Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11905848
    Abstract: To provide a turbine blade, a manufacturing method for a turbine blade, and a gas turbine. In the turbine blade including a cooling passage provided along a blade height direction, the cooling passage includes: a first cooling hole including one end opening toward a front end, and having an inner diameter that is constant along the blade height direction; and a second cooling hole including one end communicating with the other end of the first cooling hole without a level difference, and having an inner diameter that is increased toward a base end. A length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a position where the first cooling hole and the second cooling hole are communicated with is 40% to 60% of a length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a gas path surface on the base end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masayoshi Hatta, Keita Takamura, Susumu Wakazono, Takashi Fujii, Hiroyuki Otomo, Yosuke Mukai, Kazuhisa Tamura, Takaaki Oda, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Kishihara
  • Publication number: 20240049684
    Abstract: A fluid supply apparatus that can eliminate the need for a power supply source, and store fluid efficiently. The apparatus may comprise a first balloon that is formed of an elastic body to be capable of storing the fluid, a second balloon that is formed of an elastic body to be capable of storing the fluid, and has a larger contraction force than a contraction force of the first balloon, a support member that supports both of the first balloon and the second balloon, and a casing that houses the first balloon and the second balloon, and defines inflation ranges of the first balloon and the second balloon, in which the support member has a flow path formed to permit fluid communication between an interior of the first balloon and an interior of the second balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicants: TSUKADA MEDICAL RESEARCH CO., LTD., JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu TSUKADA, Akihiko NAKASA, Jumpei YOSHIDA, Hiroyasu MIZUNO, Dai SHIBA, Teruhiro SENKOJI, Yusuke HAGIWARA
  • Patent number: 11897638
    Abstract: A pressurized structure panel for forming a pressurized space pressurized inside includes a panel structure having a panel body to receive the pressure, a rib provided in the panel body, and a hollow part formed by the panel body and the rib, a radiation shielding material provided in the hollow part, and a debris bumper provided outside the panel structure and provided spaced apart from the panel structure by a certain spacing. The radiation shielding material includes a material containing hydrogen atoms in molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromichi Akiyama, Naoto Azusawa, Yutaka Terada
  • Patent number: 11898995
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a crack in a metal member comprises a first removal step (S10) and a second removal step (S20). In the first removal step (S10), a step for electrolyzing a metal member having an oxide scale formed on a surface thereof, a step for acquiring an image of the oxide scale as a first image, and a step for determining whether or not a scale crack has occurred are repeated until occurrence of a scale crack is determined. In the second removal step (S20), a step for electrolyzing the metal member having the scale crack, a second image acquisition step for acquiring an image of the oxide scale as a second image, and a second determination step for determining whether or not the scale crack has disappeared are repeated until disappearance of the oxide scale is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Fukushima, Yuichi Hirakawa, Hiroaki Yoshida, Masahiko Yamashita, Takeo Tokumoto
  • Publication number: 20240042377
    Abstract: A composite amine absorbent to absorb at least one of CO2 and H2S in a gas includes: a chain monoamine; a diamine; a cyclic compound represented by the following chemical formula: where R1: any one of hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and a hydroxyalkyl group, R2: oxygen or N—R3, and R3: any one of hydrogen, a hydrocarbon group having a carbon number of 1 to 4, and a hydroxyalkyl group; and water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Tanaka, Takashi Kamijo, Takuya Hirata, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Takuya Sugiura
  • Patent number: 11891976
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes a base member formed of FRP and having a blade shape, an intermediate layer arranged on the base member and formed of metal, cermet, ceramic, or a mixture of at least one thereof and resin as a major constituent, and an erosion-resistant overcoat arranged on the intermediate layer and formed of a spray film having a porosity of 5% or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naota Watanabe, Masaaki Shibata, Toshikazu Shigetomi, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Atsushi Yuge
  • Patent number: 11891957
