Patents by Inventor Junichiro Masada

Junichiro Masada 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).

  • Publication number: 20150197833
    Abstract: Provided is a Ni-based single crystal superalloy containing 6% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less of Cr, 0.4% by mass or more and 3.0% by mass or less of Mo, 6% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less of W, 4.0% by mass or more and 6.5% by mass or less of Al, 0% by mass or more and 1% by mass or less of Nb, 8% by mass or more and 12% by mass or less of Ta, 0% by mass or more and 0.15% by mass or less of Hf, 0.01% by mass or more and 0.2% by mass or less of Si, and 0% by mass or more and 0.04% by mass or less of Zr, and optionally containing at least one element selected from B, C, Y, La, Ce, and V, with a balance being Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: Kyoko Kawagishi, Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Michinari Yuyama, Masaki Taneike, Ikuo Okada, Sachio Shimohata, Hidetaka Oguma, Ryota Okimoto, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Yoshitaka Uemura, Junichiro Masada, Shunsuke Torii
  • Patent number: 8900512
    Abstract: The Ni-based single crystal alloy disclosed here is a single crystal and has a chemical composition containing, as % by mass, Co: 8 to 12%, Cr: 5 to 7.5%, Mo: 0.2 to 1.2%, W: 5 to 7%, Al: 5 to 6.5%, Ta: 8 to 12%. Hf: 0.01 to 0.2%, Re: 2 to 4%, Si: 0.005 to 0.1%, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: National Institute for Materials Science, Mitsubishi Heavy Indsutries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Ikuo Okada, Hidataka Oguma, Taiji Torigoe, Masaki Taneike, Eisaku Ito, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Hidemichi Koyabu
  • Patent number: 8550778
    Abstract: In a cooling system of ring segment that cools a ring segment of a gas turbine, the segment body of the ring segment is constituted from a collision plate that has a small hole that blows out cooling air, a cooling space that is enclosed by the collision plate and the main body of the segment body; a first cavity that receives the cooling air from the cooling space; and a first cooling passage, of which one end communicates with the first cavity, and the other end blows out the cooling air from openings that are arranged in the side end portion into combustion gas; the openings of the first cooling passages being arranged so that the arrangement pitch of the openings becomes smaller or the opening area of the openings becomes larger on the upstream in the flow direction of the combustion gas than the openings on the downstream, and are arranged so that the arrangement pitch of the openings becomes larger or the opening area of the openings becomes smaller on the downstream in the flow direction of the combust
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidemichi Koyabu, Satoshi Hada, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20130230393
    Abstract: An inner wall surface of a low-pressure-side side plate opposite to a lateral surface of a thin plats is formed along a direction crossing an axial direction of a rotating shaft such that a gap between the inner wall surface and the thin plate gradually decreases from a radially inner side toward a radially outer side of the low-pressure-side side plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Morimoto, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Junichiro Masada, Tatsuji Takahashi, Masato Araki, Tanehiro Shinohara, Hidekazu Uehara
  • Patent number: 8480353
    Abstract: A cooling system of a ring segment for a gas turbine, which includes first cooling passages disposed in an axial direction of the rotating shaft of a main body of the segment body, second cooling passages disposed at one end portion in a direction approximately perpendicular to the first cooling passages, and blowing a cooling air toward the end portion of a neighboring segment body, and third cooling passages connecting a first cavity, which is disposed approximately perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating shaft at the upstream-end portion, with a cooling space, which is surrounded by the segment body and a collision plate having a plurality of small holes. The first cooling passages include cooling passages of a first region and a second region having a smaller passage cross-sectional area than the first-region cooling passages or a greater arrangement pitch than the first-region cooling passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidemichi Koyabu, Satoshi Hada, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20130098063
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicants: TOHOKU ELECTRIC POWER CO., LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Junichiro Masada, Kazumasa Takata, Shunsuke Torii, Yuya Fukunaga, Tetsu Konishi, Yoshiaki Nishimura, Yoshiaki Igarashi, Shinya Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20120014832
    Abstract: The Ni-based single crystal alloy disclosed here is a single crystal and has a chemical composition containing, as % by mass, Co: 8 to 12%, Cr: 5 to 7.5%, Mo: 0.2 to 1.2%, W: 5 to 7%, Al: 5 to 6.5%, Ta: 8 to 12%. Hf: 0.01 to 0.2%, Re: 2 to 4%, Si: 0.005 to 0.1%, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Ikuo Okada, Hidataka Oguma, Tøiji Torigoe, Masaki Taneike, Eisaku Ito, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Hidemichi Koyabu
  • Publication number: 20110255989
