Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11692705
    Abstract: A solid fuel burner to be inserted into a burner throat bored in a wall portion of a furnace, comprising: a solid fuel nozzle for ejecting mixed fluid of solid fuel and primary air; a secondary air nozzle for ejecting secondary air; a tertiary air nozzle for ejecting tertiary air; a secondary air guide member for guiding a flow of the secondary air outwardly in a radial direction; and one or more tertiary air guide members for guiding a flow of the tertiary air outwardly in the radial direction at a first angle with respect to a central axis (C) of the solid fuel burner, wherein a distal end position (X2) of each of the tertiary air guide members in an axial direction of the solid fuel burner is at a closer side of the furnace than a distal end position (X1) of the secondary air guide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Kiyama, Kenichi Ochi, Shohei Mito, Kosuke Kitakaze, Toshihiko Mine
  • Publication number: 20230202778
    Abstract: In a granular material supply system including a tank that stores granular material, a carrier line through which the granular material flowing out of the tank is carried to a carrier destination, and a cutout line that connects the tank and the carrier line and through which the granular material flowing out of the tank is supplied to the carrier line, a control device includes a density control unit configured to control a density of the granular material on a downstream side of a junction of the cutout line and the carrier line to a set value predetermined and a flow rate control unit configured to control a flow rate of the granular material to be supplied to the carrier destination through the carrier line to a command value instructed by the carrier destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takaharu Hiroe, Kazunari Ide, Akihiko Saito, Kei Moriyama
  • Publication number: 20230209019
    Abstract: An image information provision device includes: a setting unit configured to set a collection point or a collection section for an image on a target road; and an image acquisition unit configured to request an on-board unit of a vehicle present within a predetermined range from the collection point or the collection section to transmit a captured-image captured at the collection point or in the collection section, and store, in a storage, a captured-image received from the on-board unit that has received the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Ono, Kozaburo Konishi, Yoshifumi Hayakawa
  • Publication number: 20230204457
    Abstract: Provided is a diagnosis device that can determine the status of an anomaly besides the presence of an anomaly of a driven member. The diagnosis device is configured to diagnose a driven member having a rotary shaft, the driven member is rotated by driving of an externally mounted motor, and the diagnosis device calculates an estimated torque resistance of a combination of the driven member and the motor based on actual operation data obtained by driving the driven member by using the motor and finds a driven member and motor three-dimensional table that is a three-dimensional table of angles, angular velocities, and estimated torque resistances, finds a reference-state three-dimensional table that is a three-dimensional table of angles, angular velocities, and estimated torque resistances in a reference state, and calculates a determination three-dimensional table from a difference between the driven member and motor three-dimensional table and the reference-state three-dimensional table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kyota Tokuyama, Ichiro Awaya, Tomohiro Ikawa, Junya Takida, Kimihito Obase, Genki Nakai
  • Patent number: 11686649
    Abstract: An early sign detection device includes a plurality of sensors, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire time series variation data of a physical amount from each of the plurality of sensors, a computation unit configured to compute an occurrence probability of a vibration mode involved in a sudden variant vibration of a detection subject from an amplitude or a phase of the time series variation data of the physical amount at each of the plurality of positions, and a detection unit configured to detect an early sign of the sudden variant vibration on the basis of the occurrence probability of the vibration mode. The plurality of sensors are respectively disposed at a plurality of positions of the detection subject and are each configured to measure the physical amount at a corresponding position of the plurality of positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohito Nakamori, Keisuke Matsuyama, Yuki Mitsui
  • Publication number: 20230196773
    Abstract: An object detection device includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image at a predetermined time interval; a first image processing unit configured to extract an object from the acquired image; a second image processing unit configured to extract a plurality of candidate areas of the object on a screen, based on a position of the object acquired in a previous frame of the image; a comparison unit configured to compare the object extracted by the first image processing unit and the candidate areas with an object extracted from an image in the previous frame of the image; and a specification unit configured to specify a candidate area of a current frame that matches the object extracted from the image in the previous frame, from the candidate areas, based on a comparison result of the comparison unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Iio, Kiichi Sugimoto, Kenta Nakao
  • Publication number: 20230195124
