Patents by Inventor Akira Mebata

Akira Mebata 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: 9732411
    Abstract: This method is a method for manufacturing a gas turbine blade, including: producing a gas turbine blade having a cooling pass inside thereof; and partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al. The step of partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al further including: a first step of specifying a temperature range which satisfies both of oxidation resistance and fatigue strength and the temperature distribution of the inner surface of the cooling pass based on an examination result or result of a numerical analysis; a second step of setting an Al-coating-applying portion of the inner surface of the cooling pass as the temperature range specified at the first step; and a third step of applying Al coating only into the set Al-coating-applying portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Hideyuki Arikawa, Yoshitaka Kojima, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Shinya Imano, Koji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20140356186
    Abstract: This method is a method for manufacturing a gas turbine blade, including: producing a gas turbine blade having a cooling pass inside thereof; and partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al. The step of partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al further including: a first step of specifying a temperature range which satisfies both of oxidation resistance and fatigue strength and the temperature distribution of the inner surface of the cooling pass based on an examination result or result of a numerical analysis; a second step of setting an Al-coating-applying portion of the inner surface of the cooling pass as the temperature range specified at the first step; and a third step of applying Al coating only into the set Al-coating-applying portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Shinya IMANO, Koji MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8801373
    Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kojima, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Hiroyuki Doi, Hajime Toriya, Kenjiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20140112758
    Abstract: The most principal feature of the present invention is as follows: Namely, in the gas-turbine-use high-temperature component including the thermal barrier coating and a cooling structure, micro passages are provided inside an alloy bond-coat layer and a thermal-barrier ceramic top-coat layer of the thermal barrier coating, the micro passages being in communication from the substrate side to the surface side. Moreover, a partial amount of coolant of a coolant for cooling the high-temperature component is caused to flow out to the outside of the high-temperature component via these micro passages. The employment of the structure like this makes it possible to expect the implementation of a high-temperature component's heat-resistant-temperature enhancement effect based on the transpiration cooling effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Tadashi KASUYA, Akira MEBATA, Kunihiro ICHIKAWA, Hiroyuki ENDO, Takao ENDO
  • Publication number: 20140064939
    Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira MEBATA, Hiroyuki DOI, Hajime TORIYA, Kenjiro NARITA
  • Publication number: 20140017511
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine blade for an industrial gas turbine including a blade substrate; a multilayer alloy coating containing a diffusion barrier layer; a bond coat; and a top coat. The blade substrate being formed of a single crystal alloy which consists essentially of 0.06 to 0.08% of C, 0.016 to 0.035% of B, 0.2 to 0.3% of Hf, 6.9 to 7.3% of Cr, 0.7 to 1.0% of Mo, 7.0 to 9.0% of W, 1.2 to 1.6% of Re, 8.5 to 9.5% of Ta, 0.6 to 1.0% of Nb, 4.9 to 5.2% of Al, 0.8 to 1.2% of Co, and the balance being Ni and incidental impurities by weight. The multilayer alloy coating, the bond coat and the top coat being directly and sequentially laminated on a surface of the blade substrate, in which the diffusion barrier layer is a multilayer and a discontinuous layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Toshio NARITA
  • Publication number: 20130323069
    Abstract: A turbine blade for industrial gas turbine is used which includes a blade substrate formed of a single-crystal heat-resistant alloy containing C: 0.06 to 0.08%, B: 0.016 to 0.035%, Hf: 0.2 to 0.3%, Cr: 6.9 to 7.3%, Mo: 0.7 to 1.0%, W: 7.0 to 9.0%, Re: 1.2 to 1.6%, Ta: 8.5 to 9.5%, Nb: 0.6 to 1.0%, Al: 4.9 to 5.2%, Co: 0.8 to 1.2%, and the remainder substantially consisting of Ni with reference to mass, and includes a diffusion barrier layer, a metal layer, a bond coat, and a top coat, these layers and coats being stacked in this order on a surface of the blade substrate, the metal layer having a thickness of 5 to 30 ?m. Thus, the turbine blade can be provided which has a thermal barrier coating formed without loss of a function of the diffusion barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicants: National University Corporation Hokkaido University, Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Toshio NARITA
  • Patent number: 8485788
    Abstract: A steam turbine rotor shaft and method of manufacturing the same are provided wherein the sliding characteristics of a journal are improved, and the journal is free from welding cracks and does not need a post heat treatment. The low alloy steel coating layer having better sliding characteristics than 9 to 13% Cr heat resisting steel and an area rate of defects including pores and oxides in a range of 3 to 15% is formed by a high velocity flame spray coating method on a sliding surface of the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Masahiko Arai, Yoshitaka Kojima, Haijime Toriya
  • Patent number: 8460799
    Abstract: A high-temperature resistant component for, e.g., a gas turbine hot part, includes an alloy substrate containing Ni, Co, or Fe as the principal component, and a thermal barrier coating formed over the surface of the substrate via a bond coat. The thermal barrier coating includes a porous thermal-barrier layer made of ceramic and an environmental barrier layer with corrosion resistance. An impregnated layer is provided between the environmental barrier layer and the thermal barrier layer. In the impregnated layer, the thermal barrier layer is impregnated with a part of the environmental barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer is made of a porous zirconia layer, and the environmental barrier layer includes silica as the principal component. The porous zirconia layer has pores impregnated with the part of the environmental barrier layer. As a result, the high-temperature resistant component has excellent corrosion resistance and excellent heat resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
  • Publication number: 20120159952
