Patents by Inventor Takashi MICHIKAWA

Takashi MICHIKAWA 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: 10068349
    Abstract: An image analysis apparatus, which analyzes orientations of fiber bundles of X-yarns and Y-yarns from a three-dimensional image of a woven fabric made of fiber bundles of the X-yarns, the Y-yarns, and Z-yarns, includes: a binarization unit that binarizes the three-dimensional image; an overlapping area extraction unit that extracts an overlapping area from the binarized image; a reference direction determination unit that averages an overlapping direction of each voxel included in the overlapping area and determines the averaged direction as a reference direction; a Z-yarn removal unit that removes the Z-yarns from the binarized image by applying a directional distance method on a reference plane perpendicular to the reference direction; and a fiber bundle orientation estimation unit that applies the directional distance method on the reference plane and estimates the orientations of the fiber bundles of the X-yarns and the Y-yarns based on a calculated directional distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hishida, Koichi Inagaki, Takeshi Nakamura, Yu Hasegawa, Hiromasa Suzuki, Takashi Michikawa, Yutaka Ohtake, Suguru Kondo
  • Patent number: 9824435
    Abstract: Proposed are an image analyzing apparatus and program in which the orientation of fiber bundles can be easily analyzed from a three-dimensional image of CMC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: HIroyuki Hishida, Koichi Inagaki, Takeshi Nakamura, Yuta Yamauchi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Takashi Michikawa, Yutaka Ohtake
  • Patent number: 9811898
    Abstract: An image analyzing apparatus, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, and a method are provided for extracting voids from a three-dimensional image of a fiber-reinforced composite material. The image analyzing apparatus includes a processor which executes image processing to the three-dimensional image. The processor binarizes the three-dimensional image and creates a binary image, transforms the binary image into a distance and creates a distance image, executes closing processing to the binary image by using the distance image, extracts voids from differences between images before and after the closing processing, among the extracted voids, classifies voids that are adjacent to a background voxel as open voids, and classifies voids that are not adjacent to a background voxel as closed voids, and executes opening processing to the open voids in order to eliminate fake voids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: IHI CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hishida, Koichi Inagaki, Takeshi Nakamura, Takashi Michikawa, Hiromasa Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20170213357
    Abstract: An image analysis apparatus, which analyzes orientations of fiber bundles of X-yarns and Y-yarns from a three-dimensional image of a woven fabric made of fiber bundles of the X-yarns, the Y-yarns, and Z-yarns, includes: a binarization unit that binarizes the three-dimensional image; an overlapping area extraction unit that extracts an overlapping area from the binarized image; a reference direction determination unit that averages an overlapping direction of each voxel included in the overlapping area and determines the averaged direction as a reference direction; a Z-yarn removal unit that removes the Z-yarns from the binarized image by applying a directional distance method on a reference plane perpendicular to the reference direction; and a fiber bundle orientation estimation unit that applies the directional distance method on the reference plane and estimates the orientations of the fiber bundles of the X-yarns and the Y-yarns based on a calculated directional distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HISHIDA, Koichi INAGAKI, Takeshi NAKAMURA, Yu HASEGAWA, Hiromasa SUZUKI, Takashi MICHIKAWA, Yutaka OHTAKE, Suguru KONDO
  • Publication number: 20160247271
    Abstract: Proposed are an image analyzing apparatus and program in which the orientation of fiber bundles can be easily analyzed from a three-dimensional image of CMC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HISHIDA, Koichi INAGAKI, Takeshi NAKAMURA, Yuta YAMAUCHI, Hiroshima SUZUKI, Takashi MICHIKAWA, Yutaka OHTAKE
  • Publication number: 20160232653
    Abstract: An image analyzing apparatus, a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program, and a method are provided for extracting voids from a three-dimensional image of a fiber-reinforced composite material. The image analyzing apparatus includes a processor which executes image processing to the three-dimensional image. The processor binarizes the three-dimensional image and creates a binary image, transforms the binary image into a distance and creates a distance image, executes closing processing to the binary image by using the distance image, extracts voids from differences between images before and after the closing processing, among the extracted voids, classifies voids that are adjacent to a background voxel as open voids, and classifies voids that are not adjacent to a background voxel as closed voids, and executes opening processing to the open voids in order to eliminate fake voids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicants: IHI CORPORATION, The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Hiroyuki HISHIDA, Koichi INAGAKI, Takeshi NAKAMURA, Takashi MICHIKAWA, Hiromasa SUZUKI