Patents by Inventor Hiromi Koizumi

Hiromi Koizumi 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: 11333073
    Abstract: To prevent or reduce an oversensitive change in the degree of opening of a bleed valve regulating the flow volume of a cooling air used to heat a fuel. A gas turbine includes: a compressor compressing an air; a combustor burning a fuel mixed with the air compressed by the compressor; a turbine configured to be driven by a combustion gas generated by the combustor; a heat exchanger causing the fuel to be supplied to the combustor to be heated through a cooling air bled from the compressor to be supplied to the turbine; a bleed valve regulating the flow volume of the cooling air; a first sensor measuring a fuel state value; a second sensor measuring a cooling air state value; and a control computer controlling the degree of opening of the bleed valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Kawai, Hiromi Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20210278888
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus has a first processor, a memory, and a second processor. The memory and second processor are supplied with power from a power supply by a first supplying operation. The first processor is supplied with power from the power supply by a second supplying operation that starts when a startup instruction is inputted during the first supplying operation, executes a series of processes that precedes booting of an operating system, and that outputs a code indicating an execution step in the series of processes to the memory. The second processor outputs the code stored in the memory from an output port at least while the first supplying operation is being performed before inputting of a startup instruction. The debug board has a display unit and a third processor. The third processor receives the code from the output port and displays code-based information on the display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Tatsuya SHIMURA, Hiromi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20200158019
    Abstract: To prevent or reduce an oversensitive change in the degree of opening of a bleed valve regulating the flow volume of a cooling air used to heat a fuel. A gas turbine includes: a compressor compressing an air; a combustor burning a fuel mixed with the air compressed by the compressor; a turbine configured to be driven by a combustion gas generated by the combustor; a heat exchanger causing the fuel to be supplied to the combustor to be heated through a cooling air bled from the compressor to be supplied to the turbine; a bleed valve regulating the flow volume of the cooling air; a first sensor measuring a fuel state value; a second sensor measuring a cooling air state value; and a control computer controlling the degree of opening of the bleed valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Ryo KAWAI, Hiromi KOIZUMI
  • Patent number: 9739488
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided that can stably burn two kinds of gas fuels having different heating values by means of the same burner. In the gas turbine combustor that includes a combustion chamber for mixing fuel and air for combustion and a burner, disposed upstream of the combustion chamber, for jetting fuel and air into the combustion chamber and holding flames, the burner has a first swirler including a plurality of fuel holes and of air holes circumferentially alternately and a second swirler including a plurality of holes through which to jet fuel or air, the second swirler is disposed on the outer circumference of the first swirler, and each of the holes of the second swirler is greater in width than each of the air holes of the first swirler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Akinori Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20160321131
    Abstract: A method for diagnosing an information processing device includes issuing a first interrupt that is an interrupt specific to a CPU, transferring a control from processing of the first interrupt to a second interrupt that starts a dump collection function, and starting a dump collection on the basis of the second interrupt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro MIYAMOTO, Tatsuya SHIMURA, Nobuyuki KOIKE, Hiromi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20150354823
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided that can stably burn two kinds of gas fuels having different heating values by means of the same burner. In the gas turbine combustor that includes a combustion chamber for mixing fuel and air for combustion and a burner, disposed upstream of the combustion chamber, for jetting fuel and air into the combustion chamber and holding flames, the burner has a first swirler including a plurality of fuel holes and of air holes circumferentially alternately and a second swirler including a plurality of holes through which to jet fuel or air, the second swirler is disposed on the outer circumference of the first swirler, and each of the holes of the second swirler is greater in width than each of the air holes of the first swirler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Hiromi KOIZUMI, Tatsuya SEKIGUCHI, Akinori HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9121611
