Patents by Inventor Ryoji OKABE
Ryoji OKABE 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: 20200191001Abstract: A leading edge cover member is provided on an outside of a leading edge area including a leading edge serving as a part on an airflow upstream side of a composite blade body containing reinforcement fibers and a resin. The leading edge cover member includes a composite cover base material that contains reinforcement fibers and a resin, and is provided to the outside of the leading edge area in a bonding manner; and a metallic reinforcement layer formed on at least a part of an outside of the composite cover base material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Ryoji OKABE, Kentaro SHINDO, Masami Kamiya, Makoto INOMOTO
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Publication number: 20200189715Abstract: A fuel tank dam comprises a first section, a second section, a third section, and a flange section. The first section can be fixed to a first structural component, and the second section can be fixed to a second structural component. The third section has a bellows comprising a plurality of folded sections and is disposed between the first section and the second section. The flange section extends along an outer plate at least from an edge section of the third section and can be fixed to the outer plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Eizaburo YAMAGUCHI, Tadasuke KURITA, Hajime TADA, Yoko TAGUCHI, Kana SAKON, Akihisa OKUDA, Ryoji OKABE
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Patent number: 10683870Abstract: This impeller cover is provided with: a machinable abradable seal section which has a shroud surface, which faces the outer peripheral surface of an impeller rotating about its axis, and which provides a seal between the outer peripheral surface and the shroud surface; a cover body which covers the impeller from the outside and which has a seal housing section for housing the abradable seal section therein; and a filling material which is interposed between the abradable seal section and the cover body.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Isao Tomita, Takashi Arai, Hiroyuki Arimizu
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Publication number: 20200173292Abstract: A composite blade is formed by laying up composite layers in which reinforced fibers are impregnated with resin. The composite layers are laid up in a blade thickness direction that is a direction connecting a suction side and a pressure side of the composite blade. The composite blade includes a thick part that has a surface layer area from a surface of the thick part to a predetermined depth in the blade thickness direction and a deep layer area at a depth larger than the predetermined depth from the surface in the blade thickness direction. A median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the surface layer area is smaller than a median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the deep layer area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Ryoji OKABE, Kentaro SHINDO, Masami KAMIYA
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Patent number: 10655470Abstract: This impeller is provided with: an impeller body formed in a disk-like shape and having a boss hole section formed therein, the boss hole section allowing a rotating shaft to be fitted therein; and compressor blades provided on the front surface side of the impeller body so as to protrude from the hub surface of the impeller body. The impeller consists either of a first resin member and a second resin member, which are engaged with each other and which consist of a resin, or of a resin member and a metallic member, which are engaged with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe
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Patent number: 10655633Abstract: This impeller is equipped with: an impeller body formed from a resin and shaped as a disk with an axis as the center thereof, and having a boss hole section formed therein which a rotating shaft for rotating around the axis engages; compressor blades provided on the front-surface side of the impeller body; and a ring-shaped reinforcing ring provided inside the impeller body in the circumferential direction of the impeller body.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Ryoji Okabe
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Patent number: 10641276Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to improve the mechanical strength of a boss in correspondence with the direction in which the principal stress is generated in an impeller formed of fiber-reinforced resin. A hub 11 is provided with a first region ? arranged on the back surface 11b side, and a second region ? arranged on the front surface 11a side. In the first region ? the frequency with which the reinforcement fibers F dispersed at the periphery of a boss hole 12 are oriented inclined with respect to the radial direction of the hub 11 is high, and in the second region the frequency with which the reinforcement fibers dispersed at the periphery of the boss hole are oriented along the rotational axis line is high.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Yasunori Watanabe, Kosuke Ikeda
