of a weaving signal, a signal generation unit that generates a weaving signal having the received parameter, a parameter acquisition unit that acquires, as a filtered parameter, the parameter of the weaving signal in a case where the weaving signal is subjected to filtering processing, a condition determination unit that determines whether or not the filtered parameter satisfies a predetermined condition, and a parameter adjustment unit that adjusts the received parameter if the filtered parameter is determined not to satisfy the predetermined condition. The signal generation unit generates a weaving signal having the parameter adjusted by the parameter adjustment unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Fanuc CorporationInventor: Daigo Watanabe
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Patent number: 11929201Abstract: A surface mount inductor includes a coil including a wound portion and a feeder end portion drawn out from the wound portion, a compact that contains a magnetic powder and that encapsulates the coil, and an external terminal disposed on the compact and connected to the coil. The compact has surfaces including two pressed surfaces, opposing each other in a direction of an axis of the wound portion and formed by being pressed in the direction of the axis, and a non-pressed surface, adjacent to the two surfaces and not pressed. The coil is disposed so that the axis of the wound portion is parallel to a mount surface of the compact. The mount surface is included in the non-pressed surface, the feeder end portion is exposed from the mount surface, and the external terminal is formed on only the non-pressed surface and connected to the feeder end portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuki Kitashima, Masaki Kitajima, Takeo Ohaga, Takeshi Shimada, Yoshiaki Hirama, Daigo Mizumura, Ryota Watanabe, Masato Koike, Yuusuke Morita
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Publication number: 20230053168Abstract: A control device for moving a robot and causing the robot to perform a work onto a work target portion includes a reference position acquisition section that acquires a position of the work target portion as a reference position, based on detection data of a sensor that detects the work target portion, a movement direction acquisition section that acquires a movement direction of the robot, a direction determination section that determines a shift direction in which a working position of the robot onto the work target portion is to be shifted from the reference position, based on the movement direction acquired by the movement direction acquisition section, and a robot control section that positions the robot at a target position shifted from the reference position toward the shift direction by a predetermined shift amount, when carrying out the work onto the work target portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Daigo WATANABE, Tomonori MATSUSHIMA
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Patent number: 11300039Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, and a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via a plurality of nozzle holes. The precombustion-chamber forming portion includes a cylindrical portion extending along an extension direction of a precombustion chamber central axis of the precombustion-chamber forming portion, and a tip portion closing a main-combustion-chamber-side end of the cylindrical portion and having the nozzle holes. The tip portion includes a thin region having a thickness T satisfying T<L where L is a length of each nozzle hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Kashiwagi, Daigo Watanabe, Yuta Furukawa
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Patent number: 11221022Abstract: A turbine housing includes an outer housing portion which includes an inner wall internally forming a spiral space, a first heat shield core which separates the spiral space into a scroll flow passage where an exhaust gas flows and a heat shield space positioned on a side of the inner wall, the first heat shield core being disposed so as to face the inner wall in the spiral space, a variable nozzle unit for adjusting a flow of the exhaust gas from the scroll flow passage toward an impeller, the variable nozzle unit being disposed on a side opposite to the outer housing portion across the first heat shield core in an axial direction, and at least one annular seal portion disposed between the first heat shield core and the outer housing portion in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shigeyoshi Sakuma, Eigo Katou, Keigo Sakamoto, Daigo Watanabe, Takashi Arai, Yuta Ishii
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Publication number: 20210363914Abstract: A precombustion chamber gas engine includes a main-chamber forming portion forming a main combustion chamber, and a precombustion-chamber forming portion forming a precombustion chamber communicating with the main combustion chamber via a plurality of nozzle holes. The precombustion-chamber forming portion includes a cylindrical portion extending along an extension direction of a precombustion chamber central axis of the precombustion-chamber forming portion, and a tip portion closing a main-combustion-chamber-side end of the cylindrical portion and having the nozzle holes. The tip portion includes a thin region having a thickness T satisfying T<L where L is a length of each nozzle hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2018Publication date: November 25, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KASHIWAGI, Daigo WATANABE, Yuta FURUKAWA
