Patents by Inventor Koichi Nishida
Koichi Nishida 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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Publication number: 20220290611Abstract: A gas turbine combustor according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first burner with a plurality of first nozzles disposed along an inner circumference of a cylindrical combustion tube, and a second nozzle surrounded by the plurality of first nozzles. The second nozzle has a fuel injection hole capable of injecting fuel. A distance between a centroid of the fuel injection hole and an outer peripheral edge of the fuel injection hole as viewed from an axial direction of the combustion tube differs depending on a position of the outer peripheral edge in a circumferential direction of the combustion tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Soichi HATORI, Koichi NISHIDA, Masaki MITANI
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Patent number: 11333359Abstract: The present invention reduces the concentration of thermal stress on a burner. A gas turbine combustor receiving compressed air from a compressor, mixing the compressed air with a fuel, burning the mixture to generate a combustion gas, and supplying the combustion gas to a turbine. The combustor includes: an inner cylinder internally forming a combustion chamber; an outer cylinder covering the inner cylinder and forming a cylindrical outer circumferential flow path between the inner and outer cylinders to allow the compressed air to flow; and a burner mounted on an end of the outer cylinder, which is positioned on an opposite side to a turbine side, and facing the combustion chamber. The burner includes a cylindrical base frame including a cavity distributing the fuel, and fuel nozzles circularly arranged as viewed from the combustion chamber and connected to the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Tsukidate, Kunihiro Oga, Yoshitaka Terada, Koichi Nishida
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Patent number: 11262075Abstract: A gas turbine combustor provided with: a plurality of swirler tubes that are disposed inside a combustor basket and impart a swirl to a premixed gas, the premixed gas being obtained by premixing a fuel and air for combustion; and an outer ring that is disposed between the plurality of swirler tubes and the combustor basket with a gap provided between the outer ring and the combustor basket, and generates film-shaped air inside a combustor transition piece connected to the combustor basket via injection through the gap into the combustor transition piece, and at a downstream end of the outer ring, the outer ring includes a tapered surface formed such that the outer ring gradually decreases in thickness from an upstream side toward a downstream side.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Satoshi Takiguchi, Keijiro Saito, Kotaro Miyauchi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu
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Patent number: 11222497Abstract: A money handling system includes a money handling apparatus (for example, a coin handling apparatus (1)) configured to handle money and a placing unit (90) on which the money handling apparatus is placed and provided with an orientation change mechanism for changing an orientation of the money handling apparatus in a horizontal direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Kiyoaki Kobayashi, Koichi Nishida
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Patent number: 11215364Abstract: A combustor includes: a first cylindrical body which is configured to hold a fuel nozzle extending in an axial line direction and through which air flows toward a downstream side thereof; a second cylindrical body that is connected to a downstream side of the first cylindrical body; and an outer shell that has an inner peripheral surface configured to define an air introduction channel through which air is introduced such that the air reverses course at an upstream end of the first cylindrical body and flows toward the downstream side together with an outer peripheral surface of the first cylindrical body. The inner peripheral surface has an outside narrowing surface that is formed to extend inward in a radial direction toward the upstream end of the first cylindrical body.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Satoshi Takiguchi, Koichi Nishida, Yoshitaka Hirata, Shohei Numata, Keita Yunoki, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Tomoki Uruno
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Patent number: 11137141Abstract: A combustor includes a nozzle, a burner cylinder surrounding the outer circumference of the nozzle, and an outside flow path cylinder surrounding the outer circumference of a downstream end portion of the burner cylinder. A purge air flow path through which air flows is formed between the inner circumferential side of the outside flow path cylinder and the outer circumferential side of the burner cylinder. A tapered surface is formed in the downstream end portion of the burner cylinder such that the plate thickness of a burner cylinder-forming plate that forms the burner cylinder gradually thins toward the downstream side.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: MITSUBISHI POWER, LTD.Inventors: Kotaro Miyauchi, Koichi Nishida, Shinji Akamatsu, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Takiguchi, Toshihiko Saito
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Patent number: 11112116Abstract: The present invention reduces thermal stress that is applied to the weld zone of a cavity formed in the structural material of a burner. The burner includes the cavity distributing a fuel to fuel nozzles. The cavity is demarcated by a groove formed in the structural material of the burner so as to create a level difference at an opening, and a cover fitted into the level difference to close the groove. The cover is formed by a web covering the opening in the groove and a flange extending in the depth direction of the groove to be fitted into the level difference, and is joined by welding to the structural material in such a manner as to have an L-shaped cross-section. When viewed in a cross-section orthogonal to the groove, a cover-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the flange forming a lateral surface of the cavity is flush with a groove-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the groove forming a lateral surface of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Power, Ltd.Inventors: Hironori Tsukidate, Kunihiro Oga, Yoshitaka Terada, Koichi Nishida
