Patents by Inventor Shunji Kawano

Shunji Kawano 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: 7857895
    Abstract: A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus (20) comprises a main body container (1) having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate (5) provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container (1) and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container (1) into a lower temperature area (30) and a higher temperature area (31), a steam inlet (6) provided to the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), a steam outlet (7) provided to the higher temperature area (31) of the main body container (1), a hygroscopic moisture separator (8) located in the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), and a U-shaped pipe (2) through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (21), a retracting part (22), and a U-shaped part (23) connecting the advancing part (21) with the retracting part (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shunji Kawano, Koichi Yoshimura, Takafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Okihara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090126574
    Abstract: A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus (20) comprises a main body container (1) having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate (5) provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container (1) and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container (1) into a lower temperature area (30) and a higher temperature area (31), a steam inlet (6) provided to the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), a steam outlet (7) provided to the higher temperature area (31) of the main body container (1), a hygroscopic moisture separator (8) located in the lower temperature area (30) of the main body container (1), and a U-shaped pipe (2) through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (21), a retracting part (22), and a U-shaped part (23) connecting the advancing part (21) with the retracting part (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2005
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Shunji Kawano, Koichi Yoshimura, Takafumi Kamada, Tatsuya Okihara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 7481264
    Abstract: A steam condenser which condenses steam exhausted from a steam turbine. Heat transfer tubes are arrayed below the steam turbine inside the container. Cooling medium flows inside the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes extend horizontally, and include at least two upper heat transfer tube groups and at least two lower heat transfer tube groups arranged with a gap between each other. Each heat transfer tube group is constituted by arraying heat transfer tubes like a grid. At a lower part between the lower heat transfer tube groups, a baffle plate which obstructs flow of steam extends horizontally. Between the upper and lower heat transfer tube groups, inter-tube-group inundation prevention plates extend horizontally. In each heat transfer tube group, an enclosure part extends to guide gas from the enclosure part to outside of the container through a gas extraction duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yoshii, Shunichi Goshima, Yukio Takigawa, Tomoko Nakajima, legal representative, Yuuichi Nakajima, legal representative, Miyuki Nakajima, legal representative, Fumio Obara, Akira Nemoto, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Inoue, Shoji Nakajima
  • Patent number: 7370694
    Abstract: Vertical sectional shapes of portions in which condenser tubes of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52 are arranged, in vertical sections of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52, are formed to be approximately U-shapes, and a noncondensing air ejection duct 11 is provided to be positioned on a central joint portion of the U-shape of the upper tube portion 51 in an upstream side where circulating water flows first. At a portion in which the condenser tubes are not arranged between the upper and lower tube bundles, steam flow prevention plates 53 are provided to be positioned at both right and left sides of the noncondensing air ejection duct 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasushi Shimizu, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Fuki, Yoshihiro Iwata, Yuichi Fukasawa, Yoshio Mochida
  • Publication number: 20060032618
    Abstract: A steam condenser which condenses steam exhausted from a steam turbine. Heat transfer tubes are arrayed below the steam turbine inside the container. Cooling medium flows inside the heat transfer tubes. The heat transfer tubes extend horizontally, and include at least two upper heat transfer tube groups and at least two lower heat transfer tube groups arranged with a gap between each other. Each heat transfer tube group is constituted by arraying heat transfer tubes like a grid. At a lower part between the lower heat transfer tube groups, a baffle plate which obstructs flow of steam extends horizontally. Between the upper and lower heat transfer tube groups, inter-tube-group inundation prevention plates extend horizontally. In each heat transfer tube group, an enclosure part extends to guide gas from the enclosure part to outside of the container through a gas extraction duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Yoshii, Shunichi Goshima, Yukio Takigawa, Shoji Nakajima, Tomoko Nakajima, Yuuichi Nakajima, Miyuki Nakajima, Fumio Obara, Shunji Kawano, Akira Nemoto, Yuji Inoue
  • Publication number: 20050039891
    Abstract: Vertical sectional shapes of portions in which condenser tubes of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52 are arranged, in vertical sections of the upper tube bundle 51 and the lower tube bundle 52, are formed to be approximately U-shapes, and a noncondensing air ejection duct 11 is provided to be positioned on a central joint portion of the U-shape of the upper tube portion 51 in an upstream side where circulating water flows first. At a portion in which the condenser tubes are not arranged between the upper and lower tube bundles, steam flow prevention plates 53 are provided to be positioned at both right and left sides of the noncondensing air ejection duct 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasushi Shimizu, Shunji Kawano, Yuji Fuki, Yoshihiro Iwata, Yuichi Fukasawa, Yoshio Mochida
  • Patent number: 6095238
    Abstract: A feed water heater has a longitudinally cylindrical body comprising a cylindrical shell portion constituting a main body portion of a feed water heater and a water box-shaped chamber operatively connected to the cylindrical shell portion and partitioned by a tubesheet. In the cylindrical shell portion, a heat exchanger tube bank is arranged and supported by a plurality of support plates, a drain cooling section is disposed in association with the heat exchanger tube bank for carrying out a heat recovery of a drain generated in the heat exchanger tube bank, a dilution condensing chamber is provided for the heat exchanger tube bank and adapted to excessively flow the steam into the heat exchanger tube bank, and a non-condensable gas chamber is provided for the heat exchanger tube bank. The drain cooling section, the dilution condensing chamber and the non-condensable gas chamber are arranged axially in this order in the cylindrical shell from the tube sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shunji Kawano, Shoji Nakashima, Koichi Yoshimura, Kenji Sato, Hideki Sekiguchi
  • Patent number: 5921085
    Abstract: A condenser with built-in deaerator comprises a main casing into which steam discharged from a turbine, a tube bank installed inside the main casing to condense the steam from the turbine, a hot well installed in the main casing to store steam condensate produced by the tube bank, a circulator for taking the steam condensate out from the hot well and returning the same again to the hot well, a gas injector having gas injecting heads, for injecting bubbles of an inert gas into the steam condensate stored in the hot well, and a water heater for heating the steam condensate in the vicinity of the gas injecting heads to increase the temperature of the steam condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Shunji Kawano