Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Rikukawa

Hiroshi Rikukawa 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: 9475587
    Abstract: To provide a jig for forming a sealant layer which enables to quickly and accurately form a sealant layer having a required film thickness. The jig includes: a sealant cup 13 that overlays a sealant 28 around a collar 26; a cup holder 12 that determines a position of the sealant cup 13 with respect to a fastener member 24; and a dummy cup 11 that determines a position of the cup holder 12 with respect to the fastener member 24. The cup holder 12 is determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24 by being guided along the dummy cup 11 determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24. The sealant cup 13 is guided along a guide of the cup holder 12 so as to overlay the sealant 28 around the collar 26 after removing the dummy cup 11 from the cup holder 12 determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Nishimura, Hideo Yamakoshi, Yuji Asahara, Atsuhiro Iyomasa, Takeyasu Tarumi, Noritomo Takata, Jun Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Tomonori Okumura, Kengo Nomiya, Tooru Hashigami
  • Patent number: 9376217
    Abstract: To provide a jig for forming a sealant layer for a lightning protection fastener which enables to quickly and accurately obtain a sealant layer having a required thickness. A guide jig 30 is used to form a sealant layer 29 around a fastener member 24 that passes through and fastens a plurality of members constituting an airframe of an aircraft, the jig including: a cup 31 including a cavity 33 to be filled with an uncured sealant 28; and a guide that is provided within the cavity 33 and engaged with the fastener member 24 so as to match a center axis of the cavity 33 with a center axis of the fastener member 24.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideo Yamakoshi, Yuji Asahara, Wataru Nishimura, Takeyasu Tarumi, Noritomo Takata, Jun Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Tomonori Okumura, Kengo Nomiya
  • Publication number: 20150298819
    Abstract: To provide a jig for forming a sealant layer for a lightning protection fastener which enables to quickly and accurately obtain a sealant layer having a required thickness. A guide jig 30 is used to form a sealant layer 29 around a fastener member 24 that passes through and fastens a plurality of members constituting an airframe of an aircraft, the jig including: a cup 31 including a cavity 33 to be filled with an uncured sealant 28; and a guide that is provided within the cavity 33 and engaged with the fastener member 24 so as to match a center axis of the cavity 33 with a center axis of the fastener member 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Hideo Yamakoshi, Yuji Asahara, Wataru Nishimura, Takeyasu Tarumi, Noritomo Takata, Jun Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Tomonori Okumura, Kengo Nomiya
  • Patent number: 9163656
    Abstract: To provide a lightning protection fastener or the like, that can reliably seal an arc between the cap and a member such as a wing panel. An end part 30A of a cap 30 on an opening side, the end part 30 A facing a member 22 (or member 21), includes a plane 30d orthogonal to an axis line of the cap 30A and a tapered face 30c formed on an outer circumferential side of the plane 30d. A sealant 34 that spills out of the cap 30A upon mounting the cap 30A is present between the tapered face 30c and a surface 22f of the member 22 (sealant 34S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Asahara, Hideo Yamakoshi, Atsuhiro Iyomasa, Takeyasu Tarumi, Wataru Nishimura, Yasunori Watanabe, Toru Hashigami, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Hideo Imamura, Naoki Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20140234050
    Abstract: To provide a lightning protection fastener or the like, that can reliably seal an arc between the cap and a member such as a wing panel. An end part 30A of a cap 30 on an opening side, the end part 30 A facing a member 22 (or member 21), includes a plane 30d orthogonal to an axis line of the cap 30A and a tapered face 30c formed on an outer circumferential side of the plane 30d. A sealant 34 that spills out of the cap 30A upon mounting the cap 30A is present between the tapered face 30c and a surface 22f of the member 22 (sealant 34S).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Asahara, Hideo Yamakoshi, Atsuhiro Iyomasa, Takeyasu Tarumi, Wataru Nishimura, Yasunori Watanabe, Toru Hashigami, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Hideo Imamura, Naoki Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20140209736
