Patents by Inventor Chiyuki Nakamata

Chiyuki Nakamata 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: 10551067
    Abstract: The invention is a combustor liner (12) of a dual wall cooling structure including an inner wall section (30) configured to surround a combustion region (13) and in which a plurality of effusion cooling holes (31) are formed, and an outer wall section (20) formed to be spaced apart from the inner wall section (30) and in which a plurality of impingement cooling holes (21) are formed, wherein the inner wall section (30) is constituted by a plurality of plate-shaped members (40), and a support guide member (50) is provided which is configured to guide the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) to enable free insertion and extraction and support the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) at intervals such that deformation by thermal expansion is able to be absorbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Yuuta Matsumoto, Jun Hosoi, Nagayoshi Hiromitsu
  • Patent number: 10060265
    Abstract: The cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade that a gas turbine engine or the like is provided with is further increased by providing a convex portion that is arranged in the inner portion of a cooling air hole and that is provided projecting out from the inner wall surface of the cooling air hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nita, Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Kazuo Yonekura, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9957812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an impingement cooling mechanism (1) that ejects a cooling gas (G) toward a cooling target (2) from a plurality of impingement holes (4) formed in an opposing member (3) that is arranged opposite the cooling target (2). Turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are provided in the flow path of a crossflow (CF), which is a flow that is formed by the cooling gas (G) after being ejected from the impingement holes (4). The turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are constituted so that a turbulent flow is promoted from the upstream side to the downstream side of the crossflow (CF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Okita, Shu Fujimoto, Chiyuki Nakamata
  • Publication number: 20170370586
    Abstract: The invention is a combustor liner (12) of a dual wall cooling structure including an inner wall section (30) configured to surround a combustion region (13) and in which a plurality of effusion cooling holes (31) are formed, and an outer wall section (20) formed to be spaced apart from the inner wall section (30) and in which a plurality of impingement cooling holes (21) are formed, wherein the inner wall section (30) is constituted by a plurality of plate-shaped members (40), and a support guide member (50) is provided which is configured to guide the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) to enable free insertion and extraction and support the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) at intervals such that deformation by thermal expansion is able to be absorbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Yuuta MATSUMOTO, Jun HOSOI, Nagayoshi HIROMITSU
  • Patent number: 9771809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an impingement cooling mechanism that ejects a cooling gas toward a cooling target (2) from a plurality of impingement holes (3b) formed in a facing member (3) that is disposed facing the cooling target (2). Blocking members (5) that block a crossflow (CF), which is a flow formed by the cooling gas after being ejected from the impingement holes (3b), are installed on at least the upstream side of the crossflow (CF) with respect to at least a portion of the impingement holes (3b). Turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are provided in the flow path (R) of the crossflow (CF) regulated by the blocking members (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shu Fujimoto, Chiyuki Nakamata, Yoji Okita
  • Patent number: 9759069
    Abstract: The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kozo Nita, Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Kazuo Yonekura, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9546553
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes: a wall surface along which a heating medium flows; and at least one pair of film cooling holes that open at the wall surface and that blow a cooling medium. The pair of film cooling holes are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a main flow direction of the heating medium. In addition, perforation directions of the pair of film cooling holes are set such that directions of swirls of the cooling medium formed by blowing are opposite to each other, a swirl of the cooling medium on a downstream side in the main flow direction is mixed and merged with another swirl of the cooling medium on an upstream side in the main flow direction, and the merged cooling medium flows along the wall surface in a direction intersecting with the main flow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata, Seiji Kubo, Osamu Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20160003549
    Abstract: A cooling promoting structure in which a first flow path walls includes a first collision surface which collides with cooling gas flowing through a first flow path, a second flow path walls includes a second collision surface which collides with the cooling gas flowing through a second flow path, and the first flow path and the second flow path are connected to each other via inflow openings at a location where the first collision surface and the second collision surface are disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Shu FUJIMOTO, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Yoji OKITA
  • Patent number: 9194236
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine blade capable of being cooled by a coolant gas supplied to a hollow region, wherein a plurality of meandering flow paths that guide the coolant gas between the suction wall surface and the pressure wall surface while causing the coolant gas to repeatedly meander are continuously arranged from the hub side toward the tip side of the turbine blade, and the meandering flow paths adjacent to each other cause the coolant gas to meander in different repetitive patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiyuki Nakamata, Shu Fujimoto
  • Patent number: 9133717
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a turbine airfoil cools a turbine airfoil (10) exposed to hot gas (1), using cooling air (2) of a temperature lower than that of the hot gas. The turbine airfoil (10) includes an external surface (11), an internal surface (12) opposite to the external surface, a plurality of film-cooling holes (13) blowing the cooling air from the internal surface toward the external surface to film-cool the external surface, and a plurality of heat-transfer promoting projections (14) integrally formed with the internal surface and protruding inwardly from the internal surface. The turbine airfoil further includes a hollow cylindrical insert (20) which is positioned inside the internal surface of the turbine airfoil and to which the cooling air is supplied. The insert has a plurality of impingement holes (21) for impingement-cooling the internal surface (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignees: IHI Corporation, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    Inventors: Chiyuki Nakamata, Takashi Yamane, Yoshitaka Fukuyama, Takahiro Bamba
  • Publication number: 20140366545