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Patent number: 10902692Abstract: A valuable medium processing apparatus that stores a valuable medium in a storage bag, the valuable medium processing apparatus having: a mounting sections, the storage bag being mounted on the mounting sections; an acquisition section that acquires recognition information attached to the storage bag, and mounting information of the mounting section to which the storage bag has been mounted; and an association section that associates the recognition information with the mounting information, the recognition information and the mounting information being acquired by the acquisition section.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: GLORY, LTD.Inventors: Kouichi Nabeyama, Koichi Nishida, Tomohiro Yokoo, Atsushi Sakamoto
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Patent number: 10899483Abstract: A paper sheet handling apparatus (for example, a banknote handling apparatus) for storing a paper sheet inside a storage bag provided with an opening includes a first bonding unit (for example, each heating member) which thermally bond and seal a portion to be a bottom part of the storage bag held by the holding unit (for example, each holding member) when the paper sheet is stored in the storage bag and a second bonding unit (for example, each holding member) which bonds and seals an opening of the storage bag held by the holding unit with a bonding material (for example, each bonding part).Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Youichi Takemura, Koichi Nishida, Koichi Nabeyama
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Publication number: 20200300471Abstract: A gas turbine combustor provided with: a plurality of swirler tubes that are disposed inside a combustor basket and impart a swirl to a premixed gas, the premixed gas being obtained by premixing a fuel and air for combustion; and an outer ring that is disposed between the plurality of swirler tubes and the combustor basket with a gap provided between the outer ring and the combustor basket, and generates film-shaped air inside a combustor transition piece connected to the combustor basket via injection through the gap into the combustor transition piece, and at a downstream end of the outer ring, the outer ring includes a tapered surface formed such that the outer ring gradually decreases in thickness from an upstream side toward a downstream side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2017Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Kenji MIYAMOTO, Satoshi TAKIGUCHI, Keijiro SAITO, Kotaro MIYAUCHI, Koichi NISHIDA, Shinji AKAMATSU
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Patent number: 10783735Abstract: A sheet storage apparatus (for example, banknote handling machine includes: a holding unit (for example, each holding member) configured to hold a storage bag in a state where an opening portion of a banknote storage bag is opened or in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is sealed; a regulation unit configured to selectively regulate access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit; and a control unit configured to control the regulation unit so as to allow access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is opened when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Koichi Nishida, Keiju Nakagawa, Youichi Takemura, Koichi Nabeyama
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Publication number: 20200271321Abstract: The present invention reduces thermal stress that is applied to the weld zone of a cavity formed in the structural material of a burner. The burner includes the cavity distributing a fuel to fuel nozzles. The cavity is demarcated by a groove formed in the structural material of the burner so as to create a level difference at an opening, and a cover fitted into the level difference to close the groove. The cover is formed by a web covering the opening in the groove and a flange extending in the depth direction of the groove to be fitted into the level difference, and is joined by welding to the structural material in such a manner as to have an L-shaped cross-section. When viewed in a cross-section orthogonal to the groove, a cover-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the flange forming a lateral surface of the cavity is flush with a groove-side inner surface that is an inner surface of the groove forming a lateral surface of the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Hironori TSUKIDATE, Kunihiro OGA, Yoshitaka TERADA, Koichi NISHIDA
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Publication number: 20200271322Abstract: The present invention reduces the concentration of thermal stress on a burner. A gas turbine combustor receiving compressed air from a compressor, mixing the compressed air with a fuel, burning the mixture to generate a combustion gas, and supplying the combustion gas to a turbine. The combustor includes: an inner cylinder internally forming a combustion chamber; an outer cylinder covering the inner cylinder and forming a cylindrical outer circumferential flow path between the inner and outer cylinders to allow the compressed air to flow; and a burner mounted on an end of the outer cylinder, which is positioned on an opposite side to a turbine side, and facing the combustion chamber. The burner includes a cylindrical base frame including a cavity distributing the fuel, and fuel nozzles circularly arranged as viewed from the combustion chamber and connected to the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Hironori TSUKIDATE, Kunihiro OGA, Yoshitaka TERADA, Koichi NISHIDA
