Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
  • Publication number: 20230272872
    Abstract: An expansion joint of the present disclosure includes: a first flange disposed outside a pipe; a second flange disposed outside the pipe and is disposed away from the first flange in an axial direction of the joint; a main bellows connected to the first and second flanges and in which a flow passage of a fluid is formed; and a balancing device connected to the first and second flanges outside the main bellows and applies a thrust force opposite to a thrust force, applied to the first and second flanges in the axial direction by the main bellows, to the first and second flanges, wherein the balancing device includes a fluid supply unit, an elastic portion connected to the fluid supply unit and is allowed to expand and contract in the axial direction, and a connection portion connecting the elastic portion to the first and second flanges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Yamamoto, Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230272796
    Abstract: A geared compressor includes a drive gear, a first intermediate gear, a second intermediate gear, a first impeller and a second impeller connected to a first driven gear, and a third impeller and a fourth impeller connected to a second driven gear. When viewed from an axial direction, a drive axis of the drive gear is disposed below a first intermediate axis of the first intermediate gear, a second intermediate axis of the second intermediate gear, a first driven axis of the first driven gear, and a second driven axis of the second driven gear in a vertical direction. The first impeller has a larger outer diameter than the second impeller, the third impeller, and the fourth impeller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20230265918
    Abstract: A rotary mechanical system includes a driving machine, a transmission unit that includes a main shaft, a main gear, an auxiliary gear meshing with the main gear, an auxiliary shaft, and a first gear, a gearbox that includes a second gear meshing with the first gear, an input shaft with the second gear fixed, and an output shaft that shifts a rotation speed of the input shaft, and a rotary machine that includes a rotary machine shaft connected to the output shaft. The first gear is a spur gear having a plurality of first tooth portions which are spur teeth whose teeth traces are parallel to the central axis. The second gear has a plurality of second tooth portions which are spur teeth whose teeth traces are parallel to the central axis, and each of which is disposed between the adjacent first tooth portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Hiroyuki Miyata
  • Publication number: 20230258190
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes a rotary shaft having a plurality of impellers and a casing having an intermediate discharge port. The casing has a plurality of diaphragms, an external casing, a return flow path that guides a flow direction of a working fluid to an inner side in a radial direction, and an intermediate scroll that guides part of the working fluid discharged from the impeller in an intermediate stage to the intermediate discharge port. The intermediate scroll has a scroll flow path formed on a second side in the axial direction with respect to the return flow path, and an introduction portion connecting the return flow path and the scroll flow path, and an outer flow path forming surface of the scroll flow path is formed by a casing inner peripheral surface facing an inner side of the external casing in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Nakaniwa, Jo Masutani, Shinichiro Tokuyama, Yoshiaki Shoji
  • Publication number: 20230243369
    Abstract: A compressor system includes a compressor and a supply control unit that controls a state of supply of water and a state of supply of oil. The supply control unit includes a rate-of-change acquisition unit that acquires a rate of change in efficiency of the compressor, a supply amount acquisition unit that acquires the amount of supply of the oil, an operating cost acquisition unit that acquires an operation cost from the rate of change, an oil cost acquisition unit that acquires an oil cost from the amount of supply of the oil, and a cost relationship acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of provisional relationship values that are the relationship between the operating cost and the oil cost under each of the plurality of provisional cleaning conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Hayashi, Tsukasa Tadomi, Masahiro Amano, Ryoji Ogasawara, Koichi Mizushita
  • Publication number: 20230235677
    Abstract: A nozzle module includes a nozzle body having a blade shape in a cross section and extending in a radial direction, and a platform member integrally connected to each end portion of the nozzle body in the radial direction. The platform member includes a first portion formed on a first side in an axial direction in which a central axis extends, and having a pair of first side surfaces extending in the axial direction, when viewed in the radial direction, and a second portion formed to extend to a second side in the axial direction with respect to the first portion, and having a second side surface extending obliquely with respect to the first side surface, when viewed in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Yuzo Tsurusaki
  • Publication number: 20230228274
    Abstract: A compression system includes a compressor that compresses a synthesis gas to produce a compressed gas, a first line that supplies a first gas constituting the synthesis gas to the compressor, a second line that supplies a second gas constituting the synthesis gas to the first line, a discharge line that circulates the compressed gas, a recirculation line that recirculates a part of the compressed gas from the discharge line to the first line, a first regulating valve arranged in the first line, a second regulating valve arranged in the second line, a discharge valve arranged in the discharge line, a recirculation valve arranged in the recirculation line, and a valve control device that performs switching between the first regulating valve, the second regulating valve, the discharge valve, and the recirculation valve based on an operation condition of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Tanaka, Daisuke Kiuchi, Kunio Hamano
