Patents by Inventor Hitoi Ono

Hitoi Ono 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: 20180247721
    Abstract: A plant operation assistance system includes: a data obtaining unit-configured to obtain monitoring data indicating state quantity of a plant, the state quantity being detected by a sensor; an identifying unit configured to identify, based on the state quantity, a probability distribution of the monitoring data; a model generation unit configured to generate, based on a plant parameter composed from a database including design information of the plant, a stochastic model of the plant; a data processing unit configured to assign the probability distribution to the monitoring data obtained by the data obtaining unit; and a prediction unit configured to input the monitoring data assigned with the probability distribution, into the stochastic model, and predicts a state of the plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Satoshi Hanada, Eisuke Noda
  • Patent number: 9689730
    Abstract: A required-circulated-refrigerant flow-rate calculating portion provided in a chilled-water flow-rate estimation calculation portion calculates an evaporator exchanged heat quantity exchanged between a refrigerant and chilled water at an evaporator based on a planned chilled-water-flow-rate value and a measured value of the temperature of the chilled water flowing in the evaporator, and calculates an evaporator-refrigerant flow rate based on that evaporator exchanged heat quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
  • Patent number: 9541318
    Abstract: A flow rate of a heat transfer medium is computed without a flow meter. In a control apparatus (30), a storing portion (36) stores an aerodynamic characteristic map indicating a line causing a rotating stall and lines showing a sonic velocity in a refrigerant sucked in by a compressor (12) on a map displaying a variable ? reflecting a suction volume of the compressor (12) and a variable ? reflecting a head of the compressor (12); a estimation portion of chilled water flow rate (30b) computes the variable ?, derives the variable ? according to the variable ? from the map, computes a heat amount exchanged between the refrigerant and the chilled water in an evaporator (24) based on the suction volume of the compressor (12) according to the computed variable ?, and computes the flow rate of the chilled water based on the heat amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
  • Patent number: 9372944
    Abstract: A numerical analysis device executes: Step 102 of selecting a fluidic device model and a pipe model used for transient analysis from among fluidic device models and pipe models that are located between a start point and an end point set in the pipeline network model constructed as a 3D model of a pipeline network that includes fluidic devices and pipes; Step 104 of dividing the selected fluidic device model and pipe model into volume elements and into junction elements; Step 106 of deriving volumes of the respective volume elements obtained and pressure loss coefficients corresponding to the respective junction elements, based on the shape of the fluidic device model, a shape of the pipe model, and a physical quantities of the fluid, of associating the volumes with the volume elements, and of associating the pressure loss coefficients with the junction elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Toshiharu Nakabayashi
  • Patent number: 9334800
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a speed accelerating step (S1) of increasing a revolution number by driving to rotate a compressing portion and a turbine portion by a motor by way of a speed reducing portion, a load detecting step (S2) of detecting a load applied to the speed reducing portion by a load detecting portion, and a bypass flow rate controlling step (S3) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when an absolute value of the detected load is equal to or smaller than an absolute value of a predetermined value and reducing the flow rate of the bypassed working fluid when equal to or larger than the absolute value of the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Patent number: 9243566
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a temperature elevating step (S1) of elevating a temperature of a working fluid flowing to the turbine portion, a flow rate increasing step (S2) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when a temperature of the working fluid flowing to the turbine portion is elevated by a heat source portion, and a flow rate reducing step (S3) of reducing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid after an elapse of a predetermined time period after increasing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignees: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Publication number: 20130238258
    Abstract: A required-circulated-refrigerant flow-rate calculating portion provided in a chilled-water flow-rate estimation calculation portion calculates an evaporator exchanged heat quantity exchanged between a refrigerant and chilled water at an evaporator based on a planned chilled-water-flow-rate value and a measured value of the temperature of the chilled water flowing in the evaporator, and calculates an evaporator-refrigerant flow rate based on that evaporator exchanged heat quantity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
  • Publication number: 20130180272
    Abstract: The degree-of-opening of an expansion valve is set to an appropriate degree-of-opening regardless of the load and external conditions for a heat-source unit. In a turbo refrigerator including a compressor that compresses a refrigerant; a condenser that condenses a compressed refrigerant by means of cooling water; an evaporator that evaporates a condensed refrigerant and also performs heat exchange between this refrigerant and cold water; and an expansion valve that causes a liquid-phase refrigerant retained in the condenser to expand, a expansion-valve control device (40) controls a degree-of-opening of the expansion valve (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Kenji Ueda, Noriyuki Matsukura, Minoru Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20130174601
