Patents by Inventor Shigemi Yamane

Shigemi Yamane 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: 11511973
    Abstract: There is provided a control system including: a first transmission unit configured to transmit a first command directing an operation of a crane; a second transmission unit configured to transmit a second command directing an operation of the crane; and a control device including a first reception unit configured to accept the first command and a second reception unit configured to accept the second command, in which the control device is configured to operate the crane in a case in which the first command and the second command coincide with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigemi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11396039
    Abstract: A fastening system includes a plurality of fasteners having different sizes, and is provided with a pressurizing pump which pressurizes a fluid to a prescribed pressure, a plurality of pressurizing units which each have a pressure receiving surface, are each disposed in a position capable of pressurizing each respective fastener, and which receive the fluid on the pressure receiving surface to pressurize each fastener. A supply system includes a base end connected to the pressurizing pump and a plurality of branch ends connected to each pressurizing unit, which branches from the base end toward the branch ends, and which is capable of supplying the fluid from the base end throughout the branch ends. Each pressure receiving surface has an individual pressure receiving surface area corresponding to the corresponding size, and the fluid is supplied at the prescribed pressure from the base end throughout the pressure receiving surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigemi Yamane
  • Patent number: 11285449
    Abstract: A method for producing a sealant includes a weighing and mixing step, a kneading step, a stirring and defoaming step, and a filling step. In the weighing and mixing step, a main component and a curing agent are weighed and mixed together. In the kneading step, the mixture mixed in the weighing and mixing step is kneaded. In the stirring and defoaming step, the kneaded product kneaded in the kneading step is stirred and defoamed. In the filling step, the kneaded product defoamed in the stirring and defoaming step is filled into a container. In the stirring and defoaming step, the kneaded product is stirred under a condition wherein a stirring rotational speed at which the kneaded product is stirred and a stirring time for which the kneaded product is stirred are within a range from an arithmetic product lower limit value to an arithmetic product upper limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., KAGA SANGYO CO., LTD., KAGA WORKS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Osamu Mizoguchi, Hitoshi Tsujikawa
  • Patent number: 11267586
    Abstract: An aircraft structure manufacturing device is provided with: a jig supporting a component of an aircraft structure; a plurality of raising/lowering stands; and a control unit for controlling positions of support parts of the raising/lowering stands. The control unit includes: an input unit inputting position information for a movement destination of a reference point provided to the component; a storage unit storing, in advance, master data, which is the relationship for position information of the support parts of respective raising/lowering stands corresponding to the position information for the movement destination; a unit position information acquisition unit acquiring position information for the support part of each of the raising/lowering stands, based on the master data and the position information for the movement destination; and the movement command unit for simultaneously moving the support parts of a plurality of raising/lowering stands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigemi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20210395050
    Abstract: There is provided a control system including: a first transmission unit configured to transmit a first command directing an operation of a crane; a second transmission unit configured to transmit a second command directing an operation of the crane; and a control device including a first reception unit configured to accept the first command and a second reception unit configured to accept the second command, in which the control device is configured to operate the crane in a case in which the first command and the second command coincide with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Shigemi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20210163153
    Abstract: An aircraft structure manufacturing device is provided with: a jig supporting a component of an aircraft structure; a plurality of raising/lowering stands; and a control unit for controlling positions of support parts of the raising/lowering stands. The control unit includes: an input unit inputting position information for a movement destination of a reference point provided to the component; a storage unit storing, in advance, master data, which is the relationship for position information of the support parts of respective raising/lowering stands corresponding to the position information for the movement destination; a unit position information acquisition unit acquiring position information for the support part of each of the raising/lowering stands, based on the master data and the position information for the movement destination; and the movement command unit for simultaneously moving the support parts of a plurality of raising/lowering stands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Shigemi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20200368806