    Abstract: To provide a jig for forming a sealant layer which enables to quickly and accurately form a sealant layer having a required film thickness. The jig includes: a sealant cup 13 that overlays a sealant 28 around a collar 26; a cup holder 12 that determines a position of the sealant cup 13 with respect to a fastener member 24; and a dummy cup 11 that determines a position of the cup holder 12 with respect to the fastener member 24. The cup holder 12 is determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24 by being guided along the dummy cup 11 determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24. The sealant cup 13 is guided along a guide of the cup holder 12 so as to overlay the sealant 28 around the collar 26 after removing the dummy cup 11 from the cup holder 12 determined in position with respect to the fastener member 24.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wataru Nishimura, Hideo Yamakoshi, Yuji Asahara, Atsuhiro Iyomasa, Takeyasu Tarumi, Noritomo Takata, Jun Kawaguchi, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Tomonori Okumura, Kengo Nomiya, Tooru Hashigami
  • Patent number: 8717736
    Abstract: A sealant 34 filled into a cap 30A is caused to overflow through both an opening in a first end portion 30a of the cap 30A and a through-hole 40 of the cap 30A when the cap 30A is pressed against a fastener member 25. With regard to the cap 30A, a ratio between inside diameter D1 of the opening on the side of the first end portion 30a and hole diameter D2 of the through-hole 40 in the second end portion 30b is set as follows: 0.10?D2/D1?0.27.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation
    Inventors: Yuji Asahara, Hideo Yamakoshi, Atsuhiro Iyomasa, Wataru Nishimura, Takeyasu Tarumi, Yasunori Watanabe, Toru Hashigami, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Hideo Imamura, Naoki Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20040013343
    Abstract: Provided are an optical rotator which is capable of switch-operating at high speed, small in size and low in price, an optical switch readily compatible with an array structure and matrix form, and a variable optical attenuator readily compatible with an array structure. In the present invention, an optical rotator 14 comprises a lamination coil 10a, . . . , 10c having a through-hole and a Faraday element 11 arranged in the through-hole or a vicinity thereof, whereby a magnetic field caused by the coil is applied to the Faraday element. The Faraday element is arranged such that light passes vertically to the main surface thereof in which direction a magnetic field can be applied. A magnetism-holding member of a high magnetic permeable material is preferably arranged at least in a part of an outer periphery of the coil. In case the Faraday element uses a magnetic garnet crystal having a residual magnetization, obtained is an optical rotator having a self-sustaining function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventors: Masaharu Hoshikawa, Hiromitsu Umezawa, Hiroshi Rikukawa, Mikio Kitaoka, Hideki Kawakami, Shohei Abe
  • Patent number: 5521741
    Abstract: A polarization plane switch comprising a Faraday rotator made of an iron-containing garnet single-crystal film and magnetic field applying devices capable of reversing a magnetic field to be applied to the Faraday rotator. The polarization plane switch has a structure in which magnetization of part of the Faraday rotator is unsaturated and that of the remaining portion of it is saturated when a magnetic field is applied to the Faraday rotator by the magnetic field applying device, and a light beam passes through the magnetically saturated portion almost vertically to the film surface. As the above Faraday rotator, it is the most preferable to use a Faraday rotator made of Bi-substituted iron garnet single crystal formed by liquid-phase epitaxy and having a compensation temperature, and thermally treated under the top condition at a temperature between 1,120.degree. and 1,180.degree. C. for 7 hours or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: FDK Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Umezawa, Yoichi Suzuki, Tomokazu Imura, Tsugio Tokumasu, Hiroshi Rikukawa
  • Patent number: 4540500
    Abstract: A low temperature sinterable oxide magnetic material prepared by adding 0.1 to 5% by weight of glass containing 3 to 50 mol % of Li.sub.2 O, 10 to 97 mol % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3 and 0 to 70 mol % of SiO.sub.2 to ferrite containing at least 0.5 mol % of Li.sub.2 O. Especially, when a glass containing 10-28 mol % of Li.sub.2 O, 34 to 66 mol % of B.sub.2 O.sub.3, and 15 to 45 mol % of SiO.sub.2 is used, the sintering temperature can be reduced to about 1,000.degree. C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1985
    Assignee: Fuji Electrochemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michihiro Torii, Tomoyoshi Kosaka, Takeo Maeda, Hiroshi Rikukawa