    Abstract: A flow rate of a heat transfer medium is computed without a flow meter. In a control apparatus (30), a storing portion (36) stores an aerodynamic characteristic map indicating a line causing a rotating stall and lines showing a sonic velocity in a refrigerant sucked in by a compressor (12) on a map displaying a variable ? reflecting a suction volume of the compressor (12) and a variable ? reflecting a head of the compressor (12); a estimation portion of chilled water flow rate (30b) computes the variable ?, derives the variable ? according to the variable ? from the map, computes a heat amount exchanged between the refrigerant and the chilled water in an evaporator (24) based on the suction volume of the compressor (12) according to the computed variable ?, and computes the flow rate of the chilled water based on the heat amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Matsuo, Kenji Ueda, Toshihiko Niinomi, Hitoi Ono
  • Publication number: 20130046527
    Abstract: A numerical analysis device executes: Step 102 of selecting a fluidic device model and a pipe model used for transient analysis from among fluidic device models and pipe models that are located between a start point and an end point set in the pipeline network model constructed as a 3D model of a pipeline network that includes fluidic devices and pipes; Step 104 of dividing the selected fluidic device model and pipe model into volume elements and into junction elements; Step 106 of deriving volumes of the respective volume elements obtained and pressure loss coefficients corresponding to the respective junction elements, based on the shape of the fluidic device model, a shape of the pipe model, and a physical quantities of the fluid, of associating the volumes with the volume elements, and of associating the pressure loss coefficients with the junction elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Toshiharu Nakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20110044794
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a speed accelerating step (S1) of increasing a revolution number by driving to rotate a compressing portion and a turbine portion by a motor by way of a speed reducing portion, a load detecting step (S2) of detecting a load applied to the speed reducing portion by a load detecting portion, and a bypass flow rate controlling step (S3) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when an absolute value of the detected load is equal to or smaller than an absolute value of a predetermined value and reducing the flow rate of the bypassed working fluid when equal to or larger than the absolute value of the predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Publication number: 20110027066
    Abstract: To provide a method of controlling a turbine equipment and a turbine equipment capable of carrying out a starting operation of controlling a load applied to a speed reducing portion while complying with a restriction imposed on an apparatus provided at a turbine equipment. The invention is characterized in including a temperature elevating step (S1) of elevating a temperature of a working fluid flowing to the turbine portion, a flow rate increasing step (S2) of increasing a flow rate of a working fluid bypassed from a delivery side to a suction side of the compressing portion when a temperature of the working fluid flowing to the turbine portion is elevated by a heat source portion, and a flow rate reducing step (S3) of reducing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid after an elapse of a predetermined time period after increasing the flow rate of the bypassing working fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicants: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., PEBBLE BED MODULAR REACTOR (PTY) LIMITED
    Inventors: Hitoi Ono, Takashi Sonoda, Naoto Tochitani, Makoto Kato, Masahide Umaya, Fuminori Fujii
  • Patent number: 7155897
    Abstract: A combustion temperature high speed detection device is provided with a phase lead processing portion, thereby canceling out a detection lag of a temperature detector, and detecting the combustion gas temperature of a combustor at a high speed. The combustion temperature high speed detection device is also provided with a first-order lag filtering portion with a time constant of 0.25 second, a phase lag processing portion with a time constant of 10 seconds, a temperature change filtering portion with a cutoff frequency of 2 to 3 Hz, and a disturbance filtering portion including first-order lag filtering portions with different time constants and a high value selecting portion. Thus, high speed detection of the combustion gas temperature more suitable for a gas turbine system can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Nakamura, Fuminori Fujii, Shinya Uchida, Kozo Toyama, Hitoi Ono
  • Publication number: 20050126183
    Abstract: A combustion temperature high speed detection device is provided with a phase lead processing portion, thereby canceling out a detection lag of a temperature detector, and detecting the combustion gas temperature of a combustor at a high speed. The combustion temperature high speed detection device is also provided with a first-order lag filtering portion with a time constant of 0.25 second, a phase lag processing portion with a time constant of 10 seconds, a temperature change filtering portion with a cutoff frequency of 2 to 3 Hz, and a disturbance filtering portion including first-order lag filtering portions with different time constants and a high value selecting portion. Thus, high speed detection of the combustion gas temperature more suitable for a gas turbine system can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Nakamura, Fuminori Fujii, Shinya Uchida, Kozo Toyama, Hitoi Ono