Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
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Patent number: 11655851Abstract: A bearing device according to an embodiment is a bearing device for rotatably supporting a rotational shaft, the device including at least one rolling bearing which includes an inner race fixed to the rotational shaft, a rolling element, and an outer race for rotatably holding the rolling element with the inner race, and a casing for housing the rolling bearing, the casing including a plurality of first oil supply holes formed at intervals in a circumferential direction for supplying lubricant oil to a first gap between the rolling bearing and an inner circumferential surface of the casing. Each of the plurality of first oil supply holes satisfies: ?·d1·?1<?·d12/4,??(a) where d1 is a diameter of an outlet opening of the first oil supply hole, and ?1 is a space of the first gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Naoyuki Nagai, Takuya Arakawa, Takaya Futae, Shuichi Miura, Yosuke Dammoto, Akihiro Sugiyama
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Publication number: 20230128222Abstract: The present invention suppresses leakage of combustion gas from a contact surface. A cylinder head (20) is attached to a cylinder block. The surface (26) of the side of the cylinder head (20) that is attached to the cylinder block includes a first region (AH1) and a second region (AH2) that has higher hardness than the first region (AH1).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Masayuki IIZUMI, Motoi KAWASHIMA, Takuya KUMAGAI, Makoto SAKAGUCHI, Kazunori SAWAZAKI, Hideho NARITA, Ryuji KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 11619134Abstract: A mixed-flow turbine wheel includes: a plurality of rotor blades disposed on a circumferential surface of the hub at intervals in a circumferential direction and configured such that each of the plurality of rotor blades has a leading edge which includes, in a meridional view, an oblique edge portion where a distance between the leading edge and an axis of the rotational shaft decreases from a tip side toward a hub side, and a sensor detection surface having a flat shape and being applied with a marking which is detectable by an optical sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Koji Wakashima, Makoto Ozaki, Kimio Hatano, Bumpei Hashimoto, Hiroshi Saito, Takuya Rikimaru
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Publication number: 20230099007Abstract: A turbine includes: a rotatable impeller with a hub provided with a plurality of rotor blades; and a tubular member in which a diffuser located downstream of the impeller is formed. On an inner surface of the tubular member, a plurality of projections projecting radially inward of the tubular member are formed at positions closer to an inlet end of the tubular member than an outlet end of the tubular member. The plurality of projections are arranged in a circumferential direction of the inner surface so as to leave a space between adjacent projections.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Makoto OZAKI
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Publication number: 20230089893Abstract: A rotary electrical machine includes a housing which includes a flow passage portion in which a refrigerant flow passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed and which houses a rotor and a stator. The refrigerant flow passage includes a first flow passage of which a length from the inlet to the outlet in the circumferential direction is a predetermined length, and a second flow passage of which a length from the inlet to the outlet in the circumferential direction is shorter than that of the first flow passage. The second flow passage is provided with a partition wall portion between the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall in the radial direction. A slit penetrating the partition wall portion in the circumferential direction is formed in the partition wall portion. A width of the slit is smaller than a width of the first flow passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Naomichi SHIBATA, Tokio MOROHOSHI, Yudai FUJIOKA, Takashi FUKUNAGA, Takayoshi FUJII, Toshiaki KAWABATA
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Patent number: 11608798Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a gas engine and a ship provided with the same, the gas engine making it is possible to ensure a distance that enables fuel and an oxidizing agent to mix, and to evenly mix the oxidizing agent and the fuel even if the flow rate of gas traveling towards intake pipes varies. A gas engine (1) comprises: an intake passage (10) through which a gas flows; a plurality of intake pipes (12A, 12B) where the intake passage (10) branches apart at a branching section (14) that is downstream in the gas flow direction, the intake pipes opening to a cylinder (16) at the downstream end; and a fuel injection means (31) that injects fuel into the intake passage (10). The fuel injection means (31) is provided upstream of the branching section (14) in the gas flow direction, and injects varying quantities of fuel into the plurality of intake pipes (12A, 12B).Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER LTDInventors: Shintaro Shuto, Satoshi Yamada, Kazuro Hotta, Tomohiro Noguchi, Kenichi Iizuka, Yuki Nakamura
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Patent number: 11603772Abstract: A forced induction device (100) includes: a rotor (1) which includes a turbine side shaft portion (11), a compressor side shaft portion (12), and a connection shaft portion (13) connecting these to each other; a turbine side bearing (5) which supports the turbine side shaft portion (11); and a compressor side bearing (6) which supports the compressor side shaft portion (12). A rigidity of the connection shaft portion (13) is lower than that of the turbine side shaft portion (11) and the compressor side shaft portion (12) so that a node in a mode shape at each critical speed involving with an operating rotational speed region of the rotor (1) is located between the turbine side bearing (5) and the compressor side bearing (6).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Arakawa, Takaya Futae, Shuichi Miura, Yosuke Danmoto
