Patents by Inventor Takumi Hori
Takumi Hori 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: 20230341056Abstract: This seal device comprises: a movable seal ring arranged so as to be deformable in the radial direction, in a state of facing an outer peripheral surface of a rotor of a steam turbine capable of rotating around the axis; a first elastic member provided to each of end surfaces of the movable seal ring in the circumferential direction; and a second elastic member that is provided to an intermediate position in the circumferential direction of the movable seal ring and urges the movable seal ring outward in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Norihisa TAKEI, Hidekazu UEHARA, Takumi HORI, Kohei OZAKI, Azumi YOSHIDA, Masaya KAWANO, Shin NISHIMOTO, Tatsuro FURUSHO, Shintaro OKUMURA
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Patent number: 11594341Abstract: A pit gate includes a gate body which is inserted between a pool portion storing water and a canal portion connected to the pool portion and is configured to change a flow state of the water, and a seal portion (6) which is accommodated in a groove-shaped accommodation recess formed in the gate body and seals between the pool portion and the gate body. The seal portion (6) includes a low-rigidity portion (10) which is relatively easily deformed by a load according to a water pressure from the pool portion side, and a high-rigidity portion (11) which is provided on the pool portion side of the low-rigidity portion and is not easily deformed relatively by the load.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Hisanori Watanabe, Hidetaka Kafuku, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hiroki Mitsui, Yasuharu Suda, Takao Ito, Hayao Kurono, Shuhei Dobara, Takumi Hori
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Patent number: 11536122Abstract: An oil field pump is installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, and feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction, the oil filed pump including a rotor with an internal flow path for the extraction oil, a stator installed on the outer circumference of the rotor, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing, and a filter that is installed at further upstream on the flow path than the supply pipe along the flow direction of the extraction oil, and traps foreign matter.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shimpei Yokoyama, Nobuhiro Kunitake, Takumi Hori, Tanehiro Shinohara, Norihisa Takei
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Patent number: 11199077Abstract: An oil field pump installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction and includes a rotor, a stator mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor, a flow path for flow of the extraction oil connecting an area formed within the rotor to an area formed between the rotor and the stator, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, and a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing. The thrust bearing includes a protrusion part fixed to the outer circumference of the rotor and rotating as one piece with the rotor, and a facing part fixed to the stator and facing opposite a surface in the axial direction of the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Shimpei Yokoyama, Nobuhiro Kunitake, Takumi Hori, Norihisa Takei, Tanehiro Shinohara
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Patent number: 11028731Abstract: In a steam turbine including a rotor including a free side end fixed by a journal bearing in a radial direction and a fixed side end fixed by a thrust bearing in an axial direction, and a casing including a fixed side end fixed by the thrust bearing in the axial direction, a casing position adjustment device is configured to adjust an axial position of the casing with respect to the rotor due to thermal expansion. The casing position adjustment device includes: a low-pressure casing end plate, which is an end plate oriented to a free side in the axial direction in a low-pressure casing of the casing, and has a diaphragm deformable in the axial direction; and actuators, which are configured to deform the low-pressure casing end plate so that the low-pressure casing end plate extends toward the free side in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Hidekazu Uehara, Kentarou Saeki, Katsuhisa Hamada
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Publication number: 20210158979Abstract: A pit gate includes a gate body which is inserted between a pool portion storing water and a canal portion connected to the pool portion and is configured to change a flow state of the water, and a seal portion (6) which is accommodated in a groove-shaped accommodation recess formed in the gate body and seals between the pool portion and the gate body. The seal portion (6) includes a low-rigidity portion (10) which is relatively easily deformed by a load according to a water pressure from the pool portion side, and a high-rigidity portion (11) which is provided on the pool portion side of the low-rigidity portion and is not easily deformed relatively by the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiromu Okamoto, Hisanori Watanabe, Hidetaka Kafuku, Shunsuke Tanaka, Hiroki Mitsui, Yasuharu Suda, Takao Ito, Hayao Kurono, Shuhei Dobara, Takumi Hori
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Patent number: 10914382Abstract: A shaft sealing structure for a rotation shaft, includes a sealing ring having ends formed by removal of its part. The ends abutting each other are continuous in the circumferential direction when the sealing ring is reduced in diameter to a radially inner side. The sealing ring is provided along the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft so as to be contactable with an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft. The structure also includes a pressing member configured to be movable between a pressing position and a retracted position; an elastic member configured to bias the pressing member toward the pressing position by elastic force; and a support member configured to support the pressing member at the retracted position against the elastic force, and to allow the pressing member to move to the pressing position at a predetermined temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naotaka Komatsu, Takumi Hori, Yuichi Otani, Hidetaka Kafuku, Hiromu Okamoto, Shunsuke Tanaka, Yasushi Takayama, Tomoki Hanada
