Patents by Inventor Hiroharu Oyama

Hiroharu Oyama 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: 10105752
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a turbine blade, the method comprising forming a forging by forging stainless steel; heat treating the forging; and cooling the forging after the heat treatment; wherein in the heat treatment and the cooling, a plurality of the forgings are arranged in alignment, and adjacent forgings of the plurality of forgings are disposed so that at least respective portions of portions of the adjacent forgings corresponding to a region from a portion corresponding to a platform of a turbine blade to a center in a longitudinal direction of the turbine blade face each other and warm each other via radiant heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hatano, Hiroharu Oyama, Yasuo Matsunami, Naoyuki Umezu, Shuhei Kuroki, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Takumi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 10107113
    Abstract: A steam turbine vane manufacturing method including: a groove processing step for forming a protective part joint surface on a steam turbine vane material that has been subjected to rough processing; a build-up welding step for forming, by build-up welding, a protective part build-up bead on the protective part joint surface; and a processing step for performing processing, by cutting the first steam turbine vane material that has been subjected to rough processing and the protective part build-up bead, to finish the first steam turbine vane material has been subjected to rough processing so that the first steam turbine vane material becomes a second steam turbine vane material that has been subjected to finishing processing. The first steam turbine vane material that has been subjected to rough processing is larger than the second steam turbine vane material that has been subjected to finishing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka Haraguchi, Hiroharu Oyama, Takahiro Ota, Motonari Machida, Kohei Hatano, Takumi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 10006292
    Abstract: A turbine includes blades and a structure rotating relative to the blades and having a fluid flowing thereto. The turbine includes step portions that are provided in either radial tip portions of the blades or areas of the structure that face the radial tip portions; sealing fins that extend from the other of the radial tip portions of the blades or areas of the structure that face the radial tip portions toward the step portions, and form minute gaps between the sealing fins and the step portions; a flow collision surface that is provided upstream of the sealing fins in a flow direction of the fluid and against which the fluid collides; a protrusion that protrudes toward an upstream side from the flow collision surface; and a facing surface that faces the flow collision surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hidekazu Uehara, Yukinori Machida
  • Publication number: 20180163557
    Abstract: A sealing device for suppressing a leakage flow of a fluid via an annular gap between a stationary member and a rotary member of a rotary machine includes: a fixed fin having an annular shape and disposed in the annular gap; and a movable fin having an annular shape and being disposed adjacent to the fixed fin in an axial direction inside the annular gap. The movable fin has a greater thermal expansion coefficient than the fixed fin and is fixed to the fixed fin in a fixing region on a root-end side of the movable fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Hideaki SUGISHITA
  • Patent number: 9919392
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a turbine rotor blade wherein warping, bending and twisting of the entire rotor blade, which is provided with an excess thickness portion after a forging step, can be suppressed. In the forging step in a process for manufacturing a rotor blade (23), the forging is hot-forged such that the distance (the excess thickness amount) from the blade surface of the blade section (23) to the surface of the excess thickness section is substantially uniform along the entire periphery of a cross section of the blade section (23) and the excess thickness section (31) perpendicular to the blade length direction, and such that the amount of the excess thickness in the blade length direction, which is the thickness of the excess thickness section (31), gradually increases toward the blade tip from a prescribed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hatano, Hiroharu Oyama, Motonari Machida, Hidetaka Haraguchi, Ken Ishii, Keisuke Kamitani, Takumi Matsumura, Takahiro Ota
  • Patent number: 9896952
    Abstract: A steam turbine through which a fluid flows along an axis is equipped with: a tip shroud for turbine blades that are provided on a shaft that extends with the axis as a center; an outer partition plate ring that is provided on a casing so as to face the tip shroud in a radial direction and be capable of rotating relative to the tip shroud around the axis; seal fins that extend radially inward from the outer partition plate ring and that, with the tip shroud, form minute gaps therebetween; and steam introduction surfaces that are formed on downstream sides of the seal fins and are provided so as to face the seal fins within cavities where a main vortex, generated from a leakage flow passing through a minute gap, is generated, and that guide the flow, generated from the main vortex, toward the minute gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20180045065
    Abstract: A seal device for a turbine includes: a plurality of thin plates arranged along an outer peripheral surface of the rotor, each of the thin plates including a root portion disposed on an outer side in a radial direction of the rotor and supported on a stationary part of the turbine and a tip portion disposed on an inner side in the radial direction of the rotor and having a tip surface facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotor. Each of the thin plates is configured such that a width direction of the thin plate is parallel to an axial direction of the rotor at a side of the root portion, and the tip portion of each of the thin plates is configured such that an end on a side of the high-pressure space is positioned downstream of another end on a side of the low-pressure side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Azumi YOSHIDA, Hidekazu UEHARA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Kohei OZAKI, Katsuhisa HAMADA, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Toyoharu NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Kohei HATANO, Keisuke MATSUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20180030845
