Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi KINEFUCHI

Kiyoshi KINEFUCHI 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).

  • Propellant tank for spacecraft and spacecraft
    Patent number: 10604279
    Abstract: To provide a propellant tank such as a fuel tank and an oxidant tank for a spacecraft, the propellant tank discharging propellant such as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen accumulated therein toward a rocket engine by pressurizing an inside thereof by operating gas. The propellant tank includes a tank body that accumulates therein the propellant in a liquid state, and a holding container that is provided inside the tank body and disposed with a predetermined gap from an inner wall of the tank body, so that the propellant in a liquid state can be held therein, when the inside of the tank body is in a microgravity state or a zero-gravity state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keitaro Ishikawa, Taichi Aoyama, Kiyoshi Kinefuchi, Koichi Okita, Wataru Sarae
  • PROPELLANT TANK FOR SPACECRAFT AND SPACECRAFT
    Publication number: 20180072436
    Abstract: To provide a propellant tank such as a fuel tank and an oxidant tank for a spacecraft, the propellant tank discharging propellant such as liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen accumulated therein toward a rocket engine by pressurizing an inside thereof by operating gas. The propellant tank includes a tank body that accumulates therein the propellant in a liquid state, and a holding container that is provided inside the tank body and disposed with a predetermined gap from an inner wall of the tank body, so that the propellant in a liquid state can be held therein, when the inside of the tank body is in a microgravity state or a zero-gravity state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Keitaro ISHIKAWA, Taichi AOYAMA, Kiyoshi KINEFUCHI, Koichi OKITA, Wataru SARAE