Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Arikawa
Hideyuki Arikawa 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: 9822659Abstract: A gas turbine includes a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The turbine includes a honeycomb seal disposed so as to be secured to a casing side in a clearance between the casing and turbine blades rotating around a rotating shaft and a seal fin that is provided on an end face of each of the turbine blades facing the honeycomb seal. The seal fin extends in a direction perpendicular to the rotating shaft. The honeycomb seal is formed by a plurality of corrugated sheet metals overlapped with each other at walls of nodes thereof and the walls of the nodes are blazed with each other. Each of the corrugated sheet metals has trapezoids formed in alternating fashion. A longer direction of each wall of the nodes of the honeycomb seal is angled with respect to the rotational direction of the turbine blades.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Tadashi Kasuya, Yoshitaka Kojima, Yasuyuki Watanabe, Tadashi Murakata, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takumi Konrai
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Patent number: 9732411Abstract: This method is a method for manufacturing a gas turbine blade, including: producing a gas turbine blade having a cooling pass inside thereof; and partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al. The step of partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al further including: a first step of specifying a temperature range which satisfies both of oxidation resistance and fatigue strength and the temperature distribution of the inner surface of the cooling pass based on an examination result or result of a numerical analysis; a second step of setting an Al-coating-applying portion of the inner surface of the cooling pass as the temperature range specified at the first step; and a third step of applying Al coating only into the set Al-coating-applying portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Izumi, Hideyuki Arikawa, Yoshitaka Kojima, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Shinya Imano, Koji Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20160024637Abstract: There is provided a method for forming an aluminide coating on a surface of a heat resistant superalloy substrate, comprising the steps of: exposing a base metal of the substrate in a selective area; forming a aluminum or an aluminum alloy film on the exposed base metal, by a non-aqueous electroplating; and conducting a heat treatment to the substrate on which the film is formed, in order to make a diffusion reaction between an aluminum component in the film and the base metal, and form the aluminide coating, wherein: there is used, as a plating liquid, a non-aqueous plating liquid containing a halide of the metal to be plated and an organic compound which forms an ion pair with the metal halide; and the electroplating is conducted by immersing the selective area into the plating liquid through the use of predetermined means for shielding the plating liquid from the atmosphere.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Hiroshi NAKANO, Yoshinori NEGISHI, Haruo AKAHOSHI, Takeshi IZUMI, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki ARIKAWA
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Publication number: 20140356186Abstract: This method is a method for manufacturing a gas turbine blade, including: producing a gas turbine blade having a cooling pass inside thereof; and partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al. The step of partially coating an inner surface of the cooling pass with Al further including: a first step of specifying a temperature range which satisfies both of oxidation resistance and fatigue strength and the temperature distribution of the inner surface of the cooling pass based on an examination result or result of a numerical analysis; a second step of setting an Al-coating-applying portion of the inner surface of the cooling pass as the temperature range specified at the first step; and a third step of applying Al coating only into the set Al-coating-applying portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Shinya IMANO, Koji MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20140356142Abstract: Provided is a gas turbine that can solve a problem in which a seal fin of a turbine blade is abraded by a brazed place of a honeycomb seal. A gas turbine 100 includes a compressor 10, a combustor 20, and a turbine 30. The turbine 30 includes: a honeycomb seal 7 disposed so as to be secured to a casing side in a clearance between the casing 1 and turbine blades 5A-5C rotating around a rotating shaft 4 extending in a longitudinal direction of the casing 1 and a seal fin 6 provided on an end face of each of the turbine blades 5A-5C facing the honeycomb seal 7, the seal fin 6 extending in a direction perpendicular to the rotating shaft 4. The honeycomb seal 7 is formed by a plurality of corrugated thin sheet metals 71 overlapped with each other at walls of node 71a thereof and the walls of node 71 blazed with each other, each of the corrugated thin sheet metals 71 having trapezoids alternately continued.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2014Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Tadashi KASUYA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Yasuyuki WATANABE, Tadashi MURAKATA, Kunihiro ICHIKAWA, Takumi KONRAI
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Patent number: 8801373Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Kojima, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Hiroyuki Doi, Hajime Toriya, Kenjiro Narita
