Patents by Inventor Asako Inomata
Asako Inomata 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).
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Patent number: 11174745Abstract: A stator blade of an embodiment includes: a blade effective part having hollow portions; an outer shroud having an outer plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction outer side of the blade effective part, and a pair of outer mounting portions provided in a circumferential direction on a front edge side and a rear edge side; an inner shroud having an inner plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction inner side of the blade effective part; cooling medium introduction passages which introduce a cooling medium via opening portions formed in the outer plate flange portion and passing through the outer plate flange portion in a radial direction, to the hollow portions; and a cooling medium introduction passage formed in a direction along a surface of the outer plate flange portion in a wall thickness of the outer plate flange portion, which introduces a cooling medium to the hollow portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Asako Inomata, Shinji Tanigawa, Iwataro Sato, Hideyuki Maeda, Satoru Sekine, Kazutaka Tsuruta
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Publication number: 20210239011Abstract: An axial flow turbine of an embodiment includes: a turbine rotor provided to penetrate in an inner casing; rotor wheels formed on an outer peripheral surface of the turbine rotor in an axial direction; a gland seal part which is provided on a downstream side of the rotor wheel at a final stage and seals between the turbine rotor and the inner casing; a seal part which is provided between the rotor wheel at the final stage and the gland seal part and prevents inflow to the turbine rotor side of a working fluid; and a cooling medium supply mechanism which supplies a cooling medium directly to a wheel space surrounded by the rotor wheel at the final stage, the turbine rotor, the gland seal part and the seal part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yuichi MORISAWA, Shogo IWAI, Hideyuki MAEDA, Asako INOMATA, Kazutaka TSURUTA
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Publication number: 20200131923Abstract: A stator blade of an embodiment includes: a blade effective part having hollow portions; an outer shroud having an outer plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction outer side of the blade effective part, and a pair of outer mounting portions provided in a circumferential direction on a front edge side and a rear edge side; an inner shroud having an inner plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction inner side of the blade effective part; cooling medium introduction passages which introduce a cooling medium via opening portions formed in the outer plate flange portion and passing through the outer plate flange portion in a radial direction, to the hollow portions; and a cooling medium introduction passage formed in a direction along a surface of the outer plate flange portion in a wall thickness of the outer plate flange portion, which introduces a cooling medium to the hollow portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Asako INOMATA, Shinji TANIGAWA, Iwataro SATO, Hideyuki MAEDA, Satoru SEKINE, Kazutaka TSURUTA
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Patent number: 10550698Abstract: A turbine 10 includes: a turbine rotor having a rotor main body including a hollow part into which a cooling fluid flows, and a plurality of rotor wheels arranged in an axial direction of the rotor main body and protruding from the rotor main body. A cooling-fluid introducing passage extending from the hollow part in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of the rotor main body is formed in the rotor main body so as to allow the cooling fluid in the hollow part to flow through the cooling-fluid introducing passage and then to flow around the rotor wheel to be conducted to the working-fluid flow passage. A flow-rate control plug regulating a flow rate of the cooling fluid flowing through the cooling-fluid introducing passage is disposed in the cooling-fluid introducing passage.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Asako Inomata, Iwataro Sato, Hideyuki Maeda, Satoru Sekine, Kazutaka Tsuruta, Takeo Suga
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Publication number: 20160376890Abstract: A turbine 10 includes: a turbine rotor having a rotor main body including a hollow part into which a cooling fluid flows, and a plurality of rotor wheels arranged in an axial direction of the rotor main body and protruding from the rotor main body. A cooling-fluid introducing passage extending from the hollow part in a direction intersecting with the axial direction of the rotor main body is formed in the rotor main body so as to allow the cooling fluid in the hollow part to flow through the cooling-fluid introducing passage and then to flow around the rotor wheel to be conducted to the working-fluid flow passage. A flow-rate control plug regulating a flow rate of the cooling fluid flowing through the cooling-fluid introducing passage is disposed in the cooling-fluid introducing passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako INOMATA, Iwataro SATO, Hideyuki MAEDA, Satoru SEKINE, Kazutaka TSURUTA, Takeo SUGA
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Publication number: 20160146188Abstract: A wind farm of an embodiment includes a wind turbine and an airflow generation device, the wind turbine being installed in plurality in a predetermined installation region. The wind turbines each have a blade attached to a rotor. The airflow generation device includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are provided on a substrate formed of an insulating material. Here, the plural wind turbines include: a first wind turbine located on an upstream side and a second wind turbine located on a more downstream side than the first wind turbine, in a wind direction with a higher yearly frequency than a predetermined value, out of wind directions of wind blowing in the installation region. The airflow generation device is installed on the blade provided in the first wind turbine out of the plural wind turbines.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2015Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hisashi MATSUDA, Motofumi Tanaka, Toshiki Osako, Kenichi Yamazaki, Masahiro Asayama, Naohiko Shimura, Asako Inomata
