Patents by Inventor Kiyomitsu Mukou

Kiyomitsu Mukou 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: 8820256
    Abstract: A gas room is arranged in a hull to cross a longitudinal frame and extend in a width direction. A scattering member is arranged in the gas room to cross the longitudinal frame and extend in the width direction. Air blown into the gas room from an air supply pipe hits the scattering member to scatter in the width direction, and is blown from an air blowing hole formed in a bottom of the gas room into water. Because the gas room crosses the longitudinal frame and extends in the width direction, an air bubble flow with a wide width forms in the width direction by the single gas room. Therefore, the number of gas rooms for air bubble flow which covers the whole width of a ship bottom is reduced, and the number of air supply pipes which are provided to every gas room is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Takano, Shuji Mizokami, Seijiro Higasa, Chiharu Kawakita, Kiyomitsu Mukou
  • Publication number: 20120097089
    Abstract: A gas room is arranged in a hull to cross a longitudinal frame and to extend into a width direction. A scattering member is arranged in the gas room to cross the longitudinal frame and to extend into the width direction. Air blown into the gas room from an air supply pipe hits the scattering member to scatter into the width direction, and is blown from an air blowing hole formed in a bottom of the gas room into water. Because the gas room crosses the longitudinal frame and extends into the width direction, an air bubble flow with a wide width can be formed into the width direction by the single gas room. Therefore, the number of the gas rooms which are necessary to form the air bubble flow which covers the whole width of a ship bottom may be few, and the number of the air supply pipes which are provided every the gas room may be few.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Inventors: Shinichi Takano, Shuji Mizokami, Seijiro Higasa, Chiharu Kawakita, Kiyomitsu Mukou