Patents by Inventor Hiromu Okamoto

Hiromu Okamoto 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).

  • Patent number: 11594341
    Abstract: A pit gate includes a gate body which is inserted between a pool portion storing water and a canal portion connected to the pool portion and is configured to change a flow state of the water, and a seal portion (6) which is accommodated in a groove-shaped accommodation recess formed in the gate body and seals between the pool portion and the gate body. The seal portion (6) includes a low-rigidity portion (10) which is relatively easily deformed by a load according to a water pressure from the pool portion side, and a high-rigidity portion (11) which is provided on the pool portion side of the low-rigidity portion and is not easily deformed relatively by the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Hisanori Watanabe, Hidetaka Kafuku, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hiroki Mitsui, Yasuharu Suda, Takao Ito, Hayao Kurono, Shuhei Dobara, Takumi Hori
  • Publication number: 20210158979
    Abstract: A pit gate includes a gate body which is inserted between a pool portion storing water and a canal portion connected to the pool portion and is configured to change a flow state of the water, and a seal portion (6) which is accommodated in a groove-shaped accommodation recess formed in the gate body and seals between the pool portion and the gate body. The seal portion (6) includes a low-rigidity portion (10) which is relatively easily deformed by a load according to a water pressure from the pool portion side, and a high-rigidity portion (11) which is provided on the pool portion side of the low-rigidity portion and is not easily deformed relatively by the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Hisanori Watanabe, Hidetaka Kafuku, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hiroki Mitsui, Yasuharu Suda, Takao Ito, Hayao Kurono, Shuhei Dobara, Takumi Hori
  • Patent number: 10940937
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
  • Patent number: 10914382
    Abstract: A shaft sealing structure for a rotation shaft, includes a sealing ring having ends formed by removal of its part. The ends abutting each other are continuous in the circumferential direction when the sealing ring is reduced in diameter to a radially inner side. The sealing ring is provided along the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft so as to be contactable with an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft. The structure also includes a pressing member configured to be movable between a pressing position and a retracted position; an elastic member configured to bias the pressing member toward the pressing position by elastic force; and a support member configured to support the pressing member at the retracted position against the elastic force, and to allow the pressing member to move to the pressing position at a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naotaka Komatsu, Takumi Hori, Yuichi Otani, Hidetaka Kafuku, Hiromu Okamoto, Shunsuke Tanaka, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada
  • Publication number: 20190195255
    Abstract: The accessory attachment structure for attaching an accessory to a steel plate-reinforced concrete structure, the steel plate-reinforced concrete structure being provided with a steel plate frame, bars fixedly installed on an inner face of an outside steel plate, and concrete, the accessory attachment structure includes an attachment plate in which one face thereof is attached to the outside steel plate and the accessory is attached to the other face thereof. The size of the other face of the attachment plate is larger than that of a whole attachment face to be attached to the attachment plate of the accessory, the size if the one face is equal to or greater than the other face, and the length of the attachment plate in any direction along the one face of the attachment plate is at least two times greater than a mutual interval between the bars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiromu Okamoto, Katsumi Takagi, Takao Hagishita, Ryo Fujimoto, Hiroyuki Iseki, Hisashi Sekimoto
  • Publication number: 20190063610
    Abstract: A shaft sealing structure for a rotation shaft, includes a sealing ring having ends formed by removal of its part. The ends abutting each other are continuous in the circumferential direction when the sealing ring is reduced in diameter to a radially inner side. The sealing ring is provided along the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft so as to be contactable with an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft. The structure also includes a pressing member configured to be movable between a pressing position and a retracted position; an elastic member configured to bias the pressing member toward the pressing position by elastic force; and a support member configured to support the pressing member at the retracted position against the elastic force, and to allow the pressing member to move to the pressing position at a predetermined temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Naotaka KOMATSU, Takumi HORI, Yuichi OTANI, Hidetaka KAFUKU, Hiromu OKAMOTO, Shunsuke TANAKA, Yasushi TAKAYAMA, Tomoki HANADA
  • Patent number: 9809298
    Abstract: There is provided a drainage system of an aircraft which discharges moisture having entered inside horizontal tails, which are structures of an airframe of an aircraft, toward the rear end of a fuselage, the drainage system including: a drainage channel which includes an introduction end and a discharge end, and by a capillary action delivers moisture introduced from the introduction end toward the discharge end; and a heater which heats and dries the moisture delivered through the drainage channel. The drainage channel of the present invention is preferably composed of a paper drainage material. It is also preferable that the introduction end of the drainage channel is provided in a lowermost region in the vertical direction within an area in which moisture can accumulate inside the horizontal tails while the aircraft is parked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
  • Patent number: 9548140