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Publication number: 20140112758Abstract: The most principal feature of the present invention is as follows: Namely, in the gas-turbine-use high-temperature component including the thermal barrier coating and a cooling structure, micro passages are provided inside an alloy bond-coat layer and a thermal-barrier ceramic top-coat layer of the thermal barrier coating, the micro passages being in communication from the substrate side to the surface side. Moreover, a partial amount of coolant of a coolant for cooling the high-temperature component is caused to flow out to the outside of the high-temperature component via these micro passages. The employment of the structure like this makes it possible to expect the implementation of a high-temperature component's heat-resistant-temperature enhancement effect based on the transpiration cooling effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Tadashi KASUYA, Akira MEBATA, Kunihiro ICHIKAWA, Hiroyuki ENDO, Takao ENDO
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Publication number: 20140064939Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira MEBATA, Hiroyuki DOI, Hajime TORIYA, Kenjiro NARITA
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Publication number: 20140017511Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine blade for an industrial gas turbine including a blade substrate; a multilayer alloy coating containing a diffusion barrier layer; a bond coat; and a top coat. The blade substrate being formed of a single crystal alloy which consists essentially of 0.06 to 0.08% of C, 0.016 to 0.035% of B, 0.2 to 0.3% of Hf, 6.9 to 7.3% of Cr, 0.7 to 1.0% of Mo, 7.0 to 9.0% of W, 1.2 to 1.6% of Re, 8.5 to 9.5% of Ta, 0.6 to 1.0% of Nb, 4.9 to 5.2% of Al, 0.8 to 1.2% of Co, and the balance being Ni and incidental impurities by weight. The multilayer alloy coating, the bond coat and the top coat being directly and sequentially laminated on a surface of the blade substrate, in which the diffusion barrier layer is a multilayer and a discontinuous layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Toshio NARITA
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Publication number: 20130323069Abstract: A turbine blade for industrial gas turbine is used which includes a blade substrate formed of a single-crystal heat-resistant alloy containing C: 0.06 to 0.08%, B: 0.016 to 0.035%, Hf: 0.2 to 0.3%, Cr: 6.9 to 7.3%, Mo: 0.7 to 1.0%, W: 7.0 to 9.0%, Re: 1.2 to 1.6%, Ta: 8.5 to 9.5%, Nb: 0.6 to 1.0%, Al: 4.9 to 5.2%, Co: 0.8 to 1.2%, and the remainder substantially consisting of Ni with reference to mass, and includes a diffusion barrier layer, a metal layer, a bond coat, and a top coat, these layers and coats being stacked in this order on a surface of the blade substrate, the metal layer having a thickness of 5 to 30 ?m. Thus, the turbine blade can be provided which has a thermal barrier coating formed without loss of a function of the diffusion barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicants: National University Corporation Hokkaido University, Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi IZUMI, Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Akira MEBATA, Tadashi KASUYA, Toshio NARITA
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Patent number: 8485788Abstract: A steam turbine rotor shaft and method of manufacturing the same are provided wherein the sliding characteristics of a journal are improved, and the journal is free from welding cracks and does not need a post heat treatment. The low alloy steel coating layer having better sliding characteristics than 9 to 13% Cr heat resisting steel and an area rate of defects including pores and oxides in a range of 3 to 15% is formed by a high velocity flame spray coating method on a sliding surface of the journal.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2006Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Masahiko Arai, Yoshitaka Kojima, Haijime Toriya
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Patent number: 8460799Abstract: A high-temperature resistant component for, e.g., a gas turbine hot part, includes an alloy substrate containing Ni, Co, or Fe as the principal component, and a thermal barrier coating formed over the surface of the substrate via a bond coat. The thermal barrier coating includes a porous thermal-barrier layer made of ceramic and an environmental barrier layer with corrosion resistance. An impregnated layer is provided between the environmental barrier layer and the thermal barrier layer. In the impregnated layer, the thermal barrier layer is impregnated with a part of the environmental barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer is made of a porous zirconia layer, and the environmental barrier layer includes silica as the principal component. The porous zirconia layer has pores impregnated with the part of the environmental barrier layer. As a result, the high-temperature resistant component has excellent corrosion resistance and excellent heat resistance.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2010Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
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Publication number: 20120159952Abstract: The present invention provides gas turbine components having durability and reliability for use in a corrosive environment such as a turbine employing a low grade fuel, and also provides a gas turbine equipped with the components. One of the components is a gas turbine bucket/nozzle comprising a substrate made from an alloy containing Ni, Co, or Fe, a bonding layer made from an alloy and disposed over the substrate, and a thermal barrier coating disposed over the bonding layer. The thermal barrier coating includes a thermal barrier layer of porous ceramics, an environmental barrier layer containing silica, and an impregnation layer having a silica-containing material in the pores of the porous ceramics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Inventors: Hideyuki ARIKAWA, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
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Publication number: 20120107103Abstract: A gas turbine shroud includes a ceramic abradable coating superior in abradable property and durability. The gas turbine ceramic abradable coating of the present invention is configured by an abradable metal layer and a porous ceramic abradable layer (hardness RC15Y: 80±3), the porous ceramic abradable layer is provided with slit grooves by machining work, and a slit groove width is 0.5 to 5 mm. Thereby, the abradable property, and durability against a thermal cycle and high-temperature oxidation are improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Yoshitaka Kojima, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Hiroyuki Doi, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takao Endo, Kazuto Mikazuki, Hidetoshi Kuroki
