Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11872779
    Abstract: A method of the invention produces a composite material conjugate in which a first composite material and a second composite material are adhered without using an adhesive, wherein a first prepreg laminate to which a release member is attached is cured to form the first composite material, the release member being made of a material that does not transfer silicone and fluorine to the first prepreg laminate, after detaching the release member from the first composite material, surface treatment that imparts polar functional groups to the surface of the first composite material to which the release member was bonded is carried out to activate the surface, a second prepreg laminate is placed directly on the activated surface of the first composite material, and the second prepreg laminate is cured to form a second composite material adhered to the first composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Akiyama, Kiyoka Takagi
  • Patent number: 11873821
    Abstract: A cylindrical gap is formed between a production pipe and a pump stator, the pump stator has a tubular pump casing that surrounds a plurality of pump bodies, the pump casing is provided with a penetrating portion that penetrates the pump casing in a radial direction and communicates with the gap, and the penetrating portion is formed in a portion of the pump casing that faces a pump body, which is located in an intermediate stage of the plurality of pump bodies, in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kimihiko Mitsuda, Shuhei Sasaki
  • Patent number: 11873723
    Abstract: This steam turbine plant comprises: a boiler; a steam turbine; a condenser; a condensate pump; a main steam line that is capable of guiding, to the steam turbine, steam generated in the boiler; a bypass line that is branched from the main steam line and is connected to the condenser; a condensate line that is capable of guiding, to the condensate pump, water in the condenser; a condensate outlet valve that is provided in the condensate line; a water supply line that is capable of guiding, to the boiler, water having a pressure which has been increased in the condensate pump; a first connection unit that is, in the condensate line, branched from a position which is closer to the condenser than the condensate outlet valve is; and a second connection unit that is, in the condensate line, branched from a position which is closer to the condensate pump than the condensate outlet valve is. The first connection unit has a first connection seating that is connectable with a first line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki Fujimura, Takafumi Niwa, Ayumu Kuroshima, Motohiro Goshima
  • Patent number: 11874076
    Abstract: A heat exchanger core according to an embodiment includes: a first header space; a plurality of first layered header passages; a plurality of first communication port rows; and a plurality of first passages. The plurality of first layered header passages are stacked in a perpendicular direction to a reference plane so as to each extend along the reference plane. Each first layered header passage has an open end at a first edge adjacent to the first header space and communicates with the first header space through the open end. The plurality of first communication port rows are arranged in the perpendicular direction so as to correspond to the plurality of first layered header passages, respectively. Each first communication port row is formed by a plurality of first communication ports arranged along the reference plane. The plurality of first passages communicate with any of the first layered header passages through the plurality of first communication ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsaku Eguchi, Minemasa Omura, Yoichi Uefuji, Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Koichi Tanimoto, Masaya Hatanaka, Nobuhide Hara, Takuo Oda
  • Patent number: 11876234
    Abstract: An explosion-proof apparatus includes a frame having a hollow shape; a gas supply device configured to maintain inside of the frame at pressure higher than certain pressure by supplying gas to the inside; an electrical component disposed inside the frame; a battery configured to supply power to the electrical component; a protective device configured to stop power supply from the battery to the electrical component; a battery housing enclosure being an increased-safety explosion-proof enclosure configured to house the battery therein; and a protective device housing enclosure being a flameproof explosion-proof enclosure configured to house the protective device. The battery does not include a management device that manages parameters of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Onishi, Koji Shukutani, Hiroyoshi Okazaki, Syuhei Kobori, Noriko Onishi, Hiroyoshi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11873269
    Abstract: A methanol production system of the present disclosure includes: a reformer including a reaction furnace configured to reform methane in a raw material gas to produce a reformed gas containing CO and H2; a reduced-gas generator configured to reduce CO2 to produce a reduced gas containing CO; and a methanol-containing gas generator configured to produce a methanol-containing gas which contains methanol from a reformed gas produced in the reaction furnace and a reduced gas produced in the reduced-gas generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Furukawa, Hidehiko Tajima
  • Patent number: 11872663
