Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250059125
    Abstract: A method of producing an anthraquinone-based substance represented by the following chemical formula: where at least one of R1 to R8 is a hydroxy group, and at least one of R1 to R8 is an alkoxy group, includes the steps of: preparing a starting material represented by the following chemical formula: where at least two of the R1? to R8? are hydroxy groups; and reacting the starting material with an organic alkylating agent. The amount of the organic alkylating agent to be reacted with the starting material is more than or equal to 0.05 mol and less than n mol per 1 mol of the starting material, where n is the number of hydroxy groups contained in the starting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., NAGOYA DENKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Hirayama, Toshiyasu Kiyabu, Yasushi Morita, Tsuyoshi Murata, Aya Ito, Shigemitsu Okada
  • Patent number: 12227689
    Abstract: A plate-shaped chemical heat storage comprising a substrate composed of a net made of metal and a heat storage material composition supported on the substrate, wherein the heat storage material composition comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium hydroxide or oxide, strontium hydroxide or oxide, barium hydroxide or oxide, calcium hydroxide or oxide, and calcium sulfate, and optionally at least one selected from the group consisting of titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, alumina silicate fiber, E-glass fiber and cellulose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichiro Kai, Masashi Kiyosawa, Koichi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 12228059
    Abstract: A gas turbine facility includes: a gas turbine; an ammonia supply device that supplies ammonia to a combustor of the gas turbine; a flow path forming frame forming an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas from the gas turbine flows; a sprinkling device having a sprinkler that sprinkles water into the exhaust gas flow path; and a sprinkling controller that controls an operation of the sprinkling device. The sprinkling controller instructs the sprinkling device to start sprinkling the water on condition that an instruction to start supply of the ammonia to the combustor from the ammonia supply device or an instruction to stop the supply of the ammonia is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi Ishii, Ryo Ikeda, Akira Hattori, Hiroyuki Takeishi
  • Patent number: 12228050
    Abstract: A steam turbine according to the present invention comprises: a shaft which rotates about the rotation axis thereof; a plurality of moving blades which extend in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and which are arranged along the circumferential direction; a casing main body which covers the shaft and the moving blades from the outer peripheral side; a plurality of stationary blades which are arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the casing main body; and a substance supply unit which supplies, to the surfaces of the moving blades and/or the surfaces of the stationary blades, a film forming substance that is hydrophobic, wherein the substance supply unit has a storage unit, a supply passage which is formed inside the casing and through which the film forming substance flows, and discharge units which are formed inside the moving blades and/or the stationary blades and which guide the film forming substance to the surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Soichiro Tabata, Tetsuya Sawatsubashi, Hiroyuki Mitsui, Kunio Asai, Ryuichi Matsubara, Kiyoshi Tatsuhara
  • Patent number: 12228347
    Abstract: In a header of a heat exchanger core, a header passage includes: at least one radial passage extending along a radial direction, and a plurality of circumferential passages branched from each radial passage and communicating with one or more of the axial passages, respectively. The flow passage area of each radial passage is smaller in a second position than in a first position, where the second position is inward of the first position in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Nobuhide Hara, Yoichi Uefuji, Koichi Tanimoto, Masaya Hatanaka, Shunsaku Eguchi, Takuo Oda
  • Patent number: 12221141
    Abstract: A route control program generation device constructs a group of a plurality of environment models with different states in which the states of the plurality of environment models are changed in various manners. The environment model is constituted by a first moving body that is a control target and is present on a track divided into a plurality of sections, and a second moving body other than the control target, and searches for a state transition order where it is possible to achieve a request for causing the first moving body to move to a prescribed section by causing the first moving body to move to a destination while causing a state of one environment model to transition to a state of another environment model in response to the request. The route control program generation device constructs the group to match a prescribed restriction condition based on the restriction condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuyoshi Saimen, Takanobu Handa, Kenji Tei, Kengo Kuwana, Hirotaka Okazaki
  • Patent number: 12221900
    Abstract: This stationary turbine blade comprises: a stationary blade main body extending in the radial direction intersecting the flow direction of steam; a hydrophilic region which is formed on the surface of the stationary blade main body and which has a higher hydrophilicity than the other parts and has the radial dimension gradually increasing toward the downstream side in the flow direction; and a collecting portion which is provided on the downstream side of the hydrophilic region and which collects a liquid film flowing along the hydrophilic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chongfei Duan, Shunsuke Mizumi, Soichiro Tabata, Koji Ishibashi
  • Patent number: 12220882
