Patents by Inventor Asaharu Matsuo
Asaharu Matsuo 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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Patent number: 10227885Abstract: Provided is a turbine. One of a tip portion of a blade and a portion of a partition plate outer ring corresponding to the tip portion of the blade is provided with a step part having a step face that protrudes toward the other, and the other is provided with seal fins) extending out with respect to the step part and forming minute clearance between the step part and the other. The step part facing the seal fins is configured to protrude so that a cavity forming a main vortex and counter vortex being formed by the main vortex are formed on an upstream side of the seal fins. The cavity is formed so that an axial width dimension and a radial height dimension satisfy Formula expressed by 0.45?D/W?2.67.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9726027Abstract: A turbine includes: a blade body having a blade provided at one of a rotor rotatably supported and a stator provided around the rotor and extending in a radial direction and a shroud extending in a circumferential direction at a tip portion in the radial direction of the blade; and an accommodating concave body provided at another one of the rotor and the stator, extending in the circumferential direction, accommodating the shroud with a gap interposed therebetween, and relatively rotating with respect to the blade body, wherein a leakage flow leaked from a main flow flowing along the blade flows into the gap; and wherein the shroud is provided with a guide curved surface formed between a peripheral surface facing the accommodating concave body and a trailing edge end portion formed closer to a main flow side in a downstream side of the leakage flow than the peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masaaki Matsuura, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9593587Abstract: Provided is a turbine in which seal fins (15) are provided to a hub shroud (41) to protrude toward a bottom surface (33a) of an annular groove (33), small gaps (H) are formed between the tip ends of the seal fins and the bottom surface of the annular groove, and assuming that the axial distance between a first seal fin (15a) disposed on the front edge side of the hub shroud among the seal fins and a front edge (41a) of the hub shroud is (L) and the axial distance between the front edge of the hub shroud and an inside surface (33b) of the annular groove is (Bu), the first seal fin is disposed to satisfy L/Bu<0.3.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9551224Abstract: The turbine includes: a shaft body supported rotatably; a plurality of turbine blade members; a casing covering the shaft body and the turbine blade row; an outer ring member that is provided on an inner periphery of the casing and includes an inner peripheral portion in which a cross-section having a uneven shape is continuous in a circumferential direction; a plurality of turbine vane members that each has a shroud fitted into the inner peripheral portion of the outer ring member and a turbine vane main body extending from the shroud to a radially inward side; and a plate member that connects at least some of the plurality of turbine vane members and covers one side of the shrouds in the axial direction, thereby sealing a shroud gap formed between the shrouds adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Onishi, Yuichiro Waki, Shoki Yamashita, Takaaki Matsuo, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9429022Abstract: A turbine includes an annular turbine blade body disposed on a flow path, a diaphragm outer ring installed at a tip side of the annular turbine blade body via a clearance, and seal fins formed to protrude from the diaphragm outer ring and configured to form small clearances with the annular turbine blade body, wherein dead water region-filling sections are formed in cavities in which main vortexes are generated, such that a dead water region that the main vortexes cannot reach is filled.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2011Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yukinori Machida, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9388701Abstract: A turbine (1) of the present invention comprises that at one part of a tip part (51) of the blade (50) and an area (11a) of the structure (11) corresponding to the tip part (51) of the blade, a stepped part (52) is formed, a seal fin (15) is provided at the another part of the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11 a) of the structure (11), a cavity (C) is formed between the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11a) of the structure (11) and between the seal fin (15) and a partition wall (54, 15). The seal fin (15) comprises a fin main body part (16), and a space restriction part (17). Thus, the present invention provides a high performance turbine in which the leakage flow rate is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9353640Abstract: A turbine includes a blade, a structure installed at a tip section side of the blade via a gap and configured to relatively rotate with respect to the blade, a step section formed at the tip section of the blade, having at least one step surface, and protruding toward a portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, a seal fin formed at the portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, extending toward the step section, and configured to form a micro gap between the step section and the seal fin, and a cutout section formed at the step surface to be connected to an upper surface of the step section. The cutout section guides a separation vortex separated from a main stream of a fluid passing through the gap toward the seal fin on the upper surface of the step section.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2011Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 9334757Abstract: A single-casing steam turbine has high-pressure blade rows and low-pressure blade rows and includes a high/intermediate-pressure chamber housing the high-pressure blade rows, a low-pressure chamber housing the low-pressure blade rows, and an expansion joint for connecting the high/intermediate-pressure chamber and the low-pressure chamber and for sealing an interior space of the high/intermediate-pressure chamber and the low-pressure chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Maruyama, Asaharu Matsuo
