Patents by Inventor Kenji Kiyama

Kenji Kiyama 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: 20020066395
    Abstract: The invention provides a boiler provided with low cost means which can reduce a concentration of CO, an unburned matter, an attached ash and the like near a side wall and maintain a combustion state well with a simple structure. In a boiler having a combustion chamber 13 formed by front and rear walls (burner walls) provided with a plural stages of burners 2, 3 and 4 on at least one of them and opposing to each other, and side walls 1a and 1b crossing to said burner walls 14a and 14b, a gas port 6 containing no fuel for making a pressure of a gas near said side walls 1a and 1b within said combustion chamber 13 higher than a pressure of a gas at a center portion of said combustion chamber 13 is provided between an outermost burner and the side walls 1a and 1b within a range of a height of said burner stages 2, 3 and 4. A combustion gas 16 can not come close to the side walls 1a and 1b due to the jet 18 of the gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Hironobu Kobayashi, Hirofumi Okazaki, Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama
  • Patent number: 6338304
    Abstract: A boiler has a combustion chamber formed by front and rear walls and a side wall extending between the front and rear walls. Plural stages of burners are placed on at least one of the front and rear walls. In the front and rear walls are opposing gas jets for making a pressure of the gas near the side wall within the combustion chamber higher than the pressure of the gas at a center portion of the combustion chamber. The gas jet ports are disposed at a height within a range of the height of the burner stages. The burner stages supply the pulverized coal, the air for transferring the pulverized coal and the air for burning. A part of the air for transferring the pulverized coal or the air for burning is supplied in a branched manner to the gas jet port and injected into the combustion chamber. Further, the air is preferably injected from the gas jet ports in a direct gas flow, not a swirling flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamamoto, Hironobu Kobayashi, Hirofumi Okazaki, Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama
  • Patent number: 6298796
    Abstract: A burner for burning fine coal powder comprising: a fine coal powder nozzle 10 for injecting a mixture of the fine coal powder and air; and air nozzles 11, 12 for injecting air: wherein the sufficient amount of air for complete combustion of the fine coal powder is supplied from the air nozzles; a reducing flame at a high temperature is formed by consuming oxygen rapidly with forming a flame at a high temperature by igniting the fine coal powder rapidly in the vicinity of the outlet of the burner; and an oxidizing flame having an uniform distribution of gas composition in radial direction to the central axis of the burner is formed by mixing the air injected from the air nozzle in the downstream of the reducing flame at the high temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Hironobu Kobayashi, Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama, Tadashi Jinbo, Koji Kuramashi, Shigeki Morita, Shinichiro Nomura, Miki Shimogori
  • Publication number: 20010003265
    Abstract: The invention provides a boiler provided with low cost means which can reduce a concentration of CO, an unburned matter, an attached ash and the like near a side wall and maintain a combustion state well with a simple structure. In a boiler having a combustion chamber 13 formed by front and rear walls (burner walls) provided with a plural stages of burners 2, 3 and 4 on at least one of them and opposing to each other, and side walls 1a and 1b crossing to said burner walls 14a and 14b, a gas port 6 containing no fuel for making a pressure of a gas near said side walls 1a and 1b within said combustion chamber 13 higher than a pressure of a gas at a center portion of said combustion chamber 13 is provided between an outermost burner and the side walls 1a and 1b within a range of a height of said burner stages 2, 3 and 4. A combustion gas 16 can not come close to the side walls 1a and 1b due to the jet 18 of the gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 1999
    Publication date: June 14, 2001
    Applicant: MATTINGLY, STANGER & MALUR
    Inventors: KENJI YAMAMOTO, HIRONOBU KOBAYASHI, HIROFUMI OKAZAKI, TOSHIKAZU TSUMURA, KENJI KIYAMA
  • Patent number: 6237510
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a mixture nozzle (2) defining a mixture fluid passage through which a mixture fluid (1) containing pulverized coal and conveyor gas flows toward a furnace, secondary and tertiary air passages surrounding the mixture nozzle (2), through which secondary air (6) and tertiary air (9) for combustion purposes flow, respectively; and air injection nozzles (24) provided in the vicinity of an outer periphery of a distal end of the mixture nozzle (2). The air (21) is injected from the air injection nozzles (24) toward the axis of the mixture nozzle, so that the high-temperature gas in the vicinity of the outer periphery of the distal end of the mixture nozzle (2) is drawn into the mixture fluid (1) in the vicinity of the outer periphery of this distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama, Tadashi Jimbo, Shigeki Morita, Koji Kuramashi, Kunio Okiura, Shinichiro Nomura, Miki Mori, Noriyuki Ohyatsu, Noboru Takarayama, Toshihiko Mine, Hironobu Kobayashi, Hirofumi Okazaki