    Abstract: A fastening system includes a plurality of fasteners having different sizes, and is provided with a pressurizing pump which pressurizes a fluid to a prescribed pressure, a plurality of pressurizing units which each have a pressure receiving surface, are each disposed in a position capable of pressurizing each respective fastener, and which receive the fluid on the pressure receiving surface to pressurize each fastener. A supply system includes a base end connected to the pressurizing pump and a plurality of branch ends connected to each pressurizing unit, which branches from the base end toward the branch ends, and which is capable of supplying the fluid from the base end throughout the branch ends. Each pressure receiving surface has an individual pressure receiving surface area corresponding to the corresponding size, and the fluid is supplied at the prescribed pressure from the base end throughout the pressure receiving surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventor: Shigemi YAMANE
  • Publication number: 20200316539
    Abstract: A method for producing a sealant includes a weighing and mixing step, a kneading step, a stirring and defoaming step, and a filling step. In the weighing and mixing step, a main component and a curing agent are weighed and mixed together. In the kneading step, the mixture mixed in the weighing and mixing step is kneaded. In the stirring and defoaming step, the kneaded product kneaded in the kneading step is stirred and defoamed. In the filling step, the kneaded product defoamed in the stirring and defoaming step is filled into a container. In the stirring and defoaming step, the kneaded product is stirred under a condition wherein a stirring rotational speed at which the kneaded product is stirred and a stirring time for which the kneaded product is stirred are within a range from a product lower limit value to a product upper limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Shigemi YAMANE, Osamu MIZOGUCHI, Hitoshi TSUJIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9971980
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a standard work time updating method and system in which a work time is declared by a worker without requiring an observer or the like and the reliability of the updated data of standard work time can be prevented from being degraded due to a worker's false or erroneous declaration. To achieve this purpose, for example, the standard work time updating system is configured as follows. When a reliability determination unit (24) determines that a work time required for work and declared by a worker is not departed from a predetermined range in the work time data distribution of the work stored in a database, a standard work time for the work is updated to a standard work time calculated from the declared work time, and otherwise, the standard work time is not updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Fujitomi, Ichiro Saito, Shigemi Yamane
  • Patent number: 9725191
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing the structure includes an imaging device installation process in which a camera 41 that obtains an image of a target hole 33 formed in an upper panel 31 is installed on the rear spar 22, and a positioning process in which relative positions are positioned by relatively moving the upper panel 31 and the rear spar 22 while the image of the target hole 33 obtained by the camera 41 and displayed on a monitor screen is aligned with a target line preset on the monitor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Mikio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20160159499
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing the structure includes an imaging device installation process in which a camera 41 that obtains an image of a target hole 33 formed in an upper panel 31 is installed on the rear spar 22, and a positioning process in which relative positions are positioned by relatively moving the upper panel 31 and the rear spar 22 while the image of the target hole 33 obtained by the camera 41 and displayed on a monitor screen is aligned with a target line preset on the monitor screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Shigemi YAMANE, Mikio NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9302333
    Abstract: The end portion processing apparatus includes an X-direction driving unit which allows a back-and-forth movement along an X-direction; a cutter supporting member which is supported by the X-direction driving unit, is able to run in a Y-direction, and supports a cutter member extending in a Z-direction which is perpendicular to the XY-plane; a guide member which has a shape matching to a processing planned shape when seeing from the Z-direction, and guides the cutter supporting member such that the cutter member moves to follow the processing planned shape; and a Y-direction position changing mechanism which changes the position in the Y-direction of the cutter supporting member to the work material. The Y-direction position changing mechanism changes the position of the cutter supporting member such that the cutter supporting member runs on further inner side in case of going back than in case of going forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Mikio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9296465
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing the structure includes an imaging device installation process in which a camera that obtains an image of a target hole formed in an upper panel is installed on the rear spar, and a positioning process in which relative positions are positioned by relatively moving the upper panel and the rear spar while the image of the target hole obtained by the camera and displayed on a monitor screen is aligned with a target line preset on the monitor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Mikio Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8869367
