Patents Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
  • Patent number: 11415050
    Abstract: A contamination removing device for removing a contamination from oil for lubricating a rolling bearing supporting a rotary shaft of a turbocharger includes a body portion including an oil channel for the oil to flow, and a contamination removing element for removing the contamination from the oil flowing through the oil channel, the contamination removing element being provided in the oil channel. The body portion is configured to be detachable from the housing so that the oil channel and an oil supply channel for the oil to flow communicate with each other, the oil supply channel being formed in a housing of the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Shigeno, Yoshitomo Noda
  • Publication number: 20220255320
    Abstract: This command generation device generates a control command for a power conversion device which converts DC power outputted by a DC power supply device to AC power and supplies the same to a bus, and which converts AC power from the bus to DC power and supplies the same to the DC power supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu NAKAKITA, Masayuki TANAKA, Masato MITSUHASHI, Fujio EGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11408439
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor 10 includes a diffuser 13 that comprises: a shroud wall surface 131 that extends in the radial direction of a rotating shaft 3; and a hub wall surface 132 that extends in the radial direction and opposes the shroud wall surface 131 on the downstream side of a flow in the axial direction of the rotating shaft 3, the hub wall surface having a gap between itself and the shroud wall surface 131, and with that gap, forming an annular diffuser flow path 130 through which a fluid flows. A hub-side convex portion 132b is formed over the entire periphery of the hub wall surface 132, the hub-side convex portion 132b protruding toward the shroud wall surface 131 side relative to a straight line L1 that connects a starting end 132s on an inlet 130a side of the diffuser flow path 130 and a terminating end 132e on an outlet 130b side of the diffuser flow path 130.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Higashimori, Tadashi Kanzaka
  • Patent number: 11408435
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a hub; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub. Each of the plurality of blades has a suction surface, a pressure surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip-side edge, and a hub-side edge. The suction surface has a first curved surface portion curved convexly toward the trailing edge such that the trailing edge is inclined to a pressure surface side in a first region which is a partial region, in a blade height direction of the blade, of a region connected to the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Iwakiri, Nobuhito Oka, Hironori Honda
  • Patent number: 11401828
    Abstract: A turbomachinery according to an embodiment includes an impeller including at least one blade, and a casing for housing the impeller rotatably. A size of a gap between a tip of the blade and an inner surface of the casing during a stop of the impeller is formed non-uniformly over a circumferential direction of the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Isao Tomita, Reiko Takashima, Yutaka Fujita
  • Publication number: 20220235794
    Abstract: A scroll structure of a centrifugal compressor according to an embodiment is a scroll structure of a centrifugal compressor having a scroll passage formed in spiral shape, comprising: a tongue portion separating the scroll passage from an outlet passage connected to the downstream side of the scroll passage at the most downstream position of the scroll passage in a passage connecting portion where a winding start portion and a winding end portion of the scroll passage intersect; and a ridge portion protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the scroll passage on the axially downstream side of the centrifugal compressor toward the axially upstream side of the centrifugal compressor, with a protruding height toward the axially upstream side gradually increasing toward the tongue portion from a starting position that is located upstream from the tongue portion in the scroll passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro IWAKIRI
  • Publication number: 20220228602
    Abstract: A scroll structure of a centrifugal compressor includes, of a flow passage connection section where a scroll start portion and a scroll end portion of a scroll flow passage intersect, a connection region where a first inner circumferential surface of the scroll end portion in the centrifugal compressor and a second inner circumferential surface of the scroll start portion in the centrifugal compressor are connected. The connection region includes a turning start point where a direction starts to change from the first inner circumferential surface toward the second inner circumferential surface, and a turning end point where the change in direction from the first inner circumferential surface toward the second inner circumferential surface comes to an end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro IWAKIRI