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Patent number: 11603859Abstract: Provided are a variable geometry turbine and a supercharger including the same that can change flow rate characteristics of a turbine in accordance with engine output with simple structure and can adjust the flow angle of a fluid flowing into a turbine impeller to any angle in the circumferential direction of the turbine impeller. The variable geometry turbine (10) includes a turbine impeller (12) configured to rotate about an axis line, a turbine housing (30) configured to accommodate the turbine impeller (12) and form a throat passage (32) and a scroll flow channel (34) on the outer circumferential side of the turbine impeller (12), the scroll flow channel (34) communicating with the throat passage (32), and a width changing mechanism in which a width change portion (52) that changes a passage width of the throat passage (32) along the circumferential direction of the turbine impeller (12) is movable in the width direction of the passage width.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Toyotaka Yoshida, Makoto Ozaki
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Publication number: 20230077059Abstract: A rotary electrical machine includes a rotor, a stator, and a housing having a flow passage section. The flow passage section has an inner circumferential wall that makes contact with an outer circumferential surface of the stator, an outer circumferential wall arranged on the outside of the inner circumferential wall in the radial direction, and a partition wall section, which is provided in a portion in the circumferential direction, and connects the inner circumferential wall and the outer circumferential wall in the radial direction. The stator has a yoke section extending in the circumferential direction, and a plurality of teeth extending radially inward from the yoke section. The yoke section has a first portion connected to each of the teeth, and a second portion arranged between two first portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The partition wall section faces the second portion in the radial direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Tokio MOROHOSHI, Yudai FUJIOKA, Takashi FUKUNAGA, Takayoshi FUJII
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Publication number: 20230068282Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to increase the pressure of fuel while reducing an increase in the maximum lift amount of a cam and deterioration of a fuel injection ability. This cam for use in a fuel injection pump that increases the pressure of fuel supplied into a fuel supply chamber by an axial movement of a plunger. The cam includes a first cam surface that causes an increase rate of an axial speed of the plunger when the cam rotates at a constant speed, in a pre-stroke period until the plunger increases the pressure of the fuel in the fuel supply chamber, to be a first increase rate, and a second cam surface that causes the increase rate of the axial speed of the plunger when the cam rotates at the constant speed, in a pressure increasing period that is a period from a start of increasing the pressure of the fuel in the fuel supply chamber by the plunger, to be a second increase rate, wherein the first increase rate is set higher than the second increase rate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventor: Hisao OGAWA
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Patent number: 11585238Abstract: A bearing device includes a rotary part which is configured to be rotatable about a rotational axis and has a rotary surface intersecting the rotational axis, and a stationary part which has a stationary surface facing the rotary surface. One of the rotary surface or the stationary surface includes a bearing surface part for forming a bearing oil film. The rotary surface includes a first inner circumferential region, and a first outer circumferential region facing the stationary surface on a radially outer side of the bearing surface part and having higher oleophobicity than the first inner circumferential region.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventor: Yuya Kojima
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Patent number: 11585265Abstract: A surge suppression device for suppressing surge in an exhaust turbine-type turbocharger includes: a high-pressure tank configured to accumulate high-pressure gas with a higher pressure than atmospheric pressure; a high-pressure gas injection line connecting the high-pressure tank and an upstream intake passage on an upstream side of a compressor of the turbocharger; an on-off valve configured to open and close the high-pressure gas injection line; and a control device configured to control the on-off valve on the basis of a relationship between a pressure ratio of the compressor of the turbocharger and an intake flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yutaka Fujita, Nobuhito Oka, Makoto Ozaki
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Patent number: 11585348Abstract: A compressor wheel device comprises a compressor wheel attached to a rotary shaft and a thrust collar attached to the rotary shaft at a back surface of the compressor wheel. The compressor wheel includes: a wheel body part with a hub and at least one blade provided on an outer peripheral surface of the hub; and a sleeve part having a cylindrical shape projecting along an axis direction from a back surface of the hub and having an outer peripheral surface on which a sealing groove extending along a peripheral direction is formed. The thrust collar has a circular plate-like shape including: one surface including an abutting surface abutting on an end surface of the sleeve part and extending along a radial direction; and the other surface including a slidably-contacting surface slidably contacting a thrust bearing supporting the rotary shaft in a thrust direction and extending along the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Iwakiri, Takaya Futae
