Patents by Inventor Shuji TANIGAWA

Shuji TANIGAWA 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: 11946147
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating includes a bond coat layer deposited on a substrate, and a ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer includes a first layer having a porosity of 10% or more and 15% or less, and a second layer having a porosity of 0.5% or more and 9.0% or less and deposited on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taiji Torigoe, Yoshifumi Okajima, Daisuke Kudo, Masahiko Mega, Shuji Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11920486
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires to be cooled by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; and a first partition wall disposed inside each of the cooling passages to partition the cooling passage into a plurality of first branch flow passages. The first partition wall includes an oblique portion formed such that, in an upstream side region of the first partition wall, a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the cooling passage as seen in an extension direction of the cooling passage gradually decreases from an upstream side toward a downstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Yoshinori Wakita, Taro Tokutake, Shuji Tanigawa, Ryuta Ito
  • Patent number: 11746663
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires cooling by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; a header portion to which downstream ends of the plurality of first cooling passages are connected; and at least one outlet passage for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header portion to outside of the header portion. A roughness of an inner wall surface of the at least one outlet passage is not greater than a roughness of an inner wall surface of the plurality of first cooling passages in a region where a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the outlet passage is the smallest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shuji Tanigawa, Koichiro Iida, Ryuta Ito, Taro Tokutake, Yoshinori Wakita
  • Publication number: 20230266750
    Abstract: An arithmetic device includes a deformation amount acquisition unit that acquires an actual measurement deformation amount of a fabrication object that is manufactured based on a target shape, the actual measurement deformation amount corresponding to a deviation amount of a shape of the fabrication object from the target shape, an analysis unit that performs an analysis, based on the target shape of the fabrication object and a reference inherent strain value corresponding to a reference value of an inherent strain of the fabrication object, and acquires an analytical deformation amount corresponding to a deviation amount of the shape of the fabrication object in the analysis from the target shape, and a strain calculation unit that calculates an estimated inherent strain value corresponding to an estimated value of the inherent strain of the fabrication object with the target shape, based on the actual measurement deformation amount and the analytical deformation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryogo HISHIKAWA, Toshifumi KANNO, Ryutaro FUJISAWA, Shuji TANIGAWA, Masayuki OTA, Shintaro KIMURA
  • Patent number: 11702944
    Abstract: A high-temperature component including a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium can flow, a header connected to respective downstream ends of the plurality of cooling passages, and one or more outlet passages for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header to outside of the header. The one or more outlet passages are less in number than the plurality of cooling passages. Respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages are not less than respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in a connection between the header and the cooling passages. A sum of the respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages is less than a sum of the respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in the connection between the header and the cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Taro Tokutake, Ryuta Ito, Koichiro Iida, Yoshinori Wakita, Shuji Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11590578
    Abstract: An internal defect detection system for a three-dimensional additive manufacturing device which performs additive molding by emitting a laser beam to a powder bed is provided. This system specifies a candidate position of an internal defect on the basis of a change amount of a local temperature measured in an irradiated part of a powder bed irradiated by a laser beam. The system calculates a cooling speed at the candidate position on the basis of a temperature distribution and determines whether an internal defect exists on the basis of the cooling speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Narita, Toshiya Watanabe, Akio Kondou, Masashi Kitamura, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Shuji Tanigawa, Claus Thomy, Henry Koehler
  • Patent number: 11554419
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing method includes: forming a powder bed by supplying a raw material powder; and irradiating the raw material powder that forms the powder bed with a light beam having an intensity distribution of a second or higher order mode or of a top hat shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Narita, Shuji Tanigawa, Yasuyuki Fujiya, Claus Thomy, Dieter Tyralla, Thomas Seefeld
  • Publication number: 20220371093
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an additively manufactured object includes: checking, for an additively manufactured object including a plurality of internal passages, the presence or absence of a deposit in each inner wall surface of the plurality of internal passages; and selectively removing the deposit from the internal passage in which the deposit has been detected in the checking, among the plurality of internal passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Shuji TANIGAWA, Masaya HATANAKA, Ryuta ITO, Hiroshi MAKIGANO, Taro TOKUTAKE
  • Publication number: 20220325886
    Abstract: A cooling channel structure includes a tubular member with openings at both ends. In an inner portion or on a surface of the tubular member, as cooling channels for flowing a cooling medium for cooling the tubular member, provided are a plurality of spiral outer surface-side channels located on an outer surface side of the tubular member, at least one inner surface-side channel located on an inner surface side of the tubular member, and a plurality of folded channels, respectively, connecting the plurality of outer surface-side channels and the at least one inner surface-side channel on one end side of the tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Yuta TAKAHASHI, Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Yoshitaka NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yasuharu CHUMAN, Shuji TANIGAWA, Takafumi SHINOGI, Ryuhei TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11458537
    Abstract: A heat treatment method for an additive manufactured object formed of a laminate-molded Ni-base alloy includes: a heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization of heating the additive manufactured object for 1 hour or longer and 100 hours or shorter at a temperature which is equal to or higher than a temperature T1 determined by Formula (1) according to amounts of component elements and is equal to or lower than 1,350° C.; and an aging treatment step of heating the additive manufactured object for 1 to 30 hours at a temperature of 800° C. to 950° C. after the heat treatment step for carbide precipitation optimization. T1 (° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Taneike, Kosuke Fujiwara, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Shuji Tanigawa, Nobuhiko Saito
