Patents by Inventor Hirohide Shibata

Hirohide Shibata 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).

  • Method of forming a product of metal-based composite material
    Patent number: 7516772
    Abstract: A forming method wherein a billet (31, 66, 77, 87, 107, 128, 136, 144, 153, 77B, 77C) comprising a metal-based composite material (27) prepared by mixing an aluminum alloy (22) and a ceramic (15) is subjected to pressure forming to manufacture a formed article, which comprises carrying out the pressure forming by the use of different compression ratios for different portions of the formed article, wherein a compression ratio means the ratio of the height of a billet before the pressure forming to height of the billet after the pressure forming. The above forming method allows the manufacture of a formed article having different volume contents 8Vf) of the ceramic for different portions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuura, Hiroto Shoji, Takaharu Echigo, Masashi Hara, Hiroki Takano, Yusuke Toyoda, Katsuhiro Shibata, Takahiro Mizukami, Hirohide Shibata
  • Method of forming a product of metal-based composite material
    Publication number: 20070090154
    Abstract: A forming method wherein a billet (31, 66, 77, 87, 107, 128, 136, 144, 153, 77B, 77C) comprising a metal-based composite material (27) prepared by mixing an aluminum alloy (22) and a ceramic (15) is subjected to pressure forming to manufacture a formed article, which comprises carrying out the pressure forming by the use of different compression ratios for different portions of the formed article, wherein a compression ratio means the ratio of the height of a billet before the pressure forming to height of the billet after the pressure forming. The above forming method allows the manufacture of a formed article having different volume contents 8 Vf) of the ceramic for different portions thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Matsuura, Hiroto Shoji, Takaharu Echigo, Masashi Hara, Hiroki Takano, Yusuke Toyoda, Katsuhiro Shibata, Takahiro Mizukami, Hirohide Shibata