    Abstract: This exit seal is for connecting an exit flange of a combustor and a shroud in a stator blade of a turbine. The exit seal is equipped with: a seal body that extends in a circumferential direction; and a lid member disposed at a circumferential end of the seal body. The seal body comprises one or more recessed sections that are recessed in a radial direction or in an axial direction and extend in the circumferential direction. At a position of the circumferential end of at least one recessed section among the one or more recessed sections, the lid member is disposed so as to overlap, in the axial direction and the radial direction, with a recessed space formed by the one recessed section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Taniguchi, Taiki Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Sakaki, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 11891920
    Abstract: A turbine stator vane includes: a vane body which includes: an airfoil portion which has a serpentine flow passage inside thereof, the serpentine flow passage including a plurality of cooling flow passages and a plurality of turn-back flow passages; a shroud disposed on at least one of a tip end side or a root end side, in the vane height direction, of the airfoil portion; and a lid portion fixed to the airfoil portion. The lid portion forming the turn-back flow passage and being provided as a separate member from the airfoil portion. The lid portion has an inner wall surface width formed to be greater than the flow-passage width of the cooling passage formed in the airfoil portion, and a minimum value of a thickness of the lid portion is smaller than a thickness of a part of the shroud to which the lid portion is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidemichi Koyabu, Satoshi Hada
  • Patent number: 11892168
    Abstract: A combustor includes a combustion tube which has a tubular shape around an axis; a secondary fuel nozzle which is able to inject a secondary fuel in a radially inner direction with respect to the axis, inside the combustion tube; a fuel manifold which is disposed external to the combustion tube, and defines a fuel space which is able to temporarily store the secondary fuel; and a support which supports the fuel manifold with a gap extending radially from the combustion tube. The support has a support plate which is separated from the combustion tube by the gap and spreads in a circumferential direction with respect to the axis, and a support leg which is attached to the combustion tube and supports the support plate to define the gap between the support plate and the combustion tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kota Yoshino, Norihiko Motoyama
  • Patent number: 11891978
    Abstract: A wind turbine blade includes: a blade body; a down conductor extending along a longitudinal direction of the blade body; and at least a pair of magnetic field sensors disposed inside the blade body and at opposite positions across the down conductor, a pair of magnetic field sensors being configured to detect a local magnetic field at each of the positions. At least the pair of magnetic field sensors includes: a first sensor disposed on a first axis passing through an installation position of the down conductor in a cross section intersecting the longitudinal direction; and a second sensor disposed on a second axis passing through the installation position and being orthogonal to the first axis in the cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tatsufumi Aoi, Syusaku Yamamoto, Naoto Murata, Yoichiro Tsumura
  • Patent number: 11890641
    Abstract: A masking member used to coat a pipe inner circumferential surface of a vent stringer, wherein the masking member comprises: a sponge for blocking a pipe internal space of the vent stringer, the sponge having an outer circumferential surface capable of contacting the pipe inner circumferential surface; and a support member for supporting the sponge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Katayama
  • Patent number: 11891097
    Abstract: In the present invention, a resource management device receives transmission of a reservation request for a block section to be reserved from among a plurality of block sections included in a track traveled by a vehicle on the basis of track information which indicates the plurality of block sections and the connection relationships of the block sections. In a case where the block section to be reserved, as indicated by the reservation request, has not already been reserved by a vehicle other than the vehicle that transmitted the reservation request at the point in time when such reservation request was received, the following is recorded in a management table: that the block section to be reserved as indicated by the reservation request and a connection boundary between that block section and another block section are objects reserved for the vehicle that transmitted the reservation request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Takao, Noritaka Yanai
  • Patent number: 11886897
    Abstract: A personal digital assistant for supporting inspection of at least one device disposed in an inspection target area includes: an abnormality acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an abnormality in the at least one device; a guidance information storage unit configured to store guidance information which at least includes at least one response procedure for each abnormal event in the at least one device and information about response capability required to execute the at least one response procedure; and a display unit configured to refer to the guidance information stored in the guidance information storage unit, and display the guidance information for responding to an abnormal device which is the device where the abnormality is acquired by the abnormality acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Honda, Gen Sakashita, Tomohiro Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11886831
