Patents by Inventor Katsuya Yamashita

Katsuya Yamashita 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: 8393861
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a steam device includes a high-temperature member and a low-temperature member. One surface of the high-temperature member is exposed to high-temperature steam, and the other surface is cooled by cooling steam having a temperature lower than the high-temperature steam. The low-temperature member is disposed to face the high-temperature member with a passage for the cooling steam therebetween and is formed of a material having a heat resistance lower than that of the high-temperature member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kunihiko Wada, Katsuya Yamashita, Yutaka Ishiwata, Yuujiro Nakatani, Takeo Suga, Asako Inomata, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Yusuke Suzuki, Shogo Iwai
  • Patent number: 8356974
    Abstract: A steam turbine 20 is provided with a casing 109, a turbine rotor 25 disposed through the casing 109, and labyrinth portions 50, 55 which are disposed at the boundary between the casing 109 and the turbine rotor 25. The steam turbine 20 is further provided with a sealing steam pipe 65 for supplying sealing steam to the labyrinth portions 50, 55 and a gas supply pipe 60 for supplying the labyrinth portions 50, 55 with a cooling gas for cooling the turbine rotor 25 or a heating gas for heating the turbine rotor 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Koji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8347627
    Abstract: A carbon-dioxide-capture-type steam power generation system 1 according to the present invention comprises a boiler 6 producing an exhaust gas 5 by combusting a fuel 2 and having a flue 8; an absorbing unit 40 being configured to absorb the carbon-dioxide contained in the exhaust gas 5 into an absorbing solution; and a regenerating unit 44 being configured to release the carbon dioxide gas from the absorbing solution absorbing the carbon dioxide and discharge the released carbon dioxide gas. Further, in this system, a reboiler 49 is provided for receiving a heating-medium as heat source, producing a steam 43 and supplying the produced steam 43 to the regenerating unit 44. Additionally, in the flue 8 of the boiler 6, a boiler-side heat exchanger 61 is provided for heating the heating-medium by the exhaust gas 5 passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamashita, Asako Inomata, Yukio Oohashi, Takashi Ogawa, Kazutaka Ikeda, Takeo Suga
  • Publication number: 20120247102
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a solar heat collecting apparatus comprises a first heat exchanging unit and a second heat exchanging unit. The first heat exchanging unit includes a first pipe through which a heat medium flows and a first heat receiving face which receives heat of sunlight reflected by a plurality of reflecting units. The first heat exchanging unit heats the heat medium flowing through the first pipe by using heat of the first heat receiving face. A second heat exchanging unit includes a second pipe through which the heat medium heated by the first heat exchanging unit flows, a second heat receiving face which receives heat of the sunlight reflected by a plurality of reflecting units, and a nozzle provided to the second pipe to discharge the heat medium flowing through the second pipe toward a back face of the second heat receiving face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Taniyama, Katsuya Yamashita, Masahiko Takahashi, Tatsuro Uchida
  • Patent number: 8277173
    Abstract: A turbine rotor 300 includes: a high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301 where high-temperature steam passes; low-temperature turbine rotor constituent parts 302 sandwiching and weld-connected to the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301 and made of a material different from a material of the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301; and a cooling part cooling the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301 by ejecting cooling steam 240 to a position, of the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301, near a welded portion 120 between the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 301 and the low-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 302. A value equal to a distance divided by a diameter is equal to or more than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamashita, Takao Inukai
  • Publication number: 20120243978
    Abstract: A steam turbine 10 of an embodiment has seal rings 60 between an inlet sleeve 40 for introducing steam and an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21 into which the inlet sleeve 40 is inserted. The seal rings 60 have high-temperature side seal rings 70 which are disposed their inner circumferences contacted to the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40, and low-temperature side seal rings 80 which are formed to have inner and outer diameters larger than those of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and disposed with their outer circumferences contacted to the inner casing 20 or the outer casing 21. A thermal barrier layer 90 is disposed between the inner circumferences of the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve 40 and between the high-temperature side seal rings 70 and the low-temperature side seal rings 80.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Kunihiko WADA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Yusuke SUZUKI, Takao INUKAI, Shogo IWAI, Takeo SUGA
  • Publication number: 20120107108
    Abstract: Provided is a uni-axial multi-stage radial gas expander which has a high degree of reliability and which can sufficiently cope with the conditions of a high pressure and a high pressure ratio. Two or more radial gas expander sections (11A, 11B) formed of two-or-more-stage impeller vanes (14a to 14h) arranged between bearings (21a, 21b) on a rotor shaft (13) consisting of a single shaft are housed in a signal casing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: Hideki Nagao, Yasushi Mori, Masahiro Kobayashi, Katsuya Yamashita, Hirotaka Higashimori, Katsuki Yagi
