Patents by Inventor Tadakatsu Yodo
Tadakatsu Yodo 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: 20240013938Abstract: An object is to change reactor core thermal output. A nuclear reactor includes an annular fuel layer and a heat conductive layer stacked on the fuel layer and extending around a periphery of the fuel layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shota Kobayashi, Satoru Kamohara, Yasutaka Harai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shohei Otsuki, Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Yutaka Tanaka, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230386686Abstract: An object is to efficiently take heat out of a reactor core while retaining fission products. Included are fuel part provided with a covering part on a surface of a nuclear fuel and a heat conductive part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Satoru Kamohara, Yasutaka Harai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shota Kobayashi, Shohei Otsuki, Yutaka Tanaka, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida
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Publication number: 20230360812Abstract: Provided is a nuclear reactor unit that can reduce a temperature increase in a reactor core at the occurrence of an abnormality with a simple structure. Included are a reactor core having radioactive fuel and causing the radioactive fuel to cause a nuclear reaction and a nuclear reactor vessel housing the reactor core and hermetically sealing the reactor core. The nuclear reactor vessel includes an inner shroud covering the entire periphery of the reactor core and an outer shroud covering the entire periphery of the inner shroud. A first space formed by the outer shroud and the inner shroud is in a vacuum condition. The inner shroud includes a main body and a communicating part placed in part of the main body and communicating the first space to a second space, which is a space inside the inner shroud, when the reactor core reaches a threshold temperature or higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasutaka HARAI, Satoru KAMOHARA, Tadakatsu YODO, Shota KOBAYASHI, Shohei OTSUKI, Nozomu MURAKAMI, Wataru NAKAZATO, Takashi HASEGAWA, Yutaka TANAKA, Tatsuo ISHIGURO, Hironori NOGUCHI, Hideyuki KUDO, Takafumi NODA, Kazuhiro YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20230110039Abstract: Heat can be stably extracted with easy criticality control. A nuclear reactor includes: a fuel portion being a reactor core having a nuclear fuel body; a shielding portion covering all over outer sides of the fuel portion to shield against radiations generated from the reactor core; and a thermal conduction part that conducts heat generated in the reactor core to exterior of the shield part. The nuclear fuel body contains a fissile material with an enrichment not less than 5% by weight throughout an operation period.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2020Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Wataru Nakazato, Hideaki Ikeda, Takashi Hasegawa, Nozomu Murakami, Tadakatsu Yodo, Shohei Otsuki, Satoru Kamohara, Shota Kobayashi, Yasutaka Harai, Yutaka Tanaka, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hideyuki Sakata, Hironori Noguchi, Hideyuki Kudo, Tatsuo Ishiguro
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Publication number: 20220319724Abstract: Ensuring a high output temperature while preventing leakage of radioactive substances, etc. A nuclear reactor includes a fuel unit; a shield unit that covers a circumference of the fuel unit for shielding from radioactive rays; and a heat conductive portion that penetrates the shield unit, is arranged such that the heat conductive portion extends to inside of the fuel unit and outside of the shield unit, and transfers heat of the fuel unit to the outside of the shield unit by solid heat conduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2020Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Kudo, Hironori Noguchi, Koichi Tanimoto, Yuichi Otani, Yutaka Tanaka, Takafumi Noda, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hideyuki Sakata, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hideaki Ikeda, Satoru Kamohara, Shohei Otsuki, Nozomu Murakami, Wataru Nakazato, Takashi Hasegawa, Tadakatsu Yodo, Yasutaka Harai, Shota Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20220148745Abstract: A nuclear power generation system includes a nuclear reactor that includes a reactor core fuel and a nuclear reactor vessel, the nuclear reactor vessel covering a surrounding of the reactor core fuel, shielding a space in which the reactor core fuel is present, and shielding radioactive rays; a heat conductive portion that is disposed in at least a part of the nuclear reactor vessel to transfer heat inside the nuclear reactor vessel to an outside by solid heat conduction; a heat exchanger that performs heat exchange between the heat conductive portion and a refrigerant; a refrigerant circulation unit that circulates the refrigerant passing through the heat exchanger; a turbine that is rotated by the refrigerant circulated by the refrigerant circulation unit; and a generator that rotates integrally with the turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshida, Chikara Kurimura, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Hideyuki Uechi, Ryusuke Kimoto, Yoshiteru Komuro, Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Tadakatsu Yodo, Hideaki Ikeda, Satoru Kamohara, Shohei Otsuki, Wataru Nakazato, Yohei Kamiyama
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Patent number: 9576689Abstract: A critical heat flux prediction device, a critical heat flux prediction method, a safety evaluation system, and a core monitoring system using the safety evaluation system can predict critical heat flux in a core of a reactor with a high degree of accuracy by obtaining a correlation plot distribution representing a relation of critical heat flux on a thermal equilibrium quality based on experimental data, approximating a correlation plot distribution through a logistic function that is a model function in which critical heat flux is expressed by a function of a thermal equilibrium quality, and obtaining a critical heat flux correlation of critical heat flux and a thermal equilibrium quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tadakatsu Yodo
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Publication number: 20130156142Abstract: A critical heat flux prediction device, a critical heat flux prediction method, a safety evaluation system, and a core monitoring system using the safety evaluation system can predict critical heat flux in a core of a reactor with a high degree of accuracy by obtaining a correlation plot distribution representing a relation of critical heat flux on a thermal equilibrium quality based on experimental data, approximating a correlation plot distribution through a logistic function that is a model function in which critical heat flux is expressed by a function of a thermal equilibrium quality, and obtaining a critical heat flux correlation of critical heat flux and a thermal equilibrium quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Tadakatsu Yodo