Patents Assigned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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Publication number: 20250003411Abstract: Provided is a compressor with which it is possible to minimize an increase in pressure of a refrigerant in a space formed between a discharge valve and a retainer. The compressor comprises a fixed end plate (31a) having formed therein a discharge port (37) through which a compression chamber and a discharge chamber (35) communicate, a discharge valve (70) that opens and closes a discharge opening (37a) positioned on the discharge chamber (35) side of the discharge port (37), and a retainer (80) that regulates the amount of flexure of the discharge valve (70), the retainer (80) having a through-hole (81) passing through the upper and lower surfaces of the retainer (80), and the through-hole (81) being formed directly above the discharge opening (37a) and directly above the portion of the fixed end plate (31a) where the discharge opening (37a) is not formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke YAKUSHIJI, Hitoshi TAMAKI, Hirohumi HIRATA
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Publication number: 20250003665Abstract: A reefer container configured to cool a gas inside a container body, including: the container body; a circulation line with a suction port and a blowout port each of which is disposed inside the container body; a compressor disposed in the circulation line and configured to compress the gas suctioned from inside the container body to the circulation line through the suction port; a heat exchanger disposed in the circulation line and configured to cool the gas compressed in the compressor; an expander disposed in the circulation line and configured to expand the gas cooled in the heat exchanger; and at least one separation device disposed in the circulation line and configured to separate some of components from the gas compressed in the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo TAKATA, Kazuki YOSHIDA
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Publication number: 20250003586Abstract: A control device for a CO2 recovery device disposed on a downstream side of a combustion furnace that combusts a combustible material in which a biomass-derived combustible material and a non-biomass-derived combustible material are mixed and recovering CO2 in exhaust gas generated includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires a ratio of weights of the biomass-derived combustible material and the non-biomass-derived combustible material to a weight of the combustible material introduced into the combustion furnace; a first calculation unit that calculates a ratio of CO2 generated from the biomass-derived combustible material and the non-biomass-derived combustible material to CO2 generated from the combustible material in accordance with the acquired ratio; and a second calculation unit that calculates an intake amount of the exhaust gas to the CO2 recovery device based on the calculated ratio of the CO2 generated from the non-biomass-derived combustible material and a flow rate of the exhaust gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Sugiura, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Junji Imada, Noriaki Senba, Takuya Hirata, Yoshitaka Shindo, Masatoshi Katsuki, Hiroshi Tanaka
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Patent number: 12182225Abstract: In an information processing device according to the present invention, an estimation unit is configured to estimate each of a plurality of estimation values related to a target state quantity by using a plurality of models for explaining a target device. A probability specification unit is configured to specify each of a plurality of probabilities corresponding to the plurality of estimation values on the basis of a probability distribution of values of state quantities related to the target state quantity. A management value specification unit is configured to specify a value to be used for management of the target device on the basis of the plurality of estimation values and the plurality of probabilities.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Kumano, Makoto Kishi, Keisuke Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Abe
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Patent number: 12182483Abstract: There is provided a method for analyzing a vibration damping structure in which a tube bundle disposed in a fluid is supported by a vibration damping member disposed in a gap between tubes included in the tube bundle. The method includes a model making step of making a FEM model corresponding to the vibration damping structure, an error setting step of setting an error parameter for a parameter relating to an element included in the FEM model, and an analysis step of performing structural analysis by a finite-element method using the FEM model in which the error parameter is set.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Masatsugu Monde, Naoki Ono, Masaaki Katayama, Daisuke Sato
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Patent number: 12180049Abstract: Provided are: a device and a method for transporting a stage roll unit; and a stage roll unit transporting cart. The present invention comprises: a loading deck having accommodating portions for accommodating a stage roll unit; a first vehicle wheel that can move the loading deck in an X-direction in which the stage roll unit is replaced; a second vehicle wheel that can move the loading deck in a Y-direction crossing the X-direction; a first raising/lowering device that can raise/lower the first vehicle wheel with respect to a traveling surface; and a moving device which is disposed on the traveling surface side, and which raises the first vehicle wheel from the traveling surface by the first raising/lowering device, and can move the loading deck and the first raising/lowering device in the Y-direction while the second vehicle wheel is grounded to the traveling surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takashi Nitta, Hideki Mizutani