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor vessel structure includes an inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, an outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, and an intermediate tube-shaped steel plate disposed between the inner and outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plates, and is configured to support a nuclear reactor vessel on the inner peripheral side of a tube-shaped structure with concrete placed between the steel plates. The nuclear reactor vessel structure includes a support having a tube-shaped plate disposed on the inner peripheral side of the intermediate tube-shaped steel plate, and an annular plate which protrudes to the inner peripheral side of the tube-shaped plate and to which a connection section is affixed. The support is affixed to the concrete, which is placed between the inner peripheral and the intermediate tube-shaped steel plates, by first bar members, and the support is also affixed to the inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate by second bar members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryo Fujimoto, Kentaro Mori, Hiromu Okamoto, Hisashi Sekimoto, Hiroyuki Iseki
  • Publication number: 20160257430
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to visualize an internal structural members, which are covered with a skin and therefore unrecognizable to the naked eye, from the outside of the skin. There is provided an internal structure visualization method applied to a main wing of an aircraft, which includes a skin with a front surface and a back surface and structural members supporting the skin from the back surface side, to display, when necessary, a trace map composed of lines extending along projection regions of the structural members, wherein functional lines, which are a developing element of the trace map, are provided along the projection regions of the front surface, and the trace map is displayed by performing a predetermined process on a predetermined region of the front surface where the functional lines are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Shotaro Hayashi, Ryuichi Nagase, Masayoshi Suhara, Hiromu Okamoto, Kiwamu Arikawa, Morimasa Ishida
  • Publication number: 20160236768
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to prevent accumulation of moisture which has entered inside a honeycomb sandwich panel used for a stressed-skin structure of an aircraft. A reinforcing structure includes an outer panel constituting an outer shell of a tailplane and a honeycomb sandwich panel reinforcing the outer panel. The honeycomb sandwich panel includes a honeycomb core having a plurality of cells, an outer skin joined on the front side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the side of the outer panel, and an inner skin joined on the back side of the honeycomb core and disposed on the inner side of the tailplane. The inner skin has drainage channels formed therein through which each of the plurality of cells communicates with the outside of the honeycomb sandwich panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Masayoshi Suhara, Ryuichi Nagase, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Morimasa Ishida
  • Publication number: 20160236769
    Abstract: There is provided a drainage system of an aircraft which discharges moisture having entered inside horizontal tails, which are structures of an airframe of an aircraft, toward the rear end of a fuselage, the drainage system including: a drainage channel which includes an introduction end and a discharge end, and by a capillary action delivers moisture introduced from the introduction end toward the discharge end; and a heater which heats and dries the moisture delivered through the drainage channel. The drainage channel of the present invention is preferably composed of a paper drainage material. It is also preferable that the introduction end of the drainage channel is provided in a lowermost region in the vertical direction within an area in which moisture can accumulate inside the horizontal tails while the aircraft is parked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hiromu OKAMOTO, Masayoshi SUHARA, Ryuichi NAGASE, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Morimasa ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20140219410
    Abstract: In the foundation structure of a reactor containment vessel, a lower foundation plate provided on a ground, an upper foundation plate provided over the lower foundation plate, a base isolation device inserted between the upper foundation plate and the lower foundation plate, and a reactor containment vessel provided on the upper foundation plate are provided. The ends of reverse U-shaped tendons serving as the lower structures of the reactor containment vessel are fixed to the lower surface of the upper foundation plate through the upper foundation plate, which makes it possible to simplify a structure and reduce a construction cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Hiromu Okamoto, Kunihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20130272485
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor vessel structure includes an inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, an outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plate, and an intermediate tube-shaped steel plate disposed between the inner and outer peripheral tube-shaped steel plates, and is configured to support a nuclear reactor vessel on the inner peripheral side of a tube-shaped structure with concrete placed between the steel plates. The nuclear reactor vessel structure includes a support having a tube-shaped plate disposed on the inner peripheral side of the intermediate tube-shaped steel plate, and an annular plate which protrudes to the inner peripheral side of the tube-shaped plate and to which a connection section is affixed. The support is affixed to the concrete, which is placed between the inner peripheral and the intermediate tube-shaped steel plates, by first bar members, and the support is also affixed to the inner peripheral tube-shaped steel plate by second bar members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Ryo Fujimoto, Kentaro Mori, Hiromu Okamoto, Hisashi Sekimoto, Hiroyuki Iseki
  • Patent number: 8295390
    Abstract: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10 for performing data communication; and a communications controller 20 which performs communication of a control signal including information showing at least one of a communications device and a communications standard and controls the data communicator 101. When the a.c. voltage supplied to the power line 106 is an N-phase and when the cycle of the a.c. voltage waveform is T, data communication to be performed in a communication period subsequent to the period is controlled on the basis of the control signal included in the period of T/2M on condition that M is a natural multiple of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignees: Panasonic Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Koga, Yuji Igata, Go Kuroda, Koji Ikeda, Akio Kurobe, Hirotoshi Yamada, Hiromu Okamoto, Yoshinori Mizugai, Takehiro Sugita, Junichi Ohshima, Shigeru Takasu
