Patents by Inventor Kentaro Tokuyama

Kentaro Tokuyama 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: 20240084736
    Abstract: A sealing member that forms a combustion gas flow path of a gas turbine includes a first body portion having a cooling passage. The first body portion includes a first end portion forming one end portion in a circumferential direction, a second end portion forming the other end portion on an opposite side in the circumferential direction, and an intermediate portion formed between the first and second end portions. The cooling passage includes an intermediate portion cooling passage inclined at a first angle with respect to an axial direction, a first end portion cooling passage provided in the first end portion and inclined at a second angle with respect to the axial direction, and a second end portion cooling passage provided in the second end portion and inclined at a third angle with respect to the axial direction, and the second and third angles are smaller than the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Taiki KINOSHITA, Kenji SATO, Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKAKI
  • Patent number: 11891957
    Abstract: This exit seal is for connecting an exit flange of a combustor and a shroud in a stator blade of a turbine. The exit seal is equipped with: a seal body that extends in a circumferential direction; and a lid member disposed at a circumferential end of the seal body. The seal body comprises one or more recessed sections that are recessed in a radial direction or in an axial direction and extend in the circumferential direction. At a position of the circumferential end of at least one recessed section among the one or more recessed sections, the lid member is disposed so as to overlap, in the axial direction and the radial direction, with a recessed space formed by the one recessed section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Taniguchi, Taiki Kinoshita, Hiroyuki Sakaki, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Patent number: 11774101
    Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Tokuyama, Kenji Sato, Kenta Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Sakaki, Takashi Hiyama, Satoshi Takiguchi, Yusuke Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230288068
    Abstract: A perforated plate for a gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment is a perforated plate provided between a combustor basket and a combustor casing of the gas turbine combustor and fixed to an outer peripheral portion of the combustor basket. In a hole arrangement area with a plurality of through holes of the perforated plate, a region close to the combustor basket has a larger average value of a ligament ratio than a region close to the combustor casing, where the ligament ratio is obtained by dividing a distance between outer peripheral edges of two adjacent holes of the plurality of through holes by a distance between centers of the two holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Toshinobu OHARA, Masaki ONO
  • Publication number: 20230175439
    Abstract: This transition piece comprises a pair of side plates which face each other across an axis, a plate inside the curve which, with reference to the axis, is arranged inside the curve where the downstream portion curves relative to the upstream portion on the axis, and a plate outside the curve which, with reference to the axis, is arranged outside the curve on the side opposite of the aforementioned inside the curve. The plate inside the curve, the plate outside the curve and the pair of side plates each has multiple passage groups which are configured from multiple cooling passages that allow flow of a cooling medium and that extend in the axis direction and are arranged side-by-side in the circumferential direction, and one or more headers which allow flow of the cooling medium and which extend in the circumferential direction. The number of the one or more headers of the plate inside the curve is less than the number of the one or more headers in the plate outside the curve and the pair of side plats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Taiki KINOSHITA, Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKAKI
  • Publication number: 20230061373
    Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenji SATO, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKAKI, Takashi HIYAMA, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Yusuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20230042434
    Abstract: This exit seal is for connecting an exit flange of a combustor and a shroud in a stator blade of a turbine. The exit seal is equipped with: a seal body that extends in a circumferential direction; and a lid member disposed at a circumferential end of the seal body. The seal body comprises one or more recessed sections that are recessed in a radial direction or in an axial direction and extend in the circumferential direction. At a position of the circumferential end of at least one recessed section among the one or more recessed sections, the lid member is disposed so as to overlap, in the axial direction and the radial direction, with a recessed space formed by the one recessed section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Kenta TANIGUCHI, Taiki KINOSHITA, Hiroyuki SAKAKI, Kentaro TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 11536455
    Abstract: A combustor component according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a cylindrical body which internally includes a combustion chamber, and includes a weld part where a plurality of through holes opening to the combustion chamber are formed, and a housing which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the cylindrical body to cover a part of the weld part, and defines an acoustic damping space communicating with the combustion chamber via at least one of the through holes. The plurality of through holes in the weld part has a formation density which is higher in a first region of the weld part covered with the housing than in a second region of the weld part positioned outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Tokuyama, Hiroaki Kishida, Taiki Kinoshita, Hiroki Shibata, Toshinobu Ohara
