Patents by Inventor Katsuyoshi Tada

Katsuyoshi Tada 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: 11692710
    Abstract: A burner comprises: at least one mixing tube extending inside a fuel plenum and having an interior configured to be supplied with an air; and a plurality of fuel injection holes for injecting a fuel supplied to the fuel plenum into the interior of the at least one mixing tube. When the at least one mixing tube is viewed in an axial direction of the mixing tube, a central axis of each of the plurality of fuel injection holes is oblique in a same direction with respect to a circumferential direction of the mixing tube, to a radial direction of the mixing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Tada
  • Publication number: 20220381184
    Abstract: A burner assembly includes a plurality of burners for mixing fuel and air. Each of the plurality of burners includes: at least one fuel nozzle for injecting the fuel; and a mixing passage into which the fuel injected from the at least one fuel nozzle and the air are introduced. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes a protruding portion protruding upstream of an inlet of the mixing passage in a flow direction of the air. Each of the at least one fuel nozzle includes at least one fuel injection hole formed on a side surface of the protruding portion. A top surface of the protruding portion includes a convex curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Shinichi FUKUBA, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Keisuke MIURA, Tomohiro ASAI, Kenji MIYAMOTO, Tomo KAWAKAMI, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Katsuyoshi TADA
  • Patent number: 11371707
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a casing having an air chamber filled with air; at least one mixing passage forming member forming at least one mixing passage which is connected at an inlet side to the air chamber and at an outlet side to a combustion chamber and having an inlet at the inlet side of the at least one mixing passage so as to communicate with the air chamber; and at least one fuel nozzle disposed inside the air chamber and having a fuel injection hole, positioned upstream of the inlet of the at least one mixing passage forming member, for injecting fuel downstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura
  • Publication number: 20220163200
    Abstract: A combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles installed so as to be extended in a direction of a nozzle axis and configured to inject fuel toward one side in the direction of the nozzle axis, a pipe plate having a plurality of air holes formed therein so as to be extended in the direction of the nozzle axis, in which the air hole has an inner diameter larger than a tip end portion of the fuel nozzle and the tip end portions are respectively inserted into the air holes, and a step surface formed at a position of the tip end portion closer to the other side in the direction of the nozzle axis than a tip end surface of the tip end portion so as to be expanded in a radial direction with respect to the nozzle axis from a tip end outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Katsuyoshi TADA, Keijiro SAITO, Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Mitsuhiro KARISHUKU
  • Patent number: 11274832
    Abstract: The present invention is a downstream plate which is provided on a downstream side of an upstream plate includes an air inlet into which cooling air is introduced from a cooling air introduction pipe and a cooling flow path which extends in a direction along a surface of the downstream plate from the air inlet so as to avoid a premix tube and through which cooling air flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Tanimura, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20220074347
    Abstract: A burner comprises: at least one mixing tube extending inside a fuel plenum and having an interior configured to be supplied with an air; and a plurality of fuel injection holes for injecting a fuel supplied to the fuel plenum into the interior of the at least one mixing tube. When the at least one mixing tube is viewed in an axial direction of the mixing tube, a central axis of each of the plurality of fuel injection holes is oblique in a same direction with respect to a circumferential direction of the mixing tube, to a radial direction of the mixing tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi TADA
  • Patent number: 11079113
    Abstract: A fuel injector including a fuel supply tube (8), a plurality of premix tubes (2), a support plate (3) which supports the fuel supply tube and the plurality of premix tubes, a substrate which supports downstream end portions of the plurality of premix tubes, an outer wall which is cylindrical, which forms a plenum (P) inside, a partition plate which partitions the plenum (P) into a fuel plenum (PF) and a cooling air plenum (PA), a baffle which partitions the cooling air plenum (PA) into an upstream cooling air plenum (PA1) and a downstream cooling air plenum (PA2) and has a plurality of cooling holes formed therein, and a cooling air supply tube configured to supply cooling air to the upstream cooling air plenum (PA1), in which the end portion on the downstream side of the fuel supply tube opens in the fuel plenum (PF), and a fuel introduction hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Kei Inoue, Satoshi Tanimura, Keijiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20210102703
    Abstract: A fuel injector including a fuel supply tube (8), a plurality of premix tubes (2), a support plate (3) which supports the fuel supply tube and the plurality of premix tubes, a substrate which supports downstream end portions of the plurality of premix tubes, an outer wall which is cylindrical, which forms a plenum (P) inside, a partition plate which partitions the plenum (P) into a fuel plenum (PF) and a cooling air plenum (PA), a baffle which partitions the cooling air plenum (PA) into an upstream cooling air plenum (PA1) and a downstream cooling air plenum (PA2) and has a plurality of cooling holes formed therein, and a cooling air supply tube configured to supply cooling air to the upstream cooling air plenum (PA1), in which the end portion on the downstream side of the fuel supply tube opens in the fuel plenum (PF), and a fuel introduction hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi TADA, Kei INOUE, Satoshi TANIMURA, Keijiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20210088216
