Patents Assigned to Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220379339
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a coating apparatus includes a coating bar configured to face a member to be coated, and a plurality of nozzles configured to supply a liquid toward the coating bar. A number of the nozzles is 3 or more. An arithmetic mean roughness Ra of at least a part of a surface of the coating bar is not less than 0.5 ?m and not more than 10 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naomi SHIDA, Katsuyuki NAITO, Yutaka SAITA
  • Patent number: 11502210
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first photoelectric conversion layer including: a bottom electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer; and a top electrode; and a second photoelectric conversion part including: a bottom electrode; a photoelectric conversion part; and a top electrode. A conductive layer is formed on the bottom electrode. The top electrode and the bottom electrode are electrically connected by a conductive portion and the conductive layer. The conductive portion is formed of a part of the top electrode filled in a first groove that makes a surface of the conductive layer exposed and separates a photoelectric conversion layer and a photoelectric conversion layer from each other. The top electrodes are physically separated by a second groove provided to make a step surface of a stepped portion provided in the photoelectric conversion layer exposed and have a bottom surface thereof overlap the surface of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Haruhi Oooka, Kenji Todori, Kenji Fujinaga
  • Patent number: 11499445
    Abstract: The invention provides a CO2 turbine power generation system that can be easily prevented from reaching an overspeed condition. A CO2 turbine power generation system of an embodiment includes a CO2 medium shutoff valve installed in a medium flow path between a regenerative heat exchanger and a combustor. When load rejection is to be performed, the CO2 medium shutoff valve closes to shut off the supply of the medium from the regenerative heat exchanger to the combustor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Takahiro Yamamoto, Koki Nishimura, Tomomi Okuyama, Tsuguhisa Tashima, Shogo Iwai
  • Patent number: 11502566
    Abstract: A stator winding includes: a plurality of stator bars and a connection structure. Each of the stator bars penetrates each of the stator slots and includes at least one hollow element wire, wherein inside the at least one hollow element wire a flow hole for a cooling medium is formed. A connection structure includes: a sleeve whose axial one end is fitted to a vicinity of an end of the stator bar; a closing plate disposed at another end of the sleeve; and a hollow extension pipe. The hollow extension pipe is disposed in a space defined by the sleeve and the closing plate at the end of the stator bar, and makes the flow hole of the hollow element wire and an outside of the space communicate each other. A brazing material is filled in the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Taizo Tomioka
  • Patent number: 11497110
    Abstract: A dielectric barrier discharge electrode of an embodiment has: a dielectric; a first electrode provided to be exposed on the dielectric; a second electrode provided to be covered by the dielectric; and a third electrode provided to be covered by the dielectric in a neighborhood of the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Sato, Akio Ui, Masato Akita, Shotaro Oka, Tomonao Takamatsu, Hiroyuki Yasui, Shinya Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220352697
    Abstract: A gas leakage detection system 1 with high detection accuracy for a remaining gas amount and a gas leakage amount of an insulation gas 28 in a container 27 forming a electrical apparatus 2 is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kei TAKANO, Tooru WASHIYAMA
  • Patent number: 11486931
    Abstract: A battery capacity estimation device in an embodiment includes one or more hardware processors configured to: acquire an alternating current power or an alternating current energy that is input to and output from a storage battery system via a direct current-alternating current converter, the storage battery system being capable of controlling charge and discharge; acquire a state of charge (SoC) of the storage battery system; and estimate a battery capacity of the storage battery system based on the acquired alternating current power or the acquired alternating current energy and the acquired SoC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masako Kiuchi, Mami Mizutani, Kenji Mitsumoto, Noriyuki Yamagishi, Toshiyuki Seto, Kenichi Wakasugi
  • Patent number: 11489081
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device includes: a substrate; a first photoelectric conversion element including a first substrate electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a first counter electrode; a second photoelectric conversion element including a second substrate electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and a second counter electrode; and a connection including a groove, a conductive portion and a conductive layer, the conductive portion being provided in the groove and including a part of the first counter electrode, and the conductive portion and the conductive layer electrically connecting the first counter electrode and the second substrate electrode. The conductive layer overlaps the first counter electrode on an edge of the groove, and a total thickness of the conductive portion and the conductive layer is larger than a thickness of the first counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akio Amano, Kenji Todori, Kenji Fujinaga
