Patents by Inventor Shinya Hashimoto

Shinya Hashimoto 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: 11136224
    Abstract: A lifting beam for suspending an object to be lifted in a vertical direction has a lower end surface extending in a longitudinal direction of the lifting beam on a vertical lower side in a state where the object is suspended. The lower end surface includes a first lower end portion, a second lower end portion positioned away from the first lower end portion to a first side in the longitudinal direction, and a third lower end portion positioned away from the first lower end portion to a second side in the longitudinal direction, on the opposite side of the first lower end portion from the second lower end portion. The second lower end portion is positioned higher than the first lower end portion, and the third lower end portion is positioned lower than the second lower end portion when the object is suspended from the lifting beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Nishioka, Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
  • Patent number: 11125113
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust casing includes a tubular casing wall, a bearing box housed in the casing wall, a diffuser portion forming an annular exhaust gas flow passage between the casing wall and the bearing box, a plurality of struts disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of the casing wall, and coupling the casing wall and the bearing box, and a plurality of fastening bolts disposed on the casing wall. The casing wall includes an upper half casing forming an upper half of the casing wall and a lower half casing forming a lower half of the casing wall. The plurality of fastening bolts fasten the upper half casing and the lower half casing. The plurality of struts include a penetrated strut which has an end penetrated by at least one fastening bolt of the plurality of fastening bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Nishioka, Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
  • Patent number: 11111799
    Abstract: A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate relative to the rotor disc in a radial direction of the rotor disc includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of operating the seal plate restraint part from a second side in the axial direction to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes toward the second side in the axial direction from the seal plate and thereby restricts movement of the seal plate in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Murata, Eiichi Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Takaoka, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoki Ikushima, Tetsuya Shimmyo
  • Patent number: 11085324
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided with an exhaust diffuser in which an exhaust flow path for circulating exhaust gas from a turbine is formed, and a cooling device for cooling a structure facing the exhaust flow path in the exhaust diffuser. The cooling device has a guide part in which a guide flow path for circulating a cooling medium is formed and which is configured to guide the cooling medium to the structure, and a switching part able to switch between a first state where a flow rate of the cooling medium flowing through the guide flow path is a first flow rate corresponding to a flow rate during a rated operation and a second state where the flow rate of the cooling medium is a second flow rate higher than the first flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Iijima, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20210140329
    Abstract: A first-stage stator vane for a gas turbine includes: a first portion partially forming an airfoil which includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a trailing edge; and a second portion positioned at a leading-edge side of the airfoil with respect to the first portion, the second portion having a recess portion or a protruding portion. The recess portion or the protruding portion of the second portion has a pair of side wall surfaces, and an angle formed between the pair of side wall surfaces is less than 90 angular degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenji SATO, Keisuke MATSUYAMA, Takaya KODA, Shunsuke TORII, Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Akihiro MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210096722
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventor: Shinya HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210079846
    Abstract: In a gas turbine, a plurality of blade ring parts each include a plurality of first cooling flow passages, a plurality of second cooling flow passages, and a return flow passage. The first cooling flow passages are disposed on the outer side in a radial direction centering on a rotation axis, extend in an axial direction, and are disposed aligned in an axial rotation direction. The second cooling flow passages are disposed on an inner side in the radial direction with respect to the first cooling flow passages, extend in the axial direction, and are disposed aligned in the axial rotation direction. The return flow passage connects end parts of each of the first cooling flow passages and the second cooling flow passages on the same side in the axial direction with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Shinya HASHIMOTO, Naoya TATSUMI, Hiroyuki YAMAZAKI, Yuki SUGAWARA
  • Patent number: 10895929
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel which is formed in an overlapping manner with the display panel. A plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes intersecting with the X electrodes. A first signal line supplies signals to the X electrodes, a second signal line supplies signals to the Y electrodes, and the first signal line and the second signal line are formed on a flexible printed circuit board. A dummy electrode is formed adjacent to an electrode portion of each X electrode and electrode portion of each Y electrode, the dummy electrode does not overlap the X electrode and the Y electrode, and the dummy electrode does not electrically connect with the first and second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10883381
    Abstract: A ventilation flow path for guiding a compressed gas flowing between two blade rows adjacent in an axial direction to an interior of a compressor rotor shaft is formed in the compressor rotor shaft. The ventilation flow path has an introduction part, a plurality of branch parts, and a collection part. The introduction part guides the compressed gas flowing between the two blade rows into the compressor rotor shaft. The plurality of branch parts branch out from the introduction part, and are formed in mutually different positions in the axial direction. The collection part is connected to each of the plurality of branch parts. The compressed gas flows into the collection part after passing through the plurality of branch parts, and then, the compressed gas that has flowed in flows outside through the collection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Keita Takamura
  • Patent number: 10865658
    Abstract: In a gas turbine exhaust member and an exhaust chamber maintenance method, the gas turbine exhaust member is provided with: an inside diffuser that forms a tubular shape and is divided into multiple parts in the circumferential direction; a first seal housing that forms a tubular shape and is integrally formed in the circumferential direction, the front end of which being coupled to the rear end of the inside diffuser; a second seal housing that forms a tubular shape and is integrally formed in the circumferential direction, the front end of which being coupled to the rear end of the first seal housing; and a supporting coupling part that supports the rear end of the first seal housing and the front end of the second seal housing so as to allow the rear end and the front end to move in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20200285744
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: confirms whether a program is registered in a whitelist; estimates whether the program is risky of causing infection with a computer virus; determines whether the program that has been confirmed as registered but estimated as risky is present in a function requested by a user; and upon determining that the program that has been confirmed as registered but estimated as risky is present in the function, determines whether to execute the function based on one or more processes defined by the function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10738618
