Patents by Inventor Eisaku Ito

Eisaku Ito 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: 11661867
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust heat recovery plant includes a plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices that have a gas turbine and an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam by recovering exhaust heat of the gas turbine, a steam-utilizing facility that utilizes the steam generated by the exhaust heat recovery boiler, and an inter-device heat medium supply unit capable of supplying a portion of water heated or a portion of the steam generated by at least one of the gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices out of the plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices, to the other gas turbine exhaust heat recovery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Eisaku Ito
  • Patent number: 11359552
    Abstract: A control device is a control device for a gas turbine including a plurality of combustors and is configured to select combustors to ignite in accordance with a target load on the basis of a predictor which defines a relationship between a load and the number and arrangement of combustors to ignite and a combustion temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Yunoki, Kei Inoue, Takashi Hiyama, Eisaku Ito
  • Patent number: 11125086
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a blade body which has an airfoil shape and a shroud 57 which is formed in an end portion of the blade body. The shroud includes a shroud cover and a seal fin which protrudes from the shroud cover toward a radial outside and extends in a direction having a direction component in a circumferential direction. A front end of the seal fin extends in the circumferential direction and a base end of the seal fin extends in a direction having a direction component in the circumferential direction. A part of the seal fin in the circumferential direction forms a shift portion. An axial center position of a base end of the shift portion is different from an axial center position of a front end of the shift portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki, Eisaku Ito
  • Publication number: 20210102467
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a blade body which has an airfoil shape and a shroud 57 which is formed in an end portion of the blade body. The shroud includes a shroud cover and a seal fin which protrudes from the shroud cover toward a radial outside and extends in a direction having a direction component in a circumferential direction. A front end of the seal fin extends in the circumferential direction and a base end of the seal fin extends in a direction having a direction component in the circumferential direction. A part of the seal fin in the circumferential direction forms a shift portion. An axial center position of a base end of the shift portion is different from an axial center position of a front end of the shift portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Eisaku ITO
  • Patent number: 10927713
    Abstract: An intake air cooling device includes a water supply line and a heat pump device. The water supply line is configured to send water to a waste heat recovery boiler which is configured to generate steam using heat of an exhaust gas from a gas turbine. The heat pump device is configured to transfer heat of air suctioned by the gas turbine to water flowing through the water supply line and thereby cool the air while heating the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Eisaku Ito, Hideaki Sugishita, Naoki Hisada
  • Publication number: 20210010485
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a shroud cover which is formed at a first end portion of a blade body. The shroud cover extends in a first direction separating away from a camber line of the blade body. The shroud cover includes a gas path surface exposed toward a second side in the blade height direction and a back surface exposed toward a first side in a blade height direction. The gas path surface includes a fillet surface which gradually extends toward the first side as it goes from each of a pressure surface and a suction surface of the blade body toward the first direction in a cross-section orthogonal to the camber line. The back surface is opposite to the gas path surface, and includes a recessed surface which extends so as to be recessed toward the second side along the fillet surface in the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Eisaku ITO
  • Publication number: 20200392908
    Abstract: A control device is a control device for a gas turbine including a plurality of combustors and is configured to select combustors to ignite in accordance with a target load on the basis of a predictor which defines a relationship between a load and the number and arrangement of combustors to ignite and a combustion temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Keita Yunoki, Kei Inoue, Takashi Hiyama, Eisaku Ito
  • Publication number: 20200284169
    Abstract: A gas turbine exhaust heat recovery plant includes a plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices that have a gas turbine and an exhaust heat recovery boiler for generating steam by recovering exhaust heat of the gas turbine, a steam-utilizing facility that utilizes the steam generated by the exhaust heat recovery boiler, and an inter-device heat medium supply unit capable of supplying a portion of water heated or a portion of the steam generated by at least one of the gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices out of the plurality of gas turbine exhaust heat recovery devices, to the other gas turbine exhaust heat recovery device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Eisaku ITO
  • Patent number: 10760438
    Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine has: a rotor with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion defined by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on a downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. A final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of an inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is defined such that a diameter thereof at a trailing edge position of a final blade is smaller than the diameter at a leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, a diameter of all or a portion of a diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of the downstream side in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Eisaku Ito, Koichiro Iida, Kentaro Akimoto
  • Patent number: 10753217
    Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine has: a rotor with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion defined by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on a downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. A final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of an inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is defined such that a diameter thereof at a trailing edge position of a final blade is smaller than the diameter at a leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, a diameter of all or a portion of a diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of the downstream side in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Eisaku Ito, Koichiro Iida, Kentaro Akimoto
  • Patent number: 10697311
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade includes an airfoil portion having an airfoil defined by a pressure surface and a suction surface; and a squealer rib on a tip surface of the turbine rotor blade, the squealer rib extending from a leading-edge side (toward a trailing-edge side. The squealer rib has a ridge extending in an extending direction of the squealer rib. The turbine rotor blade is configured to provide a clearance between the tip surface of the turbine rotor blade and an inner wall surface of a casing of a turbine such that the inner wall surface of the casing of the turbine faces the tip surface of the turbine rotor blade and the clearance has a local minimum value on the ridge. The clearance is greater than the local minimum value at both sides of the ridge in a width direction of the squealer rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Nishimura, Daigo Fujimura, Eisaku Ito, Koichi Ishizaka
  • Patent number: 10526979
    Abstract: A gas turbine provided with an air bleeder tube (1) that, during startup, bleeds a portion of the compressed air of a compressor from the compressor and discharged the bled air into a cylindrical exhaust duct (20), wherein the air bleeder tube (1) is disposed at a portion that does not obstruct the flow of the main flow of combustion gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Koichi Ishizaka, Yukinori Machida
  • Publication number: 20190234223
    Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine has: a rotor with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion defined by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on a downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. A final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of an inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is defined such that a diameter thereof at a trailing edge position of a final blade is smaller than the diameter at a leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, a diameter of all or a portion of a diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of the downstream side in an axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Eisaku ITO, Koichiro IIDA, Kentaro AKIMOTO
  • Patent number: 10107501
    Abstract: An object is to realize combustion flame which can further reduce the amount of NOx generation. A combustor (14) includes a pilot nozzle (40); a plurality of main nozzles (44) arranged apart from the pilot nozzle (40) in the circumferential direction on the outer peripheral side of the pilot nozzle (40) and configured to perform premix combustion; a combustor basket (34) surrounding the pilot nozzle (40) and each main nozzle (44); an outlet outer ring (50) provided at a tip end of the combustor basket (34); and a combustion liner (36) fitted, at an inner surface thereof, onto the outer periphery of the combustor basket (34) and surrounding the outlet outer ring (50). The outlet outer ring (50) is formed parallel to an inner wall surface (66) of the combustion liner (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Takiguchi, Mitsunori Isono, Atsushi Yuasa, Eisaku Ito, Shigemi Mandai
  • Patent number: 9989450
    Abstract: An erosion test apparatus includes a combustor configured to obtain a combustion gas by mixing and combusting compressed air and a fuel, and an erodent supply unit configured to supply an erodent to the combustion gas. The erosion test apparatus further includes an accommodation support unit configured to accommodate and support a test piece having a front surface coated through thermal barrier coating, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the combustion gas including the erodent to collide with the test piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kudo, Taiji Torigoe, Junichiro Masada, Koji Takahashi, Yoshitaka Uemura, Yoshifumi Okajima, Naotoshi Okaya, Eisaku Ito, Masahiko Mega, Shigenari Horie, Shuji Tanigawa, Yasuhiko Tsuru, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Masamitsu Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20180045080
    Abstract: An intake air cooling device includes a water supply line and a heat pump device. The water supply line sends water to a waste heat recovery boiler which generates steam using heat of an exhaust gas from a gas turbine. The heat pump device transfers heat of air suctioned by the gas turbine to water flowing through the water supply line and thereby cools the air while heating the water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Eisaku ITO, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Naoki HISADA
  • Patent number: 9845689
    Abstract: In a turbine exhaust structure and a gas turbine, a turbine casing (26) formed in an annular shape to constitute a combustion gas passage A is provided. An exhaust diffuser (31) formed in an annular shape to constitute a flue gas passage (B) is connected to the turbine casing (26) to constitute a configuration. By providing a pressure loss body (61) in the exhaust diffuser (31), efficient pressure recovery can be carried out, which improves turbine efficiency, thereby enabling improvement of the performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
  • Patent number: 9732674
    Abstract: A flow path structure includes a wall surface in which a flow path is formed, a structure configured to extend in a direction intersecting a main stream direction of a fluid flowing through the flow path from the wall surface, and a concave section forming region formed throughout a range including the structure in the main stream direction and having a concave section formed in the wall surface. As the structure occupies a partial range of the flow path in the flow path cross section intersecting the main stream, a cross-sectional area of the flow path is varied in accordance with positional variation in the main stream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono
  • Publication number: 20170226866
    Abstract: A turbine rotor blade (26) for a turbine includes an airfoil portion (30) having an airfoil formed by a pressure surface (31) and a suction surface (32); and at least one squealer rib (40, 42, 44) disposed on a tip surface (35) of the turbine rotor blade so as to extend from a leading-edge side (33) toward a trailing-edge side (34). At least one (42) of the at least one squealer rib has a ridge (43) extending in an extending direction of the squealer rib. A clearance (100) between the tip surface and an inner wall surface of a casing of the turbine, the inner wall surface facing the tip surface, has a local minimum value on the ridge. The clearance is greater than the local minimum value at both sides of the ridge in a width direction of the squealer rib.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Daigo FUJIMURA, Eisaku ITO, Koichi ISHIZAKA
  • Publication number: 20170226620
    Abstract: A heat shielding coating (11) includes a bond coat layer (12) as a metal coupling layer laminated on a base material (10), and a top coat layer (13) which is laminated on the bond coat layer (12) and includes zirconia-based ceramic, in which the top coat layer (13) has a porosity of 9% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke KUDO, Taiji TORIGOE, Junichiro MASADA, Koji TAKAHASHI, Yoshitaka UEMURA, Yoshifumi OKAJIMA, Naotoshi OKAYA, Eisaku ITO, Masahiko MEGA, Shigenari HORIE, Shuji TANIGAWA, Yasuhiko TSURU, Keizo TSUKAGOSHI, Masamitsu KUWABARA