Patents by Inventor Masamitsu Kuwabara
Masamitsu Kuwabara 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).
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Patent number: 11867085Abstract: A turbine blade is provided with an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure surface and a suction surface which extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the airfoil portion internally forming a cooling passage. The cooling passage includes: a first cooling passage located closer to the pressure surface than the suction surface; and a second cooling passage located closer to the suction surface than the pressure surface. The first cooling passage and the second cooling passage are separated by a partition member disposed in the airfoil portion. At least one communication space connecting the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage is formed in the partition member.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Satoshi Hada, Saki Matsuo, Yoshitaka Uemura, Ryozo Tamura, Yasumasa Kunisada
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Patent number: 11713683Abstract: A turbine blade including an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The airfoil portion internally forming a cooling passage, which includes first and second cooling passages, and a plurality of outflow passages each having one end which opens to a merging portion formed by connecting an end portion of the first cooling passage on a side of the trailing edge and an end portion of the second cooling passage on the side of the trailing edge, and another end which opens to the trailing edge. The first cooling passage and the second cooling passage are divided by a partition member disposed in the airfoil portion. The cooling passage includes pressure side pin fins in the first cooling passage, and suction side pin fins in the second cooling passage.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Satoshi Hada, Saki Matsuo, Yoshitaka Uemura, Ryozo Tamura, Yasumasa Kunisada
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Patent number: 11578603Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion positioned opposite to the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank positioned between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has a cross-section which is perpendicular to the blade height direction of the airfoil portion, and in which a line segment connecting a widthwise center position of a leading-edge-side end portion of the shank and a widthwise center position of a trailing-edge-side end portion of the shank is sloped to a center line between a pressure-surface-side contour of the blade root portion and a suction-surface-side contour of the blade root portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yoshio Fukui, Masamitsu Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20220412220Abstract: A turbine blade is provided with an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure surface and a suction surface which extend between the leading edge and the trailing edge, the airfoil portion internally forming a cooling passage. The cooling passage includes: a first cooling passage located closer to the pressure surface than the suction surface; and a second cooling passage located closer to the suction surface than the pressure surface. The first cooling passage and the second cooling passage are separated by a partition member disposed in the airfoil portion. At least one communication space connecting the first cooling passage and the second cooling passage is formed in the partition member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Satoshi MIZUKAMI, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Satoshi HADA, Saki MATSUO, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Ryozo TAMURA, Yasumasa KUNISADA
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Publication number: 20220403744Abstract: A turbine blade including an airfoil portion having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between the leading edge and the trailing edge. The airfoil portion internally forming a cooling passage, which includes first and second cooling passages, and a plurality of outflow passages each having one end which opens to a merging portion formed by connecting an end portion of the first cooling passage on a side of the trailing edge and an end portion of the second cooling passage on the side of the trailing edge, and another end which opens to the trailing edge. The first cooling passage and the second cooling passage are divided by a partition member disposed in the airfoil portion. The cooling passage includes pressure side pin fins in the first cooling passage, and suction side pin fins in the second cooling passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: December 22, 2022Inventors: Satoshi MIZUKAMI, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Satoshi HADA, Saki MATSUO, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Ryozo TAMURA, Yasumasa KUNISADA
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Patent number: 11286785Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a blade body including a pressure surface and a suction surface; and a tip shroud on a tip portion of the blade body, the tip shroud being inclined outward in a radial direction from the pressure surface to the suction surface in an axial direction. The tip shroud includes a fin at a center portion in a circumferential direction, the fin extending radially outward, a pressure-side tip shroud on the pressure surface side, and a suction-side tip shroud. The suction-side tip shroud includes a suction-side contact block at a front edge end of the tip shroud. The pressure-side tip shroud includes a pressure-side contact block at a rear edge end of the tip shroud, the suction-side contact block includes a first surface facing in the circumferential direction, and the pressure-side contact block includes a second surface facing in a direction opposite to the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Norifumi Hirata, Tetsuya Shimmyo, Satoshi Hada, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Shunsuke Torii
