Patents by Inventor Shin Asano

Shin Asano 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).

  • Publication number: 20230280582
    Abstract: An inspection cable guide mechanism of the present disclosure includes a heat-resistant sheath having flexibility through which a cable is allowed to be inserted and cooling air is allowed to flow toward a tip through a gap between the cable and the heat-resistant sheath, a segment stacked body configured by stacking segments having heat resistance configured to cover the heat-resistant sheath in a centerline direction, and a plurality of wires disposed around the heat-resistant sheath and extending along a centerline, one segment of the segment stacked body is swingable with respect to two segments adjacent to the one segment about swing axes extending in a direction perpendicular to the centerline, the two swing axes becoming centers when the one segment swings with respect to the two segments are perpendicular to each other when viewed in the centerline direction, and one end of each wire is fixed to one of the segments in the segment stacked body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKE, Hirone KOMATSU, Takashi MATSUZAWA, Shin ASANO, Kotaro TADANO, Koshiro IRIE, Yoichi SATO
  • Publication number: 20230241786
    Abstract: A control device for an inspection device including a long flexible robot that is formed by connecting a plurality of units and bendable at each unit with a desired curvature, and a posture actuator that adjusts a posture of the unit includes a target posture specifying unit that specifies a target posture including positions of representative points of the respective units traveling along a predetermined route, and an operation amount determination unit that determines an operation amount for bringing the unit to the target posture using a learning model with the target posture of the unit as an input and an operation amount of the posture actuator as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKE, Hirone KOMATSU, Takashi MATSUZAWA, Shin ASANO, Kotaro TADANO, Koshiro IRIE, Chanvicharo LY
  • Publication number: 20210325132
    Abstract: A shockwave supply device includes: a shockwave generating unit configured to generate a shockwave; a shockwave emitting unit configured to emit the shockwave; a conduit that is bendable and is provided at a part of a flow path of the shockwave from the shockwave generating unit to the shockwave emitting unit; a plurality of outer shell tubes provided outward in a radial direction of the conduit and provided along an axial direction of the conduit; and a coupling portion with which adjacent ones of the outer shell tubes are coupled to be rotatable with respect to each other about a vertical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Keisuke MATSUYAMA, Kuninori TOGAI, Shin ASANO, Tomoaki INOUE, Tomohito NAKAMORI
  • Patent number: 11135667
    Abstract: A machining position correcting device is configured to be applied to an electrochemical machining device configured to make an electrolyte flow out of a distal end part of an electrode bar extending along an axis while rotating the electrode bar about the axis to electrochemically machine a material to be machined in a range from the distal end part of the electrode bar. The machining position correcting device includes a position detector configured to detect a rotational position of a feature point of the electrode bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Onodera, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Shin Asano
  • Publication number: 20210231530
    Abstract: This inspection tube drive control device is provided with: an inverse analysis unit (83) which performs an analysis to move a flexible tube along a predetermined route within an object being inspected, from a start point to a target point of the route; and a forward analysis unit (84) which, on the basis of analysis results from the inverse analysis unit (83), acquires, as analysis operation amounts, operation amounts for an attitude actuator capable of adjusting the attitude of the tube when the tube is positioned at each position on the route, and an advancing and retreating actuator which causes the tube to advance and retreat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yasutaka FUKE, Naotaka KOMATSU, Shin ASANO, Sho ONODERA, Tetsuhei KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10944307
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes an armature unit including an annular rotor configured to be rotatable around an axis and a stator disposed on a radially outer side of the annular rotor; an input or output shaft coupled at a first end thereof to an external device and extending along an axial direction of the annular rotor in a central space defined in a central portion of the annular rotor; and a coupling device disposed closer to a second end of the input or output shaft than an end of the annular rotor adjacent to the external device in the axial direction of the annular rotor and connecting the input or output shaft and the annular rotor so as to be able to transmit a torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Umeda, Mikito Sasaki, Shin Asano, Hiroshi Sato, Hisanobu Shinoda, Shinichi Isobe, Atsushi Yuge
  • Publication number: 20200266681
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes an armature unit including an annular rotor configured to be rotatable around an axis and a stator disposed on a radially outer side of the rotor; an input/output shaft coupled at a first end to an external device and extending along an axial direction of the rotor in a central space formed in a central portion of the rotor; and a coupling device disposed closer to a second end of the input/output shaft than an end of the rotor adjacent to the external device is in the axial direction and connecting the input/output shaft and the rotor so as to be able to transmit a torque.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Akihiko UMEDA, Mikito SASAKI, Shin ASANO, Hiroshi SATO, Hisanobu SHINODA, Shinichi ISOBE, Atsushi YUGE