    Abstract: A ventilation flow path, a cooling air flow path, a mixing space, and a mixed air flow path are formed in a gas turbine rotor. The ventilation flow path guides compressed air farther on an axially upstream side than an air discharge port of a compressor to an interior of a compressor rotor as compressor extracted air. The cooling air flow path guides cooling air to a part farther on an axially downstream side than the air discharge port. The compressor extracted air and the cooling air are mixed in the mixing space. The mixed air flow path guides mixed air containing the compressor extracted air and the cooling air into a turbine rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Keita Takamura
  • Patent number: 10738892
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes a seal device capable of restricting a flow of a fluid in a clearance between a stationary member and a rotational member. The seal device includes a pressure loss element mounted to the stationary member, a first non-contact type seal protruding from the rotational member toward the pressure loss element and facing the pressure loss element via a first gap, and a second non-contact type seal protruding from the stationary member toward the rotational member, facing the rotational member via a second gap, and being positioned on one side of the pressure loss element in a flow direction of the fluid. The seal device also includes a contact type seal protruding from the stationary member toward the rotational member and being disposed downstream of the pressure loss element and the second non-contact type seal in the flow direction of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masato Araki, Yoshiyuki Okabe, Ryosuke Mito, Keita Takamura, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20200231413
    Abstract: A lifting beam for suspending an object to be lifted in a vertical direction has a lower end surface extending in a longitudinal direction of the lifting beam on a vertical lower side in a state where the object is suspended. The lower end surface includes a first lower end portion, a second lower end portion positioned away from the first lower end portion to a first side in the longitudinal direction, and a third lower end portion positioned away from the first lower end portion to a second side in the longitudinal direction, on the opposite side of the first lower end portion from the second lower end portion. The second lower end portion is positioned higher than the first lower end portion, and the third lower end portion is positioned lower than the second lower end portion when the object is suspended from the lifting beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunori NISHIOKA, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Takuro KAMEDA
  • Patent number: 10708459
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that may communicate with a server, which may include: a storage that stores a virus pattern file; and a hardware processor that discriminates, when a transition is made from a state in which power supply to the hardware processor is interrupted to a state in which the power supply to the hardware processor is made, whether the virus pattern file in the storage is a latest version, in communication with the server, includes an updater that updates, when discriminating that the virus pattern file is not the latest version, the virus pattern file to a virus pattern file from the server, discriminates whether a job accepted is a first type of job using data from outside the image forming apparatus or a second type of job using data generated inside the image forming apparatus, and executes the first type after the update by the updater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazusei Takahashi, Yuki Asai, Katsuhiko Akita, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20200200044
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust casing includes a tubular casing wall, a bearing box housed in the casing wall, a diffuser portion forming an annular exhaust gas flow passage between the casing wall and the bearing box, a plurality of struts disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of the casing wall, and coupling the casing wall and the bearing box, and a plurality of fastening bolts disposed on the casing wall. The casing wall includes an upper half casing forming an upper half of the casing wall and a lower half casing forming a lower half of the casing wall. The plurality of fastening bolts fasten the upper half casing and the lower half casing. The plurality of struts include a penetrated strut which has an end penetrated by at least one fastening bolt of the plurality of fastening bolts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Yasunori NISHIOKA, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Takuro KAMEDA
  • Patent number: 10686957
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus that executes a plurality of processes related to a file, includes: a memory that stores a file; a processor that executes virus checking on the file. The memory stores: virus type information that associates a type of a virus detected during the virus checking with at least one of the plurality of processes; and file type information that associates a type of file with at least one of the plurality of processes, and the processor restricts one of the plurality of processes associated with the type of the detected virus, and another of the plurality of processes associated with the type of file possibly infected with the detected virus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Shinya Hashimoto, Yuki Asai
  • Patent number: 10669852
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a first cavity inside a stationary body and supplied with cooling air; a second cavity between the stationary body and a rotating body; a first cooling passage between the first and second cavities and having a swirl flow guide nozzle therein by which the cooling air of the first cavity is supplied to the second cavity while being swirled along a rotation direction of the rotating body; a second cooling passage in the rotating body, in communication with the second cavity, and supplied with the cooling air of the second cavity; and a flow regulating passage, different from the first cooling passage, between the first cavity and the second cavity and through which the cooling air is supplied from the first cavity to the second cavity, wherein the flow regulating passage has a flow regulator for regulating a flow rate of the cooling air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tsuji, Shinya Hashimoto, Yasunori Nishioka
  • Patent number: 10670039
    Abstract: A rotor shaft has: an inlet flow passage through which gas inside a gas compression flow passage flows into an outer cavity of a downstream-side cavity group; a radial flow passage that provides communication between the outer cavity and an axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group; an axial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity of the downstream-side cavity group and the axial communication cavity of an upstream-side cavity group; another radial flow passage that provides communication between the axial communication cavity and the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group; and an outlet flow passage through which the gas inside the outer cavity of the upstream-side cavity group flows out into the gas compression flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Takamura, Masanori Yuri, Shinya Hashimoto, Junichiro Masada, Yuji Komagome, Masato Araki
  • Publication number: 20200165935
    Abstract: A ventilation flow path for guiding a compressed gas flowing between two blade rows adjacent in an axial direction to an interior of a compressor rotor shaft is formed in the compressor rotor shaft. The ventilation flow path has an introduction part, a plurality of branch parts, and a collection part. The introduction part guides the compressed gas flowing between the two blade rows into the compressor rotor shaft. The plurality of branch parts branch out from the introduction part, and are formed in mutually different positions in the axial direction. The collection part is connected to each of the plurality of branch parts. The compressed gas flows into the collection part after passing through the plurality of branch parts, and then, the compressed gas that has flowed in flows outside through the collection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Shinya HASHIMOTO, Keita TAKAMURA