Patents by Inventor Masahiro Shimojo

Masahiro Shimojo 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).

  • Aircraft, aircraft engine, and aircraft engine nacelle
    Patent number: 10479516
    Abstract: To surely grasp an unlocked state of a cowl member while suppressing cost and time necessary for measures against forgetting of locking of an engine nacelle. An aircraft according to the present invention includes: an engine (3) that includes an engine main body (4, 5) outputting thrust force and an engine nacelle (7) surrounding the engine main body (4, 5); an engine pylon (2) that supports the engine main body (4, 5) to a main wing (1) and axially supports a cowl member (8) to be openable, the cowl member (8) configuring the engine nacelle (7); a locking part (30) that locks the cowl member (8) of the engine nacelle (7) in a closed state; and one or more light emitting sections (15) that are disposed inside the cowl member (8) and show an unlocked state of the cowl member (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI AIRCRAFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuya Oonishi, Masahiro Shimojo, Takanori Suzuki
  • AIRCRAFT, AIRCRAFT ENGINE, AND AIRCRAFT ENGINE NACELLE
    Publication number: 20170240287
    Abstract: To surely grasp an unlocked state of a cowl member while suppressing cost and time necessary for measures against forgetting of locking of an engine nacelle. An aircraft according to the present invention includes: an engine (3) that includes an engine main body (4, 5) outputting thrust force and an engine nacelle (7) surrounding the engine main body (4, 5); an engine pylon (2) that supports the engine main body (4, 5) to a main wing (1) and axially supports a cowl member (8) to be openable, the cowl member (8) configuring the engine nacelle (7); a locking part (30) that locks the cowl member (8) of the engine nacelle (7) in a closed state; and one or more light emitting sections (15) that are disposed inside the cowl member (8) and show an unlocked state of the cowl member (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuya Oonishi, Masahiro Shimojo, Takanori Suzuki