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Mitsutoshi Watanabe, Tokyo JP

Mitsutoshi Watanabe, Tokyo JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080226460COMPRESSOR ROTOR - A blade as a main body of a rotor blade has a suction side made convex and a pressure side made concave so as to have an aerofoil profile. A squealer tip having a back face continuous to the suction side and a front face matching with a center plane of the blade is formed at a distal end of the blade. The front face is coated with a hard coating.09-18-2008
20080230374ELECTRICAL-DISCHARGE SURFACE-TREATMENT METHOD - An electrode for an electrical-discharge surface-treatment method is molded with a metallic powder or a metallic compound powder having an average grain diameter of 6 micrometers to 10 micrometers. A coat on a surface of a workpiece is formed with a material constituting the electrode or a substance that is generated by a reaction of the material due to a pulse-like electrical discharge. The coat is built up with a material containing metal as a main constituent under conditions of a width of a current pulse for the pulse-like electrical discharge in a range of 50 microseconds to 500 microseconds and a peak of the current pulse equal to or less than 30 amperes.09-25-2008
20090092845Electrode for Electric Discharge Surface Treatment, Method of Electric Discharge Surface Treatment, and Apparatus for Electric Discharge Surface Treatment - An apparatus and a method to form a thick coat by an in-liquid pulsed electric discharge treatment, the electrode contains 40 volume % or more metallic material that is not carbonized or is hard to be carbonized.04-09-2009
20090200748ROTATING MEMBER AND METHOD FOR COATING THE SAME - A pulsed discharge is generated between tip ends of a rotating member such as a blade and a discharge electrode including a hard material such as cBN in dielectric liquid or gas by a power supply for discharge to melt the discharge electrode, and a part of the discharge electrode is attached to the tip end of the rotating member to form an abrasive coating film including the hard materials such as cBN.08-13-2009
20090214352SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD AND REPAIR METHOD - A method for forming a dense coating on a limited region of a subject body is disclosed. The method is composed of the steps of: applying one selected from the group of a compressed body of a powder of a metal and a sintered compressed body of a powder of a metal to a working electrode; executing discharge deposition to deposit a first coating from the working electrode on the subject body by applying the subject body as a workpiece of the discharge deposition; executing discharge deposition to deposit a second coating from the working electrode on the first coating by applying the subject body as a workpiece of the discharge deposition; and heating the subject body in one selected from the group of a vacuum, an air and an oxidizing atmosphere so as to densify the second coating or oxidizing the second coating at least in part to generate a solid lubricant substance.08-27-2009
20090257762IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - In accordance with an embodiment of the embodiment of the invention, an image forming apparatus includes: an electrostatic image-bearing member; and a developing device. The developing device includes a developer-carrying member disposed to face the electrostatic image-bearing member, and a developer carried on the developer-carrying member. The developer includes a carrier having a volume-average particle size dc (μm) and a toner having a volume-average particle size dt (μm) of at most 5 μm and contained at a weight ratio C with respect to the carrier of from 5 to 10% and is controlled so as to provide a surface coverage F of the carrier with the toner of from 30 to 80% as calculated according to Formula (I): F=(¼)×(dc/dt)×(pc/pt)×C, wherein pc denotes a true specific gravity (−) of the carrier, pt denotes a toner absolute specific gravity (−), and C denotes a weight ratio (−) of the toner to the carrier.10-15-2009
20090267279JIG - A jig for fixing a subject body, is provided with a support block configured to support the subject body, which includes a support face, a coating discharge-deposited to coat the support face, which includes a ceramic, and a fixation member configured to fix the subject body in cooperation with the support block.10-29-2009
20100051476ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING METHOD AND ELECTROCHEMICAL MACHINING DEVICE - A method and a device for electrochemically machining workpiece having blade end plates at the longitudinal both ends of a blade-shaped portion having aerofoil shape in cross section by extending and retracting divided electrodes. A part of the blade-shaped portion and one blade end plate continued therewith are electrochemically machined by advancing the main electrode in an acute angle direction relative to the longitudinal direction of the blade-shaped portion. At the same time or subsequently, the remaining part of the blade-shaped portion and the other blade end plate continued therewith are electrochemically machined by slidably advancing an auxiliary electrode along the slope of the main electrode forming an acute angle relative to the blade-shaped-portion-machining-surface. Thus, the number of the parts of an electrode unit can be reduced and the structure thereof can be simplified.03-04-2010
