Patents by Inventor Hideki Ogata

Hideki Ogata 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: 10697638
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes: a pilot fuel injector disposed at a radially center position; a main fuel injector having an annular shape and disposed so as to encircle the pilot fuel injector; a fuel injection portion that injects a fuel into a combustion chamber; a fuel supply unit that supplies a fuel to the fuel injection portion; a fuel introduction portion secured to a combustor housing that has the combustion chamber therein and introduces a fuel into the fuel supply unit; and an injector housing that is supported by the fuel introduction portion and covers front portions of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector. The fuel supply unit has a base supported by the fuel introduction portion, and an annular body supported by the injector housing via a support pin so as to be radially movable relative to the injector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kobayashi, Ryusuke Matsuyama, Kenta Yamaguchi, Hideki Ogata, Takeo Nishiura, Hitoshi Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 10090095
    Abstract: A stationary induction electrical apparatus includes a disc winding having a structure in which a flow path for a cooling medium is provided between coils where a low voltage is generated between shield wires, an L-shaped insulation barrier is provided between coils where a high voltage is generated between the shield wires, a horizontal portion of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an upper surface or a lower surface of the disc coil, a tip end portion in an axial direction of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an inner surface of the disc coil which is adjacent to a pressboard insulation cylinder, and a height of the tip end portion in the axial direction is lower than a thickness of one coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Li Lu, Kenichi Kawamura, Hiroshi Miyao, Hiroshi Morita, Satoshi Ichimura, Jun Nukaga, Shinji Fujita, Kohei Yamaguchi, Hideki Ogata, Masato Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9857074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a boiler water supply preheater system which preheats water (boiler water supply) supplied to a boiler by a predetermined preheating means, wherein the preheating means is a Rankine cycle (thermal cycle) which moves heat of a waste heat source in the boiler to the boiler water supply to perform preheating and drives a generator to generate electric power using a heat medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Ogata, Toshiro Fujimori, Kazuo Miyoshi, Ryo Akiyoshi
  • Patent number: 9854471
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method that can suppress the occurrence of differences in transmission delays in a plurality of wireless lines are provided. The wireless communication apparatus (1) includes a division means (12) and a transmission means (14). The transmission means (14) transmits radio waves through a plurality of wireless lines. The division means (12) divides data into data pieces having sizes each of which correspond to the transmission capacity of a respective one of the plurality of the wireless lines and generates a plurality of fragments. Further, the transmission means (14) transmits each of the plurality of the fragments to another wireless communication apparatus through the wireless line having the transmission capacity corresponding to the size of the fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20170301454
    Abstract: A stationary induction electrical apparatus includes a disc winding having a structure in which a flow path for a cooling medium is provided between coils where a low voltage is generated between shield wires, an L-shaped insulation barrier is provided between coils where a high voltage is generated between the shield wires, a horizontal portion of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an upper surface or a lower surface of the disc coil, a tip end portion in an axial direction of the L-shaped insulation barrier is provided so as to closely contact an inner surface of the disc coil which is adjacent to a pressboard insulation cylinder, and a height of the tip end portion in the axial direction is lower than a thickness of one coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Li LU, Kenichi KAWAMURA, Hiroshi MIYAO, Hiroshi MORITA, Satoshi ICHIMURA, Jun NUKAGA, Shinji FUJITA, Kohei YAMAGUCHI, Hideki OGATA, Masato SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20170159939
    Abstract: A fuel injection device includes: a pilot fuel injector disposed at a radially center position; a main fuel injector having an annular shape and disposed so as to encircle the pilot fuel injector; a fuel injection portion that injects a fuel into a combustion chamber; a fuel supply unit that supplies a fuel to the fuel injection portion; a fuel introduction portion secured to a combustor housing that has the combustion chamber therein and introduces a fuel into the fuel supply unit; and an injector housing that is supported by the fuel introduction portion and covers front portions of the pilot fuel injector and the main fuel injector. The fuel supply unit has a base supported by the fuel introduction portion, and an annular body supported by the injector housing via a support pin so as to be radially movable relative to the injector housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
    Inventors: Masayoshi KOBAYASHI, Ryusuke MATSUYAMA, Kenta YAMAGUCHI, Hideki OGATA, Takeo NISHIURA, Hitoshi FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 9556797
    Abstract: A fuel divider included in a fuel supply device of a gas turbine engine includes a movable member which is movable according to a fuel pressure at a fuel entrance, opens only a pilot port when the fuel pressure at the fuel entrance is lower than a first pressure, and opens both of the pilot port and the main port when the fuel pressure at the fuel entrance is higher than the first pressure. In addition, the fuel divider includes an adjusting means which adjusts a value of the first pressure in such a manner that it applies to the movable member a counter force in a direction opposite to a direction in which the movable member moves according to the fuel pressure at the fuel entrance, and adjusts the counter force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideki Ogata