  • Patent number: 11484859
    Abstract: An airflow generation device having a first dielectric substrate made from a rubber elastic material, a first electrode on or near by a first surface of the first dielectric substrate, a second electrode on a second surface, and a second dielectric substrate made from a rubber elastic material covering the second electrode. It makes the airflows generated by plasma caused from partial gas near by the first surface through applied voltage into the first electrode and the second electrode, and bonding portions between the first electrode and the second electrode and the first dielectric substrate, bonding portions between the second electrode and the second dielectric substrate, and bonding portions between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate are bonded by chemical bonds with chemically crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: ASAHI RUBBER INC., TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Hideaki Sato, Yutaka Watanabe, Kenichi Yamazaki, Masahiro Asayama, Motofumi Tanaka, Hiroyuki Yasui, Toshiki Osako
  • Patent number: 11481999
    Abstract: A maintenance work support system comprising: a database in which support information for supporting maintenance work is registered; a camera-image acquisition unit configured to acquire a camera-image imaged by a camera that is mounted on a terminal possessed by a worker performing the maintenance work; a position/attitude estimation unit configured to estimate a position and attitude of the terminal based on information that is obtained by at least one device mounted on the terminal; a target recognition unit configured to recognize a target of the maintenance work depicted in the camera-image; and a superimposed display unit configured to perform display processing in such a manner that the support information corresponding to the target acquired from the database is superimposed on least part of an image of the target visually recognized by the worker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomomi Hishinuma, Kenji Osaki
  • Patent number: 11482358
    Abstract: A control method for a superconducting magnet apparatus comprising steps of: causing a superconducting coil to transition to a superconductive state by causing a cooler to cool the superconducting coil to or below a critical temperature; supplying electric current to the superconducting coil, which has transitioned to the superconductive state, from an excitation power supply; starting a persistent current mode by stopping supply of the electric current; adjusting temperature of the superconducting coil to a specific temperature which is equal to or lower than the critical temperature and higher than a steady operation temperature; and starting a steady operation by cooling the superconducting coil to or below the steady operation temperature, after a specific condition for stabilizing a magnetic field of the superconducting coil is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Saki Amano, Shohei Takami
  • Publication number: 20220335271
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to group first variables in first data that includes the first variables and a second variable, and generate a plurality of groups that include the first variables; and determine a model architecture of a prediction model, based on the first data, the prediction model being configured to associate the first variables included in the groups with a predicted value of the second variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Topon PAUL, Sreeharsha RAGHAVENDRA
  • Publication number: 20220337067
    Abstract: A power control apparatus of an embodiment controls power to be output to a power system from a power station including a power generation unit, and a power storage unit. The power control apparatus includes a power generation control unit, a power storage control unit, and a cooperation control unit. The power generation control unit controls an output of the power generation unit based on a power generation set value. The power storage control unit controls an output of the power storage unit based on a power storage set value. The cooperation control unit outputs the power generation set value to the power generation control unit and outputs the power storage set value to the power storage control unit based on a power demand amount of the power system so as to make the power generation unit and the power storage unit operate in a cooperative manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi MATSUZAKI, Keiko SHIMIZU, Haruo OGUCHI, Akinori TANI, Takahisa HOSHINO, Kojiro TADA
  • Publication number: 20220328204