    Abstract: A seal device for a turbine is disposed around a rotor so as to separate a high-pressure space and a low-pressure space and includes: a plurality of thin plates arranged along an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. Each of the thin plates has a thin-plate tip surface facing the outer peripheral surface of the rotor; a first side plate disposed so as to face the high-pressure space and covering outer peripheral regions of first side surfaces; and a second side plate disposed so as to face the low-pressure space and covering outer peripheral regions of second side surfaces. The first side surface of each of the thin plates is covered with the first side plate in a region extending further to an inner side, in a radial direction of the rotor, than a region of the second side surface covered with the second side plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Azumi YOSHIDA, Hidekazu UEHARA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Kohei OZAKI, Katsuhisa HAMADA, Hideaki SUGISHITA, Toyoharu NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Kohei HATANO, Keisuke MATSUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9879786
    Abstract: A rotary machine includes turbine moving blades (50); a casing (10) covering the turbine moving blades (50) so as to define a gap at an outer circumferential side of the turbine moving blades; a leaf seal (70) having a seal body (71) that is disposed in the gap so as to protrude radially inward from the casing (10) and is capable of coming into contact with the turbine moving blades (50), and a high-pressure-side plate member (73) that is disposed along a face facing a high pressure side of the seal body (71); and a swirling flow inhibitor (80) that is provided on the high pressure side of the leaf seal (70) in the gap and inhibits a swirl flow flowing through the gap in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Koichi Ishizaka, Yoshiyuki Okabe, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Hidekazu Uehara, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shin Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20180016928
    Abstract: A turbine is provided with a seal device. The seal device includes: at least one step surface disposed in a region of an outer peripheral surface of a rotor facing a shroud of a stationary vane in the radial direction of the rotor, the at least one step surface facing upstream in a flow direction of the fluid and dividing the region of the outer peripheral surface into at least two sections in an axial direction of the rotor: at least two seal fins protruding toward the at least two sections from the stationary vane and facing the at least two sections via a seal gap; and a swirling-component application portion disposed on an end side of the shroud of the stationary vane with respect to the axial direction of the rotor and configured to be capable of applying a swirling component to the fluid flowing toward the seal gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideaki Sugishita
  • Publication number: 20170370237
    Abstract: A seal device of a turbine includes: at least one step surface disposed on a radially outer surface of a rotor blade facing a first radial-directional gap or on an outer peripheral surface of a rotor facing a second radial-directional gap, the at least one step surface facing upstream in a flow direction of a fluid and dividing the radially outer surface of the rotor blade or the outer peripheral surface of the rotor into at least two sections in an axial direction of the rotor; at least two seal fins protruding toward the at least two sections, respectively, from a surrounding member or the stationary vane, and facing the at least two sections via a seal gap, respectively, the at least two seal fins forming a cavity which extends over the at least one step surface in the axial direction of the rotor between each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hideaki Sugishita
  • Publication number: 20170350267
    Abstract: A shaft sealing mechanism (11) that partitions an annular space (14) that is formed between a fixed part (12) and a rotating shaft (13) into a high-pressure-side region and a low-pressure-side region, that obstructs the flow of a fluid (G), and that is provided with: a plurality of annularly laminated thin-plate seal pieces (22) that are fixed to an annular seal housing (21) that is provided to the fixed part and are in sliding contact with the rotating shaft; and an annular low-pressure-side plate (26) that is sandwiched and held such that a low-pressure-side gap (?L) is formed between the seal housing and a low-pressure-side side edge part (22d) of the thin-plate seal pieces. The thin-plate seal pieces have a thick part (31) that is formed further to the inside in the radial direction of the rotating shaft than an inner-circumferential-side tip part (26a) of the low-pressure-side plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Kohei OZAKI, Azumi YOSHIDA, Hidekazu UEHARA, Tanehiro SHINOHARA, Hiroharu OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170350510
    Abstract: A shaft seal mechanism (11) that blocks a fluid (G) flowing within a ring-shaped space (14) is equipped with: a ring-shaped seal housing (21) disposed on a fixed section (12); a plurality of thin-plate seal pieces (22) that are secured to the seal housing (21), are in sliding contact with a rotating shaft (13), and are layered in a ring shape; a ring-shaped high-pressure-side plate (25) that forms a high-pressure-side gap (?H) between itself and the seal housing (21); a ring-shaped low-pressure-side plate (26) that forms a low-pressure-side gap (?L) between the seal housing (21) and the thin-plate seal pieces (22); stepped sections (31, 32) that are formed on side edge sections (22c, 22d) of the thin-plate seal pieces (22); and locking sections (25b, 26b) that lock the stepped sections (31, 32).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Hidekazu UEHARA, Kohei OZAKI, Azumi YOSHIDA, Hiroharu OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20170342909
