Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Otomo

Hiroyuki Otomo 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: 11939882
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge portion having a plurality of cooling holes. The plurality of cooling holes includes: m cooling holes arranged in a first range in the blade height direction, where m is an integer of 2 or more; and n cooling holes arranged in a second range on the blade tip side of the first range in the blade height direction, where n is an integer of 2 or more, and n/b<m/a is satisfied, where a is the dimension of the first range in the blade height direction, and b is the dimension of the second range in the blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitada, Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Patent number: 11905848
    Abstract: To provide a turbine blade, a manufacturing method for a turbine blade, and a gas turbine. In the turbine blade including a cooling passage provided along a blade height direction, the cooling passage includes: a first cooling hole including one end opening toward a front end, and having an inner diameter that is constant along the blade height direction; and a second cooling hole including one end communicating with the other end of the first cooling hole without a level difference, and having an inner diameter that is increased toward a base end. A length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a position where the first cooling hole and the second cooling hole are communicated with is 40% to 60% of a length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a gas path surface on the base end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hatta, Keita Takamura, Susumu Wakazono, Takashi Fujii, Hiroyuki Otomo, Yosuke Mukai, Kazuhisa Tamura, Takaaki Oda, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Kishihara
  • Patent number: 11834994
    Abstract: A turbine vane includes a blade body and a shroud. The shroud includes a gas path surface, a front end surface, a front end corner portion which is a corner portion between the gas path surface and the front end surface, a cavity defining surface which defines a cavity allowing cooling air to flow thereinto, a first air passage in which the cooling air flows, and a second air passage in which the cooling air flows. The first air passage includes a first inlet opened at the cavity defining surface and a first outlet opened at the front end corner portion. The second air passage includes a second inlet opened at the cavity defining surface and a second outlet opened at the front end surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Satoshi Hada, Tomoko Morikawa, Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Patent number: 11560802
    Abstract: A blade and gas turbine include a stationary blade main body provided internally with cavities, and an inner shroud linked to an end portion, in the longitudinal direction, of the stationary blade main body, and which is internally provided with an inner shroud cooling passage with which a first cavity is in fluid communication. The inner shroud is provided, in front edge corner portions, with a first chamfered portion intersecting a front surface, a side surface, and an upper surface, and first cooling holes in fluid communication with the inner shroud cooling passage are provided in the first chamfered portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otomo, Shogo Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11499430
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a root portion fixed to a rotor shaft; and an airfoil portion including a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a top surface connecting the pressure surface and the suction surface, with a cooling passage formed inside the airfoil portion. The top surface of the turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge region located on the leading edge side and formed parallel to the rotor shaft, and a trailing edge region adjacent to the leading edge region. The trailing edge region has an inclined surface inclined radially inward toward a trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kitada, Satoshi Hada, Hiroyuki Otomo, Yasumasa Kunisada
  • Publication number: 20220268211
    Abstract: A turbine vane includes a blade body and a shroud. The shroud includes a gas path surface, a front end surface, a front end corner portion which is a corner portion between the gas path surface and the front end surface, a cavity defining surface which defines a cavity allowing cooling air to flow thereinto, a first air passage in which the cooling air flows, and a second air passage in which the cooling air flows. The first air passage includes a first inlet opened at the cavity defining surface and a first outlet opened at the front end corner portion. The second air passage includes a second inlet opened at the cavity defining surface and a second outlet opened at the front end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Saki MATSUO, Satoshi HADA, Tomoko MORIKAWA, Hiroyuki OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20220220856
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge portion having a plurality of cooling holes. The plurality of cooling holes includes: m cooling holes arranged in a first range in the blade height direction, where m is an integer of 2 or more; and n cooling holes arranged in a second range on the blade tip side of the first range in the blade height direction, where n is an integer of 2 or more, and n/b<m/a is satisfied, where a is the dimension of the first range in the blade height direction, and b is the dimension of the second range in the blade height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki KITADA, Hiroyuki OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20220170376
