Patents by Inventor Hikaru Kurosaki

Hikaru Kurosaki 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: 11959392
    Abstract: A rotor blade is a rotor blade to be attached to a rotor shaft rotatable about an axis, and includes a blade body extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis and having a blade-shaped cross-section orthogonal to the radial direction; a fillet portion provided on a radial outer side of the blade body and having a hollow portion formed therein; a shroud provided on a radial outer side of the fillet portion and extending in a circumferential direction; and a seal fin projecting from the shroud to an outer circumferential side and extending in a direction intersecting the blade body when viewed from the radial direction. A wall thickness on a suction side of the fillet portion is greater than a wall thickness on a pressure side of the fillet portion on a leading edge side of the blade body as demarcated by an intersection portion between the blade body and the seal fin serving as a boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 11867088
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion disposed on opposite side of the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank disposed between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has: a first lateral surface having a first recess portion and disposed on a pressure surface side and along an extension direction of the blade root portion; and a second lateral surface having a second recess portion and disposed on a suction surface side and along the extension direction of the blade root portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yokoyama, Toshihiro Takeda, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20230358339
    Abstract: A pipe supporting structure includes: a plate-like member being into contact with an outside surface of a pipe; a tube-like member having a tubular shape and configured to support the plate-like member; and a base configured to support the tube-like member, wherein the plate-like member includes a supported portion supported by the tube-like member and an inner side portion surrounded by the supported portion, and the inner side portion has a smaller heat capacity per unit volume than the supported portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ryutaro FUJISAWA, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Kohei HATANO, Toyosei AOTA, Yoshimasa TSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20230349556
    Abstract: A combustor includes: a combustion cylinder; and a combustion-chamber forming member disposed so as to be at least partially inserted into the combustion cylinder and forming a combustion chamber with the combustion cylinder. A radial-direction gap for introducing film air is formed between the combustion cylinder and the combustion-chamber forming member. A gas turbine includes a combustor; a compressor for generating compressed air; and a turbine configured to be rotary driven by combustion gas from the combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji FUJITA, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Yuta ISHII
  • Publication number: 20230102240
    Abstract: A turbine blade includes: a platform; an airfoil portion extending from the platform in a blade height direction and having a pressure surface and a suction surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge; a blade root portion disposed on opposite side of the airfoil portion across the platform in the blade height direction and having a bearing surface; and a shank disposed between the platform and the blade root portion. The shank has: a first lateral surface having a first recess portion and disposed on a pressure surface side and along an extension direction of the blade root portion; and a second lateral surface having a second recess portion and disposed on a suction surface side and along the extension direction of the blade root portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Yokoyama, Toshihiro Takeda, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 11560950
    Abstract: A sealing mechanism including a first seal member, a second seal member arranged so as to face the first seal member, and a deformed nucleus member arranged in a space formed at least partially between the first seal member and the second seal member, and becoming a nucleus of deformation in the sealing mechanism. The deformed nucleus member is configured by a combination of rod-like members and plate-like members respectively formed from a plurality of materials having different linear expansion coefficients, and is fixed to each of the first seal member and the seal member. The deformed nucleus member contracts in at least one direction on a cross-section of the seal groove, along with an increase in temperature of the deformed nucleus member. The first seal member and the second seal member respectively have abutment surfaces abutting on an inner surface of the seal groove or the facing surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Hikaru Kurosaki, Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Hiroshi Katsuura
  • Publication number: 20220243817
    Abstract: A sealing mechanism including a first seal member, a second seal member arranged so as to face the first seal member, and a deformed nucleus member arranged in a space formed at least partially between the first seal member and the second seal member, and becoming a nucleus of deformation in the sealing mechanism. The deformed nucleus member is configured by a combination of rod-like members and plate-like members respectively formed from a plurality of materials having different linear expansion coefficients, and is fixed to each of the first seal member and the seal member. The deformed nucleus member contracts in at least one direction on a cross-section of the seal groove, along with an increase in temperature of the deformed nucleus member. The first seal member and the second seal member respectively have abutment surfaces abutting on an inner surface of the seal groove or the facing surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Hiroyuki SAKAMOTO, Hiroshi KATSUURA
