Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9969629
    Abstract: Provided are a water treatment system and a water treatment process, which are capable of reproducing water containing salts with high water recovery. A water treatment system 100 comprises a second demineralizing section 210a, 210b that separates water to be treated containing Ca ions, SO4 ions and carbonate ions into concentrated water in which the Ca ions and the SO4 ions are concentrated and treated water; a crystallizing section which is positioned on a downstream side of the second demineralizing section 210a, 210b and which includes a second crystallizing tank 221a, 221b that crystallizes gypsum from the concentrated water and a seed crystal supplying section that supplies seed crystals of gypsum to the second crystallizing tank 221a, 221b; and a separating section that is positioned on a downstream side of the crystallizing section and separates the gypsum from the concentrated water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Masayuki Eda, Susumu Okino, Ryuji Yoshiyama, Hideaki Sakurai, Nobuyuki Ukai, Hideo Suzuki, Hiroshi Nakashoji, Shigeru Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9328656
    Abstract: Inside of a gas-tight housing, an electric motor, an inverter and a compressor are housed. Further, an intake air pipe is connected to the gas-tight housing. Inside of the gas-tight housing, an intake air flow passage is formed. Further, a connection opening of an outside air induction pipe provided with a flow rate regulating valve is arranged so as to face a suction opening of a compressor. When the delivery air flow rate as well as the delivery air pressure of the compressor is reduced due to the pressure loss and the like of the intake air ‘a’ which passes through the air flow passage and cools the electric motor and the inverter, an outside air ‘o’ of low temperature is induced so that: the capacity shortage as well as the performance deterioration of the compressor is constrained; and the over-heating of the compressor is constrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Hayashi, Yukio Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20150300178
    Abstract: A turbine rotor of a turbine includes a hub that serves as an axis of rotation, and a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine blades each have a line extending along a shroud-side edge of the turbine blade from the inlet to the outlet as a shroud line. The shroud line includes an entrance-side shroud line La that makes a small change from the inlet toward the outlet in a blade angle with respect to the axis of rotation, a center shroud line Lb that extends from the outlet side of the entrance-side shroud line La and makes a greater change than that of the entrance-side shroud line La, and an exit-side shroud line Lc that extends from the outlet side of the center shroud line Lb to the outlet and makes a smaller change than that of the center shroud line Lb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki OSAKO, Atsushi MATSUO, Takao YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120025525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pitch drive apparatus of a wind generator and the wind generator constituted not to affect a main shaft or a gear box, and capable of preventing reliability from being deteriorated. The pitch drive apparatus includes a wind turbine blade (6) having a base portion (21) mounted so as to be turnable around an axis center L with respect to a rotor head (4), an electric drive member having an output shaft (19) mounted on the rotor head (4) so as to extend in a direction along the axis center (L), a lever (15) having one end fixed to the output shaft (19) and extending in a direction intersecting with the output shaft (19), and a connecting link (17) disposed so as to extend in a direction intersecting with the output shaft (19). One end of the connecting link (17) is rotatably mounted on a free end of the lever (15) and the other end of the connecting link (17) is rotatably mounted on a drive position P of the wind turbine blade (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Numajiri
  • Patent number: 8087912
    Abstract: A crankshaft is to be provided that allows its assembly process to be simplified, work hours required for the assembly process to be shortened and a manufacturing cost to be reduced. The crankshaft is provided with first eccentric section and second eccentric section at respective ends while interposing a shaft section therebetween and has such a shape that a peripheral edge of the first eccentric section and/or the second eccentric section is positioned radially inside of a peripheral edge of the shaft section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hajime Sato, Yoshiyuki Kimata
  • Patent number: 8001723
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a technology capable of planting seedlings in soil in planting ground such as dry land and allowing the seedling to root securely and grow without artificially supplying water continuously. Not only is a seedling fixed inside an upper opening portion of a tube having a length to a deep water-containing layer in the planting ground but also a growing medium is put inside the tube at a hardness that allows the root of the seedling to grow long downward, and the root of the seedling is allowed to grow below the tube, thereby obtaining the seedling having a long root. A vertical hole having approximately the same diameter as that of the tube is dug in the ground of the planting ground until reaching a soil layer having water quality and water quantity necessary for growth of plant, the seedling having the long root is buried in the vertical hole together with the tube, thereby planting the seedling in the planting ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Tamura, Naoki Ogawa, Wataru Kawamura, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Takehiko Matsui, Kinya Fujita, Masatoshi Tamai, Kenichi Katayama, Shinobu Inanaga
