Patents Assigned to Tohoku Electric Power
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Patent number: 10309245Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Patent number: 10247030Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Patent number: 10211777Abstract: The output of a photovoltaic power generator is estimated by estimating a solar radiation amount at a point different from solar radiation measurement points and determining an estimation error amount from solar radiation values measured at limited points. A photovoltaic power generator output estimation method estimates an output of a photovoltaic power generator based on a measured solar radiation value.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Tohoku Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Kenichiro Yamane, Takuya Matsumoto, Masatoshi Kumagai, Tsukasa Oonishi, Ryo Egashira, Katsuhiro Matsuda, Jun Murakoshi, Tomoya Sato
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Patent number: 9951644Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Patent number: 9606554Abstract: A voltage adjustment device, a voltage adjusting method and a power control system for a distribution system are provided, in which the voltage adjustment device and a static var compensator are appropriately operated in a coordinated manner and the sustention of voltage and the enhancement of the operation efficiency are attained. A voltage adjustment device for a distribution system is installed in the distribution system including a static var compensator on an end side and controls a secondary voltage to be within a predetermined limit value by adjusting a tap position.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Ltd., Tohoku Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Watanabe, Ryo Egashira, Kenichiro Yamane, Katsuhiro Matsuda, Takafumi Futakami, Toshiyuki Seto, Jun Murakoshi
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Patent number: 9512781Abstract: In a cooling structure for a recovery-type air-cooled gas turbine combustor having a recovery-type air-cooling structure that bleeds, upstream of the combustor, and pressurizes compressed air supplied from a compressor, that uses the bled and pressurized air to cool a wall, and that recovers and reuses the bled and pressurized air as combustion air for burning fuel in the combustor together with a main flow of the compressed air, wall cooling in which cooling air is supplied to cooling air passages formed in the wall of the combustor to perform cooling involves a downstream wall region, closer to a turbine, that is cooled using the bled and pressurized air as the cooling air and an upstream wall region, closer to a burner, that is cooled using, as the cooling air, bled compressed air bled from a main flow of the compressed air through a housing inner space.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2011Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignees: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Shunsuke Torii, Yuya Fukunaga, Tetsu Konishi, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Yoshiaki Igarashi, Shinya Ishikawa
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Patent number: 9478986Abstract: A load leveling system and a method for a power system are capable of attaining load leveling in a distribution substation unit. The load leveling system is for a power system with a controller having a major customer and lower transforming apparatus, and with a customer connected to the lower transforming apparatus via a low-voltage line. The system also has a communication unit between the customer and its own system, and control use time zones of devices within the customer, as well as an electric demand prediction unit, and a first load leveling processing unit. By employing such a system, it becomes possible to provide a load leveling system for a power system that is capable of realizing load leveling of both a distribution substation unit and a pole transformer unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.Inventors: Hirotaka Takahashi, Yasushi Tomita, Takashi Oda, Eri Isozaki, Tsukasa Onishi, Kazuhiro Horikoshi, Katsuhiro Matsuda
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Patent number: 9459591Abstract: A multipoint simultaneous measurement method and a multipoint simultaneous measurement system in an electric power station and an internal clock used therefor, capable of performing measurement at the correct time even at a place in the electric power station where GPS radio waves cannot be received, and of securing simultaneity with high accuracy and with ease without connecting a plurality of measurement points via a cable and the like.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignees: CVENGINEERING CORPORATION, TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.Inventors: Tatsuya Chiba, Masaki Sato, Yoichi Yanagisawa
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Patent number: 9303378Abstract: Provided is foreign-object offshore processing system, including foreign-object inflow prevention devices configured to prevent inflow of foreign object into water intake and provided at interval. Each device includes: collecting pontoon serving as inlet of foreign object and provided to float on sea surface of pool defined by curtain wall, the pool being for drawing cooling sea water from sea toward water intake; bottom net spreading toward sea bottom on upstream side of water intake channel in triangular shape with collecting pontoon as vertex; longitudinal net fixed to two floating chains in suspended manner to spread out in surface area of sea, the two floating chains extending on sea surface from collecting pontoon in correspondence with two sides extending from vertex of triangular shape forming bottom net; and lateral net spreading between bottom net and at least portion of longitudinal net, wherein horizontal net cover covers interval between adjacent devices.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2011Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., KANAE CORPORATION, HIMEJI-ECOTECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinya Ishikawa, Takashi Saito, Kyoichi Shimizu, Masaki Suzuki, Kota Shioda, Masaru Ieyasu
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Patent number: 9284403Abstract: This invention provides a method for synthesizing semi-crystalline polylactides (PLA) even from a lactide mixture including meso-LA and rac-LA. According to the invention, when a mixture of racemic lactide and meso-lactide ispolymerized using a catalyst capable of iso-selectively polymerizing L-lactide and D-lactide, an amorphous poly (meso-lactide) block is formed from meso-lactide and a semi-crystalline poly (racemic lactide) block is formed from racemic lactide by separately polymerizing racemic lactide and meso-lactide by taking advantage of a difference in physicochemical properties between racemic lactide and meso-lactide, whereby polylactide which is semi-crystalline as a whole is produced.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignees: Hitachi Zosen Corporation, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., National University Corporation Nagoya University, NatureWorks LLCInventors: Hisanori Kishida, Takashi Hasegawa, Nobuyoshi Nomura, Makoto Takahashi, Joseph Schroeder, Manuel Natal
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Patent number: 9255490Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Patent number: 9239164Abstract: A slag monitoring device 100 for a coal gasifier includes a slag hole camera 11 that observes a slag hole 3 from which molten slag flows out, a water surface camera 12 that observes a situation in which the slag flowing out from the slag hole 3 falls onto a water surface 5H of cooling water 5, a falling sound sensor 13 that observes a sound of the slag falling onto the water surface 5H, and a processing device 20 that determines a solidification and adhesion position of the slag based on an opening area of the slag hole 3 observed by the slag hole camera 11 and falling lines and falling positions of the slag observed by the water surface camera.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignees: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD., HOKKAIDO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., THE TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INCORPORATED, CHUBU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HOKURIKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., THE CHUGOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., SHIKOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., KYUSHU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., ELECTRIC POWER DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY, JOBAN JOINT POWER CO., LTD.Inventors: Masami Iida, Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Naoki Suganuma, Mutsuaki Taguchi
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Publication number: 20150377056Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Publication number: 20150377055Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Publication number: 20150377054Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine capable of achieving high-speed startup of the gas turbine through quick operation control of an ACC system during startup of the gas turbine, improving the cooling efficiency of turbine stationary components, and quickly carrying out an operation required for cat back prevention during shutdown of the gas turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Yuya Fukunaga, Hiroki Takahashi, Masaki Satoh, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Norio Oogai, Souji Hasegawa, Masato Hayashi
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Patent number: 9056946Abstract: To provide a method capable of producing stereocomplex polylactic acid, the method being capable of using carbon neutral materials that are not competitive from foods, such as saccharides, without the use of a method for designing optical resolution, which requires complicated operations and high cost and is difficult to perform mass production. The production method of the present invention comprises: a step of reacting glycerin with sodium hydroxide in high-temperature and high-pressure water to produce a racemic sodium lactate aqueous solution; a step of separating sodium from the racemic sodium lactate aqueous solution to recover racemic lactic acid; a step of dimerizing the racemic lactic acid to produce a lactide mixture containing meso lactide and racemic lactide; a step of separating meso lactide from the mixture to recover racemic lactide; and a step of polymerizing the racemic lactide with a salen-metal complex as a catalyst to produce stereocomplex polylactic acid.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignees: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION, TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITYInventors: Hisanori Kishida, Takashi Hasegawa, Kenji Miyaguchi, Takehiko Moriya, Nobuyoshi Nomura, Ryohei Ogawa