    Abstract: In a cooling system of ring segment that cools a ring segment of a gas turbine, the segment body of the ring segment is constituted from a collision plate that has a small hole that blows out cooling air, a cooling space that is enclosed by the collision plate and the main body of the segment body; a first cavity that receives the cooling air from the cooling space; and a first cooling passage, of which one end communicates with the first cavity, and the other end blows out the cooling air from openings that are arranged in the side end portion into combustion gas; the openings of the first cooling passages being arranged so that the arrangement pitch of the openings becomes smaller or the opening area of the openings becomes larger on the upstream in the flow direction of the combustion gas than the openings on the downstream, and are arranged so that the arrangement pitch of the openings becomes larger or the opening area of the openings becomes smaller on the downstream in the flow direction of the combust
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidemichi Koyabu, Satoshi Hada, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20110252797
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant associated with a solar thermal electric generation system has a heat receiver which receives heat from the sun, a gas turbine having a compressor and a turbine which operates with an operating fluid compressed by the compressor and heated by the heat receiver, a temperature sensor which detects heat from the sun, an auxiliary driving device which is driven based on the temperature of the heat detected by the temperature sensor, and which starts the gas turbine, and a generator which converts kinetic energy generated as a result of the rotation of the turbine into electric energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuta Kobayashi, Masashi Tagawa, Kuniaki Aoyama, Toshiyuki Osada, Junichiro Masada, Manabu Maeda, Masahiro Masuda, Shiro Sugimoto, Hiroshi Kawashima, Takayoshi Iijima, Kenji Atarashiya, Keiji Mizuta, Shigenari Horie
  • Publication number: 20110182724
    Abstract: A cooling system of a ring segment for a gas turbine, which includes first cooling passages disposed in an axial direction of the rotating shaft of a main body of the segment body, second cooling passages disposed at one end portion in a direction approximately perpendicular to the first cooling passages, and blowing a cooling air toward the end portion of a neighboring segment body, and third cooling passages connecting a first cavity, which is disposed approximately perpendicular to the axial direction of the rotating shaft at the upstream-end portion, with a cooling space, which is surrounded by the segment body and a collision plate having a plurality of small holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidemichi Koyabu, Satoshi Hada, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi
  • Publication number: 20110138818
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicants: 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
  • Publication number: 20100223925
    Abstract: A solar thermal receiver capable of improving the power generation efficiency in solar thermal power generation, reducing the production cost, and enhancing the thermal shock resistance and a solar thermal power generation facility using the solar thermal receiver are provided. The solar thermal receiver that receives solar radiation to heat fluid includes a heat-receiving section that is made of metal and that constitutes a flow path in which at least the fluid flows; and a coating layer that is disposed on at least a surface of an area of the heat-receiving section irradiated with the sunlight, that absorbs energy of the sunlight, and that has heat resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro Masada, Satoshi Hada, Takayoshi Iijima
  • Publication number: 20070271930
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a cooling-air transfer system. The cooing-air transfer system extracts part of air discharged from a compressor to a chamber, and transfers the part of air as cooling air to a rotor disk. The cooling-air transfer system includes a plurality of tubular nozzles independently arranged in a circle inside the chamber to surround a rotor, and a seal disk having seal-disk cooling conduits arranged in a circle around the axis of the rotor so as to receive cooling air ejected from the tubular nozzles. The cooling-air transfer system swirls the cooling air ejected from the tubular nozzles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Takaoka, Masato Araki, Vincent Laurello, Masahito Kataoka, Junichiro Masada, Koichi Ishizaka, Naoki Hagi
  • Patent number: 6887039
    Abstract: A stationary blade of a gas turbine, which can reduce thermal stress produced at a portion in the vicinity of a rear edge of an inner shroud of the stationary blade. The stationary blade is positioned adjacent to at least one of moving-blade disks in an axial direction of the gas turbine. A concave portion is provided in the inner shroud in a manner such that the concave portion is formed in the vicinity of a rear edge of the inner shroud and on an inner-peripheral face of the inner shroud, where cooling air passes along the inner-peripheral face which faces a rotation shaft of the moving-blade disks; and a protruding portion which protrudes towards the rotation shaft is formed at the rear edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6761529