    Abstract: A management method for a mobile object includes acquiring movement conditions for the mobile object that automatically moves, and setting a safety region as a region on a traveling direction side of the mobile object in which an object should not be positioned based on the movement conditions. The setting of the safety region includes setting the safety region so that the safety region is widened in a lateral direction intersecting with the traveling direction as a speed of the mobile object increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Okazaki, Kenji Takao
  • Publication number: 20230193788
    Abstract: This steam turbine is provided with a rotor shaft which rotates about an axis, a plurality of rows of moving blades which are fixed to the outside, in the radial direction, of the rotor shaft, and which are disposed spaced apart in the axial direction along the axis, a casing disposed in such a way as to cover the rotor shaft and the plurality of rows of moving blades, and rows of stationary blades which are fixed to the inside, in the radial direction, of the casing, are disposed spaced apart in the axial direction, and which are disposed on a first side, in the axial direction, of each of the plurality of rows of moving blades, wherein the rows of stationary blades are provided with: a plurality of stationary blades which are disposed spaced apart in the circumferential direction, and each of which extends in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Takata, Yasuhiro Sasao, Hideaki Sato, Soichiro Tabata
  • Patent number: 11679536
    Abstract: A composite material blade molding method is for molding a composite material blade by curing a prepreg. The composite material blade has a back-side blade member and a belly-side blade member which are superposed and joined. The composite material blade molding method includes: a lamination step for forming a back-side laminate in a back-side molding die and forming a belly-side laminate in a belly-side molding die; an inner surface cowl plate disposition step for disposing an inner surface cowl plate for maintaining an inner space formed by the back-side laminate and the belly-side laminate; a die mating step for die-mating the back-side molding die and the belly-side molding die and disposing a foaming agent in the inner space maintained by the inner surface cowl plate; and a curing step for heating and expanding the foaming agent and heat-curing the back-side laminate and the belly-side laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoji Okabe, Masami Kamiya, Kentaro Shindo
  • Publication number: 20230184263
    Abstract: A strut structure includes: a hollow outer cylinder strut that extends in a direction intersecting with a rotation direction of a rotation part of an axial flow rotary machine, and is coupled to a fixed part supporting the rotation part and a base part supporting the axial flow rotary machine; and an internally hollow inner cylinder strut that is disposed inside the outer cylinder strut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Rimpei KAWASHITA
  • Patent number: 11673351
    Abstract: A method is for manufacturing a honeycomb structure including a core material in which a hole is formed to penetrate in a thickness direction and is arranged in a plane direction, and a skin material that is stacked on a surface of the core material. The skin material includes a thermosetting resin. The method includes half-curing the thermosetting resin by placing the skin material in a bag and heating the skin material in a state where an inside of the bag is evacuated and an outside of the bag is under an atmospheric pressure; stacking the skin material in which the thermosetting resin is half-cured onto a side of the surface of the core material; and bonding and integrating the core material and the skin material with each other by pressurizing and heating the stacked core material and skin material with the use of a sealing pressurizing heating facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Noma, Masayuki Yamashita, Masayuki Kanemasu, Mikoto Omori, Hiromichi Akiyama, Toshio Kozasa, Shunichi Morishima
  • Patent number: 11674688
    Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine combustor which includes a burner component which is molded by 3D additive manufacturing and is optimized in material strength per part. The burner component includes a first part which is used within a first temperature range and/or a first stress range and a second part which is used within a second temperature range which is lower than the first temperature range and/or a second stress range which is lower than the first stress range, and a lamination speed at which a metal material is laminated on the first part by the 3D additive manufacturing is lower than a lamination speed at which the metal material is laminated on the second part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kumagai, Yoshihide Wadayama, Shigenobu Eguchi
  • Publication number: 20230175411
    Abstract: The rotary machine includes a rotor, an annular member disposed on an outer circumferential side of the rotor, and a hole pattern seal fixed to the annular member and partitioning a space between the rotor and the annular member into a high-pressure side and a low-pressure side. The hole pattern seal has an annular seal main body covering an outer circumference of the rotor, a hole group provided on an inner circumferential surface of the seal main body, and having holes being aligned at intervals in the direction of an axis of the rotor and a circumferential direction of the axis, and fin sections provided on the inner circumferential surface of the seal main body throughout in the circumferential direction, each of the fin sections having the thickness equal to or smaller than that of the thinnest part of the seal main body, wherein the fin sections are provided on at least the high-pressure side and the low-pressure side of the seal main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto IWASAKI, Motomu ASAHARA, Naoto OMURA
  • Patent number: 11667748
