Patents by Inventor Kenichiro KUNITOMO

Kenichiro KUNITOMO 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: 11565323
    Abstract: Provided is a method of molding a composite material by laser metal deposition in which a powder metal material is irradiated with a laser beam while supplying the powder metal material onto a surface of a base material, in which the powder metal material is a mixed powder of an Fe alloy powder and a Cu powder, and a mixing ratio of the Fe alloy powder and the Cu powder is 15% or more and 30% or less by weight % of the Cu powder, and in which the composite material having anisotropy is molded by setting energy of the laser beam to be 9 KJ/g or more and 10 KJ/g or less in a mixed powder ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kunitomo, Osamu Ikeda, Tomotake Touhei
  • Publication number: 20210245245
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a composite metal material which is able to be controlled in terms of strength, thermal conductivity and thermal expansion amount; and a method for producing this composite metal material. A composite metal material according to the present invention has a Cu-rich phase and an Fe-rich phase; and this composite metal material has a composite metal phase wherein Fe-rich phases are independently dispersed in a Cu-rich phase. The Cu-rich phase has a Cu content of more than 85 wt %; and each Fe-rich phase has an Fe content of more than 50 wt %.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomotake TOHEI, Osamu IKEDA, Kenichiro KUNITOMO
  • Publication number: 20210237204
    Abstract: A member includes a first metallic region made of a first material; a second metallic region made of a second material that is a different from the first material; and a mix region made of mixture of the first and second materials between the first and second metallic region. In a cross-sectional view, an interface between the first metallic region and the mix region is represented by a line having a first curved line protruding toward the first metallic region and a second curved line protruding toward the first metallic region, and an angle at a cross point of the first and second curved lines, the angle being made by a tangent line of the first curved line and a tangent fine of the second curved line in a region of the first metallic region, is equal to or larger than 70 degrees and smaller than 180 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro KUNITOMO, Shuho KOSEKI, Hiroshi SHIRATORI, Hirotsugu KAWANAKA
  • Publication number: 20210197281
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an additively manufactured body, which can suppress the occurrence of defects in the additively manufactured body, comprising: an additive manufacturing step of shaping an additively manufactured body in a heating state; and a machining step of machining the additively manufactured body in a state in which the heating state is maintained. The additively manufactured body can be shaped by the additive manufacturing step and the machining step which are repeated a plurality of times. The heating state is maintained also in the additive manufacturing step and the machining step which are repeated a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Shuho KOSEKI, Yuta YAMADA, Hiroshi SHIRATORI, Kenichiro KUNITOMO
  • Publication number: 20200384533
    Abstract: Provided is a method of molding a composite material by laser metal deposition in which a powder metal material is irradiated with a laser beam while supplying the powder metal material onto a surface of a base material, in which the powder metal material is a mixed powder of an Fe alloy powder and a Cu powder, and a mixing ratio of the Fe alloy powder and the Cu powder is 15% or more and 30% or less by weight % of the Cu powder, and in which the composite material having anisotropy is molded by setting energy of the laser beam to be 9 KJ/g or more and 10 KJ/g or less in a mixed powder ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro KUNITOMO, Osamu IKEDA, Tomotake TOUHEI
  • Patent number: 10788064
    Abstract: Warping or peeling is suppressed in a composite structure of structures made of different constituent materials. Provided is a composite structure 10 obtained by joining a first structure 1 and a second structure 2 made of a different material from a material of the first structure 1, wherein a part of the second structure 2 is incorporated in a cavity 1d of the first structure 1, and a part of the first structure 1 is incorporated in a cavity (2d) of the second structure 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Kunitomo, Nobuya Sekiyama
  • Publication number: 20180073531
    Abstract: Warping or peeling is suppressed in a composite structure of structures made of different constituent materials. Provided is a composite structure 10 obtained by joining a first structure 1 and a second structure 2 made of a different material from a material of the first structure 1, wherein a part of the second structure 2 is incorporated in a cavity 1d of the first structure 1, and a part of the first structure 1 is incorporated in a cavity (2d) of the second structure 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichiro KUNITOMO, Nobuya SEKIYAMA