Patents by Inventor Kazuki NOMA

Kazuki NOMA 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: 11926131
    Abstract: A composite material is capable of suppressing decrease in the strength, which is caused by bending of fibers of a skin material during the time when the composite material is cured. A composite material is provided with a honeycomb core, a first skin material, a second skin material, a thunder-resistant mesh and a resin material; and the resin material is not arranged in a neighborhood portion which is the region corresponding to the region at the front end of the honeycomb core. A first film adhesive is arranged between the first skin material and the honeycomb core; a second film adhesive is arranged between the second skin material and the honeycomb core; and a fourth film adhesive is arranged in the neighborhood portion of the resin material in a weight per square meter, which is lower than those of the first film adhesive and the second film adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Masayuki Kanemasu, Shunichi Morishima
  • Publication number: 20230271375
    Abstract: A shaping device which forms a fiber sheet into a shape having a shape change section, said shaping device comprising: a shaping mold which is provided to one side of the fiber sheet and serves as a mold for shaping the fiber sheet; a supporting member which has greater rigidity than the fiber sheet and is provided to the other side of the fiber sheet and to an area in which the shape change section is formed; a covering member that covers the fiber sheet; and a pressing device that presses the fiber sheet onto the shaping mold by means of the covering member. The pressing device is a suction device that suctions the atmosphere from between the shaping mold and the covering member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Yusei KONDO, Masayuki KANEMASU, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Kazuki NOMA, Toshio KOZASA
  • Patent number: 11673351
    Abstract: A method is for manufacturing a honeycomb structure including a core material in which a hole is formed to penetrate in a thickness direction and is arranged in a plane direction, and a skin material that is stacked on a surface of the core material. The skin material includes a thermosetting resin. The method includes half-curing the thermosetting resin by placing the skin material in a bag and heating the skin material in a state where an inside of the bag is evacuated and an outside of the bag is under an atmospheric pressure; stacking the skin material in which the thermosetting resin is half-cured onto a side of the surface of the core material; and bonding and integrating the core material and the skin material with each other by pressurizing and heating the stacked core material and skin material with the use of a sealing pressurizing heating facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Masayuki Yamashita, Masayuki Kanemasu, Mikoto Omori, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Shunichi Morishima
  • Publication number: 20230150175
    Abstract: Provided is a forming device including: a lower die; an upper die for forming a laminated body along the surface shape of the lower die by pressing the laminated body against the lower die; a pushing force generating mechanism that generates pushing force for pressing the upper die against the lower die; and a control unit that controls the pushing force generating mechanism, the upper die has a plurality of forming members aligned in the longitudinal direction, the pushing force generating mechanism has a plurality of pushing force generating units connected to the plurality of forming members and configured to generate pushing force for pressing the forming members against the lower die, and the control unit controls the plurality of pushing force generating units so as to press a pair of forming members arranged adjacent in the longitudinal direction toward the lower die at different timings from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro SHINDO, Kazuki NOMA, Hiroshi TOKUTOMI
  • Patent number: 11498290
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for molding, using a honeycomb core, a composite material structure that is high-quality, low cost, and leaves less voids. The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing a method for molding, using a honeycomb core, a composite material structure with which it is possible to reduce dimples in a composite material skin at low cost. According to a method for molding a composite material structure of the present disclosure, an uncured composite material honeycomb sandwich panel in which prepreg is laminated on upper and lower surfaces of a honeycomb core via an adhesive is covered with a vacuum bag and placed in an autoclave. After that, the vacuum bag is evacuated and, while the evacuation is being continued, is heated and pressurized by the autoclave to cure a matrix resin of the prepreg and achieve adhesion to the honeycomb core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Masayuki Kanemasu, Shunichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11473844