    Abstract: A combustor according to the present invention includes: a casing 20 having an air chamber 121 filled with air; at least one mixing passage forming member 131 forming at least one mixing passage 134 which is connected at an inlet side to the air chamber 121 and at an outlet side to a combustion chamber 124 and having an inlet 142 formed at the inlet side of the at least one mixing passage 134 so as to communicate with the air chamber 121; and at least one fuel nozzle 132 disposed inside the air chamber 121 and having a fuel injection hole 133, positioned upstream of the inlet 142 of the mixing passage forming member 131, for injecting fuel downstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi TADA, Keijiro SAITO, Satoshi TANIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200386164
    Abstract: The present invention is a downstream plate which is provided on a downstream side of an upstream plate includes an air inlet into which cooling air is introduced from a cooling air introduction pipe and a cooling flow path which extends in a direction along a surface of the downstream plate from the air inlet so as to avoid a premix tube and through which cooling air flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi TADA, Keijiro SAITO, Satoshi TANIMURA, Kenta TANIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190360697
    Abstract: A fuel injector includes a premix tube, a fuel introduction unit, and a downstream side plate. The premix tube includes a tube body and a guide part. In the tube body, a through-hole which allows communication between an internal space and an external space is formed at an upstream side end part on a side close to the inlet port. The guide part extends from an end part of the through-hole in a circumferential direction centered on an axis of the premix tube to intersect both the circumferential direction and an axial direction in which the axis extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi TADA
  • Patent number: 10415830
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a nozzle, a swirl vane having a fuel injection hole, the swirl vane being disposed in an air flow passage of an annular shape extending along an axial direction of the nozzle around the nozzle, and a partition plate having an annular shape and partitioning at least a region of the air flow passage in a radial direction of the nozzle, so as to divide at least the region into an inner flow passage facing an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle and an outer flow passage disposed on an outer side of the inner flow passage with respect to the radial direction. The fuel injection hole is disposed in the outer flow passage of the air flow passage. An end portion on an upstream side of the partition plate is disposed upstream of the fuel injection hole in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Inoue, Shinji Akamatsu, Naoki Abe, Kenta Taniguchi, Keijiro Saito, Katsuyoshi Tada
  • Patent number: 10240791
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a nozzle and a swirl vane disposed in an axial flow path extending along an axial direction of the nozzle. The swirl vane includes a tip portion for swirling gas, the gas flowing through a radially-outer region of the axial flow path, and a root portion disposed on an inner side in a radial direction of the nozzle, the root portion having a cutout on a side of a trailing edge. The radially-outer region and a radially-inner region of the axial flow path communicate with each other, at least in a range in the axial direction in which the swirl vane is disposed. The swirl vane has a pressure surface, a downstream region of the pressure surface of the root portion being defined by the cutout as a curved surface which curves in a direction opposite to the swirl direction toward the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naonori Nagai, Katsuyoshi Tada, Kei Inoue, Keijiro Saito
  • Publication number: 20170292706
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a nozzle, a swirl vane having a fuel injection hole, the swirl vane being disposed in an air flow passage of an annular shape extending along an axial direction of the nozzle around the nozzle, and a partition plate having an annular shape and partitioning at least a region of the air flow passage in a radial direction of the nozzle, so as to divide at least the region into an inner flow passage facing an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle and an outer flow passage disposed on an outer side of the inner flow passage with respect to the radial direction. The fuel injection hole is disposed in the outer flow passage of the air flow passage. An end portion on an upstream side of the partition plate is disposed upstream of the fuel injection hole in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kei INOUE, Shinji AKAMATSU, Naoki ABE, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Keijiro SAITO, Katsuyoshi TADA
  • Publication number: 20160298845
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a nozzle and a swirl vane disposed in an axial flow path extending along an axial direction of the nozzle. The swirl vane includes a tip portion for swirling gas, the gas flowing through a radially-outer region of the axial flow path, and a root portion disposed on an inner side in a radial direction of the nozzle, the root portion having a cutout on a side of a trailing edge. The radially-outer region and a radially-inner region of the axial flow path communicate with each other, at least in a range in the axial direction in which the swirl vane is disposed. The swirl vane has a pressure surface, a downstream region of the pressure surface of the root portion being defined by the cutout as a curved surface which curves in a direction opposite to the swirl direction toward the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Naonori NAGAI, Katsuyoshi TADA, Kei INOUE, Keijiro SAITO
  • Publication number: 20070266726
    Abstract: An air-conditioning unit and an air-conditioning apparatus capable of setting the air temperature at a defroster vents higher than the air temperature at the foot vents during heating operation are provided. Each of the air-conditioning unit and air-conditioning apparatus includes a chassis; a cooling unit configured to cool air introduced into the chassis; a heating unit configured to heat air introduced into the chassis; a conditioned-air channel configured to guide the heated air and the cooled air into a high-temperature hot-air vent and a low-temperature hot-air vent; and a mixing-suppression unit configured to suppress mixing of the heated air and the cooled air, the mixing-suppression unit being provided in the conditioned-air channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Tada, Shiro Matsubara, Hajime Izumi, Tsuyoshi Eguchi