Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Uechi

Hideyuki Uechi 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).

  • Patent number: 11939915
    Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11834968
    Abstract: A steam generation apparatus includes: a heat medium flow passage through which a heat medium flows; a primary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage; a secondary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the primary economizer with respect to a flow direction of the heat medium; a primary evaporator disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the secondary economizer with respect to the flow direction of the heat medium; a first flash tank for generating flash steam; a first feed water line configured to supply water heated by the primary economizer to the secondary economizer; and a second feed water line disposed so as to branch from the first feed water line and configured to supply the water heated by the primary economizer to the first flash tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Yuichi Otani, Fumito Kajitani, Taichi Yoshii, Norito Katsuki, Kanako Nagayama, Takahiro Hidaka
  • Publication number: 20230304422
    Abstract: Provided is a plant that includes: a boiler; a device connected to the boiler; a water supply source that is configured to pool water; a water supply line that supplies water from the water supply source to the boiler; a cooler that transfers heat from a medium to be cooled to supply-water, which is the water flowing along the water supply line; a thermometer that determines a temperature of the medium to be cooled or the supply-water; and a temperature regulator that is configured to regulate the temperature of the medium to be cooled on the basis of the temperature determined by the thermometer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Naoki HISADA
  • Publication number: 20230258124
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant provided with a gas turbine; a waste heat recovery boiler which generates steam by exchanging heat between exhaust gas from the gas turbine and water; an absorption tower which recovers carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas; an EGR line which bleeds a portion of the exhaust gas and guides the same to the intake side of the gas turbine; an exhaust gas heater which uses steam extracted from the waste heat recovery boiler as a heat medium to heat the exhaust gas that has passed through the absorption tower, by exchanging heat between the heat medium and the exhaust gas; and an EGR heater which is provided on the EGR line, and which heats the exhaust gas passing through the EGR line by exchanging heat between the exhaust gas passing through the EGR line and the heat medium discharged from the exhaust gas heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Takashi SONODA, Kazunori TSUJII, Naoyuki NAGAFUCHI
  • Patent number: 11719121
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes an outer casing (19) that is provided with a first steam outlet port (54), through which exhaust steam flowing through the entire length of a flow path (21) defined between an inner casing main body (45) and an outer casing main body (51) in a direction along an axis (O1) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19), and a second steam outlet port (55), which is provided in the outer casing main body (51) and through which the exhaust steam passing through a portion of the flow path (21) or the exhaust steam not passing through the flow path (21) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19); a first valve (28) that adjusts opening of the first steam outlet port (54); and a second valve (32) that adjusts opening of the second steam outlet port (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Takumi Matsumura, Ryo Egami
  • Patent number: 11708773
    Abstract: Provided is a plant that includes: a boiler; a device connected to the boiler; a water supply source that is configured to pool water; a water supply line that supplies water from the water supply source to the boiler; a cooler that transfers heat from a medium to be cooled to supply-water, which is the water flowing along the water supply line; a thermometer that determines a temperature of the medium to be cooled or the supply-water; and a temperature regulator that is configured to regulate the temperature of the medium to be cooled on the basis of the temperature determined by the thermometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Naoki Hisada
  • Patent number: 11702988
    Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidefumi Araki, Satoshi Tanimura, Masakazu Nose, Jun Sasahara, Hideyuki Uechi, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11661867
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust heat recovery plant includes a plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices that have a gas turbine and an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam by recovering exhaust heat of the gas turbine, a steam-utilizing facility that utilizes the steam generated by the exhaust heat recovery boiler, and an inter-device heat medium supply unit capable of supplying a portion of water heated or a portion of the steam generated by at least one of the gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices out of the plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices, to the other gas turbine exhaust heat recovery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Eisaku Ito
  • Publication number: 20230022466
    Abstract: A steam generation apparatus includes: a heat medium flow passage through which a heat medium flows; a primary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage; a secondary economizer disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the primary economizer with respect to a flow direction of the heat medium; a primary evaporator disposed in the heat medium flow passage at an upstream side of the secondary economizer with respect to the flow direction of the heat medium; a first flash tank for generating flash steam; a first feed water line configured to supply water heated by the primary economizer to the secondary economizer; and a second feed water line disposed so as to branch from the first feed water line and configured to supply the water heated by the primary economizer to the first flash tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Yuichi OTANI, Fumito KAJITANI, Taichi YOSHII, Norito KATSUKI, Kanako NAGAYAMA, Takahiro HIDAKA
  • Patent number: 11519303
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a compressor configured to compress air; a combustor configured to combust fuel in the air compressed by the compressor so as to generate combustion gas; and a turbine configured to be driven using the combustion gas. Air coolers are configured to bleed the air from a plurality of places having different pressures in the compressor and cool the air bled from the respective places so as to generate cooling air. A waste heat recovery device is configured to recover waste heat from at least two of the air coolers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Yukimasa Nakamoto, Yuichi Oka
  • Patent number: 11519426
    Abstract: A non-positive displacement type pressurizing device for pressurizing a fluid includes a rotor including a rotary blade row including a plurality of rotary blades provided at intervals in a circumferential direction; a casing that accommodates the rotor; a stationary blade row supported by the casing and including a plurality of stationary blades provided at intervals in the circumferential direction; and a plurality of heat exchanging units for cooling the fluid, wherein the heat exchanging units are configured to divide a flow path formed between stationary blades, of the plurality of stationary blades, adjacent to one another in the circumferential direction in a height direction of the stationary blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Norito Katsuki, Takahiro Hidaka, Teppei Hata, Takahiro Yamana, Shigeki Senoo, Yuichiro Hirano