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Patent number: 12179288Abstract: A laser processing system and a laser processing method that reduce irregularities on a cutting surface caused by a variation in a heat affected zone or a difference in the heat affected zone due to processing by a laser beam. The laser processing system is provided with: a laser processing device that scans a composite material containing reinforced fibers and a resin with a laser beam to process the composite material; and a control device that controls the laser processing device. The control device calculates a scanning angle formed by a fiber direction that is a direction of the reinforced fibers and a scanning direction that is a direction in which the laser beam is caused to scan, calculates a scanning condition of the laser beam on the basis of the calculated scanning angle, and controls scanning of the laser beam on the basis of the calculated scanning condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Akiko Inoue, Saneyuki Goya
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Patent number: 12180969Abstract: A centrifugal compressor includes: a drive shaft; a wheel gear; a driven shaft; a pinion gear disposed to be rotatable together with the driven shaft, and meshing with the wheel gear; an impeller rotating together with the driven shaft; a thrust collar restricting a displacement of the driven shaft in an axial direction by colliding with the wheel gear in the axial direction; and a plurality of bolts disposed at intervals in a circumferential direction and each extending in the axial direction to fix the thrust collar and the pinion gear. Each of the plurality of bolts fix the thrust collar and the pinion gear in a state where each of the plurality of bolts are inserted from a position opposite to the wheel gear with reference to the thrust collar in the axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATIONInventors: Nobuyori Yagi, Akihiko Umeda, Eiichi Yanagisawa, Masayuki Soneda, Seiji Ohama
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Patent number: 12181892Abstract: An aircraft position control system includes a processor configured to calculate a feedback manipulated variable of an aircraft by feedback control so that the aircraft heads toward a target landing point, based on at least a relative position and a relative velocity. The processor is further configured to set an addition value, by referring to a switching line preliminarily provided in a manner passing through an origin of a coordinate plane having orthogonal axes representing the relative position and the relative velocity and separating an acceleration region in which the relative velocity is to be increased and a deceleration region in which the relative velocity is to be decreased. The addition value tends to increase the relative velocity when a coordinate point of a current relative position and a current relative velocity is located in the acceleration region to calculate a manipulated variable of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Toru Kojima
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Patent number: 12172124Abstract: A carbon dioxide recovery system includes: a plurality of absorption towers each disposed for each of a plurality of combustion equipments for absorbing carbon dioxide in an exhaust gas discharged from each of the plurality of combustion equipments into an absorption liquid by bringing the exhaust gas into contact with the absorption liquid; and at least one regeneration tower communicating with each of the plurality of absorption towers, for recovering carbon dioxide from a CO2 rich absorption liquid which is the absorption liquid flowing out of each of the plurality of absorption towers. The regeneration tower is smaller in number than the absorption towers.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Noborisato, Takashi Kamijo
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Patent number: 12172940Abstract: A propellant manufacturing method for manufacturing a propellant including a propellant grain having a first surface on which combustion starts upon ignition and a second surface to be coupled to a wall surface that prevents combustion. The manufacturing method includes placing a portion of first propellant having a first burning rate in a first space containing a first position on the second surface; and placing a portion of second propellant having a second burning rate higher than the first burning rate in a second space containing a second position on the first propellant. The method further includes placing a portion of third propellant having a third burning rate higher than the second burning rate in a third space containing a third position on the first propellant. The method further includes completing the propellant grain by simultaneously hardening the entireties of the first propellant, the second propellant, and the third propellant.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Seiki Nishikawa, Chiyako Mihara, Tasuku Suzuki, Katsunori Ieki
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Patent number: 12174623Abstract: A plant monitoring device (20) is provided with: a state quantity acquiring unit (211) which acquires state quantities for each of a plurality of characteristic items relating to a plant; an abnormality degree calculating unit (212) which calculates a degree of abnormality representing a degree of approach toward an abnormal side relative to a limit value that is predetermined for each characteristic item, for the state quantities acquired at a plant monitoring timing; a distance calculating unit (213) which uses a statistical technique to calculate distances representing the degrees of separation, from the normal operating state of the plant, of the state quantity and the degree of abnormality acquired at the monitoring timing; and a determining unit (214) which determines the operating state of the plant on the basis of the calculated distances.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ichiro Nagano, Mayumi Saito, Keiji Eguchi, Kuniaki Aoyama
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Patent number: 12173645Abstract: This gas turbine plant is provided with a gas turbine and a fuel supply facility. The fuel supply facility is provided with: a liquid ammonia line; a warm water line through which warm water can flow; a vaporizer which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water coming from the warm water line and liquid ammonia coming from the liquid ammonia line to heat and vaporize the liquid ammonia; a heat exchanger which can perform the heat exchange between the warm water in the warm water line and a medium; a heat exchange amount controller which can control the amount of heat exchange between the warm water and the medium to control the temperature of the warm water flowing into the vaporizer; and a gaseous ammonia line which can introduce gaseous ammonia that is ammonia vaporized by the vaporizer into the gas turbine.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Ryo Ikeda, Hiromi Ishii, Akira Hattori, Michio Sasaki, Takahiro Sugawara