  • Patent number: 11702962
    Abstract: A steam turbine has a diffuser that is configured to guide steam to an outside of a casing. The diffuser has an outer guide that gradually expands to an outer side in a radial direction and an inner guide that is disposed at intervals to an inner side in the radial direction with respect to the outer guide. The inner guide has an inner curved diameter-expanded portion that gradually expands to the outer side in the radial direction while being curved from the first side to the second side in the axial direction. The outer guide has a first diameter-expanded portion that gradually expands to the outer side in the radial direction with a first radius of curvature, and a second diameter-expanded portion that gradually expands to the outer side in the radial direction with a second radius of curvature larger than the first radius of curvature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masatomo Todo, Akito Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 11703278
    Abstract: A liquefied natural gas compression system includes: a first gas turbine that drives a rotary machine; a first steam boiler including a first heat recovery steam generator that recovers heat from exhaust gas from the first gas turbine; a first steam turbine that drives a first refrigerant compressor; a common header steam line through which steam from the first steam boiler flows to an inlet of the first steam turbine; an auxiliary steam line; and a letdown valve that connects the common header steam line to the auxiliary steam line and that opens in response to pressure of the common header steam line exceeding a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Compressor Corporation
    Inventors: Keizo Yoneda, Peter Clifford Rasmussen, Bernard Quoix, Takeshi Hataya, Yoshinori Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11692538
    Abstract: A compressor system includes: a first compressor including a first casing having a cylindrical shape, and a first bundle capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the first casing in an axial direction of the first casing; and a second compressor including a second casing having a cylindrical shape, and a second bundle capable of being inserted into and pulled out from the second casing in an axial direction of the second casing. The first and second compressors are arranged to face each other to cause pullout directions of the respective bundles to be opposite to each other. A maintenance space shareable for insertion and pullout operations of the first bundle and insertion and pullout operations of the second bundle is interposed between the first bundle and the second bundle, and is available for the bundle under the insertion and pullout operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Kinoshita, Hideki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20230193767
    Abstract: A rotor of a steam turbine includes a plurality of rotor blades attached to a disk portion and a key configured to restrict movement of each of the plurality of rotor blades in an axial direction. The disk portion includes a blade embedding groove and a circumferential groove. The plurality of rotor blades include a first rotor blade and a second rotor blade adjacent to the first rotor blade on one side in a circumferential direction. A platform of the first rotor blade includes an access groove communicating with the circumferential groove, and a platform of the second rotor blade includes a second side surface facing a first side surface in the circumferential direction and a key accommodating groove communicating with the access groove in the circumferential direction. A key is arranged in the circumferential groove and the key accommodating groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tomotaka Ouchi
  • Publication number: 20230184256
    Abstract: A compressor includes a tilting pad bearing supporting a rotating shaft in a casing. The tilting pad bearing includes a bearing pad being in sliding contact with an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft and a pivot supporting the bearing pad in a swingable manner. The casing includes a groove portion having an annular shape recessed in the axial direction and extending in the circumferential direction, and a connection portion configured to connect an inner circumferential region of an inner side in the radial direction with respect to the groove portion to an outer circumferential region of the outer side in the radial direction with respect to the groove portion. The connection portion overlaps with the pivot as viewed from the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Yoshimune, Takashi Oda
  • Publication number: 20230175517
    Abstract: An integrally geared compressor includes: a drive gear rotated by a motor; an intermediate gear meshing with the drive gear; a first drive side pinion meshing with the drive gear; a first intermediate side pinion meshing with the intermediate gear; a second intermediate side pinion meshing with the intermediate gear at a position away from the drive gear and the first intermediate side pinion; a first compression unit compressing a working fluid by rotation of the first drive side pinion; a second compression unit compressing a working fluid by rotation of the first intermediate side pinion; and a uniaxial multi-stage compressor further compressing the working fluid compressed by at least one of the first compression unit and the second compression unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Masahiro Kobayashi, Naoto Yonemura, Yuji Futagami
  • Patent number: 11662060