    Abstract: A repair welding method according to at least one embodiment is for a member in which a first end and a second end of a parent material are connected by welding and includes: a step of removing a portion including at least a part of a first heat-affected zone of an existing welded portion of the member; and a step of performing repair welding after removing the portion. In a cross-section including the parent material and the existing welded portion, all intersection portions between the first heat-affected zone of the existing welded portion and a second heat-affected zone due to the repair welding have an intersection angle between the first heat-affected zone and the second heat-affected zone of 70° to 110°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Honda, Toshiaki Nishio, Nobuyoshi Komai, Takumi Tokiyoshi, Masaaki Fujita, Kimihiko Tominaga, Hiroyuki Ohyama, Fumitoshi Sakata, Koichi Teshima, Eiji Murakami, Akinori Yamaguchi, Fumio Nishi
  • Publication number: 20240013938
    Abstract: An object is to change reactor core thermal output. A nuclear reactor includes an annular fuel layer and a heat conductive layer stacked on the fuel layer and extending around a periphery of the fuel layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Kobayashi, Satoru Kamohara, Yasutaka Harai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shohei Otsuki, Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240011538
    Abstract: An anti-vibration mount for supporting a load of a part includes: at least one mount body that includes a central projecting portion having a load acting surface on which the load of the part acts, and a seat portion which includes a one-side seat portion located on one side with respect to the central projecting portion in a cross section along an action direction of the load, the one-side seat portion having a one-side reaction force receiving surface for receiving a reaction force from a base surface, and an another-side seat portion located on another side opposite to the one side with respect to the central projecting portion across the central projecting portion in the cross section, the another-side seat portion having an another-side reaction force receiving surface for receiving the reaction force from the base surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 11867088
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion disposed on opposite side of the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank disposed between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has: a first lateral surface having a first recess portion and disposed on a pressure surface side and along an extension direction of the blade root portion; and a second lateral surface having a second recess portion and disposed on a suction surface side and along the extension direction of the blade root portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yokoyama, Toshihiro Takeda, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 11867085
    Abstract: A turbine blade is provided with an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure surface and a suction surface which extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the airfoil portion internally forming a cooling passage. The cooling passage includes: a first cooling passage located closer to the pressure surface than the suction surface; and a second cooling passage located closer to the suction surface than the pressure surface. The first cooling passage and the second cooling passage are separated by a partition member disposed in the airfoil portion. At least one communication space connecting the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage is formed in the partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Satoshi Hada, Saki Matsuo, Yoshitaka Uemura, Ryozo Tamura, Yasumasa Kunisada
  • Patent number: 11858757
    Abstract: In a granular material supply system including a tank that stores granular material, a carrier line through which the granular material flowing out of the tank is carried to a carrier destination, and a cutout line that connects the tank and the carrier line and through which the granular material flowing out of the tank is supplied to the carrier line, a control device includes a density control unit configured to control a density of the granular material on a downstream side of a junction of the cutout line and the carrier line to a set value predetermined and a flow rate control unit configured to control a flow rate of the granular material to be supplied to the carrier destination through the carrier line to a command value instructed by the carrier destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Akihiko Saito, Kei Moriyama
  • Patent number: 11859548
    Abstract: In a gas turbine and a control method thereof, and a combined cycle plant, the gas turbine includes a compressor that compresses air, a combustor that mixes and combusts compressed air compressed by the compressor and fuel, a turbine that obtains rotational power using combustion gas generated by the combustor, a compressed air cooling heat exchanger that cools the compressed air to produce air for heat exchange, air temperature adjusting heat exchangers that exchange heat between the air and the compressed air, a heat exchange amount adjusting device that adjusts a heat exchange amount of each of the compressed air cooling heat exchanger and the air temperature adjusting heat exchangers, and a control device that controls the heat exchange amount adjusting device, in which the control device controls the heat exchange amount adjusting device based on a temperature of the air to be taken into the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Asaki, Masashi Terauchi
  • Patent number: 11862858