  • Patent number: 11313249
    Abstract: A rotor blade attached to a rotor shaft rotatable around an axis includes: a blade body extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis and having a blade-shaped cross section orthogonal to the radial direction; a shroud provided at an end of the blade body on a radial outer side, and a seal fin protruding from the shroud toward an outer circumferential side, and the seal fin includes: a seal fin body extending in a plate shape in a circumferential direction; and a reinforcing portion provided on at least one plate surface of the seal fin body to increase a thickness of the seal fin, the reinforcing portion gradually increasing in dimension in the radial direction toward the center in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20220106882
    Abstract: A rotor blade is a rotor blade to be attached to a rotor shaft rotatable about an axis, and includes a blade body extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis and having a blade-shaped cross-section orthogonal to the radial direction; a fillet portion provided on a radial outer side of the blade body and having a hollow portion formed therein; a shroud provided on a radial outer side of the fillet portion and extending in a circumferential direction; and a seal fin projecting from the shroud to an outer circumferential side and extending in a direction intersecting the blade body when viewed from the radial direction. A wall thickness on a suction side of the fillet portion is greater than a wall thickness on a pressure side of the fillet portion on a leading edge side of the blade body as demarcated by an intersection portion between the blade body and the seal fin serving as a boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20210379883
    Abstract: A method for producing a negative or near-zero thermal expansion member using a first material and a second material having a smaller linear expansion coefficient than the first material, the method including: a preparation step (S1) for preparing a laminate in which a plurality of first plate materials comprising the first material and a plurality of second plate materials comprising the second material are alternately laminated; and an in-plane processing step (S2) for performing perforation processing on the second plate materials from a plurality of directions in an in-plane direction including a plane orthogonal to a lamination direction of the first plate materials and the second plate materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroyuki SAKAMOTO, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Tomohiro ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20210317754
    Abstract: A housing structure for a rotary machine includes a main body and a heat transfer member. The heat transfer member includes a material having higher thermal conductivity than that of the main body. In addition, the heat transfer member is sandwiched between a first surface and a second surface of the main body while receiving a compressive load from the first surface and the second surface, thereby alleviating temperature distribution that may occur in the main body and reducing thermal deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kokufuda, Ryutaro Fuzisawa, Toshihiro Takeda, Hao Li, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 11125086
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a blade body which has an airfoil shape and a shroud 57 which is formed in an end portion of the blade body. The shroud includes a shroud cover and a seal fin which protrudes from the shroud cover toward a radial outside and extends in a direction having a direction component in a circumferential direction. A front end of the seal fin extends in the circumferential direction and a base end of the seal fin extends in a direction having a direction component in the circumferential direction. A part of the seal fin in the circumferential direction forms a shift portion. An axial center position of a base end of the shift portion is different from an axial center position of a front end of the shift portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ishida, Toshifumi Kanno, Hikaru Kurosaki, Eisaku Ito
  • Publication number: 20210215067
    Abstract: A rotor blade attached to a rotor shaft rotatable around an axis includes: a blade body extending in a radial direction with respect to the axis and having a blade-shaped cross section orthogonal to the radial direction; a shroud provided at an end of the blade body on a radial outer side, and a seal fin protruding from the shroud toward an outer circumferential side, and the seal fin includes: a seal fin body extending in a plate shape in a circumferential direction; and a reinforcing portion provided on at least one plate surface of the seal fin body to increase a thickness of the seal fin, the reinforcing portion gradually increasing in dimension in the radial direction toward the center in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI
  • Publication number: 20210102467
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a blade body which has an airfoil shape and a shroud 57 which is formed in an end portion of the blade body. The shroud includes a shroud cover and a seal fin which protrudes from the shroud cover toward a radial outside and extends in a direction having a direction component in a circumferential direction. A front end of the seal fin extends in the circumferential direction and a base end of the seal fin extends in a direction having a direction component in the circumferential direction. A part of the seal fin in the circumferential direction forms a shift portion. An axial center position of a base end of the shift portion is different from an axial center position of a front end of the shift portion in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Eisaku ITO
