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).
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Patent number: 9719354Abstract: A gas turbine burns the air compressed in a compressor with supplying fuel in a combustor so as to obtain rotary power by supplying the generated combustion gas to a turbine. The turbine includes turbine vane elements and turbine blade elements that are alternately positioned in a direction in which the combustion gas fluidizes in a turbine cylinder having a cylindrical shape, and a flue gas diffuser having a cylindrical shape and connected to a rear portion of the turbine cylinder. The turbine blade element includes a plurality of turbine blades positioned at equal intervals in the circumference direction. The turbine blades have a throat width on a longitudinal end side made larger than a throat width on a longitudinally intermediate portion side. This efficiently restores the pressure of the flue gas. This improves the efficiency of the turbine so that the performance can be improved.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20170204788Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Koichi Ishizaka, Yukinori Machida
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Patent number: 9689272Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine blade, a turbine vane, a ring segment circumferentially surrounding the turbine blade, an outer shroud circumferentially surrounding the turbine vane, and a combustion gas flow-path provided in the ring segment and the outer shroud. The outer shroud is positioned on an upstream side of the ring segment in a gas flow direction of the combustion gas. Seal gas, of which temperature is lower than that of the combustion gas, is fed between the ring segment- and the outer shroud into the combustion gas flow-path. The outer shroud has a guide surface that is provided on an inner circumference thereof on a downstream side of the gas flow direction. The guide surface is formed such that a flow passage area of the combustion gas flow-path is gradually increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2012Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Patent number: 9650966Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Koichi Ishizaka, Yukinori Machida
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Patent number: 9567873Abstract: In a disc axis adjusting mechanism in a gas turbine, the gas turbine has an exhaust gas diffuser provided between a casing wall and a bearing case which are connected to a downstream side of a turbine, a plurality of struts provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, and strut covers coupling an outer diffuser and an inner diffuser of the exhaust gas diffuser so as to cover the struts, and the mechanism comprises: a plurality of air introduction holes formed in the casing wall so as to allow the interior and exterior of the wall to communicate with each other; a sensor unit configured to detect a parameter corresponding to the thermal elongation of each of the struts; and a flow rate adjustor configured to adjust the flow rate of air flowing through each of the air introduction holes based on a detection value detected by the sensor unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Motoharu Ueda, Eigo Katou, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20160273776Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Mitsunori ISONO, Atsushi YUASA, Eisaku ITO, Shigemi MANDAI
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Patent number: 9395085Abstract: In a communicating structure between combustors that generates combustion gas inside pipe pieces and a turbine portion that generates a rotational driving force by making the combustion gas sequentially pass through a turbine stage formed of turbine stator vanes and turbine rotor blades, at least some of the first-stage turbine stator vanes closest to the combustor among the turbine stator vanes are disposed downstream of sidewalls of one pipe piece and another pipe piece that are adjacent to each other, and the distance from leading edges of the first-stage turbine stator vanes disposed downstream of the sidewalls of the pipe pieces to end portions of the sidewalls closer to the turbine portion is equal to or less than a spacing between an internal surface of the sidewall of the one pipe piece and an internal surface of the sidewall of the other pipe piece.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Rosic Budmir, Yasuro Sakamoto, Sumiu Uchida, Eisaku Ito, Tsuyoshi Kitamura, Satoshi Hada, Sosuke Nakamura
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Publication number: 20160131570Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2015Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: 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
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Publication number: 20160017734Abstract: An axial flow rotating machine having: a rotor that is provided with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator provided with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion formed by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on the downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. The final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of the inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is formed so that the diameter thereof at the trailing edge position of the final blade is smaller than the diameter at the leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, the diameter of all or a portion of the diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of a first side in the axial direction, the first side being the downstream side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Kazuya NISHIMURA, Eisaku ITO, Koichiro IIDA, Kentaro AKIMOTO
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Patent number: 9091170Abstract: A one-stage stator vane cooling structure consisting of: a plurality of linking members that are provided between a plurality of combustors disposed in the circumferential direction of a gas turbine; and cooling holes that are provided in each of the one-stage stator vanes to discharge a cooling gas from the inside to the outside of the one-stage stator vanes in order to cool the one-stage stator vanes on the periphery of the stagnation line of the combustion gas flowing in from the plurality of combustors; in which the cooling holes are formed at positions that are determined according to the relative positions of the one-stage stator vanes and the linking members disposed near the one-stage stator vanes.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20150078887Abstract: In a disc axis adjusting mechanism in a gas turbine, the gas turbine has an exhaust gas diffuser provided between a casing wall and a bearing case which are connected to a downstream side of a turbine, a plurality of struts provided at intervals in a circumferential direction, and strut covers coupling an outer diffuser and an inner diffuser of the exhaust gas diffuser so as to cover the struts, and the mechanism comprises: a plurality of air introduction holes formed in the casing wall so as to allow the interior and exterior of the wall to communicate with each other; a sensor unit configured to detect a parameter corresponding to the thermal elongation of each of the struts; and a flow rate adjustor configured to adjust the flow rate of air flowing through each of the air introduction holes based on a detection value detected by the sensor unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Motoharu Ueda, Eigo Katou, Eisaku Ito
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Patent number: 8900512Abstract: The Ni-based single crystal alloy disclosed here is a single crystal and has a chemical composition containing, as % by mass, Co: 8 to 12%, Cr: 5 to 7.5%, Mo: 0.2 to 1.2%, W: 5 to 7%, Al: 5 to 6.5%, Ta: 8 to 12%. Hf: 0.01 to 0.2%, Re: 2 to 4%, Si: 0.005 to 0.1%, with the balance of Ni and inevitable impurities.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignees: National Institute for Materials Science, Mitsubishi Heavy Indsutries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Harada, Tadaharu Yokokawa, Yutaka Koizumi, Toshiharu Kobayashi, Masao Sakamoto, Kyoko Kawagishi, Ikuo Okada, Hidataka Oguma, Taiji Torigoe, Masaki Taneike, Eisaku Ito, Junichiro Masada, Keizo Tsukagoshi, Hidemichi Koyabu
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Patent number: 8671690Abstract: A combustor 500 is composed of a plurality of premixed combustion burners 100 each comprising a fuel nozzle 110 provided in a burner tube 120, the fuel nozzle 110 having a plurality of swirl vanes 130 on an outer peripheral surface thereof. Injection holes 133a, 133b are formed in each swirl vane 130. Staging control is exercised such that when a gas turbine is in a full load state, a fuel is injected through the injection holes 133a, 133b of all the swirl vanes 130, and when the gas turbine is under a partial load, the fuel is injected only through the injection holes 133a, 133b of a specific number of the swirl vanes 130 adjacent in a circumferential direction, and fuel injection through the injection holes 133a, 133b of the remaining swirl vanes 130 is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2006Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Koichi Ishizaka, Eisaku Ito, Satoshi Tanimura
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Publication number: 20140053572Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono, Koichi Ishizaka, Yukinori Machida
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Publication number: 20140056690Abstract: A gas turbine includes a turbine blade, a turbine vane, a ring segment circumferentially surrounding the turbine blade, an outer shroud circumferentially surrounding the turbine vane, and a combustion gas flow-path provided in the ring segment and the outer shroud. The outer shroud is positioned on an upstream side of the ring segment in a gas flow direction of the combustion gas. Seal gas, of which temperature is lower than that of the combustion gas, is fed between the ring segment- and the outer shroud into the combustion gas flow-path. The outer shroud has a guide surface that is provided on an inner circumference thereof on a downstream side of the gas flow direction. The guide surface is formed such that a flow passage area of the combustion gas flow-path is gradually increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20140041395Abstract: A gas turbine burns the air compressed in a compressor with supplying fuel in a combustor so as to obtain rotary power by supplying the generated combustion gas to a turbine. The turbine includes turbine vane elements and turbine blade elements that are alternately positioned in a direction in which the combustion gas fluidizes in a turbine cylinder having a cylindrical shape, and a flue gas diffuser having a cylindrical shape and connected to a rear portion of the turbine cylinder. The turbine blade element includes a plurality of turbine blades positioned at equal intervals in the circumference direction. The turbine blades have a throat width on a longitudinal end side made larger than a throat width on a longitudinally intermediate portion side. This efficiently restores the pressure of the flue gas. This improves the efficiency of the turbine so that the performance can be improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20140023493Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2012Publication date: January 23, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hitoshi Kitagawa, Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito
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Publication number: 20130259670Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2010Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Susumu Wakazono
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Publication number: 20130224034Abstract: The blade body of the present invention is provided with a main body which has a dorsal face and a ventral face and also provided with a trailing edge portion which connects the dorsal face to the ventral face with a continuous curved face. The curved face of the trailing edge portion is gradually decreased in curvature radius from one of the dorsal face and the ventral face toward the rear end portion which is positioned most downstream in a direction at which a fluid flows, decreased to the greatest extent in curvature radius at the rear end portion, thereafter, gradually increased in curvature radius from the rear end portion toward the other of the dorsal face and the ventral face and arrives at the other of the dorsal face and the ventral face.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Susumu Wakazono
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Patent number: 8469659Abstract: Provided is a turbine blade cascade endwall that is capable of suppressing a vortex generated on a suction surface of a turbine stator blade and that is capable of reducing secondary-flow loss due to this vortex. A turbine blade cascade endwall that is positioned on a tip side of a plurality of turbine stator blades arranged in a ring form is provided with a pressure gradient alleviating part that alleviates a pressure gradient generated in the blade height direction at a suction surface of the turbine stator blades due to a clearance leakage flow, leaking out of a gap between a tip of a turbine rotor blade located on the upstream side of the turbine stator blades and a tip endwall disposed facing the tip of this turbine rotor blade.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yasuro Sakamoto, Eisaku Ito, Hiroyuki Otomo