Patents by Inventor Naoyuki Nagai
Naoyuki Nagai 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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Publication number: 20240110594Abstract: A bearing device is configured to rotatably support a rotational shaft of a rotating machine and includes: a semi-floating bearing supported by a bearing housing; and an anti-rotation pin fixed to the bearing housing and having an insertion portion inserted from an outer peripheral side into an insertion hole formed on an outer surface of the semi-floating bearing. At least one of the insertion hole or the insertion portion has at least one protrusion that protrudes toward the other of the insertion hole or the insertion portion in a plan view perpendicular to an axis of the rotational shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Marine Machinery & Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Ogawa, Naoyuki Nagai, Takaya Futae, Taiyo Shirakawa
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Patent number: 11655851Abstract: A bearing device according to an embodiment is a bearing device for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft, the device including at least one rolling bearing which includes an inner race fixed to the rotational shaft, a rolling element, and an outer race for rotatably holding the rolling element with the inner race, and a casing for housing the rolling bearing, the casing including a plurality of first oil supply holes formed at intervals in a circumferential direction for supplying lubricant oil to a first gap between the rolling bearing and an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Each of the plurality of first oil supply holes satisfies: ?·d1·?1<?·d12/4,??(a) where d1 is a diameter of an outlet opening of the first oil supply hole, and ?1 is a space of the first gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Nagai, Takuya Arakawa, Takaya Futae, Shuichi Miura, Yosuke Dammoto, Akihiro Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20230021310Abstract: A coupling device according to an embodiment is a coupling device for connecting a first shaft and a second shaft that includes a primary inner ring member mounted on the first shaft, a primary outer ring member disposed on an outer circumferential side of the primary inner ring member, a primary elastic member for connecting the primary inner ring member and the primary outer ring member, a secondary inner ring member mounted on the second shaft, a secondary outer ring member disposed on an outer circumferential side of the secondary inner ring member, a secondary elastic member for connecting the secondary inner ring member and the secondary outer ring member, and a weight attaching plate interposed between the primary outer ring member and the secondary outer ring member, the weight attaching plate including a weight attaching portion capable of attaching and detaching an additional weight to and from the outer circumferential side of the primary outer ring member and the outer circumferential side of theType: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki NAGAI, Nobuaki SATOU
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Publication number: 20220163064Abstract: A bearing device according to an embodiment is a bearing device for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft, the device including at least one rolling bearing which includes an inner race fixed to the rotational shaft, a rolling element, and an outer race for rotatably holding the rolling element with the inner race, and a casing for housing the rolling bearing, the casing including a plurality of first oil supply holes formed at intervals in a circumferential direction for supplying lubricant oil to a first gap between the rolling bearing and an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Each of the plurality of first oil supply holes satisfies: ?·d1·?1<?·d12/4 ??(a) , where d1 is a diameter of an outlet opening of the first oil supply hole, and ?1 is a space of the first gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki NAGAI, Takuya ARAKAWA, Takaya FUTAE, Shuichi MIURA, Yosuke DAMMOTO, Akihiro SUGIYAMA
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Patent number: 11215222Abstract: A turbocharger includes a rotor shaft that is rotationally driven, a compressor impeller attached to the rotor shaft, and a cylindrical bearing portion that includes an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, and that supports the rotor shaft in a rotatable manner. A first damping portion is provided between an axial first end portion of the inner cylinder and an axial first end portion of the outer cylinder, and an axial second end portion of the inner cylinder is connected with an axial second end portion of the outer cylinder. A second damping portion is provided between a housing and the axial second end portion. The housing and the bearing portion are fixed by a flange portion provided at the first end portion of the outer cylinder in such a manner as to restrict movement of the flange portion in a radial direction and in an axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MARINE MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Takaya Futae, Naoyuki Nagai, Shinji Ogawa, Taiyo Shirakawa
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Publication number: 20210332846Abstract: A turbocharger includes a rotor shaft that is rotationally driven, a compressor impeller attached to the rotor shaft, and a cylindrical bearing portion that includes an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder, and that supports the rotor shaft in a rotatable manner. A first damping portion is provided between an axial first end portion of the inner cylinder and an axial first end portion of the outer cylinder, and an axial second end portion of the inner cylinder is connected with an axial second end portion of the outer cylinder. A second damping portion is provided between a housing and the axial second end portion. The housing and the bearing portion are fixed by a flange portion provided at the first end portion of the outer cylinder in such a manner as to restrict movement of the flange portion in a radial direction and in an axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takaya Futae, Naoyuki Nagai, Shinji Ogawa, Taiyo Shirakawa