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Patent number: 10641492Abstract: A combustor including a transition piece that defines a flow channel therein; a combustor basket inserted in the transition piece from an upstream side of the flow channel that sends a combustion gas through the flow channel and defines a gap through which a compressed air is sent with an inner peripheral surface of the transition piece; wherein the combustor basket includes a notch portion recessed from an end of the combustor basket on a downstream side toward the upstream side, and a purge air introduction hole through which the compressed air in the gap is introduced into the notch portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Tsunoda, Satoshi Takiguchi, Shinji Akamatsu, Koichi Nishida, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20200090442Abstract: To make it possible to omit advance preparation for processing a sheet using a header card at a cash collection center. A sheet processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit that recognizes a kind of a sheet; a transport unit that transports the recognized sheet; a storage unit that stores therein a sheet group consisting of the transported sheets; and a control unit. The sheets include a first sheet to which value is given, and a second sheet to which identification information for identifying the sheet group is given in advance. The control unit controls the transport unit based on a recognition result by the recognition unit such that the transport unit transports at least one of the sheets recognized as the first sheet to be received by the storage unit and at least one of the sheets recognized as the second sheet into the storage unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Koichi NISHIDA, Kouichi NABEYAMA, Risa HORITA
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Patent number: 10584879Abstract: A combustor including a combustor main body having a transition piece that defines a flow channel therein, and a combustor basket inserted in the transition piece from an upstream side of the flow channel that defines a gap through which a film air is sent with an inner peripheral surface of the transition piece; a connecting pipe disposed upstream of an outlet of the gap that connects to the combustor main body from an outer peripheral side and communicates with the flow channel via a connection hole; and a flow guide disposed at an identical position to the outlet of the gap on a downstream side of a connecting portion of the connecting pipe and the combustor main body that guides a compressed air introduced from outside the connecting pipe so that a flow rate distribution is made uniform in a circumferential direction of the combustor main body.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2015Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Tsunoda, Satoshi Takiguchi, Shinji Akamatsu, Koichi Nishida, Katsunori Tanaka
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Publication number: 20190304233Abstract: A sheet storage apparatus (for example, banknote handling machine includes: a holding unit (for example, each holding member) configured to hold a storage bag in a state where an opening portion of a banknote storage bag is opened or in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is sealed; a regulation unit configured to selectively regulate access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit; and a control unit configured to control the regulation unit so as to allow access to the banknote storage bag held by the holding unit in a state where the opening portion of the banknote storage bag is opened when a predetermined condition is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2017Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Koichi NISHIDA, Keiju NAKAGAWA, Youichi TAKEMURA, Koichi NABEYAMA
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Publication number: 20190304234Abstract: A valuable medium processing apparatus that stores a valuable medium in a storage bag, the valuable medium processing apparatus having: a mounting sections, the storage bag being mounted on the mounting sections; an acquisition section that acquires recognition information attached to the storage bag, and mounting information of the mounting section to which the storage bag has been mounted; and an association section that associates the recognition information with the mounting information, the recognition information and the mounting information being acquired by the acquisition section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Kouichi NABEYAMA, Koichi NISHIDA, Tomohiro YOKOO, Atsushi SAKAMOTO
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Patent number: 10371048Abstract: A combustor having a plurality of nozzles (main nozzles) to supply fuel disposed, includes a water supplier that is connected to all or part of the plurality of nozzles to supply water to each of a plurality of fuel pipes. The water supplier is configured to vary a supply amount of water for each of plurality of nozzles to which the water is supplied.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: MITSUBISHI HITACHI POWER SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Yamauchi, Keijiro Saito, Satoshi Takiguchi, Koichi Nishida, Masakazu Nose
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Publication number: 20190147683Abstract: A money handling system includes a money handling apparatus (for example, a coin handling apparatus (1)) configured to handle money and a placing unit (90) on which the money handling apparatus is placed and provided with an orientation change mechanism for changing an orientation of the money handling apparatus in a horizontal direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Applicant: GLORY LTD.Inventors: Kiyoaki KOBAYASHI, Koichi NISHIDA