    Abstract: An accumulator includes a tank body having a communication port that communicates the lubricant accommodating space capable of accommodating lubricant with the outside, the tank body extending around an axis, a piston that moves in the axial direction in the tank body to vary the size of the lubricant accommodating space, a spiral spring mechanism having a spiral spring, and a rotational force transmission member that converts a linear movement of the piston into a rotational force around the axis to transmit the converted rotational force. The rotational force transmission member converts a rotational movement due to a restoring force of the spiral spring into a force in the axial direction to move the piston in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kensei Shimamoto, Takuya Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11655728
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes a rotor that includes an impeller cap that regulates the movement of an impeller fixed to a rotary shaft that extends in an axial direction about the axis; a housing that covers a rotor; and an inlet guide vane that has a plurality of movable blades that extend from the housing toward an inner side in a radial direction and disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction, in which a blade tip portion, which is a tip end of the movable blade in the radial direction, is disposed on the outer side in the radial direction with respect to an outer peripheral surface of the impeller cap, and the position of at least a part of the blade tip portion in the axial direction overlaps the position of the impeller cap in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruya Yamazaki, Masanori Katada
  • Patent number: 11655733
    Abstract: A turbine stator includes a partition plate including an inner ring that extends along a circumferential direction, an outer ring that is disposed on an outer side of the inner ring in a radial direction, and extends in the circumferential direction, a plurality of nozzles that are disposed in the circumferential direction between the inner ring and the outer ring, and are configured to guide a fluid from an upstream side toward a downstream side in an axial direction, and an annular protruding portion, protrudes from the outer ring to the downstream side in the axial direction, and extends along the outer ring in the circumferential direction, and a casing surrounding the partition plate from the outer side in the radial direction, and having a contact support surface that is in contact with the annular protruding portion from the downstream side in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsumi Terada, Yuzo Tsurusaki
  • Patent number: 11656026
    Abstract: A compressing system includes a compression section that compresses a target gas to an intermediate pressure, which is equal to or higher than a critical pressure and lower than a target pressure to generate an intermediate supercritical fluid, a cooling section that cools the intermediate supercritical fluid generated in the compression section to near a critical temperature to generate an intermediate supercritical pressure liquid, and a pumping section that compresses the intermediate supercritical pressure liquid generated in the cooling section to a pressure that is equal to or higher than the target pressure. At least one of the intermediate supercritical pressure liquid compressed in the pumping section, a low-temperature liquid generated by extracting the intermediate supercritical pressure liquid on the upstream side of the pumping section to reduce pressure to near the critical pressure, and an external cooling medium is used as a cooling medium in the cooling section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoto Yonemura, Hiroyuki Miyata, Hideki Nagao
  • Patent number: 11648600
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a casing includes a step of preparing a casing forming member that includes a casing body forming portion which is formed in a tubular shape and a protruding portion forming portion which protrudes from the casing body forming portion toward an outer side in a radial direction, a step of placing the casing forming member on a table which is rotatable about a table axis which extends in a vertical direction and disposing a tool which is rotatable about a tool axis on an inner side of the casing forming member in the radial direction, and a step of forming the casing by performing cutting an inner circumferential surface of the casing forming member with the tool while rotating the table about the table axis together with the casing forming member and rotating the tool about the tool axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taishi Yoshihara
  • Patent number: 11649828
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes a cylindrical rotary shaft extending in a direction of an axis, a fastening bolt having a bolt body that extends in a direction of an axis O in the rotary shaft to form fastening portions at both ends, a pair of rotary bodies each having an end portion in the direction of the axis that is fixed to each of the pair of fastening portions to be in contact with an end surface of the rotary shaft in the direction of the axis, and a bolt extension mechanism that temporarily extends the bolt body in the direction of the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyata, Hideki Nagao
  • Publication number: 20230135302
    Abstract: A compressor includes: a rotation shaft which is allowed to rotate around an axis; an impeller which is configured to pressure-feed a fluid from one side in an axial direction toward an outside in a radial direction by rotating together with the rotation shaft; a casing surrounding the rotation shaft and the impeller and in which an exit flow path guiding the fluid pressure-fed from the impeller is formed; and an acoustic liner which is installed to face an inside of the exit flow path in the casing. The acoustic liner includes: an acoustic space which is formed inside the acoustic liner; an introduction hole communicating the acoustic space with the exit flow path; and a vortex suppressor which is placed in a connection area between the introduction hole and the acoustic space and is configured to suppress vortexes which occur in the connection area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Koji Maeta