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Publication number: 20200378226Abstract: An oil field pump installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction and includes a rotor, a stator mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor, a flow path for flow of the extraction oil connecting an area formed within the rotor to an area formed between the rotor and the stator, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, and a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing. The thrust bearing includes a protrusion part fixed to the outer circumference of the rotor and rotating as one piece with the rotor, and a facing part fixed to the stator and facing opposite a surface in the axial direction of the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Shimpei YOKOYAMA, Nobuhiro KUNITAKE, Takumi HORI, Norihisa TAKEI, Tanehiro SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20200378225Abstract: An oil field pump is installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, and feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction, the oil filed pump including a rotor with an internal flow path for the extraction oil, a stator installed on the outer circumference of the rotor, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil in the flow path to the thrust bearing, and a filter that is installed at further upstream on the flow path than the supply pipe along the flow direction of the extraction oil, and traps foreign matter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Shimpei YOKOYAMA, Nobuhiro KUNITAKE, Takumi HORI, Tanehiro SHINOHARA, Norihisa TAKEI
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Publication number: 20200378224Abstract: An oil field pump is installed within a pipe that connects to an oil field, and feeds accumulated extraction oil in a predetermined direction, the oil field pump including a rotor formed with an internal flow path for the extraction oil, a stator mounted on the outer circumference of the rotor, a thrust bearing that supports the axial weight of the rotor and the stator, and a supply pipe that supplies a portion of the extraction oil from the center side in the rotational direction of the flow path to the thrust bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Shimpei YOKOYAMA, Nobuhiro KUNITAKE, Takumi HORI, Norihisa TAKEI, Tanehiro SHINOHARA
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Publication number: 20190093514Abstract: In a steam turbine including a rotor including a free side end fixed by a journal bearing (not illustrated) in a radial direction and a fixed side end fixed by a thrust bearing in an axial direction, and a casing including a fixed side end fixed by the thrust bearing in the axial direction (rotor axial direction), a casing position adjustment device is configured to adjust an axial position of the casing with respect to the rotor due to thermal expansion. The casing position adjustment device includes: a low-pressure casing end plate, which is an end plate oriented to a free side in the axial direction in a low-pressure casing of the casing, and has a diaphragm shape deformable in the axial direction; and actuators, which deform the low-pressure casing end plate so that the low-pressure casing end plate extends toward the free side in the axial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Takumi HORI, Hidekazu UEHARA, Kentarou SAEKI, Katsuhisa HAMADA
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Publication number: 20190063610Abstract: A shaft sealing structure for a rotation shaft, includes a sealing ring having ends formed by removal of its part. The ends abutting each other are continuous in the circumferential direction when the sealing ring is reduced in diameter to a radially inner side. The sealing ring is provided along the circumferential direction of the rotation shaft so as to be contactable with an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft. The structure also includes a pressing member configured to be movable between a pressing position and a retracted position; an elastic member configured to bias the pressing member toward the pressing position by elastic force; and a support member configured to support the pressing member at the retracted position against the elastic force, and to allow the pressing member to move to the pressing position at a predetermined temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Naotaka KOMATSU, Takumi HORI, Yuichi OTANI, Hidetaka KAFUKU, Hiromu OKAMOTO, Shunsuke TANAKA, Yasushi TAKAYAMA, Tomoki HANADA
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Patent number: 9791046Abstract: A rotary machine has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, and stationary rings that contact the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped, the stationary rings being positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are defined between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts a temperature of the fluid in the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2011Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Hiroshi Funakoshi, Manabu Maeda, Hidekazu Uehara, Kazuhiko Yamashita, Zenichi Yoshida
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Patent number: 9601221Abstract: An opening and closing device that opens and closes an access port opened from a substantially cylindrical working platform disposed inside a reactor vessel and used to access a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel from the inside of the working platform, the opening and closing device includes: a cover that is slidable along an outer peripheral surface or an inner peripheral surface of the working platform from a closing position where the access port is closed to an opening position where the access port is opened; and moving device for sliding the cover.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sugiura, Takumi Hori, Kenji Nishikawa, Ken Onishi, Noriaki Shimonabe, Satoshi Tsuzuki, Ikuo Wakamoto