  • Patent number: 10731623
    Abstract: A water-flow power generating apparatus includes a blade, a rotary part, a power generating unit, a nacelle, and a bearing unit. The blade rotates with power of a water flow. The rotary part is connected to the blade and rotates integrally with the blade. The power generating unit is connected to the rotary part and generates electricity with a rotation force of the rotary part. The nacelle covers the power generating unit, forms a boundary between an inner space in which the power generating unit is disposed and an underwater in which the blade is disposed. The bearing unit supports the rotary part. The bearing unit includes a thrust bearing disposed in the inner space and supporting the rotary part from an axial direction of the rotary part, and a journal bearing disposed between the nacelle and the blade and supporting the rotary part from a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinkichi Tanigaki, Shin Asano
  • Patent number: 10724551
    Abstract: This hydraulic oil tank, which is disposed inside a pod of a power generation system, stores hydraulic oil, wherein the hydraulic oil tank is provided with: a rubber bag for use during oil temperature increases, the rubber bag being attached to a tank wall surface from the inner side, having a first internal space communicated with the exterior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the first internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner; and a rubber bag for use during oil temperature decreases, the rubber bag being attached to the wall surface from the outer side, having a second internal space communicated with the wall surface interior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the second internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Shin Asano, Yoshitomo Noda, Sho Onodera
  • Patent number: 10626844
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydraulic drive train including a check valve provided in a return oil passage disposed between a branching position of a first branching oil passage and a branching position of a second branching oil passage, wherein at the time of starting of startup of the hydraulic drive train, the switching valve is closed, the opening degree of the flow rate adjusting valve is set to the initial opening degree, the on-off valve is opened, the boost pump is driven by the drive motor, and the hydraulic oil is supplied to the hydraulic pump, thereby assisting the rotational speed of the vanes by the hydraulic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Asano, Kensuke Futahashi, Yoshitomo Noda, Kyota Tokuyama, Sho Onodera, Yukihito Okuda
  • Patent number: 10584675
    Abstract: Provided is an underwater floating-type ocean current power generation device whereby cyclical directional vibration of a floating body of the ocean current power generation device, caused by shadow moment, can be suppressed. An underwater floating type ocean current power generation device includes ocean current power generation device main bodies, each including a rotor of a power generator housed in a nacelle, and a structure. The rotor is configured to be driven by a rotary blade protruding outward from the nacelle. A twin drum floating body capable of floating underwater is constituted by the structure and the ocean current power generation device main bodies joined to the left and right of the structure. The underwater floating type ocean current power generation device is moored to an ocean floor by a mooring rope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Sho Onodera, Shin Asano, Tetsuhei Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190390646
    Abstract: A water-flow power generating apparatus includes a blade, a rotary part, a power generating unit, a nacelle, and a bearing unit. The blade rotates with power of a water flow. The rotary part is connected to the blade and rotates integrally with the blade. The power generating unit is connected to the rotary part and generates electricity with a rotation force of the rotary part. The nacelle covers the power generating unit, forms a boundary between an inner space in which the power generating unit is disposed and an underwater in which the blade is disposed. The bearing unit supports the rotary part. The bearing unit includes a thrust bearing disposed in the inner space and supporting the rotary part from an axial direction of the rotary part, and a journal bearing disposed between the nacelle and the blade and supporting the rotary part from a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Shinkichi Tanigaki, Shin Asano
  • Patent number: 10465648
    Abstract: An ocean current electric power generator includes a mechanical brake that restricts a rotation of a rotor shaft of a rotatable wing, and a power transmission mechanism that is disposed between the rotor shaft and an electric power generator. The power transmission mechanism includes a switching section that switches between a power transmission state and a power disconnection state, a load application section that applies a rotation load on the rotor shaft during the power disconnection state, and a speed varying section that varies a revolution speed of the rotor shaft, and transmits the revolution to the electric power generator during the power transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kensuke Futahashi, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Shin Asano, Sho Onodera
  • Publication number: 20190275599