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Publication number: 20200123931Abstract: The present invention provides a casing for a radial compressor including: a scroll portion which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of an impeller and an intake portion and extends in a circumferential direction, has a discharge port opening in a circumferential direction and a scroll flow path through which the gas from the impeller flows toward the discharge port, and includes a resin material having a gradually increasing external shape dimension; and a plurality of ribs which connect an outer circumferential surface of the intake portion and an outer surface of the scroll portion. The plurality of ribs are provided at intervals in the circumferential direction, an installation interval gradually decreases toward the discharge port in the circumferential direction, and a length dimension in a radial direction on the outer surface of the scroll portion gradually decreases.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori WATANABE, Ryoji OKABE, Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA
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Publication number: 20200095873Abstract: A composite blade includes an airfoil; and a blade root including a straight section from a blade end part being a connection location with the airfoil to an inclination start part between the blade end part and a base end, and a bearing section from the inclination start part to the base end. A laminate of composite layers with reinforced fibers impregnated with resin is provided across the airfoil and the blade root. A metal body is provided on the blade root. The laminate extends along the longitudinal direction in the airfoil and in the straight section, and extends to be inclined away from a center axis in the bearing section. The metal body is provided on both surfaces of the laminate in the blade root, extends along the longitudinal direction in the straight section, and extends to be inclined away from the center axis in the bearing section.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Ryoji OKABE, Kentaro SHINDO, Masami KAMIYA, Yoshinori NONAKA
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Patent number: 10544796Abstract: This impeller is equipped with: an impeller body formed from a resin and shaped as a disk with an axis as the center thereof, and having a boss hole section formed therein which a rotating shaft for rotating around the axis engages; compressor blades provided on the front-surface side of the impeller body; and a ring-shaped reinforcing ring provided inside the impeller body in the circumferential direction of the impeller body.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Ryoji Okabe
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Publication number: 20190386551Abstract: An inner coil end portion of a coil includes inner notch portions and that are positioned to respectively overlap inner coil end portions of other coils which are adjacent to the coil in an axial direction as seen in the axial direction, and that are capable of accommodating the inner coil end portions of the other coils in the axial direction. An outer coil end portion of the coil includes outer notch portions and that are positioned to respectively overlap outer coil end portions of the other coils which are adjacent to the coil in the axial direction as seen in the axial direction, and that are capable of accommodating the outer coil end portions of the other coils in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Mikito SASAKI, Shinichi ISOBE, Masayuki SAKAI, Hisanobu SHINODA, Keisuke Ota, Ryoji OKABE
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Publication number: 20190329464Abstract: The temperature T (° C.) of a surface of an electroconductive mesh layer 15 in contact with a second resin layer (16), the thickness t1 of a first resin layer (14), and the thickness t2 of the second resin layer (16) satisfy expression (1). (1): T=f1(?1, ?1, Cp1)ln(t1)+f2(?2, ?2, Cp2)ln(t2)+C=[?1/(?1·Cp1)] ?2T/?x2+[?2/(?2·Cp2)]?2T/?x2+C=[?1/(?1·Cp1)]·[(TPn+1+TPn?1?2TPn)/(2·?x)2]+[?2/(?2·Cp2)]·[(TPn+1+TPn?1?2TPn)/(2·?x)2]+C.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kosuke IKEDA, Ryoji OKABE, Yasunori WATANABE, Akihisa OKUDA, Kana SAKON
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Publication number: 20190301285Abstract: A composite blade is formed by laying up composite material layers in which reinforcement fibers are impregnated with resin in a thickness direction of the blade. The composite blade includes a blade root on a base end side, an airfoil on a tip side, a first lay-up in which some composite material layers are laid up in the blade root so as to space parts of the composite material layers to form spacing parts and to extend from the distal toward the base end side in the thickness direction, and second lay-ups in which some composite material layers are laid up in the spacing parts so as to be lined up in the thickness direction. Among the second lay-ups, a second lay-up closer to a center side than to an outer side in the thickness direction is a larger distance from a proximal position to a top position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Masami Kamiya, Ryoji OKABE, Yoshinori NONAKA, Kentaro SHINDO
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Publication number: 20190301290Abstract: A composite blade formed by laying up composite material layers in which reinforced fibers are impregnated with resin in a blade thickness direction includes a blade root provided on a base side, an airfoil extending from a tip side of the blade root, a metal member provided on the blade root, and a fastener configured to fasten the blade root and the metal member. The blade root includes a main body portion, a curved portion that is curved outward in the blade thickness direction from the main body portion, and an extending portion that extends outward in the blade thickness direction from the curved portion. The metal member is fixed to the extending portion with the fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Masami Kamiya, Ryoji OKABE, Kentaro SHINDO, Yoshinori NONAKA