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Patent number: 9045993Abstract: A steam turbine 10 of an embodiment has seal rings 60 between an inlet sleeve 40 for introducing steam and an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21 into which the inlet sleeve 40 is inserted. The seal rings 60 have high-temperature side seal rings 70 which are disposed their inner circumferences contacted to the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40, and low-temperature side seal rings 80 which are formed to have inner and outer diameters larger than those of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and disposed with their outer circumferences contacted to the inner casing 20 or the outer casing 21. A thermal barrier layer 90 is disposed between the inner circumferences of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40 and between the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the low-temperature side seal rings 80.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Kunihiko Wada, Kazuhiro Saito, Yusuke Suzuki, Takao Inukai, Shogo Iwai, Takeo Suga
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Patent number: 8979480Abstract: A plurality of blades are studded in a rotor disc integrated with the rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor, a plurality of vanes are attached to a casing covering the rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor, and an internal diaphragm disposed on rotor-side surfaces of the vanes in such a way that the internal diaphragm faces the rotor disc. The vanes and the blades adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the rotor form a turbine stage. A rotor-side cooling path is formed through the rotor disc in the axial direction of the rotor, and a diaphragm-side cooling path is formed through the internal diaphragm in the axial direction of the rotor, and a cooling medium flowing through the rotor-side cooling path diverts into the diaphragm-side cooling path and a labyrinth flow path provided between the internal diaphragm and the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Kazutaka Ikeda
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Publication number: 20150061428Abstract: An axial gap-type power generator in an embodiment includes a rotor provided with a magnet and a stator provided with a coil, the rotor and the stator being arranged via a gap in an axial direction of a rotation shaft. Further, a blade is installed at the rotor and the blade generates a cooling wind by rotation of the rotor. Here, the blade is installed at the rotor so that the cooling wind flows through the gap between the rotor and the stator from an inside to an outside in a radial direction of the rotation shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Tomohiko JIMBO, Kei Matsuoka, Yasuo Kabata, Asako Inomata, Yoshihiro Taniyama
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Patent number: 8840362Abstract: According to an embodiment, at least one first outer ring has an annular outer ring cavity to which external cooling steam is supplied. A radial direction cooling hole connecting with the outer ring cavity is formed in the stator blades connected to the first outer ring. An annular inner ring cavity connecting with the radial direction cooling hole is formed in a first inner ring constituting one diaphragm together with the first outer ring. Cooling steam blowing holes connecting an annular wheel space and the inner ring cavity are formed. The annular wheel space is formed between the first inner ring and a rotor wheel adjacent to the first inner ring.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shoko Ito, Iwataro Sato, Kazutaka Ikeda, Asako Inomata
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Patent number: 8727705Abstract: A steam turbine 10 is provided with a double-structure comprising an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21. A turbine rotor 22, in which plural stages of moving blades 24 are circumferentially implanted, is operatively disposed in inner casing 20. A diaphragm outer ring 25 and a diaphragm inner ring are disposed along the circumferential direction in inner casing 20. Stationary blades 27 are circumferentially provided between diaphragm outer ring 25 and the diaphragm inner ring, so that diaphragm outer ring 25, the diaphragm inner ring and stationary blades 27 form a stage of stationary blades. The stages of the stationary blades are arranged alternately with the stages of moving blades 24 in the axial direction of turbine rotor 22. A cooling medium passage 40 for passing a cooling medium CM which is supplied through a supply pipe 45 is formed between inner casing 20 and diaphragm outer ring 25.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Kunihiko Wada, Kazutaka Ikeda, Takeo Suga
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Patent number: 8695345Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa
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Patent number: 8439627Abstract: A steam turbine includes a casing, a rotor arranged inside the casing so as to extend in an axial direction of the casing, a rotor disk integrally formed with the rotor, a rotor-side implanting portion formed in the rotor disk, a plurality of moving blades arranged on the rotor disk in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a moving blade-side implanting portion formed in the moving blade, in which the moving blade-side implanting portions of the moving blades are engaged with the rotor-side implanting portions, respectively. A cooling medium flows through a gap formed at least on a blade portion side of the moving blade among gaps formed between the moving blade-side implanting portions and the rotor-side implanting portions.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Kazutaka Ikeda
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Patent number: 8393861Abstract: In one embodiment, a steam device includes a high-temperature member and a low-temperature member. One surface of the high-temperature member is exposed to high-temperature steam, and the other surface is cooled by cooling steam having a temperature lower than the high-temperature steam. The low-temperature member is disposed to face the high-temperature member with a passage for the cooling steam therebetween and is formed of a material having a heat resistance lower than that of the high-temperature member.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Kunihiko Wada, Katsuya Yamashita, Yutaka Ishiwata, Yuujiro Nakatani, Takeo Suga, Asako Inomata, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Yusuke Suzuki, Shogo Iwai