    Abstract: A curable composition of the present invention includes a cationic polymerizable compound; a thermal polymerization initiator; and a storage stabilizer, in which the cationic polymerizable compound includes at least two selected from the group consisting of a glycidyl ether compound, an alicyclic epoxy compound, and an oxetane compound, a content of the thermal polymerization initiator is from 0.3 to 3 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the cationic polymerizable compound, and chain curing is enabled by thermal energy generated by a polymerization reaction of the cationic polymerizable compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriya Hayashi, Toshikatsu Sakakibara, Yusuke Kobayashi, Tatsuya Kimura
  • Patent number: 11668208
    Abstract: A positioning method of an arc-like member according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a step of moving a protruding part disposed at a circumferential end of the arc-like member in a radial direction with respect to a reference member positioned on a radially outer side as viewed from the circumferential end of the arc-like member. In the step of moving the protruding part, a wall portion is arranged on a radially outer side or a radially inner side with respect to the reference member, a jack is arranged between the wall portion and the reference member, and the jack is operated to move the protruding part with respect to the reference member by the pressing piece mounted on the wall portion via a rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei Tsuchiya
  • Publication number: 20230167976
    Abstract: Provided is a burner of double tube structure including an outer tube and an inner tube. The inner tube includes a tip-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a base-side support portion fixed on the outer tube, a main body portion supported by the tip-side support portion, bellows interposed between the main body portion and the base-side support portion, and a bulkhead member attached at a position between the tip-side support portion and the base-side support portion. Between an outer peripheral surface of the bulkhead member and an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube, a second gap smaller than a first gap between an outermost peripheral surface of the bellows and the inner peripheral surface of the outer tube is interposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro KARISHUKU, Satoshi DODO, Yoshitaka HIRATA, Tomohiro ASAI, Shohei YOSHIDA, Yasuhiro AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230166211
    Abstract: A state quantity prediction device includes: a first differential predictive value calculation unit configured to deal with a nonlinear component of a function whose variables are dynamic characteristics of the state quantity with respect to the input parameter and a difference value between a past predictive value of the state quantity and a predictive value of the physical model, input the input parameter and the past predictive value of the state quantity, and include a learned neutral network for outputting a first differential predictive value; a second differential predictive value calculation unit configured to deal with a linear component of the function, input the input parameter and the past predictive value, and output a second differential predictive value; and a state quantity predictive value calculation unit configured to calculate a predictive value of the state quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hazui, Mizuho Takeuchi, Shunsuke Takagaki, Koki Tateishi, Shinya Kanemori
  • Publication number: 20230167747
    Abstract: Provided is a transition piece including a first flow path group formed by arraying a plurality of in-wall flow paths that extend inside a plate material forming the transition piece and a second flow path group that is positioned on a side closer to a combustor liner than the first flow path group is. Each in-wall flow path in the first flow path group and the second flow path group has an inlet that is located at one end section in a flow direction of a combustion gas and that faces a compressed air main flow path, and an outlet that is located at the other end section in the flow direction of the combustion gas and that faces a combustion gas flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Nagahashi, Yoshitaka Terada, Shohei Numata
  • Publication number: 20230167749
    Abstract: This steam valve includes a valve casing, a valve body, a valve stem, an actuator, a heat buffer member, a link mechanism, and a link base. The heat buffer member includes: a heat buffer plate separated toward a leading end side from the valve casing in an axial direction in which the valve stem extends; and a support column that fixes the heat buffer plate to the valve casing so as to be incapable of relative movement. The actuator includes: an actuator casing; and an actuator rod that extends in the axial direction from in the actuator casing and that moves in the axial direction with respect to the actuator casing. The link base is fixed to the heat buffer member and extends from the heat buffer member in an axial perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction. The actuator casing is fixed to the link base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Suzuki, Masaki Hata, Megumu Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 11660570
    Abstract: A catalyst arrangement deciding method for a flue gas denitrizer including a catalyst layer disposed in an exhaust gas passage includes: a step of investigating a location dependence of a degradation state of a catalyst in the catalyst layer after a lapse of a period of operation; and a step of deciding a first region of the catalyst layer in which a first catalyst is used and a second region of the catalyst layer in which a second catalyst different from the first catalyst is used, on the basis of the location dependence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hirai, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi