Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11962052
    Abstract: A fuel cell module comprises: at least one cell stack including a plurality of single fuel cells supplied with a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas to generate power; a sealable housing accommodating the at least one cell stack and forming a power generation chamber inside the housing; a pressure vessel accommodating the housing; and an oxidizing gas supply pipe for supplying the oxidizing gas to the cell stack. At least one pressure equalizing opening is formed in the housing to allow communication between inside and outside of the housing. The at least one pressure equalizing opening includes only one pressure equalizing opening, or a plurality of pressure equalizing openings in which a distance between a pressure equalizing opening in the highest position and a pressure equalizing opening in the lowest position is within 0.1H, where H is a height of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daigo Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Ozawa, Masahiro Mihara, Ryutaro Mori, Takeshi Matsuo, Norihisa Matake
  • Patent number: 11958143
    Abstract: A welding control device includes an actual position determination part configured to determine an actual position of the position control target on the basis of a weld characteristic amount detected from a captured image captured so as to include at least the position control target, the welding characteristic amount including at least one of a wire position of the weld wire or an electrode position of the electrode; a target position determination part configured to determine a target position being a target of the actual position corresponding to a weld condition for welding the weld target; and a position control part configured to execute a position control of the position control target to bring the actual position to the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hazui, Koki Tateishi, Naoki Suda, Kazuhiko Kamo, Masahiro Kimura, Yusuke Sano, Yasushi Nishijima
  • Patent number: 11959398
    Abstract: 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 thick
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masami Kamiya, Ryoji Okabe, Kentaro Shindo, Takahiro Tachibana
  • Patent number: 11959424
    Abstract: An output corrector is provided with an adjustment coefficient creating unit which creates an adjustment coefficient, an output adjusting unit which adjusts a control output using the adjustment coefficient, and an output accepting unit which accepts an output from an output meter for detecting the output of a gas turbine. The adjustment coefficient creating unit includes a first coefficient element calculating unit which calculates a first coefficient element, a second coefficient element calculating unit which calculates a second coefficient element, and an adjustment coefficient calculating unit which calculates the adjustment coefficient using the first and second coefficient elements. The first coefficient element is the ratio of an immediately preceding output in an immediately preceding time period, to a reference output at a reference time point in the past. The second coefficient element is the ratio of the current output in the current time period, to the immediately preceding output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Nakata, Hidehiko Nishimura, Jotaro Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11959394
    Abstract: A suction side fillet portion of a turbine rotor blade includes a central fillet portion located at the center of a length of the suction side fillet portion along an extension direction of the suction side fillet portion, an upstream intermediate fillet portion which is located between the central fillet portion and a front edge that is an upstream end of the suction side fillet portion, and in which a fillet height from an upper surface of a platform portion is higher than a fillet height of the central fillet portion, and a downstream intermediate fillet portion which is located between the central fillet portion and a rear edge that is a downstream end of the suction side fillet portion, and in which a fillet height from the upper surface of the platform portion is higher than the fillet height of the central fillet portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Norifumi Hirata
  • Patent number: 11956355
    Abstract: The control device is configured to communicate with another device via a communication network, and comprises: a key acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a key distribution server via the communication network, an encryption key with a life period for performing encrypted communication with the another device; an encrypted communication processing unit configured to perform the encrypted communication with the another device using the encryption key within the life period; a server state detection unit configured to detect a key acquisition disabled state where acquisition of the encryption key by the key acquisition unit is disabled; and a life extension unit configured to perform extension processing for extending the life period if the key acquisition disabled state is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Nakaide, Shinichi Toda, Yoshikane Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 11952148
    Abstract: This method is for manufacturing a fan blade rotor which includes an annular rotation support ring around a rotary shaft, a permanent magnet provided alongside the rotation support ring in the radial direction, and a composite material for integrally binding the rotation support ring and the permanent magnet, the method including: a step S1 for arranging the rotation support ring and the permanent magnet side by side in the radial direction; steps S2-S4 for spirally winding, on the rotation support ring and the permanent magnet arranged side by side being as a core, the composite material being an uncured composite material including a reinforcement fiber impregnated with an uncured resin with the fiber direction of the reinforcement fiber set as a longitudinal direction; and a step for curing the resin included in the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ohashi, Naoaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11951546
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of oxidation resistant alloy includes: producing a first formed member by applying compression forming to metal powder; and applying compression forming to the first formed member in a state in which the first formed member is covered with alloy powder different from the metal powder. The oxidation resistance of the major constituent of the alloy powder is higher than the oxidation resistance of the major constituent of the metal powder. Producing the first formed member may include applying the compression forming to the metal powder without melting the metal powder. Applying the compression forming to the first formed member may include: producing a second formed member by applying compression forming to the alloy powder without melting the alloy powder; and sintering the second formed member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shintaro Sobu
  • Patent number: 11953206
    Abstract: Provided is a burner of double tube structure including an outer tube and an inner tube. The inner tube includes a tip-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a base-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a main body portion supported by the tip-side support portion, bellows interposed between the main body portion and the base-side support portion, and a bulkhead member attached at a position between the tip-side support portion and the base-side support portion. Between an outer peripheral surface of the bulkhead member and an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube, a second gap smaller than a first gap between an outermost peripheral surface of the bellows and the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube is interposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Karishuku, Satoshi Dodo, Yoshitaka Hirata, Tomohiro Asai, Shohei Yoshida, Yasuhiro Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11953598
    Abstract: A laser tracking device includes an adjustment device, a telescope, and a drive device. The adjustment device modifies the emission direction of first light wave. The telescope emits the first light wave in the emission direction modified by the adjustment device. The drive device rotates the telescope based on a predicted path of a moving body. The adjustment device provides more precision in modifying the emission direction of the first light wave than in the drive device rotating the telescope. Further, the adjustment device modifies the emission direction to offset the modification of the emission direction caused by the rotation of the telescope from a time when a tracking start condition is satisfied until the moving body is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ochiai, Koichi Hamamoto, Yoshinori Kamiya
  • Patent number: 11953384
    Abstract: A temperature measuring device includes an ultrasonic sensor attached to a rear surface side of the structural body having the multilayer structure, an acquisition unit configured to, through the ultrasonic sensor, acquire a signal of a reflected wave of an ultrasonic wave incident at the internal side of the structural body, an extraction unit configured to extract, from the signal of the reflected wave, a domain including a reflected wave reflected on a surface on the internal side of the structural body, and an identification unit configured to, based on a signal of the reflected wave in the extracted domain, identify the temperature of the surface on the internal side of the structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaya Kawano, Masahiro Sugihara, Tadashi Kimura, Shinsuke Sato
  • Patent number: 11952133
    Abstract: A motor-integrated fan having an intake port and a blow-out port comprises a rotary part 12 that is rotatably supported by a shaft, and a motor 14 that rotates the rotary part 12. The motor 14 is an outer periphery drive motor that rotates the rotary part 12 by supplying motive power from a duct provided on the outer peripheral side of the shaft. The motor 14 includes: a permanent magnet 45 provided on a rotary support ring 33 connected to the outer peripheral side of blades 32 of the rotary part 12; and a coil 46 provided opposite the permanent magnet 45 in the axial direction of the axis of rotation. Among the plurality of blades 32, a first blade 32a and a second blade 32b are located at different positions in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Naoaki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 11945179
    Abstract: The preset invention is to mold a laminate at a high accuracy by appropriately generating slippage between fiber sheets of the laminate at bending. A method for molding a laminate includes a step in which a plurality of gripping parts, which are arranged apart from each other, grip an area, wherein slippage between fiber sheets is prevented, in a plate-shaped laminate including a plurality of fiber sheets laminated each other; a step in which the plurality of gripping parts grip the area wherein slippage between the fiber sheets is prevented, while maintaining the state wherein relative moving of the area of the laminate and the gripping parts is prevented; and a step in which the gripping parts move so as to subject the laminate to bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki Kitazawa, Homare Yamato, Masahiko Shimizu, Hiromichi Akiyama, Akihiro Terasaka