  • Patent number: 6189464
    Abstract: A combustion method utilizing a pulverized coal combustion burner which is provided with a pulverized coal nozzle for jetting a fluid mixture of pulverized coal and air and an air nozzle for jetting air. In the method, a combustion flame formed by the pulverized coal combustion burner forms a first zone of a gas phase air ratio of one or less at a radially central portion of the flame and a second zone of a gas phase air ratio of more than one outside of the first zone adjacent the coal nozzle, and a third zone of a gas phase air ratio of one or less at a downstream side from said first and second zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Hironobu Kobayashi, Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama, Tadashi Jimbo, Kouji Kuramashi, Shigeki Morita, Shinichiro Nomura, Miki Shimogori
  • Patent number: 6152051
    Abstract: A combustion burner includes a mixture nozzle, a gas supply nozzle, and a flow guide. The mixture nozzle extends toward an interior of a furnace, and defines a mixture passage through which a mixture containing powdered solid fuel and gas for transferring the solid fuel flows. A distal end portion of the mixture nozzle is flared so that a flow passage area of the mixture passage increases progressively in a direction of flow of the mixture. The gas supply nozzle radially surrounds the mixture nozzle to define between the gas supply nozzle and the mixture nozzle a gas passage through which a combustion oxygen-containing gas flows toward the furnace. The flow guide is provided within the mixture nozzle at a position upstream of the flared portion of the mixture nozzle with respect to a flow of the mixture so as to make the mixture flow straight along an inner peripheral surface of the flared portion of the mixture nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Kiyama, Toshikazu Tsumura, Tadashi Jimbo, Koji Kuramashi, Shigeki Morita, Miki Mori
  • Patent number: 6112676
    Abstract: A pulverized coal burner includes a pulverized coal nozzle for jetting a mixture of pulverized coal and primary air, a secondary air nozzle and a tertiary air nozzle, concentrically arranged around the outer periphery of the pulverized coal nozzle, and a tube expanded portion at the end of a partition wall separating two adjacent air nozzles. A flow shift means such as a guide plate for shifting the secondary air in the secondary air nozzle so as to flow along the tube expanded portion is provided. The secondary air is jetted outwardly by the guide plate, and mixing of the secondary air and the tertiary air with pulverized coals is delayed, whereby an amount of NOx is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock Hitachi K.K.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Hironobu Kobayashi, Toshikazu Tsumura, Kenji Kiyama, Tadashi Jimbo, Kouji Kuramashi, Shigeki Morita, Shin-ichiro Nomura, Miki Shimogori
  • Patent number: 5937770
    Abstract: A pulverized coal burner includes a venturi for contracting a flow of a mixture of pulverized coal and primary air toward a central axis of a fuel nozzle 2. A spindle having a cone is provided coaxially with the central axis and gradually expands from an upstream side to a downstream side to cause the mixture to impinge thereon and diffuse. A column extends from the cone and is parallel to the central axis of the fuel nozzle, and a cone extends from the column and gradually narrows from an upstream side to a downstream side. A flow path divider, having a cone gradually narrowing coaxially with the central axis on the downstream side of the spindle, and a cylinder extending from the cone and being coaxial and parallel with the central axis of the fuel nozzle 2, coaxially divides the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Kobayashi, Hirofumi Okazaki, Masayuki Taniguchi, Kenji Kiyama
  • Patent number: 5764535
    Abstract: When at least one of a distribution of gas composition and distribution of temperature inside a furnace is estimated by dividing the region inside the furnace into two-dimensional or three-dimensional cells, and calculating a gas flow rate, a gas reaction amount, a coal combustion rate, a radiant heat transfer rate in each of the cells, based on design data including furnace dimentions and operational data including a coal supply rate and an air supply rate, an air ratio of gas phase--gas composion table is referred to, thereby to simplify the gas reaction amount calculation and reduce drastically time required for the calculation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1998
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Babcock-Hitachi Kabushiki Kaishi
    Inventors: Hirofumi Okazaki, Hironobu Kobayashi, Masayuki Taniguchi, Ken Amano, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Hisayuki Orita, Kenji Kiyama