Patents by Inventor Kuniaki Aoyama

Kuniaki Aoyama 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: 6668557
    Abstract: A pilot nozzle of a gas turbine combustor comprises a first structure, provided near a main nozzle of a combustor that injects fuel oil, having a flow channel for a fuel gas and an outlet for the fuel gas. The first structure diffusion-injecting the fuel gas obliquely forward through the outlet to maintain a flame and to aid ignition of the fuel oil injected from the main nozzle. There is further provided a second structure which circulates in whirls a combustion gas generated due to the combustion of the fuel gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Kuniaki Aoyama, Mitsuru Inada, Shigemi Mandai, Satoshi Tanimura, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20030089801
    Abstract: There is provided a combustor comprising a fuel nozzle which is comprised of a rodlike body which has a fuel passage and which is located in an air passage; a plurality of hollow members which are connected to the fuel passage and which extend in radial directions from the rodlike body into the air passage; at least one injection port formed in each hollow member to inject a fuel from the fuel passage into the air passage; and a projection which extends from a farmost inner wall of each hollow member that is most distant from an axis of the rodlike body to the injection port that is most distant from the axis. A hole for leaking fuel that is connected to an air passage may be formed in a farmost inner wall of the hollow member that is more distant from an axis of a rodlike body than the injection port that is most distant from the axis, or may be formed to be adjacent to all the injection ports on an upstream or downstream side in the direction of the airflow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD.
    Inventors: Keijirou Saitoh, Takashi Kawano, Hidemi Niinai, Yutaka Kawata, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20030061817
    Abstract: A fuel ratio control method and a device therefor in a gas turbine combustor are provided in which supply ratio of pilot fuel to main fuel is appropriately maintained to thereby avoid unstable combustion, such as combustion vibration or misfire, and to realize a low NOx combustion. Fuel ratio control signal CSO is set corresponding to generator output LGEN put out by a generator output input unit 1. Pilot fuel ratio control is performed by correcting the fuel ratio control signal CSO corresponding to condition change in both or either one of combustion air and fuel. The condition change in the combustion air is at least one of changes in compressor on-line vane washing, ambient humidity, ambient pressure, etc. and the condition change in the fuel is a change in fuel component. The signal correction is also made by gas turbine deterioration factor or change rate in the generator output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industires, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20030037536
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor apparatus comprising plural combustors and plural fuel supply systems realizes a combustion of a lean and uniform pre-mixture in each of the combustors to thereby enable to reduce NOx generation. Flow regulating valves 29, 30 are provided in fuel supply systems 23, 24, respectively, that supply combustors 25, 26 with fuel. Pressure gauges 31, 32 are provided in the fuel supply systems 23, 24, respectively, in front of inlets of the combustors 25, 26. The flow regulating valves 29, 30 are controlled so that pressures measured by the pressure gauges 31, 32 become the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kuniaki Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20030019213
    Abstract: A pilot nozzle of a gas turbine combustor comprises a first structure, provided near a main nozzle of a combustor that injects fuel oil, having a flow channel for a fuel gas and an outlet for the fuel gas. The first structure diffusion-injecting the fuel gas obliquely forward through the outlet to maintain a flame and to aid ignition of the fuel oil injected from the main nozzle. There is further provided a second structure which circulates in whirls a combustion gas generated due to the combustion of the fuel gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Kuniaki Aoyama, Mitsuru Inada, Shigemi Mandai, Satoshi Tanimura, Katsunori Tanaka, Koichi Nishida
  • Publication number: 20020152751
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a side wall, for defining a combustion volume, having upstream and downstream ends, a pilot nozzle, disposed adjacent the upstream end of the side wall, for discharging a pilot fuel to form a diffusion flame in the combustion volume, and a plurality of main nozzles, provided around the pilot nozzles, for discharging a fuel-air mixture to form premixed flames in the combustion volume. Film air is supplied into the combustion volume downstream of the main nozzles along the inner surface of the side wall to reduce the fuel-air ratio in a region adjacent the inner surface of the side wall and to restrain a combustion-driven oscillation in the combustion volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2002
    Publication date: October 24, 2002
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Kiyoshi Suenaga, Kuniaki Aoyama, Kazufumi Ikeda, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20010022075
    Abstract: A gas turbine is provided with combustors having cooling passages formed in the wall of the combustors. The walls of the combustors are cooled by cooling fluid flowing through the cooling passages. Steam generated by a waste heat recovery boiler is supplied to the cooling passages as cooling fluid during the normal operation of the gas turbine. During start up and shut down operation of the gas turbine, pressurized air from the gas turbine compressor is supplied to the cooling passage as cooling fluid. Since pressurized air from the gas turbine compressor is used for cooling fluid for the combustors during start up and shut down operations, a separate auxiliary boiler is not required for supplying cooling steam to the combustor during start up and shut down operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Inventors: Shigemi Mandai, Masataka Ohta, Kuniaki Aoyama, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5897294
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade having a plurality of shower head cooling holes (1), bored in a blade leading edge portion, are arranged along a single line which is biased so as to correspond to the direction of swirling flow in a combustor. The swirling flow is clockwise or counter-clockwise. In particular, if the flow is clockwise, the cooling holes (1) are biased to the left hand side, as seen from upstream of the blade, toward a blade hub side (HS) from a blade tip side (TS). Also, if the flow is counter-clockwise, the cooling holes (1) are arrayed on one line which is biased to the reverse side relative to the latter case. The influence of the swirling flow is thus avoided, and the pressure at each position of the cooling holes (1) is constant, so that uniform cooling can be attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kuniaki Aoyama, Masao Terazaki