  • Publication number: 20220282929
    Abstract: Provided are a first wall section extending along a first direction, a second wall section disposed at an interval from the first wall section in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a plurality of partition wall sections connecting the first wall section and the second wall section so as to form at least one cooling channel between the first wall section and the second wall section, the cooling channel having a plurality of channel cross-sections disposed at intervals in the first direction. In a cross-section including the first direction and the second direction, at least a part of each of the partition wall sections extends along a direction intersecting with the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Tatsuya KAMEYAMA, Yuta TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka NAKAYAMA, Toshiyuki YAMASHITA, Yasuharu CHUMAN, Shuji TANIGAWA, Takafumi SHINOGI, Ryuhei TAKASHIMA
  • Patent number: 11420260
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fabricated object includes forming the fabricated object by laminating metal powder, the fabricated object including an opening portion that communicates with a hollow internal space, mounting a plug in the opening portion, and welding the plug mounted in the opening portion to the fabricated object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiko Mega, Shuji Tanigawa, Masashi Kitamura, Masayuki Ota, Takahisa Hasegawa, Koji Tsukimoto, Hiroki Komuro
  • Patent number: 11407688
    Abstract: Provided are a coating structure, a turbine part having the same, and a method for manufacturing the coating structure. The coating structure is provided on a surface of a base portion including a ceramic matrix composite. The coating structure is layered on the surface of the base portion, and includes a bond coat layer formed of a rare-earth silicate and a top coat layer layered on the bond coat layer. The residual stress present in the bond coat layer is compressive residual stress. The oxygen permeability coefficient of the bond coat layer is no greater than 10?9 kg·m?1·s?1 at a temperature of not lower than 1200° C. and a higher oxygen partial pressure of not less than 0.02 MPa. The bond coat layer may contain carbonitride particles or carbonitride whiskers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Kurimura, Mineaki Matsumoto, Shuji Tanigawa, Yoshifumi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11371353
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a turbine blade includes forming a blade body divided body constituting a blade body of the turbine blade by a three-dimensional lamination method; individually forming a plurality of shroud divided bodies constituting a shroud of the turbine blade for each of the shroud divided bodies by a three-dimensional lamination method; joining the shroud divided bodies together; and joining the blade body divided body and the shroud divided bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekatsu Atsumi, Norihiko Motoyama, Shuji Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11344952
    Abstract: A three-dimensional additive manufacturing device is configured to emit a beam to a powder bed formed by laying a powder on a base plate to harden the powder bed selectively. A sensor is configured to detect the shape or the temperature of a surface of the powder bed or a modeling surface. A defect in laying of the powder or a defect in emission of the beam is corrected based on the detection result, before completion of forming of the next layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Narita, Toshiya Watanabe, Akio Kondou, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Shuji Tanigawa, Masashi Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20220162962
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires to be cooled by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; and a first partition wall disposed inside each of the cooling passages to partition the cooling passage into a plurality of first branch flow passages. The first partition wall includes an oblique portion formed such that, in an upstream side region of the first partition wall, a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the cooling passage as seen in an extension direction of the cooling passage gradually decreases from an upstream side toward a downstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Koichiro IIDA, Yoshinori WAKITA, Taro TOKUTAKE, Shuji TANIGAWA, Ryuta ITO
  • Publication number: 20220074313
    Abstract: A high-temperature component according to an embodiment is a high-temperature component which requires cooling by a cooling medium, and includes: a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium is able to flow; a header portion to which downstream ends of the plurality of first cooling passages are connected; and at least one outlet passage for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header portion to outside of the header portion. A roughness of an inner wall surface of the at least one outlet passage is not greater than a roughness of an inner wall surface of the plurality of first cooling passages in a region where a flow-passage cross-sectional area of the outlet passage is the smallest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Shuji TANIGAWA, Koichiro IIDA, Ryuta ITO, Taro TOKUTAKE, Yoshinori WAKITA
  • Publication number: 20220078950
    Abstract: A honeycomb structure includes an incoming end having a concave shape; an outgoing end having a convex shape; and a plurality of cells each having a polygonal cross section and serving as a channel for a fluid, the channel extending from the incoming end to the outgoing end. The plurality of cells are separated from each other by separator walls. At least one of the plurality of cells has an area of a channel cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, the area increasing from the incoming end toward the outgoing end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Yoshiaki ARAKAWA, Takashi IKEDA, Akio IKEDA, Hisashi SHIMIZU, Jun KURODA, Syusaku YAMAMOTO, Masashi KITAMURA, Shuji TANIGAWA, Daishi SUMI
  • Publication number: 20220062994
    Abstract: A dissimilar material joining product according to at least one embodiment of the disclosure includes a base material, a cladding layer formed of a dissimilar material having a different main component element from that of the base material and formed to cover at least a part of the base material, and an additively manufactured layer formed of a dissimilar material having a different main component element from that of the base material and joined to the base material with the cladding layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Takahiro TACHIBANA, Noriyuki HIRAMATSU, Yohei KATO, Masashi KITAMURA, Shuji TANIGAWA
  • Publication number: 20220049612
    Abstract: A high-temperature component including a plurality of cooling passages through which the cooling medium can flow, a header connected to respective downstream ends of the plurality of cooling passages, and one or more outlet passages for discharging the cooling medium flowing into the header to outside of the header. The one or more outlet passages are less in number than the plurality of cooling passages. Respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages are not less than respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in a connection between the header and the cooling passages. A sum of the respective minimum flow passage cross-sectional areas of the one or more outlet passages is less than a sum of the respective flow passage cross-sectional areas of the plurality of cooling passages in the connection between the header and the cooling passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Taro TOKUTAKE, Ryuta ITO, Koichiro IIDA, Yoshinori WAKITA, Shuji TANIGAWA