20100080648PRODUCTION METHOD OF METAL PRODUCT, METAL PRODUCT, CONNECTION METHOD OF METAL COMPONENT AND CONNECTION STRUCTURE - A deposition is gradually formed by molding a product main body, removing a defect periphery including a defect generated on a surface to be treated of the product main body by molding so that a recess portion is formed on the surface to be treated of the product main body, employing a molded electrode composed of a molded body molded from a powder of a metal or the molded body processed with a heat treatment, and generating a pulsing electric discharge between the recess portion periphery including the recess portion and the molded electrode in an electrically insulating liquid or gas so that a material of the molded electrode or a reaction substance of the material carries out deposition and such at the recess portion periphery by energy of the electric discharge.04-01-2010
20100086398METHOD FOR COATING SLIDING SURFACE OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE MEMBER, HIGH-TEMPERATURE MEMBER AND ELECTRODE FOR ELECTRO-DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT - A sliding surface of a high-temperature portion is subjected to an electro-discharge surface treatment with one or both of a high-temperature hard material (4) and a material having a lubricating property at a high temperature (6). The high-temperature hard material (4) is any or a mixture of cBN, TiC, TiN, TiAlN, TiB04-08-2010
20100119864HEAT-RESISTANT COMPONENT - In a heat-resistant component of a TiAl intermetallic component, in its main body having a friction region subject to friction with other components, a coating discharge-deposited by a consumable electrode covers the friction region.05-13-2010
20100124490ROTATING MEMBER AND METHOD FOR COATING THE SAME - A pulsed discharge is generated between tip ends of a rotating member such as a blade and a discharge electrode including a hard material such as cBN in dielectric liquid or gas by a power supply for discharge to melt the discharge electrode, and a part of the discharge electrode is attached to the tip end of the rotating member to form an abrasive coating film including the hard materials such as cBN.05-20-2010
20100126871DISCHARGING SURFACE PREPARATION METHOD AND REPAIRING METHOD - Generating pulsed discharge between an end surface of an electrode 05-27-2010
20100180725ELECTRODE FOR DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT, MANUFACTURING METHOD AND EVALUATION METHOD FOR ELECTRODE FOR DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT, DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT APPARATUS, AND DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD - An electrode is used to perform discharge surface treatment of a work piece. The electrode is made of a green compact obtained by compression-molding an electrode material including powder of any of a metal, a metallic compound, and ceramics. The discharge surface treatment includes generating an electric discharge between the electrode and the work piece in an atmosphere of a machining medium and forming a film consisting of a machining material on a surface of a work piece using energy produced by the electric discharge. The powder has an average particle diameter of 5 micrometer to 10 micrometers, and contains 40 volume percent or more of a component not forming or less easily forming carbide as a component for forming the film on the work piece. The electrode has a hardness in a range of B to 8B tested with a pencil scratch test for a coating film.07-22-2010
20100200548FABRICATION METHOD OF ELECTRODE FOR SPARK SURFACE MODIFICATION, AND SPARK SURFACE MODIFICATION ELECTRODE08-12-2010
20100239841PROTECTIVE COATING AND METAL STRUCTURE - A protective coating for protecting a component of a gas turbine engine or such from wear is provided with a base coating consisting essentially of metal and including a pore, and a spherical particle filling the pore, at least a surface of which consists essentially of a ceramic.09-23-2010
20100330302DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD AND COATING BLOCK FOR DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENTS - Employing a compact molded from powder of metal or the like as an electrode 12-30-2010
20110027099METAL COMPONENT, TURBINE COMPONENT, GAS TURBINE ENGINE, SURFACE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STEAM TURBINE ENGINE - Formation of a protective coating having oxidation resistance on a portion to be processed of a component main body by employing an electrode composed of a molded body molded from mixed powders of one or more of an aluminum powder, an aluminum alloy powder, a chromium powder and a chromium alloy powder, or the molded body processed with a heat treatment, generating a pulsing electric discharge between the portion to be processed of the component main body and the electrode in an electrically insulating liquid or gas so that an electrode material of the electrode is adhered to the portion to be processed of the component main body by energy of the electric discharges, and further keeping the portion to be processed of the component main body and the electrode material adhered thereto in high temperatures so that the electrode material adhered thereto diffuses into a base material of the component main body.02-03-2011

Patent applications by Mitsutoshi Watanabe, Tokyo JP