Patents by Inventor Katsuhide Aikawa

Katsuhide Aikawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240096307
    Abstract: A panel structure includes: a sheet-shaped core member having a thermoplastic property and provided with a plurality of protruding portions in at least one surface; a sheet-shaped faceplate having a thermoplastic property and disposed on the plurality of protruding portions; and a fusing portion which is selectively formed between the faceplate and the plurality of protruding portions and which bonds the core member and the faceplate to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Koyama, Kiyoka Takagi, Katsuya Sennyu, Yoshinao Takakuwa, Takayuki Miyake, Katsuhide Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20230398763
    Abstract: A panel structure includes: a sheet-shaped core member having a thermoplastic property and provided with a plurality of protruding portions in at least one surface; a sheet-shaped faceplate having a thermoplastic property and disposed on the plurality of protruding portions; and a fusing portion which is selectively formed between the faceplate and the plurality of protruding portions and which bonds the core member and the faceplate to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Koyama, Kiyoka Takagi, Katsuya Sennyu, Yoshinao Takakuwa, Takayuki Miyake, Katsuhide Aikawa
  • Patent number: 8029256
    Abstract: A laterally independently operated column-equipped vulcanizer comprises two (right and left) die opening and closing devices (12A, 12B) disposed to be operable independently of each other, the die opening and closing devices having upper die mounting members (17a, 17b) corresponding to lower die mounting members (13a, 13b) installed on a base plate (11), the upper die mounting members being supported in an ascendable and descendable manner on right and left paired columns (18a, 18b) erected on the base plate. The right and left paired columns throughout the two die opening and closing devices are arranged in V-configuration as viewed in plan. Loaders (22a, 22b) capable of carrying green tires GT into the die opening and closing devices are disposed on the side of the columns narrowly spaced from each other in the lateral direction among the columns arranged in V-configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd
    Inventors: Katsuhide Aikawa, Hideki Fukuda, Hideaki Katayama
  • Publication number: 20100247695
    Abstract: A laterally independently operated column-equipped vulcanizer comprises two (right and left) die opening and closing devices (12A, 12B) disposed to be operable independently of each other, the die opening and closing devices having upper die mounting members (17a, 17b) corresponding to lower die mounting members (13a, 13b) installed on a base plate (11), the upper die mounting members being supported in an ascendable and descendable manner on right and left paired columns (18a, 18b) erected on the base plate. The right and left paired columns throughout the two die opening and closing devices are arranged in V-configuration as viewed in plan. Loaders (22a, 22b) capable of carrying green tires GT into the die opening and closing devices are disposed on the side of the columns narrowly spaced from each other in the lateral direction among the columns arranged in V-configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuhide Aikawa, Hideki Fukuda, Hideaki Katayama