Patents by Inventor Masaaki Shibata
Masaaki Shibata 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).
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Publication number: 20240352918Abstract: Provided is a wing structure comprising a wing body formed from fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP), and an erosion suppression layer provided so as to cover at least a portion of a front edge of the wing structure. The erosion suppression layer contains a thermal spraying layer configured so as to maintain, by having a prescribed surface roughness, a liquid film formed on the erosion suppression layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Yasushi OKANO, Masaaki SHIBATA
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Patent number: 12117620Abstract: A vehicle display system is provided in a vehicle and includes: a first display device configured to project a light pattern onto a road surface outside the vehicle; a second display device inside the vehicle configured to display a predetermined image to an occupant of the vehicle such that the predetermined image is superimposed on a real space outside the vehicle; and a controller configured to control the first display device and the second display device. In a case where both the predetermined image and the light pattern are displayed, the controller causes a distance from the occupant to the predetermined image to match a distance from the occupant to the light pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Nakabayashi, Yoshinori Shibata, Misako Kamiya, Naoki Takii
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Patent number: 12083957Abstract: A vehicle display system, which is provided in a vehicle, includes a first display device configured to emit a light pattern toward a road surface outside the vehicle; and a second display device located inside the vehicle and configured to display predetermined information toward an occupant of the vehicle such that the predetermined information is superimposed on a real space outside the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshinori Shibata, Toshihiko Kurebayashi, Masaaki Nakabayashi, Norihisa Sutou, Yoshiaki Fushimi, Atsushi Sugimoto, Naoki Takii
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Patent number: 12057081Abstract: A display device includes: a display which includes a display screen on which a video is displayed; a decorative sheet disposed on a display screen side of the display, is larger than the display screen in a front view of the display screen, and covers the display screen, the decorative sheet including a first region which overlaps with the display screen in the front view and a second region which does not overlap with the display screen in the front view; and a controller which controls a luminance of the video that is displayed by the display, based on (i) an illuminance of ambient light around the display and the decorative sheet and (ii) first information indicating a relationship between the illuminance and appearances of a third region corresponding to a black display region of the video in the first region and the second region on the decorative sheet.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaaki Ohnishi, Shinji Masuda, Jun Araya, Masaomi Shibata, Tatsuya Ina
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Patent number: 11933263Abstract: A wind turbine blade is provided, which includes a blade body extending from a blade root toward a blade tip along a blade length direction, a first sprayed layer disposed so as to cover at least a leading edge on a side of the blade tip of the blade body, for suppressing erosion of the leading edge of the blade body, a second sprayed layer formed between the blade body and the first sprayed layer, and having a lower electrical resistivity than the first sprayed layer, and a first conductive part for electrically connecting the second sprayed layer to a ground.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasushi Okano, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 11891976Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naota Watanabe, Masaaki Shibata, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Yuge
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Publication number: 20230003187Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Naota WATANABE, Masaaki SHIBATA, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Atsushi YUGE
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Patent number: 11493020Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naota Watanabe, Masaaki Shibata, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Yuge
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Publication number: 20210262434Abstract: A wind turbine blade is provided, which includes a blade body extending from a blade root toward a blade tip along a blade length direction, a first sprayed layer disposed so as to cover at least a leading edge on a side of the blade tip of the blade body, for suppressing erosion of the leading edge of the blade body, a second sprayed layer formed between the blade body and the first sprayed layer, and having a lower electrical resistivity than the first sprayed layer, and a first conductive part for electrically connecting the second sprayed layer to a ground.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Yasushi OKANO, Masaaki SHIBATA
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Patent number: 10935458Abstract: A facility condition monitoring device includes an abnormality-degree-calculation-model construction part which constructs an abnormality-degree-calculation model for calculating an abnormality degree of a monitoring feature group of a monitoring target facility, based on a normal feature group extracted from a state-quantity fluctuation data of the monitoring target facility, an abnormality degree calculation part which calculates the abnormality degree of the monitoring feature group with the abnormality-degree-calculation model, an abnormality determination part which determines whether the monitoring target facility is abnormal, based on the abnormality degree, an abnormality-contribution-rate calculation part which obtains a contribution rate of each feature constituting the monitoring feature group used for calculating the abnormality degree determined as abnormal by the abnormality determination part, and an abnormality cause identification part which identifies an abnormality cause of the monitoring tType: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kentaro Hayashi, Takahiro Nakano, Atsushi Yuge, Masaaki Shibata
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Publication number: 20200158078Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Naota WATANABE, Masaaki SHIBATA, Toshikazu SHIGETOMI, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI, Atsushi YUGE
