Patents by Inventor Keisuke Kamitani

Keisuke Kamitani 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: 11090723
    Abstract: This support member for additive manufacturing is a support to be disposed below a manufactured portion of a particular overhanging portion of the three-dimensional object which needs the support in the process of additively manufacturing the three-dimensional object. The support member is provided with: the support main body; and a polishing channel which is formed in the support main body so as not to be exposed to an interface with the three-dimensional object, and through which a polisher for polishing and removing the support main body is allowed to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kamitani, Naoki Ogawa, Kazunori Kuga, Hiroaki Kyuno
  • Patent number: 10343235
    Abstract: A laser welding method of the present invention is a laser welding method for irradiating with a laser beam a groove portion 6 formed along a circumferential direction by butting axial end portions of cylindrical bodies 5a, 5b together to weld the groove portion, the method comprising: a welding process S2 of irradiating the groove portion 6 with the laser beam over the entire circumference to weld the groove portion; and a strain correction process S4 of irradiating the groove portion 6 with the laser beam over the entire circumference, the laser beam having a heat input amount smaller than a heat input amount per unit area of the laser beam emitted in the welding process S2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kamitani, Shuho Tsubota, Takafumi Aoyama, Yasuyuki Fujiya
  • Publication number: 20190143607
    Abstract: A thermal deformation amount calculation device analyzes thermal deformation occurring in a product when the product is manufactured by sequentially laminating materials and performing heat input using a three-dimensional lamination device. The thermal deformation amount calculation device includes a heat input pattern reception unit, a constraint condition extraction unit, an inherent strain determination unit, and a thermal deformation amount determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Naoki OGAWA, Keisuke KAMITANI
  • Publication number: 20190105712
    Abstract: This support member for additive manufacturing is a support to be disposed below a manufactured portion of a particular overhanging portion of the three-dimensional object which needs the support in the process of additively manufacturing the three-dimensional object. The support member is provided with: the support main body; and a polishing channel which is formed in the support main body so as not to be exposed to an interface with the three-dimensional object, and through which a polisher for polishing and removing the support main body is allowed to pass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke KAMITANI, Naoki OGAWA, Kazunori KUGA, Hiroaki KYUNO
  • Patent number: 9919392
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade wherein warping, bending and twisting of the entire rotor blade, which is provided with an excess thickness portion after a forging step, can be suppressed. In the forging step in a process for manufacturing a rotor blade (23), the forging is hot-forged such that the distance (the excess thickness amount) from the blade surface of the blade section (23) to the surface of the excess thickness section is substantially uniform along the entire periphery of a cross section of the blade section (23) and the excess thickness section (31) perpendicular to the blade length direction, and such that the amount of the excess thickness in the blade length direction, which is the thickness of the excess thickness section (31), gradually increases toward the blade tip from a prescribed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hatano, Hiroharu Oyama, Motonari Machida, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Ken Ishii, Keisuke Kamitani, Takumi Matsumura, Takahiro Ota
  • Publication number: 20160228989
    Abstract: A laser welding method of the present invention is a laser welding method for irradiating with a laser beam a groove portion 6 formed along a circumferential direction by butting axial end portions of cylindrical bodies 5a, 5b together to weld the groove portion, the method comprising: a welding process S2 of irradiating the groove portion 6 with the laser beam over the entire circumference to weld the groove portion; and a strain correction process S4 of irradiating the groove portion 6 with the laser beam over the entire circumference, the laser beam having a heat input amount smaller than a heat input amount per unit area of the laser beam emitted in the welding process S2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kamitani, Shuho Tsubota, Takafumi Aoyama, Yasuyuki Fujiya
  • Publication number: 20160184940
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade wherein warping, bending and twisting of the entire rotor blade, which is provided with an excess thickness portion after a forging step, can be suppressed. In the forging step in a process for manufacturing a rotor blade (23), the forging is hot-forged such that the distance (the excess thickness amount) from the blade surface of the blade section (23) to the surface of the excess thickness section is substantially uniform along the entire periphery of a cross section of the blade section (23) and the excess thickness section (31) perpendicular to the blade length direction, and such that the amount of the excess thickness in the blade length direction, which is the thickness of the excess thickness section (31), gradually increases toward the blade tip from a prescribed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Kohei HATANO, Hiroharu OYAMA, Motonari MACHIDA, Hidetaka HARAGUCHI, Ken ISHII, Keisuke KAMITANI, Takumi MATSUMURA, Takahiro OTA
  • Patent number: 8978433
    Abstract: A pipe diameter expansion apparatus includes: a hollow cylindrical member that can be placed in a pipe filled with water, and through which a coolant medium having a lower temperature than a freezing point of the water flows from one end to the other end; at least two plate-like fins provided to protrude outward from the cylindrical member; and a cold-heat insulator that is provided between the two fins, and reduces cold-heat transmission between inside and outside the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kamitani, Kazuhiko Kamo, Jiro Kasahara, Yukihiro Sakaguchi
  • Publication number: 20140090434
    Abstract: A pipe diameter expansion apparatus includes: a hollow cylindrical member that can be placed in a pipe filled with water, and through which a heat medium having a lower temperature than a freezing point of the water flows from one end to the other end; at least two plate-like fins provided to protrude outward from the cylindrical member; and a heat insulator that is provided between the two fins, and reduces heat transmission between inside and outside the cylindrical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Kamitani, Kazuhiko Kamo, Jiro Kasahara, Yukihiro Sakaguchi