    Abstract: To provide a turbine blade, a manufacturing method for a turbine blade, and a gas turbine. In the turbine blade including a cooling passage provided along a blade height direction, the cooling passage includes: a first cooling hole including one end opening toward a front end, and having an inner diameter that is constant along the blade height direction; and a second cooling hole including one end communicating with the other end of the first cooling hole without a level difference, and having an inner diameter that is increased toward a base end. A length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a position where the first cooling hole and the second cooling hole are communicated with is 40% to 60% of a length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a gas path surface on the base end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Masayoshi HATTA, Keita TAKAMURA, Susumu WAKAZONO, Takashi FUJII, Hiroyuki OTOMO, Yosuke MUKAI, Kazuhisa TAMURA, Takaaki ODA, Hiroshi KAWASAKI, Hiroyuki KISHIHARA
  • Patent number: 11339669
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion, a cooling passage inside the airfoil portion, and a plurality of cooling holes formed in a trailing edge part of the airfoil portion. The cooling holes communicating with the cooling passage and opening in a surface of the trailing edge part. A relation of d_up<d_mid<d_down is satisfied, where d_mid is an index indicating opening densities of the cooling holes in a center region including an intermediate position between a first end and a second end of the airfoil portion in the blade height direction, d_up is an index in a region positioned upstream of a flow of a cooling medium in the cooling passage from the center region in the blade height direction, and d_down is an index in a region positioned downstream of the flow of the cooling medium from the center region in the blade height direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Tsuji, Ryuta Ito, Hiroyuki Otomo, Satoshi Hada, Susumu Wakazono
  • Patent number: 11313232
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a blade main body that includes a cooling flow path formed inside, through which a cooling medium flows; and a plurality of turbulators that are aligned in a flow direction of the cooling medium, project into the cooling flow path from an inner surface of the blade main body, and extend in a direction intersecting with the flow direction. At least one of the turbulators is a first turbulator. The first turbulator includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is connected to the first portion and has a projecting height from the inner surface that changes at a first change ratio along a direction intersecting with the flow direction. The second portion has a projecting height from the inner surface that changes at a second change ratio higher than the first change ratio along the direction intersecting with the flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Publication number: 20210340877
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a root portion fixed to a rotor shaft; and an airfoil portion including a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a top surface connecting the pressure surface and the suction surface, with a cooling passage formed inside the airfoil portion. The top surface of the turbine rotor blade includes a leading edge region located on the leading edge side and formed parallel to the rotor shaft, and a trailing edge region adjacent to the leading edge region. The trailing edge region has an inclined surface inclined radially inward toward a trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroki KITADA, Satoshi HADA, Hiroyuki OTOMO, Yasumasa KUNISADA
  • Publication number: 20210310360
    Abstract: A blade and gas turbine include a stationary blade main body provided internally with cavities, and an inner shroud linked to an end portion, in the longitudinal direction, of the stationary blade main body, and which is internally provided with an inner shroud cooling passage with which a first cavity is in fluid communication. The inner shroud is provided, in front edge corner portions, with a first chamfered portion intersecting a front surface, a side surface, and an upper surface, and first cooling holes in fluid communication with the inner shroud cooling passage are provided in the first chamfered portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OTOMO, Shogo FURUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210123349
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes an airfoil portion, a cooling passage inside the airfoil portion, and a plurality of cooling holes formed in a trailing edge part of the airfoil portion. The cooling holes communicating with the cooling passage and opening in a surface of the trailing edge part. A relation of d_up<d_mid<d_down is satisfied, where d_mid is an index indicating opening densities of the cooling holes in a center region including an intermediate position between a first end and a second end of the airfoil portion in the blade height direction, d_up is an index in a region positioned upstream of a flow of a cooling medium in the cooling passage from the center region in the blade height direction, and d_down is an index in a region positioned downstream of the flow of the cooling medium from the center region in the blade height direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshifumi TSUJI, Ryuta ITO, Hiroyuki OTOMO, Satoshi HADA, Susumu WAKAZONO
