Patents by Inventor Homare YAMATO

Homare YAMATO 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: 11945179
    Abstract: The preset invention is to mold a laminate at a high accuracy by appropriately generating slippage between fiber sheets of the laminate at bending. A method for molding a laminate includes a step in which a plurality of gripping parts, which are arranged apart from each other, grip an area, wherein slippage between fiber sheets is prevented, in a plate-shaped laminate including a plurality of fiber sheets laminated each other; a step in which the plurality of gripping parts grip the area wherein slippage between the fiber sheets is prevented, while maintaining the state wherein relative moving of the area of the laminate and the gripping parts is prevented; and a step in which the gripping parts move so as to subject the laminate to bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Kitazawa, Homare Yamato, Masahiko Shimizu, Hiromichi Akiyama, Akihiro Terasaka
  • Publication number: 20230278298
    Abstract: Provided is a fiber-reinforced composite material shaping device including: core units; a shaping mold having a recessed portion for accommodating the core units; a seal member for sealing a fiber base material in the shaping mold to form a sealed space; an aspiration unit for reducing the pressure in the sealed space; a resin injection unit for injecting a resin material into the sealed space; and moving mechanisms for separating a first shaping surface away from the fiber base material, which contains a resin material that has been shaped by the first shaping surface and cured. Formed on the first shaping surface is a first groove section extending in a predetermined direction. The moving mechanisms move the core units along a predetermined direction in which the first groove section extends, while maintaining a state in which the first shaping surface is in contact with the fiber base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Homare YAMATO, Hiroshi TOKUTOMI, Hiroaki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230110534
    Abstract: A forming device includes: a forming jig extending along an axial direction; a forming die having a shape corresponding to a top part region and a wall part region of the forming jig; and a movement mechanism that moves the forming die so as to approach a bottom part region along a height direction HD. The forming die includes: a body part; a plate-shaped forming part that is attached to the body part so as to be swingable around a swing shaft; and a pressurization part that generates a pressurization force which causes a distal end part of the forming part to push a layered body against the wall part region when the forming die is moved by the movement mechanism so as to approach the bottom part region. In accordance with the distal end part, the part causes a contact surface to contact a region of the layered body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Homare YAMATO, Masahiko SHIMIZU, Shoya MANO, Toshiki KITAZAWA, Hideki HORIZONO
  • Publication number: 20230039320
    Abstract: A composite structure manufacturing method comprising: a lamination step in which a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin sheets are laminated to form a plate-shaped laminate; a pressing deformation step in which a third roller or similar, which rolls along a plate surface of the laminate, is used to press the plate surface of the laminate, thereby forming a recessed section or a protruding section in a prescribed section of the laminate; a short direction deformation step in which, after the pressing deformation step, the laminate is deformed in the short direction to make the long direction cross-section into a prescribed shape; and a long direction deformation step in which, after the pressing deformation step, the laminate is deformed in the long direction to make the short direction cross-section into a prescribed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Homare YAMATO, Masahiko SHIMIZU, Toshiki KITAZAWA, Shoya MANO, Akihiro TERASAKA
  • Publication number: 20220410507
    Abstract: Provided is a shaping method for shaping a laminated body of multi-layered sheet materials containing reinforcing fibers by using a shaping die. The shaping die has a curved portion formed in a convex shape over a predetermined direction. The shaping method includes: fixing, to the shaping die, a holding member configured to cover the laminated body over the predetermined direction to maintain a state where the laminated body is pressed against the curved portion; sealing the laminated body and the holding member to the shaping die by a sealing member to form a closed space; and depressurizing the closed space to thin the laminated body by sucking air of the closed space, and the fixing fixes the holding member to the shaping die such that the holding member does not come into contact with an end face on one side in the predetermined direction of the laminated body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Homare YAMATO
  • Publication number: 20220371291
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to further enhance the strength of a manufactured composite structure by further suppressing the occurrence of wrinkling. A method for manufacturing a composite structure, the method comprising: a lamination step for layering a plurality of fiber sheets and molding a plate-form laminate; a forming step for forming a recess formed by a curved surface in a prescribed portion of the laminate; a short-direction deformation step for deforming the laminate in the short direction thereof after the forming step to configure a long-direction cross-section of the laminate in a prescribed shape; and a long-direction deformation step for deforming the laminate in the long direction after the forming step, so that the recess formed in the forming step deforms, to configure a short-direction cross section in a prescribed shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiko SHIMIZU, Homare YAMATO, Toshiki KITAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220288874
    Abstract: A method includes laminating a plurality of fiber reinforced sheets to create a charge; and shaping, by pressing, the charge created in the lamination step into a shaping mold. The charge has a predetermined angle layer including the plurality of fiber reinforced sheets, the fiber direction of which is aligned in a single direction. The predetermined angle layer has n-number of constitutional layers (n?2) ranging from a first constitutional layer to an n-th constitutional layer each including the plurality of fiber reinforced sheets, wherein the n-th constitutional layer is laminated on an (n-1)-th constitutional layer, the plurality of fiber reinforced sheets in each of the constitutional layers have dividing portions which are along the fiber direction and which are disposed one by one at respective positions within a predetermined range along the fiber direction in the predetermined angle layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Masahiko SHIMIZU, Shoya MANO, Toshiki KITAZAWA, Homare YAMATO, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Yoko TAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20220097322
    Abstract: The preset invention is to mold a laminate at a high accuracy by appropriately generating slippage between fiber sheets of the laminate at bending. A method for molding a laminate includes a step in which a plurality of gripping parts, which are arranged apart from each other, grip an area, wherein slippage between fiber sheets is prevented, in a plate-shaped laminate including a plurality of fiber sheets laminated each other; a step in which the plurality of gripping parts grip the area wherein slippage between the fiber sheets is prevented, while maintaining the state wherein relative moving of the area of the laminate and the gripping parts is prevented; and a step in which the gripping parts move so as to subject the laminate to bending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiki KITAZAWA, Homare YAMATO, Masahiko SHIMIZU, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Akihiro TERASAKA
  • Publication number: 20220055281
    Abstract: The purpose is to shape a laminate with high accuracy by properly causing the slipping between fiber sheets in the laminate during a bending processing of the laminate. A laminate shaping apparatus is equipped with: a holding section (2) for holding a sheet-like laminate (50) composed of a plurality of fiber sheets laminated on each other; and a slipping promotion section (3) which is arranged along a surface of a region other than a region held by the holding section (2) in the laminate (50) and is so configured as to promote the slipping between the fiber sheets in the laminate (50) during the bending processing of the laminate (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Toshiki KITAZAWA, Homare YAMATO, Masahiko SHIMIZU, Shoya MANO