    Abstract: The present invention provides gas turbine components having durability and reliability for use in a corrosive environment such as a turbine employing a low grade fuel, and also provides a gas turbine equipped with the components. One of the components is a gas turbine bucket/nozzle comprising a substrate made from an alloy containing Ni, Co, or Fe, a bonding layer made from an alloy and disposed over the substrate, and a thermal barrier coating disposed over the bonding layer. The thermal barrier coating includes a thermal barrier layer of porous ceramics, an environmental barrier layer containing silica, and an impregnation layer having a silica-containing material in the pores of the porous ceramics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
  • Publication number: 20120107103
    Abstract: A gas turbine shroud includes a ceramic abradable coating superior in abradable property and durability. The gas turbine ceramic abradable coating of the present invention is configured by an abradable metal layer and a porous ceramic abradable layer (hardness RC15Y: 80±3), the porous ceramic abradable layer is provided with slit grooves by machining work, and a slit groove width is 0.5 to 5 mm. Thereby, the abradable property, and durability against a thermal cycle and high-temperature oxidation are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kojima, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Hiroyuki Doi, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takao Endo, Kazuto Mikazuki, Hidetoshi Kuroki
  • Publication number: 20120084981
    Abstract: In a method of working a film cooling hole which communicates with an internal cooling passage of a turbine blade from an outer surface, in the turbine blade which has a heat shield coating and the internal cooling passage, there is employed a method of working a cooling hole of a turbine including a step of executing a bond coat on a blade base material a step of piercing a cooling hole in accordance with an electric discharge machining, a step of executing a top coat, and a step of removing the top coat in accordance with a mechanical method with respect to a band-like region including a row of cooling holes, by using an abrasive blasting, a water jet method or the like. Accordingly, an occlusion of the cooling hole, and a damage of the TBC due to the piercing are hardly generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takeshi Izumi
  • Publication number: 20110182720
    Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine shroud including a ceramic abradable coating used as a gap adjusting component that can reduce a fluid leakage from a gap and increase turbine efficiency. A gas turbine ceramic abradable coating includes a bond layer, a thermal barrier ceramic layer, and a porous ceramic abradable layer (hardness may be RC15Y: 80±3). A slit groove is provided in the porous ceramic abradable layer by machining. A width of a rectangular section of the ceramic abradable layer divided by the slit groove may be set to a range of 2 to 7 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Hiroyuki Doi, Kunihiro Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7901790
    Abstract: There is provided a high temperature component with a thermal barrier coating, which can be used as a high temperature component for a gas turbine, an aircraft gas turbine engine, or the like. A top coat is formed of a ceramic on a bond coat, the bond coat being formed on a heat resistant alloy substrate composed mainly of at least one element of nickel and cobalt, wherein the bond coat contains at least one of nickel and cobalt, chromium and aluminum, and further contains at least one selected from a group consisting of tantalum, cesium, tungsten, silicon, platinum, manganese and boron in a range of 0 to 20 wt %. The high temperature component according to the present invention has very high durability of a thermal-insulating ceramic layer, and is less susceptible to spalling damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takayuki Yoshioka, Mitsutoshi Okada, Tohru Hisamatsu
  • Publication number: 20110014035
    Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Hiroyuki Doi, Hajime Toriya, Kenjiro Narita
  • Publication number: 20100330391
    Abstract: A high-temperature resistant component for a gas turbine hot part and so on is provided, which has durability and reliability enough to withstand a corrosive environment with use of the low-grade oil. The high-temperature resistant component includes an alloy substrate containing Ni, Co, or Fe as the principal component, and a thermal barrier coating formed over the surface of the substrate via a bond coat. The thermal barrier coating includes a porous thermal-barrier layer made of ceramic and an environmental barrier layer with corrosion resistance. An impregnated layer is provided between the environmental barrier layer and the thermal barrier layer. In the impregnated layer, the thermal barrier layer is impregnated with a part of the environmental barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer is made of a porous zirconia layer, and the environmental barrier layer includes silica as the principal component. The porous zirconia layer has pores impregnated with the part of the environmental barrier layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
  • Publication number: 20090311103
    Abstract: A steam turbine rotor shaft and a method of manufacturing the same are provided wherein the sliding characteristics of a journal are improved, and the journal is free from welding cracks and does not need a post heat treatment. The low alloy steel coating layer having a better sliding characteristics than 9 to 13% Cr heat resisting steel and a area rate of defects including pores and oxides in a range of 3 to 15% is formed by a high velocity flame spray coating method on a sliding surface of the journal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Masahiko Arai, Yoshitaka Kojima, Hajime Toriya
  • Publication number: 20090117282
    Abstract: A method of applying a diffusion aluminide coating partially to a selective region more simply and conveniently, the method including a step of forming a metal aluminum film onto a selective region of the heat-resistant alloy substrate to be treated; and a step of applying a heat treatment to the heat-resistant alloy substrate on the selective region of which the metal aluminum film is formed and diffusing and penetrating aluminum in the metal aluminum film into the heat-resistant alloy substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima
  • Patent number: 7449251
    Abstract: A thermal barrier coating comprises a bond coating 12 made of high temperature corrosion resistance superior to a substrate 11 and a thermal barrier coating 13 made of ZrO2 series ceramics formed on the bond coating. The thermal barrier coating has cracks extending in the direction of the thickness of the barrier coat. Substantially all of the tips of the cracks have a distance between the tips and the boundary at the substrate side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa
  • Publication number: 20080261069
    Abstract: A ceramic top coat is formed over a heat resistant alloy including Ni as a main component through a bond coat which contains Ni essentially as a main component, Cr, and Al. The alloy for the bond coat can include Si in the range from 0 to 10 wt. %. As a result, in a long time operation, the spalling damage of a ceramic top coat is not easily created and the deterioration of the mechanical properties is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa