Patents by Inventor Eigo Kato

Eigo Kato 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: 12540564
    Abstract: An aspect of an exhaust turbine according to the present disclosure is provided with: a rotating shaft; a turbine wheel attached to one end side of the rotating shaft; a turbine housing having a scroll portion formed on an outer peripheral side of the turbine wheel; a bearing housing that accommodates a bearing for supporting the rotating shaft; a fastening member that fastens a first flange portion of the turbine housing and a second flange portion of the bearing housing together; and a heat-shielding plate having an outer peripheral edge portion held between the first flange portion and the second flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi Sakuma, Keigo Sakamoto, Eigo Kato, Nobuhito Oka, Makoto Ozaki
  • Publication number: 20250347228
    Abstract: This turbine comprises: a first housing that has a scroll passage; a first platelike member that includes an annular first plate; a second platelike member that includes an annular second plate forming a gas passage between the first plate and the second plate; a second housing that has a facing surface facing the back surface, of the first plate, on a side opposite to the gas passage across a first space; an annular member that is disposed in the first space and that rotates with respect to the first platelike member; a link member coupled at one end to the annular member and coupled at the other end to a variable nozzle vane; a positioning pin fitted at one end in a first hole formed in the back surface of the first plate and fitted at the other end in a second hole formed in the facing surface of the second housing; and a stopper configured such that a first gap is formed between the facing surface, or the first plate, and the stopper, and the first gap is smaller than a second gap between the annular memb
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi NAKAGAWA, Takashi YOSHIMOTO, Kosuke UCHIUMI, Koki NAKAJIMA, Eigo KATO, Noriyuki HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20250198304
    Abstract: An aspect of an exhaust turbine according to the present disclosure is provided with: a rotating shaft; a turbine wheel attached to one end side of the rotating shaft; a turbine housing having a scroll portion formed on an outer peripheral side of the turbine wheel; a bearing housing that accommodates a bearing for supporting the rotating shaft; a fastening member that fastens a first flange portion of the turbine housing and a second flange portion of the bearing housing together; and a heat-shielding plate having an outer peripheral edge portion held between the first flange portion and the second flange portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyoshi SAKUMA, Keigo SAKAMOTO, Eigo KATO, Nobuhito OKA, Makoto OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250183756
    Abstract: In a rotating body and a rotating electric machine, a rotary shaft made of a magnetic body, a rotor fixed to the rotary shaft, and a pair of bearing sleeves for an air bearing that have a cylindrical shape, are mounted on one end portion and the other end portion of the rotor in an axial direction, and have wear-resistant coating layers on outer peripheral surfaces are provided, and the pair of bearing sleeves for an air bearing are provided with the wear-resistant coating layers before assembly to the rotary shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Naomichi SHIBATA, Eigo KATO, Wataru YAMADA, Hiroaki YOSHIZAWA, Makoto OGAWA, Takaaki YOSHIZAWA, Yuki YAKUWA, Katsuyuki OSAKO
  • Publication number: 20250167608
    Abstract: In a rotating body, a rotating electric machine, an electric compressor, and a method of manufacturing a rotating body, a rotary shaft having a pair of flange portions provided at an interval in an axial direction, an iron core made of a magnet that has a cylindrical shape, is divided into a plurality of pieces in a circumferential direction, and is disposed between the pair of flange portions on an outer side of the rotary shaft in a radial direction, and a holding sleeve that has a cylindrical shape, is disposed on an outer side of the iron core, and has one end portion and the other end portion in the axial direction fixed to outer peripheral portions of the pair of flange portions are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Naomichi SHIBATA, Eigo KATO, Wataru YAMADA, Hiroaki YOSHIZAWA, Makoto OGAWA, Takaaki YOSHIZAWA, Yuki YAKUWA, Katsuyuki OSAKO
  • Publication number: 20240229819
    Abstract: The back surface of a hub of a compressor wheel mounting structure according to the present invention comprises a recessed surface which is formed from the outer peripheral end of a flat surface to the outer peripheral edge of the back surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Keigo SAKAMOTO, Eigo KATO, Shigeyoshi SAKUMA, Youji AKIYAMA, Jun SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8863894
    Abstract: In a silencer, holes are disposed in one row with intervals to each other along one direction, holes forming the one row are disposed in a plurality of rows in a direction perpendicular to the one direction, and positions of the holes in adjacent rows are shifted in the one direction and disposed in a zigzag pattern. A disposition interval of the holes of an outer edge hole row forming one row in at least two sides opposite to each other in the silencing porous plate is set to be larger than a disposition interval of the holes of a row inside the outer edge hole row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eigo Kato, Toyosei Aota, Hideyuki Morita
  • Patent number: 7908866
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor with improved fatigue resistance of a combustor. It is possible to intentionally reduce a stiffness of each of flanges of upper and lower walls of an end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe of the gas turbine combustor. It is possible to reduce a stiff difference between the upper and lower walls of the end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe section and side walls. Thus, it is possible to reduce compulsion deformation caused due to thermal stress generated in the end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe section on the operation of the conventional gas turbine combustor, and to reduce high stress easy to generate in the side plate. As a result, the gas turbine combustor with high fatigue resistance can be realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eigo Kato, Mitsuru Kondo, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Masaki Ono, Tetsu Konishi, Tetsuya Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20080010989
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor with improved fatigue resistance of a combustor. It is possible to intentionally reduce a stiffness of each of flanges of upper and lower walls of an end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe of the gas turbine combustor. It is possible to reduce a stiff difference between the upper and lower walls of the end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe section and side walls. Thus, it is possible to reduce compulsion deformation caused due to thermal stress generated in the end portion (outlet) of the tail pipe section on the operation of the conventional gas turbine combustor, and to reduce high stress easy to generate in the side plate. As a result, the gas turbine combustor with high fatigue resistance can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Eigo Kato, Mitsuru Kondo, Tatsuo Ishiguro, Masaki Ono, Tetsu Konishi, Tetsuya Iwamoto