  • Publication number: 20120097287
    Abstract: Provided is duct equipment including a duct body, a heat insulating material, a external cover, a fiber-reinforced sheet, and fiber-reinforced moldings. The duct body includes a duct wall, a duct passage defined by the duct wall, and duct corners formed in the duct wall when viewed in a cross-section in a direction intersecting a direction in which the duct passage extends. The heat insulating material is installed on an outer circumference of the duct body. The external cover includes a external cover wall installed on an outer circumference of the heat insulating material, and external cover corners formed alone the duct corners. The fiber-reinforced sheet is disposed on the outer circumference of the duct body via an adhesive layer. The fiber-reinforced moldings are disposed adjacent to the fiber-reinforced sheet along the external cover corners via adhesive layers, and have a substantially L-shape when viewed in the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Shimizu, Satoshi Shinma, Nobuki Matsui, Tomoyoshi Maruyama, Ryuichi Nagase, Hiromu Okamoto, Hiroyuki Iseki, Kenji Sato, Seiji Takihana, Takumi Hori, Keigo Nishida
  • Publication number: 20100104030
    Abstract: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10 for performing data communication; and a communications controller 20 which performs communication of a control signal including information showing at least one of a communications device and a communications standard and controls the data communicator 101. When the a.c. voltage supplied to the power line 106 is an N-phase and when the cycle of the a.c. voltage waveform is T, data communication to be performed in a communication period subsequent to the period is controlled on the basis of the control signal included in the period of T/2M on condition that M is a natural multiple of N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicants: PANASONIC CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao KOGA, Yuji Igata, Go Kuroda, Koji Ikeda, Akio Kurobe, Hirotoshi Yamada, Hiromu Okamoto, Yoshinori Mizugai, Takehiro Sugita, Junichi Ohshima, Shigeru Takasu
  • Patent number: 7660365
    Abstract: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10 for performing data communication; and a communications controller 20 which performs communication of a control signal including information showing at least one of a communications device and a communications standard and controls the data communicator 101. When the a.c. voltage supplied to the power line 106 is an N-phase and when the cycle of the a.c. voltage waveform is T, data communication to be performed in a communication period subsequent to the period is controlled on the basis of the control signal included in the period of T/2M on condition that M is a natural multiple of N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hisao Koga, Yuji Igata, Go Kuroda, Koji Ikeda, Akio Kurobe, Hirotoshi Yamada, Hiromu Okamoto, Yoshinori Mizugai, Takehiro Sugita, Junichi Ohshima, Shigeru Takasu
  • Publication number: 20070160172
    Abstract: A communications device 100, which performs data communication, includes an AC cycle sensor 30 which is connected to a power line 106 supplied with an a.c. voltage and generates a synchronous signal SS at timing of an a.c. voltage waveform AC of the power line 106; a data communicator 10 for performing data communication; and a communications controller 20 which performs communication of a control signal including information showing at least one of a communications device and a communications standard and controls the data communicator 101. When the a.c. voltage supplied to the power line 106 is an N-phase and when the cycle of the a.c. voltage waveform is T, data communication to be performed in a communication period subsequent to the period is controlled on the basis of the control signal included in the period of T/2M on condition that M is a natural multiple of N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicants: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisao Koga, Yuji Igata, Go Kuroda, Koji Ikeda, Akio Kurobe, Hirotoshi Yamada, Hiromu Okamoto, Yoshinori Mizugai, Takehiro Sugita, Junichi Ohshima, Shigeru Takasu
  • Publication number: 20070064783
    Abstract: An in-home-system master station of an in-home communication system detects a frequency band (a channel number corresponding to a data communication subchannel) or a time slot used by each station of an access communication system, using a coexistence signal subchannel. Based on the detected information, the in-home-system master station determines a frequency band or a time slot to be used in the in-home communication system to which the in-home-system master station belongs, so as not to avoid overlapping the frequency or time slot used in the access communication system, and informs each in-home-system slave station of the determined frequency band or time slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Go Kuroda, Akio Kurobe, Koji Ikeda, Hisao Koga, Yuji Igata, Hirotoshi Yamada, Yoshinori Mizugai, Hiromu Okamoto, Junichi Ohshima, Shigeru Takasu, Takehiro Sugita
  • Patent number: 6120104
    Abstract: A wheel cover comprises a fixable side fixture fixably secured to the center of a wheel of a car, as to be able to position to the central part thereof; a movable side fixture pivoyably mounted to the central part of the fixable side fixturethrough a bearing; a wheel cover body in the shape of a disk mounted to the movable side fixture, having a space between the wheel; and a weight mounted to said movable side fixture or wheel cover body, in order to prevent to rotate the wheel cover body so that people can see the design drawn onto the wheel cover body because the rotating of the wheel cover body can be prevented if the tire rotates, moreover, the wheel cover is positioned the up and downward thereof and can be prevented to be unsightly design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Okamoto, Hiromu Okamoto, Yuko Okamoto