Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11795969
    Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor, when the position of the tongue of the scroll section in the circumferential direction of the impeller is defined as 60° and the downstream direction in the rotation direction of the impeller is defined as the positive direction of the position in the circumferential direction, a diffuser section outer diameter distribution indicating a relationship between the position in the circumferential direction and outer diameter R of the diffuser section includes an outer diameter increasing portion where the outer diameter R increases going toward the positive direction, and in the diffuser section outer diameter distribution, the position of a start point of the outer diameter increasing portion is 150° or less, and the position of an end point of the outer diameter increasing portion is 270° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Iwakiri
  • Publication number: 20230332607
    Abstract: A multi-stage electric centrifugal compressor configured to drive impellers disposed at both ends of a rotational shaft by an electric motor includes: the rotational shaft; a low-pressure-stage impeller disposed at one end of the rotational shaft; a high-pressure-stage impeller disposed at the other end of the rotational shaft; a high-pressure-stage housing accommodating the high-pressure-stage impeller; and a connecting pipe for supplying a compressed gas compressed by the low-pressure-stage impeller to the high-pressure-stage housing. The high-pressure-stage housing has a high-pressure-stage inlet opening that opens in a direction intersecting an axis of the rotational shaft. The connecting pipe includes a high-pressure-stage-side connection portion connected to the high-pressure-stage inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Naomichi SHIBATA, Byeongil AN, Takaaki YOSHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 11784517
    Abstract: A rotary electric machine includes a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, and at least two support members disposed in at least two different parts, respectively, in an axial direction of the stator between the housing and an outer circumferential surface of the stator, the at least two support members supporting the stator against the housing. The at least two support members, the housing, and the outer circumferential surface of the stator form a space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya Futae, Shunsuke Yakushiji, Naomichi Shibata, Byeongil An, Takaaki Yoshizawa
  • Publication number: 20230313696
    Abstract: A nozzle component according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure is a nozzle component included in a variable nozzle mechanism of a variable geometry turbocharger. The nozzle component is composed of an iron-based alloy and satisfying the following relational expression: 6.6×A+B?8.0, where A is a total value (mass %) of carbon content and nitrogen content, and B is a total value (mass %) of 0.5 times tungsten content and molybdenum content. The total value B is 1.5 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya NAKAHARA, Yosuke DANMOTO, Yoji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230307981
    Abstract: Provided is a technology that can sufficiently suppress the temperature rise of a rotary electrical machine. A rotary electrical machine includes a main body part 10 including a rotator and a stator, and a casing part 20 that houses the main body part 10. The casing part 20 includes a first housing part 5 that surrounds the main body part 10 from a peripheral direction, and a second housing part 6 that houses a bearing for rotatably supporting a rotating shaft 2. The casing part 20 is formed with a cooling passage R extending from an inlet Rs for cooling medium to an outlet Re for cooling medium and not branching off in the middle. The cooling passage R includes a first cooling passage portion R1 that passes through the inside of the first housing part 5 and a second cooling passage portion R2 that passes through the inside of the second housing part 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma NOMIYAMA, Yuki ITO, Kenji OURA, Yuki YASUOKA, Takaaki YOSHIZAWA
  • Publication number: 20230304507
    Abstract: A compressor housing includes: when an intake side in an axial direction of the centrifugal compressor is defined as a front side, and a side opposite to the intake side in the axial direction is defined as a rear side, a shroud surface including a surface facing a tip of an impeller blade of the impeller with a predetermined gap; a front-side inner peripheral surface formed on the front side of the shroud surface in the axial direction and positioned on an outer side in a radial direction than a front end of the shroud surface; and plurality of grooves formed in the front-side inner peripheral surface at intervals in a circumferential direction wherein each of the plurality of grooves includes: an inclined portion whose depth gradually increases toward a rotation direction of the impeller; and a stepped portion formed at a downstream end of the inclined portion in the rotation direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA, Yutaka FUJITA
  • Patent number: 11761458