    Abstract: A shaft sealing mechanism (11) that partitions an annular space (14) that is formed between a fixed part (12) and a rotating shaft (13) into a high-pressure-side region and a low-pressure-side region, that obstructs the flow of a fluid (G), and that is provided with: a plurality of annularly laminated thin-plate seal pieces (22) that are fixed to an annular seal housing (21) that is provided to the fixed part and are in sliding contact with the rotating shaft; and an annular low-pressure-side plate (26) that is sandwiched and held such that a low-pressure-side gap (6L) is formed between the seal housing and a low-pressure-side side edge part (22d) of the thin-plate seal pieces. The thin-plate seal pieces have pressure-conduction holes (31) that are formed further to the inside in the radial direction of the rotating shaft than an inner-circumferential-side tip part (26a) of the low-pressure-side plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei OZAKI, Hidekazu UEHARA, Azumi YOSHIDA, Hiroharu OYAMA
  • Patent number: 9726027
    Abstract: A turbine includes: a blade body having a blade provided at one of a rotor rotatably supported and a stator provided around the rotor and extending in a radial direction and a shroud extending in a circumferential direction at a tip portion in the radial direction of the blade; and an accommodating concave body provided at another one of the rotor and the stator, extending in the circumferential direction, accommodating the shroud with a gap interposed therebetween, and relatively rotating with respect to the blade body, wherein a leakage flow leaked from a main flow flowing along the blade flows into the gap; and wherein the shroud is provided with a guide curved surface formed between a peripheral surface facing the accommodating concave body and a trailing edge end portion formed closer to a main flow side in a downstream side of the leakage flow than the peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Masaaki Matsuura, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9677669
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shaft seal device comprising: a seal body made by layering a plurality of thin-plate seal pieces in the circumferential direction of the rotor, and a housing that is fixed to the stator, holds the seal body so as to surround the same from radially outside, and includes a first facing surface that faces the high-pressure-side edge of the seal body and a second facing surface that faces the low-pressure-side edge of the seal body. The high-pressure-side clearance between the seal body and the first facing surface is smaller than the low-pressure-side clearance between the seal body and the second facing surface, and a slope part that slopes gradually toward the high-pressure side toward the tip end, which is on the rotor side, is formed in the low-pressure-side edge of each thin-plate seal piece of the seal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidekazu Uehara, Shin Nishimoto, Tanehiro Shinohara, Hiroharu Oyama
  • Patent number: 9593587
    Abstract: Provided is a turbine in which seal fins (15) are provided to a hub shroud (41) to protrude toward a bottom surface (33a) of an annular groove (33), small gaps (H) are formed between the tip ends of the seal fins and the bottom surface of the annular groove, and assuming that the axial distance between a first seal fin (15a) disposed on the front edge side of the hub shroud among the seal fins and a front edge (41a) of the hub shroud is (L) and the axial distance between the front edge of the hub shroud and an inside surface (33b) of the annular groove is (Bu), the first seal fin is disposed to satisfy L/Bu<0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20170022838
    Abstract: In a seal structure that seals a gap between a first structure and a second structure which faces the first structure in a radial direction and rotates relative to the first structure, one of the first structure and the second structure has a base surface and a step surface that protrudes toward the other side from the base surface, and the other is provided with: a first fin which extends toward the step surface and forms a first gap between the step surface; a second fin that, on the downstream side of the first fin, extends toward the base surface and forms a second gap between the base surface; and a protrusion part that is disposed between the first fin and the second fin and that divides a leak flow, into a first vortex along the first fin and a second vortex along the second fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Toyoharu NISHIKAWA, Hidekazu UEHARA, Shin NISHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160341058
    Abstract: A seal structure (2) for sealing a gap between a first structure body (10) and a second structure body (51). The seal structure includes: a peripheral surface formed on one of the first structure body and the second structure body; a plurality of seal fins (5) provided at intervals in the axial direction so as to form clearances (m) together with the peripheral surface and protrusions that form re-adhesion edges between pairs of axially adjacent seal fins; the re-adhesion edges being locations at which leak currents (SL) re-adhere that have passed through a clearance (mA) of an upstream seal fin; and the protrusions forming first cavities in which eddies (B1) are created that flow along the upstream seal fin toward the second structure body, and second cavities in which currents (B2) are created that cause a contraction current effect on a clearance (mB) of a downstream seal fin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Toyoharu NISHIKAWA, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA, Shin NISHIMOTO, Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Hidekazu UEHARA
  • Publication number: 20160339507
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a turbine blade, the method comprising the steps of forming a forging by forging stainless steel; heat treating the forging; and cooling the forging after the heat treatment; wherein in the heat treatment and the cooling, a plurality of the forgings are arranged in alignment, and adjacent forgings of the plurality of forgings are disposed so that at least respective portions of portions of the adjacent forgings corresponding to a region from a portion corresponding to a platform of a turbine blade to a center in a longitudinal direction of the turbine blade face each other and warm each other via radiant heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Kohei HATANO, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yasuo MATSUNAMI, Naoyuki UMEZU, Shuhei KUROKI, Hidetaka HARAGUCHI, Takumi MATSUMURA