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: 9109510
    Abstract: A gas turbine according to the present invention includes: a strut which passes through an outer diffuser and an inner diffuser, and connects an exhaust chamber wall and a bearing housing; a strut cover which covers the strut along the extending direction of the strut; a partitioning wall which is arranged between the inside of the inner diffuser in the radial direction and the outside of the bearing housing in the radial direction, of which the upstream side portion is sealed between the bearing housing and the partitioning wall, of which the downstream side portion is sealed between the inner diffuser and the partitioning wall, and in which a strut through-hole through which the strut passes is formed; and a hole seal member which seals a gap between the strut through-hole and the strut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9085982
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a blade ring which faces blades from the outer side in a radial direction perpendicular to a turbine shaft, and a channel provided in the blade ring 1 and through which a cooling medium is flowed. The channel includes an inner channel formed in the blade ring 1, and a tubular outer channel which is connected to the inner channel, is disposed in an outer portion of the blade ring 1, and extends in a circumferential direction of the blade ring 1. The outer channel includes a plurality of fixing portions fixed to the blade ring 1 and a thermal stress absorbing portion disposed between the fixing portions adjacent in the circumferential direction and expandable and contractible in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Tsutsumi, Kenichi Arase, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150177888
    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: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventor: Shinya HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 8994682
    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 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20150080673
    Abstract: A blood pressure estimation apparatus (1) is provided with: a blood pressure measuring device (11) which measures a blood pressure (BPm) of a living body every first period; a blood flow measuring device (12) which measures a blood flow volume (BF) of the living body every second period which is shorter than the first period; and a blood pressure estimating device (13) which estimates the blood pressure (BPc) every third period which is shorter than the first period, on the basis of the blood pressure which is measured by the blood pressure measuring device and the blood flow volume which is measured by the blood flow measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: PIONEER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Tateishi, Atsuya Ito, Hiroyuki Ishihara, Masaki Goma
  • Publication number: 20140311162
    Abstract: In a gas turbine, an exhaust casing and an exhaust chamber are connected by an exhaust chamber support that can absorb thermal expansion, and the exhaust chamber and an exhaust duct are connected by an exhaust duct support that can absorb thermal expansion. An insulator is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the exhaust chamber, and the exhaust chamber support and the exhaust duct support are disposed outside the insulator in the form of a plurality of strips. Because the thermal stress at a connection portion of the exhaust chamber is reduced, the durability is enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Inventors: Shinya HASHIMOTO, Kenichi ARASE
  • Patent number: 8844297
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a gas turbine body in which a rotor is rotated with the energy of combustion gas produced by combustion of fuel to take out rotational energy from the rotor, an inlet casing that is attached to the gas turbine body and that guides the air to a compressor section compressing the air, an air intake chamber that is connected to the inlet casing and that guides the air taken in from the atmosphere to the gas turbine body, and a notch so formed in the air intake chamber as to cover the entire range where the rotor passes or exists when the rotor is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Arase, Yasuro Sakamoto, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8800300
    Abstract: In a gas turbine, an exhaust casing and an exhaust chamber are connected by an exhaust chamber support that can absorb thermal expansion, and the exhaust chamber and an exhaust duct are connected by an exhaust duct support that can absorb thermal expansion. An insulator is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the exhaust chamber, and the exhaust chamber support and the exhaust duct support are disposed outside the insulator in the form of a plurality of strips. Because the thermal stress at a connection portion of the exhaust chamber is reduced, the durability is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Kenichi Arase
  • Patent number: 8770919
    Abstract: In a turbine disk and a gas turbine, the turbine disk is firmly connected to a rotor (24) to be rotatably supported; a plurality of rotor blades (22a) is arranged on an outer circumference thereof in a circumferential direction; first cooling holes (42) penetrating the turbine disk from inside toward outside thereof and being communicatively connected to a cooling passage (41) arranged inside of the rotor blades (22a) are arranged in the circumferential direction; second cooling holes (43) arranged between each of the first cooling holes (42) and penetrating the turbine disk from the inside toward the outside thereof are provided; and the first cooling holes (42) and the second cooling holes (43) are communicatively connected by way of a radial direction communicating channel (47), to alleviate concentration of stress and to improve durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Kenichi Arase
  • Publication number: 20140043292
    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: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8638317
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a display panel having a display function and a light-receiving/imaging function; a first image processing section configured to generate a detection signal that indicates whether a to-be-detected object has been detected based on a result of first image processing performed on an image taken by the light-receiving/imaging function; a second image processing section configured to perform second image processing on the image processed by the first image processing section, the second image processing having a heavier processing load than the first image processing; and a control section configured to control an operation of the second image processing section in accordance with the detection signal generated by the first image processing section, and, when it is determined that the processing by the second image processing section is not necessary, control the second image processing section to enter a sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.