    Abstract: A compressor is provided with: an impeller a housing configured to rotatably house the impeller and having an intake passage for introducing a gas to the impeller from outside the housing, a scroll passage for guiding the gas having passed through the impeller to the outside, and a bypass passage connecting the intake passage and the scroll passage so as to bypass the impeller; and a bypass valve having a valve body disposed in the bypass passage and capable of opening and closing the bypass passage. The valve body is configured to, in a fully closed state, separate the bypass passage into an inlet-side passage having a communication port communicating with the scroll passage and an outlet-side passage communicating with the intake passage. An inlet-side passage wall surface which defines the inlet-side passage includes at least an upstream passage wall surface portion connected to an upstream end of the communication port in a cross-sectional view of the housing taken along an axis of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20230287795
    Abstract: A turbine wheel according to at least one embodiment is a turbine wheel connected to a rotational shaft and configured to rotate about an axis and includes: a hub having a hub surface oblique to the axis in a cross-section along the axis; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub surface. The turbine wheel includes a plurality of passages each of which is formed between two adjacent blades of the plurality of blades, and a relationship of Aen/Aave>1.01 is satisfied, where Aen is an area of a throat portion of a throat enlarged passage which is at least one of the plurality of passages, and Aave is an average area of throat portions of the plurality of passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro ISHIKAWA, Toru HOSHI, Nobuhito OKA
  • Publication number: 20230287831
    Abstract: A turbine housing is configured to house a turbine wheel to be driven with exhaust gas discharged from a gasoline engine. The turbine housing includes: a body part including a scroll passage wall surface, an exhaust gas discharge path wall surface, and a wastegate passage wall surface provided inside the body part, the scroll passage wall surface forming a scroll passage having a scroll shape for guiding the exhaust gas to the turbine wheel, the exhaust gas discharge path wall surface forming an exhaust gas discharge path for discharging the exhaust gas having passed through the turbine wheel, the wastegate passage wall surface forming a wastegate passage connecting the scroll passage and the exhaust gas discharge path to each other while bypassing the turbine wheel; and an entrance flange part provided at an upstream end of the scroll passage in the body part, the entrance flange part including an exhaust gas inlet leading to the scroll passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke MIYOSHI, Kenji NITTA, Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Sosuke IRIE
  • Patent number: 11754017
    Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine configured to be reciprocable along an axial direction in a cylinder includes a cavity formed to be recessed in a center of a piston top surface, and an outer circumferential edge portion located on a radially outer side of the cavity in the piston top surface. The cavity includes a lip portion, a raised portion, and a curved portion. The curved portion includes an outer circumference-side curved surface which includes a curved surface connected to the lip portion, an inner circumference-side concave surface which is located on a radially inner side of an outer circumference-side curved surface and includes a surface connected to a raised portion, the inner circumference-side concave surface including a deepest portion of the cavity, and a convex surface formed between the outer circumference-side curved surface and the inner circumference-side concave surface, as well as protruding upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Tsubaki, Yusuke Imamori, Satoshi Yamada, Shintaro Shuto, Taro Tamura
  • Patent number: 11753960
    Abstract: A nozzle vane of a variable geometry turbocharger comprises: a nozzle vane body rotatably disposed in an exhaust gas passage defined between a shroud surface and a hub surface; and a fin disposed on at least one of a pressure surface or a suction surface of the nozzle vane body and disposed within a range of 0.6L from a trailing edge of the nozzle vane body, where L refers to a chord length of the nozzle vane body. The fin satisfies a relationship of 0.3L?X, where X refers to a length of the fin along a chord direction of the nozzle vane body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Bipin Gupta, Toyotaka Yoshida, Yosuke Dammoto, Yoji Akiyama, Jain Sambhav
  • Patent number: 11753130
    Abstract: In a marine hybrid system which includes an engine, an electric motor, a thrust generation device, and a clutch mechanism configured to be able to switch connection states therebetween, if it is determined that the engine is in an overload condition, the clutch mechanism is controlled such that a load of the engine is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Sakamoto, Yoshimi Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20230279798
    Abstract: A regeneration control apparatus for controlling, in an exhaust gas treatment apparatus of a diesel engine including a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) disposed in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and a diesel particulate filter (DPF) disposed downstream of the DOC, execution of forced regeneration to remove an exhaust particulate matter (PM) which accumulates on the DPF through a temperature increase of the DPF, includes: a late-post injection amount determination part which determines a late-post injection amount. The late-post injection amount determination part is configured to determine an upper limit value of the late-post injection amount on the basis of an air excess ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the DOC obtained on the basis of a temperature index of the DOC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki NISHIZAWA, Kazutoshi NOMURA, Tomohide YAMADA, Ryuji KITA, Mizuki KANAI
  • Publication number: 20230272496
