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).

  • Publication number: 20160333714
    Abstract: A sealing structure that seals a clearance between an outer peripheral surface of a rotor and an inner peripheral surface of a stator. The sealing structure includes: a plurality of step portions that are provided on a first surface which is one of the outer peripheral surface of the rotor and the inner peripheral surface of the stator so as to be arranged in the axial direction, and that protrude from the first surface toward a second surface which is the other of the outer peripheral surface of the rotor and the inner peripheral surface of the stator; and a seal fin that is provided on the second surface, and that forms a small clearance between a corresponding peripheral surface of the step portions. A portion in the vicinity of a tip of the seal fin in the radial direction is inclined toward the upstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Patent number: 9488066
    Abstract: Vane members have a space formed therein and a plate spring member is disposed inside the space of the vane members and elastically contacts inner surfaces of the vane members. The plate spring member includes a positioning portion, an elastic contact portion, and a connection portion. The elastic contact portion is divided into a plurality of segments in a length direction of the vane members. The elastic contact portion elastically contacts the inner surfaces of the vane members without any partial contact throughout an entire surface thereof. The elastic contact area between the elastic contact portion and the inner surfaces of the vane members is widened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hiroharu Oyama, Takashi Maruyama, Yuki Yamamoto, Shohei Danno
  • Patent number: 9429022
    Abstract: A turbine includes an annular turbine blade body disposed on a flow path, a diaphragm outer ring installed at a tip side of the annular turbine blade body via a clearance, and seal fins formed to protrude from the diaphragm outer ring and configured to form small clearances with the annular turbine blade body, wherein dead water region-filling sections are formed in cavities in which main vortexes are generated, such that a dead water region that the main vortexes cannot reach is filled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Yukinori Machida, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20160237517
    Abstract: A heating step, in which a stainless member is heated to a temperature within or above a heating phase-transformation temperature range (Ar) in which the stainless member is phase-transformed, is executed. A cooling step in which the stainless member heated in the heating step is cooled to a temperature below a cooling phase-transformation temperature range (Mr) in which the stainless member is phase-transformed, is executed. In the cooling step, cooling of the stainless member is suppressed in a control temperature range including the cooling phase-transformation temperature range (Mr).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Kohei HATANO, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yasuo MATSUNAMI, Naoyuki UMEZU, Shuhei KUROKI, Hidetaka HARAGUCHI, Takumi MATSUMURA, Motonari MACHIDA
  • Patent number: 9410432
    Abstract: A plurality of stepped parts which have step surfaces facing an upstream side in a rotating axial direction of a structural member are provided in a tip portion of a blade, and seal fins which extend toward a circumference surface of each of the stepped parts and form small clearances between the seal fin and the circumference surface corresponding to the each of the stepped parts is provided in the structural member. Also, lengths from the small clearance to the step surface on the upstream side along the rotating axial direction of the structural member are set such that one of the stepped parts on the downstream side is smaller than the other one of the stepped parts on the upstream side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9388701
    Abstract: A turbine (1) of the present invention comprises that at one part of a tip part (51) of the blade (50) and an area (11a) of the structure (11) corresponding to the tip part (51) of the blade, a stepped part (52) is formed, a seal fin (15) is provided at the another part of the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11 a) of the structure (11), a cavity (C) is formed between the tip part (51) of the blade and the area (11a) of the structure (11) and between the seal fin (15) and a partition wall (54, 15). The seal fin (15) comprises a fin main body part (16), and a space restriction part (17). Thus, the present invention provides a high performance turbine in which the leakage flow rate is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20160184940
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the problem of providing 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: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Kohei HATANO, Hiroharu OYAMA, Motonari MACHIDA, Hidetaka HARAGUCHI, Ken ISHII, Keisuke KAMITANI, Takumi MATSUMURA, Takahiro OTA
  • Patent number: 9353640
    Abstract: A turbine includes a blade, a structure installed at a tip section side of the blade via a gap and configured to relatively rotate with respect to the blade, a step section formed at the tip section of the blade, having at least one step surface, and protruding toward a portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, a seal fin formed at the portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, extending toward the step section, and configured to form a micro gap between the step section and the seal fin, and a cutout section formed at the step surface to be connected to an upper surface of the step section. The cutout section guides a separation vortex separated from a main stream of a fluid passing through the gap toward the seal fin on the upper surface of the step section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20160010751
    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: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Hidekazu UEHARA, Shin NISHIMOTO, Tanehiro SHINOHARA, Hiroharu OYAMA
  • Publication number: 20150377043
    Abstract: A steam turbine vane manufacturing method including: a groove processing step for forming a protective part connecting surface (14) on a steam turbine vane material (11) that was subjected to rough processing; a build-up welding step for forming, by build-up welding, a protective part build-up bead (15) on the protective part connecting surface (14); and a processing step for performing processing, by cutting the steam turbine vane material (11) that was subjected to rough processing and the protective part build-up bead (15), to finish the steam turbine vane material (11) that was subjected to rough processing so that the same becomes a steam turbine vane material (16) that was subjected to finishing processing. In this case, the steam turbine vane material (11) that was subjected to rough processing is larger than the steam turbine vane material (16) that was subjected to finishing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: MISUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hidetaka HARAGUCHI, Hiroharu OYAMA, Takahiro OTA, Motonari MACHIDA, Kohei HATANO, Takumi MATSUMURA
  • Publication number: 20150300190
    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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20150233257
    Abstract: A method of welding erosion resistance metallic material is a method of welding erosion resistance metallic material to a base element (1) of a turbine blade leading edge portion (1A). The method includes the steps of: forming a curved surface in the leading edge portion (1A) to which the erosion resistance metallic material is applied so that a radius R of the curved surface is larger than thickness t of the base element (1); and welding the erosion resistance metallic material to the leading edge portion (1A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Fujiya, Takehisa Okuda, Hiroharu Oyama, Motonari Machida
  • Patent number: 9091348
    Abstract: A shaft sealing apparatus is installed in an annular space between a rotor and a stator in a rotating machine and divides the annular space into a low-pressure side region and a high-pressure side region in an axial direction of the rotor. The shaft sealing apparatus includes a seal body formed by stacking a plurality of thin seal pieces, which extend from the stator toward a radial inner side of the rotor, in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and lateral plates having a surface facing the axial direction and curved and extending in a circumferential direction of the annular space. The seal body is welded to the surfaces of the lateral plates which face the axial direction so that the seal body follows a curved shape of the lateral plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tanehiro Shinohara, Hidekazu Uehara, Shin Nishimoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Takashi Nakano
  • Publication number: 20150184750
    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 circumference 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: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Koichi Ishizaka, Yoshiyuki Okabe, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Hidekazu Uehara, Yoshinori Tanaka, Shin Nishimoto
  • Publication number: 20150136280
    Abstract: This method for setting aging conditions is provided with: a step for acquiring a master curve (20) indicating the relationship between an aging condition parameter and a material strength parameter by executing an aging process on a standard material; a step for acquiring a fitting point (A) indicating the value of the material strength parameter of a subject material of which the chemical component parameters and/or metal structure parameters differ from those of the standard material; a step for acquiring a corrected aging curve (30) by correcting the master curve (20) in a manner so that a portion of the master curve (20) corresponds to the fitting point (A); and a step for setting aging conditions for the subject material on the basis of the corrected aging curve (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Hirakawa, Takayuki Kurimura, Hiroharu Oyama
  • Publication number: 20140314579
    Abstract: The turbine related to the invention is a turbine including 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 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: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Hidekazu Uehara, Yukinori Machida
  • Publication number: 20140154061
    Abstract: Provided is a turbine. One of a tip portion of a blade and a portion of a partition plate outer ring corresponding to the tip portion of the blade is provided with a step part having a step face that protrudes toward the other, and the other is provided with seal fins) extending out with respect to the step part and forming minute clearance between the step part and the other. The step part facing the seal fins is configured to protrude so that a cavity forming a main vortex and counter vortex being formed by the main vortex are formed on an upstream side of the seal fins. The cavity is formed so that an axial width dimension and a radial height dimension satisfy Formula expressed by 0.45?D/W?2.67.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130272855
    Abstract: A turbine includes a blade, a structure installed at a tip section side of the blade via a gap and configured to relatively rotate with respect to the blade, a step section formed at the tip section of the blade, having at least one step surface, and protruding toward a portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, a seal fin formed at the portion opposite to the tip section of the structure, extending toward the step section, and configured to form a micro gap between the step section and the seal fin, and a cutout section formed at the step surface to be connected to an upper surface of the step section. The cutout section guides a separation vortex separated from a main stream of a fluid passing through the gap toward the seal fin on the upper surface of the step section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Kuwamura, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hiroharu Oyama, Yoshinori Tanaka, Asaharu Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130251534
    Abstract: A plurality of stepped parts which have step surfaces facing an upstream side in a rotating axial direction of a structural member are provided in a tip portion of a blade, and seal fins which extend toward a circumference surface of each of the stepped parts and form small clearances between the seal fin and the circumference surface corresponding to the each of the stepped parts is provided in the structural member. Also, lengths from the small clearance to the step surface on the upstream side along the rotating axial direction of the structural member are set such that one of the stepped parts on the downstream side is smaller than the other one of the stepped parts on the upstream side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki MATSUMOTO, Yoshihiro KUWAMURA, Hiroharu OYAMA, Yoshinori TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20130243587
    Abstract: The invention includes vane members that have a space formed therein and a plate spring member that is disposed inside the space of the vane members and elastically contacts inner surfaces of the vane members. The plate spring member includes a positioning portion, an elastic contact portion, and a connection portion. The elastic contact portion is divided into plural numbers in the length direction of the vane members. As a result, in the invention, the elastic contact portion elastically contacts the inner surfaces of the vane members without any partial contact throughout the entire surface thereof. Accordingly, the elastic contact area between the elastic contact portion and the inner surfaces of the vane members is widened, so that self-excited vibration generated in a turbine vane may be reliably suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yamashita, Hiroharu Oyama, Takashi Maruyama, Yuki Yamamoto, Shohei Danno