  • Patent number: 7654475
    Abstract: A fuel injection valve has a first groove cut in a peripheral surface of a needle valve and second grooves cut in a seat surface of a nozzle tip. The first groove is provided so that the needle valve is rotated by flow of the fuel in the first groove caused by a reciprocating motion of the needle valve, and upper and lower ends of the first groove are opened to the outside so that the fuel can be introduced into the groove. The second grooves are twisted or tilted in the same direction as the rotating direction of the needle valve and are cut along the circumferential direction of the nozzle tip. The second grooves have an edge part for scraping off solid matters into the second grooves in cooperation with the tip seat surface of the needle valve by the rotation of the needle valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Junnosuke Ando, Kazuhiro Kawai
  • Patent number: 7273436
    Abstract: Fine adjustment of the rotation speed ratio or intentional control of the rotation speed ratio is carried out, centered on a desired speed ratio, including 1:1, for the rotation speed ratio between an input shaft and an output shaft. A planetary-roller speed-increasing mechanism whose input shaft is a carrier and whose output shaft is a sun roller, a planetary-roller speed-reduction mechanism whose input shaft is a sun roller and whose output shaft is a carrier, and a worm speed-changing mechanism for rotationally driving a roller ring in contact with planetary rollers of the planetary-roller speed reduction mechanism are provided in a housing. The output shaft of the planetary-roller speed-increasing mechanism and the input shaft of the planetary-roller speed-reduction mechanism are linked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Sonobe Hiroyuki, Shiotsu Isamu, Hirayama Takayoshi
  • Publication number: 20020101162
    Abstract: A discharge tube (11) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole (3) of a rectangular waveguide (1) and through a coaxial microwave cavity (4) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity (4). This discharge tube (11) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube (12) and an inner tube (13). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube (12) and the inner tube (13) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube (13). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide (1) into the cavity (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Minoru Danno
  • Publication number: 20020074946
    Abstract: A discharge tube (11) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole (3) of a rectangular waveguide (1) and through a coaxial microwave cavity (4) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity (4). This discharge tube (11) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube (12) and an inner tube (13). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube (12) and the inner tube (13) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube (13). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide (1) into the cavity (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Minoru Danno
  • Publication number: 20020070669
    Abstract: A discharge tube (11) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole (3) of a rectangular waveguide (1) and through a coaxial microwave cavity (4) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity (4). This discharge tube (11) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube (12) and an inner tube (13). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube (12) and the inner tube (13) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube (13). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide (1) into the cavity (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Minoru Danno
  • Publication number: 20020070670
    Abstract: A discharge tube (11) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole (3) of a rectangular waveguide (1) and through a coaxial microwave cavity (4) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity (4). This discharge tube (11) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube (12) and an inner tube (13). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube (12) and the inner tube (13) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube (13). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide (1) into the cavity (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: June 13, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Minoru Danno
  • Publication number: 20020063530