  • Patent number: 9353689
    Abstract: In a fuel supply device of a gas turbine engine of the present invention, a fuel divider 66 includes a fuel entrance E1 into which the fuel supplied from a collecting fuel passage 63 is introduced; a pilot port 76 connected to the pilot fuel passage 64; a main port 77 connected to the main fuel passage 65; a pilot port needle valve element 101 which adjusts an opening degree of the pilot port 76; a main port needle valve element 102 which opens and closes the main port 77; and a drive element 100 which is actuated according to the fuel pressure at the fuel inlet E1 to drive the pilot port needle valve element 101 and the main port needle valve element 102.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Ogata, Kazuhiko Ohyama, Tomoyuki Hatano, Akihiro Shimizu, Touya Miwa
  • Publication number: 20160138797
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a boiler water supply preheater system which preheats water (boiler water supply) supplied to a boiler by a predetermined preheating means, wherein the preheating means is a Rankine cycle (thermal cycle) which moves heat of a waste heat source in the boiler to the boiler water supply to perform preheating and drives a generator to generate electric power using a heat medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: IHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Ogata, Toshiro Fujimori, Kazuo Miyoshi, Ryo Akiyoshi
  • Publication number: 20160073295
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus, a wireless communication system and a wireless communication method that can suppress the occurrence of differences in transmission delays in a plurality of wireless lines are provided. The wireless communication apparatus (1) includes a division means (12) and a transmission means (14). The transmission means (14) transmits radio waves through a plurality of wireless lines. The division means (12) divides data into data pieces having sizes each of which correspond to the transmission capacity of a respective one of the plurality of the wireless lines and generates a plurality of fragments. Further, the transmission means (14) transmits each of the plurality of the fragments to another wireless communication apparatus through the wireless line having the transmission capacity corresponding to the size of the fragment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: NEC Corporation
    Inventor: Hideki OGATA
  • Patent number: 9252684
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus including a three-phase transformer having at least four three-phase windings, and three converter arms each configured by connecting one or plural unit converters each including a switching device and an energy storage element in series. A power source or a load is connected to a first three-phase winding of the transformer, three series circuits which connects second and third three-phase windings of the transformer, and the converter arms in series with each other are connected in parallel, the parallel connection point is a DC terminal, and a magnitude relationship between a coupling coefficient of the first and second three-phase windings, and a coupling coefficient of the first three- and third three-phase windings is equal to a magnitude relationship between a coupling coefficient of the fourth and second three-phase windings, and a coupling coefficient of the fourth and the third three-phase windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori Inoue, Shuji Katoh, Yasuhiro Kiyofuji, Makoto Kadowaki, Hiroyuki Fujita, Hideki Ogata
  • Patent number: 9246750
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus of the present invention that uses an adaptive modulation radio scheme, includes: two-system transmission paths of an active system transmission path and an auxiliary system transmission path; a line information acquiring unit that acquires line information indicating line states of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path; and a signal processing unit that determines whether or not a fault occurs in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, based on the line information acquired by the line information acquiring unit. The signal processing unit performs a setting so as to perform wireless communication using the two-system transmission paths of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, in a case of determining that a fault does not occur in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20150287524
    Abstract: A loss in iron core clamping structures and a tank, which is caused by a leakage magnetic flux from a winding between the iron core clamping structures is reduced. In a transformer including an iron core having legs and yokes, windings wound around the legs, and ion core clamping structures arranged above and below the windings to fixedly clamp the iron core, a magnetic shield made of a material high in magnetic permeability is arranged between ends of the iron core clamping structures and the windings on a high voltage side and a low voltage side. The magnetic shield is held by a mounting member held by the ends of the iron core clamping structures in the axial direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Yasunori ONO, Takahide MATSUO, Naoya MIYAMOTO, Hideki OGATA, Kenichi KAWAMURA
  • Patent number: 9133771
    Abstract: A fuel supply device of a gas turbine engine is provided. The fuel supply device includes a fuel divider which divides fuel supplied from a collecting fuel passage to feed the fuel to a pilot fuel passage and to a main fuel passage. The fuel divider includes a movable member which is movable according to fuel pressure at the fuel entrance and opens and closes pilot ports and main ports according to a distance of the movement of the movable member. When the fuel pressure at the fuel entrance is not higher than a predetermined value, the fuel is supplied only to the pilot fuel passage, while when the fuel pressure at the fuel entrance is higher than the predetermined value, the fuel is supplied to the pilot fuel passage and to the main fuel passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Ogata, Kazuhiko Ohyama, Tomoyuki Hatano, Akihiro Shimizu, Touya Miwa
