Patents by Inventor Hideaki Sugishita

Hideaki Sugishita 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: 11898461
    Abstract: A steam turbine provided with: a rotor; a plurality of movable blades each of which has a movable blade body and a shroud, and which are circumferentially arranged at intervals; a casing that has a recessed section for accommodating the shroud; fins that form clearances from the outer circumferential surface of the shroud; a stator blade support part disposed on the downstream side of the recessed section; a plurality of stator blades circumferentially arranged at intervals; and an annular partition plate that extends from a recessed section downstream surface toward the upstream side thereof. The casing has formed therein a bypass flow passage that communicates a region radially outside of the partition plate and a region between the stator blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISH HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hideki Ono, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kiyoshi Segawa, Hisataka Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11852032
    Abstract: A turbine includes a rotor including a rotation shaft that rotates around an axis and a blade row formed on an outer surface of the rotation shaft; a casing, which covers the rotor, has a casing inner surface being expanded radially outward approaching a downstream side of the casing in a direction of the axis; and an inner member body formed to line the casing inner surface of the casing such that an extraction port is formed between an upstream side end of the inner member body and the casing inner surface. A discharge port is formed between a downstream side end of the inner peripheral member body and the casing inner peripheral surface. The extraction port and the discharge port are formed in an annular shape centered on the axis. A flow path cross-sectional area of the discharge port is smaller than that of the extraction port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Shigeo Ookura, Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Naoto Omura
  • Patent number: 11719121
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes an outer casing (19) that is provided with a first steam outlet port (54), through which exhaust steam flowing through the entire length of a flow path (21) defined between an inner casing main body (45) and an outer casing main body (51) in a direction along an axis (O1) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19), and a second steam outlet port (55), which is provided in the outer casing main body (51) and through which the exhaust steam passing through a portion of the flow path (21) or the exhaust steam not passing through the flow path (21) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19); a first valve (28) that adjusts opening of the first steam outlet port (54); and a second valve (32) that adjusts opening of the second steam outlet port (55).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Takumi Matsumura, Ryo Egami
  • Patent number: 11702947
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a rotating body rotatably supported in a casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body; a stator blade arranged on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction with respect to the rotor blade and fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a sealing device arranged between the inner peripheral portion and a front end of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided in the casing on the downstream side from the sealing device along a circumferential direction of the rotating body; and guiding members provided in the swirling flow generation chamber along a radial direction of the rotating body and in the circumferential direction at predetermined intervals. The swirling flow generation chamber has a wall surface located on the downstream side from an edge of the stator blade on an upstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hideki Ono, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kiyoshi Segawa, Hisataka Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11655723
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a casing having a hollow shape; a rotator rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotator while being displaced from the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotator; a sealing device disposed between the inner peripheral portion of the casing and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided along a circumferential direction of the rotator on a downstream side of the sealing device in the casing in a fluid flow direction; and guiding members provided at predetermined intervals in the swirling flow generation chamber in the circumferential direction of the rotator. The guiding members each include a first guiding surface that is inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to the axial direction of the rotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hideki Ono, Kiyoshi Segawa, Hisataka Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11629610
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a casing having a hollow shape; a rotator rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotator while being displaced from the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotator; a sealing device disposed between the inner peripheral portion of the casing and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided along a circumferential direction of the rotator on a downstream side of the sealing device in the casing in a fluid flow direction; and guiding members provided at predetermined intervals in the swirling flow generation chamber in the circumferential direction of the rotator. The guiding members each include a first guiding surface that is inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to the axial direction of the rotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hideki Ono, Kiyoshi Segawa, Hisataka Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20230111300
    Abstract: A turbine includes a rotor including a rotation shaft that rotates around an axis and a blade row formed on an outer surface of the rotation shaft; a casing, which covers the rotor, has a casing inner surface being expanded radially outward approaching a downstream side of the casing in a direction of the axis; and an inner member body formed to line the casing inner surface of the casing such that an extraction port is formed between an upstream side end of the inner member body and the casing inner surface. A discharge port is formed between a downstream side end of the inner peripheral member body and the casing inner peripheral surface. The extraction port and the discharge port are formed in an annular shape centered on the axis. A flow path cross-sectional area of the discharge port is smaller than that of the extraction port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Shigeo Ookura, Shunsuke Mizumi, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Naoto Omura
  • Patent number: 11591934
    Abstract: An exhaust hood (Ec) of the present invention is provided with an inner casing (21), an outer casing (30), and a diffuser (26). The inner casing (21) surrounds a rotor from the outside in a radial direction, and forms a first space (21s) in which a fluid flows in an axial direction (Da) between the rotor and the inner casing (21). The diffuser (26) is provided with a bearing cone (29) that has a diameter that gradually widens moving towards an axial downstream side (Dad) and forms a cylindrical shape extending to the axial downstream side (Dad) to be continuous with the outer circumferential surface of a rotor shaft that forms the first space (21s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Kei Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 11519287
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a hollow casing; a rotating body rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body to be offset to the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotating body; a sealing device arranged between the inner peripheral portion and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided in the casing on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction from the sealing device along a circumferential direction of the rotating body; first guiding members provided in the swirling flow generation chamber along a radial direction and in a circumferential direction of the rotating body at predetermined intervals; and a second guiding member provided in the chamber along the circumferential direction while intersecting the first guiding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Ono, Chongfei Duan, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hisataka Fukushima, Hideaki Sugishita, Kiyoshi Segawa
  • Patent number: 11519303
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes: a compressor configured to compress air; a combustor configured to combust fuel in the air compressed by the compressor so as to generate combustion gas; and a turbine configured to be driven using the combustion gas. Air coolers are configured to bleed the air from a plurality of places having different pressures in the compressor and cool the air bled from the respective places so as to generate cooling air. A waste heat recovery device is configured to recover waste heat from at least two of the air coolers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Uechi, Hideaki Sugishita, Yukimasa Nakamoto, Yuichi Oka
  • Publication number: 20220268161
    Abstract: A steam turbine provided with: a rotor; a plurality of movable blades each of which has a movable blade body and a shroud, and which are circumferentially arranged at intervals; a casing that has a recessed section for accommodating the shroud; fins that form clearances from the outer circumferential surface of the shroud; a stator blade support part disposed on the downstream side of the recessed section; a plurality of stator blades circumferentially arranged at intervals; and an annular partition plate that extends from a recessed section downstream surface toward the upstream side thereof. The casing has formed therein a bypass flow passage that communicates a region radially outside of the partition plate and a region between the stator blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Chongfei DUAN, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Hideki ONO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Kiyoshi SEGAWA, Hisataka FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 11365649
    Abstract: An exhaust chamber is equipped with: a diffuser that forms a diffuser space; an exhaust casing that forms an exhaust space communicating with the diffuser space; and an auxiliary exhaust frame that forms an auxiliary exhaust space having an annular shape centered around an axis, on the inside of the diffuser in the radial direction. The auxiliary exhaust frame has an opening that opens toward the outside in the radial direction from the interior of the auxiliary exhaust space, and that enables the exhaust space and the auxiliary exhaust space to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Shigeo Ookura
  • Publication number: 20220186628
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a casing having a hollow shape; a rotator rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotator while being displaced from the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotator; a sealing device disposed between the inner peripheral portion of the casing and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided along a circumferential direction of the rotator on a downstream side of the sealing device in the casing in a fluid flow direction; and guiding members provided at predetermined intervals in the swirling flow generation chamber in the circumferential direction of the rotator. The guiding members each include a first guiding surface that is inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to the axial direction of the rotator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Chongfei Duan, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hideki Ono, Kiyoshi Segawa, Hisataka Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20220127968
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a hollow casing; a rotating body rotatably supported in the casing; a stator blade fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body to be offset to the stator blade in an axial direction of the rotating body; a sealing device arranged between the inner peripheral portion and a tip of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided in the casing on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction from the sealing device along a circumferential direction of the rotating body; first guiding members provided in the swirling flow generation chamber along a radial direction and in a circumferential direction of the rotating body at predetermined intervals; and a second guiding member provided in the chamber along the circumferential direction while intersecting the first guiding members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Ono, Chongfei Duan, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hisataka Fukushima, Hideaki Sugishita, Kiyoshi Segawa
  • Publication number: 20220120188
    Abstract: A rotating machine includes a rotating body rotatably supported in a casing; a rotor blade fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the rotating body; a stator blade arranged on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction with respect to the rotor blade and fixed to an inner peripheral portion of the casing; a sealing device arranged between the inner peripheral portion and a front end of the rotor blade; a swirling flow generation chamber provided in the casing on the downstream side from the sealing device along a circumferential direction of the rotating body; and guiding members provided in the swirling flow generation chamber along a radial direction of the rotating body and in the circumferential direction at predetermined intervals. The swirling flow generation chamber has a wall surface located on the downstream side from an edge of the stator blade on an upstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Chongfei DUAN, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Hideki ONO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Kiyoshi SEGAWA, Hisataka FUKUSHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220074319
    Abstract: An exhaust chamber is equipped with: a diffuser that forms a diffuser space; an exhaust casing that forms an exhaust space communicating with the diffuser space; and an auxiliary exhaust frame that forms an auxiliary exhaust space having an annular shape centered around an axis, on the inside of the diffuser in the radial direction. The auxiliary exhaust frame has an opening that opens toward the outside in the radial direction from the interior of the auxiliary exhaust space, and that enables the exhaust space and the auxiliary exhaust space to communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hideaki Sugishita, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Shigeo Ookura
  • Publication number: 20210355841
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes an outer casing (19) that is provided with a first steam outlet port (54), through which exhaust steam flowing through the entire length of a flow path (21) defined between an inner casing main body (45) and an outer casing main body (51) in a direction along an axis (O1) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19), and a second steam outlet port (55), which is provided in the outer casing main body (51) and through which the exhaust steam passing through a portion of the flow path (21) or the exhaust steam not passing through the flow path (21) is discharged to the outside of the outer casing (19); a first valve (28) that adjusts opening of the first steam outlet port (54); and a second valve (32) that adjusts opening of the second steam outlet port (55).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hideyuki UECHI, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Takumi MATSUMURA, Ryo EGAMI
  • Patent number: 11105213
    Abstract: There are provided a seal fin, a seal structure, a turbo machine, and a method for manufacturing a seal fin. The seal fin suppresses leak of a fluid from a gap between a first and a second structures facing each other in a radius direction, and is formed on the first structure while keeping a clearance with respect to the second structure. The seal fin includes: a fin main body extending in the radius direction; and a protrusion being formed between a front face of the fin main body and a tip face and protruding toward an upstream side. A length of the protrusion is 1.5 times a length of the fin main body or less; an angle of the protrusion is 75 degrees or less; and a tilt angle of the fin main body is set in a range of ?60 degrees or more and 60 degrees or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Toyoharu Nishikawa, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Katsuhisa Hamada, Hideaki Sugishita
  • Patent number: 11073047
    Abstract: A steam turbine (ST) includes a rotor (11) which is rotatable around an axis (Ar), an inner casing (21) surrounding the rotor (11) from an outer peripheral side, an outer casing (30) surrounding the rotor (11) and the inner casing (21) and defining an exhaust chamber between the inner casing (21) and the outer casing (30), the steam being exhausted to the exhaust chamber (30s), and a flow guide (27) which has a tubular shape and is installed on one end portion of the inner casing 21 in an axial direction (Da) in the exhaust chamber (30s) to guide the steam discharged from the rotor (11). The flow guide (27) has a turning surface (RA) which is connected to an outer peripheral surface (27A) and turns a fluid flowing along the outer peripheral surface (27A) toward the other side in the axial direction (Da).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Sugishita, Soichiro Tabata, Toyoharu Nishikawa, Tadashi Takahashi, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura
  • Patent number: 11066946
    Abstract: In an axial turbomachinery related to the invention, a structural body has a casing fin, a blade is provided with an upstream inclined surface that is inclined from an upstream side toward a downstream side, the structural body is provided with an upstream inclined inner wall surface that is inclined from the upstream side the downstream side, an inclination angle of the upstream inclined surface with respect to a central axis of relative rotation between the blade and the structural body is larger than an inclination angle of the upstream inclined inner wall surface with respect to the central axis, and an end position of the upstream inclined surface on a radially inner side is located radially outside an end position of the upstream inclined inner wall surface on the radially inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Eiji Konishi, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Shinji Fukao, Hideaki Sugishita