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a light water reactor uranium fuel assembly is capable of reducing heating values of both Am-241 and Cm-244, to reduce the amount of generated vitrified waste without using fast reactors. The light water reactor uranium fuel assembly is a light water reactor uranium fuel assembly to be used in a nuclear fuel cycle that extracts. An americium isotope is extracted at the time of reprocessing of spent fuel to be added to a fuel, in which a weight fraction W (unit: wt %) of americium 241 to be added to a fuel heavy metal is in ranges of W<?0.006e2+0.12e?0.43 (enrichment: 5 wt % or more), W<?0.000356e+0.00357 (enrichment: 4.2 wt % or more and less than 5.0 wt %) with respect to an average enrichment of uranium 235 e (unit: wt %) of the fuel assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouji HIRAIWA, Kenichi YOSHIOKA, Rei KIMURA, Satoshi WADA, Tsukasa SUGITA
  • Patent number: 11468666
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reading support system includes a processing device. The processing device includes an extractor and a type determiner. The extractor extracts a plurality of regions from a candidate region. The candidate region is a candidate of a region in which a meter is imaged. The regions respectively include a plurality of characters of the meter. The type determiner determines a type of the meter based on positions of the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chiayu Lin
  • Publication number: 20220319785
    Abstract: There is a gas circuit breaker that can reduce deterioration in insulation performance and current breaking performance due to unnecessary gas generated from arc-extinguishing gas sprayed to an arc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori IIJIMA, Amane MAJIMA, Toshiyuki UCHII, Akira SHIMAMURA, Norimitsu KATO
  • Publication number: 20220314161
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a gas processing equipment includes an oxygen remover 2 that removes oxygen contained in exhaust gas G, and a gas processing device 3 that processes pretreated exhaust gas G (P), from which the oxygen has been removed by the oxygen remover 2, with a carbon dioxide absorbent solvent S as a treatment agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daigo MURAOKA, Koshito FUJITA, Shinji MURAI, Hayato MORIGAKI, Osamu SHIBASAKI, Yasuhiro KATO, Satoshi SAITO, Takehiko MURAMATSU, Ryosuke SHIBATA, Yusuke HANDA
  • Publication number: 20220320354
    Abstract: The embodiment provides a graphene-containing membrane producible by wet-coating and excellent in electric properties, a process for producing the membrane, a graphene-containing membrane laminate, and a photoelectric conversion device using the graphene-containing membrane. The graphene-containing membrane contains graphene having a graphene skeleton combined with polyalkylenimine chains. The membrane has a ratio of the photoelectron intensity at the energy peak position of C1s orbital to that at the bonding energy on an X-ray photoelectron spectrum measured on an ITO film of 288 eV in a range of 5.5 to 20. This membrane can be produced by heating a graphene oxide-containing film in the presence of polyalkyleneimine and further heating the film in the presence of a reducing agent. The graphene-containing membrane can be so installed in a photoelectric conversion device that it is placed between the photoelectric conversion layer and the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuyuki NAITO, Naomi SHIDA, Yutaka SAITA
  • Publication number: 20220316620
    Abstract: In a steam valve of an embodiment, a valve element of a comprises: a first valve element part positioned in the closing direction, and including a first valve element part outer peripheral surface configured to surround the valve rod; and a second valve element part positioned in the opening direction, and including a second valve element part outer peripheral surface configured to surround the valve rod. The first valve element part outer peripheral surface is a curved surface formed to have a diameter increased toward the opening direction. A diameter of boundary position between the first valve element part outer peripheral surface and the second valve element part outer peripheral surface is the same as a seat diameter of valve seat at which the valve element is brought into contact with the valve seat when the steam valve is set to a fully-closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu SHINDO, Miyako NIMORI, Shunichi HORII, Ryuhei TAKEMARU
  • Patent number: 11459900
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a turbine stator blade disposed in a working fluid flow path in a casing of a gas turbine, includes: a blade effective part disposed in the working fluid flow path; an outer circumferential sidewall having a plate-shaped part that is connected to a radially outer end portion of the blade effective part, and hooks each extending radially outward and circumferentially from the plate-shaped part and having a tip engaged with the casing; and an inner circumferential sidewall connected to a radially inner end portion of the blade effective part. At least one slit is formed at the rear hook or front hook to divide the hook in a circumferential direction, and the hook has a seal member to seal the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norikazu Takagi, Tsuguhisa Tashima, Daisuke Nomura, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Shogo Iwai, Takahiro Ono