Patents by Inventor Shinsuke Sato

Shinsuke Sato 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: 20120134818
    Abstract: A wind turbine generator includes: a rotor hub configured to be provided inside a rotor head and contain apparatuses; a hatch configured to be provided in a front of the rotor hub; and a heat exchanger configured to be provided in an opening of the hatch. The heat exchanger includes: a partition portion configured to be put on the opening, and heat exchanging members configured to be provided so as to penetrate the partition portion, a side of one end being located inside the rotor hub and a side of the other end being located outside the rotor hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke SATO, Shigeto HIRAI, Yasushi OKANO, Taisuke NAKAMURA, Takeshi MATSUO
  • Publication number: 20120134846
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine generator that prevents an increase of weight of a wind turbine blade and a reduction in ventilation efficiency and that realizes good ventilation cooling of a rotor head with a simple structure. The wind turbine generator includes: a hollow interior space formed in a wind turbine blade; an exhaust path provided through a wind-turbine-blade forming member at a tip end of the wind turbine blade or in a vicinity of the tip end, so as to allow the interior space to communicate with an outside of the wind turbine blade; and an opening that allows the interior space to communicate with a rotor head main body. Ventilation cooling inside the rotor head main body is performed by using a pressure difference between the tip end of the wind turbine blade and the rotor head main body, produced by a rotation of the wind turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke SATO, Daisuke NAKAO, Shigenori SUEMORI, Yoshito ANDO
  • Publication number: 20120124984
    Abstract: A power generating apparatus includes a rotating shaft, a hydraulic pump driven by the rotating shaft, a hydraulic motor driven by operating oil supplied from the hydraulic pump; and a generator coupled to the hydraulic motor. The apparatus further includes an oil line connected to the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor for circulating the operating oil between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, an oil cooler connected to the oil line for cooling the operating oil by heat exchange with a cooling medium, a cooling-medium line supplying the cooling medium to the oil cooler; a bypass line diverging from at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line and merging into at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line to bypass the oil cooler; and a flow regulating valve in at least one of the oil line and the cooling-medium line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu AKASHI, Takeshi MATSUO, Shinsuke SATO, Takuro KAMEDA
  • Publication number: 20120074711
    Abstract: In a wind turbine generating apparatus, a heat generating device is provided inside the rotor head and has a hermetically-sealed structure from outside. A rotor head cooling air passage is formed through the periphery of the heat generating device to the inside of a wind turbine blade. A cooling air introduction portion through which cooling air flows and an air outlet from which the cooling air is discharged are provided in the rotor head cooling air passage to thereby form the air outlet in the wind turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke SATO, Shigeto HIRAI, Tatsuo ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20120032448
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wind turbine generator, in which a rotor head that rotates by receiving external wind with turbine blades generates power by driving a generator installed inside a nacelle and in which the nacelle is installed at a top end of a tower, wherein an introducing vent that takes the external wind into an internal space in the wind turbine generator is provided at a portion of an outer circumference surface of the tower or the nacelle that receives positive pressure due to the external wind; and an exhaust vent that externally exhausts cooling air in the internal space is provided at a portion of the outer circumference surface of the tower or the nacelle that receives the negative pressure due to the external wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke SATO, Tatsuo ISHIGURO
  • Patent number: 8109814
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine generator system that can cool a nacelle interior by ventilation irrespective of the outside air temperature in various installation environments. In a wind turbine generator system in which equipment of drive and electricity generation mechanisms that are coupled to a rotor head provided with wind turbine blades is disposed inside a nacelle, and in which, by driving a ventilation fan provided in the nacelle, outside air introduced from an air inlet provided in a front face of the nacelle is exhausted outside the nacelle from an air outlet that communicates with a fan outlet, to perform ventilation cooling of the interior, a side air inlet is additionally provided in a side face of the nacelle at a position where a negative pressure is generated by air flowing outside the nacelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Uchino, Shinsuke Sato, Takatoshi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20120025541
    Abstract: A wind turbine generating apparatus includes a rotor head that rotates upon receiving outside wind on a wind turbine blade, a generator that generates electricity, and a nacelle interior air passage through which outside air flows isolatedly from an interior space of the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeto HIRAI, Shinsuke SATO, Tatsuo ISHIGURO
  • Publication number: 20110298218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wind generator which effectively utilizes an opening of a door opening and a shell plate, and in which an outside air-circulation flow path for introducing outside air into a cooling heat exchanger in a tower is formed. In the wind generator, a cooling medium that cools a heating element disposed in the tower circulates through a cooling heat exchanger, and heat is absorbed by exchanging heat with outside air, an outside air-circulation flow path of a closed space having an outside-air inflow opening and an outside-air discharge opening that are in communication with a door opening of a shell plate is formed in an interior space in the tower, and the cooling heat exchanger is disposed in the outside air-circulation flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Murata, Shinsuke Sato
  • Patent number: 8064282
    Abstract: An access area is set within an address space of a dynamic random access memory by arranging two or more complete columns of blocks, in which blocks of memory cells are arranged within an entirety of a specified range of row addresses, along a direction of column addresses. Each of the blocks includes memory cells positioned at a same row address and a specified number of consecutive column addresses. The total number of blocks arranged in the access area is just capable of storing the number of words of the data to be stored. The two or more complete columns of blocks are successively accessed by successively accessing the blocks arranged in each of the columns of blocks. Thereby, a refresh operation of the dynamic random access memory is made unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Kawasaki Microelectronics Inc.
    Inventor: Shinsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20110272949
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine generator in which the intake air temperature of an air-cooled heat exchanger disposed in a nacelle is decreased to allow efficient heat exchange. A wind turbine generator that generates electric power in such a manner that a rotor head that rotates when receiving wind power drives a generator installed inside a nacelle, the nacelle being installed at the upper end of a tower that is vertically erected on a foundation, and the wind turbine generator including a closed-circuit lubricating-oil circulation system in which lubricating oil circulates through devices installed inside the nacelle, wherein an air-cooled heat exchanger installed in the lubricating-oil circulation system to cool the lubricating oil by heat exchange with air is provided in a region separate from nacelle air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi MATSUO, Yasushi OKANO, Tomohiro NUMAJIRI, Taisuke NAKAMURA, Chuuhachi GOTOU, Shigeto HIRAI, Shinsuke SATO
  • Publication number: 20110254280
    Abstract: To provide a wind turbine generator capable of creating an air flow which can efficiently circulate air between the interior of a cover and a nacelle so that the interior of the cover can be efficiently cooled down. A wind turbine generator (1) is provided with a rotor head (4) to which wind turbine blades (6) are attached, a cover (5) which covers the rotor head (4), and a nacelle (3) which accommodates a power generating facility (7) connected to the rotor head (4), and has an air circulation between the interior of the cover (5) and the interior of the nacelle (3), wherein an air flow creation device (20) which creates an air flow is provided inside the cover (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirai, Shinsuke Sato, Takeshi Matsuo, Yasushi Okano
  • Publication number: 20110211958
    Abstract: There are provided a wind-power-generator fan unit and a wind power generator in which the consumption of driving power for a cooler fan that cools a device provided in the wind power generator can be reduced. This wind-power-generator fan unit includes cooler fans that discharge air in a housing that accommodates devices that perform at least power generation by the rotational operation of rotor blades to the outside of the housing through the devices; and a control unit that controls the operation of the cooler fans on the basis of the temperatures of the devices and the operating states of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sato, Shigeto Hirai, Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20110204652
    Abstract: A fan cooler of a wind power generator that cools devices disposed in a nacelle (3) has an air intake port (11) formed in a nacelle shell (10) to introduce outside air into the nacelle, an outlet opening (12) provided in the nacelle shell (10) to discharge the air in the nacelle, an exhaust port (14) formed at the outlet of a duct (13) connected to the outlet opening (12) to discharge the air in the nacelle into the atmosphere, and a ventilating fan (15) disposed in the vicinity of the outlet opening (12) in the nacelle to suck outside air through the air intake port (11) and to discharge the air in the nacelle through the exhaust port (14); and a bypass passage (16) for returning part of the air to be discharged through the exhaust port (14) into the nacelle is provided downstream of the ventilating fan (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sato, Tatsuya Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20110175368