    Abstract: A machining position correcting device is applied to an electrochemical machining device that makes an electrolyte flow out of a distal end part of an electrode bar extending along an axis while rotating the electrode bar about the axis to electrochemically machine a material to be machined in a region from the distal end part of the electrode bar. The machining position correcting device includes a position detector configured to detect a rotational position of a feature point provided to the electrode bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Sho ONODERA, Tetsuhei KOBAYASHI, Shin ASANO
  • Publication number: 20190063397
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hydraulic drive train including a check valve provided in a return oil passage disposed between a branching position of a first branching oil passage and a branching position of a second branching oil passage, wherein at the time of starting of startup of the hydraulic drive train, the switching valve is closed, the opening degree of the flow rate adjusting valve is set to the initial opening degree, the on-off valve is opened, the boost pump is driven by the drive motor, and the hydraulic oil is supplied to the hydraulic pump, thereby assisting the rotational speed of the vanes by the hydraulic oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Shin ASANO, Kensuke FUTAHASHI, Yoshitomo NODA, Kyota TOKUYAMA, Sho ONODERA, Yukihito OKUDA
  • Patent number: 10215150
    Abstract: A water flow power generator includes a nacelle, a vane wheel that is disposed so as to be rotatable relative to the nacelle, and that is rotated by a water flow while including a plurality of blades, a power generator that is disposed inside the nacelle, and that generates electric power by using rotating power transmitted from the vane wheel, and a vane wheel rotation stopping mechanism that is disposed in the nacelle, that includes a rod which can enter the inside of a rotational trajectory of the vane wheel, and that stops the rotation of the vane wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiko Umeda, Shin Asano
  • Publication number: 20180266444
    Abstract: This hydraulic oil tank, which is disposed inside a pod of a power generation system, stores hydraulic oil, wherein the hydraulic oil tank is provided with: a rubber bag for use during oil temperature increases, the rubber bag being attached to a tank wall surface from the inner side, having a first internal space communicated with the exterior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the first internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner; and a rubber bag for use during oil temperature decreases, the rubber bag being attached to the wall surface from the outer side, having a second internal space communicated with the wall surface interior through an opening passing through the wall surface, and partitioning the second internal space and the wall surface interior in an elastic manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kensuke FUTAHASHI, Shin ASANO, Yoshitomo NODA, Sho ONODERA
  • Patent number: 9981331
    Abstract: In order to easily form curved holes and straight holes of desired shapes, an electrochemical machining tool of the present invention comprises a tool body including: an electrode made from an electrically conductive material in a cylindrical shape extending along an axial line and having flexibility, an electrolytic solution flowing through an internal flow channel of the electrode toward a tip side; and an insulating layer coated on an outer circumferential face of the electrode so as to expose the tip of the electrode. A fluid outflow hole is formed in the tool body, passing through the tool body in a radial direction and guiding the electrolytic solution flowing through the flow channel outward in the radial direction, and the electrochemical machining tool further comprises a tube-shaped member selectively opening and closing the fluid outflow hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Tamura, Yosuke Mukai, Shin Asano, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Tomofumi Shintani
  • Patent number: 9943919
    Abstract: Provided is an electrochemical machining apparatus, which includes an electrode (3) that form of a shape which a tube shape is extended, including a flexible conductive material, and is which an electrolyte (W) circulates from a base end side (3b) thereof toward a distal end side (3a) thereof, a current supply unit (6) that causes electric current to flow with respect to the electrode (3) in an extending direction (direction running the Y direction) in which the electrode (3) extends, and a magnetic field generation unit (7) that includes at least one pair of magnets (9) which are disposed to face the electrodes (3) a direction and apply a magnetic field in a direction (X direction) intersecting the extending direction with respect to the electrodes (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Shin Asano, Kazuhisa Tamura, Yosuke Mukai, Tomofumi Shintani
  • Patent number: 9889515
    Abstract: An electrochemical machining tool (3) includes a tool body (10) which has an electrode (11) which is made of a flexible conductive material having a cylindrical shape extending along an axis (O), and inside which an electrolyte (W) flows toward a leading end (10a) side, and an insulating layer (12) coated on an outer circumferential surface of the electrode (11) to expose a leading end surface of the electrode (11), wherein a non-insulation section (15) which exposes the outer circumferential surface of the electrode (11) is formed on the tool body (11), and the non-insulation section (15) is surrounded by the insulating layer (12) from an axial (O) direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Mukai, Kazuhisa Tamura, Shin Asano, Tetsuhei Kobayashi, Tomofumi Shintani