Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
  • Patent number: 8497596
    Abstract: It is intended to provide a power generating apparatus of renewable energy type which can transmit large torque and has a low-cost and readily processable structure of fixing a hydraulic pump to the main shaft and a method of mounting the hydraulic pump. A plurality of key slots 25 are formed at an end on the back-end side of the main shaft 4. A plurality of keys 30A, 30B are inserted in the key slots 25. The keys 30A, 30B include a reference key 30A to be inserted in one of the key slots and a split key 30B to be inserted in the other of the key slots. The split key 30B is separated into a first key piece 34 having a projection to be inserted in a first groove formed in the main shaft and a second key piece 36 having a depression to be inserted in a second groove formed in the cylindrical member. The pair of key pieces 34, 36 are arranged so that the projection and the depression engage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhisa Tsutsumi, Taku Ichiryuu
  • Publication number: 20130186501
    Abstract: A plug for heat-conducting tubes is equipped with: a plug main body, which is formed so as to be capable of being inserted into the heat-conducting tubes; a columnar member, which is capable of being inserted into and removed from the plug main body from the cylindrical open end of the plug main body, and has at its outer circumference a tapered surface; and a wedge member, which is formed so as to be capable of being inserted into and removed from the plug main body from the cylindrical open end of the plug main body, and has at its inner circumference a tapered surface which opposes the tapered surface of the columnar member when the wedge member is inserted into the plug main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20130189174
    Abstract: Provided are a CO2 absorber that reduces CO2 contained in flue gas; a regenerator that reduces CO2 contained in rich solvent absorbing CO2 to regenerate the rich solvent, so that lean solvent having the CO2 reduced in the regenerator is reused in the CO2 absorber; a heat exchanger that allows the rich solvent to exchange heat with the lean solvent; and a controller that controls to extract rich solvent portion that is part of the rich solvent, to allow the rich solvent portion to bypass the heat exchanger, and to be supplied into the top of the regenerator without exchanging heat so as to minimize a sum of an enthalpy that is taken out of the regenerator as CO2 gas accompanying steam and an enthalpy of the lean solvent after heat exchange with the rich solvent in the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC., MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., THE KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER CO., INC.
  • Publication number: 20130186818
    Abstract: A membrane container 6 has a casing 10 including a fluid inlet 14 and a fluid outlet 16 and a membrane container body 9 including a plurality of flow paths 11 which is arranged along the flow direction of the treated fluid and in parallel to one another. Each of the plurality of flow paths 11 includes a most upstream portion 11A which is connected to the fluid inlet 14, and a most downstream portion 11C which is connected to the fluid outlet 16. Return portions 15 and 17 configured to reverse the flow direction of the treated fluid are provided between the most upstream portion 11A and the most downstream portion 11C. After passing through the fluid inlet 14, the treated fluid flows from the most upstream portion 11A down to the most downstream portion 11C via the return portions 15 and the upper return portion 17.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Tanaka, Shinya Tachibana, Hiroyuki Osora, Shinji Ogino, Haruaki Hirayama
  • Publication number: 20130189114
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a wind turbine blade, comprising the steps of pre-manufacturing a first blade member, positioning said pre-manufactured first blade member in a joining mold and bonding said first blade member with a second blade member using a vacuum assisted infusion process so as to form an integrated blade part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: EUROS ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT FUR WINDKRAFTAN- LAGEN MBH, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Dominique Jenzewski, Andreas Cremer
  • Publication number: 20130186883
    Abstract: A heat medium heating device 10 includes an inner case main body 21 having a flow path of a heat medium formed inside, an outer case main body 31 arranged on an outer peripheral side of the inner case main body 21 and having a flow path of the heat medium formed outside, and a PTC heater 40 held as being interposed between the inner case main body 21 and the outer case main body 31. The inner case main body 21 and the outer case main body 31 each may have a circular outer shape or a rectangular outer shape. Also, the inner case main body 21 and the outer case main body 31 are preferably provided with fins 24 and 34, respectively, facing the flow path of the heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Watanabe, Yasuharu Chuman, Kazunori Kuga, Satosi Kominami
  • Publication number: 20130190920