  • Patent number: 11946005
    Abstract: A gasification gas treatment facility for treating a gasification gas obtained by gasification of a fuel includes: a first heat exchanger for performing heat exchange between a purified gas obtained by removing at least ammonia and hydrogen chloride from the gasification gas and steam at a saturation temperature; a second heat exchanger for performing heat exchange between the gasification gas and at least condensed water produced by the heat exchange in the first heat exchanger to produce the steam at the saturation temperature; and a circulation system for circulating a circulating fluid including at least one of the steam or the condensed water between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. The circulation system is configured to supply the circulating fluid including at least the condensed water at the saturation temperature produced in the first heat exchanger to the second heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kaori Yoshida, Rikio Kan, Seiji Kakesako
  • Patent number: 11946147
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating includes a bond coat layer deposited on a substrate, and a ceramic layer deposited on the bond coat layer. The ceramic layer includes a first layer having a porosity of 10% or more and 15% or less, and a second layer having a porosity of 0.5% or more and 9.0% or less and deposited on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Taiji Torigoe, Yoshifumi Okajima, Daisuke Kudo, Masahiko Mega, Shuji Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 11946389
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a blade body and a tip shroud on a tip of the blade body. The tip shroud has a contact block configured to face a tip shroud of an adjacent turbine rotor blade, and the contact block includes a base material, an oxidation resistant coating on the surface of the base material, and a hard wear resistant coating on the surface of the oxidation resistant coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Okajima, Masahiko Mega, Taiji Torigoe
  • Publication number: 20240105969
    Abstract: A seal material for an electrochemical reaction cell separates fuel gas and oxidizing gas in the electrochemical reaction cell. The seal material for an electrochemical reaction cell includes: a plurality of ceramic particles; and a hardener for hardening the plurality of ceramic particles, and has an apparent porosity of 10 to 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Tsukuda
  • Patent number: 11939882
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge portion having a plurality of cooling holes. The plurality of cooling holes includes: m cooling holes arranged in a first range in the blade height direction, where m is an integer of 2 or more; and n cooling holes arranged in a second range on the blade tip side of the first range in the blade height direction, where n is an integer of 2 or more, and n/b<m/a is satisfied, where a is the dimension of the first range in the blade height direction, and b is the dimension of the second range in the blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitada, Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Patent number: 11943006
    Abstract: A wireless communication system including a shield room forming section, leaky transmission line, first antenna, first device, second antenna and second device. The shield room forming section covers an internal space with an electromagnetic wave reflector that blocks wireless communication. The leaky transmission line is provided with first and second leakage parts arranged inside the shield room forming section. The first antenna is arranged inside the shield room forming section and configured to be wirelessly communicable with the first leakage part. The first device is arranged inside the shield room forming section and has the first antenna. The second antenna is arranged inside the shield room forming section and configured to be wirelessly communicable with the second leakage part. The second device is arranged inside the shield room forming section and has the second antenna. The first device and the second device perform direct two-way wireless communication with each-other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihito Soma, Takuya Koyama, Hidenobu Uda, Takeo Umemura
  • Patent number: 11939879
    Abstract: This blade repair method has: a first welding step in which overlay welding in which a first welding material is used is performed to form a notched part and a bury a first region positioned on a blade-body side with a first welding material; and a second welding step in which, after the first welding step, overlay welding in which a second welding material is used is performed to form a notched part and bury a second region positioned on a front-surface side of a platform with the second welding material. The high-temperature strength of the second welding material is higher than the high-temperature strength of the first welding material, the weldability of the first welding material is higher than the weldability of the second welding material, and the second region is located in a range from 1.0 mm to 3.0 mm (inclusive) from the front surface of the platform toward the blade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Ueda, Hiroshi Murai, Ryoji Fushino