Patents by Inventor Takao Yokoyama

Takao Yokoyama 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: 20160312688
    Abstract: A turbocharger device includes: a turbocharger (3); and a turbo controller (35) configured to control a waste-gate valve (31) or a variable-displacement mechanism of an exhaust-gas amount supplied to the turbine to control a boost pressure of the turbocharger, the turbo controller (35) including a control calculation part (44) and a sensor signal input part (15) provided separately and independently from an engine controller (33) and being mounted to a compressor housing at a side of the compressor (23b) of the turbocharger (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi MATSUO, Takao YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160290163
    Abstract: An object is to reduce loss of exhaust gas by improving a surface roughness to enhance efficiency of a turbocharger and to reduce generation of a crack due to thermal fatigue to improve durability, as well as to ensure rigidity to prevent exhaust-gas leakage to outside. A turbine housing accommodates a turbine wheel rotated by exhaust gas taken in from an engine and includes a scroll part having a scroll shape and forming, on a radially-inner side, an exhaust-gas flow passage. The turbine housing includes: a casted exterior member forming an opening portion accommodating a back-face member attachable and detachable in an axial direction of the turbine wheel; and a sheet-metal interior member disposed inside the exterior member via a predetermined clearance part from the exterior member and forming the scroll part. The interior member is configured to be attachable and detachable with respect to the exterior member through the opening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao YOKOYAMA, Yoji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160273388
    Abstract: An object is to provide a sheet-metal turbine housing reinforced by a readily-manufacturable structure, the sheet-metal turbine housing also having a small thickness and improved containment performance. A sheet-metal turbine housing includes: a scroll part forming an exhaust gas channel of a scroll shape in a turbocharger for driving a turbine with exhaust gas of an engine, the scroll part comprising sheet metal; and at least one rib portion of a protrusion shape formed on an outer wall surface of the scroll part at a radially outer side of an inlet edge of a turbine blade along a circumferential direction of the scroll part, the at least one rib portion protruding either outward or inward, or both, and including a bend and bend-back structure formed on the sheet metal forming the scroll part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Takao YOKOYAMA, Isao TOMITA, Daigo WATANABE, Yasuaki JINNAI, Hirotaka HIGASHIMORI
  • Publication number: 20160215712
    Abstract: An object is to provide an engine system including an intake bypass device whereby it is possible to expand the operation range of a compressor without causing the output of a turbine to become insufficient. An engine system includes an intake bypass device including a bypass channel connecting a downstream side of a compressor of a turbocharger in an intake channel and an upstream side of a turbine of the turbocharger in an exhaust channel, a bypass valve disposed in the bypass channel and configured to control a flow of compressed intake air in the bypass channel, and a heating unit for heating the compressed intake air flowing through the bypass channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao YOKOYAMA, Seiichi IBARAKI, Isao TOMITA, Katsuyuki OSAKO
  • Patent number: 9353630
    Abstract: A turbine rotor of a turbine includes a hub that serves as an axis of rotation, and a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine blades each have a line extending along a shroud-side edge of the turbine blade from the inlet to the outlet as a shroud line. The shroud line includes an entrance-side shroud line La that makes a small change from the inlet toward the outlet in a blade angle with respect to the axis of rotation, a center shroud line Lb that extends from the outlet side of the entrance-side shroud line La and makes a greater change than that of the entrance-side shroud line La, and an exit-side shroud line Lc that extends from the outlet side of the center shroud line Lb to the outlet and makes a smaller change than that of the center shroud line Lb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Osako, Atsushi Matsuo, Takao Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9328738
    Abstract: In a turbine scroll part structure of a radial turbine, a flow passage 3 of a connecting part between an exhaust gas inlet into a turbine housing 5 and a scroll part 1 is offset along an axis line L1 of a rotating shaft of a turbine rotor in an amount H, and a cut-out portion P is formed in a tongue portion 2, which separates the flow passage 3 from a blade side passage 4 through which the exhaust gas flows toward blades 6, for the exhaust gas to flow from the flow passage 3 into the blade side passage 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Takashi Shiraishi, Koji Wakashima
  • Patent number: 9260971
    Abstract: Providing a turbine rotor in which the rotational inertia of the turbine rotor can be reduced without changing the geometry of the blade part, whereas the turbine rotor is provided with the rear side surface so that the stress concentration appearing at the root part regarding the hub part on the rear surface side is constrained in order that the strength and the durability of the turbine rotor can be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida, Katsuyuki Osako, Takao Yokoyama, Motoki Ebisu
