Patents by Inventor Hideyuki Maeda

Hideyuki Maeda 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).

  • Publication number: 20240039042
    Abstract: Disclosed is a solid electrolyte for a solid-state battery having improved water resistance. The solid electrolyte for a solid-state battery includes a sulfide-based solid electrolyte and a LiBr-containing absorbent material, wherein the binding energy of Li1s shows a peak observed at 54.2-56.1 eV, and the binding energy of Br3d shows a peak observed at 67.5-69.5 eV, as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Eiichiro NARIMATSU, Hideyuki MAEDA, Keiko MATSUBARA, Ryoji KANNO, Satoshi HORI
  • Patent number: 11686201
    Abstract: A turbine rotor in an embodiment is configured by joining a rotor component member and a rotor component member together by bolt fastening with an abutting end surface of the rotor component member and an abutting end surface of the rotor component member abutting on each other. The turbine rotor includes: a cylindrical recessed portion that is formed at the abutting end surface and is recessed in an axial direction; an axial passage bored from a bottom surface of the cylindrical recessed portion in the axial direction; an introduction passage introducing the cooling medium into the axial passage; a discharge passage discharging the cooling medium from the axial passage; and a sealing member that is arranged in the cylindrical recessed portion and seals one end of the axial passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tsuruta, Takashi Suzuki, Hideyuki Maeda, Yuta Ishikawa, Masao Itoh
  • Patent number: 11441488
    Abstract: Shaft stability is enhanced and reliability is improved. In a gas turbine power generation system of an embodiment, a pressurizing unit, a rotation control unit, a diaphragm coupling, a turbine, and a generator are disposed to line up sequentially on the same shaft. A thrust bearing is provided between the turbine and the generator. The turbine is configured such that a working medium flows from the diaphragm coupling side toward the rotation control unit side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Ono, Tsuguhisa Tashima, Shogo Iwai, Hideyuki Maeda, Tomomi Okuyama, Koki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11174745
    Abstract: A stator blade of an embodiment includes: a blade effective part having hollow portions; an outer shroud having an outer plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction outer side of the blade effective part, and a pair of outer mounting portions provided in a circumferential direction on a front edge side and a rear edge side; an inner shroud having an inner plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction inner side of the blade effective part; cooling medium introduction passages which introduce a cooling medium via opening portions formed in the outer plate flange portion and passing through the outer plate flange portion in a radial direction, to the hollow portions; and a cooling medium introduction passage formed in a direction along a surface of the outer plate flange portion in a wall thickness of the outer plate flange portion, which introduces a cooling medium to the hollow portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Asako Inomata, Shinji Tanigawa, Iwataro Sato, Hideyuki Maeda, Satoru Sekine, Kazutaka Tsuruta
  • Publication number: 20210348512
    Abstract: A turbine rotor in an embodiment is configured by joining a rotor component member and a rotor component member together by bolt fastening with an abutting end surface of the rotor component member and an abutting end surface of the rotor component member abutting on each other. The turbine rotor includes: a cylindrical recessed portion that is formed at the abutting end surface and is recessed in an axial direction; an axial passage bored from a bottom surface of the cylindrical recessed portion in the axial direction; an introduction passage introducing the cooling medium into the axial passage; a discharge passage discharging the cooling medium from the axial passage; and a sealing member that is arranged in the cylindrical recessed portion and seals one end of the axial passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka TSURUTA, Takashi SUZUKI, Hideyuki MAEDA, Yuta ISHIKAWA, Masao ITOH
  • Patent number: 11098600
    Abstract: A transition piece of an embodiment leads a combustion gas generated by a combustor liner to a turbine part in a gas turbine facility. An outlet portion from which the combustion gas flows out to the turbine part in the transition piece includes: an inner peripheral wall located inside in a radial direction of the turbine part; an outer peripheral wall located further outside than the inner peripheral wall in the radial direction; and support struts provided between the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall. In the inner peripheral wall, first insertion grooves are formed. In the outer peripheral wall, second insertion grooves are formed. In the support struts, first end portions located inside in the radial direction are inserted into and fixed in the first insertion grooves, and second end portions located outside in the radial direction are inserted into and fixed in the second insertion grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi Morisawa, Hideyuki Maeda, Takahiro Nakanishi, Masao Itoh, Yasunori Iwai
  • Publication number: 20210239011
    Abstract: An axial flow turbine of an embodiment includes: a turbine rotor provided to penetrate in an inner casing; rotor wheels formed on an outer peripheral surface of the turbine rotor in an axial direction; a gland seal part which is provided on a downstream side of the rotor wheel at a final stage and seals between the turbine rotor and the inner casing; a seal part which is provided between the rotor wheel at the final stage and the gland seal part and prevents inflow to the turbine rotor side of a working fluid; and a cooling medium supply mechanism which supplies a cooling medium directly to a wheel space surrounded by the rotor wheel at the final stage, the turbine rotor, the gland seal part and the seal part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi MORISAWA, Shogo IWAI, Hideyuki MAEDA, Asako INOMATA, Kazutaka TSURUTA