  • Patent number: 11525364
    Abstract: A plurality of cooling passages extending in an axial direction are formed in a transition piece so as to be aligned in a circumferential direction and the axial direction. One or more downstream side passages are formed in a downstream side region (Rd) within one circumferential region. One or more upstream side passages are formed in an upstream side region Ru within the circumferential region. The total cross-sectional area per unit circumferential length of the one or more downstream side passages is larger than the total cross-sectional area per unit circumferential length of the one or more upstream side passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsu Konishi, Hiroaki Kishida, Kentaro Tokuyama, Hiroki Shibata, Akihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 11299994
    Abstract: A first-stage stator vane for a gas turbine includes: a first portion partially defining an airfoil which includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a trailing edge; and a second portion positioned at a leading-edge side of the airfoil with respect to the first portion, the second portion having a recess portion or a protruding portion. The recess portion or the protruding portion has a pair of side wall surfaces, and an angle formed between the pair of side wall surfaces is less than 90 angular degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro Tokuyama, Kenji Sato, Keisuke Matsuyama, Takaya Koda, Shunsuke Torii, Tetsuya Shimmyo, Shinya Hashimoto, Akihiro Murakami
  • Patent number: 11280203
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a plurality of first-stage stator vanes arranged in a circumferential direction, the first-stage stator vanes each including a vane surface having a pressure surface and a suction surface, a first combustor disposed on a suction surface side of one of the first-stage stator vanes, the first combustor having a first combustor outlet which includes a first side wall portion extending along a radial direction, and a second combustor disposed on a pressure surface side of the one of the first-stage stator vanes and adjacent to the first combustor in the circumferential direction. The one of the first-stage stator vanes satisfies 0.05??y/P?0.25, where ?y is a protruding amount of the suction surface from the inner wall surface of the first side wall portion to the circumferential direction, and P is an arrangement pitch of the first-stage stator vanes in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Shimmyo, Shunsuke Torii, Koichiro Iida, Hitoshi Kitagawa, Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Publication number: 20210302017
    Abstract: A combustor component according to at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a cylindrical body which internally includes a combustion chamber, and includes a weld part where a plurality of through holes opening to the combustion chamber are formed, and a housing which is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the cylindrical body to cover a part of the weld part, and defines an acoustic damping space communicating with the combustion chamber via at least one of the through holes. The plurality of through holes in the weld part has a formation density which is higher in a first region of the weld part covered with the housing than in a second region of the weld part positioned outside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Hiroaki KISHIDA, Taiki KINOSHITA, Hiroki SHIBATA, Toshinobu OHARA
  • Publication number: 20210140329
    Abstract: A first-stage stator vane for a gas turbine includes: a first portion partially forming an airfoil which includes a pressure surface, a suction surface, and a trailing edge; and a second portion positioned at a leading-edge side of the airfoil with respect to the first portion, the second portion having a recess portion or a protruding portion. The recess portion or the protruding portion of the second portion has a pair of side wall surfaces, and an angle formed between the pair of side wall surfaces is less than 90 angular degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenji SATO, Keisuke MATSUYAMA, Takaya KODA, Shunsuke TORII, Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Shinya HASHIMOTO, Akihiro MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20210123351
    Abstract: A plurality of cooling passages extending in an axial direction are formed in a transition piece so as to be aligned in a circumferential direction and the axial direction. One or more downstream side passages are formed in a downstream side region (Rd) within one circumferential region. One or more upstream side passages are formed in an upstream side region Ru within the circumferential region. The total cross-sectional area per unit circumferential length of the one or more downstream side passages is larger than the total cross-sectional area per unit circumferential length of the one or more upstream side passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsu KONISHI, Hiroaki KISHIDA, Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Hiroki SHIBATA, Akihiro MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 10961910
