Patents by Inventor Akinori Koga

Akinori Koga has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7143581
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20060225425
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6993913
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6857270
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20040206092
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20040045294
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6679059
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20030056513
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20020092301
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: July 18, 2002
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6398503
    Abstract: A high temperature component such a gas turbine high temperature component, for example, constituting movable or stationary blade portion, thereby comprises a base material and a thermal barrier coating coated on a surface of the base material. The thermal barrier coating has a thermal barrier characteristic controlled in accordance with an environment to which a high temperature component is exposed so as to make substantially uniform a surface temperature of the base material. The thermal barrier coating comprises a thermal barrier ceramic layer having a thermal barrier characteristic capable of being controlled by varying a thickness thereof at portions of the thermal barrier ceramic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masashi Takahashi, Kazuhide Matsumoto, Masayuki Itoh, Masahiro Saitou, Kunihiko Wada, Akinori Koga
  • Publication number: 20010022087
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine turbine including at least one high temperature section, a driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6253554
    Abstract: A gas turbine plant comprises an air compressor, gas turbine including at least one high temperature section, and driven equipment, which are operatively connected in series, a gas turbine combustor arranged between the air compressor and the gas turbine, a fuel system disposed for supplying a fuel to the gas turbine combustor, and a heat exchange section for heating the fuel from the fuel by means of a high pressure air as a heating medium fed from the air compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tadashi Kobayashi, Takanari Okamura, Shokou Ito, Takashi Sasaki, Akinori Koga
  • Patent number: 6227804
    Abstract: A gas turbine blade is provided with a hollow blade effective section and a blade implanted section operatively connected to the blade effective section and the gas turbine blade is formed with: a leading edge passage for guiding a cooling medium from a supply passage of the blade implanted section on a blade leading edge side of the hollow blade effective section; leading edge intermediate passages following the leading edge passage; and a trailing edge passage for guiding the cooling medium from a supply passage of a blade implanted section on a blade trailing edge side of the hollow blade effective section. The leading edge passage being provided with a heat transfer accelerating element which is arranged in a right ascendant state inclined to an advancing flow direction of the cooling medium when supplying the cooling medium from the blade implanted section to a blade tip section side or left (leading edge side) ascendant state from the blade tip section to the blade implanted section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Akinori Koga, Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Takanari Okamura, Tsuneo Hijikata, Shokou Ito
  • Patent number: 6176676
    Abstract: Structure with elements includes a main body of the element used in gas stream and a plurality of fluid passage. Each outlet of the fluid passage is opened on surface of the main body. Coolant fluid flows from each outlet through the passage to cover the surface as a film-like fluid. The plurality of fluid passages include first fluid passages and second fluid passages. The coolant fluid flows from the outlet of the first fluid passage along the direction of the gas stream on the surface. On the other hand, the coolant fluid also flows from the outlet of the second fluid passage toward the gas stream neighbored on each outlet of the first fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ikeda, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii
  • Patent number: 6105362
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system is supplied selectively with bleed air from the compressor of the gas turbine or the steam provided from another steam cycle system in order to ensure a sufficient coolant supply at the time of starting and stopping the plant and during the operation with a partial load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Yuji Nakata, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Asako Inomata, Sachio Shibuya, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii, Shoko Ito, Hironobu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6092982
    Abstract: Structure with elements includes a main body of the element used in gas stream and a plurality of fluid passage. Each outlet of the fluid passage is opened on surface of the main body. Coolant fluid flows from each outlet through the passage to cover the surface as a film-like fluid. The plurality of fluid passages include first fluid passages and second fluid passages. The coolant fluid flows from the outlet of the first fluid passage along the direction of the gas stream on the surface. On the other hand, the coolant fluid also flows from the outlet of the second fluid passage toward the gas stream neighbored on each outlet of the first fluid passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ikeda, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii
  • Patent number: 6038850
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system has two or more than two cooling ducts formed in two or more than two elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled such as the gas turbine blades and the combustor of the gas turbine system so that steam is made to flow through the cooling ducts of these two or more than two elements to be cooled to effectively and maximally exploit the cooling potential and the waste heat collecting potential of the steam and hence improve the overall thermal efficiency of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Yuji Nakata, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Asako Inomata, Sachio Shibuya, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii, Shoko Ito, Hironobu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6000213
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system has two or more than two coolooling ducts formed in two or more than two elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled such as the gas turbine blades and the combustor of the gas turbine system so that steam is made to flow through the cooling ducts of these two or more than two elements to be cooled to effectively and maximally exploit the cooling potential and the waste heat collecting potential of the steam and hence improve the overall thermal efficiency of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Yuji Nakata, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Asako Inomata, Sachio Shibuya, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii, Shoko Ito, Hironobu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 5778657
    Abstract: A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system has two or more than two cooling ducts formed in two or more than two elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled such as the gas turbine blades and the combustor of the gas turbine system so that steam is made to flow through the cooling ducts of these two or more than two elements to be cooled to effectively and maximally exploit the cooling potential and the waste heat collecting potential of the steam and hence improve the overall thermal efficiency of the plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Fumio Ohtomo, Yuji Nakata, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Asako Inomata, Sachio Shibuya, Akinori Koga, Junji Ishii, Shoko Ito, Hironobu Yamamoto