  • Publication number: 20210215102
    Abstract: Shaft stability is enhanced and reliability is improved. In a gas turbine power generation system of an embodiment, a pressurizing unit, a rotation control unit, a diaphragm coupling, a turbine, and a generator are disposed to line up sequentially on the same shaft. A thrust bearing is provided between the turbine and the generator. The turbine is configured such that a working medium flows from the diaphragm coupling side toward the rotation control unit side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro ONO, Tsuguhisa TASHIMA, Shogo IWAI, Hideyuki MAEDA, Tomomi OKUYAMA, Koki NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20210215046
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a turbine comprises: a casing; a rotor shaft; turbine stages; a thrust bearing which receives thrust load in the axial direction generated by a flow of a working fluid supplied to the turbine stages; a balance piston which is formed on the rotor shaft along a circumferential direction and projects in a radial direction from the rotor shaft, for adjusting a thrust contact pressure; and a thrust load adjusting mechanism which applies pressures of a pressure-increasing side and a pressure-decreasing side to at least one of a balance piston inner-side chamber and a balance piston outer-side chamber which sandwich the balance piston in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuguhisa TASHIMA, Takahiro ONO, Shogo IWAI, Tomomi OKUYAMA, Hideyuki MAEDA, Koki NISHIMURA
  • Patent number: 11021993
    Abstract: A thermal insulation coating member includes: a substrate having a surface; a binding layer on the surface, and a thermal insulation layer on the binding layer. The thermal insulation layer includes: a first ceramic layer including a plurality of first flat pores, the plurality of first flat pores being inclined at a first angle with respect to the surface and extending in a first direction; and a second ceramic layer including a plurality of second flat pores, the plurality of second flat pores being inclined at a second angle with respect to the surface and extending in a second direction. The second angle differs from the first angle, the second direction differing from the first direction, or the second angle and the second direction respectively differing from the first angle and the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Kuboya, Kunihiko Wada, Daizo Saito, Masataka Tamura, Nobuhiro Okizono, Iwataro Sato, Hideyuki Maeda, Takeo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10981395
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing portion configured to print on a print medium, a ribbon supply shaft configured to hold an ink ribbon to be supplied to the printing portion, and a ribbon roll up shaft configured to roll up the used ink ribbon, wherein the ribbon supply shaft is provided movably between a ribbon supply position where the ink ribbon is supplied to the printing portion, and a ribbon replacement position where the ribbon supply shaft is attachable to and detachable from the printer, and rotated in the direction in which the ink ribbon is rolled up in the middle of moving from the ribbon replacement position to the ribbon supply position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideyuki Maeda, Takayoshi Jinnouchi
  • Publication number: 20210091609
    Abstract: With a virtual plane defined as a plane that passes through end points of abutting ends of first brim portions of a back yoke portion and is perpendicular to side surfaces on both sides in a circumferential direction of a tooth portion, first inner circumferential surfaces on an inner side in a radial direction of the first brim portions are formed on an outer side in the radial direction with respect to the virtual plane, except for the end points. Insulation sheets are mounted to the side surfaces of the tooth portion. An insulation resin portion covers both end surfaces in an axial direction of the tooth portion, the first inner circumferential surfaces of the first brim portions, and second outer circumferential surfaces of second brim portions, and is molded integrally with the tooth portion, the back yoke portion, and the insulation sheets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideyuki MAEDA, Yuki IWAMURA, Daisuke KANAMORI, Masataka MURATA, Daisuke SHIJO
  • Patent number: 10953676
    Abstract: Including a pair of support members sandwiching a roll-like print medium and a pair of swing members each including a holding pin for rotatably holding the print medium, mounted on the support member, capable of swing, respectively, and swinging in the direction where the pair of holding pins gets closer to each other by being brought into contact with the print medium, the swing member being mounted at a position biased to a taking-out direction side of the print medium in the support member and a length of the swing member in a swing radial direction being smaller than a length of the support member in a taking-in/out direction of the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10906327
    Abstract: A printer includes a printing portion configured to print on a print medium, a ribbon supply shaft configured to hold an ink ribbon to be supplied to the printing portion, a ribbon roll up shaft configured to roll up the used ink ribbon, a printing unit provided swingably, the printing unit having a thermal head that constitutes the printing portion, and a partition member swingably provided in the printing unit, the partition member partitioning the ink ribbon and the print medium, and the ribbon supply shaft is provided in the partition member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kakui, Takayoshi Jinnouchi, Hideyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10794274
    Abstract: The gas turbine facility 10 of the embodiment includes a combustor 20 combusting fuel and oxidant, a turbine 21 rotated by combustion gas, a heat exchanger 23 cooling the combustion gas, a heat exchanger 24 removing water vapor from the combustion gas which passed through the heat exchanger 23 to regenerate dry working gas, and a compressor 25 compressing the dry working gas until it becomes supercritical fluid. Further, the gas turbine facility 10 includes a pipe 42 guiding a part of the dry working gas from the compressor 25 to the combustor 20 via the heat exchanger 23, a pipe 44 exhausting a part of the dry working gas to the outside, and a pipe 45 introducing a remaining part of the dry working gas exhausted from the compressor 25 into a pipe 40 coupling an outlet of the turbine 21 and an inlet of the heat exchanger 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: 8 RIVERS CAPITAL, LLC
    Inventors: Masao Itoh, Nobuhiro Okizono, Hideyuki Maeda, Yasunori Iwai, Jeremy Eron Fetvedt, Rodney John Allam
  • Patent number: 10787907
    Abstract: A turbine which has: a balance piston disposed in a turbine rotor; a plurality of balance piston seals disposed on a casing side in a manner to face the balance piston; a balance piston extraction hole allowing extraction from between the plurality of balance piston seals to a middle stage of the turbine stages; an exhaust connection piping connecting a low pressure side of the balance piston to a turbine exhaust system; a exhaust connection piping valve mechanism which is provided in the exhaust connection piping; a plurality of seal mechanisms provided between the low pressure side of the balance piston and the atmosphere; and an exhaust piping allowing exhaust from between the plurality of seal mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka Tsuruta, Hideyuki Maeda
  • Patent number: 10738657
    Abstract: A gas turbine facility of an embodiment includes: a combustor casing; a combustor provided in the combustor casing; a cylinder surrounding a periphery of the combustor and dividing a space between the combustor casing and the combustor; a turbine rotated by combustion gas exhausted from the combustor; a heat exchanger cooling the combustion gas exhausted from the turbine; a pipe through which a part of the combustion gas cooled in the heat exchanger passes in the heat exchanger to be heated, the pipe guiding the combustion gas heated in the heat exchanger into the cylinder; and a pipe guiding another part of the combustion gas cooled in the heat exchanger to a space between the combustor casing and the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yuichi Morisawa, Hideyuki Maeda, Yasuaki Nakamura, Yasunori Iwai, Masao Itoh
  • Publication number: 20200198381
    Abstract: Including a pair of support members sandwiching a roll-like print medium and a pair of swing members each including a holding pin for rotatably holding the print medium, mounted on the support member, capable of swing, respectively, and swinging in the direction where the pair of holding pins gets closer to each other by being brought into contact with the print medium, the swing member being mounted at a position biased to a taking-out direction side of the print medium in the support member and a length of the swing member in a swing radial direction being smaller than a length of the support member in a taking-in/out direction of the print medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: SATO HOLDINGS KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hideyuki MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20200141253
    Abstract: A transition piece of an embodiment leads a combustion gas generated by a combustor liner to a turbine part in a gas turbine facility. An outlet portion from which the combustion gas flows out to the turbine part in the transition piece includes: an inner peripheral wall located inside in a radial direction of the turbine part; an outer peripheral wall located further outside than the inner peripheral wall in the radial direction; and support struts provided between the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall. In the inner peripheral wall, first insertion grooves are formed. In the outer peripheral wall, second insertion grooves are formed. In the support struts, first end portions located inside in the radial direction are inserted into and fixed in the first insertion grooves, and second end portions located outside in the radial direction are inserted into and fixed in the second insertion grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichi MORISAWA, Hideyuki MAEDA, Takahiro NAKANISHI, Masao ITOH, Yasunori IWAI
  • Publication number: 20200131923
    Abstract: A stator blade of an embodiment includes: a blade effective part having hollow portions; an outer shroud having an outer plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction outer side of the blade effective part, and a pair of outer mounting portions provided in a circumferential direction on a front edge side and a rear edge side; an inner shroud having an inner plate flange portion provided on a radial-direction inner side of the blade effective part; cooling medium introduction passages which introduce a cooling medium via opening portions formed in the outer plate flange portion and passing through the outer plate flange portion in a radial direction, to the hollow portions; and a cooling medium introduction passage formed in a direction along a surface of the outer plate flange portion in a wall thickness of the outer plate flange portion, which introduces a cooling medium to the hollow portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Shinji TANIGAWA, Iwataro SATO, Hideyuki MAEDA, Satoru SEKINE, Kazutaka TSURUTA