Patents by Inventor Kiyoshi Namura
Kiyoshi Namura 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).
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Patent number: 7429164Abstract: A turbine moving blade has a blade portion extending from the basal portion to the tip of the moving blade. The blade root portion is formed at the basal portion of the blade portion and engaged with a corresponding disk groove of a turbine rotor on a one-by-one basis, and the integral cover is formed at the tip of the blade portion integrally with the blade portion. The integral cover includes at least a pair of pressure and suction sloped surfaces inclined relative to the direction of the rotational axis of a turbine so as to restrain the elastic restoring force of the moving blade torsionally deformed at the time of installation of the moving blade by bringing the integral covers of mutually adjacent blades into contact.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2002Date of Patent: September 30, 2008Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Yamashita, Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saitou, Masakazu Takasumi, Masato Machida, Hideo Yoda, Kazuo Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 7182577Abstract: A set of turbine rotor blades is arranged on a rotor disk. Each rotor disk has blade profile, root parts which is fitted axially in an axial disk groove formed circumferenctially in the rotor disk, and an integral cover formed at the outer edge of the blade profile part. A front end surface, faced in a direction the rotor disk rotates, of the integral cover is inclined to a direction in which the root part of the turbine rotor blade is fitted in the disk groove of the rotor disk. The sum of circumferential lengths of the integral covers is greater than a circle at which the integral covers are joined to the blade profile parts. Adjacent integral covers are brought into contact with each other by the blade profile parts that are twisted when root parts of the turbine rotor blades are fitted axially in the disk grooves.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yutaka Yamashita, Eiji Saitou, Kiyoshi Namura, Hideo Yoda
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Publication number: 20060177314Abstract: A set of turbine rotor blades is arranged on a rotor disk. Each rotor disk has blade profile, root parts which is fitted axially in an axial disk groove formed circumferenctially in the rotor disk, and an integral cover formed at the outer edge of the blade profile part. A front end surface, faced in a direction the rotor disk rotates, of the integral cover is inclined to a direction in which the root part of the turbine rotor blade is fitted in the disk groove of the rotor disk. The sum of circumferential lengths of the integral covers is greater than a circle at which the integral covers are joined to the blade profile parts. Adjacent integral covers are brought into contact with each other by the blade profile parts that are twisted when root parts of the turbine rotor blades are fitted axially in the disk grooves.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2005Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventors: Yutaka Yamashita, Eiji Saitou, Kiyoshi Namura, Hideo Yoda
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Publication number: 20060127221Abstract: A turbine moving blade has a blade portion extending from the basal portion to the tip of the moving blade. The blade root portion is formed at the basal portion of the blade portion and engaged with a corresponding disk groove of a turbine rotor on a one-by-one basis, and the integral cover is formed at the tip of the blade portion integrally with the blade portion. The integral cover includes at least a pair of pressure and suction sloped surfaces inclined relative to the direction of the rotational axis of a turbine so as to restrain the elastic restoring force of the moving blade torsionally deformed at the time of installation of the moving blade by bringing the integral covers of mutually adjacent blades into contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2002Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Yutaka Yamashita, Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saitou, Masakazu Takasumi, Masato Machida, Hideo Yoda, Kazuo Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 6846160Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine bucket to be provided at the low pressure last stage of a steam turbine and an object of the present invention is to provide a turbine bucket in which the adjacent blades are connected without using a connecting member at a blade intermediate portion. In order to achieve the object of the present invention, a turbine bucket of the present invention is formed in such a manner that the blade sectional configuration is twisted from a blade root portion to a blade tip side, and when assuming two axial directions in a blade section of the bucket on horizontal plane and taking one axial direction as X axis and the other axial direction perpendicular to X axis as Y axis, the blade sections at predetermined heights from the blade root portion of the turbine bucket are formed in a range of ±0.3 mm from respective points defining blade section configurations as shown respectively in chart 1, chart 4, chart 7, chart 10, chart 13, chart 16 and chart 18.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2003Date of Patent: January 25, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Saito, Kiyoshi Namura, Yutaka Yamashita, Masakazu Takasumi, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Yoshio Shikano, Kazuo Ikeuchi, Masumi Katayose
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Publication number: 20030228225Abstract: The present invention relates to a turbine bucket to be provided at the low pressure last stage of a steam turbine and an object of the present invention is to provide a turbine bucket in which the adjacent blades are connected without using a connecting member at a blade intermediate portion. In order to achieve the object of the present invention, a turbine bucket of the present invention is formed in such a manner that the blade sectional configuration is twisted from a blade root portion to a blade tip side, and when assuming two axial directions in a blade section of the bucket on horizontal plane and taking one axial direction as X axis and the other axial direction perpendicular to X axis as Y axis, the blade sections at predetermined heights from the blade root portion of the turbine bucket are formed in a range of ±0.3 mm from respective points defining blade section configurations as shown respectively in chart 1, chart 4, chart 7, chart 10, chart 13, chart 16 and chart 18.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2003Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Saito, Kiyoshi Namura, Yutaka Yamashita, Masakazu Takasumi, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Yoshio Shikano, Kazuo Ikeuchi, Masumi Katayose
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Patent number: 6579066Abstract: The present invention is a turbine bucket for at the low pressure last stage of a steam turbine and in which the adjacent blades are connected without using a connecting member at a blade intermediate portion. A turbine bucket of the present invention is formed that the blade sectional configuration is twisted from a blade root portion to a blade tip side, and when assuming two axial directions in a blade section of the bucket on horizontal plane and taking one axial direction as X axis and the other axial direction perpendicular to X axis as Y axis, the blade sections at predetermined heights from the blade root portion of the turbine bucket are formed in a range of ±0.3 mm from respective points defining blade section configurations.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2001Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Saito, Kiyoshi Namura, Yutaka Yamashita, Masakazu Takasumi, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Yoshio Shikano, Kazuo Ikeuchi, Masumi Katayose
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Patent number: 6568908Abstract: The moving blades of a rotor included in a steam turbine are formed so that the width of a gap between opposite end surfaces of first connecting members of adjacent blades along the direction of rotation of the rotor and the width of a gap between opposite end surfaces of second connecting members of the adjacent blades along the direction of rotation of the rotor are determined so as to make the second connecting members start coming into contact with each other at a rotating speed of the rotor higher than a rotating speed at which the first connecting members of the adjacent blades start to come into contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 27, 2003Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saito, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Masakazu Takasumi, Takeshi Onoda, Shigemichi Inoue
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Publication number: 20020057969Abstract: A steam turbine is intended for use in a thermal or nuclear power plant. The moving blades of a rotor included in a steam turbine vibrate as the rotor rotates, inducing an excessive stress in joints of connecting members for connecting the adjacent moving blades and blade portions of the moving blades and damaging the joints. It is a task of the invention to prevent moving blades from being damaged due to vibration.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventors: Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saito, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Masakazu Takasumi, Takeshi Onoda, Shigemichi Inoue
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Patent number: 6341941Abstract: A steam turbine for use in a thermal or nuclear power plant includes moving blades of a rotor which vibrate as the rotor rotates, inducing an excessive stress in joints of connecting members for connecting the adjacent moving blades and blade portions of the moving blades and damaging the joints. The moving blades are formed so that a width of a gap between opposite end surfaces of first connecting members of adjacent blades along the direction of rotation of the rotor and a width of a gap between opposite end surfaces of second connecting members of the adjacent blades along a direction of rotation of the rotor are determined so as to make the second connecting members start coming into contact with each other at a rotating speed of the rotor higher than a rotating speed at which the first connecting members of the adjacent blades start come into contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2000Date of Patent: January 29, 2002Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saito, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Masakazu Takasumi, Takeshi Onoda, Shigemichi Inoue
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Patent number: 5829955Abstract: A steam turbine is provided with moving blades which are affected less by erosion and fretting wear due to water and have a high reliability in strength. The moving blades are twisted moving blades, each provided with a blade portion and a shroud portion formed at its tip and a contact surface between shroud portions connecting adjacent moving blades whereby an extension plane of the contact surface toward the blade back side does not intersect with the blade tip of the blade back side shroud portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 1997Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Eiji Saito, Kiyoshi Namura, Masakazu Takasumi, Kazuo Ikeuchi, Masumi Katayose