    Abstract: A collision plate having plural small holes is provided at an interval from a bottom surface of an inner shroud to form a chamber and guides cooling air from the small holes into the chamber. A leading edge flow path is provided at a leading edge side along a width direction and introduces the cooling air. A side flow path is provided along both sides of the inner shroud and guides the cooling air to a trailing edge side. A header is formed along the width direction near the trailing edge and guides the cooling air from the side flow path. Plural trailing edge flow paths are formed at the trailing edge side at intervals along a width direction, in which one end of each flow path is connected to the header and the other end is open at the trailing edge, and the cooling air in the header is ejected from the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Mitshubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Patent number: 6742991
    Abstract: A turbine blade applicable to a gas turbine has a turbine blade body having film cooling holes, the interior space of which is partitioned into two cavities by a rib. Hollow inserts each having impingement holes are respectively arranged in the cavities to form cooling spaces therebetween. Communication is ensured between the cavities by bypass hole and slits, so that the impingement cooling is interrupted with respect to the prescribed side having a good heat transmission in the turbine blade body. A partition wall is further arranged between the rib and the insert arranged in the trailing-edge side, thus providing a separation between the cooling spaces respectively arranged in the rear side and front side. Thus, it is possible to noticeably reduce the amount of cooling air in the turbine blade body; and it is possible to reduce temperature differences entirely over the turbine blade body as small as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20040073400
    Abstract: It provides a method for managing the remaining life of a high temperature component used in a gas turbine that enables a state of fatigue of a high temperature component to be evaluated and controlled with a high level of accuracy, and a program medium for performing the method for managing the remaining life of a high temperature gas turbine component on a computer. In the method for managing the lifespan of a high temperature component used in a gas turbine, the lifespan of a high temperature component being evaluated is set within an operating area bounded by a component life limit line that is determined on the basis of field data giving the correlation between the operating time and operating cycles for the state of fatigue from past high temperature components. As the program medium, a medium is employed that is provided with a program in which this method is used for managing a lifespan of a high temperature component used in a gas turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuoki Tomita, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Friedrich Soechting, Vinod Kallianpur, Jun-Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20040018082
    Abstract: A collision plate having plural small holes is provided at an interval from a bottom surface of an inner shroud to form a chamber and guides cooling air from the small holes into the chamber. A leading edge flow path is provided at a leading edge side along a width direction and introduces the cooling air. A side flow path is provided along both sides of the inner shroud and guides the cooling air to a trailing edge side. A header is formed along the width direction near the trailing edge and guides the cooling air from the side flow path. Plural trailing edge flow paths are formed at the trailing edge side at intervals along a width direction, in which one end of each flow path is connected to the header and the other end is open at the trailing edge, and the cooling air in the header is ejected from the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20040009066
    Abstract: A turbine blade applicable to a gas turbine has a turbine blade body having film cooling holes, the interior space of which is partitioned into two cavities by a rib. Hollow inserts each having impingement holes are respectively arranged in the cavities to form cooling spaces therebetween. Communication is ensured between the cavities by a communication means, so that the impingement cooling is interrupted with respect to the prescribed side having a good heat transmission in the turbine blade body. A partition wall is further arranged between the rib and the insert arranged in the trailing-edge side, thus providing a separation between the cooling spaces respectively arranged in the rear side and front side. Thus, it is possible to noticeably reduce the amount of cooling air in the turbine blade body; and it is possible to reduce temperature differences entirely over the turbine blade body as small as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita
  • Publication number: 20040009059
    Abstract: A stationary blade of a gas turbine, which can reduce thermal stress produced at a portion in the vicinity of a rear edge of an inner shroud of the stationary blade. The stationary blade is positioned adjacent to at least one of moving-blade disks in an axial direction of the gas turbine. A concave portion is provided in the inner shroud in a manner such that the concave portion is formed in the vicinity of a rear edge of the inner shroud and on an inner-peripheral face of the inner shroud, where cooling air passes along the inner-peripheral face which faces a rotation shaft of the moving-blade disks; and a protruding portion which protrudes towards the rotation shaft is formed at the rear edge of the inner shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Publication date: January 15, 2004
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Friedrich Soechting, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Junichiro Masada, Yasuoki Tomita