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Patent number: 11248527Abstract: A ring segment includes segment bodies arranged along a circumferential direction; a main cavity; first cooling channels inside the segment body to extend along an axial direction of a rotor and arrayed in the circumferential direction, and whose ends communicate with the main cavity on an upstream side thereof; a second cooling channel inside the segment body on an upstream side in a rotation direction of the rotor to extend along the axial direction, and whose first end communicates with the main cavity on the upstream side thereof; and third cooling channels to extend along the circumferential direction, in a predetermined region forming a part of a lateral end of the segment body on the upstream side and stretching from an end of the segment body on a downstream side in the combustion gas flow direction toward the upstream side, and whose first ends communicate with the second cooling channel.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Keita Takamura, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Yusuke Izumi
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Patent number: 11148169Abstract: A method of forming a sprayed coating includes preparing a spray target member having a surface on which openings of first ends of holes are formed, preparing a plurality of masking pins each of which comprises metal, and inserting each of the masking pins into a corresponding one of the holes so that each of the masking pins partially protrudes from the surface. The method also includes applying an adhesive agent for fixing the masking pins to the respective holes, to at least one of the holes or the masking pins, forming a ceramic layer by spraying on the surface of the spraying target member, the ceramic layer comprising a ceramic material, while the masking pins are fixed to the respective holes via the adhesive agent, and removing the masking pins from the holes after the spraying step.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2015Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Taiji Torigoe, Masahiko Mega, Yoshifumi Okajima, Shuji Tanigawa, Masamitsu Kuwabara, Naotoshi Okaya
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Publication number: 20210115800Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes: a blade body including a pressure surface and a suction surface; and a tip shroud on a tip portion of the blade body, the tip shroud being inclined outward in a radial direction from the pressure surface to the suction surface in an axial direction. The tip shroud includes a fin at a center portion in a circumferential direction, the fin extending radially outward, a pressure-side tip shroud on the pressure surface side, and a suction-side tip shroud. The suction-side tip shroud includes a suction-side contact block at a front edge end of the tip shroud. The pressure-side tip shroud includes a pressure-side contact block at a rear edge end of the tip shroud, the suction-side contact block includes a first surface facing in the circumferential direction, and the pressure-side contact block includes a second surface facing in a direction opposite to the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Norifumi HIRATA, Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Satoshi HADA, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Shunsuke TORII
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Publication number: 20210095567Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion positioned opposite to the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank positioned between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has a cross-section which is perpendicular to the blade height direction of the airfoil portion, and in which a line segment connecting a widthwise center position of a leading-edge-side end portion of the shank and a widthwise center position of a trailing-edge-side end portion of the shank is sloped to a center line between a pressure-surface-side contour of the blade root portion and a suction-surface-side contour of the blade root portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Inventors: Yoshio FUKUI, Masamitsu KUWABARA
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Patent number: 10704394Abstract: A flow passage forming plate includes a plate main body, a peripheral wall, and a ledge. The plate main body has a gas path surface facing a side of a gas flow passage, and an inner surface facing the opposite side from the gas path surface. The peripheral wall protrudes along a peripheral edge of the plate main body, from the inner surface toward an opposite-flow-passage side. The ledge protrudes along an inner wall surface of the peripheral wall, from the inner surface toward the opposite-flow-passage side. The ledge receives an impingement plate having a plurality of through-holes. The ledge is disposed only in a part of an inner wall surface of the peripheral wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Tadakazu Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Shinji Yoshida, Yoshio Fukui, Masamitsu Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20200072465Abstract: A ring segment includes segment bodies arranged along a circumferential direction; a main cavity; first cooling channels inside the segment body to extend along an axial direction of a rotor and arrayed in the circumferential direction, and whose ends communicate with the main cavity on an upstream side thereof; a second cooling channel inside the segment body on an upstream side in a rotation direction of the rotor to extend along the axial direction, and whose first end communicates with the main cavity on the upstream side thereof; and third cooling channels to extend along the circumferential direction, in a predetermined region forming a part of a lateral end of the segment body on the upstream side and stretching from an end of the segment body on a downstream side in the combustion gas flow direction toward the upstream side, and whose first ends communicate with the second cooling channelType: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Keita TAKAMURA, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Yusuke IZUMI
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Patent number: 10358927Abstract: A retainer that protrudes from an inner shroud of a vane to a radially inner side and extends in a circumferential direction is formed with an opening that passes through the retainer in an axial direction and defines a space through which air flows. A width of the opening in the circumferential direction is wider than a width of a vane body in the circumferential direction at a radially inner end of the vane body at a position of the retainer in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Okajima, Masamitsu Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20180347369Abstract: A flow passage forming plate includes a plate main body, a peripheral wall, and a ledge. The plate main body has a gas path surface facing a side of a gas flow passage, and an inner surface facing the opposite side from the gas path surface. The peripheral wall protrudes along a peripheral edge of the plate main body, from the inner surface toward an opposite-flow-passage side. The ledge protrudes along an inner wall surface of the peripheral wall, from the inner surface toward the opposite-flow-passage side. The ledge receives an impingement plate having a plurality of through-holes. The ledge is disposed only in a part of an inner wall surface of the peripheral wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Inventors: Tadakazu SAKAGUCHI, Hiroshi SHIMIZU, Shinji YOSHIDA, Yoshio FUKUI, Masamitsu KUWABARA
