Patents by Inventor Takahiro UTO
Takahiro UTO 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: 11892162Abstract: A premixed combustion burner includes: a mixing part including a first peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a mixing region for mixing fuel and air in the first peripheral wall, and air supply ports arranged circumferentially and open in the first peripheral wall; a nozzle on the mixing part side, a second peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a premixed gas passage continuous to the second peripheral wall mixing region, and a cooling passage in the second peripheral wall; and a header part proximal to the mixing part, and a first header chamber with a fuel supply port, second header chamber, and fuel ejection port for communication between the second header chamber and mixing region. The first peripheral wall has an outward path connecting the first header chamber and a cooling passage inlet, and a return path connecting cooling passage outlet and the second header chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta Uchiyama, Takahiro Uto, Atsushi Horikawa
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Publication number: 20220146093Abstract: A premixed combustion burner includes: a mixing part including a first peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a mixing region for mixing fuel and air in the first peripheral wall, and air supply ports arranged circumferentially and open in the first peripheral wall; a nozzle on the mixing part side, a second peripheral wall having a center burner axis, a premixed gas passage continuous to the second peripheral wall mixing region, and a cooling passage in the second peripheral wall; and a header part proximal to the mixing part, and a first header chamber with a fuel supply port, second header chamber, and fuel ejection port for communication between the second header chamber and mixing region. The first peripheral wall has an outward path connecting the first header chamber and a cooling passage inlet, and a return path connecting cooling passage outlet and the second header chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuta UCHIYAMA, Takahiro UTO, Atsushi HORIKAWA
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Patent number: 10837641Abstract: The present invention provides a burner, a combustor equipped with the burner, and a gas turbine, with which it is possible to premix a first hydrocarbon-based fuel (for example, natural gas), a second fuel (for example, hydrogen gas), and combustion air, and to spray into the combustion chamber of the combustor a thin and uniform concentration distribution of the premixed air, and with which it is possible to suppress the amount of NOx discharged. On the upstream side of the premix flow path, hydrogen gas is sprayed from second fuel spray nozzles, which project into the premix flow path, into the flow of the combustion air flowing toward the center from the outer edge of an outer cylinder, whereby a primary air-fuel mixture having a uniform concentration distribution is generated without affecting a low-speed region of the combustion air.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ogata, Takeo Oda, Yasuhiro Kinoshita, Kohshi Hirano, Takahiro Uto
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Patent number: 10590850Abstract: A burner injects a mixture of fuel and air from a base end side far from a combustion chamber toward a distal end side close to the combustion chamber. The burner has a fuel passage having a turn-back part turning back and channeling the fuel between the base end side and the distal end side. The burner has a premixed gas passage formed to surround the fuel passage. The burner has a fuel introduction part introducing the fuel channeled through the fuel passage into the premixed gas passage from the base end side to the distal end side. The burner has an air supply part supplying the premixed gas passage with air on the base end side.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro Ogata, Takeo Oda, Yasuhiro Kinoshita, Kohshi Hirano, Takahiro Uto
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Publication number: 20170356656Abstract: The present invention provides a burner, a combustor equipped with the burner, and a gas turbine, with which it is possible to premix a first hydrocarbon-based fuel (for example, natural gas), a second fuel (for example, hydrogen gas), and combustion air, and to spray into the combustion chamber of the combustor a thin and uniform concentration distribution of the premixed air, and with which it is possible to suppress the amount of NOx discharged. On the upstream side of the premix flow path, hydrogen gas is sprayed from second fuel spray nozzles, which project into the premix flow path, into the flow of the combustion air flowing toward the center from the outer edge of an outer cylinder, whereby a primary air-fuel mixture having a uniform concentration distribution is generated without affecting a low-speed region of the combustion air.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 25, 2015Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro OGATA, Takeo ODA, Yasuhiro KINOSHITA, Kohshi HIRANO, Takahiro UTO
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Publication number: 20170321609Abstract: A burner injects a mixture of fuel and air from a base end side far from a combustion chamber toward a distal end side close to the combustion chamber. The burner has a fuel passage having a turn-back part turning back and channeling the fuel between the base end side and the distal end side. The burner has a premixed gas passage formed to surround the fuel passage. The burner has a fuel introduction part introducing the fuel channeled through the fuel passage into the premixed gas passage from the base end side to the distal end side. The burner has an air supply part supplying the premixed gas passage with air on the base end side.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masahiro OGATA, Takeo ODA, Yasuhiro KINOSHITA, Kohshi HIRANO, Takahiro UTO
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Publication number: 20170307210Abstract: Provided are a gas turbine combustor and a gas turbine, with which the amount of NOx exhaust emissions from a diffuse combustion-type duct burner can be reduced. A duct burner is provided with cylindrical fuel injection nozzles and air holes. The fuel injection nozzles are supported by an outside casing along eight axial centers included within a plane orthogonal to a center axis and arranged at equidistant intervals (45-degree intervals) in the circumferential direction. Sets of eight fuel injection nozzles are respectively constituted as single fuel injection nozzle rows, four fuel injection nozzle rows being arrayed at prescribed spacing along a direction of a center axis. The angular positions of the fuel injection nozzles are arrayed so as to be shifted by a half-pitch angle in opposing rows.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kohshi HIRANO, Takahiro UTO, Takeo ODA, Yoshiharu NONAKA