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Publication number: 20120084981Abstract: In a method of working a film cooling hole which communicates with an internal cooling passage of a turbine blade from an outer surface, in the turbine blade which has a heat shield coating and the internal cooling passage, there is employed a method of working a cooling hole of a turbine including a step of executing a bond coat on a blade base material a step of piercing a cooling hole in accordance with an electric discharge machining, a step of executing a top coat, and a step of removing the top coat in accordance with a mechanical method with respect to a band-like region including a row of cooling holes, by using an abrasive blasting, a water jet method or the like. Accordingly, an occlusion of the cooling hole, and a damage of the TBC due to the piercing are hardly generated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takeshi Izumi
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Publication number: 20110182720Abstract: There is provided a gas turbine shroud including a ceramic abradable coating used as a gap adjusting component that can reduce a fluid leakage from a gap and increase turbine efficiency. A gas turbine ceramic abradable coating includes a bond layer, a thermal barrier ceramic layer, and a porous ceramic abradable layer (hardness may be RC15Y: 80±3). A slit groove is provided in the porous ceramic abradable layer by machining. A width of a rectangular section of the ceramic abradable layer divided by the slit groove may be set to a range of 2 to 7 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2011Publication date: July 28, 2011Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Tadashi Kasuya, Hiroyuki Doi, Kunihiro Ichikawa
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Patent number: 7901790Abstract: There is provided a high temperature component with a thermal barrier coating, which can be used as a high temperature component for a gas turbine, an aircraft gas turbine engine, or the like. A top coat is formed of a ceramic on a bond coat, the bond coat being formed on a heat resistant alloy substrate composed mainly of at least one element of nickel and cobalt, wherein the bond coat contains at least one of nickel and cobalt, chromium and aluminum, and further contains at least one selected from a group consisting of tantalum, cesium, tungsten, silicon, platinum, manganese and boron in a range of 0 to 20 wt %. The high temperature component according to the present invention has very high durability of a thermal-insulating ceramic layer, and is less susceptible to spalling damage.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2005Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Central Research Institute of Electric Power IndustryInventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Takayuki Yoshioka, Mitsutoshi Okada, Tohru Hisamatsu
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Publication number: 20110014035Abstract: A metal sealing material used in a sealing device which can reduce a gap between a stator and a rotor of a turbine. The metal sealing material used in a sealing device for a stator and a rotor of a turbine includes a surface layer and a lower layer composed of a porous metal layer, wherein the porosity of the surface layer is smaller than the porosity of the lower layer; the porosity of the surface layer is 60 to 65% and the porosity of the lower layer is 67 to 75% or less; and the porous metal layer has a thickness of 0.3 to 3.0 mm and may include, as a main component, an MCrAlY alloy where M is either one of Ni and Co or both thereof, and h-BN as a solid lubricant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: January 20, 2011Inventors: Yoshitaka KOJIMA, Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Hiroyuki Doi, Hajime Toriya, Kenjiro Narita
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Publication number: 20100330391Abstract: A high-temperature resistant component for a gas turbine hot part and so on is provided, which has durability and reliability enough to withstand a corrosive environment with use of the low-grade oil. The high-temperature resistant component includes an alloy substrate containing Ni, Co, or Fe as the principal component, and a thermal barrier coating formed over the surface of the substrate via a bond coat. The thermal barrier coating includes a porous thermal-barrier layer made of ceramic and an environmental barrier layer with corrosion resistance. An impregnated layer is provided between the environmental barrier layer and the thermal barrier layer. In the impregnated layer, the thermal barrier layer is impregnated with a part of the environmental barrier layer. The thermal barrier layer is made of a porous zirconia layer, and the environmental barrier layer includes silica as the principal component. The porous zirconia layer has pores impregnated with the part of the environmental barrier layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2010Publication date: December 30, 2010Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Yoshitaka Kojima, Kunihiro Ichikawa, Hiroshi Haruyama
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Publication number: 20090311103Abstract: A steam turbine rotor shaft and a method of manufacturing the same are provided wherein the sliding characteristics of a journal are improved, and the journal is free from welding cracks and does not need a post heat treatment. The low alloy steel coating layer having a better sliding characteristics than 9 to 13% Cr heat resisting steel and a area rate of defects including pores and oxides in a range of 3 to 15% is formed by a high velocity flame spray coating method on a sliding surface of the journal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2006Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Hideyuki Arikawa, Akira Mebata, Masahiko Arai, Yoshitaka Kojima, Hajime Toriya