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Patent number: 8784046Abstract: The turbine is provided with a blade (50) and a structure body (11) which rotates relatively with respect to the blade (50). A stepped part (52A) having a step surface (53A) is installed at one of the leading end of the blade (50) and the structure body (11) corresponding to the leading end thereof, while a seal fin (15A) which extends toward the stepped part (52A) to form a small space (H) is installed at the other of them. A cavity (C1) is formed between the blade (50) and the structure body (11) and also between the seal fin (15A) and the partition wall which faces thereto in the rotating shaft direction of the structure body (11) on the upstream side. When a distance of the cavity (C1) between the partition wall and the seal fin (15A) is given as a cavity width (W), and a distance between the seal fin (15A) and the end edge (55) of the stepped part (52A) in the rotating shaft direction on the upstream side is given as (L), at least one of the distances (L) satisfies the following formula (1). 0.7H?L?0.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2010Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Ooyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20140154061Abstract: Provided is a turbine. One of a tip portion of a blade and a portion of a partition plate outer ring corresponding to the tip portion of the blade is provided with a step part having a step face that protrudes toward the other, and the other is provided with seal fins) extending out with respect to the step part and forming minute clearance between the step part and the other. The step part facing the seal fins is configured to protrude so that a cavity forming a main vortex and counter vortex being formed by the main vortex are formed on an upstream side of the seal fins. The cavity is formed so that an axial width dimension and a radial height dimension satisfy Formula expressed by 0.45?D/W?2.67.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130272855Abstract: A turbine includes a blade, a structure installed at a tip section side of the blade via a gap and configured to relatively rotate with respect to the blade, a step section formed at the tip section of the blade, having at least one step surface, and protruding toward a portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, a seal fin formed at the portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, extending toward the step section, and configured to form a micro gap between the step section and the seal fin, and a cutout section formed at the step surface to be connected to an upper surface of the step section. The cutout section guides a separation vortex separated from a main stream of a fluid passing through the gap toward the seal fin on the upper surface of the step section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130216354Abstract: It is intended to provide a single-casing steam turbine and a single-shaft combined-cycle power plant using the steam turbine that are capable of suppressing the performance decline of the high-pressure blade rows. A steam turbine 3 is a single-casing steam turbine having high-pressure blade rows 22 and low-pressure blade rows 26 and includes a high/intermediate-pressure chamber 10 housing the high-pressure blade rows 22, a low-pressure chamber 12 housing the low-pressure blade rows 26, and an expansion joint 30 for connecting the high/intermediate-pressure chamber 10 and the low-pressure chamber 12 and for sealing an interior space 31 of the high/intermediate-pressure chamber 10 and the low-pressure chamber 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2012Publication date: August 22, 2013Inventors: Takashi Maruyama, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130149124Abstract: The turbine (1) according to the present invention includes: a blade body (50) having a blade (59) provided at one of a rotor rotatably supported and a stator provided around the rotor and extending in a radial direction toward the other side from one side and a shroud (51) extending in a circumferential direction at a tip portion in the radial direction of the blade (59); and an accommodating concave body (11) provided at the other of the rotor and the stator, extending in the circumferential direction, accommodating the shroud (51) with a gap (G) interposed therebetween, and relatively rotating with respect to the blade body (50), wherein leakage flow (L) leaked from main flow (M) flowing along the blade (59) flows into the gap (G); and wherein the shroud is provided with a guide curved surface formed between a peripheral surface (53C) facing the accommodating concave body (11) and a trailing edge end portion (56) formed closer to the main flow (M) side in a downstream of the leakage flow (L) than the peripType: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masaaki Matsuura, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130149125Abstract: The turbine includes: a shaft body supported rotatably; a plurality of turbine blade members; a casing covering the shaft body and the turbine blade row; an outer ring member that is provided on an inner periphery of the casing and includes an inner peripheral portion in which a cross-section