    Abstract: In a combustion cylinder, an outer-side region of a cooling part on an outer side with regard to a reference line orthogonal to a radial direction and an axial direction of a gas turbine and passing through a center of a combustor basket, and an inner-side region of the cooling part on an inner side with regard to the reference line are set. A connection angle at an intersection between an extension line of an outer surface of the combustor basket along the axial direction and an inner surface of a combustor transition piece is set. First regions are set at positions near the reference line, and second regions, with a larger connection angle than the first regions, are set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama
  • Publication number: 20200271323
    Abstract: A combustion tube for a gas turbine including an outlet section having a cross-section of an annular sector-shape. The outlet section includes an outer wall forming an outer peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, an inner wall forming an inner peripheral boundary of the annular sector-shape, and a pair of side walls forming boundaries on both sides of the annular sector-shape in a circumferential direction, respectively. The outer wall extends obliquely with respect to the inner wall such that a height of the annular sector-shape decreases toward an outlet opening of the combustion tube. A first side wall extends obliquely with respect to a second side such that a perimeter of the annular sector-shape increases toward the outlet opening of the combustion tube. An inclination angle ?1 of the first side wall with respect to the second side wall satisfies 0<?1?56.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kentaro TOKUYAMA, Kenji SATO, Kenta TANIGUCHI, Hiroyuki SAKAKI, Takashi HIYAMA, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Yusuke TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20200109638
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes a plurality of first-stage stator vanes arranged in a circumferential direction, the first-stage stator vanes each including a vane surface having a pressure surface and a suction surface, a first combustor disposed on a suction surface side of one of the first-stage stator vanes, the first combustor having a first combustor outlet which includes a first side wall portion extending along a radial direction, and a second combustor disposed on a pressure surface side of the one of the first-stage stator vanes and adjacent to the first combustor in the circumferential direction. The one of the first-stage stator vanes satisfies 0.05??y/P?0.25, where ?y is a protruding amount of the suction surface from the inner wall surface of the first side wall portion to the circumferential direction, and P is an arrangement pitch of the first-stage stator vanes in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuya SHIMMYO, Shunsuke TORII, Koichiro IIDA, Hitoshi KITAGAWA, Kenji SATO, Kentaro TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 10197284
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustor is provided with a combustor basket where combustion gas flows, the combustion gas being produced by combustion of fuel injected from a nozzle, and a first resonance device and a second resonance device mounted on an outer surface of the combustor basket. The second resonance device is disposed on a downstream side from the first resonance device in a flow of the combustion gas and damps combustion oscillation of a frequency higher than the first resonance device. The first and second resonance devices are acoustic liners each having a housing mounted to the outer surface of the combustor basket. A resonance space surrounded by the housing and the outer surface of the combustor basket communicates with an interior space of the combustor basket via a plurality of acoustic holes formed in the combustor basket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Akamatsu, Hiroaki Kishida, Kenji Sato, Kentaro Tokuyama, Keisuke Matsuyama, Takayoshi Takashima
  • Publication number: 20180320595
    Abstract: In a combustion cylinder, gas turbine combustor, and gas turbine, an outer-side region of a cooling part which is a region on an outer side with regard to a reference line that is a straight line orthogonal to a radial direction and an axial direction of a gas turbine and passing through a center of a combustor basket, and an inner-side region of the cooling part which is a region on an inner side with regard to the reference line are set. A connection angle at an intersection between an extension line of an outer surface of the combustor basket along the axial direction and an inner surface of a combustor transition piece is set. First regions set at positions near the reference line in either the outer-side region or the inner-side region, and second regions with a larger connection angle than the first regions, set at positions farther from the reference line than the first regions are set. The second regions are set to have a higher flow rate of a cooling medium than the first regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Kenji SATO, Kentaro TOKUYAMA
  • Patent number: 9915428
    Abstract: A cylinder of a combustor includes a cylinder body inside of which combustion gas flows, a jacket plate that covers the cylinder body from the outside and forms a fluid space into which high-pressure fluid flows between an inner peripheral surface of the jacket plate and an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder body, and a rib that connects the cylinder body and the jacket plate. The rib is connected to the cylinder body by a cylinder side end portion on the cylinder body side in a radial direction with respect to an axis of the cylinder body being welded from both sides in an axial direction of the axis. The rib is connected to the jacket plate by a jacket side end portion on the jacket plate side in the radial direction being welded from both sides in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kishida, Kentaro Tokuyama, Yuta Hitomi, Hiroyuki Sakaki, Kotaro Miyauchi, Kohei Hidaka, Susumu Wakazono, Scott Cloyd, Bob Provitola, Brandon Ruiz