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Patent number: 8997665Abstract: A leading end located in a two-stage entrained-flow bed coal gasifier has a double-walled structure including an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder, and cooling water for cooling the leading end is supplied through an interior of the inner cylinder to cool the leading end and is then returned to a base end through a space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder. The space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder has a smaller channel area than the interior of the inner cylinder, and a swirling flow along a guide formed on an outer circumferential surface of the inner cylinder and a substantially linear flow in a longitudinal direction of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder are applied to the cooling water returned to the base end through the space formed between the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignees: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd., Joban Joint Power Co., Ltd., Hokkaido Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc., The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated, Chubu Electric Power Co. Inc., Hokuriku Electric Power Company, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc., The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc., Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Electric Power Development Co., Ltd., Central Research Institute of Electric Power IndustryInventors: Shinya Hamasaki, Toshimi Ohtsuka, Yoshinori Koyama, Katsuhiko Yokohama, Yasunari Shibata, Jun Kasai
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Publication number: 20150087799Abstract: This invention provides a method for synthesizing semi-crystalline polylactides (PLA) even from a lactide mixture including meso-LA and rac-LA. According to the invention, when a mixture of racemic lactide and meso-lactide ispolymerized using a catalyst capable of iso-selectively polymerizing L-lactide and D-lactide, an amorphous poly (meso-lactide) block is formed from meso-lactide and a semi-crystalline poly (racemic lactide) block is formed from racemic lactide by separately polymerizing racemic lactide and meso-lactide by taking advantage of a difference in physicochemical properties between racemic lactide and meso-lactide, whereby polylactide which is semi-crystalline as a whole is produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: March 26, 2015Applicants: HITACHI ZOSEN CORPORATION, NATUREWORKS LLC, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.Inventors: Hisanori Kishida, Takashi Hasegawa, Nobuyoshi Nomura, Makoto Takahashi, Joseph Schroeder, Manuel Natal
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Patent number: 8637784Abstract: An object is to provide a method and an apparatus for improving a residual stress in a tubular body, which are enabled to improve the residual stress reliably by clearly defining controlling rage for treatment conditions without depending on an installation state and configuration of the tubular body. When a cylindrical tubular body (2) is improved in its residual stress by locally irradiating an outer-circumferential surface of a welded portion (C) of the tubular body (2) with laser beams (5a) and by moving an irradiation area (s) in an circumferential direction, a plurality thermocouples (9) are installed on the tubular body (2) to be improved, a temperature history of the outer surface of the tubular body (2) by the irradiation of the laser beam (5a) is managed by measuring the temperature history itself.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2008Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignees: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., The Japan Atomic Power Company, Hokkaido Electric Power Company, Inc., Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc, The Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc, Hokuriku Electric Power Company, The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc, The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc, Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc, Electric Power Development Co., LtdInventors: Takahiro Ota, Kazuhiko Kamo, Itaru Muroya, Seiji Asada, Kazuhiro Wakabayashi, Koji Okimura, Hironori Onitsuka
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Publication number: 20140001107Abstract: Provided is foreign-object offshore processing system, including foreign-object inflow prevention devices configured to prevent inflow of foreign object into water intake and provided at interval. Each device includes: collecting pontoon serving as inlet of foreign object and provided to float on sea surface of pool defined by curtain wall, the pool being for drawing cooling sea water from sea toward water intake; bottom net spreading toward sea bottom on upstream side of water intake channel in triangular shape with collecting pontoon as vertex; longitudinal net fixed to two floating chains in suspended manner to spread out in surface area of sea, the two floating chains extending on sea surface from collecting pontoon in correspondence with two sides extending from vertex of triangular shape forming bottom net; and lateral net spreading between bottom net and at least portion of longitudinal net, wherein horizontal net cover covers interval between adjacent devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicants: TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., HIMEJI-ECOTECH CO., LTD., KANAE CORPORATIONInventors: Shinya Ishikawa, Takashi Saito, Kyoichi Shimizu, Masaki Suzuki, Kota Shioda, Masaru Ieyasu