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Patent number: 9989450Abstract: An erosion test apparatus includes a combustor configured to obtain a combustion gas by mixing and combusting compressed air and a fuel, and an erodent supply unit configured to supply an erodent to the combustion gas. The erosion test apparatus further includes an accommodation support unit configured to accommodate and support a test piece having a front surface coated through thermal barrier coating, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the combustion gas including the erodent to collide with the test piece.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Kudo, Taiji Torigoe, Junichiro Masada, Koji Takahashi, Yoshitaka Uemura, Yoshifumi Okajima, Naotoshi Okaya, Eisaku Ito, Masahiko Mega, Shigenari Horie, Shuji Tanigawa, Yasuhiko Tsuru, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Masamitsu Kuwabara
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Publication number: 20180030584Abstract: A thermal barrier coating (100) includes a heat-resistant alloy substrate which is used in a turbine member and a ceramic layer (300) which is formed on the heat-resistant alloy substrate and in which vertical cracks (C) extending in a thickness direction are dispersed in a surface direction and a plurality of pores (P) are included on the inside. Thermal spray particles composed of YbSZ having a particle-size distribution in which a 50% particle diameter in a cumulative particle-size distribution is 40 ?m to 100 ?m are thermally sprayed at a thermal spray distance of 80 mm or less, the vertical cracks (C) are dispersed at a pitch of 0.5 cracks/mm to 40 cracks/mm in the surface direction, and the ceramic layer (300) of which a porosity attributable to the vertical cracks (C) and the pores (P) combined is 4% to 15% is formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Yoshiyuki INOUE, Taiji TORIGOE, Daisuke KUDO, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Kei OSAWA, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Naotoshi OKAYA
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Publication number: 20180023178Abstract: The present invention provides a production method for thermal spray particles forming a ceramic layer in which vertical cracks extending in a thickness direction are dispersed in a surface direction and which includes a plurality of pores inside. The production method for thermal spray particles includes adjusting a solid content concentration of slurry (13) to 75 wt % to 85 wt %, supplying the slurry (13) to a disk-shaped atomizer (12) of a spray drying device (10), setting a protrusion speed at which the slurry (13) protrudes from the atomizer (12) to 60 m/second to 90 m/second. and performing a heat treatment on thermal spray particle bodies (22) formed by drying the slurry (13) to produce thermal spray particles composed of YbSZ in which a 50% particle diameter in a cumulative particle-size distribution is 40 ?m to 100 ?m.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Yoshiyuki INOUE, Taiji TORIGOE, Daisuke KUDO, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Kei OSAWA, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Naotoshi OKAYA
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Publication number: 20170297054Abstract: A method of forming a sprayed coating includes preparing a spray target member having a surface on which openings of first ends of holes are formed, preparing a plurality of masking pins each of which comprises metal, and inserting each of the masking pins into a corresponding one of the holes so that each of the masking pins partially protrudes from the surface. The method also includes applying an adhesive agent for fixing the masking pins to the respective holes, to at least one of the holes or the masking pins, forming a ceramic layer by spraying on the surface of the spraying target member, the ceramic layer comprising a ceramic material, while the masking pins are fixed to the respective holes via the adhesive agent, and removing the masking pins from the holes after the spraying step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Taiji TORIGOE, Masahiko MEGA, Yoshifumi OKAJIMA, Shuji TANIGAWA, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Naotoshi OKAYA
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Publication number: 20170226620Abstract: A heat shielding coating (11) includes a bond coat layer (12) as a metal coupling layer laminated on a base material (10), and a top coat layer (13) which is laminated on the bond coat layer (12) and includes zirconia-based ceramic, in which the top coat layer (13) has a porosity of 9% or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke KUDO, Taiji TORIGOE, Junichiro MASADA, Koji TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Yoshifumi OKAJIMA, Naotoshi OKAYA, Eisaku ITO, Masahiko MEGA, Shigenari HORIE, Shuji TANIGAWA, Yasuhiko TSURU, Keizo TSUKAGOSHI, Masamitsu KUWABARA
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Publication number: 20170138211Abstract: A ring segment cooling structure including: a cavity surrounded by main bodies of segment bodies; and cooling passages arranged inside the main body of the segment body in a circumferential direction, and having one ends communicating with the cavity and the other ends open at lateral ends of the segment body on the front side and the rear side in a rotation direction, wherein the cooling passages include first cooling passages formed in a first region of the segment body located on the front side in the rotation direction and through which cooling air is discharged from the rear side toward the front side in the rotation direction, and second cooling passages formed in a second region of the segment body located on the rear side in the rotation direction and through which the cooling air is discharged from the front side toward the rear side in the rotation direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Yoshio FUKUI, Masamitsu KUWABARA, Satoshi HADA