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Publication number: 20190226943Abstract: A facility condition monitoring device includes an abnormality-degree-calculation-model construction part which constructs an abnormality-degree-calculation model for calculating an abnormality degree of a monitoring feature group of a monitoring target facility, based on a normal feature group extracted from a state-quantity fluctuation data of the monitoring target facility, an abnormality degree calculation part which calculates the abnormality degree of the monitoring feature group with the abnormality-degree-calculation model, an abnormality determination part which determines whether the monitoring target facility is abnormal, based on the abnormality degree, an abnormality-contribution-rate calculation part which obtains a contribution rate of each feature constituting the monitoring feature group used for calculating the abnormality degree determined as abnormal by the abnormality determination part, and an abnormality cause identification part which identifies an abnormality cause of the monitoring tType: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Kentaro HAYASHI, Takahiro NAKANO, Atsushi YUGE, Masaaki SHIBATA
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Patent number: 9665029Abstract: An electro-conductive roller, such as a charging roller, that can reduce abnormal electrical discharge in the axial direction of the roller and pinhole leak and be resistant to degradation in electrical characteristics even with long-term use, and a method of manufacturing the same, are provided. In an electro-conductive roller including fibers having electrical conductivity and arranged with no gap in the identical direction on the outer periphery surface of a mandrel, polymer fibers are adopted as the fibers.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tetsuo Hino, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Masaaki Shibata
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Publication number: 20150198907Abstract: An electro-conductive roller, such as a charging roller, that can reduce abnormal electrical discharge in the axial direction of the roller and pinhole leak and be resistant to degradation in electrical characteristics even with long-term use, and a method of manufacturing the same, are provided. In an electro-conductive roller including fibers having electrical conductivity and arranged with no gap in the identical direction on the outer periphery surface of a mandrel, polymer fibers are adopted as the fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Tetsuo Hino, Kazuhiro Yamauchi, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8796872Abstract: An object is to provide a wind turbine generator that is capable of continuously operating an auxiliary unit even when a grid fault occurs. Provided is a wind turbine generator including an auxiliary-unit breaker provided in a power line that connects an auxiliary unit to a power grid, wherein the auxiliary-unit breaker has a current-resisting capacity within a range that tolerates a current that flows in a low-voltage event and does not exceed a tolerable current of a motor provided in the auxiliary unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Arinaga, Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Takatoshi Matsushita, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8749089Abstract: A wind power generation system is disclosed for suppressing an increase of torque when a voltage in a utility grid is restored, and to reduce a load to devices due to the torque. The wind power generation system includes a blade control unit for controlling the pitch angle of the wind turbine blades such that the pitch angle matches a target pitch angle determined on the basis of at least one of a wind speed, a rotation speed of the power generator, and a requested output power when the power control unit re-actuates the operations of the converter and the inverter.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Arinaga, Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Takatoshi Matsushita, Akira Yasugi, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8691465Abstract: Provided is a fuel cell which has a buffer space provided on a downstream side of a fuel supply space, and in which an output of a most downstream fuel cell unit is less affected by impurity gas stored in the fuel supply space.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2007Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi Mogi, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8676392Abstract: An object is to improve the accuracy of power factor adjustment. Power-factor command values corresponding to individual wind turbines are determined by correcting a predetermined power-factor command value for an interconnection node using power factor correction levels set for the individual wind turbines.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Arinaga, Takatoshi Matsushita, Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Akira Yasugi, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8614848Abstract: An electrochromic element includes a pair of transparent electrodes, and an electrolyte layer and an electrochromic layer disposed between the pair of transparent electrodes. Transmittance of light is changed by a voltage applied to the pair of transparent electrodes. The electrochromic layer includes a first electrochromic layer and a second electrochromic layer stacked upon each other. Both of the first and second electrochromic layers are made of titanium oxide. The first electrochromic layer is in contact with one of the pair of transparent electrodes. The second electrochromic layer is in contact with an electrolyte-layer side of the first electrochromic layer. A refractive index n0 of the transparent electrode in contact with the first electrochromic layer, a refractive index n1 of the first electrochromic layer, and a refractive index n2 of the second electrochromic layer satisfy the relationship n0<n1<n2.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: December 24, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Miki Ueda, Shinjiro Okada, Masaaki Shibata
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Patent number: 8546968Abstract: A wind turbine generator, an active damping method thereof, and a windmill tower in which vibrations of the wind turbine generator itself or the windmill tower can be reduced at low cost are provided. The acceleration is detected with an accelerometer attached to the nacelle. In an active damping unit, a pitch angle of windmill blades for generating a thrust is calculated on the basis of the acceleration, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command ??* for damping. In a pitch-angle control unit, a pitch angle of the windmill blades for controlling the output, and the pitch angle is output as a blade-pitch-angle command ?* for output control. The blade-pitch-angle command ??* for damping is combined with the blade-pitch-angle command ?* for output control using a subtracter. The pitch angle of the windmill blades is controlled on the basis of the resulting blade-pitch-angle command after combining.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2013Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tsuyoshi Wakasa, Kazunari Ide, Yoshiyuki Hayashi, Masaaki Shibata