  • Publication number: 20110280717
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a steam device includes a high-temperature member and a low-temperature member. One surface of the high-temperature member is exposed to high-temperature steam, and the other surface is cooled by cooling steam having a temperature lower than the high-temperature steam. The low-temperature member is disposed to face the high-temperature member with a passage for the cooling steam therebetween and is formed of a material having a heat resistance lower than that of the high-temperature member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Kunihiko WADA, Katsuya Yamashita, Yutaka Ishiwata, Yuujiro Nakatani, Takeo Suga, Asako Inomata, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Yusuke Suzuki, Shogo Iwai
  • Publication number: 20110274536
    Abstract: A plurality of blades are studded in a rotor disc integrated with the rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor, a plurality of vanes are attached to a casing covering the rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor, and an internal diaphragm disposed on rotor-side surfaces of the vanes in such a way that the internal diaphragm faces the rotor disc. The vanes and the blades adjacent to each other in the axial direction of the rotor form a turbine stage. A rotor-side cooling path is formed through the rotor disc in the axial direction of the rotor, and a diaphragm-side cooling path is formed through the internal diaphragm in the axial direction of the rotor, and a cooling medium flowing through the rotor-side cooling path diverts into the diaphragm-side cooling path and a labyrinth flow path provided between the internal diaphragm and the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Inventors: Asako Inomata, Katsuya Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Kazutaka Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20110269558
    Abstract: A damper structure of the present invention is provided on a shaft end (3a) of a spindle shaft (3) supported by a bearing, which shaft end (3a) extends outwardly from the bearing, and includes: a sleeve (11) provided around an outer circumference of the shaft end (3a); a housing (12) provided in a spaced manner from the sleeve (11) in a radial direction of the spindle shaft (3); and a moving portion (13) that moves the housing (12) and the sleeve (11) relatively in a spindle shaft direction, in which a squeeze film S (S1) is formed between an outer circumferential surface (11a) of the sleeve (11) and an inner circumferential surface (12b) of the housing (12) that face each other, and in which a formation area of the squeeze film S (S1) is variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Inventor: Katsuya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20110079151
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a CO2 recovery system has an absorber, a regenerator, and a circulation device. An absorption liquid has an aqueous solution of amine having an alcohol group, and dimethyl silicone oil in which a part of methyl groups is substituted by at least one type selected from an aminoalkyl group, a carboxyl group, and a hydroxyl-containing alkyl group. The absorber contacts a combustion exhaust gas of a fossil fuel and the absorption liquid to absorb CO2, which is contained in the combustion exhaust gas, into the absorption liquid. The regenerator releases CO2 by applying thermal energy to the CO2-absorbed absorption liquid. A circulation device circulates the absorption liquid between the absorber and the regenerator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 7, 2011
    Inventors: Yukio Ohashi, Takashi Ogawa, Susumu Yamanaka, Katsuya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20110033281
    Abstract: A steam turbine 10 is provided with a double-structure comprising an inner casing 20 and an outer casing 21. A turbine rotor 22, in which plural stages of moving blades 24 are circumferentially implanted, is operatively disposed in inner casing 20. A diaphragm outer ring 25 and a diaphragm inner ring are disposed along the circumferential direction in inner casing 20. Stationary blades 27 are circumferentially provided between diaphragm outer ring 25 and the diaphragm inner ring, so that diaphragm outer ring 25, the diaphragm inner ring and stationary blades 27 form a stage of stationary blades. The stages of the stationary blades are arranged alternately with the stages of moving blades 24 in the axial direction of turbine rotor 22. A cooling medium passage 40 for passing a cooling medium CM which is supplied through a supply pipe 45 is formed between inner casing 20 and diaphragm outer ring 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Kazuhiro SAITO, Takao INUKAI, Kunihiko WADA, Kazutaka IKEDA, Takeo SUGA
  • Patent number: 7850424
    Abstract: An intermediate-pressure turbine is divided into a high-temperature, high-pressure side high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a and a low-temperature, low-pressure side low-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11b, the component members of the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a are formed of austenitic heat-resistant steels or Ni-based alloys, and the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a is operated by steam having a temperature of 650° C. or more. Other turbines are mainly formed of ferritic heat-resistant steels. Thus, a steam turbine power plant having high thermal efficiency and being economical can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Seiko Takahashi, Ryuichi Ishii, Yoichi Tsuda, Nobuo Okita, Katsuya Yamashita, Yukio Shinozaki, Masafumi Fukuda, Takeo Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7850423