    Abstract: In this cast austenitic stainless steel, in a cross section when heated at 1000° C., an average number Nc per unit area of carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 500 nm or larger in a center portion of an austenite crystal grain is 6.0×10?2 particles/?m2 or more, and, when an average number per unit area of the carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 500 nm or larger in a vicinity of a grain boundary in an austenite crystal grain is represented as Ngb, Ngb/Nc is 1.3 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadaaki NAKAMURA, Nobuhiko SAITO, Nobuyoshi KOMAI, Keita HASHIMOTO, Yuya KONNO
  • Publication number: 20230272805
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a shroud surface; a front-side inner peripheral surface formed on a front side of the shroud surface in the axial direction and disposed outward of a front end of the shroud surface in the radial direction; and at least one projection protruding from the front-side inner peripheral surface inward in the radial direction. A rear end of the at least one projection is configured to be connected to the front end of the shroud surface. The at least one projection is formed in a plate shape, and in a cross-sectional view along an axis of the impeller, has an inclined front edge extending obliquely to the axis of the impeller from a front end of the projection toward a rear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Tadashi KANZAKA, Yutaka FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20230272738
    Abstract: A turbine according to at least one embodiment is provided with: a turbine wheel having a plurality of blades; a turbine housing internally forming a turbine wheel accommodating space for accommodating the turbine wheel; and a wastegate valve for controlling the flow rate of exhaust gas flowing through a wastegate passage formed inside the turbine housing. The wastegate passage is configured to connect a scroll passage formed inside the turbine housing and a region upstream of a trailing edge of each of the plurality of blades in the turbine wheel accommodating space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryo TAKATA
  • Patent number: 11739655
    Abstract: A variable nozzle device includes: a nozzle mount; a plurality of nozzle vanes; a drive ring being having a plurality of receiving portions disposed at different positions along a circumferential direction; and a plurality of lever plates each having a fixed portion to be fixed to corresponding one of the plurality of nozzle vanes and an engaging portion to be engaged with corresponding one of the plurality of receiving portions of the drive ring. The receiving portions include a first-side guide surface and a second-side guide surface. The engaging portions each include a first-side roll surface which is to be in contact with the first-side guide surface and a second-side roll surface which is to be in contact with the second-side guide surface. The first-side roll surface includes a lever-plate-side linear portion extending linearly in at least a part of a range which is to be in contact with the first-side guide surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Jain Sambhav, Yosuke Danmoto, Youji Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20230265783
    Abstract: This turbocharger includes: an impeller which includes a hub provided to be rotatable around a center axis and a plurality of turbine blades arranged on the outside of the hub in a radial direction at intervals in a circumferential direction around the center axis; and a turbine housing which is disposed on the outside of the impeller in the radial direction and forms a scroll flow path guiding an exhaust gas toward the impeller on the inside of the radial direction while turning the exhaust gas in the circumferential direction, wherein a flow path width in the circumferential direction of at least one of a plurality of inter-blade flow path portions formed between the plurality of turbine blades is different from a flow path width of the another of the plurality of inter-blade flow path portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru HOSHI, Yukihide NAGAYO, Shoeji NAKAYE, Toshikazu MORI, Takaaki HAGIWARA
  • Publication number: 20230265784
    Abstract: A wastegate valve device according to at least one embodiment is a wastegate valve device disposed on a bypass passage bypassing a turbine of a turbocharger arranged on an exhaust gas passage of an engine, including: a valve seat surface formed at an outlet of the bypass passage; and a wastegate valve body which includes a support arm supported rotatably about an axis and a valve body supported by the support arm, the valve body being configured to come into and out of contact with the valve seat surface in accordance with rotation of the support arm. In the wastegate valve device according to at least one embodiment, the valve seat surface is inclined with respect to a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the bypass passage, as viewed from a direction of the above-described axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiro TOMIKAWA, Toru HOSHI, Takeshi YASOSHIMA, Naoto TASHIRO
  • Patent number: 11735925
    Abstract: A rotation calculation unit calculates a rotation speed of a virtual generator on the basis of a rotor model to simulate driving of the virtual generator and calculates the rotation speed of the virtual generator. A target power determination unit determines target values of active power and reactive power of an inverter on the basis of the calculated rotation speed. A command generation unit generates a control command for the inverter on the basis of the determined target values of the active power and the reactive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Watanabe, Masato Mitsuhashi, Osamu Nakakita