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Patent number: 12173970Abstract: A heat exchanger core includes a core formed such that a pair of adjacent passages are folded on top of one another while being adjacent. At least one passage of the pair of adjacent passages has a pair of adjacent passage portions between which the other passage is not interposed in a direction in which the passages lie on top of one another. The core has a heat insulation layer between the pair of passage portions.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shunsaku Eguchi, Nobuhide Hara, Hiroyuki Nakaharai, Yoichi Uefuji, Masaya Hatanaka, Takuo Oda, Koichi Tanimoto
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Publication number: 20240416723Abstract: Provided is a vehicular refrigeration cycle unit that is interposed between a vehicle-outside heat exchanger and a vehicle-inside heat exchanger and that exchanges heat between secondary refrigerants respectively flowing through the vehicle-outside heat exchanger and the vehicle-inside heat exchanger. The vehicular refrigeration cycle unit includes a refrigeration cycle provided in a device accommodation space inside a vehicle, the refrigeration cycle including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator through which a primary refrigerant having flammability and having a higher specific gravity than atmosphere flows sequentially, and a leakage sensor located below the compressor, the condenser, and the evaporator and is configured to detect the concentration of the primary refrigerant contained in air in the device accommodation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES THERMAL SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hideto NOYAMA, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Nobuya NAKAGAWA, Katsuhiro SAITO, Masatoshi MORISHITA, Hirotaka TANABE, Hirofumi HIRATA, Shinya HAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20240416273Abstract: A carbon dioxide recovery system includes an absorption tower, a regeneration tower, a rich liquid line, a lean liquid line, a heat exchange unit, and a warn fluid supply unit. The absorption tower allows a carbon dioxide containing gas containing carbon dioxide to contact an absorption liquid capable of absorbing carbon dioxide and produces a rich liquid corresponding to an absorption liquid having absorbed carbon dioxide of the carbon dioxide containing gas. The regeneration tower heats the rich liquid to discharge carbon dioxide from the rich liquid and produces a lean liquid corresponding to an absorption liquid having discharged carbon dioxide. The rich liquid line guides the rich liquid from the absorption tower to the regeneration tower. The lean liquid line guides the lean liquid from the regeneration tower to the absorption tower.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Shimada, Takashi Kamijo, Shinya Kishimoto, Osamu Miyamoto, Akihito Otani
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Publication number: 20240418414Abstract: A reefer container configured to cool a gas inside a container body, including: the container body; a circulation line with a suction port and a blowout port each of which is disposed inside the container body; a compressor disposed in the circulation line and configured to compress the gas suctioned from inside the container body to the circulation line through the suction port; a heat exchanger disposed in the circulation line and configured to cool the gas compressed in the compressor; an expander disposed in the circulation line and configured to expand the gas cooled in the heat exchanger; and a liquefied gas tank housed inside the container body and configured to store a liquefied gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Ryo TAKATA
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Publication number: 20240418100Abstract: This control device comprises: an acquiring unit for acquiring, as a first inlet pressure, a pressure value of first steam on a first inlet side as seen from a first regulating valve of a first turbine that rotates using the first steam, which is supplied from the first inlet via the first regulating valve, and acquiring, as a second inlet pressure, a pressure value of second steam on a second inlet side as seen from a second regulating valve of a second turbine that rotates on the same rotating shaft as the first turbine using the second steam, which is supplied from the second inlet via the second regulating valve; and a control unit for regulating an opening degree of the first regulating valve and an opening degree of the second regulating valve in accordance with the first inlet pressure and the second inlet pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki OUCHI, Keisuke YAMAMOTO, Tateki NAKAMURA
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Publication number: 20240416274Abstract: A CO2 recovery system includes: a combustion facility; a CO2 absorption tower that brings an exhaust gas containing CO2, which is discharged from the combustion facility and introduced into the CO2 absorption tower, into contact with a CO2 absorption liquid to remove the CO2 from the exhaust gas; and a decarbonated gas introduction line that is connected to the CO2 absorption tower and the combustion facility and allows at least a portion of a decarbonated gas, which is the exhaust gas from which the CO2 has been removed in the CO2 absorption tower, to be introduced into the combustion facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Takuya Sugiura, Tatsuya Tsujiuchi, Takuya Hirata, Hiroshi Tanaka, Junji Imada, Yoshitaka Shindo, Takuichiro Daimaru
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Patent number: D1055088Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Tadashi Ota, Satoru Higuchi, Toshiyuki Wada, Tomoyuki Yamazaki, Yutaka Kanou, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Atsushi Yamada