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Patent number: 11015250Abstract: An impeller for a rotary machine includes a base material of the impeller made of Al or an Al alloy. A surface layer for the impeller is formed by an electroless plating layer with a Ni—P based alloy and an under layer disposed between the base material and the surface layer, the under layer having a smaller Vickers hardness than the surface layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Takashi Arai, Hideki Yamaguchi, Wataru Murono, Taiji Torigoe, Masahiro Yamada
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Patent number: 10895226Abstract: A turbocharger includes a gripping unit gripping a turbine-housing side flange portion and a bearing-housing side flange portion to couple a turbine housing and a bearing housing. In a state where the turbine housing and the bearing housing are coupled by the gripping unit, an elastic force in a direction to separate the turbine-housing side flange portion and the bearing-housing side flange portion from each other is applied to each of the turbine housing and the bearing housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Takao Yokoyama, Takashi Yoshimoto, Chikako Kato, Keigo Sakamoto, Yosuke Dammoto
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Patent number: 10801368Abstract: A turbocharger includes: a turbine wheel; a turbine housing; a bearing housing; a shroud having a facing surface which faces a tip of a blade of the turbine wheel and being configured to surround the turbine wheel, the shroud comprising a separate member from the turbine housing and being disposed inside the turbine housing via a gap with respect to the turbine housing; a mount supported to at least one of the turbine housing or the bearing housing, at a position closer to the bearing housing than a scroll flow path in an axial direction of the turbine wheel; and at least one connection part connecting the mount and the shroud.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2015Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Keigo Sakamoto, Eigo Katou, Youji Akiyama, Makoto Ozaki, Daigo Watanabe
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Patent number: 10731491Abstract: Bolt holes 16 are formed in a joint part 14 of a turbine housing 12, with flanged bolts 40 screwed in the bolt holes 16. A flange part 32 of a bearing housing 30 is sandwiched between bearing surfaces 44a of the flanged bolts 40 and an inner end face 14b of the joint part 14. A sealing ring 48 is interposed in an annular space s. Before the flanged bolts 40 are fastened, there is formed a height difference G equivalent to a compression allowance h for the sealing ring 48, between an outer end face 60a of the joint part 14 and a bolt receiving surface 32a of the flange part 32. The flanged bolts 40 are screwed into the bolt holes 16 until the bearing surfaces 44a make tight contact with the outer end face 60a so as to resiliently deform the sealing ring 48.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shingo Shudo, Daigo Watanabe, Takumi Tokiyoshi, Motoki Ebisu
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Publication number: 20200056628Abstract: A turbine housing includes an outer housing portion which includes an inner wall internally forming a spiral space, a first heat shield core which separates the spiral space into a scroll flow passage where an exhaust gas flows and a heat shield space positioned on a side of the inner wall, the first heat shield core being disposed so as to face the inner wall in the spiral space, a variable nozzle unit for adjusting a flow of the exhaust gas from the scroll flow passage toward an impeller, the variable nozzle unit being disposed on a side opposite to the outer housing portion across the first heat shield core in an axial direction, and at least one annular seal portion disposed between the first heat shield core and the outer housing portion in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shigeyoshi SAKUMA, Eigo KATOU, Keigo SAKAMOTO, Daigo WATANABE, Takashi ARAI, Yuta ISHII
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Publication number: 20190136804Abstract: A turbocharger includes a gripping unit gripping a turbine-housing side flange portion and a bearing-housing side flange portion to couple a turbine housing and a bearing housing. In a state where the turbine housing and the bearing housing are coupled by the gripping unit, an elastic force in a direction to separate the turbine-housing side flange portion and the bearing-housing side flange portion from each other is applied to each of the turbine housing and the bearing housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2016Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Daigo WATANABE, Takao YOKOYAMA, Takashi YOSHIMOTO, Chikako KATO, Keigo SAKAMOTO, Yosuke DAMMOTO
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Patent number: 10267332Abstract: A compressor includes: an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades disposed on an outer surface of the hub; and a housing which houses the impeller. The housing includes: a shroud section facing the outer surface of the hub to form a fluid flow path between the shroud section and the outer surface, and surrounding the impeller; and a casing section formed integrally with the shroud section and supporting the shroud section. The shroud section includes a first resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 65 MPa and no more than 200 MPa and a breaking strain of no more than 0.3 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C. The casing section includes a second resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 40 MPa and a breaking strain of at least 0.1 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Isao Tomita, Ryoji Okabe, Hiroshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190056052Abstract: In a cooling device for a high temperature pipe, a high temperature pipe is efficiently cooled, and cooling performance is improved. A cooling device (10) for a high temperature pipe that cools a surface to be cooled (104) of a pipe (100) as a high temperature pipe includes: a cooling medium supply header (11) that is disposed so as not to shield heat dissipation by radiation from the surface to be cooled (104) to the periphery, and allows a cooling medium to flow out toward the surface to be cooled (104); and a cooling medium supply device (12) that supplies the cooling medium to the cooling medium supply header (11).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi MATSUO, Fumitoshi SAKATA, Yuichi KANEMAKI, Haruki MUKUMOTO, Daigo WATANABE, Chikako KATO, Junichi OZAWA, Junki JOYAMA, Masahiro KUROSE, Takahiro FUJIMORI, Hiroyuki OHYAMA
