Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Aero Engines, Ltd.

Shikibo Ltd.

Osaka Yakin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Fuji Resin Co., Ltd.

Euros Entwicklungsgesellschaft Fur Windkraftanlagen Mbh

Kentaro Shindo

Ryoji Okabe

Masami Kamiya

Takao Kuroiwa

Nozomu Kawasetsu

Takeshi Fujita

Kouji Esaki

Yoshinori Nonaka

Toshiyuki Hirano

Keisuke Ota

Hiroaki Takeuchi

Atsushi Yuge

Takahiro Tachibana

Toshimitsu Tetsui

Kenji Suzuki

Shinichi Hori

Tadayuki Hanada

Hiroshi Tokutomi

Akira Fukushima

Kodai Shimono

Akihito Suzuki

Hiroshi Sakai

Mitsuru Kondo

Kazuhiro Miura

Masao Takeyama

Yasutaka Kimura

Masakazu Kamibayashi

Hisashi Kitagaki

Tetsuro Hirokawa

Kazuki Noma

Kazuki Hanami

Masayasu Ishibashi

Takeshi Tanamura

Shuntaro Terauchi

Shintaro Sobu

Syuntaro Terauchi

Hidehiko Gensui

Toru Matsuo

Kazuo Nakajima

Tetsuya Ozawa

Manabu Yamaguchi

Hirokazu Yamasaki

Hiroyuki Kayama

Dennis Nowak

Tomoaki Inoue

Provided is a forming device including: a lower die; an upper die for forming a laminated body along the surface shape of the lower die by pressing the laminated body against the lower die; a pushing force generating mechanism that generates pushing force for pressing the upper die against the lower die; and a control unit that controls the pushing force generating mechanism, the upper die has a plurality of forming members aligned in the longitudinal direction, the pushing force generating mechanism has a plurality of pushing force generating units connected to the plurality of forming members and configured to generate pushing force for pressing the forming members against the lower die, and the control unit controls the plurality of pushing force generating units so as to press a pair of forming members arranged adjacent in the longitudinal direction toward the lower die at different timings from each other.

Forming device and forming method

A windmill blade includes a blade main body and a leading edge protector. The leading edge protector includes a conductive plate covering a leading edge, and a conductive mesh member connected to the conductive plate along a blade chord direction of the windmill blade. The conductive mesh member is provided with a plurality of holes. A skin or an adhesive at least partially enters the plurality of holes, so that the leading edge protector is fixed to the skin.

Windmill blade, windmill, and method of manufacturing windmill blade

This composite material blade, which is formed using a composite material including reinforcing fibers and resin, and which has a positive pressure surface and a negative pressure surface, is provided with a ventral part, being the part on the positive pressure surface side in a blade thickness direction, which is the direction joining the positive pressure surface and the negative pressure surface, a dorsal part, being the part on the negative pressure surface side in the blade thickness direction, and a metal shield portion which is provided on the leading edge side, being the upstream side in a flow direction in which a fluid flows, wherein: the metal shield portion includes a main body portion provided on the leading edge side, and an embedded portion which is provided on the trailing edge side, being the downstream side in the flow direction, of the main body portion, and which is provided between the ventral part and the dorsal part; and the plate thickness of the metal shield portion in the blade thickness direction decreases from the main body portion toward the embedded portion.

Composite material blade, rotating machine, and method for molding composite material blade

A composite material blade molding method is for molding a composite material blade by curing a prepreg. The composite material blade has a back-side blade member and a belly-side blade member which are superposed and joined. The composite material blade molding method includes: a lamination step for forming a back-side laminate in a back-side molding die and forming a belly-side laminate in a belly-side molding die; an inner surface cowl plate disposition step for disposing an inner surface cowl plate for maintaining an inner space formed by the back-side laminate and the belly-side laminate; a die mating step for die-mating the back-side molding die and the belly-side molding die and disposing a foaming agent in the inner space maintained by the inner surface cowl plate; and a curing step for heating and expanding the foaming agent and heat-curing the back-side laminate and the belly-side laminate.

Method for molding composite material blade, composite material blade, and molding die for composite material blade

A windmill blade includes a leading edge protector at a leading edge portion of a blade main body including a skin surrounding a hollow space. The leading edge protector is fixed to the skin from the hollow space.

A method of evaluating quality of a wind turbine blade which has a hollow structure where an interior space of the wind turbine blade is surrounded by an outer skin which includes a laminated body includes: setting a scanning line on at least a part of an inner wall surface or an outer wall surface of the outer skin; and moving an ultrasound probe along the scanning line; generating a cross-sectional image corresponding to the scanning line, on the basis of a position of the ultrasound probe or a reflection echo to detect an indication whose echo level is greater than a first threshold; obtaining an inclination of the indication with respect to a reference line as a first parameter; and evaluating the lifetime or the breakage risk of the wind turbine blade on the basis of the first parameter.