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Patent number: 8356974Abstract: A steam turbine 20 is provided with a casing 109, a turbine rotor 25 disposed through the casing 109, and labyrinth portions 50, 55 which are disposed at the boundary between the casing 109 and the turbine rotor 25. The steam turbine 20 is further provided with a sealing steam pipe 65 for supplying sealing steam to the labyrinth portions 50, 55 and a gas supply pipe 60 for supplying the labyrinth portions 50, 55 with a cooling gas for cooling the turbine rotor 25 or a heating gas for heating the turbine rotor 25.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Koji Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8347627Abstract: A carbon-dioxide-capture-type steam power generation system 1 according to the present invention comprises a boiler 6 producing an exhaust gas 5 by combusting a fuel 2 and having a flue 8; an absorbing unit 40 being configured to absorb the carbon-dioxide contained in the exhaust gas 5 into an absorbing solution; and a regenerating unit 44 being configured to release the carbon dioxide gas from the absorbing solution absorbing the carbon dioxide and discharge the released carbon dioxide gas. Further, in this system, a reboiler 49 is provided for receiving a heating-medium as heat source, producing a steam 43 and supplying the produced steam 43 to the regenerating unit 44. Additionally, in the flue 8 of the boiler 6, a boiler-side heat exchanger 61 is provided for heating the heating-medium by the exhaust gas 5 passing therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Katsuya Yamashita, Asako Inomata, Yukio Oohashi, Takashi Ogawa, Kazutaka Ikeda, Takeo Suga
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Publication number: 20120243978Abstract: A steam turbine 10 of an embodiment has seal rings 60 between an inlet sleeve 40 for introducing steam and an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21 into which the inlet sleeve 40 is inserted. The seal rings 60 have high-temperature side seal rings 70 which are disposed their inner circumferences contacted to the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40, and low-temperature side seal rings 80 which are formed to have inner and outer diameters larger than those of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and disposed with their outer circumferences contacted to the inner casing 20 or the outer casing 21. A thermal barrier layer 90 is disposed between the inner circumferences of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40 and between the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the low-temperature side seal rings 80.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Kunihiko WADA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Takao INUKAI, Shogo IWAI, Takeo SUGA
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Patent number: 8240148Abstract: The present invention provides a turbine system which can start a turbine, while controlling thermal stress generated in a turbine rotor and an expansion difference, due to thermal expansion, between a casing and the turbine rotor, to be lower than defined values, respectively. The turbine system (1) according to the present invention includes the turbine (4) having a casing (2) and the turbine rotor (3) rotatably attached to the casing (2), and a main steam pipe (5) connected to an upstream portion of the casing (2). A control valve (6) adapted for controlling a flow rate of steam discharging into the casing (2) is provided with the main steam pipe (5), and a power generator (7) is coupled with the turbine rotor (3). Additionally, a starting control system (10) is adapted for controlling the control valve (6), while obtaining an operational amount of the control valve (6).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Shigeru Matsumoto, Koji Yakushi, Asako Inomata, Eiji Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8195433Abstract: This invention provides an optimum value search apparatus, method, recording medium, and computer program product used in designing, analyzing, or testing a device having a plurality of factors that have effects on a characteristic. In this method, an orthogonal array is generated by setting level values obtained from the initial values of the factors to the coordinates of a two-dimensional table including a matrix of the characteristics and the factors. From the characteristics on the orthogonal array, characteristic values obtained on the basis of combinations of the level values of the factors of a single characteristic are grasped. A combination having a most excellent characteristic value is selected. The level values of the factors in the characteristic corresponding to the selected combination are reset in the orthogonal array. After resetting, processes are repeatedly executed to search for an optimum value as a most excellent one of the characteristic values.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Hiroyuki Kawagishi, Hisashi Matsuda, Fumio Ootomo, Asako Inomata
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Publication number: 20120067045Abstract: In one embodiment, a calculation method of moisture loss in a steam turbine calculates first a wetness fraction at the inlet and outlet of each of stationary blade cascades and rotor blade cascades. Subsequently, the moisture loss is classified into (1) supersaturation loss, (2) condensation loss, (3) acceleration loss, (4) braking loss, (5) capture loss and (6) pumping loss, and a loss for calculation of the moisture loss is selected from the above losses (1) to (6) according to the wetness fraction of steam at the inlet and outlet of each blade cascade. An amount of each selected loss is calculated, and an amount of moisture loss at each blade cascade is calculated.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2011Publication date: March 22, 2012Inventors: Hiroyuki KAWAGISHI, Akihiro Onoda, Tomohiro Tejima, Tomohiko Tsukuda, Asako Inomata, Naoki Shibukawa