Patents by Inventor Syoichi Imahigashi

Syoichi Imahigashi 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: 20230141673
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of blades of a turbofan includes a thick wall portion, a thin wall portion and a stepped portion. The stepped portion is formed between the thick wall portion and the thin wall portion. A plate thickness of the stepped portion is progressively decreased toward a positive pressure surface of the blade in a direction that is directed from the thick wall portion toward the thin wall portion. In the blade, a first curved surface forms a negative pressure surface of the thick wall portion, and a second curved surface forms a negative pressure surface of the thin wall portion while the second curved surface is located on a side of the first curved surface where the positive pressure surface of the blade is placed, and a negative pressure surface of the stepped portion connects between the first curved surface and the second curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Fumiya ISHII, Syuzou Oda, Syoichi Imahigashi
  • Patent number: 8870541
    Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade fan includes a rotatable shaft, blades, a side shroud, and a main shroud. A front edge has a shape inclined radially outward in a direction from the main shroud toward the side shroud. When viewed from an axial direction, a corner part on a positive pressure surface-side is located on a tangential line of a positive pressure surface reference curve at a positive pressure surface side reference corner part, and when viewed from the axial direction, a curvature radius of a negative pressure surface becomes larger in a direction from the side shroud toward the main shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Denso Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Syoichi Imahigashi, Masaharu Sakai, Yasushi Mitsuishi
  • Publication number: 20110229327
    Abstract: A centrifugal multiblade fan includes a rotatable shaft, blades, a side shroud, and a main shroud. A front edge has a shape inclined radially outward in a direction from the main shroud toward the side shroud. When viewed from an axial direction, a corner part on a positive pressure surface-side is located on a tangential line of a positive pressure surface reference curve at a positive pressure surface side reference corner part, and when viewed from the axial direction, a curvature radius of a negative pressure surface becomes larger in a direction from the side shroud toward the main shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, Nippon Soken, Inc.
    Inventors: Syoichi Imahigashi, Masaharu Sakai, Yasushi Mitsuishi