    Abstract: High-temperature steam at 620° C. or higher is introduced to a reheat steam turbine 100, and a turbine rotor 113 of the reheat steam turbine 100 includes: a high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 113a positioned in an area extending from a nozzle 114a on a first stage to a moving blade 115a on a stage where temperature of the steam becomes 550° C. and made of a corrosion and heat resistant material; and low-temperature turbine rotor constituent parts 113b connected to and sandwiching the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 113a and made of a material different from the material of the high-temperature turbine rotor constituent part 113a.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Katsuya Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20100251713
    Abstract: An intermediate-pressure turbine is divided into a high-temperature, high-pressure side high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a and a low-temperature, low-pressure side low-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11b, the component members of the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a are formed of austenitic heat-resistant steels or Ni-based alloys, and the high-temperature, intermediate-pressure turbine section 11a is operated by steam having a temperature of 650° C. or more. Other turbines are mainly formed of ferritic heat-resistant steels. Thus, a steam turbine power plant having high thermal efficiency and being economical can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Seiko Takahashi, Ryuichi Ishii, Yoichi Tsuda, Nobuo Okita, Katsuya Yamashita, Yukio Shinozaki, Masafumi Fukuda, Takeo Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20100178155
    Abstract: A steam turbine includes a casing, a rotor arranged inside the casing so as to extend in an axial direction of the casing, a rotor disk integrally formed with the rotor, a rotor-side implanting portion formed in the rotor disk, a plurality of moving blades arranged on the rotor disk in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a moving blade-side implanting portion formed in the moving blade, in which the moving blade-side implanting portions of the moving blades are engaged with the rotor-side implanting portions, respectively. A cooling medium flows through a gap formed at least on a blade portion side of the moving blade among gaps formed between the moving blade-side implanting portions and the rotor-side implanting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Katsuya Yamashita, Kazuhiro Saito, Takao Inukai, Kazutaka Ikeda
  • Patent number: 7747621
    Abstract: The invention provides a system that associates data files with one another effectively to visually represent a relation among the data files and allows a user to easily understand relationship of contents of the data files. The system determines whether there is a parent data file for a selected retrieval object data file with reference to a contract association table and, if the parent data file is present, changes the retrieval object to the parent data file and repeats the processing. If the parent data file is not present, the system stores a present retrieval object data file as display data, that is, store a top data file as display data. Then, the system retrieves all data files associated with the top data file, stores the data files as display data, generates a relation diagram of the data files, and transmits the relation diagram to a user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hisashi Sato, Yoshitaka Masuzawa, Mitsuhiro Yamamoto, Katsuya Yamashita, Hideyuki Fujiwara, Shigeto Nakayama
  • Publication number: 20100050637
    Abstract: A carbon-dioxide-capture-type steam power generation system 1 according to the present invention comprises a boiler 6 producing an exhaust gas 5 by combusting a fuel 2 and having a flue 8; an absorbing unit 40 being configured to absorb the carbon-dioxide contained in the exhaust gas 5 into an absorbing solution; and a regenerating unit 44 being configured to release the carbon dioxide gas from the absorbing solution absorbing the carbon dioxide and discharge the released carbon dioxide gas. Further, in this system, a reboiler 49 is provided for receiving a heating-medium as heat source, producing a steam 43 and supplying the produced steam 43 to the regenerating unit 44. Additionally, in the flue 8 of the boiler 6, a boiler-side heat exchanger 61 is provided for heating the heating-medium by the exhaust gas 5 passing therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Inventors: Katsuya Yamashita, Asako Inomata, Yukio Oohashi, Takashi Ogawa, Kazutaka Ikeda, Takeo Suga
  • Publication number: 20100034641
    Abstract: A steam turbine 10 is comprised of a double-structured casing configured of an outer casing 21 and an inner casing 20, a turbine rotor 23 disposed through the inner casing and having a plurality of stages of moving blades 22 implanted, and a plurality of stages of stationary blades 25 disposed alternately with the moving blades 22 in the axial direction of the turbine rotor 23 in the inner casing 20. The steam turbine 10 is further provided with a discharge passage 30 which externally guides steam, which has flown in the inner casing and passed the final stage moving blades while performing expansion work, directly from the inner casing interior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Kazutaka Ikeda, Katsuya Yamashita, Takao Inukai, Kazuhiro Saito, Kouichi Kitaguchi, Shogo Iwai, Shigekazu Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20100008756
    Abstract: A steam turbine 20 is provided with a casing 109, a turbine rotor 25 disposed through the casing 109, and labyrinth portions 50, 55 which are disposed at the boundary between the casing 109 and the turbine rotor 25. The steam turbine 20 is further provided with a sealing steam pipe 65 for supplying sealing steam to the labyrinth portions 50, 55 and a gas supply pipe 60 for supplying the labyrinth portions 50, 55 with a cooling gas for cooling the turbine rotor 25 or a heating gas for heating the turbine rotor 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Asako INOMATA, Katsuya YAMASHITA, Koji YAMAGUCHI