Patents by Inventor Hironori Honda
Hironori Honda 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: 20240143870Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a generation unit that generates simulation data including a plurality of combinations of unprocessed data of a workpiece and processed data of the workpiece after a process is performed on the workpiece under a predetermined process condition. Each of the plurality of combinations includes the unprocessed data and the processed data when the process is performed with a plurality of pattern densities for each of a plurality of mask shapes. The information processing apparatus further includes a derivation unit that derives simulation parameters of a shape simulator based on a closeness between predicted data that is predicted by inputting the unprocessed data included in the simulation data to the shape simulator, and the processed data combined with the unprocessed data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Hironori MOKI, Tetsuya NISHIZUKA, Masanobu HONDA, Yusuke OGAWA
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Patent number: 11922307Abstract: With respect to an inference method performed by at least one processor, the method includes inputting, by the at least one processor, into a learned model, non-processed object image data of a second object and data related to a second process for the second object, and inferring, by the at least one processor using the learned model, processed object image data of the second object on which the second process has been performed. The learned model has been trained so that an output obtained in response to non-processed object image data of a first object and data related to a first process for the first object being input approaches processed object image data of the first object on which the first process has been performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: Preferred Networks, Inc., Tokyo Electron LimitedInventors: Kosuke Nakago, Daisuke Motoki, Masaki Watanabe, Tomoki Komatsu, Hironori Moki, Masanobu Honda, Takahiko Kato, Tomohiko Niizeki
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Patent number: 11835058Abstract: An impeller includes: a disk-shaped hub centered on an axis; and a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding from a surface of the hub facing one side in a direction of the axis. In a cross-sectional view including a blade height direction which is a direction away from the hub toward a tip of each blade, the blade has a recessed surface curved convexly toward a rear side in a rotational direction. In the cross-sectional view, when a distance between an imaginary line connecting a tip-side edge and a hub-side edge of the blade and a midspan of the blade along a direction perpendicular to the imaginary line is defined as a recess amount, the blade has a portion where the recess amount increases from a leading edge side to a trailing edge side.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Hironori Honda, Nao Taniguchi, Fumito Hiratani, Isao Tomita, Tetsuya Matsuo, Taiyo Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20230258197Abstract: An impeller of a centrifugal compressor includes: a hub; and at least one blade disposed on a hub surface of the hub. A hub-side end of a trailing edge of the at least one blade is located radially outward of an outer peripheral portion of the hub, and is located on either of a first line extending radially outward from the hub surface of the hub or a second line extending radially outward from a back surface of the hub.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2020Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Yutaka FUJITA, Tadashi KANZAKA, Hironori HONDA
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Publication number: 20230175524Abstract: A compressor housing internally forms: an inlet passage with an inflow port formed in a shroud surface; an outlet passage with an outflow port formed in an introduction surface formed on a front side of a shroud surface; and a recirculation passage connecting the inlet passage and the outlet passage. An intake air introduction portion of the compressor housing has: a front-side surface defining a front side in the outlet passage; a rear-side surface defining a rear side in the outlet passage; and a front-side introduction surface formed on the front side relative to the outflow port on the introduction surface. Each of the front-side surface, the rear-side surface, and the front-side introduction surface is inclined to the rear side from an outer side toward an inner side in a radial direction, the rear-side surface includes a convex curved portion, and the front-side introduction surface includes an introduction surface-side convex curved portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA, Yutaka FUJITA, Hironori HONDA
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Publication number: 20230123100Abstract: An impeller includes: a disk-shaped hub centered on an axis; and a plurality of blades arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding from a surface of the hub facing one side in a direction of the axis. In a cross-sectional view including a blade height direction which is a direction away from the hub toward a tip of each blade, the blade has a recessed surface curved convexly toward a rear side in a rotational direction. In the cross-sectional view, when a distance between an imaginary line connecting a tip-side edge and a hub-side edge of the blade and a midspan of the blade along a direction perpendicular to the imaginary line is defined as a recess amount, the blade has a portion where the recess amount increases from a leading edge side to a trailing edge side.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Honda, Nao Taniguchi, Fumito Hiratani, Isao Tomita, Tetsuya Matsuo, Taiyo Shirakawa
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Patent number: 11525457Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal turbomachine includes: a hub having a small-diameter portion positioned at a first end portion in an axial direction and a large-diameter portion positioned at a second end portion in the axial direction, the large-diameter portion having a greater diameter than the small-diameter portion; and a blade having a first edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the small-diameter portion and a second edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the large-diameter portion, the blade being disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the hub. The impeller is configured such that, when a first radial-directional cross section is a cross section of the impeller at an axial-directional position passing a tip of the first edge, at least a part of the first radial-directional cross section in a blade-height range of 50% or more is inclined downstream in a rotational direction of the impeller with respect to a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2017Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Hironori Honda, Kenichiro Iwakiri
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Patent number: 11428240Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor including an impeller rotatably disposed in a housing, the housing includes a shroud wall and a hub wall, which define a diffuser passage communicating with an outlet of the impeller. The diffuser flow passage includes a pinched part configured such that the shroud wall is closer to the hub wall radially outward of the centrifugal compressor from the outlet of the impeller, and a parallel part communicating with the pinched part on a radially outer side of the centrifugal compressor than the pinched part, the parallel part being configured such that the shroud wall and the hub wall are parallel to each other. The shroud wall has a surface facing the impeller and the hub wall, the surface having a cross-sectional shape where a tangent line exists at any position in a cross-section including an axis of the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Fujita, Hironori Honda, Nobuhito Oka
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Patent number: 11408435Abstract: A rotor includes: a hub; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub. Each of the plurality of blades has a suction surface, a pressure surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip-side edge, and a hub-side edge. The suction surface has a first curved surface portion curved convexly toward the trailing edge such that the trailing edge is inclined to a pressure surface side in a first region which is a partial region, in a blade height direction of the blade, of a region connected to the trailing edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Iwakiri, Nobuhito Oka, Hironori Honda
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Patent number: 11136994Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor including an impeller rotatably disposed in a housing, the housing includes a shroud wall and a hub wall, which define a diffuser passage communicating with an outlet of the impeller. The diffuser flow passage includes a pinched part configured such that the shroud wall is closer to the hub wall radially outward of the centrifugal compressor from the outlet of the impeller, and a parallel part communicating with the pinched part on a radially outer side of the centrifugal compressor than the pinched part, the parallel part being configured such that the shroud wall and the hub wall are parallel to each other. The shroud wall has a surface facing the impeller and the hub wall, the surface having a cross-sectional shape where a tangent line exists at any position in a cross-section including an axis of the impeller.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Fujita, Hironori Honda, Nobuhito Oka
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Patent number: 11041505Abstract: A rotary machine blade (31) equipped with a clearance flow suppression blade section (34), the lean angle of which has one or more inflection points, and which is formed such that when the direction from a positive-pressure surface (31a) to a negative-pressure surface (31b) is taken as the normal direction, an inflection point (P1) of the lean angle positioned farthest toward the blade end (33) changes from the negative to the positive direction in the direction away from the blade end (33).Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Hironori Honda, Seiichi Ibaraki, Kenichiro Iwakiri, Tadashi Kanzaka
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Publication number: 20210033107Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor including an impeller rotatably disposed in a housing, the housing includes a shroud wall and a hub wall, which define a diffuser passage communicating with an outlet of the impeller. The diffuser flow passage includes a pinched part configured such that the shroud wall is closer to the hub wall radially outward of the centrifugal compressor from the outlet of the impeller, and a parallel part communicating with the pinched part on a radially outer side of the centrifugal compressor than the pinched part, the parallel part being configured such that the shroud wall and the hub wall are parallel to each other. The shroud wall has a surface facing the impeller and the hub wall, the surface having a cross-sectional shape where a tangent line exists at any position in a cross-section including an axis of the impeller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka FUJITA, Hironori HONDA, Nobuhito OKA