  • Publication number: 20220344944
    Abstract: A power generation plant includes a plant device, an AC motor for starting the plant device, at least one DC power source, and an inverter disposed between the at least one DC power source and the AC motor and between the at least one DC power source and an electrical power grid. The inverter is configured to convert DC power from the at least one DC power source to AC power and is capable of selectively supplying the AC power to the AC motor or the electrical power grid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Rikuma SHIJO, Kouji HORIZOE, Hisanobu SHINODA, Mitsufumi GOTO
  • Patent number: 11459948
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant includes a connection line configured to connect an outlet of a compressor high-pressure stage and an inlet of a turbine via a combustor, a bypass line configured to cause some or all of air compressed at a compressor low-pressure stage to bypass the compressor high-pressure stage and to be supplied to the connection line, and an adjustment device configured to adjust a flow rate of the air flowing through the bypass line. A plurality of types of fluid are supplied to the connection line in addition to the air compressed by the compressor, and during operation of the gas turbine plant, supply of at least one type of fluid of the plurality of types of fluid to the connection line is stopped according to an operating state of the gas turbine plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hanjoon Song
  • Patent number: 11433350
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide recovery system for collecting carbon dioxide from an exhaust gas generated in a facility including a combustion device includes: a first exhaust gas passage through which the exhaust gas containing carbon dioxide flows; a fuel cell including an anode, a cathode disposed on the first exhaust gas passage so that the exhaust gas from the first exhaust gas passage is supplied to the cathode, and an electrolyte transferring, from the cathode to the anode, a carbonate ion derived from carbon dioxide contained in the exhaust gas from the first exhaust gas passage; and a second exhaust gas passage diverging from the first exhaust gas passage upstream of the cathode so as to bypass the cathode. A part of the exhaust gas is introduced to the second exhaust gas passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Norihisa Matake, Kouji Horizoe, Hideyuki Uechi, Shigenori Suemori, Takuya Hirata, Yasutaka Aoki, Tatsuo Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11418038
    Abstract: A power generation plant includes a plant device, an AC motor for starting the plant device, at least one DC power source, and an inverter disposed between the at least one DC power source and the AC motor and between the at least one DC power source and an electrical power grid. The inverter is configured to convert DC power from the at least one DC power source to AC power and is capable of selectively supplying the AC power to the AC motor or the electrical power grid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Rikuma Shijo, Kouji Horizoe, Hisanobu Shinoda, Mitsufumi Goto
  • Patent number: 11408339
    Abstract: A steam turbine system (200) includes a steam turbine (60) in which a main flow path (C) through which a main steam flows is formed, and a saturated steam generation portion (210) that is configured to generate a saturated steam. The saturated steam generation portion (210) is configured to feed the saturated steam into a wet region (C1) in which the main steam in the main flow path (C) is in a wet state via a hollow portion formed inside a stator vane (650) of the steam turbine (60). The stator vane (650) has a plurality of supply ports that are formed such that the hollow portion is configured to communicate with the main flow path (C), and a discharge amount of the saturated steam increases from an inner circumferential side toward an outer circumferential side in a blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Tatsuo Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11391201
    Abstract: A plant includes a fuel supply line for supplying high-pressure fuel gas; and at least one expander disposed in the fuel supply line and configured to extract power from the high-pressure fuel gas by expanding the high-pressure fuel gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Norihisa Matake, Kouji Horizoe, Shigenori Suemori, Yasutaka Aoki, Yuya Konno
  • Publication number: 20220154646
    Abstract: An ammonia decomposition facility includes a heating medium line configured to flow a heating medium heated by heat generated by a gas turbine, an ammonia supply line configured to flow ammonia, an ammonia decomposition device, and an ammonia removal device. The ammonia decomposition device is configured to use heat of the heating medium from the heating medium line, thermally decompose ammonia from the ammonia supply line, and generate a decomposition gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and residual ammonia. The ammonia removal device is configured to remove the residual ammonia contained in the decomposition gas from the ammonia decomposition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Hideyuki UECHI, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA
  • Publication number: 20220148745
    Abstract: A nuclear power generation system includes a nuclear reactor that includes a reactor core fuel and a nuclear reactor vessel, the nuclear reactor vessel covering a surrounding of the reactor core fuel, shielding a space in which the reactor core fuel is present, and shielding radioactive rays; a heat conductive portion that is disposed in at least a part of the nuclear reactor vessel to transfer heat inside the nuclear reactor vessel to an outside by solid heat conduction; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between the heat conductive portion and a refrigerant; a refrigerant circulation unit that circulates the refrigerant passing through the heat exchanger; a turbine that is rotated by the refrigerant circulated by the refrigerant circulation unit; and a generator that rotates integrally with the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Chikara Kurimura, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hideyuki Uechi, Ryusuke Kimoto, Yoshiteru Komuro, Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Hideaki Ikeda, Satoru Kamohara, Shohei Otsuki, Wataru Nakazato, Yohei Kamiyama
  • Publication number: 20220099021
    Abstract: A raw material fluid treatment plant provided with a raw material reaction apparatus for reacting a raw material fluid to form a reaction gas. The raw material reaction apparatus includes preheaters and a reactor. The preheaters are heat exchangers that perform heat exchange between a second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid to heat the raw material fluid. The reactor is a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between a first heat transfer medium differing from the second heat transfer medium and the raw material fluid having been heated by the preheaters to heat and react the raw material fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hidefumi ARAKI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Masakazu NOSE, Jun SASAHARA, Yukio TANAKA, Atsushi YUASA