  • Patent number: 10641116
    Abstract: A plurality of circumferential blowout passages that communicate with a cavity into which cooling air flows and that open in a circumferential end surface are formed in a shroud of a vane. Of a central region of the circumferential end surface, an upstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, and a downstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, at least the central region has openings of the plurality of circumferential blowout passages formed therein. A density that is the number of the openings of the circumferential blowout passages per unit length in an axial direction is highest in the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otomo, Satoshi Hada
  • Patent number: 10626732
    Abstract: A blade has a flow passage forming plate that defines a part of a combustion gas flow passage. The flow passage forming plate has a plurality of back channels that open in a back end surface. A density of openings of the plurality of back channels in a middle region of the back end surface is higher than the density of openings of the plurality of back channels in at least one side region of a suction-side region and a pressure-side region of the back end surface. The density of openings is a ratio of a length of wetted perimeter of the plurality of back channels to an interval of openings of the plurality of back channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Tomoko Morikawa, Satoshi Hada, Hiroyuki Otomo
  • Publication number: 20200018170
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes a blade main body that includes a cooling flow path formed inside, through which a cooling medium flows; and a plurality of turbulators that are aligned in a flow direction of the cooling medium, project into the cooling flow path from an inner surface of the blade main body, and extend in a direction intersecting with the flow direction. At least one of the turbulators is a first turbulator. The first turbulator includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is connected to the first portion and has a projecting height from the inner surface that changes at a first change ratio along a direction intersecting with the flow direction. The second portion has a projecting height from the inner surface that changes at a second change ratio higher than the first change ratio along the direction intersecting with the flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventor: Hiroyuki OTOMO
  • Publication number: 20180202301
    Abstract: A plurality of circumferential blowout passages that communicate with a cavity into which cooling air flows and that open in a circumferential end surface are formed in a shroud of a vane. Of a central region of the circumferential end surface, an upstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, and a downstream-side region of the circumferential end surface, at least the central region has openings of the plurality of circumferential blowout passages formed therein. A density that is the number of the openings of the circumferential blowout passages per unit length in an axial direction is highest in the central region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OTOMO, Satoshi HADA
  • Publication number: 20180045060
    Abstract: A blade has a flow passage forming plate that defines a part of a combustion gas flow passage. The flow passage forming plate has a plurality of back channels that open in a back end surface. A density of openings of the plurality of back channels in a middle region of the back end surface is higher than the density of openings of the plurality of back channels in at least one side region of a suction-side region and a pressure-side region of the back end surface. The density of openings is a ratio of a length of wetted perimeter of the plurality of back channels to an interval of openings of the plurality of back channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER AYSTEMS,LTD.
    Inventors: Saki MATSUO, Tomoko MORIKAWA, Satoshi HADA, Hiroyuki OTOMO
  • Patent number: 9644485
    Abstract: A blade is formed with blade air passages connecting the inside of a blade body of the blade and the inside of a platform of the blade. The platform is formed with pressure side passages that extend from the blade air passages toward a circumferential pressure side, are open at a pressure side end face, and are arranged in an axial direction. Further, the platform is formed with a suction side main passage into which cooling air flows, and a suction side passage that communicates with the suction side main passage and extends from the suction side main passage along a suction side end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Otomo, Masamitsu Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20160177751
    Abstract: A blade is formed with blade air passages connecting the inside of a blade body of the blade and the inside of a platform of the blade. The platform is formed with a plurality of pressure side passages that extend from the blade air passages toward a circumferential pressure side, are open at a pressure side end face, and are arranged in an axial direction. Further, the platform is formed with a suction side main passage into which cooling air flows, and a suction side passage that communicates with the suction side main passage and extends from the suction side main passage along a suction side end face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroyuki OTOMO, Masamitsu KUWABARA