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Patent number: 10077679Abstract: Provided is a turbine housing that comprises: a scroll unit; a flat annular cover (6) that is disposed in a state where one end face abuts a flanged portion (20a) of the scroll unit and that is welded to the flanged portion (20a); an annular seal portion (4) that extends from a basal end (4a) welded to the inner circumferential side of the other end face of the annular cover (6) to the distal end (4b) disposed further to the exterior than the basal end (4a) in the radial direction and that comprises a member that can be elastically deformed; and a plurality of threaded bushings (16) that are each welded in a plurality of locations on the outer circumferential side of the other end face of the annular cover (6) and that have fastening holes (16a) for fastening bolts (40) inserted along the direction of the axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Nariaki Seike
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Patent number: 10072523Abstract: An object is to provide a sheet-metal turbine housing reinforced by a readily-manufacturable structure, the sheet-metal turbine housing also having a small thickness and improved containment performance. A sheet-metal turbine housing includes: a scroll part forming an exhaust gas channel of a scroll shape in a turbocharger for driving a turbine with exhaust gas of an engine, the scroll part comprising sheet metal; and at least one rib portion of a protrusion shape formed on an outer wall surface of the scroll part at a radially outer side of an inlet edge of a turbine blade along a circumferential direction of the scroll part, the at least one rib portion protruding either outward or inward, or both, and including a bend and bend-back structure formed on the sheet metal forming the scroll part.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida, Takao Yokoyama, Isao Tomita, Daigo Watanabe, Yasuaki Jinnai, Hirotaka Higashimori
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Publication number: 20180045215Abstract: An impeller for a rotary machine includes: a base material of the impeller comprising Al or an Al alloy; and an electroless plating layer disposed so as to cover the base material, the electroless plating layer forming a surface layer of the impeller. The electroless plating layer comprises a Ni—P based alloy having an amorphous structure, the Ni—P based alloy having a P content rate of not less than 5 wt % and not more than 11 wt % in the electroless plating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takashi ARAI, Daigo WATANABE, Wataru MURONO, Hideki YAMAGUCHI, Taiji TORIGOE, Aki INOUE, Yuya KONNO
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Publication number: 20180016942Abstract: A turbocharger includes: a turbine wheel; a turbine housing; a bearing housing; a shroud having a facing surface which faces a tip of a blade of the turbine wheel and being configured to surround the turbine wheel, the shroud comprising a separate member from the turbine housing and being disposed inside the turbine housing via a gap with respect to the turbine housing; a mount supported to at least one of the turbine housing or the bearing housing, at a position closer to the bearing housing than a scroll flow path in an axial direction of the turbine wheel; and at least one connection part connecting the mount and the shroud.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2015Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Keigo SAKAMOTO, Eigo KATOU, Youji AKIYAMA, Makoto OZAKI, Daigo WATANABE
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Patent number: 9863262Abstract: Bolt holes 16 are formed in a joint part 14 of a turbine housing 12, with flanged bolts 40 screwed in the bolt holes 16. A flange part 32 of a bearing housing 30 is sandwiched between bearing surfaces 44a of the flanged bolts 40 and an inner end face 14b of the joint part 14. A sealing ring 48 is interposed in an annular space s. Before the flanged bolts 40 are fastened, there is formed a height difference G equivalent to a compression allowance h for the sealing ring 48, between an outer end face 60a of the joint part 14 and a bolt receiving surface 32a of the flange part 32. The flanged bolts 40 are screwed into the bolt holes 16 until the bearing surfaces 44a make tight contact with the outer end face 60a so as to resiliently deform the sealing ring 48.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2011Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shingo Shudo, Daigo Watanabe, Takumi Tokiyoshi, Motoki Ebisu
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Publication number: 20180002812Abstract: An impeller for a rotary machine includes: a base material of the impeller comprising Al or an Al alloy; a surface layer for the impeller formed by an electroless plating layer comprising a Ni—P based alloy; and an under layer disposed between the base material and the surface layer, the under layer having a smaller Vickers hardness than the surface layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daigo WATANABE, Takashi ARAI, Hideki YAMAGUCHI, Wataru MURONO, Taiji TORIGOE, Masahiro YAMADA