Method of evaluating quality of wind turbine blade

A composite blade made of prepreg obtained by impregnating reinforcement fibers with resin and curing the resin-impregnated reinforcement fibers, the composite blade including: a blade root provided on a base end and fitted into a blade groove; an airfoil provided extending from the blade root toward a tip end; and a metal patch provided between the blade groove and the blade root and placed on the blade root. The metal patch includes a plurality of projections protruding toward the blade root.

Composite blade and method of forming composite blade

A composite blade formed by laying up composite layers containing reinforcing fiber and resin, the composite blade comprising: a blade root mounted in a blade groove; an airfoil extending from the blade root to a front end side; and a metal patch mounted between the blade groove and the blade root, and bonded to the blade root.

Composite blade and method for molding composite blade

A composite blade is formed by laying up composite layers in which reinforced fibers are impregnated with resin. The composite layers are laid up in a blade thickness direction that is a direction connecting a suction side and a pressure side of the composite blade. The composite blade includes a thick part that has a surface layer area from a surface of the thick part to a predetermined depth in the blade thickness direction and a deep layer area at a depth larger than the predetermined depth from the surface in the blade thickness direction. A median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the surface layer area is smaller than a median value in a predetermined range of thicknesses of each composite layer in the deep layer area.

Composite blade and method for manufacturing composite blade

A composite blade includes an airfoil; and a blade root including a straight section from a blade end part being a connection location with the airfoil to an inclination start part between the blade end part and a base end, and a bearing section from the inclination start part to the base end. A laminate of composite layers with reinforced fibers impregnated with resin is provided across the airfoil and the blade root. A metal body is provided on the blade root. The laminate extends along the longitudinal direction in the airfoil and in the straight section, and extends to be inclined away from a center axis in the bearing section. The metal body is provided on both surfaces of the laminate in the blade root, extends along the longitudinal direction in the straight section, and extends to be inclined away from the center axis in the bearing section.

Composite blade and method of manufacturing composite blade

Provided is a method of shaping a composite blade made of a composite material by curing prepreg in which reinforcing fibers are impregnated with resin. A foaming agent disposed in an internal space of the composite blade contains a plurality of foaming bodies and foaming agent resin. The foaming bodies foam by being heated. The foaming agent resin cures by being heated. The foaming bodies include low-temperature side foaming bodies and high-temperature side foaming bodies. The low-temperature side foaming bodies foam in a low temperature range during a curing step. The high-temperature side foaming bodies foam in a high temperature range corresponding to temperatures higher than the low temperature range during the curing step.

Method of shaping composite blade

A composite blade is formed by laying up composite layers in which reinforced fibers are impregnated with resin, and has a blade root and an airfoil extending from the blade root in a longitudinal direction. The composite blade includes a first laminate of the composite layers extending along the longitudinal direction in the airfoil and extending along a first inclination direction inclined toward a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction in the blade root; a second laminate of the composite layers extending along the longitudinal direction and contacting the first laminate in the airfoil, the second laminate extending along a second inclination direction inclined toward a direction opposite to the first inclination direction in the blade root and being separated from the first laminate; and a third laminate of the composite layers provided between the first and second laminates in the blade root.

Composite blade and method for producing composite blade

A method is for producing a TiAl-based intermetallic sintered compact. The method includes mixing Ti powder, Al powder, and a binder to yield a mixture; molding the mixture into a molded product having a predetermined shape with a metal injection molder; placing the molded product in a preliminary sintering die having a storage space inside; performing sintering at a predetermined preliminary sintering temperature to produce a preliminary sintered compact; releasing the preliminary sintered compact from the preliminary sintering die; and performing sintering at a sintering temperature higher than the preliminary sintering temperature to form the TiAl-based intermetallic sintered compact.

Method for producing TiAl-based intermetallic sintered compact

A composite blade is formed by laying up composite material layers in which reinforcement fibers are impregnated with resin in a thickness direction of the blade. The composite blade includes a blade root on a base end side, an airfoil on a tip side, a first lay-up in which some composite material layers are laid up in the blade root so as to space parts of the composite material layers to form spacing parts and to extend from the distal toward the base end side in the thickness direction, and second lay-ups in which some composite material layers are laid up in the spacing parts so as to be lined up in the thickness direction. Among the second lay-ups, a second lay-up closer to a center side than to an outer side in the thickness direction is a larger distance from a proximal position to a top position.

A composite blade includes a composite blade body including reinforced fibers and resin; a metal layer provided on an outer side of a leading edge section including a leading edge that is a part of the composite blade body on an upstream side of an air stream, the metal layer having a thickness of equal to or larger than 5 micrometers and equal to or smaller than 100 micrometers; an adhesive layer provided between the composite blade body and the metal layer to bond the metal layer to the composite blade body; and an electric insulating layer provided in contact with a surface of the leading edge section of the composite blade body, the surface being on the side on which the metal layer is provided, the electric insulating layer having an electric insulating property.

Composite blade, metallic leading-edge cover forming unit, method for manufacturing composite blade

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