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Patent number: 11131325Abstract: Provided is a vibration suppressing method for a supercharger, the supercharger including a shaft, a wheel arranged at one end or the other end of the shaft, and a housing including a wheel cover accommodating the wheel; the method including a determining step of determining a suppression target oscillation frequency to be a suppression target from among oscillation frequencies of the housing vibrating with shaft vibration of the shaft transmitted thereto, a preparing step of preparing a vibration suppressing unit having a natural frequency to be tuned in to the suppression target oscillation frequency, and an attaching step of attaching the vibration suppressing unit prepared in the preparing step onto an outer face of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shinji Ogawa, Naoyuki Nagai, Yosuke Danmoto, Tomoaki Takeshita, Hiroyuki Hosoya, Takaya Futae
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Patent number: 11060940Abstract: There is provided a vibration insulator mounted between a cartridge and a wheel-side housing, in which the cartridge includes a rotor having a wheel and a rotational shaft and a bearing housing accommodating a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor, and the wheel-side housing is to be pressed to the bearing housing in an axial direction. The vibration insulator includes an annular outer ring portion having a wheel-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the wheel-side housing, an annular inner ring portion disposed inside the outer ring portion with a clearance from the outer ring portion and having a bearing-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the bearing housing, and a flexible support portion interposed between the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion and connecting the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion, the flexible support portion being elastically deformable.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shuichi Miura, Katsuya Yamashita, Naoyuki Nagai, Yosuke Dammoto, Shota Yoshikawa
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Patent number: 10914319Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooler disposed inside a shell, an inlet nozzle that is configured to feed a fluid into the shell, an outlet nozzle that is configured to feed the fluid passing through the cooler so as to flow outward, and a guide member that is configured to change a flowing direction of the fluid. The guide member has a collision surface which spreads in an inclined direction inclined with respect to the flowing direction of the fluid fed into the shell from the inlet nozzle, and which collides with the fluid, and an uneven portion formed in at least a portion of a peripheral edge portion of the collision surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Saburi, Naoyuki Nagai, Hiroyuki Miyata, Naoto Yonemura, Koichi Mizushita
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Patent number: 10801544Abstract: A tilting pad journal bearing manufacturing method includes a first process and a second process. In the first process, a pivot fitting hole is formed on a convex curved outer circumferential surface of the tilting pad. The pivot fitting hole is recessed from the outer circumferential surface toward an inner circumferential surface and has an inner diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the distal end portion of the pivot. In the second process, a concave portion is formed on the concave curved inner circumferential surface of the tilting pad by attaching the distal end portion of the pivot to the pivot fitting hole by interference-fitting.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Isayama, Naoyuki Nagai, Takuzo Shigihara, Hideki Nagao
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Patent number: 10781700Abstract: In a turbine rotor blade assembly 1 of the present invention, each turbine rotor blade 10 includes a platform 11 having a blade root 12 fixed to a turbine disk 30, a profile 13 rising from the platform 11, and a shroud 14 provided at a top end of the profile 13. The shroud 14 of the present invention includes a first contact end part 15 that comes into contact with an adjacent shroud adjacent to one end side in a circumferential direction, a second contact end part 16 that comes into contact with an another adjacent shroud adjacent to the other end side in the circumferential direction, and a main body part disposed between the first and second contact end parts 15 and 16. One or both of the first and second contact end parts 15 and 16 are lower in rigidity than the main body part.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Naoyuki Nagai, Shin Yanagisawa, Yuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20200182261Abstract: Provided is a vibration suppressing method for a supercharger, the supercharger including a shaft, a wheel arranged at one end or the other end of the shaft, and a housing including a wheel cover accommodating the wheel; the method including a determining step of determining a suppression target oscillation frequency to be a suppression target from among oscillation frequencies of the housing vibrating with shaft vibration of the shaft transmitted thereto, a preparing step of preparing a vibration suppressing unit having a natural frequency to be tuned in to the suppression target oscillation frequency, and an attaching step of attaching the vibration suppressing unit prepared in the preparing step onto an outer face of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2017Publication date: June 11, 2020Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shinji OGAWA, Naoyuki NAGAI, Yosuke DANMOTO, Tomoaki TAKESHITA, Hiroyuki HOSOYA, Takaya FUTAE
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Patent number: 10458529Abstract: A linear motion mechanism, including a drive portion, a screw shaft which is rotationally driven about an axis by the drive portion and in which a first spiral screw groove is formed on an outer peripheral surface, a nut in which a second spiral screw groove facing the first screw groove is formed on an inner peripheral surface and which moves forward or backward relative to the screw shaft in an axial direction, in which an axis of the screw shaft extends, according to a rotation of the screw shaft, a plurality of load balls which are disposed in a transfer path formed by the first screw groove and the second screw groove and advance while rolling on the transfer path, a plurality of retainer frames which are disposed between the plurality of load balls and advances on the transfer path along with the load balls.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Tonaka, Naoyuki Nagai, Yoshitaka Hamamoto, Makoto Katagake