  • Publication number: 20150361802
    Abstract: In a turbine rotor blade of a radial turbine, especially in a variable-geometry turbine with variable nozzles, an object is to restrict high-order resonance of the turbine rotor blade without increasing the size of a device with a simplified structure. A plurality of turbine rotor blades for a radial turbine is disposed on a hub surface. Each turbine rotor blade includes blade-thickness changing portions, at which at least a blade thickness of a cross-sectional shape at a middle portion of a blade height increases rapidly with respect to a blade thickness of a leading-edge side, at a predetermined position from a leading edge along a blade length which follows a gas flow from the leading edge to a trailing edge. The blade thickness increases to a blade thickness via the blade-thickness changing portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Takao YOKOYAMA, Hirotaka HIGASHIMORI
  • Publication number: 20150354444
    Abstract: An object is to provide a variable-geometry exhaust turbine whereby it is possible to prevent deformation and damage to a nozzle support under a high temperature. A variable-geometry exhaust turbine includes: a nozzle mount, a nozzle support including a first end portion joined to the first surface of the nozzle mount, a nozzle plate including the first surface joined to the second end portion of the nozzle support 6 and supported so as to face the nozzle mount at a distance, and the opposite second surface facing an exhaust—as channel through which exhaust gas flows, and a plurality of nozzle vanes supported rotatably between the nozzle mount and the nozzle plate. The nozzle support is capable of tilting along a radial direction so as to absorb a relative displacement in the radial direction between the nozzle mount and the nozzle plate due to thermal expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki HAYASHI, Takamitsu HIMENO, Takashi ARAI, Yukihide NAGAYO, Mitsuru AIBA, Takao YOKOYAMA, Toru HOSHI, Hiroyuki ARIMIZU, Toshio SAKON
  • Publication number: 20150345376
    Abstract: A variable geometry exhaust gas turbocharger comprises: a turbine rotor 26 including a rotating shaft 24 and a turbine wheel 12; a bearing housing 20 accommodating a bearing unit 22; a turbine housing 10 accommodating the turbine wheel rotatably and having formed an annular turbine scroll part 16 in which exhaust gas flows; and a variable geometry mechanism 40 provided in an annular nozzle part 18 to guide the exhaust gas flowing in the turbine scroll part into the turbine wheel; wherein the variable geometry mechanism 40 comprises: a nozzle vane 42 protruding, in a state of being unable to rotate, from at least one of a shroud side or a hub side of the nozzle part toward the nozzle part; an annular nozzle wall 44 configured to be movable forward and backward from the hub side toward the shroud side or from the shroud side toward the hub side of the nozzle part, and configured to permit a nozzle width B of the nozzle part to be variable over all circumference; and a driving part 46 for moving the nozzle wall
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi IBARAKI, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Takao YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9194292
    Abstract: A sheet-metal turbine housing has a scroll part formed by joining opposing scroll members of sheet metal to form a spiral-shaped exhaust gas passage. The housing includes a member on a side of a bearing housing inclosing a bearing supporting a rotation shaft of a turbine rotor blade member on the exhaust side forms an outer side of the turbine rotor blade. Support columns connect the member on the side of the bearing housing with the member on the exhaust side in an axial direction of the turbine and are arranged at intervals on an outer circumference of the turbine. Each support columns may have a cross-sectional shape which includes an upstream corner and a downstream corner in a direction of a gas flow, each of which has an acute angle, so that an upstream surface and a downstream surface are inclined to the gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Yasuaki Jinnai, Noriyuki Hayashi, Motoki Ebisu
  • Publication number: 20150330293
    Abstract: An object is to is to reduce a leakage flow by reducing a clearance between an end surface of a nozzle vane, forming a variable nozzle mechanism of a variable geometry turbocharger, and a wall surface facing the end surface, and prevent the nozzle vane from being stuck due to contact of the end surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao YOKOYAMA, Masaki TOJO, Satomi NAGAE, Masaki OSAKO
  • Publication number: 20150330226
    Abstract: An object is to provide a radial turbine blade that can reduce an impact loss of inflowing gas at a leading edge of the turbine blade and achieve a higher turbine efficiency, even in a case of a flow field corresponding to a low turbine operational velocity ratio U/C0 due to a throttling operation on a variable nozzle mechanism of a variable geometry turbocharger. In a radial turbine blade, a hub-side end portion Pa at a leading edge 51 of a turbine blade 50 is formed to be positioned more on a rear side in a rotation direction R of the turbine blade 50 than a shroud-side end portion Sc at the leading edge 51, and a straight line connecting between the shroud-side end portion Sc and the hub-side end portion Pa is inclined with respect to a straight line extending in a rotation axis direction from the shroud-side end portion Sc at the leading edge 51 onto a hub 17 surface by an angle in a range from 30° to 70° as viewed in the radial direction of the turbine blade 50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao YOKOYAMA, Masaki TOJO, Satomi NAGAE
