Patents by Inventor Riku SHIMIZU

Riku SHIMIZU 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: 11446917
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided with a beam irradiation unit irradiating a conductive powder disposed in a layered shape with a beam, a nondestructive inspection unit detecting a flaw in a surface layer of an additively manufactured article formed of the hardened conductive powder, and an energy control unit controlling energy of the beam. The energy control unit increases energy of a beam when a repairing region set in accordance with results of flaw detection by the nondestructive inspection unit is irradiated with the beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Riku Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20220161331
    Abstract: A three-dimensional manufacturing apparatus includes a rotary drive unit that rotates a table around a rotation axis, a region setting unit that sets a plurality of divided regions obtained by dividing an irradiation region, a beam source that irradiates a powder material with an electron beam for each of the divided regions, and a rotation speed adjusting unit that adjusts a rotation speed of the table. An area per unit central angle of a first divided region is smaller than an area per unit central angle of a second divided region. The rotation speed adjusting unit performs adjustment so that a rotation speed of the table during a period of irradiating the first divided region with the energy beam becomes faster than a rotation speed of the table during a period of irradiating the second divided region with the energy beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Riku SHIMIZU, Yuichiro NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210205893
    Abstract: A three-dimensional fabrication device irradiates a powder material, which is disposed inside a chamber, with an electron beam to heat the powder material and to thus fabricate a three-dimensional object, and includes a beam emission unit that emits the electron beam to irradiate the powder material with the electron beam, a gas supply unit that supplies an inert gas into the chamber, and a heating unit that heats the inert gas to be supplied into the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Riku SHIMIZU
  • Publication number: 20200247109
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided with a beam irradiation unit irradiating a conductive powder disposed in a layered shape with a beam, a nondestructive inspection unit detecting a flaw in a surface layer of an additively manufactured article formed of the hardened conductive powder, and an energy control unit controlling energy of the beam. The energy control unit increases energy of a beam when a repairing region set in accordance with results of flaw detection by the nondestructive inspection unit is irradiated with the beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventor: Riku SHIMIZU