    Abstract: It is provided that a machining conditions setting system and a machining conditions setting method with which it is possible to select a machining condition for machining according to a target degree of hardness and obtain a predetermined degree of hardness by performing only the machining. The machining conditions setting system includes: a machining conditions database that, by determining in advance a relationship between the machining condition and a degree of hardness of the workpiece machined under the machining condition, stores the machining condition corresponding to the material of the workpiece and a range of degree of hardness for machining; and machining conditions selection means into which a material of a workpiece and a target degree of hardness are input, and which outputs a machining condition under which machining with the target degree of hardness can be performed, referring to the machining conditions database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yukio Michishita, Takaaki Kobayashi, Nariyasu Matsubara
  • Publication number: 20130188937
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a small, lightweight, and inexpensive heat medium heating apparatus in which a flat tube heat exchanger and a PTC heater are laminated in a multi-layered manner to reduce a thermal contact resistance thereamong, heat transfer performance is improved, and also in which assembling of the flat tube heat exchanger and the PTC heater is made easier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES AUTOMOTIVE THERMAL SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kominami, Katsuhiro Saito, Yasutaka Aoki, Yoichi Uefuji, Naoto Kunieda
  • Publication number: 20130187385
    Abstract: A turbine controller of a wind turbine generator includes a generated-output-power command value creating section that creates a generated-output-power command value and an optimum-upper-and-lower-limit limiting section that limits the generated-output-power command value by means of an upper limit value and a lower limit value of the generated output power that are determined based on a power curve indicating the relationship between the generated output power and the rotational speed of the generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130185932
    Abstract: A fastening and loosening device includes transport devices capable of moving along the array direction of a plurality of stud bolts, control panels that independently control the transport devices, a plurality of bolt tensioners, control panels that independently control the bolt tensioners, and a transport operating device having a control panel that controls the control panels and the control panels, and a fault diagnosis device is provided by connecting the control panels to the transport operation device through power cables, whereby the reliability of the device can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsumi Imi
  • Publication number: 20130186080
    Abstract: An actuator related to the present invention includes a cylinder that has a tubular shape and is filled with a fluid; a piston that divides the inside of the cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber in an axial direction of the cylinder, is reciprocable inside the cylinder, and opens and closes a main valve; a fluid supplying device for supplying the fluid to the second chamber; biasing device for biasing the piston in the axial direction toward the second chamber; a flow passage that communicates between the first chamber and the second chamber; and a pilot valve that cuts off the flow passage communicating between the first chamber and the second chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130189043
    Abstract: A drilling work control method includes: automatically discriminating two or more working object layers where load torque applied to a drill forms a hole in a workpiece having plural forming areas formed of materials of different qualities; facilitating drilling work in a working condition set for each working object layer; and improving working efficiency. In a drilling work device that forms the hole in the workpiece having forming layers divided by materials of different qualities, a working object layer determining means determines the layers in order of drilling work based on start of drilling work and variation in load torque applied to the drill, a working condition deciding means decides a set working spindle speed and working feeding speed corresponding to forming materials of the respective layers, and a drive controlling means controls a spindle motor and feeding motor so that the drill forms the hole at the set speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUGINO MACHINE LIMITED.
    Inventors: Hideki Uchiuzo, Nobuhiko Kitamura, Takamichi Iwamoto, Koshirou Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8491256
    Abstract: A pitch drive device of a wind turbine generator and a wind turbine generator that have simple and inexpensive structures and that are capable of preventing a decrease in the reliability of the pitch drive device are provided. There is provided a cylinder (12) configured to change a pitch angle by driving a wind-turbine rotary blade (6) to turn around an axis with respect to a rotor head (4); and a cylinder bearing (14) configured to support, in a turnable manner, a trunnion (16) extending from the cylinder (12) substantially parallel the axis of the wind-turbine rotary blade (6), wherein anti-vibration rubber (21) configured to elastically support the trunnion (16) is provided on a support section configured to support the trunnion (16) of the cylinder bearing (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Numajiri
  • Patent number: 8490379
    Abstract: A gas turbine controller having a first generator for setting the flow rate of fuel or air being supplied to a combustor in correspondence with a target load, a sensor for detecting intake temperature of a compressor, a second generator for setting a correction amount of a set value of fuel flow rate or air flow rate based on the value detected by the sensor, a third generator for setting a modification amount of the correction amount while taking account of the target load, a first multiplier for operating a modified correction amount from a correction amount set by the second generator and a modification amount set by the third generator, and a second multiplier for calculating the flow rate of fuel or air being supplied to a combustor by adding the modified correction amount to the set value of fuel flow rate or air flow rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masumi Nomura, Kozo Toyama, Tomo Kawakami, Kotaro Miyauchi, Kuniharu Fujibayashi