    Abstract: Provided is a shaping method for shaping a laminated body of multi-layered sheet materials containing reinforcing fibers by using a shaping die. The shaping die has a curved portion formed in a convex shape over a predetermined direction. The shaping method includes: fixing, to the shaping die, a holding member configured to cover the laminated body over the predetermined direction to maintain a state where the laminated body is pressed against the curved portion; sealing the laminated body and the holding member to the shaping die by a sealing member to form a closed space; and depressurizing the closed space to thin the laminated body by sucking air of the closed space, and the fixing fixes the holding member to the shaping die such that the holding member does not come into contact with an end face on one side in the predetermined direction of the laminated body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Homare Yamato
  • Patent number: 12221923
    Abstract: A gas turbine cogeneration system includes a denitration control part for outputting to a denitration device a control command to set the amount of NOx emissions at a heat recovery steam generator outlet not more than a boiler outlet target value. The denitration control part is configured to generate the control command with reference to at least a first addition amount of a reducing agent obtained by calculation based on a NOx parameter which is a parameter correlated with the amount of NOx emissions at a turbine outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Asao, Kazuhiko Sato, Shohei Yoshida, Ryo Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12221195
    Abstract: A fluid machine includes: a shaft portion extending in an axis direction; a shroud provided to surround the shaft portion, and forming a flow path between the shroud and the shaft portion, the flow path having one side in the axis direction serving as an upstream side and another side in the axis direction serving as a downstream side; a propeller provided rotatably around the axis between the shaft portion and the shroud; a motor provided in the shroud and configured to rotationally drive the propeller; and a bearing apparatus provided only to the shaft portion, out of the shroud and the shaft portion, and rotationally supporting the propeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeki Senoo, Shinichi Isobe, Wataru Yamada, Takehiko Nishida, Takuyoshi Yamada, Kazuki Hosono, Yoshitomo Noda, Takuzo Shigihara, Hiroki Takeda, Yuichi Sekine
  • Patent number: 12222105
    Abstract: A combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles installed so as to be extended in a direction of a nozzle axis and configured to inject fuel toward one side in the direction of the nozzle axis, a pipe plate having a plurality of air holes formed therein so as to be extended in the direction of the nozzle axis, in which the air hole has an inner diameter larger than a tip end portion of the fuel nozzle and the tip end portions are respectively inserted into the air holes, and a step surface formed at a position of the tip end portion closer to the other side in the direction of the nozzle axis than a tip end surface of the tip end portion so as to be expanded in a radial direction with respect to the nozzle axis from a tip end outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keisuke Miura, Katsuyoshi Tada, Keijiro Saito, Tomomi Koganezawa, Mitsuhiro Karishuku
  • Patent number: 12222730
    Abstract: A control device controls travel direction of a traveling body that travels along a plurality of magnetic markers arranged with intervals therebetween on a track, the control device including: a first sensor for detecting the magnetic markers; a second sensor for detecting speed or acceleration; a first lateral position calculation unit for calculating a lateral position of the traveling body by a detection result from the first sensor, when the first sensor has detected a magnetic marker; a second lateral position calculation unit for calculating a lateral position of the traveling body by a detection result from the second sensor, when the first sensor is not detecting a magnetic marker; and a travel direction control unit for controlling the travel direction of the traveling body by the lateral position of the traveling body as calculated by the first lateral position calculation unit or the second lateral position calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Yamada, Noritaka Yanai, Kazutaka Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12215605
    Abstract: A stator blade including a blade body, a first insert, a second insert, and an end cover. The blade body has a first blade air passage and a second blade air passage extending in the blade height direction within the blade body. Each passage has an open end on a blade-height second side. The first insert and the second insert have tubular outer peripheral plate portions. A plurality of impinge holes are formed in the outer peripheral plate portion. The tube height opening side of the outer peripheral plate portion in the tube height direction is open. The outer peripheral plate portion of the first insert is disposed in the first blade air passage such that cooling air flows into the outer peripheral plate portion from the opening of the first insert. The outer peripheral plate portion of the second insert is disposed in the second wing air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Saki Matsuo, Satoshi Hada, Yasuo Miyahisa, Satoshi Mizukami
  • Patent number: 12214577