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Patent number: 9524803Abstract: A reactor vessel that performs work inside a nozzle stub of the reactor vessel, including a platform unit that is provided at an upper portion inside the reactor vessel and includes a substantially cylindrical side wall portion and a bottom portion blocking the lower end of the side wall portion; an access window that is provided at the side wall portion of the platform unit an access window moving device that opens and closes the access window; a working device; and a control device that is provided at the outside of the reactor vessel and controls the access window moving device and the working device, wherein the control device drives the access window moving device to open the access window, drives the working device to perform work inside the nozzle stub, and then drives the access window moving device to close the access window after the performance of the work.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2010Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Sugiura, Takumi Hori, Kenji Nishikawa, Ken Onishi, Noriaki Shimonabe, Satoshi Tsuzuki, Ikuo Wakamoto
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Patent number: 9441500Abstract: A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus capable of employing a compact low-resolution actuator is provided. A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus 40 includes turbine casings 21 and 37, a rotor 23, and actuators 14 and 15 that move the turbine casings 21 and 37 in the axial direction. The actuators 14 and 15 are disposed radially outside outer peripheries forming the turbine casings 21 and 37 .Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Megumu Tsuruta, Shin Asano, Tamiaki Nakazawa, Ryokichi Hombo
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Patent number: 9358638Abstract: A movable vacuum welding device (1) includes a vacuum chamber (7) having an edge section (12) opposite to a surface of a welding target (T) and forming a vacuum space between the surface of the welding target (T) and the vacuum chamber (7), a seal section (8) interposed between the edge section (12) and the welding target (T) throughout the entire circumference of the edge section (12), a welding head (9) configured to perform welding on the surface of the welding target (T) in the vacuum space, and a preload unit (10) configured to previously apply a load to the seal section (8). The seal section (8) includes a first seal member (27) formed of an elastic material and extending along the edge section (12), and a second seal member (28) disposed at least a rear side in a relative moving direction in which a welding bead (W) passes and having higher flexibility than the first seal member (27).Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINE TOOL CO., LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Yasuyuki Fujiya, Takehisa Okuda, Osamu Hasegawa, Katsuya Sennyu, Masao Watanabe, Takaaki Kaikogi
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Publication number: 20150258633Abstract: A movable vacuum welding device (1) includes a vacuum chamber (7) having an edge section (12) opposite to a surface of a welding target (T) and forming a vacuum space between the surface of the welding target (T) and the vacuum chamber (7), a seal section (8) interposed between the edge section (12) and the welding target (T) throughout the entire circumference of the edge section (12), a welding head (9) configured to perform welding on the surface of the welding target (T) in the vacuum space, and a preload unit (10) configured to previously apply a load to the seal section (8). The seal section (8) includes a first seal member (27) formed of an elastic material and extending along the edge section (12), and a second seal member (28) disposed at at least a rear side in a relative moving direction in which a welding bead (W) passes and having higher flexibility than the first seal member (27).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Yasuyuki Fujiya, Takehisa Okuda, Osamu Hasegawa, Katsuya Sennyu, Masao Watanabe, Takaaki Kaikogi
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Publication number: 20130202373Abstract: It is intended to provide a machining tool provided with a ram, which has a simple structure and an inexpensive device cost, and is capable of correcting a deflection of a tip of a main shaft unit caused by extending the ram. A deflection correction device for a ram 1 in a machining tool which is provided with a saddle 13 moving vertically along a guide of a column 14 and the ram 1 housing a main shaft unit 15 and being fitted in the saddle 13 slidably in a horizontal direction. The device may include a plurality of hydrostatic bearings 2a via which the saddle 13 is supported by the column 14 in a longitudinal direction of the column 14, and a control unit 10 which controls a hydraulic pressure of the hydrostatic bearing 2a in accordance with a vertical displacement of the ram 1 to maintain a straightness of the ram 1 in a direction of a main shaft of the ram 1 so as to correct a misalignment of the main shaft unit 15 by an inclination of the saddle 13 caused by controlling the hydraulic pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2009Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takumi Hori, Satoshi Furutate, Hiroyuki Domaru
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Publication number: 20130149117Abstract: A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus capable of employing a compact low-resolution actuator is provided. A steam turbine casing position adjusting apparatus 40 includes turbine casings 21 and 37, a rotor 23, and actuators 14 and 15 that move the turbine casings 21 and 37 in the axial direction. The actuators 14 and 15 are disposed radially outside outer peripheries forming the turbine casings 21 and 37.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Inventors: Takumi Hori, Megumu Tsuruta, Shin Asano, Tamiaki Nakazawa, Ryokichi Hombo