  • Publication number: 20210010485
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a shroud cover which is formed at a first end portion of a blade body. The shroud cover extends in a first direction separating away from a camber line of the blade body. The shroud cover includes a gas path surface exposed toward a second side in the blade height direction and a back surface exposed toward a first side in a blade height direction. The gas path surface includes a fillet surface which gradually extends toward the first side as it goes from each of a pressure surface and a suction surface of the blade body toward the first direction in a cross-section orthogonal to the camber line. The back surface is opposite to the gas path surface, and includes a recessed surface which extends so as to be recessed toward the second side along the fillet surface in the cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Tomohiro ISHIDA, Toshifumi KANNO, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Eisaku ITO
  • Patent number: 10816198
    Abstract: The present invention is a combustor provided with a combustor transition pipe connected to a turbine while interposing a transition pipe seal in between, including a flange portion provided at an end portion on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction of the combustor transition pipe, the flange portion projecting to radially inside and extending in a circumferential direction. The flange portion includes a pin hole into which a pin to position the transition pipe seal is inserted, a circumferential slit portion either extending within a range in a radial direction where the pin hole is formed or being located on radially outside of the pin hole and extending in the circumferential direction, and a hole portion on which part of the circumferential slit portion abuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryutaro Fujisawa, Hikaru Kurosaki, Noriyuki Okada, Taiki Kinoshita, Hiroki Shibata
  • Patent number: 10670031
    Abstract: A compressor includes a cylindrical casing, a bundle which includes a tubular stationary member and a rotor accommodated into the tubular stationary member, the bundle being configured to be inserted into an inner portion of the casing, and a roller configured to roll on an inner circumferential surface of the casing while supporting the bundle when the bundle is inserted into the inner portion of the casing along an axial direction. An outer circumferential surface of the roller is a continuous convex curved surface defined such that a curvature radius of an end side curved surface portion along a rotating shaft of the roller is smaller than a curvature radius of a center curved surface portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPRESSOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Okada, Hikaru Kurosaki, Naoki Hirata, Akira Hayashi, Satoru Yoshida, Toru Yoshimune
  • Patent number: 10663169
    Abstract: A cylinder for a combustor includes a cylindrical member, a first cooling passage defined in the cylindrical member and a second cooling passage defined in the cylindrical member, and a supply port extender. The first cooling passage includes a supply port that opens to an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member. The second cooling passage includes a discharge port that opens to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member downstream of the supply port. The supply port extender includes a first wall that is disposed between the supply port and the discharge port and extends away from the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member and a second wall that is disposed upstream of the supply port and extends away from the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizukami, Satoshi Tanimura, Tetsu Konishi, Masaki Mitani, Taiki Kinoshita, Yoshiaki Yamaguchi, Takaaki Hase, Hiroshi Makigano, Hikaru Kurosaki
  • Publication number: 20170284670
    Abstract: The present invention is a combustor provided with a combustor transition pipe connected to a turbine while interposing a transition pipe seal in between, including a flange portion provided at an end portion on a downstream side in a fluid flow direction of the combustor transition pipe, the flange portion projecting to radially inside and extending in a circumferential direction. The flange portion includes a pin hole into which a pin to position the transition pipe seal is inserted, a circumferential slit portion either extending within a range in a radial direction where the pin hole is formed or being located on radially outside of the pin hole and extending in the circumferential direction, and a hole portion on which part of the circumferential slit portion abuts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ryutaro FUJISAWA, Hikaru KUROSAKI, Noriyuki OKADA, Taiki KINOSHITA, Hiroki SHIBATA
  • Publication number: 20170108221
    Abstract: A cylinder for a combustor provided with a cylindrical member, a first cooling passage and a second cooling passage formed in the cylindrical member, and a supply port extended portion. The first cooling passage includes a supply port that opens to an outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member. The second cooling passage includes a discharge port that opens to the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member downstream of the supply port. The supply port extended portion includes a first wall portion disposed between the supply port and the discharge port extending away from the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member and a second wall portion disposed upstream of the supply port extending away from the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi MIZUKAMI, Satoshi TANIMURA, Tetsu KONISHI, Masaki MITANI, Taiki KINOSHITA, Yoshiaki YAMAGUCHI, Takaaki HASE, Hiroshi MAKIGANO, Hikaru KUROSAKI