    Abstract: A discharge tube (11) made of a dielectric material extends through a hole (3) of a rectangular waveguide (1) and through a coaxial microwave cavity (4) so as to be coaxial with the central axis of the cavity (4). This discharge tube (11) has a double-tube structure including an outer tube (12) and an inner tube (13). The sectional area of an annular gap formed between the outer tube (12) and the inner tube (13) is held constant over the entire length of the inner tube (13). This allows the generation of a stable thermal plasma when a reaction gas containing an organic halide and water vapor is supplied into the outer tube through the annular gap with a microwave transmitted from the rectangular waveguide (1) into the cavity (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Minoru Danno
  • Patent number: 6381943
    Abstract: In a high-efficiency power generating method to generate electric power by an exhaust gas re-combustion system using at least a gas turbine, a boiler, and a steam turbine, crude oil or heavy oil is heated with steam obtained from the boiler; the crude oil or heavy oil is distilled under reduced pressure; and electric power is generated by using an obtained light oil fraction as a gas turbine fuel and by using a heavy oil fraction as a boiler fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Iijima, Kazuto Kobayashi, Masahumi Moriwaki, Masatoshi Shibata, Yoshinori Hyakutake
  • Patent number: 6367390
    Abstract: A seismic isolation system is provided with a swing bearing ring consisting of an upper ring and a lower ring, which are rotatable relatively, between a crane body and a traveling means. A lower vertical shaft of a block pivotally supported on saddles of the crane body is supported by a swing bearing provided at an eccentric position on the upper ring. An automatic restoring mechanism is provided which restores the swing of a horizontal lever, whose proximal end is installed to the upper ring of the swing bearing ring, around the centerline C2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Okubo, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Harada
  • Patent number: 6322761
    Abstract: This invention provides a PCB decomposition reactor which can decompose PCB efficiently. In this PCB decomposition reactor, an injector for injecting a mixture of water and sodium hydroxide into a reaction vessel is connected to the lower part of the reaction vessel. An outlet pipe for withdrawing the fluid treated within the reaction vessel is connected to the sidewall of the reaction vessel. The other end of the outlet pipe is connected to a cyclone for separating sodium carbonate from the treated fluid. A discharge pipe is connected to the top of the cyclone, so that the treated fluid from which the precipitated sodium carbonate has been removed is discharged therethrough. A downcomer for the separated fluid is connected to the bottom of the cyclone, so that the precipitated sodium carbonate and some fluid containing it are discharged therethrough. The lower end of the downcomer is connected to an injector, which has connected thereto a feed pipe for feeding a mixture of PCB and mineral oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yamauchi, Kan Ogata, Takashi Moribe, Masakazu Tateishi, Tadatsugu Fukuzumi, Mitsuji Iwao, Nobuyuki Ikeda, Naoki Shindo, Nobuhiro Hokao
  • Patent number: 6141956
    Abstract: In a combined power generation plant, an exhaust gas boiler (2) consists of a high-pressure reheat type steam system, in which fuel is supplied to this exhaust gas boiler 2, and the supplied fuel undergoes catalytic reaction in combustion catalysis sections (NOx removal sections) 18 and 19 to increase the temperature of exhaust gas, whereby the power generation efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Iijima, Tetsuya Imai
  • Patent number: 6099253
    Abstract: A gas turbine rotor blade has a plurality of first cooling holes for the flow of a cooling gas bored in a blade portion along its lengthwise direction and a plurality of second cooling holes for flow of the cooling gas bored in a shroud along its plane direction so as to communicate with the first cooling holes, and is constructed such that the cooling gas can flow in a uniform distribution. The plurality of the first cooling holes 3 for flow of the cooling gas are bored in the blade portion 2 and the plurality of the second cooling holes 5 for flow of the cooling gas are bored in the shroud 1 along its plane direction. The second cooling holes 5 communicate with the first cooling holes 3, hole to hole, via two-step holes 4, and the second cooling holes 5 are bored alternately on the dorsal side and the ventral side of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ichiro Fukue, Eiji Akita, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6089012
    Abstract: A steam cooled gas turbine system in a combined power plant, constituted such that gas turbine blade cooling steam and combustor tail pipe cooling steam are bled from an outlet of a high pressure turbine, passed through a fuel heater for heat exchange with fuel, sprayed with water to be cooled to predetermined temperatures, and then supplied to cooling areas, whereby the cooling steam supply temperatures can be maintained at predetermined values during partial load operation as well as rated operating to achieve effective cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugishita, Sunao Aoki, Hidetaka Mori, Kazuo Uematsu, Kazuharu Hirokawa
  • Patent number: D566042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignees: Shindaiwa Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Masato Yamasaki, Teruaki Matsubata, Hiroki Awata