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Publication number: 20230053136Abstract: A turbocharger is provided with: a rotational shaft; a rolling bearing rotatably supporting the rotational shaft; an oil film damper disposed radially outward of an outer ring of the rolling bearing; and a housing having a first axial retaining portion and a second axial retaining portion, disposed adjacent to both ends of the oil film damper in the axial direction, respectively, for restricting movement of the outer ring in the axial direction. An axial end surface of the outer ring, or a facing surface of the first axial retaining portion or the second axial retaining portion facing the axial end surface of the outer ring has: a coefficient of static friction smaller than that of a portion of the housing excluding the first axial retaining portion and the second axial retaining portion; or has a recess where oil of the oil film damper can enter.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitomo NODA, Takuya ARAKAWA, Yosuke DAMMOTO, Shuichi ISAYAMA, Hiroaki TAKEUCHI
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Publication number: 20230050463Abstract: A variable nozzle device 20 for a variable geometry turbocharger includes: a nozzle mount 21; a nozzle plate 22 disposed so as to face the nozzle mount, the nozzle plate forming a nozzle flow passage 4 having an annular shape between the nozzle plate 22 and the nozzle mount 21; and a plurality of variable nozzle vanes 6 disposed at a predetermined interval in a circumferential direction of the nozzle flow passage 4 so as to be individually rotatable about a pivot axis 02. The nozzle plate 22 includes a first surface 33 facing the nozzle mount 21, a second surface 34 opposite to the first surface 33, and at least one through hole 36 formed through the first surface 33 and the second surface 35.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Bipin GUPTA, Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Yuya NAKAHARA, Yosuke DAMMOTO, Yoji AKIYAMA
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Publication number: 20230052778Abstract: This generator set is provided with an airflow path which has an air inlet and an air outlet and through which a cooling air flows, a power generator, an alternator which is driven by the power generator, and a radiator which is installed in the airflow path, with a cooling medium circulating between the power generator and the radiator, wherein the inflow area of the cooling airflow into the radiator is greater than the passage area of the air inlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventor: Susumu KAWASHIMA
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Publication number: 20230048172Abstract: A compressor according to an embodiment includes: a rotational shaft provided with a compressor impeller on one end side; a rolling bearing device for rotatably supporting the rotational shaft; and a housing for housing the rolling bearing device. The rolling bearing device includes: an inner ring mounted on the rotational shaft; an outer ring supported by the housing with application of a load from the housing in an axial direction of the rotational shaft; a rolling element disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring; an elastic member disposed on an outer circumferential side of the outer ring so as to come into contact with the housing; and a sliding portion disposed on one end side of the outer ring in the axial direction so as to come into contact with the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Takuya ARAKAWA, Naomichi SHIBATA
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Publication number: 20230049412Abstract: A scroll casing of a centrifugal compressor includes a scroll part forming a scroll passage of the centrifugal compressor. The scroll part has a near-circular scroll cross-section which includes a first arc portion extending from a connection position with a hub-side passage surface of a diffuser passage of the centrifugal compressor (first position) to a one-direction side (side toward fourth position), a second arc portion formed on the one-direction side of the first arc portion so as to include at least a part of a region between an outermost end in the radial direction (second position) and an innermost end in the radial direction (fourth position), and a third arc portion formed on the one-direction side of the second arc portion so as to include an end position of the scroll part on the one-direction side (fifth position) and satisfies a relationship of R2>R3, where R2 is a curvature radius of the second arc portion, and R3 is a curvature radius of the third arc portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventor: Kenichiro IWAKIRI
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Publication number: 20230046709Abstract: Provided is a prediction system that predicts whether a prescribed event will occur in a device, without being affected by differences among individual devices. The prediction system comprises: a data acquisition unit which acquires operation data representing the operation status of a device; a probability density estimation unit which estimates the probability density of the operation data; and an abnormality prediction unit which predicts whether an abnormality will occur in the device on the basis of the probability density estimation results of the operation data and a prediction model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Kazuyuki WAKASUGI, Katsuaki MORITA, Junnosuke ANDOU, Ichirou ISHIDA
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Patent number: 11572894Abstract: A centrifugal compressor (P) is provided with: a casing (10) which forms an impeller inlet flow path (11), an impeller flow path (12), an impeller outlet flow path (13), and a scroll (14); and an impeller (3) which is arranged in the impeller flow path (11), wherein the casing (10) is provided with a casing body (15) and a heat conduction inhibiting part (16) which is disposed to heat conduction paths to the impeller inlet flow path (11) from at least the impeller outlet flow path (13) and the scroll (14) so as to inhibit heat conduction to the impeller inlet flow path (11) from at least the impeller outlet flow path (13) and the scroll (14).Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Kanzaka, Yosuke Dammoto, Yoji Akiyama, Takao Yokoyama