  • Publication number: 20150300178
    Abstract: A turbine rotor of a turbine includes a hub that serves as an axis of rotation, and a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine blades each have a line extending along a shroud-side edge of the turbine blade from the inlet to the outlet as a shroud line. The shroud line includes an entrance-side shroud line La that makes a small change from the inlet toward the outlet in a blade angle with respect to the axis of rotation, a center shroud line Lb that extends from the outlet side of the entrance-side shroud line La and makes a greater change than that of the entrance-side shroud line La, and an exit-side shroud line Lc that extends from the outlet side of the center shroud line Lb to the outlet and makes a smaller change than that of the center shroud line Lb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki OSAKO, Atsushi MATSUO, Takao YOKOYAMA
  • Patent number: 9039374
    Abstract: A turbine rotor of a turbine includes a hub that serves as an axis of rotation, and a plurality of turbine blades. The turbine blades each have a line extending along a shroud-side edge of the turbine blade from the inlet to the outlet as a shroud line. The shroud line includes an entrance-side shroud line La that makes a small change from the inlet toward the outlet in a blade angle with respect to the axis of rotation, a center shroud line Lb that extends from the outlet side of the entrance-side shroud line La and makes a greater change than that of the entrance-side shroud line La, and an exit-side shroud line Lc that extends from the outlet side of the center shroud line Lb to the outlet and makes a smaller change than that of the center shroud line Lb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Osako, Atsushi Matsuo, Takao Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9028202
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine includes a fluid space formed by a nozzle mount and a nozzle plate; and a plurality of nozzle vanes arranged in the fluid space at certain intervals in the circumferential direction so as to partition the fluid space. The nozzle vanes are supported by shafts on the nozzle mount, in such a manner as to be capable of turning. The flow rate of the discharged fluid can be adjusted by opening or closing the cross-sectional area of a flow path formed by the adjacent nozzle vanes. The nozzle plate is provided with plate projections protruding toward the nozzle vanes further than, at least, end surfaces of the nozzle vanes, so as to cover the spaces between leading edges of the nozzle vanes and trailing edges of the nozzle vanes adjacent thereto, when the nozzle vanes are at a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Hiroshi Suzuki, Motoki Ebisu, Toyotaka Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9011097
    Abstract: A turbine wheel includes a plurality of blades having a scallop cut-out profile. The scallop cut-out profile is formed by cutting-out a back side wall part of the blade between the suction surface side of a blade part and the pressure surface side of the adjacent blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Toyotaka Yoshida, Motoki Ebisu
  • Publication number: 20150104296
    Abstract: In a variable geometry turbocharger including a variable nozzle mechanism, an object is to enhance safety upon malfunction of the variable nozzle mechanism as well as to improve accuracy in the control of the variable nozzle mechanism by applying a moment that acts on the nozzle vanes in an opening direction securely and stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Katsuyuki Osako, Isao Tomita, Yasuaki Jinnai, Masaki Tojo, Satomi Nagae
  • Patent number: 8999124
    Abstract: A detection device that is used to detect a sample includes: a base component having on its surface a sample supply position to which the sample is supplied; an electrode system formed at a distance from the sample supply position on the surface of the base component; a sliding component having a slide body that performs a sliding movement over the surface of the base component, a sample receptacle portion provided in a portion of the slide body; and a supporting portion that is fixed to the base component and supports the sliding component such that it can perform the sliding movement relative to the base component. The base and the sliding components can perform the sliding movement within a range that includes an overlap position, where the sample receptacle portion overlaps with the electrode system, and the sample supply position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Nippon Kayaku Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Yokoyama, Reiko Machida, Yayoi Irie, Yoshihiko Umegae
  • Publication number: 20150050136
    Abstract: An object is to provide an air intake duct structure for a centrifugal fluid machine, capable of swirling the fluid introduced into the impeller in the reverse direction to increase the pressure ratio when the flow rate is high and swirling the fluid in the forward direction to avoid a surging when the flow rate is low, as well as securing a wide operating range, without using mechanical means. The centrifugal fluid machine 1 includes an impeller 12 mounted to a rotation shaft and a housing 4 for housing the impeller 12. The air intake duct structure 10 is for directing a fluid “f” to a rotational center 12a of the impeller 12 housed in the housing 4 via an intake duct portion 4a of the housing 4 protruding in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, the fluid “f” flowing in a substantially orthogonal direction to a rotational axis line 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Isao Tomita, Masaki Tojo, Takao Yokoyama