Patents by Inventor Yoshikuni Kasai

Yoshikuni Kasai 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: 7694521
    Abstract: Pilot fuel injected from fuel injection ports 21 of a pilot nozzle 2 bumps against an inner wall surface of a tapered portion of an inner circumference of a cone 41 of a pilot cone 4. At this time, the position where a pilot fuel from the fuel injection ports 21 hits is located in a range from a middle of the tapered portion of the inner circumference of a cone 41 to a downstream-side tip thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohta, Shigemi Mandai, Kuniaki Aoyama, Katsunori Tanaka, Shinji Akamatsu, Hisanari Nakajima, Teruya Tachibana, Koichi Nishida, Wataru Akizuki, Yoshikuni Kasai, Jyunji Hashimura
  • Patent number: 6065931
    Abstract: A gas turbine moving blade, which has a blade root section, a wing section, and a platform section, comprises a refrigerant supply port provided in the blade root section, a refrigerant recovery port provided in the blade root section, a serpentine passage provided in the wing section and communicating with the refrigerant supply port and the refrigerant recovery port, and a convection-cooling passage provided in the platform section and allowing sealing air and a refrigerant for cooling the platform section by convection to pass therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Yoshikuni Kasai, Kazuo Uematsu
  • Patent number: 5873695
    Abstract: A steam cooled blade operating in a high temperature gas with a high cooling effect on a trailing edge portion has an impingement plate, disposed in the blade lengthwise direction within a trailing edge side cooling passage formed on a trailing edge side of a moving blade. The impingement plate partitions the trailing edge side cooling passage into a convection cooling steam passage, into which steam is introduced, and an impingement cooling steam passage, formed along a trailing edge of the moving blade. The steam cooled blade further has a by-pass passage 14 for joining the steam, after it is used for cooling the moving blade, flowing from a blade tip side of the impingement cooling steam passage with the steam flowing to a leading edge direction of the moving blade from the convection cooling steam passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Takeishi, Yoshikuni Kasai
  • Patent number: 5795130
    Abstract: Disclosed is a gas turbine rotor (5) having multi-stage moving blades, each fitted to a disc (12), characterized in comprising: an inner cavity (9) and an outer cavity (8) provided between each disc (12); a blade cooling passage (6) of each moving blade except a rearmost stage moving blade (4); a cooling steam supply passage (13) extending from a rear portion of the rearmost stage moving blade (4) to a leading edge portion of a foremost stage moving blade (1) in the rotor (5); a bifurcation passage (16) provided in the disc (12) portion of the foremost stage so as to connect at its proximal end to the cooling steam supply passage (13) and to bifurcate at its distal end so that one bifurcation thereof (16a) connects to one end of the blade cooling passage (6) and the other bifurcation (16b) connects to the outer cavity (8); a blade return passage (17) connecting at its proximal end to the other end of the blade cooling passage (6) and at its distal end to the inner cavity (9); a cavity connecting passage (20)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Suenaga, Yoshikuni Kasai