    Abstract: A device for measuring a polarization direction of a linearly polarized received wave with circularly polarized antennas includes an intensity ratio providing unit that provides, to the antennas, intensity ratios different depending on an arrival direction for the received wave; a storage unit that stores a first table in which an intensity ratio of a vertically polarized component of the received wave between two of the antennas is associated with the arrival direction and a second table in which an intensity ratio of a horizontally polarized component of the received wave between the two antennas is associated with the arrival direction; a detector that acquires an intensity ratio of the received wave; an acquiring unit that acquires the arrival direction; and an arithmetic unit that calculates the polarization direction of the received wave based on the acquired intensity ratio and the intensity ratios of the vertically and horizontally polarized components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyasu Kato
  • Patent number: 11858794
    Abstract: A control device includes a route acquisition unit configured to acquire routes of a movable body for moving target objects to or from a target position at which the target objects are to be picked up or dropped, a reference position/posture acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a position at which the movable body picks up or drops a first target object of the target objects at the target position, and an information output unit configured to output information acquired by the route acquisition unit to the movable body. The route acquisition unit is configured to acquire the routes of the movable body for moving second and subsequent target objects of the target objects, based on the information acquired by the reference position/posture acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Takao, Yusuke Kinouchi, Noriyuki Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11859505
    Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with: a steam turbine rotor which extends in an axial direction; a pair of bearings which support the steam turbine rotor in such a way as to be capable of rotating about the axial direction; a steam turbine casing which encloses the steam turbine rotor between the pair of bearings; a casing support unit which supports the steam turbine casing from below; and a first heating unit which is provided on the casing support unit and which is capable of heating the casing support unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Kondo, Katsuhisa Hamada
  • Patent number: 11859572
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device according to an embodiment is a device for controlling fuel injection performed by a fuel injection device disposed in a cylinder of a two-stroke engine, comprising: a scavenging and exhaust gas state quantity acquisition part configured to acquire a parameter related to a state quantity of scavenging and exhaust gas in the cylinder; a swirl momentum calculation part configured to calculate a momentum of swirl generated in the cylinder on the basis of the parameter; and a fuel injection pressure calculation part configured to calculate an injection pressure of fuel from the fuel injection device corresponding to the momentum of swirl calculated by the swirl momentum calculation part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kengo Tanaka, Takashi Ueda, Yuki Koshiba, Sigetoshi Sugata
  • Patent number: 11859822
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: a fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; a mixing passage supplied with the fuel and the air; and a support portion connecting a passage wall of the mixing passage and the fuel nozzle to support the fuel nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuba, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keisuke Miura, Tomohiro Asai, Kenji Miyamoto, Tomo Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11852343
    Abstract: A combustor component of a combustor for combusting fuel to produce a combustion gas includes a combustion cylinder forming a passage for the combustion gas, a first acoustic device which internally includes a first cavity communicating with the passage via a first through hole formed in the combustion cylinder, a second acoustic device which is located on a radially outer side of the first acoustic device so as to cover the first acoustic device, and internally includes a second cavity communicating with the passage via a second through hole formed in the combustion cylinder, and a first communication passage causing the first cavity and an outer space of the combustion cylinder to communicate with each other without via the first through hole and the second cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Akamatsu, Kenji Sato, Naoki Abe, Taiki Kinoshita, Hiroki Shibata, Norihiko Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11851197
    Abstract: A motor-integrated fan sucks air from a suction port and blows out the sucked air from a blow-out port. The motor-integrated fan includes a shaft part that is provided at a center of a rotational axis; a rotation part that is rotated about the shaft part; an outer peripheral part that is provided on an outer periphery of the shaft part; a motor that rotates the rotation part; a heat generating part that generates heat due to an operation of the motor; and a cooling unit that cools the heat generating part with cooling air. The cooling unit includes an air intake port that takes the cooling air in, an air discharge port that discharges the cooling air, and a cooling flow channel that leads to the air discharge port from the air intake port via the heat generating part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihide Yajima, Osamu Uruma, Akihiro Takagaki