    Abstract: A combustor is provided that can ensure combustion stability even when operated on low BTU gas without needing any equipment for preventing back-flow of fuel gas during operation on pilot fuel. The combustor includes a first perforated plate disposed upstream of a combustion chamber, the first plate having a plurality of nozzle holes and air holes; a second perforated plate disposed on the upstream side of the first plate; and a plurality of gas nozzles each of which is inserted into corresponding nozzle holes. The gas nozzle has a leading end located inside the corresponding one of the nozzle holes. Each of the gas nozzles includes a jet hole portion having a diameter smaller than that of a gas jet hole of the gas nozzle; and a passage portion designed to form an air passage on the outer circumference of the leading end portion of the gas nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Shohei Yoshida, Satoshi Dodo
  • Patent number: 9115899
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor stably burns low-BTU gases, such as blast furnace gases, that are heavily laden with CO2. The gas turbine combustor includes a double-swirling burner with an inner swirler and an outer swirler, the burner having a configuration with gas fuel injection holes and air injection holes arranged at alternate positions in the inner swirler and with gas injection holes arranged in the outer swirler. In addition, fuel injection holes for enhancing flame stability are provided at positions radially inward of the inner swirler. An inner flame by the inner swirler and an outer flame by the outer swirler interact with each other to stably burn the low-BTU gas. In the inner swirler, the gas injection holes and air injection holes arranged at alternate positions contributes to raising a temperature of the inner flame to a level required for flame stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Shohei Yoshida, Satoshi Dodo
  • Patent number: 8806848
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a burner disposed upstream of the combustion chamber for supplying a gas and air to an interior of the combustion chamber to hold a flame. The burner is provided with a first swirler in which a gas hole and an air hole are alternately formed in a circumferential direction. A first gas is supplied to the gas hole in the first swirler and air is supplied to the air hole. A swiveling flow path is formed in the gas hole and the air hole in the burner to swivel the gas and the air and supply the gas and the air to the interior of the combustion chamber, a second gas hole is formed in the swiveling flow path in at least one of the air hole and the gas hole, and a second gas is supplied through the second gas hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tatsuya Sekiguchi, Akinori Hayashi, Shohei Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8763399
    Abstract: A combustor includes a fueling nozzle that jets a fuel towards a combustion chamber located downstream and a flat-plate-shaped air blowhole plate that faces the upstream side of the combustion chamber and that is disposed between the fueling nozzle and the combustion chamber. The air blowhole plate has a plurality of air blowholes arranged at equal intervals in a circumferential direction relative to the center of the air blowhole plate, in order to jet a flow of fuel and a flow of air that is formed at the outer circumferential side of the fuel flow toward the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Dodo, Hiromi Koizumi, Keisuke Miura, Hirokazu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140069079
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes a burner disposed upstream of the combustion chamber for supplying a gas and air to an interior of the combustion chamber to hold a flame provided with a first swirler in which a gas hole and an air hole are alternately formed in a circumferential direction. A first gas is supplied to the gas hole in the first swirler and air is supplied to the air hole. A swiveling flow path is formed in the gas hole and the air hole in the burner to swivel the gas and the air and supply the gas and the air to the interior of the combustion chamber, a second gas hole is formed in the swiveling flow path in at least one of the air hole and the gas hole, and a second gas is supplied through the second gas hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi KOIZUMI, Tatsuya SEKIGUCHI, Akinori HAYASHI, Shohei YOSHIDA
  • Patent number: 8607572
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor that supports hydrogen-containing gas having a high burning velocity and is capable of performing low NOx combustion without reducing reliability of a burner. A first fuel nozzle is provided upstream of a combustion chamber and supplies fuel for activation and hydrogen-containing gas. The combustor has a primary combustion zone, a reduction zone and a secondary combustion zone. In the primary combustion zone, the fuel supplied from the first fuel nozzle is combusted under a fuel rich condition to form a burned gas containing a low concentration of oxygen. In the reduction zone, a hydrogen-containing gas is injected into the combustion chamber through a second fuel injection hole from a second fuel nozzle so that NOx generated in the primary combustion zone is reduced by an oxygen reaction of the hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Satoshi Dodo, Hirokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Asai, Tomomi Koganezawa, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130029277
    Abstract: A combustor is provided that can ensure combustion stability even when operated on low BTU gas without needing any equipment for preventing back-flow of fuel gas during operation on pilot fuel. The combustor includes a first perforated plate disposed upstream of a combustion chamber, the first plate having a plurality of nozzle holes and air holes; a second perforated plate disposed on the upstream side of the first plate; and a plurality of gas nozzles each of which is inserted into corresponding nozzle holes. The gas nozzle has a leading end located inside the corresponding one of the nozzle holes. Each of the gas nozzles includes a jet hole portion having a diameter smaller than that of a gas jet hole of the gas nozzle; and a passage portion designed to form an air passage on the outer circumference of the leading end portion of the gas nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Shohei Yoshida, Satoshi Dodo