  • Publication number: 20220226900
    Abstract: Provided is a laminated body molding method for molding a laminated body by irradiating powder fed onto a stage with a beam and thereby fusing and solidifying the powder or sintering the powder. The laminated body molding method includes: a moving distance setting step S22 of setting a moving distance of the stage to a length that is a certain proportion of a particle diameter of the powder; and a molding step S24 of molding the laminated body by repeating a process of moving the stage downward by the moving distance, feeding the powder onto the stage thus moved, and irradiating the fed powder with the beam to fuse and solidify the powder or sinter the powder. With this laminated body molding method, impairment of capabilities of the laminated body can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD., TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keisuke SHINZAWA, Atsushi TAKITA, Akihiko CHIBA
  • Patent number: 11384683
    Abstract: A turbocharger according to an embodiment is a turbocharger including a turbine housing for housing a turbine wheel rotary driven by an exhaust gas, a bearing housing for housing a rotational shaft on which the turbine wheel is mounted, the bearing housing being adjacent to the turbine housing, and a wastegate portion including a bypass passage and a valve body, the bypass passage allowing the exhaust gas to bypass the turbine wheel, the valve body being able to adjust a flow rate of the exhaust gas flowing through the bypass passage. In the turbine housing, a scroll passage for supplying the exhaust gas to the turbine wheel is formed by casting, at least on a radially outer side of the turbine wheel. A fastening portion for fastening the turbine housing and the bearing housing is disposed on a radially outer side of the scroll passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Takao Yokoyama, Kunihiro Tomikawa, Makoto Ozaki
  • Patent number: 11384774
    Abstract: A rotor includes: a hub; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub. Each of the plurality of blades includes a suction surface, a pressure surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a tip-side edge, and a hub-side edge. In a cross-section of each blade at a given chord position between the leading edge and the trailing edge, an angle of at least one of the suction surface or the pressure surface with respect to a blade height direction of the blade increases in a direction from the hub-side edge to the tip-side edge over a region from the hub-side edge to the tip-side edge, in at least a range from the leading edge to a chord position away from the leading edge toward the trailing edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayashi, Yutaka Fujita, Nobuhito Oka, Koichi Takahashi, Hayato Nishi
  • Publication number: 20220213933
    Abstract: A coupling device configured to transmit a rotational force between a first shaft and a second shaft, the device including a first coupling member mounted on the first shaft, a second coupling member mounted on the second shaft, and an intermediate member disposed between the first coupling member and the second coupling member, and configured to allow misalignment between the first shaft and the second shaft. The second coupling member includes a base member configured to be fixed to the intermediate member by a first fastening device, and a shaft mounting member configured to relatively non-rotatably be mounted on the second shaft, the shaft mounting member having a long hole extending along a circumferential direction of the above-described axis and being configured to detachably be fixed to the base member by a second fastening device inserted through the long hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hisao OGAWA, Satoshi KINOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220213900
    Abstract: A supercharger is provided with: a housing; a rotary shaft that is supported inside the housing to be freely rotatable; a compressor wheel that is provided at one end in an axial direction of the rotary shaft; a cooling water supplying pipe and a cooling water discharging pipe that have a flange part at an end and are connected to the housing; and a lubricant supplying pipe that has a flange part at an end and is connected to the housing. The ends of the cooling water supplying pipe and the cooling water discharging pipe are inserted into a cooling water supplying flow path and a cooling water discharging flow path of the housing, respectively. The end of the lubricant supplying pipe is inserted into a first supplying flow path of the housing. The flange part presses the flange parts in an insertion direction and is fixed to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Nariaki SEIKE, Sosuke IRIE, Seiichi IWANAMI, Yasushi MATSUI
  • Publication number: 20220213846
    Abstract: A piston of an internal combustion engine configured to be reciprocable along an axial direction in a cylinder includes a cavity formed to be recessed in a center of a piston top surface, and an outer circumferential edge portion located on a radially outer side of the cavity in the piston top surface. The cavity includes a lip portion which has an inclined surface extending obliquely downward from the outer circumferential edge portion toward a radially inner side, a raised portion protruding upward from a bottom of the cavity, and a curved portion connecting the raised portion and the lip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka TSUBAKI, Yusuke IMAMORI, Satoshi YAMADA, Shintaro SHUTO, Taro TAMURA
  • Patent number: 11378089
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: an impeller; a compressor inlet tube configured to guide air to the impeller; a scroll flow passage disposed on a radially outer side of the impeller; a bypass flow passage branching from the scroll flow passage via a branch port, the bypass flow passage connecting to the compressor inlet tube not via the impeller; and a bypass valve capable of opening and closing a valve port disposed in the bypass flow passage. The branch port has a non-circular shape when viewed along a normal N1 of the branch port passing through a center of the branch port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Iwakiri, Yutaka Fujita, Yoshihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11378095
    Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes an impeller, a compressor inlet pipe for guiding air to the impeller, a scroll passage disposed on an outer peripheral side of the impeller, and a bypass passage connecting the compressor inlet pipe and the scroll passage and bypassing the impeller. In a cross-section perpendicular to an axis of the compressor inlet pipe, when A1 is a connection portion on a downstream side in a rotational direction of the impeller of connection portions between an inner wall surface of the compressor inlet pipe and an inner wall surface of the bypass passage, C is a virtual circle constituting the inner wall surface of the compressor inlet pipe, and L1 is a tangent line of the virtual circle C at the connection portion A1, the inner wall surface of the bypass passage is formed from the connection portion A1 along the tangent line L1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hayashi, Yutaka Fujita, Kenichiro Iwakiri
  • Publication number: 20220205458
    Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor, when the position of the tongue of the scroll section in the circumferential direction of the impeller is defined as 60° and the downstream direction in the rotation direction of the impeller is defined as the positive direction of the position in the circumferential direction, a diffuser section outer diameter distribution indicating a relationship between the position in the circumferential direction and outer diameter R of the diffuser section includes an outer diameter increasing portion where the outer diameter R increases going toward the positive direction, and in the diffuser section outer diameter distribution, the position of a start point of the outer diameter increasing portion is 150° or less, and the position of an end point of the outer diameter increasing portion is 270° or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichiro IWAKIRI
  • Publication number: 20220205382
    Abstract: A sealing structure of a turbocharger includes a turbine housing including a scroll channel, a nozzle mount, a nozzle plate defining, with the nozzle mount, an exhaust gas channel for introducing an exhaust gas from the scroll channel to a turbine wheel, the nozzle plate including an annular plate portion that has a channel wall surface defining the exhaust gas channel and a tubular portion that extends from an inner peripheral end portion on a back surface of the annular plate portion toward a first inner wall surface of the turbine housing, and a sealing device for sealing a section between the first inner wall surface and an end surface of the tubular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Jain SAMBHAV, Yosuke DANMOTO, Youji AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220198917
    Abstract: A measuring device measures a status of a device to be monitored stored within a metal hull of a marine vessel. A first communication device is provided outside the hull and transmits a status signal indicating a measurement value of the status of the device to be monitored. A second communication device receives the status signal via the first communication device and outputs information pertaining to the status. The second communication device is configured to be portable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki TAGUCHI, Hirotaka KURODA
  • Publication number: 20220196031
    Abstract: In a centrifugal compressor, a diffuser channel includes a curved channel portion that bends toward a front side in an axial direction of an impeller as it goes toward an outer side in a radial direction of the impeller. In a cross-section along a rotation axis of the impeller, when a center line of the diffuser channel is A, a straight line orthogonal to the center line A at an outlet of the diffuser channel is B, and an angle between the rotation axis of the impeller and the straight line B is ?, ??60° is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro IWAKIRI, Isao TOMITA
  • Publication number: 20220196030
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyotaka YOSHIDA, Makoto OZAKI