Patents by Inventor Yoshitake Fukuyama

Yoshitake Fukuyama 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).

  • Integrated coal gasification combined cycle power generator
    Patent number: 6824575
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide an IGCC which achieves improved plant thermal efficiency by using a cooling steam supply system that cools the high-temperature sections of the gas turbine 34. Embodiments of the invention further provide and IGCC in which the cooling steam recovery system recovers steam after cooling the gas-turbine high-temperature section and makes practical re-use of the energy and substances within the system. Therefore, embodiments of the invention can reduce or eliminate the degradation of certain equipment by cooling the high-temperature sections. Methods are provided for increasing the thermal efficiency o an IGCC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumio Otomo, Yoshitake Fukuyama, Tatsuro Uchida, Masaharu Utsunomiya, Hiromitsu Iijima, Yoshihiro Aburatani