Patents by Inventor Kohei Hidaka

Kohei Hidaka 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: 10371006
    Abstract: An exhaust-side journal bearing for supporting a gas turbine rotor is disposed inside a bearing box. The bearing box is supported by a strut which extends inward from an exhaust casing, and a seal ring having an annular inner peripheral end is disposed on the bearing box. Executed during a maintenance work are: a bearing adjustment step of displacing a bearing surface of the journal bearing relative to the bearing box in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the axial direction; and a seal ring adjustment step of displacing the inner peripheral end of the seal ring relative to the bearing box in accordance with the direction of displacement and the amount of displacement of the bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hidaka, Susumu Wakazono, Toshihiro Takeda, Scott Cloyd, Santo Scimeca
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20170241289
    Abstract: An exhaust-side journal bearing for supporting a gas turbine rotor is disposed inside a bearing box. The bearing box is supported by a strut which extends inward from an exhaust casing, and a seal ring having an annular inner peripheral end is disposed on the bearing box. Executed during a maintenance work are: a bearing adjustment step of displacing a bearing surface of the journal bearing relative to the bearing box in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the axial direction; and a seal ring adjustment step of displacing the inner peripheral end of the seal ring relative to the bearing box in accordance with the direction of displacement and the amount of displacement of the bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Kohei HIDAKA, Susumu WAKAZONO, Toshihiro TAKEDA, Scott CLOYD, Santo SCIMECA
  • Publication number: 20160053998
    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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20140290910
    Abstract: An intake air cooling system 100 for a gas turbine 18 is provided with: an intake duct 12 for leading intake air taken in from an intake-air inlet 22 to a compressor 14 of the gas turbine 18; a cooling part 26 provided in the intake duct to cool the intake air by heat exchange with a cooling medium introduced from an outside; a drain discharge line 102 connected to a part of the intake duct below an inlet 14a of the compressor so as to discharge drain water flowing along an inner peripheral surface of the intake duct; and a water seal part 104 provided in the drain discharge line 102 to keep water seal in a part of the drain discharge line 102 by a water pressure at least corresponding to an amount of a negative pressure in the vicinity of the inlet of the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Keita Fujii, Kohei Hidaka, Jiro Asakuno, Masaru Takamatsu, Tadakuni Nishio, Tatsunao Nagashima, Katsuhiro Hotta, Masashi Nishimura