    Abstract: A composite structure manufacturing method comprising: a lamination step in which a plurality of fiber-reinforced resin sheets are laminated to form a plate-shaped laminate; a pressing deformation step in which a third roller or similar, which rolls along a plate surface of the laminate, is used to press the plate surface of the laminate, thereby forming a recessed section or a protruding section in a prescribed section of the laminate; a short direction deformation step in which, after the pressing deformation step, the laminate is deformed in the short direction to make the long direction cross-section into a prescribed shape; and a long direction deformation step in which, after the pressing deformation step, the laminate is deformed in the long direction to make the short direction cross-section into a prescribed shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Homare Yamato, Masahiko Shimizu, Toshiki Kitazawa, Shoya Mano, Akihiro Terasaka
  • Publication number: 20250032973
    Abstract: A CO2 recovery device includes: a cooling tower into which an exhaust gas containing carbon dioxide is introduced to cool the exhaust gas; and an absorption tower into which the exhaust gas cooled in the cooling tower is introduced and which brings the exhaust gas into contact with an absorption liquid to remove the carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas, in which the absorption tower has an absorption tower body through which the exhaust gas is flowable and which has a tubular shape, and a demister that is disposed inside the absorption tower body and is configured to remove mist contained in the exhaust gas as the exhaust gas flows therethrough, and the CO2 recovery device further comprises a flow velocity regulating section that regulates the flow velocity of the exhaust gas flowing through the demister to be within a predetermined range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Miyamoto, Kyohei Matsukawa, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Satoru Sugita, Daisuke Shimada
  • Patent number: 12209542
    Abstract: A gas turbine system and control method for the gas turbine system that includes: a gas turbine including a compressor for producing compressed air, a combustor for burning fuel with the compressed air, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated by burning fuel in the combustor; a motor generator drivable by the turbine and capable of providing rotational power to the gas turbine by electric power supplied from outside the gas turbine; a fuel flow determination device for determining a set value of a parameter used to control a flow rate of the fuel supplied to the combustor; and a fuel flow control device for controlling the flow rate of the fuel supplied to the combustor, based on the set value. The fuel flow determination device determines the set value such that the flow rate of the fuel is a lower limit value in a reverse power operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanabe, Yasutsugu Takata, Kyosuke Kawano
  • Patent number: 12208360
    Abstract: A treated water drying device 20 for vaporizing treated water by heat of a combustion gas, the device 20 including a housing 21, a combustion gas supply port 26 for supplying the combustion gas to the housing 21, a water supply portion 27 for vaporizing the treated water by bringing the treated water into contact with the combustion gas supplied to the housing 21, and an exhaust port 28 for discharging a water-containing gas including the vaporized treated water to an outside of the housing 21. The exhaust port 28 is disposed at a lowermost part of the housing 21 and opens in a direction crossing a vertical direction. The housing 21 has a bottom 22 including an inclined portion 23 formed toward the exhaust port 28.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Koichiro Hirayama, Satoru Sugita, Seiji Kagawa, Toshihiro Fukuda
  • Patent number: 12211476
    Abstract: A vibration damping and sound insulating device installed on an installation object, includes: vibrators disposed at a prescribed spacing. Each of the vibrators includes: a cylindrical tubular member on the installation object; an elastic body supported by the cylindrical tubular member such that the elastic body traverses a hollow portion of the cylindrical tubular member along a direction orthogonal to an axis of the cylindrical tubular member; and a weight on the elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Ishii, Takaki Sato, Yusei Kashizaki
  • Patent number: 12211284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surveillance system for an infrastructure and/or for a vehicle, including at least two sensor modules configured to collect respective sensor data from respectively associated sensors; at least one access module being configured to access the sensor data; and a clock module being configured to provide a common time signal at least to two of the sensor modules; wherein the sensor modules are configured to provide the sensor data with a time stamp, wherein the time stamp is based on the common time signal; and the access module being configured to forward the accessed sensor data by taking into account the time stamp so as to provide an enhanced surveillance and/or maintenance system which is suitable for large and/or complex infrastructures, vehicles, and combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Sumiya, Ryota Hiura, Johannes Dagner, Sascha Maisel
  • Publication number: 20250030318
    Abstract: An electric propulsion device includes a hollow shaft having a shaft flow path, which extends in a direction of an axis, formed therein, a boss portion having a space formed therein, a plurality of blades having a blade flow path, which communicates with the space of the boss portion, formed therein, an electric motor, and a casing having an accommodation space, which communicates with the shaft flow path, formed therein. A suction port is formed to communicate between an outside of the casing and the accommodation space, in a position of the casing between each of the plurality of blades and the electric motor. A blowing port is formed to communicate between the blade flow path and the outside, in a region including an end portion of each of the plurality of blades on an outer side in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Morisaki, Junji Iwatani, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Takehiko Imai, Yasutaka Aoki, Satoshi Yonemoto, Masayuki Sakai