    Abstract: The present invention provides a data sorting device and method and a monitoring and diagnosis device, which are able to create a model conveniently. A data sorting device and a monitoring and diagnosis device of the present invention include an operating data database which stores operating data of the plant equipment in a time-series manner. The devices input the operating data that are highly associated physically and engineeringly among the operating data stored in the operating data database, inputting processing attributes relevant to the operating data that are highly associated physically and engineeringly, creating a model simulating characteristics of the plant equipment, and performing data sorting, monitoring, and diagnosis through use of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tamami Kurihara, Kengo Iwashige, Tetsuji Morita, Shigeki Tounosu, Tadaaki Kakimoto
  • Patent number: 11885226
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Suzuki, Masaki Hata, Megumu Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 11885232
    Abstract: A gas turbine system includes: a compressor configured to compress external air to generate compressed air; a combustor configured to burn the compressed air together with fuel to generate a combustion gas; a turbine configured to be driven by the combustion gas; an exhaust unit configured to guide the combustion gas, which has passed through the turbine, to outside; a shell having a cylindrical shape and extending along an axis line about which the turbine is configured to rotate and being arranged so as to cover the compressor, the combustor, the turbine, and the exhaust unit; and an exit unit configured to guide the combustion gas, which has passed through the turbine, to a discharge port in the surface of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakatani, Yuki Morisaki, Yasuhiro Saiki
  • Patent number: 11884995
    Abstract: There is provided a Co-based alloy material, having a chemical composition including: Al of 0.1 to 10 mass %; W of 3 to 45 mass %, the total content of Al and W being 50 mass % or less; O of 0.007 to 0.05 mass %; and the balance being Co and impurities, wherein in ? phase crystal grains as a matrix phase of the Co-based alloy material, segregation cells within an average size of 0.15 to 1.5 ?m are formed, wherein in the segregation cells, ?? phase grains within a size of 0.01 to 0.5 ?m including Co, Al and W are dispersively precipitated, and wherein on boundary regions of the segregation cells and grain boundaries of the ? phase crystal grains, ? phase grains within a size of 0.005 to 2 ?m including Co and W are dispersively precipitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuo Ota, Shinya Imano
  • Publication number: 20240027069
    Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine, includes: a first fuel nozzle group and a second fuel nozzle group each of which includes a fuel nozzle capable of supplying a fuel and has an independently controllable fuel supply system; a cylinder inside which a combustion region allowing a combustion gas produced by combustion of the fuel to flow is formed; and a first contraction portion extending partially along a circumferential direction so as to correspond to one of the first fuel nozzle group or the second fuel nozzle group and protruding radially inward from an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Fukuba, Satoshi Takiguchi, Taiki Kinoshita, Kenta Taniguchi, Sosuke Nakamura, Yoshikazu Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11879353
    Abstract: A blade set of the present disclosure is exposed to a working fluid, which includes a blade main bodies which are disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction about an axis and each extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis wherein a tip end surface is formed on an outer circumferential side of each blade main body and the tip end surface of the blade main body includes a leading edge side region positioned on an upstream side in a flow direction of the working fluid along the axis and a trailing edge side region positioned on a downstream side in the flow direction, and a shroud which is provided on an outer circumferential side of the blade main bodies and covering either the leading edge side regions or the trailing edge side regions of the blade main bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshio Watanabe, Yuya Fukuda, Shigeki Senoo
  • Patent number: 11879553
    Abstract: A steam valve having a first inclined surface, which is formed at the distal end portion of a valve rod and in which the outer diameter of the valve rod increases from the distal end toward the base end of the valve rod, and a second inclined surface, which is formed on the inside of a portion of a main valve that is positioned on the base-end side of the valve rod and which inclines with the same inclination angle as the first inclined surface. In a state in which a slave valve and the main valve are closed the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface are separated from each other, and when the slave valve and the main valve are in a fully open state the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface abut each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Nishida, Megumu Tsuruta, Fumiyuki Suzuki, Masaki Hata