  • Patent number: 8935911
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fuel spray apparatus for a gas turbine engine, including: a pilot part configured to spray a fuel to be used for a diffusion combustion; a main part provided so as to surround the pilot part and configured to inject a pre-mixed gas only upon a high power operation; and a shield body constituting a purge air passage which is configured to take therein an air flowed on an upstream side relative to a fuel injection port of the main part as a purge air, and to blow off a fuel dripping from the fuel injection port toward a main air passage of the main part. The purge air passage is provided in a position opposite to a main fuel passage communicated with the fuel injection port across the shield body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Nonaka, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Hideki Ogata
  • Publication number: 20140211528
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus including a three-phase transformer having at least four three-phase windings, and three converter arms each configured by connecting one or plural unit converters each including a switching device and an energy storage element in series. A power source or a load is connected to a first three-phase winding of the transformer, three series circuits which connects second and third three-phase windings of the transformer, and the converter arms in series with each other are connected in parallel, the parallel connection point is a DC terminal, and a magnitude relationship between a coupling coefficient of the first and second three-phase windings, and a coupling coefficient of the first three- and third three-phase windings is equal to a magnitude relationship between a coupling coefficient of the fourth and second three-phase windings, and a coupling coefficient of the fourth and the third three-phase windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Shigenori INOUE, Shuji KATOH, Yasuhiro KIYOFUJI, Makoto KADOWAKI, Hiroyuki FUJITA, Hideki OGATA
  • Patent number: 8783038
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor of the present invention comprises a fuel injector for injecting a fuel toward a combustion chamber; a swirler which takes-in compressed air generated in a compressor and swirls the compressed air, in the vicinity of the fuel injector; a tubular guide member for guiding the compressed air taken-in from the swirler, to the combustion chamber; and a heat shield having a cylindrical portion located outward relative to the guide member; wherein the cylindrical portion has a purge hole; and air is introduced through the purge hole and is supplied to a space formed between the guide member and the cylindrical portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Horikawa, Hideki Ogata, Kenta Yamaguchi, Ryusuke Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 8572977
    Abstract: The present combustor of gas turbine engine includes: a fuel injection unit including a fuel spray part to spray a fuel so that a diffusion combustion region is formed in a combustion chamber, and a pre-mixture supply part to supply a pre-mixture of a fuel and an air so that a pre-mixture combustion region is formed in the combustion chamber; and a fuel supply unit to supply the fuel to the fuel spray part and pre-mixture supply part. The fuel supply unit includes: a pilot fuel passage and a main fuel passage to supply the fuel to the fuel spray part and the pre-mixture supply part, respectively; an assembled fuel passage to supply the fuel to the pilot and main fuel passages; and a fuel distributor disposed at a branch point where the assembled fuel passage is connected to both the pilot and main fuel passages. The fuel distributor is configured to automatically control amounts of the fuel to be distributed to the pilot fuel passage and to the main fuel passage in accordance with the fuel pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeo Oda, Hideki Ogata
  • Patent number: 8511088
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor, which can enable only a swirler and a heat shield to be readily taken out from the combustor upon the exchange the swirler and the heat shield. The gas turbine combustor includes: a combustion cylinder; a fuel injection unit for supplying fuel to a head portion of the combustion cylinder; a support member configured for allowing the fuel injection unit to be supported by the combustion cylinder; and a heat shield adapted for heat-insulating the support member from combustion gas in the combustion chamber, wherein the fuel injection unit includes a fuel injection valve for injecting the fuel, and a swirler for supplying compressed air to the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve while swirling the compressed air. The swirler and heat shield are connected together, constituting a swirler unit. This swirler unit is detachably attached to the support member via a fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tohru Imamura, Hideki Ogata, Kunio Hidani
  • Publication number: 20130107700
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus of the present invention that uses an adaptive modulation radio scheme, includes: two-system transmission paths of an active system transmission path and an auxiliary system transmission path; a line information acquiring unit that acquires line information indicating line states of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path; and a signal processing unit that determines whether or not a fault occurs in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, based on the line information acquired by the line information acquiring unit. The signal processing unit performs a setting so as to perform wireless communication using the two-system transmission paths of the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path, in a case of determining that a fault does not occur in the active system transmission path and the auxiliary system transmission path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideki Ogata