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Publication number: 20210018014Abstract: A rotor includes: a hub; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub. Each of the plurality of blades has a suction surface, a pressure surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip-side edge, and a hub-side edge. The suction surface has a first curved surface portion curved convexly toward the trailing edge such that the trailing edge is inclined to a pressure surface side in a first region which is a partial region, in a blade height direction of the blade, of a region connected to the trailing edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2018Publication date: January 21, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Nobuhito OKA, Hironori HONDA
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Publication number: 20200355198Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal compressor includes a plurality of blades arranged around a hub, and on a trailing edge of the blade, a blade angle at a first position on a shroud side from a center position in a span direction of the blade is larger than a blade angle at a second position on a hub side from the center position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2020Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Hironori HONDA, Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Isao TOMITA, Yutaka FUJITA
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Publication number: 20200088210Abstract: A rotary machine blade (31) equipped with a clearance flow suppression blade section (34), the lean angle of which has one or more inflection points, and which is formed such that when the direction from a positive-pressure surface (31a) to a negative-pressure surface (31b) is taken as the normal direction, an inflection point (P1) of the lean angle positioned farthest toward the blade end (33) changes from the negative to the positive direction in the direction away from the blade end (33).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Hironori HONDA, Seiichi IBARAKI, Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA
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Publication number: 20200056487Abstract: An impeller for a centrifugal turbomachine includes: a hub having a small-diameter portion positioned at a first end portion in an axial direction and a large-diameter portion positioned at a second end portion in the axial direction, the large-diameter portion having a greater diameter than the small-diameter portion; and a blade having a first edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the small-diameter portion and a second edge positioned at an axial-directional position of the large-diameter portion, the blade being disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the hub. The impeller is configured such that, when a first radial-directional cross section is a cross section of the impeller at an axial-directional position passing a tip of the first edge, at least a part of the first radial-directional cross section in a blade-height range of 50% or more is inclined downstream in a rotational direction of the impeller with respect to a radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Hironori HONDA, Kenichiro IWAKIRI
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Patent number: 7157147Abstract: Provided are a gas-barrier film which is a laminate comprising a substrate layer comprising a thermoplastic resin film and a gas-barrier layer comprising a hydrolysate of a silicon alkoxide, a stratified silicate and a polyvinyl alcohol base resin, wherein a radius (Rg) of gyration of a scattering matter which is measured by light scattering in the gas-barrier layer described above is 2.4 ?m or less, and the silicon alkoxide and/or the hydrolysate thereof are present between the layers of the stratified silicate present in the above gas-barrier layer. The above film shows an excellent gas-barrier property even under such a high humidity as exceeding 90% RH.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignees: Tokuyama Corporation, Sun-Tox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoji Inui, Naoto Mochizuki, Isao Masada, Ryuji Ishimoto, Hideki Umekawa, Hironori Honda, Yoshihiro Kimura
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Publication number: 20040253463Abstract: Provided are a gas-barrier film which is a laminate comprising a substrate layer comprising a thermoplastic resin film and a gas-barrier layer comprising a hydrolysate of a silicon alkoxide, a stratified silicate and a polyvinyl alcohol base resin, wherein a radius (Rg) of gyration of a scattering matter which is measured by light scattering in the gas-barrier layer described above is 2.4 &mgr;m or less, and the silicon alkoxide and/or the hydrolysate thereof are present between the layers of the stratified silicate present in the above gas-barrier layer. The above film shows an excellent gas-barrier property even under such a high humidity as exceeding 90% RH.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2004Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Yoji Inui, Naoto Mochizuki, Isao Masada, Ryuji Ishimoto, Hideki Umekawa, Hironori Honda, Yoshihiro Kimura
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Patent number: 6232839Abstract: A voltage-controlled amplifier unit 2 amplifies an input signal with a gain variable according to a controlled voltage. A basic amplifier unit 1 amplifies the input signal with at least one fixed gain. An adder 3 adds together the output signals of the voltage-controller amplifier unit 2 and the basic amplifier unit 1.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Hironori Honda
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Patent number: RE37935Abstract: A cadmium non-sintered negative electrode for use in an alkaline storage cell comprising a main active material comprising at least one of powdered cadmium oxide and powdered cadmium hydroxide; a reserve charging substance comprising powdered metal cadmium; and an additive comprising powdered nickel hydroxide whose grain shape is substantially globe and/or whose average grain size is 1.5 to 200 &mgr;m.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 10, 2002Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Takemura, Hironori Honda, Masayuki Terasaka