Patents by Inventor Akihiro Nakaniwa
Akihiro Nakaniwa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170241427Abstract: A seal mechanism (20A) is disposed on an outer circumferential side of a rotor (2) extending along an axis (O) to perform sealing between the seal mechanism and the outer circumferential surface (2a) of the rotor (2). The seal mechanism (20A) includes a main body portion (21A) having a cylindrical shape, and into which the rotor (2) is inserted; and a plurality of hole portions (22) formed on an inner circumferential surface of the main body portion (21A) to face an outer circumferential surface of the rotor (2). The hole portions (22) are within a range in which a hole depth h is equal to or smaller than a hole diameter d.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2014Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Shinichiro TOKUYAMA
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Publication number: 20170226881Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a main casing having an inlet and an outlet; at least one impeller disposed rotatably inside the main casing; an intake casing connected to the inlet, the intake casing having an intake port on a position spaced away from the inlet in a direction of an axis; a cleaning-liquid injection device capable of being disposed on a side of the intake port inside the intake casing; and a cleaning-liquid supply device for supplying a cleaning liquid to the cleaning-liquid injection device. The cleaning-liquid injection device includes: a pipe capable of being disposed so as to extend along a plane which intersects with the direction of the axis, inside the intake casing; and a plurality of injection holes disposed on the pipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Yukinori MACHIDA, Shinichiro TOKUYAMA
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Patent number: 9664055Abstract: An impeller and a rotary machine include an inner diameter portion, a disk portion, a blade portion, and a cover portion. The disk portion includes a main body portion adjacent to the blade portion, and a fixing portion disposed at a radially inward side of the main body portion and fitted at a radially outward side of an outer peripheral surface of the inner diameter portion. The fixing portion is formed so as to protrude from the main body portion toward another side in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignees: MITSUBISHI INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Katsuya Yamashita, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Atsushi Higashio
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Patent number: 9611742Abstract: An impeller is formed of two parts, i.e., an inner peripheral side part and an outer peripheral side part. The inner peripheral side part is molded in a cylindrical shape. The outer peripheral side part is formed by integrally molding an annular disc externally fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the inner peripheral side part, a plurality of blades provided at an interval in a circumferential direction on a surface that faces the other side in the axis line direction of the annular disc and forming a flow path extending in a radial direction, and a cover covering the plurality of blades from the other side in the axis line direction and having an insertion hole to which the inner peripheral side part is inserted in the axis line direction at an interval in a radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Hitoshi Shinohara
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Publication number: 20160327050Abstract: A diaphragm rotatably covers an impeller around an axis. A diaphragm has a suction flow channel configured to supply a gas toward an inlet of an impeller, a diffuser flow channel through which the gas discharged from the impeller outward in a radial direction flows, and a communication section configured to bring the suction flow channel and the diffuser flow channel in constant communication with each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Shinji IWAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160327056Abstract: An intermediate intake-type diaphragm includes a flow-regulating vane that is provided in an introduction flow channel to regulate a first fluid to flow along the radial direction; and a partition wall that partitions the introduction flow channel and an intermediate suction flow channel in the direction of an axial line. A radially inner end portion of the partition wall is located further on a radially inner side than a radially outer end portion of the flow-regulating vane, and further on a radially outer side than a boundary between the introduction flow channel and a curved flow channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Shinji IWAMOTO
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Patent number: 9347460Abstract: A rotary machine includes: a shaft that rotates; a disc that has a substantially cylindrical hub fitted into the shaft and is provided so as to widen outward in a radial direction from a front end to a rear end of the substantially cylindrical hub; and an impeller having a plurality of blades provided on a surface of the disc. The substantially cylindrical hub has a tight fit section having an internal radius that is smaller than a radius of the shaft, and a loose fit section having an internal radius that is greater than the internal radius of the tight fit section. The loose fit section is provided on a front end side of the substantially cylindrical hub with respect to the tight fit section.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Hitoshi Shinohara