  • Patent number: 8491838
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a low thermal expansion Ni-base superalloy containing, in terms of mass %, C: 0.15% or less; Si: 1% or less; Mn: 1% or less; Cr: 5% or more but less than 20%; at least one of Mo, W and Re, in which Mo+½(W+Re) is 5% or more but less than 20%; W: 10% or less; Al: 0.1 to 2.5%; Ti: 0.10 to 0.95%; Nb+½Ta: 1.5% or less; B: 0.001 to 0.02%; Zr: 0.001 to 0.2%; Fe: 4.0% or less; and a balance of inevitable impurities and Ni, in which the total amount of Al, Ti, Nb and Ta is 2.0 to 6.5% in terms of atomic %. The low thermal expansion Ni-base superalloy of the present invention has a thermal expansion coefficient almost equal to that of 12 Cr ferritic steel, excellent high temperature strength, excellent corrosion and oxidation resistance, good hot-workability, and excellent weldability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignees: Daido Tokushuko Kabushiki Kaisha, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Hamano, Shigeki Ueta, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Yoshikuni Kadoya, Takashi Nakano, Shin Nishimoto
  • Patent number: 8490744
    Abstract: An object is to provide a combustor that requires a small mounting space for an acoustic damper, that can achieve size reduction, and that can improve the ease of maintenance. A combustor (5) of the present invention includes a combustion cylinder (19) that defines a combustion area (23) therein and an acoustic damper (31) that has a damper cover having an acoustic-damper resonance space communicating with the combustion area (23). The damper cover is provided along the combustion cylinder (19) so as to extend in a direction intersecting an axial direction (L) of the combustion cylinder (19).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sosuke Nakamura, Taiki Kinoshita, Masaki Ono, Keisuke Matsuyama, Kenta Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8491270
    Abstract: In a vehicle heat-exchange module in which a fan unit is provided at the downstream side of a rectangular heat exchanger, and the fan unit is provided with a shroud having a bell-mouth and an annular opening, a propeller fan that is disposed in the annular opening, and a fan motor that rotationally drives the propeller fan, the fan unit is a unit having a single-fan configuration in which motor input power is at a predetermined level or less, and the propeller fan is provided with two sets of winglets that are respectively constructed upright, with a prescribed gap therebetween in the radial direction, along the circumferential direction on both a pressure surface and a suction surface of the root side of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Eguchi, Atsusi Suzuki, Yoshinao Komatsu, Seiji Sato
  • Publication number: 20130180272
    Abstract: The degree-of-opening of an expansion valve is set to an appropriate degree-of-opening regardless of the load and external conditions for a heat-source unit. In a turbo refrigerator including a compressor that compresses a refrigerant; a condenser that condenses a compressed refrigerant by means of cooling water; an evaporator that evaporates a condensed refrigerant and also performs heat exchange between this refrigerant and cold water; and an expansion valve that causes a liquid-phase refrigerant retained in the condenser to expand, a expansion-valve control device (40) controls a degree-of-opening of the expansion valve (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Kenji Ueda, Noriyuki Matsukura, Minoru Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130182265
    Abstract: There is provided a device for monitoring a thickness reduction of an inner surface in a heat transfer tube or an inner surface in an evaporation tube, the device including: a movement unit which moves along a fin tube; a laser measurement unit which is provided in the movement unit and measures the thickness reduction of the inner surface by a laser; a cable which includes a light guiding path for introducing a laser into the laser measurement unit and a light deriving path for transmitting reflected light; and a thickness reduction determining unit which compares the laser measurement data with past data or standard data and determines the current thickness reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ikeda, Seiji Kagawa, Susumu Okino, Takuya Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20130180250
    Abstract: A fuel supply apparatus is provided with a plurality of flow-rate regulating valves that regulate the flow rate of fuel flowing in a fuel supply line; a calculating section that calculates a required flow-rate coefficient on the basis of at least a fuel pressure in the fuel flow upstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, a pressure determined in advance as a fuel pressure downstream of the flow-rate regulating valves, and the flow rate of fuel to be supplied to one fuel nozzle among different kinds of fuel nozzles, the required flow-rate coefficient being the coefficient of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle; and a valve control section that controls the degree-of-opening of the flow-rate regulating valve corresponding to the one fuel nozzle on the basis of the required flow-rate coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.