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Publication number: 20190226519Abstract: A tilting pad journal bearing manufacturing method includes a first process and a second process. In the first process, a pivot fitting hole is formed on a convex curved outer circumferential surface of the tilting pad. The pivot fitting hole is recessed from the outer circumferential surface toward an inner circumferential surface and has an inner diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the distal end portion of the pivot. In the second process, a concave portion is formed on the concave curved inner circumferential surface of the tilting pad by attaching the distal end portion of the pivot to the pivot fitting hole by interference-fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Shuichi Isayama, Naoyuki Nagai, Takuzo Shigihara, Hideki Nagao
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Publication number: 20190162622Abstract: There is provided a vibration insulator mounted between a cartridge and a wheel-side housing, in which the cartridge includes a rotor having a wheel and a rotational shaft and a bearing housing accommodating a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor, and the wheel-side housing is to be pressed to the bearing housing in an axial direction. The vibration insulator includes an annular outer ring portion having a wheel-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the wheel-side housing, an annular inner ring portion disposed inside the outer ring portion with a clearance from the outer ring portion and having a bearing-side contact surface configured to come into contact with the bearing housing, and a flexible support portion interposed between the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion and connecting the outer ring portion and the inner ring portion, the flexible support portion being elastically deformable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Shuichi MIURA, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Naoyuki NAGAI, Yosuke DAMMOTO, Shota YOSHIKAWA
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Patent number: 10287907Abstract: A linear motion mechanism (27) is provided with: a cylinder rod (312) into which a ball screw (30) can be inserted, said cylinder rod (312) including a base end section that is connected to a nut (311) within a piston casing (36) and a tip section (312a) that is exposed on the outside of the piston casing (36); a nut-side grease supply hole (321) that is formed in the nut (311) and that includes a discharge port (323) that opens toward the outer circumferential surface of the ball screw (30); and a cylinder rod-side grease supply hole (322) that is formed in the cylinder rod (312), that includes on one end thereof an inlet (324) that opens at a position that is exposed to the outer section of the piston casing (36), and that includes another end (322b) that is connected to the nut-side grease supply hole (321).Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Tonaka, Naoyuki Nagai, Naruhito Harada, Makoto Katagake, Tomoaki Okamura
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Publication number: 20190093672Abstract: A cooling device includes a cooler disposed inside a shell, an inlet nozzle that is configured to feed a fluid into the shell, an outlet nozzle that is configured to feed the fluid passing through the cooler so as to flow outward, and a guide member that is configured to change a flowing direction of the fluid. The guide member has a collision surface which spreads in an inclined direction inclined with respect to the flowing direction of the fluid fed into the shell from the inlet nozzle, and which collides with the fluid, and an uneven portion formed in at least a portion of a peripheral edge portion of the collision surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: March 28, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Saburi, Naoyuki Nagai, Hiroyuki Miyata, Naoto Yonemura, Koichi Mizushita
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Publication number: 20190078447Abstract: In a turbine rotor blade assembly 1 of the present invention, each turbine rotor blade 10 includes a platform 11 having a blade root 12 fixed to a turbine disk 30, a profile 13 rising from the platform 11, and a shroud 14 provided at a top end of the profile 13. The shroud 14 of the present invention includes a first contact end part 15 that comes into contact with an adjacent shroud adjacent to one end side in a circumferential direction, a second contact end part 16 that comes into contact with an another adjacent shroud adjacent to the other end side in the circumferential direction, and a main body part disposed between the first and second contact end parts 15 and 16. One or both of the first and second contact end parts 15 and 16 are lower in rigidity than the main body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2017Publication date: March 14, 2019Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Naoyuki Nagai, Shin Yanagisawa, Yuki Nakamura
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Publication number: 20170356532Abstract: A linear motion mechanism, including a drive portion, a screw shaft which is rotationally driven about an axis by the drive portion and in which a first spiral screw groove is formed on an outer peripheral surface, a nut in which a second spiral screw groove facing the first screw groove is formed on an inner peripheral surface and which moves forward or backward relative to the screw shaft in an axial direction, in which an axis of the screw shaft extends, according to a rotation of the screw shaft, a plurality of load balls which are disposed in a transfer path formed by the first screw groove and the second screw groove and advance while rolling on the transfer path, a plurality of retainer frames which are disposed between the plurality of load balls and advances on the transfer path along with the load balls.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Tonaka, Naoyuki Nagai, Yoshitaka Hamamoto, Makoto Katagake
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Patent number: 9822791Abstract: Provided is a seal device configured to prevent leakage of a fluid on an outer circumferential surface of a rotary shaft in a direction along an axis of the rotary shaft. The seal device includes an annular main body section disposed in a circumferential direction of the rotary shaft, and a plurality of at least two kinds of holes formed in an inner circumferential surface of the main body section opening and facing to the outer circumferential surface of the rotary shaft, and having different depths.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Naoyuki Nagai, Satoshi Saburi, Takashi Sato, Daisuke Kiuchi, Shinichiro Tokuyama