    Abstract: In a gas turbine engine (1) that has a plurality shrouds (8c and 9c), in which each one of the shrouds (8c and 9c) are provided with a groove portion (20) that is provided in a surface facing a turbine rotor blade (8a and 9a) and a plurality of film cooling holes (21) that open to a bottom portion of the groove portion (20), blocking of the film cooling holes (21 and 22) is prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventor: Chiyuki NAKAMATA
  • Publication number: 20140290257
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an impingement cooling mechanism (1) that ejects a cooling gas (G) toward a cooling target (2) from a plurality of impingement holes (4) formed in an opposing member (3) that is arranged opposite the cooling target (2). Turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are provided in the flow path of a crossflow (CF), which is a flow that is formed by the cooling gas (G) after being ejected from the impingement holes (4). The turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are constituted so that a turbulent flow is promoted from the upstream side to the downstream side of the crossflow (CF).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yoji OKITA, Shu FUJIMOTO, Chiyuki NAKAMATA
  • Publication number: 20140294598
    Abstract: The cooling effectiveness of a turbine blade that a gas turbine engine or the like is provided with is further increased by providing a convex portion that is arranged in the inner portion of a cooling air hole and that is provided projecting out from the inner wall surface of the cooling air hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Kozo NITA, Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Kazuo YONEKURA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140290256
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an impingement cooling mechanism that ejects a cooling gas toward a cooling target (2) from a plurality of impingement holes (3b) formed in a facing member (3) that is disposed facing the cooling target (2). Blocking members (5) that block a crossflow (CF), which is a flow formed by the cooling gas after being ejected from the impingement holes (3b), are installed on at least the upstream side of the crossflow (CF) with respect to at least a portion of the impingement holes (3b). Turbulent flow promoting portions (6) are provided in the flow path (R) of the crossflow (CF) regulated by the blocking members (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Shu FUJIMOTO, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Yoji OKITA
  • Publication number: 20140271229
    Abstract: The present invention is a turbine blade (1) having a hollow blade body (2). This turbine blade (1) is provided with: cooling air holes (5) that penetrate the blade body (2) from an internal wall surface (2e) to an external wall surface (2f) thereof, and are provided with a straight tube portion (5a) that is located on the internal wall surface (2e) side of the blade body (2), and an expanded diameter portion (5b) that is located on the external wall surface (2f) side of the blade body (2); and with a guide groove (6) that is located on an internal wall of the expanded diameter portion (5b) and that guides cooling air (Y) in the expanded diameter portion (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Kozo NITA, Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Kazuo YONEKURA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140238031
    Abstract: The invention is a combustor liner (12) of a dual wall cooling structure including an inner wall section (30) configured to surround a combustion region (13) and in which a plurality of effusion cooling holes (31) are formed, and an outer wall section (20) formed to be spaced apart from the inner wall section (30) and in which a plurality of impingement cooling holes (21) are formed, wherein the inner wall section (30) is constituted by a plurality of plate-shaped members (40), and a support guide member (50) is provided which is configured to guide the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) to enable free insertion and extraction and support the plurality of plate-shaped members (40) at intervals such that deformation by thermal expansion is able to be absorbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Yuuta MATSUMOTO, Jun HOSOI, Nagayoshi HIROMITSU
  • Publication number: 20140238028
    Abstract: It has a flat impingement hole (2) of which the opening width (D1) in the flow direction of a crossflow (F) in the gap between a cooling target (10) and an opposing member (20) is set greater than the opening width (D2) in a direction orthogonal with the flow direction of the crossflow F. Accordingly, the cooling efficiency is further improved by the impingement cooling mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YAMANE, Yoshitaka FUKUYAMA, Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA
  • Publication number: 20140234121
    Abstract: The film cooling structure includes: a wall surface along which a heating medium flows; and at least one pair of film cooling holes that open at the wall surface and that blow a cooling medium. The pair of film cooling holes are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a main flow direction of the heating medium. In addition, perforation directions of the pair of film cooling holes are set such that directions of swirls of the cooling medium formed by blowing are opposite to each other, a swirl of the cooling medium on a downstream side in the main flow direction is mixed and merged with another swirl of the cooling medium on an upstream side in the main flow direction, and the merged cooling medium flows along the wall surface in a direction intersecting with the main flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Yoji OKITA, Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Seiji KUBO, Osamu WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20140020393
    Abstract: A combustor for gas turbine engine, wherein: a plurality of impingement-cooling holes are opened passing through an external wall of a liner for cooling air to blow out towards the outer surface of an internal wall of the liner; a plurality of pin-fins are formed on the outer surface of the internal wall of the liner; a plurality of effusion cooling holes are opened passing through the internal wall of the liner for cooling air to blow out along the inner surface of the internal wall of the liner. The top surface of each pin-fin is not in contact with the inner surface of the external wall of the liner and the ratio of the height of the pin-fin to the equivalent diameter of the impingement-cooling hole is set to be 1.0-3.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Chiyuki NAKAMATA, Yoji Okita, Jun Hosoi, Nagayoshi Hiromitsu, Atsushi Hirata, Takeomi Ideta
  • Publication number: 20140003962
    Abstract: A turbine blade (1) includes a plurality of rows of cooling portions (4, 4A, 4B) that have notch portions (41) that discharge cooling gas that has been introduced into an internal portion (25) of a blade portion (2) onto a ventral side blade surface (23), and that are formed in rows that are stacked in a direction between the blade front edge and the blade rear edge. This turbine blade (1) is provided with: turbulence promoting cooling portions (4B) that are provided in the row located furthest to the downstream side from among the plurality of rows, and that have turbulence promoting devices (44, 45, 46) in areas exposed by the notch portions (41); and film cooling portions (4A) that are provided in at least one of other rows from among the plurality of rows, and that form a film cooling layer in the areas exposed by the notch portions (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Yoji Okita, Chiyuki Nakamata