having a uneven shape is continuous in a circumferential direction; a plurality of turbine vane members that each has a shroud fitted into the inner peripheral portion of the outer ring member and a turbine vane main body extending from the shroud to a radially inward side; and a plate member that connects at least some of the plurality of turbine vane members and covers one side of the shrouds in the axial direction, thereby sealing a shroud gap formed between the shrouds adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Onishi, Yuichiro Waki, Shoki Yamashita, Takaaki Matsuo, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130129493Abstract: A turbine is provided including an annular turbine blade body (50) disposed on a flow path, a diaphragm outer ring (11) installed at a tip side of the blade body via a clearance, and seal fins (12A, 12B, 12C) formed to protrude from the diaphragm outer ring (11) and configured to form small clearances (13A, 13B, 13C) with the annular turbine blade body (50), wherein dead water region-filling sections (15, 17, 19) are formed in cavities (C1, C2, C3) in which main vortexes (SU1, SU2, SU3) are generated, such that a dead water region that the main vortexes (SU1, SU2, SU3) cannot reach is filled.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2011Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yukinori Machida, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20130094945Abstract: A seal structure includes shrouds that are provided at tips of a plurality of blades on which a main flow of fluid impinges and that come into contact with adjacent shrouds to form a cylindrical shape; a sealing part connected to a structure body facing the shrouds; and a space that is defined by downstream sides of the shrouds, a downstream side of the sealing part, and a wall on a downstream side of the structure body, and that communicates with the main flow of fluid that has impinged on the blades. An end of the wall on the downstream side of the structure body is formed so as to be disposed a predetermined distance away from a shroud extension and away from a sealing-part extension and so as to be located on the opposite side of the shroud extension with respect to the sealing-part extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20120321449Abstract: Provided is a turbine in which seal fins (15) are provided to a hub shroud (41) to protrude toward a bottom surface (33a) of an annular groove (33), small gaps (H) are formed between the tip ends of the seal fins and the bottom surface of the annular groove, and assuming that the axial distance between a first seal fin (15a) disposed on the front edge side of the hub shroud among the seal fins and a front edge (41a) of the hub shroud is (L) and the axial distance between the front edge of the hub shroud and an inside surface (33b) of the annular groove is (Bu), the first seal fin is disposed to satisfy L/Bu<0.3.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2011Publication date: December 20, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu yama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20120288360Abstract: A turbine (1) of the present invention comprises that at one part of a tip part (51) of the blade (50) and an area (11a) of the structure (11) corresponding to the tip part (51) of the blade, a stepped part (52) is formed, a seal fin (15) is provided at the another part of the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11a) of the structure (11), a cavity (C) is formed between the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11a) of the structure (11) and between the seal fin (15) and a partition wall (54, 15). The seal fin (15) comprises a fin main body part (16), and a space restriction part (17). Thus, the present invention provides a high performance turbine in which the leakage flow rate is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20120121393Abstract: The turbine is provided with a blade (50) and a structure body (11) which rotates relatively with respect to the blade (50). A stepped part (52A) having a step surface (53A) is installed at one of the leading end of the blade (50) and the structure body (11) corresponding to the leading end thereof, while a seal fin (15A) which extends toward the stepped part (52A) to form a small space (H) is installed at the other of them. A cavity (C1) is formed between the blade (50) and the structure body (11) and also between the seal fin (15A) and the partition wall which faces thereto in the rotating shaft direction of the structure body (11) on the upstream side. When a distance of the cavity (C1) between the partition wall and the seal fin (15A) is given as a cavity width (W), and a distance between the seal fin (15A) and the end edge (55) of the stepped part (52A) in the rotating shaft direction on the upstream side is given as (L), at least one of the distances (L) satisfies the following formula (1). 0.7H?L?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Ooyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
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Publication number: 20120017592Abstract: A steam turbine having at least a HP blade cascade, an IP blade cascade and a plurality of dummy members that are attached to a common rotor shaft, is provided with, but not limited to, a detection unit that detects a steam flow into an IP chamber, a pressure reducing unit that reduces a pressure difference between both sides of a target dummy member of said plurality of the dummy members when the steam flow into the IP chamber stops, the target dummy member having one side communicating with a part of the IP chamber, and a control unit that controls the pressure reducing unit based on a detection result obtained by the detection unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Inventors: Takashi MARUYAMA, Asaharu MATSUO