    Abstract: A first lift stand is provided with a first supporting unit to support a first portion of a positioning object, and a first servo system to drive the first supporting unit in a vertical direction. A second lift stand is provided with a second supporting unit to support a second portion of the positioning object, and a second servo system to drive the second supporting unit in the vertical direction. A third lift stand is provided with a third supporting unit to support a third portion of the positioning object, and a third servo system to drive the third supporting unit in the vertical direction. A fourth lift stand is provided with a fourth supporting unit to support a fourth portion of the positioning object, and a fourth servo system to drive the fourth supporting unit in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Kanehiro Kominami
  • Patent number: 8616825
    Abstract: A turnover apparatus includes a tower configured to travel on abase, a lifter configured to rise and fall along the tower, a target holding portion configured to hold a turnover target, a wheel traveling base, a wheel axle rotatably attached to the target holding portion, and a wheel axle lock. The wheel axle includes a wheel configured to roll on the wheel traveling base. The target holding portion is attached to the lifter via a rotation shaft parallel to the wheel axle. The wheel axle lock is configured to lock the wheel axle such that the wheel does not roll on the wheel traveling base and the wheel axle can rotate with respect to the target holding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigemi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20130238381
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to provide a standard work time updating method and system in which a work time is declared by a worker without requiring an observer or the like and the reliability of the updated data of standard work time can be prevented from being degraded due to a worker's false or erroneous declaration. To achieve this purpose, for example, the standard work time updating system is configured as follows. When a reliability determination unit (24) determines that a work time required for work and declared by a worker is not departed from a predetermined range in the work time data distribution of the work stored in a database, a standard work time for the work is updated to a standard work time calculated from the declared work time, and otherwise, the standard work time is not updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Yosuke Fujitomi, Ichiro Saito, Shigemi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20130202378
    Abstract: The end portion processing apparatus includes an X-direction driving unit which allows a back-and-forth movement along an X-direction; a cutter supporting member which is supported by the X-direction driving unit, is able to run in a Y-direction, and supports a cutter member extending in a Z-direction which is perpendicular to the XY-plane; a guide member which has a shape matching to a processing planned shape when seeing from the Z-direction, and guides the cutter supporting member such that the cutter member moves to follow the processing planned shape; and a Y-direction position changing mechanism which changes the position in the Y-direction of the cutter supporting member to the work material. The Y-direction position changing mechanism changes the position of the cutter supporting member such that the cutter supporting member runs on further inner side in case of going back than in case of going forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Mikio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20130185918
    Abstract: The method for manufacturing the structure includes an imaging device installation process in which a camera that obtains an image of a target hole formed in an upper panel is installed on the rear spar, and a positioning process in which relative positions are positioned by relatively moving the upper panel and the rear spar while the image of the target hole obtained by the camera and displayed on a monitor screen is aligned with a target line preset on the monitor screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Mikio Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110311344
    Abstract: A turnover apparatus includes a tower configured to travel on abase, a lifter configured to rise and fall along the tower, a target holding portion configured to hold a turnover target, a wheel traveling base, a wheel axle rotatably attached to the target holding portion, and a wheel axle lock. The wheel axle includes a wheel configured to roll on the wheel traveling base. The target holding portion is attached to the lifter via a rotation shaft parallel to the wheel axle. The wheel axle lock is configured to lock the wheel axle such that the wheel does not roll on the wheel traveling base and the wheel axle can rotate with respect to the target holding portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventor: Shigemi Yamane
  • Publication number: 20110302784
    Abstract: A first lift stand is provided with a first supporting unit to support a first portion of a positioning object, and a first servo system to drive the first supporting unit in a vertical direction. A second lift stand is provided with a second supporting unit to support a second portion of the positioning object, and a second servo system to drive the second supporting unit in the vertical direction. A third lift stand is provided with a third supporting unit to support a third portion of the positioning object, and a third servo system to drive the third supporting unit in the vertical direction. A fourth lift stand is provided with a fourth supporting unit to support a fourth portion of the positioning object, and a fourth servo system to drive the fourth supporting unit in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Inventors: Shigemi Yamane, Kanehiro Kominami