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Publication number: 20190283363Abstract: A forming method of a cylindrical composite material includes layering a plurality of composite material sheets in a cylindrical shape with splices formed between ends of adjacent composite material sheets such that phases of the splices in a circumferential direction differ from each other; heating the composite material sheets layered at the layering while pressurizing the composite material sheets in a state where the layered composite material sheets are disposed along an inner surface of a composite material cylindrical mold to cause a resin included in the composite material sheets to react to combine the composite material sheets to be formed in a cylindrical shape; and performing an adhesion pretreatment that is performed before the heating and allows the inner surface of the composite material cylindrical mold to adhere to an outermost composite material sheet of the layered composite material sheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Kodai SHIMONO, Ryoji OKABE
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Publication number: 20190277142Abstract: A composite blade includes a composite blade body including reinforced fibers and resin; a metal layer provided on an outer side of a leading edge section including a leading edge that is a part of the composite blade body on an upstream side of an air stream, the metal layer having a thickness of equal to or larger than 5 micrometers and equal to or smaller than 100 micrometers; an adhesive layer provided between the composite blade body and the metal layer to bond the metal layer to the composite blade body; and an electric insulating layer provided in contact with a surface of the leading edge section of the composite blade body, the surface being on the side on which the metal layer is provided, the electric insulating layer having an electric insulating property.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Ryoji OKABE, Masami Kamiya, Kentaro SHINDO
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Publication number: 20190280575Abstract: A motor includes a rotation shaft, a magnet unit fixed to the rotation shaft to rotates with the rotation shaft, and a coil unit arranged to face the magnet unit in an axial direction. The magnet unit includes a magnet ring in which magnets are arranged in a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft, and a holding ring provided at an outer peripheral side of the magnet ring to hold the magnet ring. The holding ring includes a composite material in which a carbon fiber is impregnated with resin. The carbon fiber includes a pitch-based carbon fiber and a PAN-based carbon fiber. A volume ratio of the pitch-based carbon fiber is larger than that of the PAN-based carbon fiber in a portion at an outer peripheral side; a volume ratio of the PAN-based carbon fiber is larger than that of the pitch-based carbon fiber in a portion at an inner peripheral side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Makoto INOMOTO, Kodai SHIMONO, Ryoji OKABE
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Patent number: 10267332Abstract: A compressor includes: an impeller including a hub and a plurality of blades disposed on an outer surface of the hub; and a housing which houses the impeller. The housing includes: a shroud section facing the outer surface of the hub to form a fluid flow path between the shroud section and the outer surface, and surrounding the impeller; and a casing section formed integrally with the shroud section and supporting the shroud section. The shroud section includes a first resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 65 MPa and no more than 200 MPa and a breaking strain of no more than 0.3 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C. The casing section includes a second resin-based material having a static tensile strength of at least 40 MPa and a breaking strain of at least 0.1 mm/mm at a temperature of 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daigo Watanabe, Isao Tomita, Ryoji Okabe, Hiroshi Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190106791Abstract: A plated plated fiber-reinforced member includes: a fiber-reinforced member formed of a composite fiber material in which multiple reinforcing fibers dispersed in a resin, some of the multiple reinforcing fibers being allowed so that portions thereof protruding from a surface of the resin; and an electroless-plated layer formed on the fiber-reinforced member to cover the surface of the resin and the portions of the reinforcing fibers protruded from the surface of the resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kana TANIGUCHI, Ryoji OKABE, Hideyuki MINAI
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Publication number: 20190055961Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing a casing for a compressor, the method including an intake-side casing molding process of molding an intake portion and a first main body portion of a scroll portion by integral molding of resin; an impeller-side casing molding process of integrally molding a second main body portion of the scroll portion and a diffuser portion by a resin molding metal mold used in the intake-side casing molding process; a die sliding process of combining the intake portion and the first main body portion which have been integrally molded, and the second main body portion and the diffuser portion which have been integrally molded, by slide of the resin molding metal mold; and a secondary molding process of joining the intake portion and the first main body portion, and the second main body portion and the diffuser portion combined with each other by resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: February 21, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yasunori WATANABE, Ryoji OKABE, Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA, Takahiro YAMASHITA, Kazutake FUJISAWA