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Publication number: 20160017888Abstract: A centrifugal fluid machine includes a rotor, a low pressure compression unit provided on one side in the axial direction of the rotor, a high pressure compression unit provided on the other side in the axial direction of the rotor, a partition wall 13 that separates the low and high pressure compression units, and a high pressure-side discharge passage 54 formed on the side of the high pressure compression unit of the partition wall 13, extending in the radial direction of the rotor, and provided along the partition wall 13, wherein the partition wall 13 has a wall body 71, a passage deformation suppression member 72 that is provided between the wall body 71 and the high pressure-side discharge passage 54 and can deform the high pressure-side discharge passage 54, and an biasing mechanism 73 that is provided between the wall body 71 and the passage deformation suppression member 72.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Shinichiro TOKUYAMA
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Patent number: 9194400Abstract: The centrifugal compressor is provided with a casing, a rotating shaft which is supported inside the casing, an impeller which is arranged on the rotating shaft and rotates to compress a fluid, and a washing liquid injection device which injects a washing liquid into a flow path formed by the impeller and the casing. The washing liquid injection device is provided with a plurality of nozzles which are arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft to inject the washing liquid into the flow path and a plurality of chambers which communicate with each corresponding nozzle among the plurality of nozzles and supply the washing liquid to the corresponding nozzle.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventor: Akihiro Nakaniwa
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Publication number: 20150308453Abstract: A centrifugal rotation machine includes a rotation shaft, a plurality of impellers rotating along with the rotation shaft, a casing defining a return flow channel configured to guide the fluid from the front-stage impeller to the rear-stage impeller, and a plurality of return vanes installed in the return flow channel, the return flow channel includes a return bend section guiding the fluid G, which has been sent from the front-stage impeller to the outside in the radial direction, to the inside in the radial direction, the return bend section includes a first curved portion and a second curved portion connected to the downstream side of the first curved portion, and the radius of curvature of an inside wall surface of the second curved portion in the radial direction is greater than the radius of curvature of an inside wall surface of the first curved portion in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akihiro NAKANIWA, Ryosuke SAITO
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Publication number: 20150260294Abstract: A rotary machine includes a casing that is disposed on the outer circumference side of a rotating shaft and rotates about the axis relative to the rotating shaft, and a hole pattern seal that is fixed to the casing, divides a space between the rotating shaft and the casing into a high pressure side and a low pressure side, and has a first hole line on which a plurality of first hole portions are formed at intervals in a circumferential direction so as to face an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft. The hole pattern seal has fin portions that extend toward the rotating shaft at the high-pressure side of the first hole line and in the circumferential direction. The rotating shaft includes a convex portion that protrude from the outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft toward the first hole portions to extend in the circumferential direction, and face the first hole portions at the low pressure side of the fin portion. The convex portion has a wall surface facing the fin portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Shinichiro Tokuyama
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Publication number: 20150224546Abstract: The centrifugal compressor is provided with a casing, a rotating shaft which is supported inside the casing, an impeller which is arranged on the rotating shaft and rotates to compress a fluid, and a washing liquid injection device which injects a washing liquid into a flow path formed by the impeller and the casing. The washing liquid injection device is provided with a plurality of nozzles which are arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotating shaft to inject the washing liquid into the flow path and a plurality of chambers which communicate with each corresponding nozzle among the plurality of nozzles and supply the washing liquid to the corresponding nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventor: Akihiro NAKANIWA
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Publication number: 20150139806Abstract: Provided is a rotary machine including: a shaft that rotates; a disc that has a substantially cylindrical hub fitted into the shaft and is provided so as to widen outward in a radial direction from a front end to a rear end of the hub; and an impeller having a plurality of blades provided on a surface of the disc. The hub has a tight fit section having an internal radius that is smaller than a radius of the shaft, and a loose fit section having an internal radius that is greater than the internal radius of the tight fit section. The loose fit section is provided on the front end side of the hub with respect to the tight fit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Nobuyori YAGI, Akihiro NAKANIWA, Hitoshi SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20150139805Abstract: Provided is a rotary machine including: a shaft that rotates; a disc that has a substantially cylindrical hub fitted into the shaft and is provided so as to widen outward in a radial direction from a front end to a rear end of the hub; and an impeller having a plurality of blades provided on a surface of the disc. The hub has a tight fit section having an internal radius that is smaller than a radius of the shaft, and a loose fit section having an internal radius that is greater than the internal radius of the tight fit section. The loose fit section is provided on the front end side of the hub with respect to the tight fit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Nobuyori YAGI, Akihiro NAKANIWA, Hitoshi SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20150139807Abstract: Provided is a rotary machine including: a shaft that rotates; a disc that has a substantially cylindrical hub fitted into the shaft and is provided so as to widen outward in a radial direction from a front end to a rear end of the hub; and an impeller having a plurality of blades provided on a surface of the disc. The hub has a tight fit section having an internal radius that is smaller than a radius of the shaft, and a loose fit section having an internal radius that is greater than the internal radius of the tight fit section. The loose fit section is provided on the front end side of the hub with respect to the tight fit section.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Nobuyori YAGI, Akihiro NAKANIWA, Hitoshi SHINOHARA
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Patent number: 8956118Abstract: Provided is an impeller of a centrifugal compressor including: a hub; a plurality of blades protruding from a surface of the hub, wherein a passage is formed by the hub and a blade being adjacent with the hub, so that a fluid, flowing in along an axial direction at an inner circumferential side in a radial direction, is flowed out toward an outer circumferential side in a radial direction; each of the plurality of blades includes a main body part and a leading edge, the main body part including a pressure side and a suction side; an angle between a component central line of the main body part and the axial direction increases from an inner end toward an outer end; and a radius of curvature at a central position, intersecting with the component central line of the leading edge, decreases from the inner end toward the outer end.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tokiya Wakai, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Takashi Hiyama
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Patent number: 8899931Abstract: A hub is supported rotatably about an axis of rotation, and the diameter thereof increases from upstream to downstream sides along a fluid flow. A plurality of impeller blades extend radially outward from an outer circumferential surface of the hub. A shroud is formed in a cylindrical shape whose diameter increases from the upstream to downstream sides along the fluid flow and joins outer circumferential ends of the plurality of impeller blades. The impeller blades are composed of upstream blade segments and downstream blade segments bonded at a bonding surface extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The upstream blade segments are integral with at least a portion of the shroud, and the downstream blade segments are integral with at least a portion of the hub. This improves the reliability and performance of an impeller and a compressor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Yujiro Watanabe, Toyoaki Yasui, Kazuyoshi Miyagawa, Yuya Konno
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Publication number: 20140175754Abstract: A seal device including: three ring-shaped first vertical wall portions (21) which extend toward a rotational body (12) from a stationary body (11) and are arranged at predetermined intervals in an axial center direction (A) of the rotational body (12); a ring-shaped second vertical wall portion (22) which extends toward the rotational body (12) from the stationary body (11) and is adjacent to the first vertical wall portions (21), the thickness of which is thicker than the first vertical wall portions (21); a ring-shaped protrusion portion (23) which faces the second vertical wall portion (22) and protrudes toward the stationary body (11) from the rotational body (12); and a plurality of swirl breaker chambers (24) which are arranged in the stationary body (11) at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the rotational body (12) to face the protrusion portion (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Inventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Shinji Fukao
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Publication number: 20140064975Abstract: The present invention is related to an impeller and a rotary machine including an inner diameter portion, a disk portion, a blade portion, and a cover portion. The disk portion includes a main body portion provided the blade portion, and a fixing portion disposed at an inner side in a radial direction of the rotor than the main body portion and fitted at the outside of an outer peripheral surface of the inner diameter portion. The fixing portion is formed so as to protrude toward the other side in the axial direction from the main body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Katsuya Yamashita, Akihiro Nakaniwa, Atsushi Higashio
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Publication number: 20140050585Abstract: An impeller including: blades disposed in a circumferential direction of the impeller; a disk located close to a second end side of an axis of the impeller with respect to the blades, to which the blades are attached, and configured to be attached to a rotating shaft; and a shroud located close to a first end side of an axis of the impeller with respect to the blades, and to which the blades are attached. Flow passages are formed by the blades, the disk and the shroud. The blades, the shroud and a first portion of the disk close to the second end side of the axis of the impeller are integrated so as to form a first member. A second portion of the disk close to the first end side of the axis of the impeller forms a second member.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: February 20, 2014Inventors: Daisuke Kawanishi, Akihiro Nakaniwa