Patents by Inventor Hiroyoshi TORIKAI

Hiroyoshi TORIKAI 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).

  • Turbine and gas turbine
    Patent number: 10982544
    Abstract: A turbine includes a diffuser. The diffuser includes a combustor basket, an outer shell, a plurality of struts, and a protrusion. A front end of the protrusion is between a leading edge position of an adjacent pair of the struts and a trailing edge position of the adjacent pair of the struts, and a rear end of the protrusion extends further than the trailing edge position of the adjacent pair of the struts in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Naonori Nagai, Hiroyoshi Torikai, Hiroshi Watanabe
  • TURBINE AND GAS TURBINE
    Publication number: 20190292910
    Abstract: A turbine includes a diffuser. This diffuser includes a combustor basket, an outer shell, a plurality of struts, and a protrusion. The protrusion is configured so that a front end thereof located on one side in the direction of the axis is disposed between a leading edge of the strut on the one side in the direction of the axis and a trailing edge of the strut on the other side in the direction of the axis, and a rear end thereof located on the other side in the direction of the axis is disposed farther along in the direction of the axis on the other side than the trailing edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Naonori NAGAI, Hiroyoshi TORIKAI, Hiroshi WATANABE