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Patent number: 5498136Abstract: The total number (M) of plural blades of a blade apparatus is selected so as not to be a prime number and not to be a power multiplier of a prime number. Plural blades are divided into at least a first blade group in which one blade group has the blades of a first integer number (N.sub.1) and a second blade group in which one blade group has blades of a second integer number (N.sub.2). Each of the first integer number (N.sub.1) and the second integer number (N.sub.2) have no common divisor except 1. The total number (M) of plural blades is the product of the first integer number (N.sub.1) and the second integer number (N.sub.2). The blades of the first integer number (N.sub.1) blade group are connected by a first stage connecting member and the blades of the second integer number (N.sub.2) blade group are connected by a second stage connecting member.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1994Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Namura, Eiji Saito, Masakazu Takasumi, Kazuo Ikeuchi
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Patent number: 4822250Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid has at least one series of vibration pump units each having a fluid transfer pipe designed to perform a respirating action by the operation of a vibrator which vibrates in response to application of a high-frequency voltage. The fluid transfer pipes are connected in series via fluid diodes which serve to enable the fluid to flow only in one direction, while resisting reversing of the fluid, so that the fluid is transferred in one direction through the successive fluid transfer pipes. In order to minimize the pulsation of the fluid pressure at the downstream end of the apparatus, the vibrators of the pump unit are excited with predetermined phase differentials. Additional fluid diode is connected to the outlet end of the most downstream pump unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 1988Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi, Shohei Yoshida, Kiyoshi Namura, Tsutomu Okusawa, Akira Arai
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Patent number: 4808084Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a small amount of fluid has at least three vibration pump units which are connected in series. Each vibration pump unit has a fluid transfer pipe, a vibrator mounted on the outer peripheral surface of the fluid transfer pipe and adapted to cause the transfer pipe to vibrate in a respiring manner, an inner peripheral electrode on the inner peripheral surface of the vibrator, an outer peripheral electrode on the outer peripheral surface of the vibrator, a high-frequency voltage applying device for applying a high-frequency voltage between the inner peripheral electrode and the outer peripheral electrode thereby causing the vibrator to vibrate in respiring manner, and a fluid diode exhibiting resistance to reversing of the fluid and connected to the fluid outlet of the fluid transfer pipe in such a manner as to permit the fluid to be discharged from the fluid pipe. The adjacent vibration pumps operate with a predetermined phase difference therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1987Date of Patent: February 28, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyoshi Tsubouchi, Shohei Yoshida, Kiyoshi Namura, Akira Arai
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Patent number: 4401411Abstract: A device for connecting the turbine blades of a turbine having a plate-shaped member provided at the radially outer end of each turbine blade and extended substantially at a right angle to the longitudinal plane of the turbine blade. The plate-shaped member is projected from the leading and trailing edges of the turbine blade, and is provided with through bores formed in each projected portion. Connecting members having cylindrical pins or the like projections are disposed between two adjacent turbine blades in such a manner that the projections are rotatably received by respective through bores. Namely, one of the connecting members is connected to the plate-shaped member of the leading edge of the turbine blade while the other connecting member is connected to the plate-shaped member of the trailing edge of the preceding adjacent turbine blade.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1981Date of Patent: August 30, 1983Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Katsukuni Hisano, Kazuo Ikeuchi, Makoto Nishimura, Hazime Sibaoka, Kiyoshi Namura, Akira Isida, Katsumi Oyabu
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Patent number: 4191508Abstract: A turbomachine rotor arrangement is provided having a rotor wheel and blades thereon with a tie pin for interconnecting adjacent blades. A plurality of blades respectively define tie holes wherein the tie holes of adjacent blades are disposed with the radial heights of said holes being different and with the tie pin disposed in the tie holes so as to be acted upon by respective different amplitudes of vibration than said adjacent blades during rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1978Date of Patent: March 4, 1980Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Kizai Kogyo Co. Ltd.Inventors: Michio Kuroda, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Kiyoshi Namura, Fumio Kato, Yasuaki Akatsu, Daizo Morimoto, Satoshi Ninomiya
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Patent number: 4028006Abstract: A plurality of turbine buckets annularly arranged around a rotor are each provided with a ledge disposed at right angles to the outer surface of each bucket. Each ledge includes a leading end portion and a trailing end portion each formed therein with a vertical hole, leading and trailing end portions of the ledge of each turbine bucket extending in opposite directions on both sides of the bucket. There are provided cover pieces each interposed between ends of the adjacent two turbine buckets and formed on the upper surface with a plurality or cylindrical projections adapted to be loosely received in the vertical holes formed in the ledges of the adjacent two turbine buckets.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 1976Date of Patent: June 7, 1977Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Michio Kuroda, Kiyoshi Namura, Fumio Kato, Yoshiaki Yamazaki, Tutomu Iwasaki, Akira Ishida, Akio Sohma, Tetsu Imai