    Abstract: This temperature monitoring device (100) can be placed in a furnace together with a composite material. The temperature monitoring device (100) includes: a pair of internal components (10) that each have a temperature detection surface (11) and are layered such that the temperature detection surfaces (11, 11) face each other; a temperature detection unit (30) disposed so as to be sandwiched between the temperature detection surfaces (11, 11); at least a pair of external components (20) that are respectively disposed on reverse sides from the temperature detection surfaces (11); and an adjustment part (50) capable of adjusting the sizes of the thickness-direction gaps between the internal components (10) and external components (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Kamiya, Kazuki Noma, Jun Eto, Akihisa Okuda
  • Publication number: 20210362441
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for molding, using a honeycomb core, a composite material structure that is high-quality, low cost, and leaves less voids. The present disclosure addresses the problem of providing a method for molding, using a honeycomb core, a composite material structure with which it is possible to reduce dimples in a composite material skin at low cost. According to a method for molding a composite material structure of the present disclosure, an uncured composite material honeycomb sandwich panel in which prepreg is laminated on upper and lower surfaces of a honeycomb core via an adhesive is covered with a vacuum bag and placed in an autoclave. After that, the vacuum bag is evacuated and, while the evacuation is being continued, is heated and pressurized by the autoclave to cure a matrix resin of the prepreg and achieve adhesion to the honeycomb core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki NOMA, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Toshio KOZASA, Masayuki KANEMASU, Shunichi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210187877
    Abstract: A method is for manufacturing a honeycomb structure including a core material in which a hole is formed to penetrate in a thickness direction and is arranged in a plane direction, and a skin material that is stacked on a surface of the core material. The skin material includes a thermosetting resin. The method includes half-curing the thermosetting resin by placing the skin material in a bag and heating the skin material in a state where an inside of the bag is evacuated and an outside of the bag is under an atmospheric pressure; stacking the skin material in which the thermosetting resin is half-cured onto a side of the surface of the core material; and bonding and integrating the core material and the skin material with each other by pressurizing and heating the stacked core material and skin material with the use of a sealing pressurizing heating facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki NOMA, Masayuki YAMASHITA, Masayuki KANEMASU, Mikoto OMORI, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Toshio KOZASA, Shunichi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210123680
    Abstract: This temperature monitoring device (100) can be placed in a furnace together with a composite material. The temperature monitoring device (100) includes: a pair of internal components (10) that each have a temperature detection surface (11) and are layered such that the temperature detection surfaces (11, 11) face each other; a temperature detection unit (30) disposed so as to be sandwiched between the temperature detection surfaces (11, 11); at least a pair of external components (20) that are respectively disposed on reverse sides from the temperature detection surfaces (11); and an adjustment part (50) capable of adjusting the sizes of the thickness-direction gaps between the internal components (10) and external components (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Masami KAMIYA, Kazuki NOMA, Jun ETO, Akihisa OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20210001572
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a composite material that can prevent a strength reduction when fibers of a skin material are bent during curing of the composite material. In a composite material, a filler is arranged between a honeycomb core and a first skin material and/or between the honeycomb core and a second skin material so as to overlap the tip of an end of the honeycomb core. In a horizontal view, the filler arranged between the honeycomb core and the second skin material protrudes outside the composite material by a length equal to or less than a length of a portion thereof overlapping the tip of the end of the honeycomb core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki NOMA, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Toshio KOZASA, Masayuki KANEMASU, Shunichi MORISHIMA
  • Publication number: 20210001588
    Abstract: A composite material is capable of suppressing decrease in the strength, which is caused by bending of fibers of a skin material during the time when the composite material is cured. A composite material is provided with a honeycomb core, a first skin material, a second skin material, a thunder-resistant mesh and a resin material; and the resin material is not arranged in a neighborhood portion which is the region corresponding to the region at the front end of the honeycomb core. A first film adhesive is arranged between the first skin material and the honeycomb core; a second film adhesive is arranged between the second skin material and the honeycomb core; and a fourth film adhesive is arranged in the neighborhood portion of the resin material in a weight per square meter, which is lower than those of the first film adhesive and the second film adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Kazuki NOMA, Hiromichi AKIYAMA, Toshio KOZASA, Masayuki KANEMASU, Shunichi MORISHIMA