    Inventors: Tsutomu Harada, Shinya Hashimoto, Naoya Okada, Tadashi Maekawa, Kazunori Yamguchi, Mitsuru Tateuchi, Ryoichi Tsuzaki, Yoshiharu Nakajima, Chiaki Kon
  • Patent number: 8616835
    Abstract: A gas turbine including exhaust chamber defined by a cylindrical casing wall and a bearing case that supports a bearing part of a rotor in the casing wall, struts provided at equal intervals in circumferential direction of the bearing case and extending in tangential direction of the bearing case to couple the casing wall and the bearing case, a diffuser unit having an outer diffuser at the inner periphery of the casing wall and an inner diffuser at the outer periphery of the bearing case, a cooling chamber in which the outer diffuser and the inner diffuser are coupled by a strut cover, led to a portion between the casing wall and the outer diffuser, a portion between the bearing case and the inner diffuser, and the insides of the strut cover, and a partition wall that covers the outer periphery of the bearing case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Kenichi Arase
  • Patent number: 8564550
    Abstract: A display device having X electrodes and Y electrodes formed on an electrostatic capacitive type touch panel. Either one of the X electrodes and the Y electrodes is divided corresponding to a ratio between the number of X electrodes and the number of Y electrodes, and a floating electrode is formed in gaps formed along with the reduction of area of the electrode thus adjusting the area of the electrode. A first signal line and second signal lines are branched on a flexible printed circuit board so that both ends of a respective X electrode are supplied with a signal from the branched first signal line and both ends of a respective Y electrode are supplied with a signal from the branched second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130243576
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a blade ring which faces blades from the outer side in a radial direction perpendicular to a turbine shaft, and a channel provided in the blade ring 1 and through which a cooling medium is flowed. The channel includes an inner channel formed in the blade ring 1, and a tubular outer channel which is connected to the inner channel, is disposed in an outer portion of the blade ring 1, and extends in a circumferential direction of the blade ring 1. The outer channel includes a plurality of fixing portions fixed to the blade ring 1 and a thermal stress absorbing portion disposed between the fixing portions adjacent in the circumferential direction and expandable and contractible in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiichi Tsutsumi, Kenichi Arase, Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130236305
    Abstract: In a sealing device which seals between an outside space between an outer side in the radial direction of an external diffuser which has a tubular shape and forms an exhaust channel through which combustion gas rotating a rotor of a gas turbine passes in the inner side in the radial direction and an outside member which is disposed outside the external diffuser with an interval between them in the radial direction, and the exhaust channel by an end of the external diffuser, a first seal plate group and a second seal plate group in which a plurality of seal plates, which extend to the outer side in the radial direction from the end of the tubular external diffuser and reach the outside member, are laminated in contact with each other, and a spacer which maintains the first seal plate group and the second seal plate group with an interval in an axial direction in which a rotational axis of the rotor extends are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Norikazu Tezuka, Kazuharu Hirokawa
  • Publication number: 20130230392
    Abstract: An auxiliary member for assembly/disassembly includes a fixing portion which is fixed to one half casing of a lower half casing and an upper half casing, and a jack receiving portion which extends from the fixing portion and faces an outer surface of the other half casing. When an interval between both end portions in the radial direction of the upper half casing is widened due to heat deformation, the fixing portion of the auxiliary member for assembly/disassembly is fixed to the lower half casing, a jack is disposed between the jack receiving portion of the auxiliary member for assembly/disassembly and the outer surface of the upper half casing, and the interval between both end portions of the jack is widened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130224011
    Abstract: A gas turbine according to the present invention includes: a strut which passes through an outer diffuser and an inner diffuser, and connects an exhaust chamber wall and a bearing housing; a strut cover which covers the strut along the extending direction of the strut; a partitioning wall which is arranged between the inside of the inner diffuser in the radial direction and the outside of the bearing housing in the radial direction, of which the upstream side portion is sealed between the bearing housing and the partitioning wall, of which the downstream side portion is sealed between the inner diffuser and the partitioning wall, and in which a strut through-hole through which the strut passes is formed; and a hole seal member which seals a gap between the strut through-hole and the strut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20130223985
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a cooling air pipe disposed at a downstream side of a rotor main body without contacting with the rotor main body and configured to feed cooling air into a cooling air main passage of the rotor main body; a bearing downstream end shaft seal annularly disposed at an outer circumferential side of the rotor main body and at a downstream side of a bearing which rotatably supports the rotor may body; and a collecting flow passage member having a leaked air collecting flow passage that guides the cooling air, which is leaked from the bearing downstream end shaft seal to the bearing side, into an exhaust flow passage through which a combustion gas passing through a final blade stage flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shinya Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20130115056
    Abstract: A link mechanism includes a rotary shaft having a pin pushing thread hole, a link member having a shaft insertion hole, a detent pin configured to restrict the link member to be relatively non-rotatable with respect to the proximal end of the rotary shaft around an axis thereof, a pin support member to which the detent pin is fixed, and a pushing bolt having a male thread section that can be thread-engaged with the pin pushing thread hole, wherein a pin hole into which the detent pin can be fitted is formed in the proximal end of the rotary shaft and the link member, a pin removing thread hole is formed in the pin support member, and a thread major diameter of the pin removing thread hole is larger than a thread major diameter of the male thread section of the pushing bolt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda
  • Publication number: 20130108415
    Abstract: A variable vane drive device includes a movable ring disposed at an outer circumferential side of a casing of an axial-flow compressor and having an annular shape, four ring support mechanisms disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction of the movable ring and rotatably supporting the movable ring around a rotor, and a link mechanism for connecting the movable ring to a variable vane such that a direction of the variable vane is varied by rotation of the movable ring. The ring support mechanisms have inner rollers, outer rollers, and roller support bases for rotatably supporting the inner rollers and the outer rollers in a state in which the movable ring is sandwiched between the inner roller and the outer rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Hashimoto, Takuro Kameda, Kenichi Arase