    Abstract: A first wind driven generator includes: a rotor head having wind turbine blades attached thereto; a nacelle that pivotally supports the rotor head; a tower that supports the nacelle; an opening portion that is provided on a tip end of the rotor head and introduces outside air; and a plurality of air-supply acceleration guides that are provided on an outer circumference of the opening portion of the rotor head and collect the outside air in the opening portion. The outside air can be actively taken in the rotor head from the opening portion by causing the air-supply acceleration guides to rotate to follow rotation of the rotor head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sato, Shigeto Hirai
  • Publication number: 20110163545
    Abstract: A wind turbine for wind power generation accommodated a heat-generating device therein is always properly cooled by accurately detecting clogging of a filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeto Hirai, Yasushi Okano, Shinsuke Sato
  • Publication number: 20110133483
    Abstract: Provided is a wind power generator equipped with a circulating passage including a downward passage through which air in a nacelle flows downward from the nacelle through a tower and an upward passage through which the air that has flowed downward flows upward through the tower into the nacelle; and a heat exchanger part configured to exchange heat between the air and outside air at an intermediate portion of the circulating passage, wherein the upward passage is thermally insulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro YONEDA, Shinsuke SATO, Takashi OKAFUJI, Yoshiaki ITO, Hiroyoshi KUBO, Tomohiro BABA
  • Publication number: 20100164228
    Abstract: A wind turbine generator capable of enhancing starting performance of the wind turbine generator when the outside air temperature is low and capable of securing temperature adjusting ability of a generator set in a wide outside air temperature range is provided. A wind turbine generator includes a nacelle (3) for accommodating a generator set (11, 12, 14) that generates electricity by rotation of a rotor having a plurality of blades, a ventilation opening (51) provided in a wall surface on a wind upstream side when the nacelle is normally operated, and a heat exchanging unit (13) disposed in the ventilation opening (51) to exchange heat between an outside air and a lubricant of the generator set (11, 12) such as an lubricant oil or cooling water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES , LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Matsuo, Shinji Arinaga, Shinsuke Sato, Takatoshi Matsushita, Masaaki Shibata
  • Publication number: 20100148514
    Abstract: The invention provides a wind turbine generating apparatus capable of controlling a temperature in a rotor head. In a wind turbine generating apparatus in which a driving/generating mechanism coupled to a rotor head having wind turbine blades attached thereto is housed in a nacelle, and control devices are housed in a hub of the rotor head, an air circulation guide is provided for allowing air to circulate between an inside of the rotor head and an inside of the nacelle via a communication path formed between the rotor head and the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sato, Toshihiro Sato, Hideo Fukuda, Kiyonori Kushioka, Shigeto Hirai, Nobuyasu Sakata, Tatsuya Shiraishi
  • Publication number: 20100127502
    Abstract: Provided is a wind turbine generator system that can cool a nacelle interior by ventilation irrespective of the outside air temperature in various installation environments. In a wind turbine generator system in which equipment of drive and electricity generation mechanisms that are coupled to a rotor head provided with wind turbine blades is disposed inside a nacelle, and in which, by driving a ventilation fan provided in the nacelle, outside air introduced from an air inlet provided in a front face of the nacelle is exhausted outside the nacelle from an air outlet that communicates with a fan outlet, to perform ventilation cooling of the interior, a side air inlet is additionally provided in a side face of the nacelle at a position where a negative pressure is generated by air flowing outside the nacelle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Takashi Uchino, Shinsuke Sato, Takatoshi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20100109326
    Abstract: To provide a fan unit for a wind power generator and a wind power generator, which are capable of preventing a loss of a flow at a flow port from increasing and capable of preventing a pressure loss of a heat exchanger from increasing. A fan unit for a wind power generator (52) having an axial fan (54) for discharging air in a nacelle of the wind power generator to a rear side of the nacelle, the axial fan (54) being provided on a floor (F) of the nacelle, and an equipment (51) of the wind power generator provided in front of the axial fan (54) in a direction of a rotation axis (L) is characterized by including a rectification part (56) for adjusting distribution of the flow rate of air flowing into the axial fan (54).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventors: Shinsuke Sato, Toshihiro Sato, Shigeto Hirai, Tatsuya Shiraishi