  • Patent number: 8261529
    Abstract: A combustor includes two upstream parts of fuel supply system supplying gaseous fuels of two types having different heating values from each other, a three-way fuel transfer valve merging the two upstream parts of fuel supply system with each other, a plurality of gaseous fuel supply subsystems supplying a combustion chamber with the gaseous fuels supplied through the three-way fuel transfer valve and branched, and a plurality of burners injecting, corresponding to each of the gaseous fuel supply subsystems, the gaseous fuel supplied from the gaseous fuel supply subsystem into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tomohiro Asai, Hiroshi Inoue, Tsunemasa Nishijima, Hidetaro Murata
  • Publication number: 20110185703
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor includes plural multi-coaxial-injection-hole burners in which plural fuel nozzles and plural air holes provided in an air plate to correspond to the respective fuel nozzles are coaxially arranged. Each of the multi-coaxial-injection-hole burners includes a first coaxial injection burner disposed on an inner circumferential side, and a second coaxial injection burner disposed on an outer circumferential side, and a diameter of the air holes of the first coaxial injection burner is smaller than a diameter of the air holes of the second coaxial injection burner. Combustion for carrying out flame holding of a gas turbine combustor is performed by the first coaxial injection burner, and low NOx combustion of the gas turbine combustor is performed by the second coaxial injection burner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi DODO, Hiromi KOIZUMI, Hirokazu TAKAHASHI, Tomohiro ASAI, Keisuke MIURA
  • Publication number: 20110094239
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine combustor that supports hydrogen-containing gas having a high burning velocity and is capable of performing low NOx combustion without reducing reliability of a burner. A first fuel nozzle is provided upstream of a combustion chamber and supplies fuel for activation and hydrogen-containing gas. The combustor has a primary combustion zone, a reduction zone and a secondary combustion zone. In the primary combustion zone, the fuel supplied from the first fuel nozzle is combusted under a fuel rich condition to form a burned gas containing a low concentration of oxygen. In the reduction zone, a hydrogen-containing gas is injected into the combustion chamber through a second fuel injection hole from a second fuel nozzle so that NOx generated in the primary combustion zone is reduced by an oxygen reaction of the hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi KOIZUMI, Satoshi Dodo, Hirokazu Takahashi, Tomohiro Asai, Tomomi Koganezawa, Shohei Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20100251725
    Abstract: This invention is intended to maintain combustor reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Dodo, Hiromi Koizumi, Keisuke Miura, Hirokazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7767076
    Abstract: The reforming of heavy oil with supercritical water or subcritical water is accomplished by mixing together supercritical water, heavy oil, and oxidizing agent, thereby oxidizing vanadium in heavy oil with the oxidizing agent at the time of treatment with supercritical water and separate vanadium oxide. The separated vanadium oxide is removed by the scavenger after treatment with supercritical water. In this way it is possible to solve the long-standing problem with corrosion of turbine blades by vanadium which arises when heavy oil is used as gas turbine fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Hokari, Tomohiko Miyamoto, Hirokazu Takahashi, Hiromi Koizumi
  • Publication number: 20100050648
    Abstract: An object of this invention is to accelerate further mixing of a fuel and air independently of a flow rate of the fuel. A gas turbine combustor comprises: a fuel nozzle for blowing out a gas fuel; an air nozzle plate with an air nozzle for jetting out the fuel and air into a combustion chamber after the blowout of the fuel from the fuel nozzle; and an obstacle formed inside the air nozzle; wherein the obstacle causes a collision of the fuel jet blown out from the fuel nozzle, and hence causes turbulence in an airflow streaming into the air nozzle. According to the invention, mixing between the fuel and the air can be further accelerated independently of the flow rate of the fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Keisuke MIURA, Satoshi Dodo, Kazuhito KOYAMA, Tomomi KOGANEZAWA, Hiromi KOIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20090223226
    Abstract: A combustor includes two upstream parts of fuel supply system supplying gaseous fuels of two types having different heating values from each other, a three-way fuel transfer valve merging the two upstream parts of fuel supply system with each other, a plurality of gaseous fuel supply subsystems supplying a combustion chamber with the gaseous fuels supplied through the three-way fuel transfer valve and branched, and a plurality of burners injecting, corresponding to each of the gaseous fuel supply subsystems, the gaseous fuel supplied from the gaseous fuel supply subsystem into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Hiromi Koizumi, Tomohiro Asai, Hiroshi Inoue, Tsunemasa Nishijima, Hidetaro Murata